News as it breaks
A 40-year-old Nigerian national, Leslie Chinedu Mba, has been sentenced to 19 years in a United States federal prison for orchestrating a romance scam and business email compromise scheme that defrauded victims of more than $4 million. Mba, also known as Leslie Mba, had pleaded guilty last year ending,…
The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof Muhammad Pate, on Wednesday, disclosed that the Federal Government had enrolled about 750,000 Nigerians into the National Health Insurance Scheme. Pate stated this at the third edition of the ministerial press briefing series initiated by the Ministry of Information in Abuja,…
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Sunday, launched a palliative scheme, Lagos Market Trader Money, to support low-income traders. The governor disclosed this during the unveiling of a middle-level Fresh Food Agro Hub in the Mushin area of the state. According to a post on his X handle on Sunday,…
A former Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has given reasons why the rent-to-own scheme must be further improved upon by the government and stakeholders as part of efforts to reduce the number of homeless persons in the country. He gave the recommendation on Thursday while delivering his keynote…
