The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday returned a total sum of $132,362.43 and N78,566,324.81 to victims of fraud from the United States, Spain, and Switzerland. Other assets, including vehicles and real estate documents, were also handed over to representatives of these countries in Nigeria for restitution to those affected by fraudulent activities. Speaking at the EFCC’s corporate headquarters …

Ukraine announced on Friday that it had received the bodies of 563 soldiers from Russian authorities, mainly troops who had died in combat in the eastern Donetsk region. The exchange of prisoners and the bodies of killed military personnel remains one of the few areas of cooperation between Moscow and Kyiv since Russia invaded in 2022. “The bodies of 563 …

Nigeria’s Vice President Kashim Shettima is back in Abuja after representing President Bola Tinubu at the just concluded 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, in New York. His arrival was announced by his spokesperson, Stanley Nkwocha, in a statement on Sunday. While in New York, the Vice President presented Nigeria’s National Statement at the General Debate. He …

Almost six months after revealing her cancer diagnosis and undergoing chemotherapy treatment, the Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton has resumed her public duties. On Tuesday, the princess met with her staff at the Centre for Early Childhood and Kensington Palace employees. This engagement, confirmed in the Court Circular, marks only the third time the Princess has been mentioned in the …

President Bola Tinubu has arrived in Abuja after a three-day official visit to Equatorial Guinea. The Gulfstream jet carrying the president touched down at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at about 6.30 pm on Friday The trip was his 22nd foreign trip since taking office about 15 months ago. Tinubu was received by top government …

Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has returned to Nigeria ahead of the much-anticipated National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). It was gathered that Atiku, who had been out of the country for weeks, returned in the early hours of Tuesday. The Ambassador Illiya Damagum-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the party was pressured …

Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo (popularly known as Sunday Igboho) has returned to Nigeria to bury his mother. His spokesman, Olayomi Koiki, disclosed his return in a video on X on Wednesday. Koiki’s caption read: “I can confirm that Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho is currently on his way to Igboho Town for the final burial of his mother …

President Bola Tinubu has arrived in Abuja after attending the 37th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union Heads of State and Government. NAF 001 pulled up at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Int’l Airport at about 04:00 pm local time, concluding his 15th foreign trip since assuming the Presidency nine months ago, and logging 73 …

The Acting Governor of Ondo State, Hon. Lucky Aiyedatiwa, returned to the state on Wednesday, two days after meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, in Abuja. Aiyedatiwa had met the President and some other stakeholders over the political logjam in Ondo State. The acting governor, who landed at Akure Airport in a commercial airline, was received by …

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has returned to AC Milan as an advisor to the Serie A club’s management, owners RedBird Capital Partners confirmed on Monday. In a statement, American investment firm RedBird said that the former Sweden striker, who won a host of trophies as a player in Italy, will “serve as a senior advisor to AC Milan ownership and senior management”. …