Court Rules NBC Has No Power to Sanction Independent Media Houses
The Federal High Court in Lagos has restrained the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), the regulatory authority for broadcasting in Nigeria, from using its Act or the Nigeria Broadcasting Code to…
‘All Used Household Items’ Vanishes With Couple’s N125,000 in Instagram Declutter Scheme
All Used Household Item, an Instagram page masking itself as a declutter account, collected N125,000 from Christiana Aina (pseudonym), a product designer living in Lagos, and her husband in November…
‘King Sax’ Sampson Udo Raped A Girl And Got Away With It. Then He Raped Her Sister, And Now There’s Evidence
On October 6, Sampson Udo, a Lagos-based saxophonist known popularly as King Sax, was at Elegushi Beach to attend an event his acquaintance invited him to. While there, he lured…
FACT-CHECK: Did Trump Tell Nigerians to Stay in Their Country As Claimed in Viral Video?
Since Friday, a video claiming that the Donald Trump, president-elect of the United States, declared a policy to stop Nigerians from emigrating to the US has been making the rounds…
$4.5M Deal: No Fraud in USL Case, Says FEMAB
Following an August 29 publication by African Confidential, Femab Properties, a Nigerian real estate firm, has cleared the air on a $4.5 million deal involving the University of Sierra Leone…
CBN To Refund $22m As $32m Goes Missing From Nigeria’s Water Sector
The World Bank has flagged $32 million in missing funds from a water project in Nigeria, in its Sanctions System Annual Report for the 2024 fiscal year, FIJ has gathered.…
Banks Direct Enugu Residents to POS Agents As Naira Scarcity Bites Hard
Residents of Enugu, the capital of Enugu, are battling with an unexplained cash shortage, FIJ has gathered. Speaking with FIJ on Saturday, the residents stated that the scarcity peaked in…
Chidimma Adetshina Emerges First Runner-Up at Miss Universe
Chidimma Adetshina, Nigeria’s representative at the 73rd Miss Universe Pageant held at Arena Ciudad de México, emerged as the first runner-up during the final on November 16. This marks the…
Police, Military Begin the Process of Freeing Man They Illegally Detained for 13 Years
Habibu Adamu, a Bauchi State resident whom the police and military have been illegally detaining since 2011, is set to regain his freedom as the military has sent him to…
Ibadan Businessman Took PoS to OPay Office for Fixing. They Seized it
Michael Okusanya, a businessman in Ibadan, Oyo State, has narrated how OPay staff at their office in Ring Road, Ibadan, ill-treated him and misplaced his MTN SIM card when he…