Author name: Godswill Odiong

Key stakeholders from Nigeria’s banking sector, civil society, academia, and regulatory bodies convened today at a conference focused on enhancing Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) measures for non-profit entities. Hosted by Spaces for Change | S4C and supported by the Fund for Global Human Rights, the event emphasized collaboration between financial […]

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Mr Godswill Akpabio and Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Tajudeen Abbas over “the failure to disclose, clarify and explain the details of N344.85 billion National Assembly budget, and the rationale for several budget items, such as the N6 billion budgeted

A helicopter carrying six people, including the co-founder of Nigeria’s biggest bank by assets, crashed in a Southern California desert near the Mojave National Preserve, authorities said. Herbert Wigwe, 57, co-founder of Access Bank, was among the victims, family members from his home village of Isiokpo said. According to Bloomberg, Abimbola Ogunbanjo, 61, who was