Saturday, December 6, 2025

The Truth Banishes Fear!

Menu

Breaking: Ex-CBN Governor, Adamu Ciroma , Dies At 84

Hamilton Nwosa
Writer
new-diplomat default image
new-diplomat default image

Ad

EU slams Musk’s X with $140m penalty, defies U.S. pressure in landmark tech-regulation showdown

By Obinna Uballa The European Union on Friday imposed a 120-million-euro ($140-million) fine on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, for violating transparency rules under the bloc’s sweeping Digital Services Act (DSA), a decision that sets up a direct confrontation with the administration of United States President Donald Trump. The penalty, the first issued by…

December 5, 2025 • News

Musk Sells Another $6.9 Billion In Tesla Shares

[VIDEO] ‘Things have gotten dangerously out of hand,’ 2Face cries out

https://youtube.com/shorts/vV5I8Zcj-vg By Obinna Uballa Nigerian music legend Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2Face or 2Baba, has spoken out in a dramatic video posted on X.com late Thursday, accusing members of his own family of spreading damaging rumours, endangering his partner Natasha, and worsening the turmoil surrounding his private life. The visibly distressed singer said the…

December 5, 2025 • News

Supreme Court dismisses Osun’s suit over withheld LG funds

By Obinna Uballa The Supreme Court on Friday struck out a suit filed by the Osun State Government seeking to compel the Federal Government to release withheld allocations for the state’s local government areas. In a 6-1 ruling, a seven-member panel of the apex court held that the case, filed by the state’s Attorney General,…

December 5, 2025 • News

Ad

Mallam Adamu Ciroma, former Minister of Finance and former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has died.

Ciroma, a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), died on Thursday at the Turkish Hospital, Abuja, aged 84.

Ciroma was CBN Governor between September 1975 and June 1977. He was Finance Minister at the start of the Fourth Republic, between 1999 and 2003, during the first term of President Olusegun Obasanjo in office.

He was also Chairman of Obasanjo’s 2003 re-election campaign organisation.

In 1983, he chaired the Presidential Transition Committee in 1983.

 

Ad

X whatsapp