Afrobeats sensation and newlywed, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has gifted his wife, Chioma Adeleke, a brand new car to mark their wedding.

In videos making rounds online, the singer presented his Queen with a brand new white SUV and a beautiful bouquet of roses.

Chioma was pleasantly surprised by the grand gift from her husband and expressed her happiness with a beaming smile.

Naija News reports that social media has been filled with happy moments at the much-anticipated wedding between Davido and Chioma taking place in Lagos State today June 25, 2025.

Davido, had earlier assured Chioma’s parent of his intentions for their daughter and promised her a lifetime of assurance.

Davido declared, “I promise you that your daughter will be protected, respected and connected. Mummy, Daddy I love you. Everybody knows that I’m happy for this day and this is the happiest day of my life.”

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The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has debunked speculations that the football body is talking with former Ivory Coast national team coach, Herve Renard to fill the vacant Super Eagles coaching job.

Herve Renard is the first foreign coach to win the Africa Cup of Nations with two different countries – first with Zambia in 2012, and then with Ivory Coast in 2015.

He is currently the head coach of the France women’s national team but he had said he would step down from the role at the end of the Paris Olympics this summer.

This means that Renard will be available for the vacant Super Eagles of Nigeria coaching job if the NFF decides to go for him. Note that the position has been vacant since earlier this month when coach Finidi George decided to resign from the role.

Finidi George who was appointed the Super Eagles head coach in April decided to leave the job two months later following a draw with South Africa and a defeat to Benin Republic in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.

Reports claimed that the coach felt disregarded when the NFF announced plans to appoint a foreign technical adviser without carrying him along.

Amid that, Herve Renard was consistently linked with the Super Eagles coaching job, a speculation a top NFF official had claimed to be false.

“This report is inaccurate. We’ve not contacted Renard or his reps,” the unnamed NFF top official told BBC Africa.

Governors of the Thirty-six states, on Tuesday, fixed an emergency meeting for Wednesday (today) to resolve issues regarding the proposed new minimum wage.

Naija News recalled that governors rejected the ₦62,000 proposed by the federal government, claiming that some states would have to borrow to pay salaries if the amount is implemented.

The organised labour consisting of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), however, insisted on ₦250,000 wage.

The decision of the governors to hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday followed the stepping down of the memo on minimum wage by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Tuesday.

The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, had told newsmen after the FEC that the Council could not take a decision on the issue of minimum wage because it involves local government, states, federal government and organised private sector.

But the Acting Director on Media and Public Affair of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), Halima Ahmed, told Daily Trust that governors would meet on Wednesday by 7pm in Abuja over the matter.

Naija News understands that the organised labour are scheduled to meet today also over the outcome of the FEC meeting and take a stand on their next decision.

The Federal High Court in Lagos has delivered a significant judgment, ordering the final forfeiture of $1,426,175.14 linked to the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele.

The court’s decision comes after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) filed an application pursuant to section 17 of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud-related Offences Act and section 44 (2)(B) of the 1999 Constitution.

The EFCC had traced the funds to be proceeds of unlawful activities, and the court was satisfied with the evidence presented.

The funds were warehoused in an account domiciled in Titan Trust Bank, and the signatories to the account are at large.

The court had earlier granted an interim forfeiture order on May 29, 2024, which was published in a national daily.

In the affidavit deposed to by David Jayeoba, an Investigating Officer with the EFCC, it was stated that the Commission received a credible and direct intelligence which led to the tracing of funds reasonably suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activities warehoused in the Donatone Limited (DL) Titan Trust Bank account.

The funds were reasonably suspected to be part of proceeds of unlawful activities carried out by the erstwhile Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele, and his cronies.

The investigation revealed that Uzeobo Anthony and Adebanjo Olurotimi, directors of Donatus Limited, were procured by Godwin Emefiele to conceal, retain, and disguise funds reasonably suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activities.

Between 2021 and 2022, when accessibility to Forex in Nigeria was difficult, several international entities operating in Nigeria had to resort to different means to source Forex.

Uzeobo Anthony and Adebanjo Olurotimi used to collect bribes and gratification on behalf of Godwin Emefiele to get approval for accessing Forex.

One of the entities paid a total sum of Twenty-Six Million Five Hundred and Fifty-Five Thousand Million Dollars ($26,552,000.00) into the account of Donatus Limited domiciled in Titan Trust account number 2000000500.

The credits came into the account on various dates, and the investigation traced the funds to have been fixed into interest-yielding accounts, dissipated, and laundered through a foreign account in Mauritius, and transported back to Nigeria under disguise.

The balance standing in the said account as of today is the sum of One Million Four Hundred and Twenty-Six Thousand One Hundred and Seventy-Five US dollars (US$1,426,175.14), which the EFCC seeks to forfeit to the Federal Government of Nigeria.

The signatories to the account warehousing the sum of ($1,426,175.14) sought to be forfeited are at large and making frantic efforts to dissipate the funds electronically.

The court, after listening to the submission of the EFCC lawyer, held that “having been satisfied with the applicant’s application and submission of Counsel, I hereby grant the prayer finally forfeiting the said funds in question.”

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said it did not force the former Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Ahmed Idris, into confessing his alleged involvement in N109bn fraud.

An operative of the EFCC, Abdulhamid I. Muri, whose duties involve intelligence gathering, conducting surveillance, undercover operations and interacting with informants, told the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Abuja on Tuesday during the continuation of the hearing in the 14-count charges bordering on money laundering brought against him by the EFCC.

EFCC arraigned Idris alongside Godfrey O. Akindele, Mohammed K. Usman, and Gezawa Commodity Market and Exchange Limited before the FCT High Court on 22nd July 2022.

However, during the sitting on Tuesday, Muri, who was also the third Prosecution Witness (PW3), in the ongoing trial-within-trial of the former AGF, told Justice Halilu Yusuf of the FCT, High Court that EFCC did not promise Idris that he was not going to face prosecution for his N109bn alleged loot.

While narrating how the defendant made his statement voluntarily, pointed out that the Commission did not make such promises to the defendant.

Muri said he first met the defendant through the former EFCC Kano Zonal Commander, Faruk Dogon Daji, who introduced him to the defendant and informed him that the defendant came to submit some documents linked to the investigation.

He said: “On the 10th June, 2022, the first defendant went to our office and met the then zonal commander, Mr Faruk Dogon Daji, an Assistant Commander of EFCC, ACEI, in his office and based on this, the Zonal Commander sent for me and told me that the first defendant came to submit some documents that are linked to the investigation that was on-going concerning him and that I should take him to my office to write a about the documents.

“The first defendant in the company of one Lawal Badamasi followed me to my office and the office is an open office where everybody can come in and go out and there in the office, there is one Mubarak, a staff of the Commission and Yusuf Baba Yusuf.

“I administered a cautionary word, I told him his rights, I wrote out the cautionary word and he said he understood and thereafter he volunteered his statement mentioning the documents one after the other and signed the documents with the date of that day.”

When confronted by the prosecution counsel, A.O. Atolagbe, with the allegation of the EFCC promising the defendant that the Commission will not prosecute him, Muri, said the Commission did not make such a promise to the defendant.

He said: “The first defendant is alleging that this statement of June 10, 2022, is a product of promise, that he will not be prosecuted, what is your take,” Atolagbe asked.

“It is not true my Lord; I am not the investigation officer, I am just directed to take his statement.”

According to Muri, the former AGF was not detained in the facility of the Kano Zonal Command of the Commission.

The judge then discharged the witness after the cross-examination and adjourned the matter till 29th October 2024, for defence of trial-within-trial after the counsel to the first defendant cross-examined the PW3.

A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja on Tuesday adjourned until Oct. 21 for the continuation of the trial of the suspended governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele over alleged procurement fraud.

Emefiele is charged with an alleged 20-count amended charge, preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

He was alleged to have engaged in criminal breach of trust, forgery, conspiracy to obtain by false pretence and obtaining money by false pretence when he served as the apex bank’s boss.

Specifically, the EFCC alleged that the former CBN boss forged a document titled: Re: Presidential Directive on Foreign Election Observer Missions dated January 26, 2023, with Ref No. SGF.43/L.01/201 and purported same to have emanated from the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (AGF).

Besides he is also accused of using his office as CBN governor to confer unfair and corrupt advantage on two companies; April 1616 Nigeria Ltd and Architekon Nigeria Ltd.

Emefiele in the amended charge was alleged to have, on Feb. 8, 2023, knowingly obtained, by false pretence, 6.2 million dollars by falsely representing the Secretary to the Government of the Federation vide a letter dated Jan. 26, 2023, with Ref No. SGF 43/L.01/201 requested the CBN to provide a contingent logistic advance for $6,230,000 “in line with Presidential directive.”

Justice Hamza Muazu adjourned until Oct. 21 after hearing the testimony of the 9th prosecution witness (PW9).

He further adjourned until July 8 for a hearing of Emefiele ‘s application seeking for the release of his passport to enable him attend to medical appointments.

Earlier, the EFCC counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, brought two witnesses PW8 and PW9.

Umar Tilde the 8th prosecution witness (PW8) works with Zenith Bank as Compliance Office.

He told the court that EFCC, requested account opening documents, a statement of account, and a certificate of identification for the account of Emefiele

” We responded by submitting the requested documents to the EFCC.

The documents from Zenith Bank, account statement of the defendant and the certificate of identification were all admitted in evidence and marked as: Exhibits ED1, ED2 & ED3.

On whether Emefiele had only one account with the bank, he said the letter from the EFCC had different account numbers.

” We responded based on the account numbers supplied,” he said.

The prosecution 9th witness is
Mrs Abibia Ockiya-Ogeleye, a lawyer Principal Partner, A & A Legal Consociate.

She handled the incorporation matters at the CAC for Architkun Nigeria Ltd.

According to the witness, before 2021, the company had two directors.

” I added one person, which is Madam Esther Oyeladun.

” There are three Directors- Omoile Makonbo, Omoile Margaret and Esther Oyeladun.”

The witness added that all she did was given to her by Esther Oyeladun.

After her testimony, Matthew Burkaa, SAN, Emefiele’s counsel told the court that, his client applied for the release of his passport to travel for a medical appointment.

The Debt Management Office says the rise in Nigeria’s public debt stock from N97.34tn in December 2023 to N121.67tn in March is partly due to exchange rate fluctuations.

The Director-General of DMO, Patience Oniha, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja.

She was clarifying misconceptions about the recently released update of the country’s total debt profile.

She said that the securitisation of N4.90tn as part of the securitisation of the N7.3trn Ways and Means Advances approved by the National Assembly was also responsible for the N24.33tn increase in the debt stock.
According to her, there is also the interest rate, as well as new borrowing of N2.81trn as part of the N6.06tn provided in the 2024 budget.
She, however, emphasised that the debt stock included the domestic and external debt stock of the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
“The total public debt as of March 31, showed that the total public debt in Naira terms stood at N121.67trn compared to N97.34trn as of December 31, 2023.
“While detailed information was provided on the data, such as the split between external and domestic debt as well as the fact that the debt stock includes the domestic and external debt stock of the 36 states and the FCT, it has become imperative to provide some explanations.
“It is important to recognise the fact that Nigeria has undergone some major reforms that have impacted economic indices such as the dollar/Naira exchange rate and interest rates.
“These two, in particular, affect the debt stock and debt service,” she said.
Oniha said that the increase in Naira in terms of N24.33tn between the fourth quarter of 2023 and the first quarter of 2024, did not strictly represent new borrowing.
She said that the total external debt stock was relatively flat at 42.50 billion dollars and 42.12 billion dollars in the fourth quarter of 2023, and the first quarter of 2024, respectively.
“The Naira values were significantly different at N38.22tn and N56.02tn, respectively, representing a difference of N17.8tn.
“This explains the perceived sharp increase of N24.33tn in the total debt stock in the first quarter of 2024.
“The difference in the exchange rate for the two periods also explains why, in dollar terms, the total debt stock actually declined in the first quarter of 2024 to $91.46bn,” Oniha said.
She said that the debt report was somewhat an improvement from the past, before President Bola Tinubu’s government.
According to her, if you discount FX impact, the debt is moderate and within the normal limit.
She urged the Federal Government to prioritise fiscal retrenchment while assuring that the various measures to attract foreign exchange inflows would increase external reserves and support the Naira exchange rate.

Popular Nigerian music star, David ‘Davido’ Adeleke has expressed excitement as he ties the knot with his partner Chioma Rowland.

Speaking ahead of the occasion on Tuesday, Davido said, “I feel good, men, it’s a great day, the best day of my life. We are here to receive our wife.”

The couple is set to tie the knot today, with the singer being surrounded by family members, friends, colleagues, and specially invited friends.

Photos of their stunning outfits, as well as those of Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke and Davido’s father Adedeji Adeleke, Davido’s sister Sharon, Cubana Chief Priest, and other close associates of the singer, have surfaced online.

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The Naira abuse case filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against businessman and socialite, Pascal Okechukwu aka Cubana Chief Priest, has been struck out by the Federal High Court in Lagos State.

Recall that the anti-graft agency arraigned Cubana Chief Priest on April 17.

He was charged with three counts of spraying and mishandling naira notes, actions that contravene Section 21(1) of the Central Bank Act of 2007.

He pleaded not guilty to the charges and was granted bail for N10 million.

The matter was initially adjourned to May 2, where Mr Chikaosolu Ojukwu, SAN, representing Okechukwu, indicated that both parties were seeking a settlement under Section 14(2) of the EFCC Act.

Following discussions, the defence counsel requested the withdrawal of a preliminary objection, which was unopposed by the prosecution and subsequently granted by the court.

In a post via his Instagram page, Cubana Chief Priest disclosed that his case was struck out at the hearing today, June 25, and he has been cautioned and discharged.

He also warned his fans and followers against the mutilation of the Naira.

He wrote, “Thank You God As My Case Is Struck Out, CP The Defendant Is Cautioned & Discharged. Thank You @officialefcc ? & My Legal Team Being Headed By Chikaosolu Ojukwu Senior Advocate Of ?? Now Let’s Get Straight To The Venue For #ChiVido2024? With ? Composure & Steeze. NB: Pls Don’t Mutilate Naira You If There Be Need Better Do It In Dollars”

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