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 EFCC Chairman Ola Olukayode   Ola Olukoyede, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed that the anti-graft agency uncovered how a religious sect is laundering money for terrorists in Nigeria. Olukoyede made the revelation on Wednesday at the Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja during a one-day dialogue on “Youth, …

  The Supreme Court has affirmed the election of Ahmadu Fintiri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as Adamawa Governor. In a judgment a moment ago, a five-member panel of the apex court unanimously dismissed the appeal by Aishatu Ahmed Dahiru, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in …

The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) said the explosion that occurred near a refuse dump outside the Bureau of Public Enterprise premises in the Maitama area of Abuja was not bomb-related. The Police Public Relations Officer in the FCT, SP Josephine Adeh, said this in a statement …

•I have no comment —Adebanjo   AKURE—THE crisis rocking the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, yesterday, deepened, as the Reuben Fasoranti group abolished the position of Acting Leader and Deputy Leader of the group, presently occupied by Pa Ayo Adebanjo and Oba Oladipo Olaitan. But when contacted for his reaction to …

File image of late Whitney Adeniran, the 12-year-old Chrisland School student Mrs Blessing Adeniran, mother of a late student of Chrisland Schools, Opebi, Lagos, testified on Wednesday at the trial of the school and four others for involuntary manslaughter before an Ikeja High Court. She was led in evidence by Lagos …

Leadway Capital & Trusts Limited has enjoined adult Nigerians to discard the phobia associated with writing a Will, stressing that writing a Will is not a death sentence. The company, at a media interactive session in Lagos, explained that a Will is a legal document that outlines how a person’s …

Clem Agba A governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State, Clem Agba, said a former governor, Adams Oshiomhole, led the APC pruning committee to announce that 29 aspirants have been trimmed to six without. The Independent National Electoral Commission fixed September 21, 2024, for …

In this interview, Mr Kunle Adegoke, SAN, dissects the recent judgment of the Supreme Court which reversed the Appeal Court’s nullification of the electoral victory of Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang with emphasis on the miscarriage of justice occasioned by sacked lawmakers in the state and declared that the glaring …

Undercover journalist, Umar Audu, who received his certificate from a Cotonou-based University in Benin Republic like a pizza within six weeks. As the investigative panel constituted by the Federal Government to probe fake universities selling credentials to Nigerians begins its work, critical stakeholders in the sector have called for a …

EFCC officers The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday demanded to see the death certificate of a former Director of Legal, Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Grace Taiga. Taiga’s lawyer, Daniel Alumun, had on November 4, 2023, informed the Federal Capital Territory High Court that his client had died. Taiga …