Who instigated the attack on Governor Godwin Obaseki and Oba Rilwan Akiolu of Lagos in Iyamho, Edo state on Saturday when they came to visit former governor Adams Oshiomhole in his country home? The jury is out to determine the culprit as Oshiomhole and the Deputy Governor of Edo State, …
Read More »Akinwunmi Ambode Goes Dirty
When a man is pushed to the wall, there is only one direction he can turn. This is the situation of the erstwhile governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode. Said to have severally ignored the invitation of the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), to answer to financial infractions that …
Read More »Alleged N15bn fraud rocks NEPZA, Senate queries MD
Senate Committee on Trade and Investment on Thursday summoned the Minister of Trade and Investment, Mr. Niyi Adebayo and the Acting Managing Director of Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA), Terhembe Nongo. The summon followed the alleged diversion of over N15 billion to a private company in the ministry’s …
Read More »Witness reveals how Dikko converted NAF’s N1.2bn to private use
Hammadama Bello, the 9th prosecution witness, in the ongoing trial of former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Mohammed Umar Dikko, before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja, on Thursday, told the court that the defendant allegedly converted the sum of N1.2 billion, belonging Nigerian Air …
Read More »Police release detained Nigerian journalists, CISLAC decries arrest
The arrested editor and webmaster of NewsDigest, an Abuja-based online newspaper, Gidado Yushau and Adebowale Adekoya, have been released by the Kwara State Police Command after they were thoroughly quizzed for publishing an investigative report in May 2018. The Chairman Board of Directors of Image Merchants Promotions Limited (IMPR), Publishers …
Read More »EFCC to auction Diezani’s forfeited N14.4bn jewelery, houses
Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday said it has contacted international auctioneers to sell the $40 million (about N14.4 billion) jewellery and luxury houses recovered from former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, . The anti-graft Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, spoke at the …
Read More »Alleged N15bn fraud rocks NEPZA, Senate queries MD
Senate Committee on Trade and Investment on Thursday summoned the Minister of Trade and Investment, Mr. Niyi Adebayo and the Acting Managing Director of Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA), Terhembe Nongo. The summon followed the alleged diversion of over N15 billion to a private company in the ministry’s 2017 …
Read More »FG Inaugurates Three-man Interim Management Committee For NDDC
The Federal Government has inaugurated a three-man Interim Management Committee to oversee the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The Interim Management Committee would be in place to create the enabling environment for the upcoming forensic audit. The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio while performing …
Read More »Reps to Buhari: Suspend military’s Operation Positive Identification
House of Representatives Tuesday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the planned Operation Positive Identification (OPI) by the military. The decision followed a motion of Urgent Public Importance moved by Minority Leader Ndudi Elumelu at plenary presided over by Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila. OPI is an operation the military claims would …
Read More »Court Restrains Edo Government From Demolishing Hotel
A Benin High Court has restrained the Edo Government and its agents from demolishing a hotel belonging to a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in the state, Tony Adun. The Ministry of Urban Planning had issued a seven-day notice for the relocation of the hospitality sited at Ugbor within …
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