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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The Department of State Security (DSS) has told politicians in the leading parties in Bayelsa State that they are under its security radar ahead of the November 16 governorship election. It said it was particularly watching the politicians to know their involvement in any attempt to recruit thugs and move …

    The Pro-Chancellor and Dean of the College of Business, Law and Social Sciences at the University of Derby, United Kingdom, Professor Kamil Zakariyya’ Omoteso, has said lack of employability and entrepreneurship skills are among the major reasons many first class graduates can’t secure jobs after graduation. Omoteso made …

Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu presiding over the case of Omoyele Sowore, the convener of #RevolutionNow and 2019 presidential candidate of African Action Congress (AAC), has expressed concerns that Sowore is yet to meet his bail conditions. While ruling on the application for the variation of bail conditions put forward by Sowore’s …