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The Director-General, State Services, YM. BICHI, fwc was on 2nd August 2019 honoured with the Distinguished Personality Award by the National Defence College, Abuja during its Course 27 graduation ceremony which was also attended by President Muhammadu BUHARI, GCFR, as Special Guest of Honour. This honour was bestowed on the …

Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday, granted the EFCC’s prayer to freeze the FCMB Operational Account number: 0998552074 of the Bauchi State government. The EFCC, through his Counsel, Abubakar Aliyu, in an Exparte Order with file number: FHC/ABJ/CS/858/2019, sought the order of the …

Justice K.B Olawoyin of an Oyo State High Court on Monday freed and acquitted Chief Bisi Ilaka, the Chief of Staff to the state governor, Seyi Makinde, over a murder charge levelled against him by the state government in 2018. Justice Olawoyin also ordered the police to return to Ilaka …

Former Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase has resigned as the pioneer Chairman of the Edo State Private Properties Protection Task Force (PPPTF). Dr Arase made his decision known in a letter sent to the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki on the 1st of August. He said his decision was …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, seeks to freeze the First City Monument Bank, FCMB’s Operational Account of the Bauchi State government to allow for an investigation of a money laundering case in which the account featured prominently. The EFCC, through its Counsel, Abubakar Aliyu, in an Exparte Order …

Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has expressed happiness  over the fact that the RevolutionNow protests took place in parts of the country. Sowore, who has refused to eat meals given to him all along by the secret police, expressed gratitude to Nigerians and the international community for their support, urging …

Security agents believed to be personnel of the State Security Service (SSS) have arrested Omoyele Sowore, the publisher of news website, SaharaReporters. A statement by Mr. Sowore’s lawyer, Inibehe Effing, reads: “Mr Omoyele Sowore is currently in the custody of the SSS. His phones have been confiscated. This is a …

Godwin Jedy Agba One of Nigeria’s very experienced energy administrators, Mr. Godwin Jedy-Aba, is a minister-nominee of President Muhammadu Buhari. And there is, understandably, song and dance in the quarters of those who know the capacity and experience of the nominee in the oil and gas sector. But for those …

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday said that his administration would install closed-circuit television, (CCTVs), on highways and other strategic locations, noting that it would help to curtail and expose crimes. Responding to an address by the traditional rulers led by the Ooni of Ife , Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi during a …

The Imo State Government has taken over the Eastern Palm University, Ogboko and converted it to a campus of the Imo State University, Owerri. The 8th Imo Assembly had passed a law allotting 90 per cent equity shares to trustees of Rochas Foundation and 10 per cent to Imo state …