Saraki files fresh application to disqualify CCT chairman
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has filed another application to disqualify Danladi Umar, the chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, from continuing to preside over his trial. The…
Insurgency: Security Agencies Must Relate Well with Media for Efficiency – Adeniyi
Security and Response Agencies in the country have been tasked on the need to be credible in their dealings with the media if the public must continue to repose confidence…
Aftermath of Enugu Killings: Ekweremadu Wants FG to Rethink Security Architecture
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has called on the Federal Government to rethink the security infrastructure in the country. This call is coming against the background of string of recent…
CCT Trial: What Is Good for Saraki Should Be Good for Tinubu , by Lawrence Chinedu Nwobu
Buhari’s so called war on corruption has many faces; on the surface it appears as if something is being done about corruption, but on closer scrutiny the mask is removed…
Bayelsa Laments Decline in Allocations; Calls for Extension of Moratorium on Deduction of Loans, Other Financial Obligations
BY PHILIP EKE, YENAGOA The Bayelsa State Government has appealed to the Federal Government for an extension of the moratorium on the deduction of loans and other financial obligations, owed…
Nigeria spends 381m euros to import food processing machines from Germany in four years
Organisers of the Nigeria agro-food and plast-print pack expo and exhibition 2016, which began Monday in Lagos, are optimistic that in the long-run Nigeria would reduce its high dependence on…
Ex-Finance Minister, Nenadi Usman, Refunds N140m, Forfeits Houses
Embattled former Finance Minister, Senator Esther Nenadi Usman, has returned N140 million out of the N2.5 billion she allegedly received from the office of the former National Security Adviser ahead…
EFCC Arrests Bayelsa Governor’s Ex- Aide for Offering N10m Bribe to EFCC Official
A former Senior Special Assistant on Media to Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, has been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The suspect, Abnedgo…
Ex-Kaduna Local Govt Pension Board Cashier Bags One Year Jail Term for N8.6m Fraud
Justice M.T.M. Aliyu of the Kaduna State High Court sitting in Kaduna, on Tuesday, April 26, 2016, convicted and sentenced one Bitrus A. Mallam, a former cashier with the Kaduna…
20 Oil Thieves Bag 6 Years Jail Terms
Justice Ibrahim Buba of Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos Tuesday convicted twenty persons for illegal dealing and storage of petroleum products. The convicts are Captain Daniel Lebile, Ala…