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Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police was not aware of the siege that a team of Policemen laid on Thursday at Joy Numieh’s residence, Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike has said.   Nunieh is the immediate past acting managing director of the Niger Delta Commission.   “I called the Commissioner of Police, he said he was not […]

Senior officials of the Niger Delta Development Commission, led by the acting managing director, on Thursday walked out on members of House of Representatives Committee probing alleged mismanagement of funds by the commission.    The running battle between the commission and the National Assembly continued Thursday with the House Committee on NDDC probed the commission […]

The Clerk of Nigeria’s National Assembly has rejected a retirement notice served him and 150 others based on their ages or years of service, saying the notice the action was at variance with relevant law.   Mohammed Ataba Sani-Omolori in a response to retirement notice sent by Ahmed Kadi Amshi, Executive Chairman of the National […]

Nyesom Wike, Rivers State governor, on Thursday, bulldozed his way through and rescued former acting managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Joi Nunieh, from a siege laid to her Port Harcourt residence by a team of Police team.   Riding in his convoy, Wike rushed to Nunieh’s house in the Old GRA section […]

The Nigerian government on Wednesday ordered the suspension of 12 directors of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, just as Ibrahim Magu, the suspended acting chairman of the commission, has been released from detention 10 days after he was arrested.   Notice for the suspension of the directors was issued to EFCC acting chairman, Mohammed […]

A former executive director of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency was on Wednesday jailed seven years in Lagos for corruption.   Captain Ezekiel Agaba was found guilty of N1.5b fraud by a Federal High Court in Nigeria’s commercial capital.   The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission brought the case against Agaba.   Delivering […]

Barely a year after she was decorated as Nigeria’s first female combat helicopter pilot, Tolulope Arotile, has died.   She died on Tuesday from head injuries she sustained from a road traffic accident at Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Base Kaduna in northern Nigeria.   Tolupe was decorated by President Muhammdu Buhari on 15 October 2019 […]

As the coronavirus pandemic forces firms to downsize and cut their wage cost to cope with the adverse economic realities, First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank) is bucking the trend with a different approach that puts its staff first, writes Segun Adams.    In a pandemic year where employees are agreeing to pay cuts to […]

Nigeria’s House of Representatives on Tuesday began investigations into the reported resignation of 365 soldiers from the country’s Army.   The House mandated its Committee on the Army to investigate the who are the soldiers serving in the country’s North-East, where they are battling the Boko Haram insurgents.   The House noted that such a […]

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday sent a special envoy to President Donald Trump America as part of Nigeria’s diplomatic efforts to garner that country’s support for the re-election of Akinwumi Adesina as the President of the African Development Bank, (AfDB).   Mustapha Chike-Obi, Buhari’s envoy, was armed with a special message woo the US […]