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The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), on Thursday expressed determination to execute the Federal High Court order directing him to recover monies paid to former governors that are currently serving as senators and Ministers. Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo, of the Lagos division of the Federal High Court had made […]

Concerned Diaspora Citizens has enjoined President Muhammadu Buhari to wade into the ordeal faced by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Air Peace, Allen Onyema, to avert the impending calamity that may befall the country’s aviation industry; which, to all intents and purposes, will not be in the interest of the country.   In a […]

The federal high court in Lagos has sentenced the former governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu to 12 years imprisonment after being found guilty on all the 39-count charges of fraud, embezzlement and money laundering brought against him, in the case that had been on for 12 years. The convicts had each pleaded […]

The Senate has threatened to order the arrest of the Director-General, Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, if he fails to appear before its joint committee on Navy, Marine Transport and Finance, which is investigating the N263.89 billion security services carried out by the Ocean Marine Solutions Limited (OMLS) at the […]

The closure of Nigeria’s land borders to the movement of goods and persons, since October 2019, has understandably been generating intense debates among Nigerians and others, especially the countries affected by the border closures. Nigeria shares land boundaries with Benin, Niger and Cameroun. The government had initially imposed a partial closure of the borders in […]

Moody’s Investors Service, one of the global credit rating agencies, Wednesday changed its outlook on Nigeria’s ratings to negative from stable. Concurrently, Moody’s affirmed its B2 long-term local and foreign currency issuer ratings, the B2 foreign currency senior unsecured ratings, and the (P)B2 foreign currency senior unsecured MTN program rating on the country. According to […]

With the latest development in the Edo State House of Assembly, where the exchange of hostilities between Governor Godwin Obaseki and the national chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, was actually kick-started, it is now obvious that the political mind-games have reached a point of no return; after efforts at fence mending by […]

For 21 states with pension laws stipulating post-office benefits running into billions of naira for their former governors and deputies, it was a sigh of relief after the Federal High Court in Lagos ordered the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to recover all funds paid as pension to erstwhile […]

Members of the Nigerian National Assembly, and by extension lawmakers across the country, have been under scrutiny lately with regard to their engagements with citizen-voters whose interest they are expected to represent in parliament. Two issues: constituency projects and constituency offices. President Muhammadu Buhari brought the issue of constituency projects to public attention when at […]