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The Federal High Court, Abuja presided at, by Justice Okon Abang, yesterday, overruled the British national, James Nolan, on his application for adjournment over inability of his counsel to prepare for his defence. Justice Abang ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Counsel, Ekele Iheanacho, to call his first witness.   EFCC had, on […]

Nigeria’s state-dominated oil industry is declining, afflicted by systemic corruption, starved for international investment, and hard hit by declining oil prices. When President Muhammadu Buhari signed a measure to change Nigeria’s agreements with multinational oil companies; the president touted the bill amending the Deep Offshore (and Inland Basin Production Sharing Contract) Act as a landmark […]

The Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna, on Tuesday sacked two Kaduna State House of Assembly members. The appellate court ordered that a rerun be conducted by INEC to determine who will represent Kagarko and Sanga constituencies in the state assembly.   In Kagarko, the appellate court ordered for a rerun in 22 polling units […]

Governor Nyesom Wike yesterday expressed concern that the capitulation of the Peoples Democratic Party in neighboring Bayelsa by the All Progressives Congress (APC) portends danger for Rivers State. He said with the defeat of the Governor Seriake Dickson-led PDP in Bayelsa, it was apparent that the “next onslaught of the APC would be to capture […]

The refusal of Governor Seriake Dickson to avoid the perils of hubristic leadership has been blamed for the defeat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in last Saturday’s governorship election. Many PDP stakeholders said Dickson would have escaped the hubris trap if he had heeded the advice of former President Goodluck Jonathan and other elders […]

The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, yesterday blamed the violence reported during last Saturday’s gubernatorial elections in Bayelsa and Kogi States on persons he described as fake policemen. Before the elections, Deputy Inspector General of Police AbdulMajid Ali, in charge of Kogi and Bayelsa States, had disclosed that 66,241 personnel would be deployed: 35,200 […]

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday urged persons dissatisfied with the outcome of the governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi states to seek redress in court. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) proclaimed incumbent Governor Yahaya Bello who sought re-election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner in Kogi, while David Lyon, also […]

The crisis between the Olubadan of Ibadanland and High Chiefs elevated to beaded crown kings by the immediate past government of Senator Abiola Ajimobi may have come to an abrupt end after the Oyo state government withdrew their crowns as part of the condition to settle the schism out of court. The Court of Appeal […]

Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), counsel to the former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke, has blamed the arrest of his client by the international police, Interpol in Dubai, on the failure of the federal government to inform the global police body about Adoke’s current status; saying Interpol acted out of […]

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it has uncovered gross abuse of personnel budget and inflation as well as padding of nominal role by some Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) amounting to N18.62 billion. ICPC chairman, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, made the disclosure at the National Summit on Diminishing Corruption […]

Electoral malpractices have become a recurring decimal in Nigeria and have incrementally worsened since the return to democracy in 1999. Something is fundamentally wrong. Nigeria’s renascent democracy has been threatened by blatant corruption and sundry abuses, but these absurdities which have assumed melodramatic proportions got the most devastating advertisement after last Saturday’s gubernatorial elections in […]

Detained former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col Sambo Dasuki (Rtd) has discounted claims by the Department of State Service (DSS) that he; and other detainees preferred to be in DSS custody than in correctional prison facilities, as bare-faced lies. The lead counsel to Dasuki, Ahmed Raji (SAN), yesterday disclosed that Dasuki was bent on pursuing […]