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The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Ibrahim Mustapha Magu has reiterated his commitment to tackle corruption in a more direct way in order to rid the country of the menace. He also stressed that in the current administration’s bid to exterminate corruption to the extinct level, it was clear given the […]

Properties worth millions of Naira have been burnt to ashes at the  Cable Point Quarters, popularly called “Cable Point Market” in Asaba, Delta State. The fire outbreak which occurred on Monday was suspected to have been caused by an electrical fault. Eyewitnesses said the fire which completely destroyed the entrance to the building, started around […]

Federal High Court in Ado Ekiti has ordered that Governor Ayodele Fayose’s accounts in Zenith Bank be defrozen with immediate effect. The accounts were frozen by the EFCC in June, this year. However, in his landmark judgment today, Justice Taiwo Taiwo described the EFCC action as illegal, wrongful, unlawful and unconstitutional. The judge said the […]

An Abuja  High Court on Tuesday granted bail, in money pledge, to a judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Adeniyi Ademola and his wife, Olabowale, who is the Head of Service of Lagos State. The two were granted bail regarding their trial on charges bordering on receiving of gratification, among others. Justice Jude Okeke […]

Senator Ben Murray Bruce of Bayelsa State has announced that he would fight President Muhammadu Buhari come 2019. For the moment though, he’ll fold his hands, he says. He made the submission while speaking in an interview with Peace Hyde, a British Ghanaian TV personality. The senator said, “Buhari is the president today; he is […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has invited the acting Vice-Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Prof. Anthony Elujoba, and Bursar, Mrs. Aderonke Akeredolu, over the payment of an ‘unapproved’ hazard allowances to the institution’s workers. It was learnt that the allowances were sourced from the university’s endowment funds account, which is usually dedicated […]

The Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung has been in the news lately due to his ridiculous responses to questions asked him by journalists. Below are his controversial statements that has got Nigerians irate. 1.) One would expect a sports minister to know the Under-23 dream team had travelled to USA for Rio 2016 […]

Nigerians subscribing to MMM may have to wait a month longer to get their refunds or compensation which they have been eagerly awaiting to celebrate Christmas and New Year festivities. MMM took the decision barely 24 hours after its founder, Sergey Mavrodi, wrote to Nigeria, criticising the later’s constant attacks on the ponzi scheme. The […]

When President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia conceded defeat after the December 1, Presidential elections in that West African country of 1.9 million people, the gesture was widely hailed and described as an indication of great hope for democracy in Africa and particularly for The Gambia, which Jammeh had ruled with an iron fist for […]

Ever since former president Jonathan made that call to president Buhari congratulating him on his “victory” at the last presidential polls, and following the enormous goodwill that has attracted to him worldwide, it is fast becoming a norm in Africa for incumbents to easily accept defeat at the polls and congratulate the winner. Yahya Jammeh, […]

No fewer than 10,979 officers of the Nigerian Prisons Service have been promoted by the Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons Services Board (CDFIPB). Out of the total, 4,075 officers and men were promoted on Consolidated Paramilitary Salary Structure (CONPASS) 08 to 15, the Nigerian Prisons Service said in a statement. These include officers on […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Monday that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won two of the three senatorial districts in the re-run legislative election in Rivers state. Dr Mustapha Lecky, the commission`s national commissioner in charge of the south south states, said the All Progressives Congress (APC) won one senatorial seat. He […]