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Nigeria can be anything but boring. The country often reminds one of the title of one of Dr Anezi Okoro’s novellas – One Week, One Trouble (African University Press, 1972). In that novella, the lead character Wilson Tagbo, a brilliant and determined chap, had gained admission into a secondary school during the colonial days. In […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is working with the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United Kingdom’s National Crimes Commission to extradite those who fled the country following ongoing investigations.    A top source at the anti-graft agency said the agency was trying to extradite a former Minister of State for Defence, […]

… Demands N1billion Damages  A Jos based Miner, Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu has sued the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and a Chinese man, before a Jos Federal High Court for an alleged unlawful arrest, detention and violation of his fundamental human rights. The Miner also known […]

More than 24 hours after Fulani herdsmen killed over 40 people and raped mothers and daughters in Ukpabu Nimbo community in Uzo-Uwani area of Enugu State, President Buhari has finally condemned the killings. The belated condemnation that was simultaneously conveyed through a press statement issued by Shehu Garba and a speech delivered by Lai Mohammed, minister […]

Embattled President of Nigeria’s Senate Dr Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday requested the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Mr Danladi Umar to disqualify himself from his trial. Saraki accused Umar of lacking the moral justification to preside over his trial on allegations of false declaration of asset. The counsel to the Senate President, Mr […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday in Abuja urged the World Bank to do all within its powers to facilitate the speedy repatriation to Nigeria of stolen funds still being held by Swiss authorities.   Speaking at a meeting with the visiting Managing Director of the World Bank, Ms. Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Buhari said that the repatriation […]

…wants Danladi Umar to step down as CCT chairman 19 political parties in Nigeria on Wednesday added a new dimension to the trial of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), over non-declaration of assets, with a strong warning that he would not get justice if Justice Danladi Umar, continues […]

The Inspector General of Police, IGP Solomon Arase, Wednesday, ordered the detention of a policeman, who allegedly collaborated with the Fulani herdsmen during the killing of residents of Nimbo community in Enugu State. The IGP, who visited the tension soaked community alongside the Senator representing Enugu North Senatorial zone, Senator Chukwuka Utazi, ordered that one […]

Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, disqualified herself from presiding over the trial of the erstwhile Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro.  The former Minister is facing trial before the court over his alleged complicity in a N676million job recruitment scam that led to the death of no […]

The case instituted against Senate President, Bukola Saraki and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, challenging their election as principal officers of the Senate has again being adjourned to 1st June.  At the resumed hearing on Wednesday, Justice Stephen Chukwu adjourned the case following information that the four defendants were not served with hearing notice by the […]

As a boy, I was a fan of the western, or what we know here as the cowboy drama or movie. I did not only watch their heroics, I played them. I was Michael Landon who played Little Joe in the Family Cartwright show called Bonanza. Dan Blocker was too fat and impetuous for me. […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have made a shocking revelation about the arms deal scandal. The EFCC in the process of investigating the alleged fraud relating to the diversion of $2.1bn meant for prosecution of the war against Boko Haram, have discovered that the total amount diverted was unbelievably over $15bn as opposed […]