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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 […]

The South African Police Constable, Austin Reynold, who robbed and killed a Nigerian, Emeka Okoli, was on Monday sentenced to 32 years in prison by a Durban High Court. The court sentenced the policeman three days after he was found guilty of robbing and killing the late Okoli during an illegal raid in the community […]

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has said that he had never at any time prevented the Economic and Financial Commission (EFCC) from performing its functions as widely misreported. The governor in his reaction to widely reported news and comments which misrepresented Justice Binta Nyako’s reaffirmation of an earlier declaratory judgment, said, he rather went […]

A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos state on Monday ordered for interim forfeiture of the Ilorin residence of the immediate past Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki. This was contained in a statement by Mr Wilson Uwujaren, Head of media and publicity of the Commission and made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has commended the Federal Ministry of Transportation for convincing the China civil engineering company (CECCC) to construct a university of transportation in Daura, Katsina state. Buhari made the commendation during the ground breaking ceremony of the newly established university in Daura on Monday.   He said the university would bring rapid development […]

In 10 short years, Nigeria may be home to a quarter of the world’s population of poor people in unless viable economic policies are put in place, the World Bank said on Monday. “Under a business-as-usual scenario, where Nigeria maintains the current pace of growth and employment levels, by 2030 the number of Nigerians living […]

The rivalry between Dino Melaye and Smart Adeyemi has been reignited after the Kogi West senatorial election was concluded over the weekend, with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declaring Adeyemi, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), winner of the supplemental poll. INEC said Adeyemi polled 88,373 votes to defeat incumbent Senator Melaye of […]

Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday denied dropping graft charges against former minister of petroleum resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, describing widespread media reports to that effect as “fake news.”   “It is fake news, just disregard it,” Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC spokesman, told www.www.aso.rocks search engine in a phone conversation. Asked […]

The embattled boss of Nigerian airline, Air Peace, Allen Onyema, has dissociated himself from a human rights suit filed on his behalf by an Abuja lawyer. The lawyer, Johnmary Jideobi, filed the suit after the Air Peace boss was indicted in the United States for alleged bank fraud and money laundering.   Jideobi claimed he […]

The crisis rocking the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) became messier yesterday as the Senate resolved to await the inauguration of the board members before working on the commission’s 2019 and 2020 budgets proposal submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari.   While the lawmakers were confirming the appointment of 15 nominees to the board of the […]

The founder of The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) and Chairman of the United Bank for Africa Group (UBA) and Heirs Holdings, Mr. Tony Elumelu will be conferred with the National Productivity Order of Merit (NPOM) Award by President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, November 28, 2019.   The honor would be in recognition of his continuous […]