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The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), has raised its minimum requirement for the EB-5 immigrant investor scheme from $500,000 to $900,000. Under the program, individuals are eligible to apply for conditional lawful permanent residency (Green Card) in the United States if they invest in a groundbreaking real estate project or create jobs such […]

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday fixed February 25, 2020, to deliver judgement in the N400 million fraud charge against a former spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh. Justice Okon Abang on Tuesday fixed the date for judgement after taking arguments from lawyers in the matter for over four years. […]

The proposed rerun election between Smart Adeyemi of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) and Dino Melaye of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may just be the final battle between two political titans. The two former senators from the same local government area, Ijumu, will face-off again on a yet to be announced date by the […]

The Presidency has described as “false and irresponsible” reports that former President Goodluck Jonathan was blackmailed to support the governing party, APC, in recent Bayelsa State elections.   Speaking to newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday, Senior Special Assistant to the President, Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, expressed shock that such a story could be considered […]

A human rights lawyer, Johnmary Jideobi, has urged the Federal High Court, Abuja, to restrain the Federal Government from extraditing the Chairman, Air Peace Airline Company, Chief Allen Onyema, to the United States (US) for trial in an alleged fraud.   Jideobi, in a suit with reference no: FHC/ABJ/CS/1446/2019 filed, on Nov. 25, also sought […]

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has restated his innocence regarding the allegation that he betrayed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the recently held governorship election in Bayelsa State in order to cover up his alleged complicity in the controversial Malabu oil and gas deal. Dismissing the allegation as cheap blackmail, Jonathan insisted he did nothing […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is set for a showdown with the federal government over the Integrated Payment and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) and has directed its branches to shun the enrolment into the scheme, which commences nationwide today at federal universities.   The federal government has, however, threatened to stop salaries of […]

The presidency has terminated oil recovery contracts, which the Ministry of Justice signed with Trobell International Limited on the recovery of $43.747b from Petroleum Sharing Contractors (PSCs) pursuant to Supreme Court’s consent judgement of April 5, 2018.   Accordingly, it has suspended the 2018 Supreme Court judgement on Deep Offshore and Inland Basin Production Sharing […]

The Federal Government has instructed its lawyers to appeal against the payment of $200 million conditional deposit for the granting of the stay of execution in the $9.6 billion award in favour of Process and Industrial Development Limited (P&ID).   The federal government yesterday disclaimed a report that it had lost its appeal against the […]

A United States District Court on Wednesday, Nov. 20, issued a warrant of arrest for Allen Ifechukwu Athan Onyema Chairman, CEO, and founder of Air Peace, for alleged bank fraud and money laundering. The US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, reported that Onyema laundered over $20 million from Nigeria through […]

  Although lawyers to Air Peace Chairman, Chief Allen Onyema and the international airliner’s chief of administration and finance, Mrs. Ejiroghene Eghagha, said in a statement Saturday morning that Onyema and Eghagha were willing to prove their innocence in court, the standing view in Aso Rock is that the charges of bank fraud and money […]

Hard times could hit the local air travel sector following fraud and money-laundering allegations against Air Peace airline’s boss, Chief Allen Onyema. The criminal indictment, which came to the fore at the weekend, have sent shivers down the spines of stakeholders who have begun pondering the fate that awaits the airline amid other implications for […]