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Former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN), has been arrested and is being held in Dubai by Interpol, www.www.aso.rocks search engine has learnt. It was gathered that Adoke was arrested shortly after arriving in Dubai on November 11; where he had travelled there for medical evaluation after a court […]

Bookmakers were, yesterday, proven right, when shootings, widespread violence and electoral malpractices took center stage as Bayelsa and Kogi states went to the polls to elect new governors, and a senator. At least three deaths as well as maiming, kidnapping; several cases of ballot box snatching, intimidation of voters, vote-buying, massive rigging and sundry electoral […]

Despite the high level of thuggery and brigandage that occasioned voting in some parts of Bayelsa State, including the maiming at Ward 5, Opolo, Yenagoa, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) David Lyon was declared winner of the Bayelsa State governorship poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).   “That Lyon David […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the Kogi West senatorial district election inconclusive. The returning officer for the election Professor Olayinde Lawal said the margin between the two leading candidates – Smart Adeyemi of the All Progressives Congress and People’s Democratic Party’s Dino Melaye – is lower than the total number of votes cancelled. […]

My dear Honourables, I hope you will excuse me for distracting you from your onerous duties, but I am a current sufferer – and I am not alone – from a persistent nightmare. That affliction has been induced by your most recent approach to addressing an acknowledged problem that affects, not only Nigerians but the […]

Busola Dakolo, wife of Nigerian singer Timi Dakolo, has vowed to take her rape case against Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo, founder Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), to the Appeal Court following the decision of an FCT High Court to declare it “statute barred”. The decision came after the Court sitting in Bwari, ruled on Thursday that […]

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the February 23 Presidential Elections, Atiku Abubakar and his party were on Friday absent in court when the apex court gave reasons for the dismissal of their appeal challenging the election of President Muhammadu Buhari. The Supreme Court, explaining why they lost their appeal against the […]

The Department of State Security (DSS) said yesterday that former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd); leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and convener of the #RevolutionNow Movement, Omoyele Sowore, opted to be remanded in DSS custody because their detention facilities and conditions were better compared to Kuje prison. […]

As the tenure of Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, and the Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Babatunde Fowler, come to an end, their fate hang in the balance with President Muhammadu Buhari weighing his options on the leadership of the two prime agencies. Although there is lack of […]

Senator Kames Manager, the fifth-term senator representing Delta south senatorial district and one of the longest serving senators in the national assembly has strongly discounted speculations that he was awarded a jaw-dropping 300 contracts by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC); 120 of which have already been fully paid, whereas the contracts have not been […]

Justice Othman Musa of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Bwari Area of Abuja, on Thursday dismissed the rape suit against Senior Pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), Biodun Fatoyinbo. Busola, wife of music artiste, Timi Dakolo, had dragged the pastor before the Abuja High Court, seeking justice and […]

Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Senator Godswill Akpabio and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) have threatened to boycott the rerun ordered by the Court of Appeal to determine the actual winner of the Akwa Ibom Northwest senatorial district between Akpabio and incumbent, Senator Chris Ekpenyong of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The appellate court […]