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The recent announcement by former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar that he has quit the APC, and suspicions that he wants to join the PDP to bid to become the party’s flag bearer in the 2019 presidential election, has led to his critics hurling phrases like ‘serial contestant’ and ‘political prostitute’ at him and his […]

Pan-African financial institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has once again proven its leadership on the continent, as the Banker Magazine crowned UBA the “African Bank of the Year 2017”. This Banker Award is premier for Nigeria, as it marks the first time a Nigerian-headquartered bank will be wining the prestigious and highly coveted […]

EFCC Operatives EFCC Tenders Document in Ghost worker’s Fraud Trial The trial-within-trial in a case involving one Dairo Samson, who is facing eight counts of theft, criminal breach of trust and advance fee fraud continued on Wednesday, November 29, 2017 before Justice A. R. Mohammed of the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Jabi, […]

Finance Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, on Wednesday announced the suspension of  the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mr. Mounir H. Gwarzo from Office, to allow for an unhindered investigation of several allegations of financial impropriety levelled against the him. In a press release signed by Deputy Director Press of Federal […]

The Federal Government on Tuesday reiterated its commitment to reward and protect whistle-blowers who provided information that led to recovery of stolen funds or assets. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this during a visit to the head office of Leadership newspaper in Abuja. Mohammed, who was responding to a question […]

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has challenged the former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Mr Abdullahi Maina, to go ahead and tell Nigerians those thieves that healleged were surrounding President Muhammadu Buhari in his government and answer the corruption allegations against him as well as his fraudulent reinstatement. Governor Fayose […]

President/CE, Dangote Geoup, Aliko Dangote has been described as the ‘Pride of the Black Race’. Governor of Kano state, Dr. Umar Ganduje, who was speaking at Dangote Special Day, Monday said Nigeria is lucky to be blessed with someone like Aliko Dangote who has made Nigeria and indeed, Africa proud in different ways. Represented by […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed his key finance officers to sit down with representatives of Nigeria Governors Forum to determine how much of their unpaid debts can be released to them before Christmas. Responding to pleas by the governors who came to the State House on Monday under the leadership of Abdul-Aziz Yari, the Chairman […]

The Controller-General of Prisons, Jaáfaru Ahmed has approved the recommendation of the Zonal Disciplinary Committee for the dismissal of 8 (eight) junior officers for various offences against discipline. They were found guilty of trafficking (smuggling) prohibited items such as mobile phones, India hemp and other intoxicating substances into the prison yard for inmates. The letter […]

I was really afraid when President Buhari was ill and away for that long. I worried that if anything terminal happened to him, Nigeria would be in for it, for already conspiracy theories were rife that he was poisoned and there were rumours of certain youths swearing to avenge his death with tens of ‘enemy’ […]

The Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation(NDIC) has revealed that bulk of the non-performing loan by commercial banks are insiders loan given to directors of the institutions,who would be shown be shown the way out according to a new Code of Corporate Governance approved by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Mr A.A Adeleke, Director, Bank Examination […]

The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting was called off last Thursday over the non-remittance of about N1.78 trillion into the government’s coffers by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), The Nation learnt yesterday. About N1.32trillion of the outstanding was unpaid by the NNPC during former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. The whereabouts of the cash […]