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Nigeria’s immediate past President, Ebele Goodluck Jonathan has repudiated allegation that he has gone on exile in Cote D’Ivoire to evade arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).  Mr. Jonathan rebuttal came through a terse text message to our correspondent. Hear him “I am not on exile. I find it amusing that such […]

Following the release of an interim report of workers’ verification in the state, workers in Kogi at both state and local levels are battling with anxiety. The workers fear that no fewer than 10,000 among them might be sacked by the state government. The News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) learnt in Lokoja on Monday […]

Commissioner For Commerce and Industry in  Edo State Mr Abdul Oroh has been disengaged from his appointment by the  Executive Governor of Edo State Adams Oshiomhole. The governor said that the removal was with immediate effect. Adding that the removal was “in the public interest”. however  no reason was given as to why Oroh was sacked.  Abdul  […]Read More

The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has supplicated the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, to compel the Federal Government of Nigeria to pay him monetary compensation of $800 million for the gross violation of his human rights. Kanu, who has been […]

An Abuja High Court has nullified the Federal Government’s decision to incarcerate the detained former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Muhammed Sambo Dasuki (rtd.) to the premises of the Department of the State Security Service (DSS) to access and brief his lawyer in the on-going trial of criminal charges on corruption brought against him. Dasuki, who had […]Read More

General Gabriel Olonisakin, the Chief of Defence Staff, has sworn that the Nigerian military will not allow any person or group of persons to destroy the nation’s oil facilities. Stressing that the military will pursue the Niger Delta Avengers and stop their unending attacks on the nation’s oil facilities. Olonisakin said this on Monday in Rivers […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has obtained a remand warrant, which allows it to detain Femi Fani-Kayode for another twenty-one days. Jude Ndukwe, SA Media to Chief Femi Fani-Kayode made this known in a statement he issued on Monday. In his words: “Chief Femi Fani-Kayode  was sneaked into an Ikeja magistrate court where […]

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Monday described as false, rumours of a plot to attack corps members serving in Tai Local Government Area of Rivers. Mrs Violet Appolo, NYSC Public Relations Officer in the state, made the denial via a text message sent to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). “It is not […]

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Monday adjourned ruling on the application of the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh to release his international passport to allow him travel abroad due to his failing health. Metuh through his counsel, Onyeachi Ikpeazu, SAN, had on May 16, 2016 filed […]

The Federal Government has been dragged to Abuja Federal High Court by Leader of the Shi’ite Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Ibrahim Elzakzaky, on Monday over his continued detention by the Nigerian military. El-Zakzky who has been in detention for the past five months is claiming that his continued incarceration is an abuse of his fundamental […]

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC has been  accused through an audit report by the Nigeria Extractive Industries and Transparency Initiative of not remitting $3.8bn and N358.3bn to the Federation in 2013. This was disclosed by the  Chairman of NEITI, Kayode Fayemi, on Monday while presenting the 2013 audit reports of the agency in Abuja. Fayemi […]

Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,Former Minister of Finance,  has eventually reacted to the High Court ruling ordering her and the Federal Government  to provide information relating to N30 trillion allegedly unaccounted for. The court judgment followed the legal action entered against the Federal Government of Nigeria and Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala by the Socio-Economic Rights Agenda (SERAP) pursuant […]