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Jonah Ogunniyi Otunla, a former Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), died on Monday, a few days after his 69th birthday on June 12. Otunla, however, had a multi-billion-naira corruption case with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) at the time unnamed family members told reporters that he died in his sleep. Colonel Bello […]

On Tuesday morning, some motorists were stuck in a traffic holdup along the Murtala Mohammed Local Airport in Ikeja, Lagos, while the convoy of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was moving into the airport. Tinubu arrived in Lagos on Friday for the Eid-el-Kabir celebration and departed Lagos on Tuesday, the second day declared a public holiday […]

Olalekan Oni, a 400-level student in the criminology department at the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Ekiti State, was arrested on Monday for rape. Findings revealed that the final-year student had previously announced that he would be the first youth governor of Ondo State, his state of origin. aso.rocks investigates learned that Oni, also known […]

An architect and civil engineer has told aso.rocks investigates that it shouldn’t cost a billion naira to finish the newly inaugurated vice president’s residence in Abuja. While speaking with aso.rocks investigates on Tuesday, the engineer, who asked not to be named, said the amount reported to have been spent to complete the building was outrageous. […]

An architect and civil engineer has told aso.rocks investigates that it shouldn’t cost a billion naira to finish the newly inaugurated vice president’s residence in Abuja. While speaking with aso.rocks investigates on Tuesday, the engineer, who asked not to be named, said the amount reported to have been spent to complete the building, which was […]

Guarantee Trust Bank has returned N1.3 million into the account of James Onireke (not real name), the customer whose money was recalled eight weeks ago. The refund came seven days after aso.rocks investigates reported how the financial institution failed to resolve Onireke’s challenge and stopped attending to him. READ MORE: GTBank Can’t Account for N1.3m […]Read More

Only three months after aso.rocks investigates exposed XpressVerify, a private website selling the Nigerian identification data, private website AnyVerify has been found trading Nigerian bank verification numbers (BVNs), among other sensitive citizen data. Paradigm Initiative (PIN), an ICT for Development and Digital Rights group, said on Thursday that it was seeking legal redress on behalf […]

I have come to the conclusion that Lagos State can be both a sweet and a scary place to live in. In Ojodu Berger and Ikeja, Onipanu and Egbeda, Ojuelegba and Surulere, you will find many uncovered manholes. It’s like that in many other parts of Lagos. What happens when manhole covers go missing, and […]

On April 14, Orelaja Oluwafemi Oluwaseun, a customer with the Guarantee Trust Bank (GTB), lost all the money he had kept in his account to multiple unauthorised transactions. The GTB customer has a savings account and a current account with the bank. Earlier on that day, someone sent the sum of N200,000 to his savings […]

Clinton Ugoh, a Lagos-based man, has recounted how a syndicate of fraudsters running the many Ecotech Fuelless Generator pages on Facebook defrauded him of N60,000. He told aso.rocks investigates that he was using the Facebook app on May 2 when he saw an advertisement for a fuelless generator that caught his fancy. According to Ugoh, […]

Two police officers of the Lagos State Task Force led a group of civilians on Wednesday to confront motorcyclists operating in the Aswani area of Lagos, but the bikers turned and killed one of the civilians on the road. A disturbing video of the culprits crushing the victim with motorcycles circulated on social media on […]

Three sets of graduates of the Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, are at a crossroads and unable to forge ahead over the school’s failure to accredit their course. In order to become practicing medical laboratory scientists, they have to first be inducted into the profession by the Medical Laboratory Science […]