IMMEDIATE past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), has filed a fresh application asking a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama to discharge him for the alleged crime of diversion of funds said to be meant for the procurement of arms. The ex-NSA, through his lawyer, Mr. Joseph Daudu (SAN), filed the application […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has said that it has released the timetable for the conduct of rerun elections in Federal and State constituencies and senatorial districts across the country. The Court of Appeal had nullified 69 out of the state and federal elections conducted by INEC in 2015, and ordered reruns. The commission […]
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WITNESS, Uche Obilor, narrated to a Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday how he got a N905.8m contract from the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency without bidding for it. Obilor claimed that the contract was awarded by the agency to his three companies – Seabulk Offshore Limited; Southern Offshore Limited; and Ace Prosthesis […]
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Senate President, Bukola Saraki, said on Tuesday that all public office holders in Nigeria since 1999, were guilty of the mistakes of the past that led the country to its present political and economic mess. Saraki stated this while responding to a question on the secrecy of the National Assembly’s budget and corruption levelled against […]
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THE leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has defended the foreign trips being undertaken by the President, Muhammdu Buhari since he came into power last year. The party said the expectations of Nigerians for President Buhari to defeat the Boko Haram insurgency and develop the country cannot be met with him sitting back at […]
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INDICATIONS on Tuesday was that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s interrogation of a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (retd.), had reached a dead end. It was learnt, Punchng reported that the commission had asked Amosu and others, who are still being detained over the $2.1bn arms deal, to refund some […]
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Wearied by the spate of incessant attacks by Boko Haram militants against the country, the government of Cameroon is reported to have approved the use of witchcraft in fighting the war against terror. In a sequence of tweets by Cameroonian journalist, Bisong Etahoben, Chiefs of Cameroon’s East Region had during a meeting asked President Paul […]
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Christine Lagarde is having some trouble sleeping at night. The head of the International Monetary Fund said “quite a few countries” are keeping her awake lately, but at the top of the list are low-income nations that rely heavily on exporting oil. “I think of a country like Nigeria, for instance, where 90% of its […]
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The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has denied complicity in the January 20, 20116 fire incident at the oil leak site in Adibawa oil fields operated by the oil firm in Rivers. Mr Ambrose Kofi Osuolo, Secretary, Edagberi Community Development Committee had alleged that SPDC officials visited the spill site shortly after the fire incident […]
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The International Police Organisation (INTERPOL), red alert on the former chairman of the Pension Reforms Task Team (PRTT), Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina over alleged N2 billion pension fraud. An impeccable source at the Headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), said the issuance of the worldwide notice, followed the anti-graft agency’s November 18, 2015 […]
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The presidency has warned workers in the office of the president to desist from the act of leaking official documents and files to unauthorized sources. Chief of Staff to the presidency, Mallam Aba Kyari, gave the warning at the presidential villa at a send forth for some staff who retired and those deployed to foreign […]
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Texas maverick Ted Cruz dramatically came out with a surprise victory over his Republican rival in the Iowa caucus that supporters hope will herald a rightwing resurgence to match that of Ronald Reagan. Ignoring the media-friendly bombast of Trump in favor of a purer strain of anti-establishment conservatism, Republicans in the state voted in favor of […]
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