The $2.1 billion arms purchase scandal currently being investigated by the security agencies is a hoax, the chairman of DAAR Communications, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, has declared. Dokpesi is standing trial for allegedly collecting N2.1 billion of the cash from the erstwhile National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki. He is currently on bail. The DAAR Communications […]
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Former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BOT) chair Tony Anenih has explained how he disbursed the N260 million paid into his bank account from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA). The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) believes the cash came from the allegedly misappropriated $2.1 billion arms funds. Anenih wrote […]
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The Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, declared on Tuesday that the state would not fire its workers in spite of the harsh economic situation in the country. This was contrary to the expectation of the stakeholders in the state who believed that the state would reduce its workforce in 2016 to enable it meet […]
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The Lagos State Government on Wednesday demolished the Owonifari Market at Oshodi which has been in existence for more than 40 years. Report on Tuesday said that the Lagos State government had closed the market to curb security challenges within the Oshodi metropolis. According to the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, the […]
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THE leader of the Shi’ite Islamic group, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, is being kept at a police detention facility in Kaduna State, it was learnt on Tuesday. It was gathered that El-Zakzaky was handed over to the police for investigation in the aftermath of the bloody clash between his followers and soldiers in December, 2015. It was […]
Read More DESPITE the ongoing trial at a federal high court in Abuja on charges of money laundering and corruption pressed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The Chairman of DAAR Communication, owners of African Independent Television and Ray Power FM, Chief Raymond Dopkesi, on Tuesday sent season’s greeting cards to President Muhammadu […]
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SOCIO-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent petitions to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) requesting them to use their good offices and investigate the high levels of anomalies in the operations of Nigerian banks, other financial institutions, including the Central Bank […]
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CHARGES [su_list icon=”icon: adjust”] That you Bello Abba Mohammed, BAM Projects and Properties and Dr. Haliru Bello took possession of N300million when you reasonably ought to have known that the said fund formed part of the proceeds of an unlawful activity of Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki(rtd) That on or about 17th March 2015 N300million was […]
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Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra and founder of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, described Nigeria as a zoo and accused Governor Rochas Okorocha of Islamising Imo State in an interview he granted an online medium, Sahara Reporters. He, however, said in one of the statements he made to the Department of State Services after […]
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THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had on Tuesday arrested the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh. Metuh was picked up at his residence, located at Drive One, Prince and Princess Estate in the Games Village area of Abuja. Our correspondent gathered that four officials of the commission arrived at […]
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday night recalled how his acceptance of defeat in the 2015 presidential election put paid to predictions and prophecies by some Nigerians that the country would burn. Jonathan, who posted a message on his Facebook wall to accept an award from The African Sun Times as International Person of the […]
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The acting Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Ibim Semenitari, has denied borrowing N1billon while she served in the immediate past Administration of former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi. Semenitari served as the Commissioner for Information and Communications from 2009 to 2015. Reacting to the allegation by Dr. Austin Tam-George, who was recently […]
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