Four suspects have been arrested by the Abia State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps for operating an illegal refinery in the state. While parading the suspects at the site of the illegal refinery, the state Commandant, ...
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has interrogated the Accountant General of the Federation, Oluwatoyin Madein, over an alleged link to a N585.2m fraud involving the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Dr Betta Edu. The AGF was quizzed by EFCC ...
Read More »Gunmen Abduct 45 Passengers On Benue-Enugu Road
Passengers numbering about 45 have been abducted by armed men in Orokam, along the Otukpo-Enugu Road in Ogbadigbo local government area of Benue State. The gunmen were said to have ambushed the three fully-loaded 15-seater commercial buses when they came ...
Read More »Tinubu Suspends National Social Investment Programme Amid Corruption Scandal
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has suspended all administered programmes by the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA). This is further to the ongoing investigation of alleged malfeasance in the management of the agency and its programmes. According to a statement ...
Read More »OBAZEE REPORT…CBN Wields Big Stick, Sacks Banks’ Boards
…Cites compliance, corporate governance infractions …Union, Keystone, Polaris banks affected President Bola Tinubu appears to have started the implementation of the report of the special investigation headed by Jim Obazee on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) which indicted the ...
Read More »Nigeria Customs Records N3.2trn Revenue, Secures 52 Conviction In 2023
…Nigeria Customs Records N3.2trn Revenue, Secures 52 Conviction In 2023 The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has said it achieved a significant milestone by recording a total revenue collection of N3,206,603,417,315.47 in the 2023 fiscal year, a 21.4 percent increase from ...
Read More »17 Sacked, Suspended Nigerian Ministers Since 1999
Since the emergence of civilian rule which marked the era of the Fourth Republic in 1999, it has featured many political dramas, twists, and turns. One of the many political melodramas which have uniquely characterized various administrations so far is ...
Read More »Anti-Graft Crackdown: EFCC Grills Betta Edu, Umar-Farouk, Shehu
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) began the interrogation of Dr Betta Edu, the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, on Tuesday regarding an alleged N585 million fraud within the ministry. A credible source within the anti-graft ...
Read More »Yahaya Bello Sacks Four Kogi Monarchs, Appoints New Ohinoyi
The Kogi State Government has deposed four traditional rulers, including a first-class traditional ruler, the Ohimege Igu, Konto-Nkarfe, and Alhaji Abdulrazaq Koto. Koto was subsequently banished to Rijau Local Government Area of Niger State. The state governor, Alhaji Yayaha Bello, ...
Read More »Sex-For-Mark: Rights Activists Hail UNICAL Dons Remand In Kuje
Right activists have commended Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja for ordering the remand in Kuje prison of the suspended Dean of Faculty of Law at the University of Calabar, Prof. Cyril Ndifon, who is facing ...
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