Buhari sends 27 INEC Commissioner nominees to Senate, Mike Igini returns
President Muhammadu Buhari has forwarded the names of 27 Resident Electoral Commissioners (REC) to the Senate for confirmation. The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, read the letter dated…
Use your positions for the good of Nigeria, Osinbajo tells political leaders
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has called on political leaders in the country to commit themselves to doing something collectively and individually that can alter the ways things are done…
Transparency International denies endorsing Magu
Recent reports that Transparency International UK had endorsed the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have proven to be false. A statement issued by the Anti-corruption…
How technology can leapfrog Africa to greater height – Experts
By Theresa Igata The coming together of experts and scholars at the Verdant Zeal Innovention lecture series was yet again another time to speak on how technology is driving Africa’s…
How Badeh used N800m NAF fund for shopping mall – Witness
A prosecution witness, Nuhu Dalhatu, on March 23, 2017 told a Federal High Court, Abuja, that about N800 million used for the construction of a shopping mall linked to Alex…
N.8m BVN scam lands duo in jail
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Thursday secured the conviction of the duo of Innocent Uche Clinton and Emmanuel Okanni before Justice Sa’ad Muhammad of the Gombe State High…
EFCC arraigns businessman for N7m land scam
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on March 23, 2017 arraigned a businessman, Ibrahim Kamba, before Justice Y. Halilu of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court, Jabi on…
Four years after, it’s death sentence for killers of Cynthia Osokugo
After about four years and nine months, killers of Cynthia Osokogu, the Nasarawa State University postgraduate student murdered by her Facebook friends, Oliseloka Ezike and Okumo Nwabufor, have been sentenced…
Boko Haram cost Nigeria $2.6bn in 2016
Nigeria spent more than $2.6 billion in 2016 to address the humanitarian challenges caused by Boko Haram terrorists, Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin, has said. Olonisakin stated this…
Ambassadors: Senate rejects Imo, Ondo nominees, clears 45
The Nigerian Senate has confirmed 45 out of 47 persons as non-career ambassadors following their nominations by President Muhammadu Buhari but declined the confirmation of two nominees from Imo and…