The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has recovered about N39.8 billion out of N44.8billion allegedly embezzled from the government account by former National Coordinator of the National Social Investment Programme (NSIPA), Halima Shehu, Newtelegraph report. This came as the Read more…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has summoned some officials of the Dangote Group to Abuja to come along with detailed documents on foreign exchange transactions by the conglomerate covering the last nine years. Operatives of the EFCC had on Read more…
The Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Engineer Fidet Okhiria, on Thursday, told the Nigerian Tribune exclusively that the workers arrested on Thursday for ticket racketeering were staff of the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) and not Read more…
Former Taraba State Governor, Rev. Jolly Tavoro Nyame, has revealed what he learned while serving his jail terms in the Kuje correctional centre. Nyame spoke during a Thanksgiving service that took place at the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN secretariat Read more…
A retired Admiral in the Nigerian Navy who manned the maritime sector and witnessed the impunity with which the crude oil thieves operated has a message for the government of Ahmed Bola Tinubu: “Direct the military to blow up any Read more…
Across many states of the country, terrorists and bandits, Tuesday night and early yesterday, continued to unleash a reign of terror, killing and kidnapping citizens. Abuja, Niger, Nasarawa and Plateau were among the states attacked by the marauders. Following the Read more…
LEADERS of thought, elder statesmen from four of the six geo-political zones of the country, under the aegis of Southern and Middle Leaders Forum, SMBLF, have written President Bola Tinubu, asking him to nip in the bud the incessant killings Read more…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on Tuesday night informed that it had commenced investigation into a six-week degree awarded by a university in Cotonou, Benin Republic, to a Nigerian undercover Reporter. The Cotonou university, Ecole Read more…
Former President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, has urged President Bola Tinubu to review the country’s security architecture with a view to making it more proactive and strategic towards addressing unending bloodshed in Plateau State. Senator Mark said a Read more…
Plateau State governor, Caleb Mutfwang, has said that the latest series of attacks in the state were cases of terrorism and not farmer-herder clashes. In his New Year message, Governor Mutfwang described the recent attacks on communities in Bokkos and Read more…
South Korea’s opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in the neck during a visit to the southern port city of Busan on Tuesday, the Yonhap news agency reported. Lee was attacked by an unidentified man while touring the Read more…
Moscow’s forces only strike military targets, unlike Kiev, which mounts indiscriminate terror attacks on civilians, the president has said Ukraine’s weekend attack on the Russian city of Belgorod, which has left dozens of civilians dead and injured, was an act Read more…