Police boss warns Biafra agitators to back off Onitsha head bridge or face...
In a statement signed by the force public relations officer, Olabisi Kolawole, the IGP issued a stern warning to the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and the...
View ArticleAgain, Customs Comptroller-General promises to “dismiss and jail” corrupt...
The Comptroller-General, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Hameed Ali, on Wednesday warned that he would either discipline, dismiss or jail any officer found guilty of corrupt practices. Mr. Ali gave the...
View Article$2bn fake arms deal: Okonjo-Iweala requests Buhari to call “compromised and...
Former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has requested the Federal Government to call Edo State Governor, Mr Adams Oshiomhole to order over the Governor’s recent efforts to link her name to...
View ArticleMeanwhile, EFCC has been putting pressure on SSS to pass Dasuki over for...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) wants Col Sambo Dasuki (rtd) for interrogation so badly, even if it means begging the State Security Service (SSS) to have that wish fulfilled....
View ArticleSenate wants persons who post false messages on social media jailed for two...
A bill seeking a two-year jail term for any person who makes false allegation or publishes any statement or petition in the newspape, radio or medium of whatever description against another...
View ArticleEscaped Jos Lion has been shot dead
A lion escaped from a wildlife park in Jos, Plateau State earlier today, causing panic among the local population. The general manager of the park, John Doy, had said the lion, which had been kept...
View ArticleN2.1bn I received from Dasuki was payment for media and publicity during...
Former Chairman and founder of DAAR communications, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, has said the huge sum of money transferred to his bank account by the erstwhile National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki,...
View ArticleFuel scarcity will end in a matter of days, says Information Minister Lai...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed, has assured Nigerians that the current fuel scarcity would be over in a matter of days. The minister gave the hint on Wednesday in a statement...
View ArticleNobody is going to send social media users to jail under our watch–Senator...
Senate Minority leader, Godswill Akpabio, has said a bill in Nigeria’s parliament seeking to gag social media voices, won’t fly. The bill passed through a second reading on the floor of the senate on...
View Article‘I didn’t do it alone’| Dasuki implicates former Governors, PDP chiefs in...
After being arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) and handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday, December 2, 2015, the former national security adviser...
View ArticleSwiss Police arrests two more FIFA officials for accepting millions of...
More arrests and more allegations of bribery — seemingly just another day at the organization that’s in charge of running one of the world’s most popular sports. Swiss police have arrested two FIFA...
View ArticleREPORT: Bode George and Peter Odili received N100m each back when Dasuki was...
As investigations into the sleaziest arms procurement deal this side of the Atlantic continues, online news site SaharaReporters has quoted a source at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission as...
View ArticleDasuki denies implicating anyone in phantom arms saga
Media reports today have regaled the reading public with stories of former NSA, Sambo Dasuki, implicating several past Governors and PDP chieftains while in the custody of the EFCC as he battles an...
View ArticleFederal government files appeal to stop Dasuki from seeking medical care abroad
The case between the Federal Government and Mr. Dasuki over allegations of money laundering and illegal arms possession came up Thursday at the Federal High Court in Abuja. During Thursday’s...
View ArticleI received no money from Dasuki for spiritual purposes, says Bafarawa
Former Governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa has said he didn’t share in the $2.1bn arms procurement windfall from the office of the erstwhile NSA Sambo Dasuki as has been reported in the press....
View Article‘We’ll not allow ourselves to be blackmailed’| Senate says no going back on...
The Senate had on Wednesday passed the Bill, titled “A Bill For An Act To Prohibit Frivolous Petitions And Other Matters Connected Therewith” for second reading. The Bill seeks to award a 2-year-jail...
View ArticleSERAP drags Senate to the United Nations over social media bill
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an urgent appeal to David Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and...
View ArticleWe have to sack workers if we must continue paying N18,000 minimum...
For the umpteenth time, Nigerian state Governors have said paying the N18,000 minimum wage to workers is no longer feasible given the slump in the global price of oil and dwindling allocation to the...
View ArticleLess than 24 hours to the Kogi governorship election, INEC office in the...
The office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State has been set ablaze by arsonists, we can report. This comes barely 24 hours before...
View ArticleCourt gives INEC the all clear to continue with Kogi election, throws out...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday, December 4, gave the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) permission to proceed with the supplementary election in Kogi state. Ruling on four suits...
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