•Dikko Radda The Katsina State governor, Dikko Radda, has accused some security personnel and government officials of aiding banditry which he says has now turned into a “business venture”. “Now it has turned out to be a business venture. A business venture for the criminals, some people who are in government; and some people who […]...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will, today, arraign Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, two top officials of Binance Holdings Ltd on five counts of money laundering charge. It was reliably gathered yesterday that Binance, Gambaryan and Anjarwalla, who escaped from lawful custody on March 22 and fled Nigeria, will be ar...
For the family of Fidelis Omhonria, July 13, 2023 is a date that would live in the memory for life. It was the day that bullets shot from the guns of officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) killed their older son and shattered an eye of the second. Eight months after, the […]
Three officials – two from Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and one from the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF) – have been quizzed over $3.4billion loan granted to Nigeria by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is allegedly. They were interrogated last week by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Of...
•Voting The re-run and by-elections conducted yesterday in 26 states of the federation ran into a hitch in some states, making the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to order the suspension of polls in some constituencies due to the abduction of election officials, disruption and other irregularities. According to a release signe...
•INEC staff with ballot boxes Voting has yet to commence in most polling units in today’s rerun election for Ikono/Ini Federal Constituency of Akwa Ibom, due to late arrival of officials from the Independent National Election Commission (INEC). Although there was massive turnout of voters, the late arrival of officials and election materials h...
•Traffickers CHIMA AZUBUIKE writes about the arrest of an alleged child trafficking syndicate by the police in Gombe State and how the victims were sold to buyers with the connivance of government officials, reports Saturday PUNCH. I have boys as children; I only wanted to have a girl-child,” was the excuse given by Mrs Tina […]
•Peter Obi The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has said that all foreign trips by people in government should be stopped until the issue of insecurity is fixed. Recently, there has been an increase in kidnappings by gunmen in Abuja, a situation that has gripped residents of […]
•LASTMA boss, Bakara Oki Olalekan Five officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) have been dismissed while two others were reprimanded by the Personnel Management Board by the Lagos State Civil Service Commission (CSC). According to a press statement signed by the Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department o...
•Late Nelson Mandela Senior Hamas officials today joined the family of Nelson Mandela to mark the 10th anniversary of his death and cast the spotlight on the bitter conflict in Gaza. South Africa has strongly condemned Israel’s response to the unprecedented October 7 Hamas attacks that unleashed a war in which thousands have died, reports [&he...