•Bago Niger State Governor Umaru Bago yesterday called for the review of activities of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON). Bago, who called for the probe of the N90 billion subsidy paid by the federal government for the Hajj operations, vowed to lead a committee of governors to meet relevant authorities to champion the […]...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives today set up an ad-hoc committee to investigate the procurement process of the contract for the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project and report to the House within four weeks. The House also directed Minister of Works, Dave Umahi; the Minister of Finance, Wale Edun and the Attorney-Genera...
•El-Rufai The Kaduna State House of Assembly, yesterday, summoned both serving and former commissioners, administrators as well as contractors, to testify before its ad-hoc committee set up to investigate the 8-years administration of immediate-past governor of the state, Malam Nasir El-Rufai. Those summoned include a former Commissioner Minis...
•Nasir El-Rufai The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kaduna State chapter, has urged the Committee set up by the Kaduna State House of Assembly to investigate the expenditure of the past administration of Nasir El-Rufai to beam its searchlight on the ‘unjust’ sacking of over 27,000 workers across the state without payment of their entitlements....
•Gov Sani and El-Rufai The Kaduna State House of Assembly has set up fact-finding committee to probe all finances, loans and contract projects awarded under the former Governor Nasiru El-Rufai‘s administration. The committee to conduct the probe was set up at today’s plenary presided by the Speaker, Yusuf Liman Dahiru, reports The Nation. The ...
•Segun Olatunji A coalition of media associations and civil society organisations (CSOs) have given the federal government a 14-day ultimatum to prosecute those behind what they call “cruel detention” of the Editor of FirstNews, Segun Olatunji. Recall that Olatunji was abducted from his home in Lagos by military personnel. He was detained for ...
Bayelsa State Commissioner of Police, Alonyenu Iduh has ordered a discreet probe of circumstances surrounding the death of a 14-year-old girl at a popular Yenagoa hotel on Easter Sunday. According to investigations, the police attention was drawn to the incident by the management of the hotel located along Isaac Boro Expressway, Yenagoa, repor...
•Ortom Five weeks after the inauguration of two judicial commissions of inquiry to look into the activities of ex-Governor Samuel Ortom while in office, investigations reveal that they are now set to quiz him and his aides. The state governor, Rev Fr Hyacinth Alia, had on February 26, 2024, inaugurated the two judicial commissions of […...
Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs, and retired judges, yesterday said the Nigerian Police Force, NPF, ought to handle investigations into the recent murder of 17 soldiers, and an unconfirmed number of villagers at Okuama in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State. The legal luminaries, who faulted the handing over of the traditional...
•Nadeem Anjarwalla The Economy and Financial Crimes Commission has charged Binance Holdings Limited and two of its senior executives, Tigran Gambaryan, and Nadeem Anjarwalla – who is on the run, with $35,400,000 money laundering. EFCC, which has now fully taken over the case from the Office of the National Security Adviser, has also detained G...

