•Adelabu and Ayodele … Minister offered to give anything to become Oyo governor – Prophet The Minister of Power in Tinubu’s cabinet, Bayo Adelabu, has petitioned the Department of State Services (DSS), accusing Primate Elijah Ayodele, founder of the INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Oke Afa, Lagos, of attempting to blackmail and ...
•Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike An investigation has uncovered an alleged multi-million-naira payment scheme within the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC)’s street-naming and house-numbering process, in which applicants were reportedly asked to pay large sums into private bank accounts instead of authorised government reve...
•The suspect, Mohammed Kumo A magistrate at the Chief Magistrate Court in Gombe State, Mohammed Kumo, has been arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over allegations of extortion and bribery. In a statement yesterday, the anti-graft agency disclosed that Kumo was brought before Justice H.H. Kereng of the Gombe High Court on...
A pastor who is also a legal practitioner, Aka-Bashorun Olawale Akanni, was yesterday re-arraigned before Justice Hakeem Oshodi of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja for the alleged indecent treatment of a 14-year-old girl. The Lagos State Government re-arraigned Akanni on a one-count charge bordering on the indecent treatment of a ch...
The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Osun State chapter, has raised alarm over what it described as “unprecedented abuse of power” by key federal government officials in the handling of the state’s local government allocations. Speaking at a press conference in Osogbo yesterday, the state NULGE president, Dr Nathaniel Ogung...
•Former EFCC chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa A former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has alleged a staggering scale of corrupt practices used to siphon public funds under the guise of fuel subsidy payments. Bawa revealed this in his book, titled ‘The Shadow of Loot & Losses: Uncovering Niger...
•Obaseki The outgoing Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki has alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has borrowed N2 billion to N5 billion to fund the inauguration of the Governor-elect, Senator Monday Okpebholo, slated for Tuesday, November 12. Obaseki made the remark in Benin during the inauguration of caretaker committee for the...
•Poor Nigerians No fewer than four federal administrations in Nigeria have had more than 18 poverty alleviation programmes since 1999 whereas poverty has steadily grown, Sunday Vanguard findings reveal. The schemes, which heralded hope at inception, have left Nigerians poorer as they fail to combat poverty, reports Sunday Vanguard. With huge b...

