The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Gombe zonal office has secured the conviction of Dr. Dallami Arab Rukuje and Isa Garba before Justice Abubakar Jauro of the Gombe State High Court on a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy, criminal misappropriation, aiding and abetting. Rukuje, the Executive Secretary of the Gombe State Emergency Management Agency […]
A legal practitioner in Nigeria, Assam Assam, has asked lawyers and judges to rise up and save the nation’s judiciary. “These are troubling times and for our profession these times represent the most debased and bestial moments,” Mr Assam, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, said. “Judges of our apex courts are now being subjected to […]
The management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has retired no fewer than 40 Group General Managers (GGMs) and General Managers (GMs) at the oil firm. It was gathered on Thursday in Abuja that the affected GGMs and GMs were asked to leave the employ of the oil firm on Wednesday. Sources at the […]
…Ahmed Joda writes the dethroned Emir of Kano My dear Son, As I write this letter I do not know your address. I am addressing it to you as my son, because I know you understand why. I got to know you when you were a very young person, a boy about to enter Secondary […]
By Ogu Bundu Nwadike, M.A Four ex-governors of four States of Nigeria are currently languishing in maximum prisons of the country, doing their time for doing the financial crime. From the evidence before the world, some more ex-governors are good to go to prison too for stealing public money belonging to their respective States. Reading […]
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has described it as unlawful to banish a citizen of Nigeria without a lawful order of court. The Nigerian opposition coalition said it received with shock, the news of the ‘illegal and arbitrary dethronement and purported banishment of the Emir of Kano Muhammad Sanusi II by the APC […]
Angry youths of Mmahu community in Egbema, the Ohaji-Egbema council area of Imo state Sunday exceeded the bounds of decency when they smashed the official vehicle of the Imo state governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma. Uzodinma had visited the village in response to a distress call to a violent restiveness in the wake of the death […]
Chairman of the Government House Projects Committee under Governor Rochas Okorocha and former Principal Secretary to the former Governor, Dr. Paschal Obi has told the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Contracts awarded between 2011-2019 that a contractor awarded the project merely designated as ‘Sundry Capital Project’ at Area K, World Bank, Owerri fled with the […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on March 4, 2020, arraigned a couple, Oladeji and Omotola Henry, alongside their company, Built Global Concept, before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on a seven-count charge bordering on conspiracy and stealing to the tune of N553,820,000.00 (Five Hundred and Fifty-three […]
The night was thick with trepidation and the feeling of helplessness, asphyxiating. From anxiety, it was utter gloom as loved ones waited with bated breath. Eventually, the long wait had come to an end with the shattering pronouncement by the doctors that Ndubuisi Emenike was dead. Then the wailing began; tears flowed freely as even […]
