A former Registrar with the Federal High Court, Kaduna Division, has been arraigned by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) before Hon. Justice M. T. M. Aliyu of the State High Court, Kaduna on charges which border on criminal misappropriation and conferring of corrupt advantage upon himself. Mr. Joseph Etefia Udoh […]
Self-acclaimed Rector of the International College of Professions (ICP), Eha-Alumona in Nsukka, Enugu State has been convicted for corruption. The convict, Rev. Obiukwu Nnamdi Royalson, was earlier arraigned by the ICPC on a 5-count charge of conspiracy, forgery, fraud, cheating and dishonesty. However, following a plea bargain, the counts were reviewed to three. The trial […]
House of Representatives member, Dagomie Abiante (PDP, Rivers) has expressed doubt in the preparedness of the Federal Government to battle the widely spreading Coronavirus infection. Contributing to the motion for the lawmakers to proceed on recess over fears of Coronavirus, Abiante recalled that a motion to bring back Nigerians stranded in China was thrown out […]
A 38-year-old suspected internet fraudster, Azeez Adebowale, has been arrested with a mini coffin containing fetish materials found in his possession, when his house was raided by operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on March 2, 2020. Adebowale, who claimed to be using the coffin as a […]
…Warns that no nations survives a second civil war The Ohanaeze Ndigbo has warned that the unspoken laws of the Federal Government that supports Fulani men to wield automatic firearms without consequences, even in Igbo land, is a clear invitation to anarchy. This is also as the group maintained that the Igbo nation will defend […]
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open to the Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu urging him to use his leadership position to “instruct the Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi to immediately, fully and effectively enforce the judgment stopping all Lagos hospitals and health facilities from demanding compulsory blood donations from any patients […]
With a rumored budget of about 2.5 billion Naira doled out by the Obiano led Government for hosting the Police Games in Anambra State, one would have thought that it would be all well and good…. If you did, then you will be disappointed as everything Obiano touches, seems to go sour just like sticking […]
The House of Representatives has mandated a committee to investigate allegations of plans to divert the recently recovered $308 million Abacha loot into private accounts using Julius Berger Nigeria Ltd. as a conduit. The Federal Government had said the money will be used to expedite work on the Lagos–Ibadan expressway, Abuja–Kano expressway and the second […]
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the Senate President, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, urging him to use his leadership position to “ensure that the bill that would allow ‘repentant Boko Haram terrorists’ opportunities to access public funds to enjoy foreign education is immediately dropped, and to sponsor bills that would […]
Like a script out of Nollywood, a septuagenarian female spiritualist has demystified the marauding bandits in Niger state by leading local hunters to a raid and slaughter of the bandits right inside their hideout. No fewer than 40 bandits were killed in the operation carried out by local hunters, led by the 70-year-old female spiritualist […]
