Beyond the Headlines
Former Finance Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has thanked President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigerians in general, for supporting her bid for the post of Director-General (WTO) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Okonjo-Iweala, who advanced to the third and final stage of the selection process on Wednesday, said she could not have made it […]
The Senate has fixed October 20, 2020, for the commencement of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) debate. President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, revealed this on Thursday via his Twitter handle. He said the decision was in line with the resolve to break the jinx on the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), forwarded […]
Former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina has explained his continued absence in court for his trial to severe ill health. Maina is standing trial before the Abuja division of the Federal High court over allegation of fraud, abuse of public office and money laundering amounting to N2billion. The prosecution agency, […]
Elisha Abbo, senator representing Adamawa north, has filed an appeal challenging the judgement of a federal capital territory high court which ordered him to pay N50 million for assaulting a woman. In 2019, the police arraigned Abbo before a magistrate court in Zuba, on a one-count charge of assaulting Osimibibra Warmate at a sex-toy shop […]
A journalist with The NewTelegraph newspaper, Steve Uzoechi on Thursday emerged the caretaker chairman of the Nigeria union of journalists (NUJ),Imo state chapter. It was gathered that crisis have continued to rock NUJ in Imo over election crisis. Speaking to Crimefacts.News after his emergence, he pledges to bring the union back from crisis. He said, […]
Dapo Apara, a Nigerian chartered accountant, has accused a former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu; a consulting firm, Alpha-beta, and a former commissioner in the state, Akin Doherty, of money laundering, fraud, tax evasion, and sundry corrupt practices. Mr Apara, in writ of summons deposed to at a Lagos high court, claimed that Mr […]
….He’s Akeredolu’s kinsman – Gov Makinde The Peoples Democratic Party Ondo state governorship National campaign council has rejected the appointment of Prof Eyitope Ogungbenro Ogunbodede, the Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife as the Chief Returning Officer of the Saturday Ondo State governorship election. Chairman of the council and the Oyo state governor, Seyi […]
The Federal Government has filed a three-count criminal charge against seven persons, alleged to have been involved in the 2017 killing of an indigene of Idumuje-Ugboko Community of Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta. The seven defendants were said to have connived with others, now at large, in May 2017 to unleash terror on […]
Federal High Court presided over by Hon. Justice Inyang Ekwo on Tuesday in suit no: FHC/ABJ/CS/1635/2019 ruled that Magistrates are divested with the power under the Law to freeze bank accounts. The Court held that “a Magistrate lacks the powers to make Bankers orders and/or order freezing or enabling a post no debit on bank […]
The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly , Mudashiru Obasa, is in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission responding to allegations of fraud , Themselves. The spokesman for the EFCC , Wilson Uwujaren , told our correspondent that Obasa was invited and he honoured the invitation at the Lagos zone […]
