. As group petitions CP, urges audit of personnel A civil society organisation, Rule of Law And Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) has petitioned the Imo state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Isaac Akinmoyede demanding urgent sanitisation of the command in line with professional best practices. RULAAC catalogued some of the most recent atrocious conducts of Police […]
A former lecturer with the Waziri Ummaru Federal Polytechnic, Birnin Kebbi, Mohammed Sani Nuhu, has landed in trouble for diverting to personal use, a university grant worth N6million offered to him for an International Conference and for his Doctorate degree program. Nuhu has been arraigned in court by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other […]
Justice Jude Okeke of Federal Capital Territory High Court has slated July 6, 2020, for ruling on the eligibility of a prosecution witness to testify in the on-going trial of former Secretary to Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal for alleged N500 million (Five Hundred Million Naira), grass-cutting scam. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission […]
An elder statesman, Prince Bob Njemanze has raised the alarm that a vicious cabal has held the Imo judiciary in a strangle-hold for the last 21 years, dominating major decision m N9,500 noaking processes, enthroning and deposing key judicial officers. He noted that the said cabal has been wielding uncanny control over who becomes the […]
A Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered the suspended Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Ishaq Modibbo Kawu, to defend his alleged involvement in the N2.5 billion Digital Switch-Over (DSO) fraud. Kawu, the late Chairman of Pinnacle Communications Limited, Mr. Lucky Omoluwa, and the Chief Operating Officer of the same company, Mr. Dipo Onifade, […]
…ex-Governors’ pension restored Following last Friday’s abrogation of the law that empowered former governors, their deputies, former Speakers and their deputies to receive pension and gratuity, reactions have continued to trail the legislative action. Reacting to the development also, a constitutional democracy activist and Executive Director of Legislative Watch, Hon. Ngozika Ihuoma called on the […]
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has secured a bench warrant to arrest two nationals of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka for their failure to appear in court to take their plea in a criminal matter. The bench warrant was issued by Hon. Justice O. O. Goodluck of the […]
The Federal High court sitting in Abuja and presided over by Justice Taiwo Taiwo has restrained the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Clerk, other officials and privies of the green Chambers from proceeding with their deliberation or invitation against the spokesman of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), Barr. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere. […]
A Permanent Secretary in the Imo state Ministry of Works, Engr. Egbuka E.C has come under a barrage of criticisms for allegedly taking sides in a dispute concerning two rival hoteliers. The senior civil servant who was expected to have fairly mediated in the dispute was rather found attempting to intimidate and wield the influence […]
A former Commissioner for Works under former Governor Rochas Okorocha’s administration, Ichie Best Mbanaso Thursday told the Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Contracts that some ‘shady’ companies were paid huge sums of money for jobs not done. Mbanaso made the disclosure while answering questions from the witness box. He recalled that some of the companies […]
