Femi Falana, human rights advocate, has called on the federal government to reopen investigation into the disappearance of Bagauda Kaltho, a journalist. Kaltho, a journalist with The News magazine at the time, was said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1996. The journalist’s disappearance is steeped in conspiracy theories. There is the claim […]
Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) invaded the Kaduna residence of arrested terrorists’ negotiator, Tukur Mamu, in the early hours of Thursday. The operatives came in about 20 vehicles in what a witness described as a commando-styled operation. “They ransacked the house and carted away documents, phones and laptops. Those in the […]
THE suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP Abba Kyari,has denied owning 14 assets, saying the uncovered assets linked to him by the federal government w are not his. Besides,the former head of Police Intelligence Response Team, IRT,said contrary to report huge sums of money said to have been traced to his bank account,he has […]
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has denied ownership of some properties in Lagos linked to him. Such properties include Oriental Hotel and Civic Center. Mr Tinubu, in a documentary on his achievements as Lagos State Governor, said he only provided the environment for investors to invest on the […]
The House of Representatives’ Committee on Public Accounts has commenced investigation of extra-budgetary spending by Nigeria’s foreign missions and their refusal to remit Internally Generated Revenue despite cries of paucity of funds by the embassies and high commissions. The Office of the Auditor General for the Federation, in its report presented to the National […]
The presidential panel that probed Ibrahim Magu says the cases compromised under the watch of the former acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) were calculated to the tune of N333 billion, $2 billion and £13 million. In the final report submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari in November 2020, the judicial […]
The house of representatives committee on public accounts has asked the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to provide the details of the firms involved in the N18 billion bush-clearing contracts of the ministry of agriculture. Oluwole Oke, chairman of the committee, issued the directive at an investigative hearing […]
The house of representatives committee on public accounts is investigating the ministry of agriculture over the award of contracts said to be about N18.9 billion to firms during the COVID-19 lockdown. At the investigative hearing on Tuesday, Oluwole Oke, chairman of the committee, said the contracts were awarded to the companies for bush clearing, […]
The presidential panel that probed Ibrahim Magu, former acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says he could not account for N431 million security vote allocated to his office between 2015-2020. In the final report submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari in November 2020, Magu was said to have used part of […]
The presidential panel that probed Ibrahim Magu says 14 fraud cases involving N118 billion and $309 million were abandoned by the former acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In the final report submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari in November 2020, the EFCC, under Magu’s watch, was also accused of not […]
