Politics

We are alarmed at the incident at the Public Hearing of the House of Representatives Committee probing the fraud allegations at the NDDC, which held today, Thursday, July 16, where the Acting Managing Director, Prof Keme Pondei, walked out on members of the committee. This is unprecedented in the history of this country that the […]

As part of efforts to boost infrastructure development in his constituency, a member representing Ukum state constituency at the Benue state house of assembly Thomas Mlanga said he has spent over N10 million on the provision of security street lights in some communities in his constituency.The Ukum representative at the state assembly who said this […]

…asks Nunieh to submit self for investigation A civil society organisation, Civil Society Advocacy Group for Accountability and Probity, has accused the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, of frustrating efforts of President Muhammadu Buhari to sanitise the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). At a press conference jointly addressed by Solomon Adodo, convener, and Igwe Ude-umanta, […]

….Reads riots acts to Ministers, heads of MDAs President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday warned members of his cabinet, heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the federal government over disrespect to the legislature. The President, in a statement by the Presidential Spokesman, Garba Shehu, warned that disrespect to the institution by any member of the […]

One morning in early June a young man was carried in to the National Orthopaedic Hospital in Lagos with a gunshot wound to his right lower leg. The wound had become severely infected and the patient was unlikely to survive without emergency surgery. There was another complication. His high fever and laboured breathing suggested signs […]

Justice I.N. Buba of Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on Wednesday, July 15, 2020 convicted and sentenced Captain Ezekiel Bala Agaba, a former executive director, Maritime Safety and Shipping Development, in the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA to seven years jail term for N1.7billion fraud. According to a statement issued on Wednesday […]

After over one week of being in detention over allegations of corruption levelled against him by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, the suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, was released from police custody Wednesday evening.  One of Magu’s lawyers, Tosin Ojaomo, who had filed a bail […]