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N37bn loan scam: Bankole, ex-deputy didn’t benefit –Witness tells court

The Director of Finance, National Assembly, Mr Bukoye Azeez, told a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday that even though former Speaker Dimeji Bankole approved N37 billion loans for lawmakers, he and his deputy, Usman Bayero Nafada, did not benefit from them. He said Bankole okayed the loans allegedly obtained from two banks to […]

We’ll kill Borno PDP chairman –Boko Haram

Aspokesman for Boko Haram claimed yesterday that the group has links with Al-Qaeda, while also threatening to kill a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Borno State as well as attack political party offices. “It is true we have links with Al-Qaeda,” the man identifying himself as Abul Qaqa told reporters in a phone conference […]

How Car Gift Landed Farida in Hot Water

Wednesday’s sack of Mrs. Farida Waziri as the executive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commis-sion (EFCC) was set in motion by a car gift, THISDAY has learnt. Sources said the curiosity of President Goodluck Jonathan was “aroused” sometime last year when he learnt that Waziri had bought a car as gift for a […]

EFCC: The man, Ibrahim Lamorde

FOR Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), this is like second coming having served as Acting Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in the period former anti-corruption czar, Nuhu Ribadu was spirited away on course at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, prior to the […]

BY EMMA UJAH, CLIFFORD NDUJIHE, HENRY UMORU, INALEGWU SHAIBU, BEN AGANDE OSCARLINE ONWUEMENYI, PAUL ODENYI ABUJA — NIGERIANS, yesterday, hailed President Goodluck Jonathan’s removal of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Chairman, Mrs. Farida Waziri, saying it was long overdue. Waziri was eased out of the commission after three-and-a half years on the saddle with […]

UK Justice Ministry partners Nigeria’s judiciary on terrorism

The nation’s judiciary and the United Kingdom Justice Ministry have commenced talks on the possibility of judicial cooperation on terrorism and terrorism-related cases. Top on the list is the possibility of training selected Nigerian judges particularly in the area of case management, a relatively new genre in the judicial process and an area in which […]

Removal of oil subsidy: FG to save $6bn – Minister

CHIEF  Emeka Wogu, the Minister of Labour and Productivity, on Tuesday said that the Federal Government would save about 6 billion dollars by removing fuel subsidy. Wogu said this while declaring open the 5th Quadrennial National Delegates Conference of Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Association Institutions (NASU) in Abuja. The theme of the conference […]

Why Farida Waziri was sacked

FURTHER details have emerged as to the reasons that led President Goodluck Jonathan to relieve the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs Farida Waziri, of her position. Sources told the Nigerian Tribune that the final straw that compelled President Jonathan to effect the removal had to do with a representation of […]

Privatisation: Senate indicts BPE, El-Rufai, Chigbue, Onagoruwa

The Senate Ad hoc Committee on Privatisation has indicted former Directors-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises for their roles in the sale of Federal Government enterprises from 1999 to date. The former BPE bosses, namely Dr. Julius Bala, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai and Mrs. Irene Chigbue were recommended for reprimand by the committee for seeking […]

Seven Governors meet Jonathan over Sylva

By    Emman Ovuakporie, Chris Ochayi & Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—A LAST minute rally by seven Governors to salvage the candidacy of Governor Timipire Sylva of Bayelsa State for a second term on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP failed, yesterday, as a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan was inconclusive. The botched move by the […]