FORMER Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, who is currently facing trial in two courts for alleged fraud and loan conversion, was in a dejected mood yesterday following his week-long detention in the not-so-cosy EFCC custody. An EFCC operative, who would not like to be mentioned, told Vanguard that Bankole has obviously lost […]
Temporary reprieve yesterday came the way of the former chief executive officer of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Mr. Erastus Akingbola, as a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja granted him bail to the sum of N100million with two sureties in like sum. The court, presided over by Justice Habeeb Abiru also granted Bayo Dada, who was […]
THE Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Allison-Madueke, yesterday strongly denied allegations of corruption which said she was indicted for fraud on two different occasions by the Senate, describing those behind the rumour are enemies of progress. She said the story was unfortunate and uncalled for adding that those behind the story are nameless cowards […]
Strong indications emerged on Saturday that core politicians may have a limited place in the new cabinet being put together by President Goodluck Jonathan. The development, SUNDAY PUNCH gathered, is already causing bad blood between the nation’s political class and technocrats as the chances of the former get slimmer by the day. Our correspondents learnt […]
The Contracts/Consultancy Review Committee (CCRC) set up by the Ekiti State Government has indicted ousted governor Segun Oni of embezzlement of public funds to the tune of N5.4 billion in the award of various contracts during his three-and-half-year tenure. According to the draft White Paper on the report of the panel released to the media […]
When the late flambouyant and effervescent Senate president, Dr. Chuba Okadigbo, called the shots in politics, not much was heard of his wife, Margery. But she was strongly behind the late senator, who she called the master. Mrs. Okadigbo, who said she learnt a lot from her husband, recently stepped into the political arena, where […]
Denunciation and condemnation on Saturday trailed the comments attributed to the governor of Bauchi State, Alhaji Isah Yuguda, that the National Youth Service Corps members who were murdered in the state were destined to die the way they did. Some corps members were killed in the state as well as in some other northern […]
Dutse-The NYSC coordinator in Jigawa, Mr Baba Ahmed, said he has withdrawn 350 corps members serving in Hadejia local government due to insecurity resulting from post election violence in the area. Ahmed told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview, Friday, in Dutse that the corps members were taken from their places of […]
THE Crown Prosecution Service in the United Kingdom (UK) has filed money laundering and fraud charges against James Onanefe Ibori at the Westminster Magistrate Court in London. The charges also featured some other prominent Nigerians, including former Governor Victor Obong Attah of Akwa Ibom; David Edevbie, a former Principal Secretary to late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua […]
The presidential candidate of All Nigeria Peoples Party(ANPP) Malam Ibrahim Shekarau has declared to accept the likely outcome of the Presidential election in as far as it certifies that the whole process was free and fair. “I will accept the result of the election as long as the process is free and fair, and I […]
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