Islamic sect, Boko Haram has threatened to carry out more attacks, a day after a series of blasts and gun battles claimed by the group killed more than 100 people in the country’s northeast, the Nigerian Red Cross has said. Ibrahim Bulama, an official from the humanitarian organisation, said on Sunday that the death toll […]
In what is considered a retaliatory move, the Federal Government has slashed British Airways’ (BA) flights to Lagos from seven times a week to three, with effect from Tuesday, November 8. Before the flight reduction, the United Kingdom national carrier, which has operated into Nigeria for over 75 years, was flying seven times weekly to […]
A Permanent Secretary in the Taraba State Ministry of Finance, Asabe Maiangwa, on Monday told an Abuja High Court that she complained to the then Taraba state Governor, Rev Jolly Nyame, about the way the state government disbursed various sums of money to contractors for jobs not done. At the resumed hearing of the case […]
THE Supreme Court will today decide whether to strike out the appeals filed by President Goodluck Jonathan, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against a ruling delivered by the presidential election petitions tribunal on July 14, which held that the petition filed on a Sunday by the Congress for […]
The Nigeria Football Federation yesterday rose from its emergency congress to announce the sack of Samson Siasia as coach of the Super Eagles bringing to an end weeks of wide speculations about his future as Nigeria’s coach. Siasia was fired for failing to qualify Nigeria for next year’s Africa Cup of Nations. In the contract […]
Former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, would on November 30, 2011 know whether the Code of Conduct Tribunal can prosecute him for allegedly operating 16 foreign accounts while in office. The tribunal would also make a pronouncement on the former governor’s application to […]
BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE, Deputy Political Editor THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was on the offensive last week and penultimate week arraigning former governors it accused of embezzling their states’ funds while in power. Former governors who waded through the anti-graft agency’s familiar stream of arrest, questioning, brief detention (in EFCC’s custody or prison), […]
His killing, which came swiftly after his capture near Sirte, is the most dramatic single development in the Arab Spring revolts that have unseated rulers in Egypt and Tunisia and threatened the grip on power of the leaders of Syria and Yemen. “He (Gaddafi) was also hit in his head,” National Transitional Council official Abdel […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Lafia, Nasarawa State, has ordered a former governor of the state, Aliyu Akwe Doma and eight other accused persons arraigned by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over money laundering charges to be remanded in the commission’s custody till tomorrow. The order by the court, presided over by Justice […]
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed how the detained immediate past governor of Gombe State, Senator Danjuma Goje, spent N1.9 billion to print 98,000 copies of dictionary for students in the state. The revelation was contained in one of the 18 counts contained in the money laundering and misappropriation of funds charge […]
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