Lagos CJ Frees 153 From Prison
No fewer than 153 awaiting inmates of the Maximum and Medium prisons ‎Ikoyi, Lagos, we’re released by the Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Olufunmilayo Atilade on Wednesday. Three of the released inmates were said to have been in the…
Ivwurie Extols Osanebi’s Leadership Virtues
Member representing Ethiope East State Constituency in the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. Chief Evans Ochuko Ivwurie, has said that the Deputy Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Friday Ossai Osanebi, is an exceptional Deltan and an…
I WON KOGI GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION BY 204,877 VOTES – Idris Wada
Ex-Governor Idris Wada of Kogi on Wednesday told the State Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja that he won the 2015 governorship election in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the former governor contested the election…
General Who Lost Barracks to Boko Haram Discharged, Acquitted
The trial by a military court martial of Brigadier General J. O. Akomolafe, who was the former Brigade Commander of HQ 21 Brigade, Bama in Borno State, has finally been concluded. The officer was arraigned before the military court sitting…
UK Telegraph: Buhari Using Britain’s Money to Fight Opposition Not Boko Haram
Hundreds of millions of pounds of British foreign aid given to Nigeria to help combat Boko Haram terrorists is instead allegedly being used to fund a witch-hunt against opposition politicians, UK Telegraph reports. In a publication on Tuesday, Con Coughlin,…
Ex-NIMASA Acting DG Arraigned Over N645m Theft
The Economy and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC, on Tuesday, arraigned the former acting Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Haruna Jauro, and six others before a Lagos Federal High Court, over an alleged stealing and conversion…
EFCC Re-arraigned NAMA MD, 6 Others Over N6.8bn Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) Tuesday, re-arraigned the serving Managing Director of the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, Ibrahim Abdulsalam and six other persons over alleged stealing and conversion of the agency’s money amounting to N6,850,447, 609.90. The…
Dangers Of Fulani Janjaweed In Nigeria
The Janjaweed are militia that operate in Darfur, Western Sudan, and Eastern Chad. Using the United Nations definition, the Janjaweed comprised Sudanese Arab tribes, the core of whom are from the Abbala (camel herder) background with significant recruitment from the…
EFCC Arraigns Man Over Attempted N7m Theft
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday 11 April, 2016 arraigned one Adekunle Yakub Asuni before Justice. I.B. Gafai of the Federal High Court Awka, Anambra State on a four count charge for attempting to steal the sum…
‘347 Shiites Killed By Nigerian Troops Given Secret Mass Burial’
The Kaduna State Government on Monday announced that 347 persons were killed during the December 12 Shiite/Nigerian Army clash in Zaria. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Balarabe Lawal, disclosed this in a government submission at the ongoing Public…
CSO Wants Buhari To Stop Osun LG Funds, Petition EFCC, Others
A group in Osun State, the Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State (CSCEOS) has urged the Federal Government to henceforth stop releasing state’s Local Government funds to the through Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola. The group also petitioned President Muhammadu…