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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has welcomed “the reported probe by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of the government of former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s $16 billion power project as an opportunity for the anti-graft agency to show that former heads of state and other high-ranking public officials are not immune from investigation […]

The leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) Ibrahim El-ZakZaky and his wife, Zeenat, Friday were arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) on arrival to Nigeria. El-Zakzaky and wife arrived in Nigeria through an Ethiopian Airlines at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja. Ibrahim Musa, IMN spokesperson confirmed that the […]

The police and the army continued their war of words over an incident during the Isheri Day celebrations in Isheri, Ogun State, in which three persons were reportedly killed and several others injured. While the police attributed the deaths to soldiers from the 81 Division, Lagos, the army denied, claiming that it was one of […]

A Federal High Court in Abuja Friday ordered the interim forfeiture of a bank account of the former governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari. The accounts of two firms linked to the former governor – Kayatawa Nigeria Ltd and BT Oil and Gas Nigeria Limited – were also affected. ICPC through its lawyer, Osuobeni Akponimisingha, […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday directed the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to prosecute the suspended Chairman of the Special Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, after ongoing investigations into sundry criminal allegations made against him. Buhari’s latest directive comes on the heel of the receipt […]

Ahead of the August 21 date for submission of final written addresses by parties to their petition, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 23 election, Atiku Abubakar and his party yesterday maintained that President Muhammadu Buhari was not qualified to have contested the poll. In the final written address filed […]

The Federal High Court Abuja will, on Monday, deliver its ruling in a suit, seeking to stop President Muhammadu Buhari from inaugurating the 43 ministerial nominees over the exclusion of an FCT indigene from his cabinet list. President Buhari is the 1st defendant while the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) is the 2nd defendant […]

Mr Abdullahi Babalele, son-in-law of Alhadji Atiku Abubakar, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 2019 presidential candidate got a temporary relief on Thursday as a Federal High Court in Lagos, granted him bail. Justice Nicholas Oweibo admitted Babalele to bail for N20million with one surety in like sum after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned […]

Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara, has donated some parts of the enclave of the Boko Haram, Sambisa forest, for the controversial Rural Grazing Area (RUGA) program. The governor also mobilised the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), Agro Rangers and hunters to secure the large expanse of the forest and make it safe […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday ordered the suspension the Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel (SPIP) for the Recovery of Public Property, Okoi Obono-Obla. The presidency said the “suspension shall be in effect until the conclusion of ongoing Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission investigations into a number of cases relating to Mr. […]

The police yesterday dismissed a memo issued by the Nigerian Army warning officers and men to steer clear of police personnel over fear of likely reprisal in the wake of last week’s killing of three policemen by soldiers in Taraba State. In the memo, the army had warned its personnel to be circumspect in their […]

Barely 24-hours of arriving India for medical treatment, the Indian authorities seem to be running out of patience with the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky; and have threatened to repatriate him back to Nigeria, after El-Zakzaky insisted on choosing his own doctors and saying conditions at the Medanta hospital […]