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The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) members would begin a three-day nationwide warning strike by Jan. 9 2017, against the anti-labour practice of International Oil Companies (IOCs). The South-West chairman of the union, Alhaji Tokunbo Korodo, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the warning strike was inevitable […]

The Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission, has recovered over N1.150 billion cash, movable and immovable properties between 2015 and 2016. The Executive Chairman, Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission, Gov Ganduje Malam Muhuyi  Rimingado disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. Rimingado said the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to commence investigation of the Secretary to Government of theFederation, SGF and other  government officials allegedly accused of wrongdoing. Malam Garba Shehu, the president’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, made this known on his Facebook page […]

Chief Magistrate Court in Mpape, FCT, has issued a notice of committal action against the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu over alleged disobedience of court order. Magistrate Okeagu Azubuike on Friday endorsed Form 48, ‘Notice of Consequences of Disobedience to Order of Court’ against Magu after the EFCC […]

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has announced that it has redeployed 67 of its senior officers.  Those redeployed comprise of 30 Air Vice Marshals (AVMs), 17 Air Commodores,10 Group Captains, seven Wing Commodores and three Squadron Leaders, a statement signed by its Director of Public Relations and Information, Group Capt. Ayodele Famuyiwa, said.  Also some […]

‎An appeal by a former Governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, asking that he should be reinstated to office to enable him to complete his truncated second term has been dismissed by the Supreme Court panel led by Justice Tanko Muhammad. The seven-man panel of the apex court agreed with the earlier decision of the […]

Following the order given by President Muhammadu Buhari to pay Super Falcons players owed entitlements, funds were on Thursday disbursed for them to be settled. The office of the Accountant General of the Federation released the mandate to Central Bank of Nigeria for payment of the naira equivalent of US$1,173,820.00 at N305/$ to Nigeria Football […]

Bayelsa Government on Saturday said it has uncovered 5,000 ghost workers in its payroll. Dr David Ala-Peter, Chief Accountant, office of Special Adviser, Bayelsa Treasury, Account and Revenue, stated this in Yenagoa. He said the ghost workers were identified in the recent staff verification exercise, where more than 50,000 workers participated. Ala-Peter said the exercise […]

The National Judicial Council (NJC) has fired two judges of the Abia and Zamfara High Courts after they were found guilty of misconduct. The NJC, led by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen took the decision on Friday  Justices Ugbo Ononogbo and Nasir Gummi of the Abia State and Zamfara State High […]

The Federal Government has released N386.879 billion as allocation for the month of November 2016 for the Federal Government, all the State Governments and Local Government Councils of the Federation. The figure was revealed after the monthly meeting of the Federation Account Allocation Committee, (FAAC) in Abuja. It was revealed that the gross statutory revenue […]

…demands for release of his funds from unfrozen accounts Following the order by the Federal High Court, Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday that his accounts should be immediately unfrozen by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose yesterday stormed the Ado-Ekiti branch of the Zenith Bank Plc, to demand for some […]