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Nigeria will get $200 million in badly-needed hard currency from oil majors to pay for fuel imports and ease petrol shortages hitting the OPEC producer, the head of state-run oil firm NNPC said. Africa’s top oil producer, which imports most of its required fuel, suffers from hard currency shortages due to a slump in vital […]

The prosecution in the case against former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Orubebe, opened its case on Thursday with its first witness giving details of how the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) discovered a property owned by the ex-minister in Abuja which he allegedly refused to disclose.   Orubebe is standing trial before the […]

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Thursday ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to immediately release the cousin of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr. Azibaola Robert. The EFCC had on March 23, arrested Robert over alleged diversion $40 million through One-Plus Holdings, a sister company of Kakatar Construction and […]

… Reveals plan to establish 10,000 primary healthcare centres  President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja urged the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to shelve its threatened strike action and give the Federal Government more time to address the grievances of doctors. Speaking at a meeting with the leadership of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday arraigned the Managing Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, Ibrahim Abdulsalam, and six others for an alleged N2.8bn fraud. Abdulsalam and his co-accused persons were arraigned on 21 counts before Justice Babs Kuewumi of a Federal High Court in Lagos.  Those charged alongside Abdulsalam are Adegorite […]

Stella George, a witness, in the ongoing trial of Dr. Bello Haliru Mohammed, former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, today told Justice A. R. Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja that, there was an inflow N300million (three hundred million naira) from the Office of National Security Adviser, ONSA, to […]

The Nigeria Labour Congress says it will declare a one-day national warning strike over the refusal of the Federal Government to reduce the electricity tariff.  NLC President Ayuba Wabba said this while addressing newsmen during the Central Working Committee meeting of the congress on Wednesday in Abuja.  On 29th January, the NLC led the picketing […]

Senate President Bukola Saraki continued to earn salary monthly as governor of Kwara state for four years after he left office, a witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Michael Wetkas, told the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) on Wednesday. In a continuation of the Senate President’s trial at the CCT, Wetkas said […]

After days of political squabbles, the National Assembly on Wednesday finally transmitted the details of the 2016 budget to President Muhammadu Buhari. The President had refused to sign the budget sent to him earlier with an excuse that the details were kept away from him. Some legislators had also alleged that they had not seen […]

Kaduna State Government said it would commit over N29.6 billion on power supply, agriculture and rail transport. Gov. Nasiru El-Rufa’i who stated this on Wednesday in Kaduna at the opening of the Kaduna Economic and Investment Summit, said that part of the projects captured under the state’s 2016 budget was the construction of a rail […]

Former chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, has received a nomination from Chatham House for successfully overseeing what has come to be known as Nigeria’s most credible elections since 1999.   Jega, a professor of Political Science, exuded much professionalism in the election that got the All Progressives Congress (APC) […]

A forensic expert and witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has told a Federal Capital Territory High Court, sitting in Gudu, Abuja that the signatures on the bank mandate card of Ebenezer Retnan Ventures, and other opening account packages with then All States Trust Bank, ASTB, belong to Joshua Dariye. The former […]