Despite having been quizzed some of their key officials over financial matters running into billions of Naira, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said, yesterday, that it had not raised any team to probe outgoing Ogun, Imo and Zamfara state governors over alleged graft. Media reports on Sunday had claimed that Ibekunle Amosun, … Read more
Data compiled by Steve Hanke, an economist from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, United States, has classified Nigerians as the sixth “most miserable people in the world.” The Misery Index was calculated using economic indices including unemployment, inflation and bank lending rates. Venezuela, Argentina and Iran, the countries which topped the index, had high inflation … Read more
To make the State House Medical Centre perform optimally, the Presidency will turn it into a clinic. However, some staffers at the State House are kicking against the proposal, alleging that the idea was to privatise the centre and make cost of medical services unaffordable. But the Permanent Secretary, State House, Jalal Arabi, said the … Read more
Two bike riders narrowly escaped death, yesterday, as a trailer conveying baskets of tomatoes fell on them at the City Gate along Suleja-Minna Road, Minna, Niger State Capital. The injured trailer driver, Danjuma Mohammed, was taking the baskets of tomatoes to Kure Market, Minna, from Plateau State, when the incident occured. The … Read more
Four members of a gang that robbed, snatched exotic cars and kidnapped people have been sentenced to death by hanging by a Delta State High Court in Asaba. Justice Flora Azinge convicted four out of the five defendants on all nine charges brought against them and accordingly sentenced them to death by … Read more
Troops of Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) fighting Boko Haram in the Lake Chad region have killed senior Boko Haram Commander and 15 of his men in a gun fight. The soldiers, with the help of Air Force aircraft, destroyed five gun trucks belonging to the terrorists. Col. Timothy Antigha, spokesman of the task … Read more
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused the Minister of Justice and Attorney General, AGF, of the Federation, Abubakar Malami(SAN), of involvement in plots aimed at scuttling the collation of results of Rivers State governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and has, therefore asked him to steer clear of the state. The party … Read more
The fourth student, this time the Senior Prefect, has fallen to his death from a mango tree while trying to get a fruit for a teacher in a school in Akure, the Ondo State capital. Last Saturday, Temitayo Oluwole, the Senior Secondary school, SSS, 3 student of a government school, Ijo Mimo High School, fell from … Read more
The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday, said that he survived the helicopter crash in Kogi State in February saved many people, both in and outside of government, the trouble of explaining their roles in conspiracy theories that would have followed, otherwise. Professor Osinbajo stated this at a thanksgiving service for the elections victory of … Read more
Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has warned airline operators and pilots to obey weather predictions by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NIMET, as the country is moving gradually to the early raining season, characterised by thunder storms. The warning was contained in an Advisory Circular, AC, with reference no AC: NCAA-AEROMET – 27 … Read more
Lagos State Government has condemned the use of prisons as rehabilitation centre for convicted children in the country, maintained that sending children to prison affects their mental health due to the conditions they are often subjected to. Director, Office of the Public Defender, Lagos State, Mrs. Olayinka Adeyemi, faulted the act during a … Read more
The inmates of Kirikiri Medium Prisons, Lagos, enjoyed some largesse when a voluntary organisation, Health Emergency Initiative, HEI, vsited them bearing drugs and other medical materials. HEI Project Officer, Olayinka Layi-Adeite, said: “We visited the prison and the Matron in charge of the clinic told us some of their needs and as an … Read more
Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has hailed the Appeal Court judgment in the case between the Agency and the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG, Limited over levies payable to the maritime regulator, saying it has re-affirmed confidence in the judiciary. The Court of Appeal … Read more
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has granted approval to Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, in its suit seeking “an order for leave to apply for an order of mandamus” compelling the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola(SAN) to disclose the names of “corrupt contractors,” who allegedly collected money for … Read more
Governor Rochas Okorocha has said that the withholding of his Certificate of Return by the INEC has the potential to stir tension in Imo State. In his reaction to the development, Okorocha argued that the move to withhold his certificate of return based on allegation without hearing his own side of the story was unjust. … Read more
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has presented Certificates of Return to the newly elected members of the House of Representatives. INEC had earlier published a statement noting that the event will take place at Africa Hall of the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Abuja on Thursday. At an earlier ceremony which kicked off at … Read more
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been barred by the Adamawa State High Court, from conducting the supplementary governorship election scheduled for the state on March, 23. Justice Abdulaziz Waziri, granted an interim injunction by one of the governorship candidates stopping INEC from conducting the supplementary polls in the 44 polling units where voting … Read more
President Confederation of African Football (CAF), Ahmad Ahmad refused a visa for traveling to the US, where he was due to take part in a meeting of Fifa officials. It is not clear why he was denied the travel document. Confirming the news, a Caf spokesperson told the BBC that Mr Ahmad would be in … Read more
Bayern striker, Robert Lewandowski, has criticised Niko Kovac’s tactics, after they were sent crashing out of the Champions League at the hands of Liverpool on Wednesday evening. Lewandowski feels their approach in the 3-1 defeat was negative. The reigning Bundesliga champions also struggled to score at Anfield in the first leg. “Of course, we knew … Read more
Jose Mourinho has said Zinedine Zidane is the perfect Manager for Real Madrid. Mourinho, who was sacked by Manchester United in December, had been in talks with Madrid president, Florentino Perez, regarding a return to the Santiago Bernabeu. But key figures in Madrid’s hierarchy were against Mourinho’s return, while senior players in the dressing room, … Read more