AFTER grilling him for hours over alleged diversion of N9 billion, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday detained former Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed. Sources within the anti-graft agency confirmed that the former governor was not…
THE Justice and Equity for Peace and Unity Initiative (JEPUIN) – the premier pan-Nigerian organisation – yesterday backed most of the decisions taken by Southern governors at their meeting in Delta State. In a statement by its Chairman, former Jigawa…
FORMER Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Board member Senator Binta Masi Garba yesterday recounted how she was removed for raising observations over the agency’s financial records. She alleged that her observations did not go down well with the suspended NPA Managing…
SOCIO-ECONOMIC Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Senate President Dr. Ahmad Lawan, and Speaker of House of Representatives Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila to “use their good offices to urgently probe and refer to appropriate anti-corruption agencies fresh allegations that…
THE Pharmacists Council of Nigeria has shut down 424 illegal pharmacies and patent medicine shops within the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The registrar of the council, Pharmacist Elijah Mohammed, disclosed this on Friday while briefing newsmen in Abuja. Represented by…
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s former son-in-law, Gimba Yau Kumo, and two others were on Thursday declared wanted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission over diversion and misappropriation of $65 million National Housing fund. A source close to…
GOVERNOR Samuel Ortom of Benue State on Thursday said any Nigerian opposed to the Southern Governors’ decision banning open grazing of cattle has a hidden agenda. Ortom made the remark at Holy Ghost Parish Hall in Makurdi while delivering his…
MAURITANIA’S former president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz (pictured), was on Tuesday put under ‘house surveillance’ by a judge after he was questioned in an inquiry which has seen him charged with corruption. It was the second time Aziz had gone…
THE Federal Ministry of Transportation says its minister, Rotimi Amaechi never asked the suspended Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman to award $1.5 billion channel management to two Chinese companies. A national daily had on…
SOME aides to President Muhammadu Buhari, including Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, the President’s nephew, Mamman Daura, Director of the Department of Petroleum Resources, Sarki Auwalu, and certain players in the oil and gas sector of the Nigerian…
