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…
SIR: Abia communities of Isiala Ntighauzo and Ntighauzo Amairi all in Ntighauzo Ancient Kingdom, Obingwa Local Government Area, recently joined the list of communities that have protested abandonment of road projects in their domain by the Niger Delta Development Commission.…
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC wishes to notify the public that a certain Peter Akpanke is no longer a staff of the Commission and has no authority to represent it or carry out any business in the name…
NIGERIA’S leading anti-corruption group, HEDA Resource Centre, has asked a former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, to retract his statement on the fraud associated with OPL 245 or be sued. In a petition titled, “Defamation of…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has demanded that President Muhammadu Buhari should “direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, and the appropriate anti-corruption agencies to investigate ministries, departments and agencies, and members…
