The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Office, has secured the conviction and sentencing of an internet fraudster, Mabifah Quzeem Abayomi, before Justice O.O. Abike-Fadipe of a Special Offence Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos. The convict was arraigned…
The fourth prosecution witness in the trial a former governor of Benue State Gabriel Suswam before Justice Ahmed Ramat Mohammed of the Federal High Court, Abubakar Umar, on March 24, 2021 narrated how he handed over the sum of $15.8m…
A Federal High Court sitting in Benin City, Edo State today, Tuesday 23, 2021 ruled that it has jurisdiction to entertain the money laundering charge brought against Pastor Osagie Ize -Iyamu, PDP governorship candidate in the 2016 governorship election in the state, and four others by…
The Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, has condemned the backlash that followed news that the Nigerian government will spend $1.5 billion on rehabilitation of Port Harcourt refinery. A total of $1.5 billion has been proposed by the government…
A Sokoto State High Court, sitting in Sokoto, today remanded Lukuman Sani Waziri, a former Accountant with the Finance Department of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto in prison custody, pending the determination of his bail application. This followed his…
The trial of Atiku Abubakar Kigo alongside five others before Justice Hussien Baba of the FCT High Court, Maitama, Abuja, continued on Tuesday, March 16, 2021 with the judge admitting in the evidence, documents which the prosecution had sought to tender at the…
THE Nigerian government has apologised for the increase in price of petrol earlier announced by the Petroleum Products Pricing Pricing Authority (PPPRA) on Friday, saying the hike is completely untrue. Timipre Sylva, minister of states for petroleum, who stated this…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday inaugurated the headquarters building of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), 25 years after the groundbreaking ceremony. The president, who virtually inaugurated the building from the Council Chamber of the State House, Abuja, commended the…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Thursday, March 11, 2021 arraigned Peter Hena, Former Coordinating Director of Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS and eight other officers of the agency before Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of a Federal High Court…
A Lagos-based lawyer, Chukwudi Enebeli, has given three reasons why the Federal Government is not entitled to the £4.2 million expected from the United Kingdom as part of looted funds recovered from former Delta Governor James Ibori. Enebeli, partner in…
