Operatives of the Sokoto Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested Chairman of Rice Farmers’ Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), Gummi Council Chapter, Ibrahim Rijiya, Council Storekeeper, Aminu Musa and Abdullahi Bashir for allegedly diverting three ...
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EFCC to arraign ex-INEC chairman, Maurice Iwu over alleged N1.2b fraud, cashier denies hiding money for Jang
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is to arraign a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Maurice Iwu, for alleged laundering of N1.2 billion. It was learnt that Iwu would be arraigned at a federal ...
Read More »Buhari receives APC working committee, assures on party supremacy, submits report on 2019 election spending
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured members of All Progressives Congress (APC’s) National Working Committee (NWC) that he will henceforth be more conscious of the party’s interests in taking major decisions. The President, who stated this when he received members of ...
Read More »Suspends five council chairmen in Kebbi, Ekiti chapter distances self from suspension of Fayose loyalist
The Kebbi State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suspended chairmen of five councils and nine others for anti-party activities. A statement issued by the state’s Chairman, Haruna Saidu in Birnin- Kebbi revealed that the leadership accused the ...
Read More »PDP raises concern over rising uncertainties, failing economy, insecurity
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lamented the rising insecurity, political uncertainties, failing economy, hardship and prevailing tension across the country. It, therefore, alerted that the nation was collapsing under the President Muhammadu Buhari ...
Read More »Protest wake up call for govt, Martins warns, it’s foreign agenda to destabilise Nigeria, Northern group insists
Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Alfred Adewale Martins, has urged the Federal Government to see the agitation as a wake-up call for it to better the lives of Nigerians and tame the pervasive insecurity in the land. In a ...
Read More »Sowore, others entitled only to legitimate protests, says APC chair Adams Oshiomhole
Following the arrest of the conveners of the anti-President Muhammadu Buhari protests on Monday under the umbrella of Global Coalition for Security and Democracy, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has affirmed that citizens ...
Read More »Nigeria, Morocco hopeful on gas pipeline development
The Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPPC), Mele Kyari, has said the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline (NMGP) project would open new opportunities for the realisation of the most populous black nation’s gas development plan. President Muhammadu ...
Read More »Buhari signs AMCON bill, two others
President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (Amendment) Act, 2019. Also signed into law yesterday were the Defence Intelligence Agency Civilian Pensions Board (Establishment) Act, 2019 and the National Biosafety Management Agency (Amendment) Act, 2019. ...
Read More »Saudi Arabia discovers 300 pilgrims with fake travel documents
Saudi Arabia Immigration has intercepted 300 pilgrims with fake travel documents attempting to perform this year’s hajj. The discovery comes as the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) yesterday announced the completion of the first phase of 44,450 pilgrims airlifted ...
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