The National Social Investment Office (NSIO) in collaboration with the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) will on Friday launch a toll-free line to checkmate corruption and truancy in the school feeding and N-Power schemes of the ...
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Northern governors, elders, others move to end Jukun, Tiv crisis
The Northern Governors Forum (NGF), elders and community leaders have perfected plans to ensure peaceful coexistence between Jukun and Tiv communities of Taraba State before the end of the month. A communiqué issued in Abuja after a two-day conflict resolution ...
Read More »Army foiling Boko Haram’s deceitful mission in North East, commander declares
The Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, Maj-Gen. Olusegun Adeniyi, has declared that the dream of the Boko Haram sect to establish a caliphate in the North East had met a brick wall in the past decade, as the military ...
Read More »VC orders immediate suspension of student for alleged cultism
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Cross River State, Professor Zana Akpagu, has approved the immediate suspension of one Obio, Godswill Okon of the Department of Physical Oceanography over alleged cult activities. Obio, who is a fourth-year student with registration ...
Read More »EFCC arrests 18 INEC officers, recovers N65m from Zamfara office
Yakubu, Bello, Wada seek violence-free Kogi guber election The Sokoto Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has raided the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC’s) office in Zamfara State and recovered N65.5m. A statement issued in in ...
Read More »Kaduna CAN flays state government’s inability to stop kidnappings, banditry
The Kaduna chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has blamed the state government for its inability to arrest banditry and kidnapping, following the abduction of Principal of Government Technical College, Francis Maji, in Kajuru. Its Chairman, Reverend Joseph ...
Read More »IPPIS saves Nigeria N4.5b monthly from ghost workers, Magu declares
Acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, disclosed that involvement of the commission in ‘arresting’ ghost workers in the civil service led to the redemption of over N4.5 billion monthly. Magu, while delivering a lecture ...
Read More »Court adjourns trial of Dasuki, others for alleged N19b fraud to Dec 11
A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has adjourned till December 11, 2019, the trial of former National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd), and four others for alleged misappropriation of N19.4 billion arms funds. Arraigned alongside the ex-NSA ...
Read More »Court orders EFCC to extend Maina, son’s detention over alleged N2.1 b fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured an order of a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Bwari, Abuja to detain former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina and his son, Faisal, pending conclusion of ...
Read More »Agwai, Utomi urge youths to brace up for corruption fight, CP want death penalty for graft
General Martin Luther Agwai (rtd.) and Professor Pat Utomi have urged Nigerian youths to brace up for the fight against corruption and be ready to win the fight against the monster to secure the future of the next generation. They ...
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