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Orders further probe of FBN, FCMB, WEMA, Suntrust The House of Representatives has ndicted 16 deposit money banks (DMBs) for allegedly failing to remit N1.586 billion to the Federation Account. This followed an earlier report that members of the House ...

Special Adviser to the President on Social Investments in the Office of the Vice President, Mrs. Maryam Uwais has said her office has begun the distribution of $322 million recovered Abacha loot. She said her office had distributed $22.216m to ...

Special Adviser to the President on Social Investments in the Office of the Vice President, Mrs. Maryam Uwais has disclosed that the Implementing Unit of the National Social Investment Office (N-SIO) received N470.825b in three years out of N1.5tr budget. ...

Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi has stated that his actions as Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) would be guided by national interest. Fayemi spoke while reacting to his emergence as leader of the group in the event leading ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has said there are ample evidences that states could develop on their own without necessarily craving Federal Government’s support. The President stated this during his one-day working visit to Imo State where he commissioned the Sam Mbakwe ...

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in Osun State gubernatorial election in September last year, Ademola Adeleke, has sued Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu over his arrest and detention in Abuja on May 6, 2019. Adeleke had approached ...

A heavy rainstorm has wrecked severe havoc at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Aleke in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, destroying property worth over N500 million. It also disrupted business and academic activities at the institution, as students ...

The Appeal court sitting in Awka, Anambra State has adjourned the suits filed by senators Chris Uba of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Victor Umeh of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) against the declaration of senators-elect, Uche Ekwunife of ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday dismissed reports that the Kwara State Governorship Election Tribunal asked it to produce Governor-elect AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq’s West African Examinations Council (WAEC) certificate. Counsel to INEC, Rowland Otaru (SAN) told reporters in Ilorin that ...

An Appeal Court in Abuja reserved judgement in a case filed by Peter Nwaoboshi over the nullification of his re-election as Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senator-elect for Delta North Senatorial district. Counsel to Nwaoboshi, Tony Idigbe (SAN) in his submission, ...