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Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, yesterday disclosed that Africa was losing over $50 billion yearly to illicit financial outflows. Speaking at a walk to commemorate this year’s Africa Union Anti-corruption Day in Lagos, ...

Imo State Governor, Emeka Ihedioha, has disclosed that the committees raised to recover all property allegedly looted by former Governor Rochas Okorocha and his aides, have uncovered that the last government carted away 98 vehicles, and not 67. Okorocha, through ...

The National Judicial Council (NJC) has endorsed the appointment of Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad as substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) to President Muhammadu Buhari. It reached the decision at its emergency meeting initially presided over by Justice Umaru Abdullahi. ...

Cholera cases recorded in the last one month have reached 244 in Adamawa State, indicating an increase of 168 from 76 cases recorded in Yola North, Yola South and Girei councils of the state on June 17, 2019. Addressing journalists ...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has charged Nigerians of all persuasions to reject the country’s alarmingly increasing debt profile, which the Debt Management Office (DMO) has put at over N24.947 trillion. He described the situation in which government continued to ...

Nigeria’s envoy to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Alhaji Hassan Ardo Jika, has urged former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida and former Minister of Defence, General Theophilus Y. Danjuma (rtd.) to promote peace and national unity. He advised them ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has advised Nigerians not to allow disunity along ethnic and religious lines to undermine the country’s achievements and potential for future greatness. He made the assertion at the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Military Training Centre in ...

The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has said the 36 states of the federation could not fund their 2018 budgets despite receiving N4 trillion allocations for the period. The receipts cover earnings from the Federation Account and Allocation Committee ...

The Federal Government has been urged to tackle the prevailing insecurity for farmers to do their business and ensure food security nationwide. National Amir of The Companion (a group of Muslim professionals), Alhaji Thabit Wale Sonaike, made the call yesterday ...

The National Assembly has condemned its invasion by members of the Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzakky-led Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN). Chairman, Senate Ad-hoc Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Adedayo Adeyeye, told reporters in Abuja that the unruly mob overpowered the ...