Operatives of intelligence services in collaboration with men of Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, on Monday, reportedly arrested Abdulrasheed Maina, in a town in Niger Republic. The Nigerian government had days ago, sought the help of the United States and Niger Republic, in tracking the whereabouts of Maina. Daily Nigeria quotes PR Nigeria as saying that a […]
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The Commonwealth Secretary-General is in close communication with the Nigerian Government and is following with deep concern the alarming reports of attacks on demonstrators in Lagos and other parts of Nigeria. Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland called for an end to all violence and restoration of peace in Nigeria. She said: “The Commonwealth strongly condemns the […]
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The attention of the Citizens Quest for Truth Initiative has been drawn to yet another comic opera that played out in the Federal House of Representatives, on Monday 17th August, 2020, this time, involving the Minister for Transport, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and the Chairman House Committee on treaties, Hon. Ossai Nicholas Ossai (Delta, […]
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23-year-old Kolade Emmanuel Balogun, has been ordered by a court in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, to control traffic for three months for fraud related offences. The judgement was secured by the Ilorin zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). “That you, KOLADE BALOGUN (a.k.a Willam Davis, alias Behemoth) sometime in March […]
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The stories making the rounds, that the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) cannot pay their Foreign Scholarship students due to the absence of an Executive Director of Finance and Administration (EDFA), following the death of Mr. Etang Ibanga, the former EDFA has been discovered to not have emanated from […]
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The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has authenticated the list of contract beneficiaries released by Godswill Akpabio, minister of Niger Delta affairs. Recall that the embattled Akpabio had named some federal lawmakers and former governors as beneficiaries of contracts awarded by the commission. Some of the lawmakers named as beneficiaries include: Peter Nwaoboshi, chairman of […]
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The Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) says its attention has been drawn to the above subject of a newspaper report credited to the Senate Ad-Hoc Committee which recently investigated the alleged financial malfeasance in NDDC. The Ad-hoc Committee which had Senator Olubunmi Adetunmbi, All Progressives Congress, APC, Ekiti North […]
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A coalition of civil society organisations have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to probe Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation (AGF), over “14 high-profile corruption cases”. In a letter sent to the president this weekend, the CSOs listed “financial fraud” and “influence peddling” among the allegations levelled against the AGF. The letter was signed by Olanrewaju […]
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Nigeria on Tuesday recorded 624 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing its total caseload to 41,804, according to the NCDC. In a late-night tweet, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) noted that eight more persons have died from the virus as recovery numbers hit 18,764. Lagos, the nation’s COVID-19 regional epicentre, reported 212 new […]
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Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman, Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), has been released from Kuje Correctional Centre in Abuja, nine months after his arrest. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned Maina before Okon Abang, a judge of the federal high court, Abuja, on October 25, 2019. He was arraigned alongside Faisal, his son, […]
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