Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers state has said a judicial panel of inquiry will be set up to investigate the management of the state’s resources and affairs under past administrations. The governor made the proclamation on Monday while swearing in Dagogo Iboroma, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), as the Rivers’ attorney-general and commissioner for […]
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The suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu,has described the allegations levelled against him as “nonsense”. Speaking with The Nation hours after he was released from police custody, Magu said he was shocked when he read the allegations designed to tarnish his image. He was arrested last week and […]
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The Human and Environmental Development Agenda Resource Centre (HEDA) has filed a motion exparte before the federal high court in Lagos seeking the probe of Kemi Adeosun, minister of finance. HEDA has requested an order compelling Ibrahim Idris, inspector-general of police (IGP), to investigate the allegations of certificate forgery against the minister. Premium Times had […]
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Senator Ali Ndume and Ovie Omo-Agege, on Tuesday appeared before a joint panel of the House of Representatives and the senate to answer questions regarding their roles in the mace theft saga. However, Ovie Omo-Agege, senator representing Delta central, refused to testify before an ad hoc committee of the national assembly, insisting he would not […]
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The Nigerian army has dismissed the allegations of Theophilus Danjuma, an elder statesman, that it colluded with militia in Taraba state and refused to protect the people. Speaking at a news conference in Abuja on Friday, Tukur Buratai, chief of army staff, said the 10-man panel the army constituted to probe the allegations founded them […]
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Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has vowed to probe President Buhari’s arms procurement, if he is elected in 2019. Alhaji Atiku stated this while speaking in an interview with BBC Hausa on Saturday, when he said it is taking too long to defeat the Boko Haram insurgents. “Eight years after, Nigerian government is still fighting Boko […]
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The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai on Monday inaugurated a 10-man committee to probe the allegation levelled against the army by Lt. Gen. Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, who retired as chief of army staff almost 40 years ago. Danjuma on March 24 at the convocation of Taraba State University in Jalingo, alleged that some […]
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Police have reportedly intercepted nearly 400 kilos of cocaine stored in 16 bags from a Russian embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The country’s security minister, Patricia Bullrich, Thursday said the operatives also arrested several members of a drug trafficking gang. Bullrich told newsmen that the drugs discovered in an annex of the embassy had a […]
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The Senate at the plenary on Wednesday resolved to investigate former registrars of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board over low remittances during their administration of the board. The probe will also be extended to the National Examinations Council and the West African Examination Council. WAEC is an international examination body for the West African […]
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The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday directed its Committee on Banking to investigate illegal deductions and arbitrary charges on depositors’ funds by commercial banks. It was also decided that the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and officials of the central bank, forensic auditors, managing directors of commercial banks and other stakeholders, be mandated […]
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