As the false asset declaration trial of Senate President, Bukola Saraki, began at the Code of Conduct Tribunal on Wednesday, April 20, the witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Micheal Wetkas revealed that documents relating to the alleged transfer of $73, 233 by Saraki to a foreign account were burnt before the commencement...
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Fulani herdsmen have reportedly attacked Agatu community in Benue state, for the second time in the past two months. The attack, which degenerated into a gun battle between a joint team of the Nigerian Army and Mobile Police Force officers against the deadly herdsmen, left a police officer, Corporal Ebiakpo Akparakazi missing and another reportedly...
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The Federal High Court, Ado Ekiti has ruled that the Department of State Services illegally arrested a member of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Afolabi Akanni and has consequently ordered the security agency to pay him N5 million as damages. Justice Taiwo Taiwo, who presided over the trial gave his judgement on Wednesday, April...
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As the trial of Senate President, Bukola Saraki commenced on Wednesday, April 20, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission revealed to the court how the defendant allegedly transferred N20 million ($73,000) to a foreign account while serving as governor of Kwara state. The first prosecution witness, Micheal Wetkas revealed this while reading count 11 of...
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The Kwara state chapter of the All Progressives Congress has blasted the National Chairman of the party, John Odigie-Oyegun for being complicit in an alleged plot by a cabal within the party and the ‘controversial Code of Conduct Tribunal chairman’, Danladi Umar to destroy the embattled senate president, Bukola Saraki. Oyegun had, during an interview...
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The Nigerian Senate, during the close door session of Wednesday, April 20, suspended the plan to amend Section 3 of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act. On April 14, the Senate had initiated a bill to amend a section of the Code of Conduct Tribunal and Bureau Act in a move alleged to...
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In a bid to stall the continuation of his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Senate President Bukola Saraki has reportedly filed another application at the tribunal seeking to disqualify the Chairman, Danladi Umar. Saraki is on trial for 13 counts of false declaration of assets at the CCT. Saraki has had his many...
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A highly anticipated event in the city’s architectural calendar, Open House Lagos is a unique celebration of the buildings, places and spaces where we live, work and play. It provides an opportunity to see, explore and learn about Lagos’ amazing architecture and design over one weekend. With over twenty buildings opening their doors to all,...
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday, announced that Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu is not the anti-corruption ambassador of the agency. The EFCC said it doesn’t give out such titles. In a statement issued by Wilson Uwujaren, Head, Media & Publicity, the anti-graft agency said the EFCC National Assembly Liaison Officer, Suleiman...
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Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele has revealed that the agreement signed between Nigeria and China will be beneficial to both countries. During a press conference at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, TheCable reports that Emefiele said the government of Nigeria is ‘talking with China’ to have the Asian country importing...
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Senate President Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday, lambasted a group – Citizen United For Peace and Stability (CUPS) – over a recent statement made in relation to his ongoing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal. In a statement signed by the Special Assistant(New Media) to the Office Of The Senate President, Bamikole Omishore, the senate...
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Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has described as ‘baseless and misleading’ – a news report insinuating that he had stepped down from his position as a shepherd of the flock in the Redeemed Christian Church of God. A statement was released to this effect, on Wednesday, by Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant-Media & Publicity to...
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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has demanded the immediate withdrawal of the unconstitutional summon for Chairman Code of Conduct Tribunal, Justice Danladi Umar, to appear before the Ethics Committee of the Nigerian Senate. From a statement released by SERAP executive director Adetokunbo Mumuni, we’ve culled 6 succinct quotes. 1. “There is clearly no suggestion...
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In furtherance of his gospel of Stomach Infrastructure, Ekiti State, Governor Ayodele Fayose is expanding the scope of the disciples of a myopic political strategy – where it’s easier to feed a man once in a spell, than give him the tools needed to help himself perpetually. Recently, several hungry Ekiti indigenes trooped out to...
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The end of April is hot for every Forex trader in Nigeria. This month ForexRally speeds the race and offers big prizes to the best Forex trader who actively trades and gets points. Not only the first 3 places have hefty prizes, but you can get big bonuses to your account for the first 30...
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For fans of self proclaimed Nigerian Michael Jackson – D’banj – it’s indeed a glorious day. D’banj has promised fans and critics alike that a follow up to his 2008 Entertainer album is in the works. The Kokomaster revealed this to YNaija on Tuesday, at MTV Base’s media briefing in Lagos. D’banj said a team...
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Here is your Entertainment Roundup for today Did Caroline Danjuma take a swipe at Linda Ikeji over Wizkid? On Tuesday, Nollywood actress Caroline Danjuma posted a cryptic message, in which she took a swipe at a certain ‘bully’. Although she later deleted the Instagram post, we managed to screen-grab it before it was taken down....
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Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, said on Tuesday, that violence cannot be completely eradicated in the North East region of the country. During his visit to the Logistics Command of the Nigerian Air Force, Sam Ethnan Base, Ikeja, Lagos, Abubakar said: “In the North Eastern part of Nigeria, we are making progress....
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Reports have it that the Peugeot Automobile Nigeria Limited will as from June 2016, begin the delivery of 360 exotic cars to members of the Federal House of Representatives. Punch Newspapers reports that each of the 360 lawmakers would be issued with a Peugeot 508 Salon car. The report further states that the cars are...
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Nigeria’s main opposition party – the Peoples Democratic Party has shut down its official Twitter account. The party says the Twitter handle, @PdpNigeria, has misrepresented the party in recent times while noting that the account was ‘compromised’ sometime in 2015. The announcement was made on Tuesday, by the Head of PDP Publicity Division, Chinwe Nnorom,...
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The National Judicial Council, on Tuesday, announced that it has sanctioned two Niger state High Court judges for falsifying their dates of birth and a Lagos State High Court judge for delaying judgment in a lawsuit for 22 months. According to a statement released by the NJC’s Acting Director of Information, Soji Oye, the judicial...
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The Kaduna State Chapter of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, has informed Governor Nasir El-Rufai to prepare to imprison 5,000 pastors if the Religious Bill currently before the state House of Assembly is passed into law. The PFN said on Tuesday, that the pastors in its fold would rather obey God than obey the proposed...
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A former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (retd.), has reportedly returned to the federal government, N2.3 billion which he allegedly diverted from the Airforce while he served as its boss. This brings to a total of N4 billion recovered so far from Amosu. According to Punch Newspapers, Amosu paid back the money...
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Prominent human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), on Tuesday, decried the decision of the Senate to summon the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Danladi Umar, to answer allegations of corrupt practices. Falana, in a statement, noted that the decision of the Senate to summon Umar was geared at frustrating the criminal trial...
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The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday, disclosed that the anti-graft agency has discovered 37,395 ghost workers on the payroll of the Federal Civil Service. The EFCC boss stated this during a sensitization program on the ongoing anti-corruption war. The program was organized by the agency to for the...
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If there ever was a platform that evinces the sweetness in our diversity as it does the acute fault lines in our claim to nationhood, from ethnicity to religion, culture to creed, and how they’ve all come to shape the worldview of the youthful population, the one year mandatory youth service which I’ve just completed...
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Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, was on Tuesday, honoured with the title of ‘Anti-Corruption Ambassador’ to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. National Assembly Liason Officer, of the EFCC, Suleiman Bakari, officially decorated Ekweremadu when he led a team of the anti-graft agency on a courtesy visit to the National Assembly. Bakari was quoted...
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Spokespersons of the All Progressives Congress in the South West states have called on monarchs and royal fathers of the region to ‘fervently pray’ for Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, to regain his senses. The Publicity Secretaries of the APC said it was out of place for Fayose to write the Chinese President to reject...
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The Senate has denied buying 108 Sports Utility Vehicles for its members in the upper chamber of the National Assembly. Chairman, Senate Services, Senator Ibrahim Abdullahi Gobir, said on Tuesday, that as opposed to the aforementioned 108 vehicles, the Senate bought 36 Land Cruiser VXR V8 jeeps at N36.5 million each for its members –...
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by Edikan Uko We should stop eating beef in Nigeria. Here’s why? It is now officially worse than blood diamonds. The people who rear cows and trade in cows are terrorists popularly known as Fulani herdsmen. They are no ordinary ‘herdsmen’, they are terrorists. A report published by Independent UK, named the Fulani Herdsmen as the...
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