Why Sambo Dasuki’s trial may be stalled again

The trial of the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), before Justice Baba Yusuf of a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama, Abuja, is expected to commence today. Dasuki, a former Director of Finance and Administration in the Office of the NSA, Shuaibu Salisu, and a former Director of the Nigerian National... Read More

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January 17, 2016

Dasukigate: EFCC traces overseas properties of ex-service chiefs

As part of its investigation into the $2.1 billion arms scandal, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has reportedly started tracing landed assets of some ex-service chiefs. According to Punch Newspaper, the anti-graft agency is tracing the properties bought by former top military personnel during their stint in office to determine if the chiefs illegally bought... Read More

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November 6, 2015

DSS lied, I wasn’t invited by committee on $2bn arms purchase – Sambo Dasuki

Former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd), has countered the claim of the Department of State Services, that he was invited for questioning, but he never showed up. The DSS had stopped Dasuki from travelling abroad for medical treatment on Thursday, after a Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, had ordered the agency to release his... Read More

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August 10, 2015

Buhari will probe arms purchase by Jonathan’s administration

President Muhammadu Buhari is going to investigate contracts involving the purchase of weapons for the military under the administration of Goodluck Jonathan. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, made the revelation while on a Channels Television programme, Politics Today, on Sunday, August 9. Shehu said that President Buhari would take stock... Read More

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