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After about 10 months of dilly-dallying, former Aviation Minister Stella Oduah yesterday appeared before an Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) panel. She was grilled for about eight hours by detectives over a N9, 443,549,531.25 contract awarded to I-Sec Security Nigeria Limited for the procurement and installation of security equipment in 22 airports. She showed up as the agency got ... Read More »

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Office, on Monday, February 26, 2018, arraigned one Nsa Ayi before Justice Mojisola Dada of the State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on an 11-count charge bordering on fraudulent false accounting to the tune of N700 million, an offence contrary to Section 335(a) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State ... Read More »

Suspected Fulani herdsmen early hours of Monday invaded Mbatoho community in Makurdi, Benue State capital. Mbatoho community is a council ward located on an Island in Makurdi town. Leader of the community, who identified himself as John Tehemen, led a few other residents to lodge a complaint with deputy governor, Benson Abounu, saying that the herdsmen had ordered them to ... Read More »

One person was killed while several others were wounded on Tuesday following a bloody attack on Ikorodu Campus of the Lagos State Polytechnic ( LASPOTECH ) by suspected cultists. The deceased, identified as Ahmed Amao, was a former LASPOTECH student who had been expelled from the institution. We gather that the groups of hoodlums invaded the Ikorodu campus from different ... Read More »

Another state co-ordinator of the board in Nassarawa state has come up with a rather strange story to back an alleged fraud. A few days after the bizarre report that a snake ‘swallowed’ about N36 million from the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board’s vault in Benue State, another state co-ordinator of the board in Nassarawa state has come up with ... Read More »

Evans’counsel frustrating trial – DPP The Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) on Thursday accused Olukoya Ogungbeje, counsel to suspected billionaire kidnaper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike a.k.a. Evans, of attempting to frustrate the trial. The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Ms Titilayo Shitta-Bey, stated this while responding to Ogungbeje’s application seeking to quash the charges against Evans. Evans and three others ... Read More »

  The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has sealed six fuel station in Cross River State over diversion of the product and price hike. Operations Controller in charge of Cross River, Mr Bassey Nkanga, told reporters in Calabar that the stations were sealed in the last one week. According to him, intensified surveillance was carried out to ensure that the product ... Read More »

  An Ado-Ekiti Customary Court has dissolved the 12-year marriage between Mrs Toyin Adaraloye, and her husband, Ifeoluwa Adaraloye, over lack of adequate care for their children and ‎constant fighting. The marriage produced three children, namely: Opeyemi, 11, Joy, 8, and Posi,6. Toyin, 34, a hairdresser, who resides at No. 5, Acuna St., Ekute Quarters, Ado-Ekiti, in her petition, said after ... Read More »

-denies ban on campus fellowship Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin, Professor Faraday Orumwense, yesterday explained why the institution recalled five students who were rusticated for protesting against increment of various fees. Prof. Orumwense said the students were not rusticated for protesting but for attempting to disrupt the University’s 47th Founder’s Day and 43rd Convocation ceremonies. Orumwense who denied ... Read More »

The Nigerian Army has claimed that factional leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, is on the run and dressed as a hijab-wearing woman. The claim was made in a statement signed by Brigadier-General SK Usman, Army Director of Public Relations. According to the Army, credible information from arrested and surrendered insurgents indicated that Shekau could no longer bear the heat ... Read More »