Two groups, Save Nigeria Group and Kingdom Human Rights Foundation International, on Friday, withdrew their suit filed in December 2016 seeking orders...
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THE arraignment of 23 employees of the Independent National Electoral Commission at the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt was stalled on Thursday due to the...
The Presidency’s insistence on Ibrahim Magu as Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) chief may have been strengthened by opinions of legal giants...
Opponents of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Acting Chairman Ibrahim Magu have lost a major battle. The Federal Government yesterday reaffirmed...
* Sagay, CACOL Back Acting President July 7, 2017 Professor Yemi Osinbajo; Acting President of Nigeria Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday seemed to...
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has said the Federal Government will soon roll out policies that will address issues around restructuring in the country. He...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday arraigned two suspects – Ejere Chris and Edoma Omagha before Justice A. M. Nicol-Clay of the Lagos...
The Federal High Court in Lagos, on Thursday, rejected the bail applications filed by five men who allegedly imported 661 pump-action rifles into the country...
The Senate has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission and security agencies to ensure transparency and fairness in the conduct of the Osun-West...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday asked both the Independent National Electoral Commission and the senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye, to...
Nigerian governors have concluded plans to report the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, to the Federal Government...
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday hit back at Senator Danjuma Goje, stressing that the legislator’s utterances and...
Magu’s confirmation controversy: Sagay, others knock AGF, El-Rufai says Magu’ll remain EFCC chairman
The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has said going by the constitution, any minister, who openly...
An Agusta 106 Light Utility Helicopter belonging to the Nigerian Air Force has suffered a technical mishap, crashing into water in a yet-to-be-identified...
Nigeria’s former First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan, on Thursday alleged harassment of her family by security agencies and sought House of Representatives...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday ordered the Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, Buruji Kashamu, to submit himself to the police for...
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday dismissed a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by wanted former Niger Delta militant leader, Government...
The National Industrial Court sitting in Owerri, the Imo State capital, on Wednesday, issued an order of perpetual injunction restraining the state government...
The Federal Government on Wednesday asked Justice Yusuf Halilu of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Jabi, Abuja to refuse to hear the bribery...
The Court of Appeal has fixed July 12, 2017 to hear an appeal filed by the wife of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan to challenge the interim order of the Federal...
The Senate, on Wednesday, began a probe into the $3bn allegedly spent by the Nigerian Ports Authority on the dredging of Lagos, Bonny and Calabar water...
The Federal Government will on Thursday (today) arraign 23 officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission accused of receiving N360m bribe from the...
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum has said the Governor of Zamfara State, Mr. Abdulaziz Yari, has no property in Lagos State. The NGF also stated that its chairman...
The House of Representatives resolved on Wednesday to invite former President Goodluck Jonathan to testify in the ongoing investigations into the controversial...
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, on Wednesday said Acting President Yemi Osinbajo’s statement on the...
The Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), on Wednesday said the Federal Government would publish the names of treasury looters...
The Senate on Wednesday accused the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), of misleading the public and blackmailing it over the...
The Senate, on Tuesday, declared war with the Presidency over the retention of Mr. Ibrahim Magu as Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday confronted an embattled Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dr. Joseph Nwobike, with various text messages he...
There are indications that the Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, has relieved his Commissioner for Special Duties, Mudathir Abdulganiyu, of his appointment...
The row between the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), and the National Assembly over the 2017 budget deepened on Tuesday as...
The Senate on Tuesday expressed its backing for the embattled lawmaker representing the Kogi-West senatorial district, Senator Dino Melaye, over the ongoing...
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has accused former ministers of the party of running Nigeria aground. The National Chairman of the...
Students of the Osun State University have taken over Olaiya and some streets in Osogbo burning brutes and vandalising properties as they protest the...
The Federal Government said on Tuesday that it borrowed N3.57tn between June 2015 and March 2017 to finance budget deficits. The government said this in...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered an interim forfeiture of the sums of N500m and $500,000 said to have been looted from the Paris Club refunds made by...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a wanted former governor of Jigawa State, Saminu Turaki, The PUNCH has learnt. The former governor...
A senior advocate, Dr Joseph Nwobike, who is standing trial on charges of offering gratification to some judges, on Monday told an Ikeja High Court why he gave...
The Lagos State Government on Monday arraigned the Managing Director of Lekki Gardens Estate Limited, Mr. Richard Nyong, before a Lagos High Court in Igbosere...
The Lagos State House of Assembly says it is ready to appraise budgets of ministries, departments and agencies in the last nine months. It said the assessment...