A Federal High Court in Abuja will on Thursday rule on whether or not to compel the detained former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), to...
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Cross River State Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade, has offered N1m cash reward to anyone who provides information that will lead to the arrest of kidnappers and...
The Presidency on Wednesday said there was no truth in the reports that a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Kola Awodein, gave Justice Niyi Ademola of the Federal...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is set to show to a Federal High Court in Abuja a video clip of how its operatives recovered a cash sum of $1m...
The Senate has said it will consult with its legal team for advice on the decision of the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, to withhold assent to four...
The Federal High Court in Lagos has frozen the bank accounts of four companies linked to a former Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, over alleged indebtedness...
The wife of the Lagos State Governor, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode, and the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, on Wednesday...
The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has written a letter to the Senate seeking the approval of the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter...
A Katsina State High Court, on Tuesday, granted a former governor of the state, Ibrahim Shema, bail in the sum of N1bn with one surety in like sum over...
The Presidency on Wednesday said there was no truth in the reports that a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Kola Awodein, gave Justice Niyi Ademola of the Federal...
Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has written to the Senate, saying he has withdrawn assent to four bills passed by the National Assembly. The bills are...
A former Minister of State for Defence, Sen. Musiliu Obanikoro, has sued the EFCC for the seizure of his property. He filed the suit on Wednesday at the...
Members of the House of Representatives expressed shock, on Tuesday, that the Presidential Committee on North-East Initiative budgeted N60m to cut grasses this...
The Federal High Court in Lagos, on Tuesday, dismissed the no-case submission filed by a former Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and...
A former governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, on Tuesday, lamented that the Federal Government’s recent policy to reward whistleblowers with five...
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Joe Agi, who is being prosecuted along with Justice Adeniyi Ademola of a Federal High Court, has told the Department of ...
The passage of the 2017 Appropriation Bill by the National Assembly has suffered a setback, The PUNCH has learnt. It was reliably gathered on Tuesday that the...
The Action Team Against Conscription and Kidnapping, ATACK, an affiliate of the Centre for Anti-corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, has called on the...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said results of the series of medical checkups he carried out in the cause of his medical vacation had shown that he...
The Ministry of Budget and National Planning on Monday said there is no provision of N250m in the 2017 budget for the construction of gate-house for Vice...
A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has adjourned till April 24, 2017, the hearing of the suit brought before it by the wife of former President...
Fresh attacks on Sunday and Monday by suspected Fulani herdsmen on four communities of Southern Kaduna had reportedly claimed 21 lives and left many houses...
The Senate, on Monday, asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigerian National...
Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of the Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday struck out a suit seeking to stop the Senate from confirming Mr. Ibrahim Magu as the...
NIGERIA faces tremendous pressure to scale down the toxic influence of money on her electoral system, after it emerged the 2015 elections that ushered in the...
The Federal Government has directed the Nigerian High Commission and consulate in Pretoria and Johannesburg to investigate the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians...
A former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mr. Andrew Yakubu, has asked the Federal High Court in Kano to set aside the...
The House of Representatives yesterday resolved to probe the Minister of Communication, Adebayo Shittu over the execution of 48 projects worth N4.9 billion...
Governors have joined the battle to stop Ibrahim Magu from becoming Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) chairman. Some of them are ganging up with...
STUNNING revelations of stolen money and properties seized last week confirmed Nigeria’s rating as “fantastically corrupt” and re-fired the imperative of...
State governors, under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors Forum, in the early hours of Thursday, rose from their meeting, saying they were ready for the probe...
The Lagos State Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs, Muslim Folami, has appealed to residents of the state to stop street trading. He urged...
The Federal Government on Thursday explained why the N1.1bn Budget Support Facility for Ekiti State for the month of January was suspended, adding that the...
Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the permanent forfeiture of a sum of $153,310,000, which was said to have been diverted...
A former Director of Finance and Accounts of the Nigerian Air Force, Air Commodore Salisu Yishau (retd.), on Thursday, gave reasons why there were no documents...
The Consumer Price Index, which measures inflation, increased to 18.72 per cent in January this year. The National Bureau of Statistics in its CPI report...
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday had an extensive discussion on the nation’s Economic Recovery and Growth Plan due to be inaugurated soon. The...
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Wednesday said the quest by the country to achieve energy security could no longer be left to the Federal...
The Federal Government is currently planning a framework that will allow it to deploy some of the funds in the Treasury Single Account for the implementation...
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), has said there are corruption allegations in the Central Bank of...