The Inspector-General of Police, Alkali Baba, says operatives who raided the residence of Justice Mary Odili have been arrested. This confirmation comes a day after I.G.P. Baba ordered an investigation of the incident, which happened in Abuja last Friday. The I.G.P. made the disclosure when he arrived in Lagos yesterday to attend a workshop for security operatives…
The African Development Bank has blacklisted at least forty companies and individuals in Nigeria. Those affected, whose names were not mentioned, are alleged to committed acts of corruption, including fraud. Information on the website of the AfDB indicates that the affected companies committed the acts between 2017 and 2021. The AfDB said those affected were delisted based…
The Federal Government has asked the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal to order a fresh trial former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu. Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is accusing Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, who is the Chief Whip of the Nigerian Senate, of defrauding Abia State of seven point one billion naira…
Security operatives earlier today stopped journalists from covering the trial of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu at the Federal High Court in Abuja. Those who were stopped from entering inside the courtroom include reporters from ten media houses had earlier been cleared by the Federal Government to cover Kanu’s trial. Some lawyers on the side of Nnamdi Kanu…
President Muhammadu Buhari has returned home after attending the second term inaugurating of the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed. President Buhari, who traveled to Ethiopia on Sunday, arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at about 1:30PM today. The Chief of Staff to the President, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, was among top officials who drove to the…
The International Committee of the Red Cross estimates that about forty-four thousand persons have gone missing in Africa. The ICRC says Nigeria accounts for much of the missing persons, which is due to the conflict in the North-East by Boko Haram/ISWAP insurgency. ICRC spokesman, Aliyu Dawobe, said most of the twenty-six thousand missing persons in Nigeria are…