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The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) will on Thursday next week arraign a former Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Abdullahi Dikko, and two others for allegedly stealing more than N1 billion. The matter, suit number FHC/ABJ/CR/21/2019-FRN v Abdullahi Inde Dikko & Ors, is billed to come up before Justice Lucia Ojukwu of Court 7, Abuja …

Hundreds of internally displaced persons (IDPs) who recently fled from Baga took over a major highway in Maiduguri to protest days of hunger. The protesting IDPs took to the Maiduguri-Damaturu road to protest alleged government neglect. Teargas canisters were fired at the protesting women and children who were destroying properties especially political campaign billboards. The protesting IDPs had also barricaded …

Edo State branch of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the list of ad-hoc staff the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, plans to use for the conduct of the February 16, 2019 Presidential and National Assembly elections in the state. In a press statement in Benin on Monday, signed by its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Chris Nehikhare, the PDP referred …

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, on Monday decorated seven deputy inspectors-general who were promoted last week. Police spokesperson Frank Mba said the seven police chiefs were inducted into the police management team at a maiden meeting of the team held at the Force Headquarters Monday afternoon. At the event, Usman Abubakar was assigned as the new head of the …

..Launches Operations Safe Conduct to deal with election offenders…Says some unpatriotic groups aided by foreign conspirators out to scuttle polls The Chief of Army Staff,Lt. General Tukur Buratai,Monday, ordered immediate total crackdown on the Indigenous People of Biafra,IPOB,over threat to disrupt the forthcoming elections in the South East. To this end,he has ordered smooth execution of Operation Safe Conduct, which …

The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, will on Wednesday, hear a suit seeking to disqualify Governor Nyesom Wike from participating in the forthcoming governorship election in Rivers State, over an allegation that his birth certificate was forged Justice Inyang Ekwo directed the service of hearing notice on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Governor Wike and the Peoples …

President Muhammadu Buhari has said some agencies of government still divert or refuse to fully account for revenue generated despite his government’s anti-corruption drive. Mr Buhari said this Monday when he inaugurated the new board of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC). He did not give the names of the defaulting agencies and did not indicate whether there were plans …

The Senate is no longer interested in continuing a case it filed at the Supreme Court on the suspension of Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen. In a statement on Monday, Yusuph Olaniyonu, media aide to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, said the Senate has decided to give the National Judicial Council (NJC)’s intervention a chance. The statement noted that the decision …

There was drama at the Code of Conduct Tribunal on Monday, after a senior lawyer representing the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, was confronted with allegations of delaying the proceedings by the tribunal chairman, Danladi Umar. Mr Umar was reacting to a request by the lawyer, Adegboyega Awomolo, for an adjournment of the matter, when he accused the …

Nigeria, Africa’s largest country, is in dire need of doctors to meet the health needs of its citizens, official statistics show. Only one medical doctor is available to cater for every 4,845 Nigerians, the official data sourced by PREMIUM TIMES show. Nigeria’s population, according to the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics, was estimated at 193.4 million in 2016. Meanwhile, the Medical …