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By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku Benin City, Nigeria – Following the suspension of the Secretary to the Federal Government of Nigeria, Babachir David Lawal, over allegations of Fraud, the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has called on the Buhari administration to set up an independent panel to probe such allegations. ANEEJ Executive Director, Rev. David Ugolor made the …

The Presidential Committee probing Director-General of National Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ambassador Ayodele Oke, and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, David Babachir Lawal, has invited some aides of the suspended NIA boss. But the Director-General is yet to be officially invited by the panel, led by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. This is even as the committee has summoned …

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said that Nigerians did not elect General Muhammadu Buhari to function as “Friday President”, adding that he (Buhari) was now acting more like a ceremonial and part-time President. The governor, who said he was glad that his constructive criticism was getting to the President and his handlers, noted that it was not enough …

If the Yemi Osinbajo-led panel probing the allegations of financial impropriety against the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Babachir David Lawal, indicts him, either the former Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, or former Deputy Senate Minority Leader, Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, may clinch the top-ranking cabinet post. Both men are said to be on a shortlist …

Investigators are scouring for clues over what sparked a deadly, fast-moving house fire that killed five people, including three children, in the middle class neighborhood of Queens Village. Television news footage showed flames coming through the roof of the two-story home and roaring in upstairs rooms of the house as smoke poured from it. “It was a fire that moved …

Looming above Washington as Congress and the White House attempt to avert a funding shutdown in only five days’ time, Donald Trump’s central campaign promise to build a wall on the Mexican border threatens to bring the US government to a halt this week in a national display of dysfunction. On Sunday, even White House officials expressed uncertainty about whether …

For a long time, Gelegele, in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State, has been known to have rich potentials for a sea port in that axis of the Niger Delta due to its closeness to the high seas. The area, though in Edo South where the Benin people live, is predominantly an Ijaw community. In fact, it …

The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, was on Friday quizzed by the committee set up by President Muhammadu Buhari to investigate the suspended secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, and the suspended Director-General of the National Intellegence Agency, Ambassador Ayo Oke. The three-man committee which is chaired by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo …

France goes to the polls on Sunday with terrorist violence casting a long shadow over its fraught presidential election, after the shooting of a policeman on the Champs Élysées deepened already bitter political divisions. Candidates with radically opposing visions for the country’s future clashed openly over the response to the killing, claimed by Islamic State less than 72 hours before …

All options including military action are “on the table” to deal with the threat of North Korean nuclear weapons, Mike Pence has said during a trip to Australia. But the US vice-president stressed he expects China to bring its influence to bear against the regime’s nuclear ambitions. Pence said three times during a press conference with the Australian prime minister, …