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An EFCC witness, Mr. Kanu Idagu, on Monday told a Federal High Court in Lagos how some committees were set up at the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency as conduit pipes to steal money running into billions of Naira. Idagu, an operative of EFCC, gave the evidence at the resumed trial of Patrick Akpobolokemi, a former Director General of …

Poised to fight back, some of the judges whose homes were raided by operatives of the Department of State Service, DSS, last weekend, have opened cans of worm, with one of them indicting the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN. Already, two of them who are currently serving at the Abuja Division of the …

The 21 freed Chibok Girls said on Sunday in Abuja that for “one month and 10 days’’ of their abduction by the Boko Haram insurgents, they stayed without food in the bush. Ms Gloria Dame, one of the rescued girls, narrated this while giving testimony on behalf of her colleaques at a thanks giving service organised for them at a …

The Department of State Services (DSS) has invited Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court in Abuja to appear before it on Monday. Though it is not clear why the service is inviting the judge, sources close to it said the invitation was to possibly drill him based on the petition it received against him. Justice Dimgba was among …

The Federal Government, through its National Biosafety Management Agency, has issued a seven-day ultimatum to retail store giants, Shoprite and Next Cash ‘N’ Carry to withdraw any product that contains Genetically Modified Organisms from their shelves or risk a total shutdown. The warning was handed out to representatives of the two superstores at a briefing in Abuja on Friday. The …

President Muhammadu Buhari friday expressed optimism about the release of more of the girls abducted at Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State after 21 of them were freed by Boko Haram, following more than two years of captivity. A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu said Buhari spoke at a …

Nigerian yesterday closed ranks in their condemnation of President Muhammadu Buhari over his statement to the effect that his wife,Mrs. Aisha Buhari, who lamented that the All Progressives Congress,APC-led Federal Government had been hijacked, lacked knowledge of the workings of his administration. Nigerians made up of women activists, party leaders, and socio-political organisations among others, the angry Nigerians did not …

Controversies have continued to trail the comments of the First Lady, Aisha Buhari in an interview with BBC Hausa where she said cabals had hijacked Buhari’s government. However, below are five takeaways from the said interview that has left some people’s mouths wide open in astonishment. 1] “Some people are sitting down in their homes folding their arms only for …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said that his wife’s place belongs to his kitchen and that he knows not which party she belongs to. However Malam Garba Shehu, the president’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, speaking on the development on his twitter handle said the President Buhari was only joking. The comment by the president was made during …

Controversies have continued to trail the comments of the First Lady, Aisha Buhari in an interview with BBC Hausa-language service broadcast last Friday, where she alleged that cabals had hijacked her husband’s party and that she might not support her husband should he decide to contest the 2019 elections. President Buhari who is currently on a state visit to Germany …