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THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), at the weekend, raided the office of former Vice-President Namadi Sambo, in Abuja. We learnt that operatives of the commission stormed the office, located on Herbert Macauley Way in the Federal Capital Territory, on Saturday, apparently in connection with the ongoing investigation into the $1.2 billion arms procurement scandal, as the former number …

LAGOS – The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) yesterday said it was awaiting the Federal Government’s directive, to commence its proposed $3 billion dollars (N495 billion) refineries. Alhaji Ahmed Fashola, the National Assistant Secretary of IPMAN, told journalists in Lagos that the body had acquired over 1,000 hectares of land for the project. He said that the property, …

Texas Senator Ted Cruz has won the Iowa Republican caucuses, the first vote to choose US presidential candidates. “Tonight is a victory for courageous conservatives,” he declared, to great applause, as he railed against Washington, lobbyists and the media. He took 28% of the Republican vote, beating his rival, the frontrunner Donald Trump, and Marco Rubio. Votes in the Democratic …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, said ongoing fight against corruption in Nigeria could be effectively tackled with the strong support of the judiciary. A statement issued in Abuja on Sunday by the president’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, said that Buhari stated this while speaking at a town hall meeting with Nigerians …

By Alltimepost.com Edo State Government has announced payment of a total N2 billion gratuities to 539 pensioners from the 2010 and 2011 batch in the state. The government also said it paid state workers their salaries for January, 2016. According to the administration, the payment of pensioners’ gratuities is in fulfillment of Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s promise to defray the pension …

The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, has said the party has overcome the initial trauma that he said accompanied the electoral setback of the 2015 general elections. He said that the party was now poised to regain power at the center in 2019. Metuh said the recent variance of voices from its members was …

The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, was finally freed from Kuje Prison after fulfilling the bail conditions imposed on him by a Federal High Court in Abuja on January 19. Metuh was released from prison after 13 days of remand in custody with respect to the charges of fraudulent receipt of N400m from the …

The crisis rocking the APC in Edo state has assumed a new dimension as validated rumours have it that the state Deputy Governor has entered into talks with the opposition PDP over possible coalition in the forthcoming general election in Edo state, in the event that he totally lost out in the APC primaries in a non-transparent or non free …

More witnesses were presented by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, January 28, 2016 before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to testify in the ongoing case of alleged money laundering involving the National Spokesperson of the People’s Democratic Party,PDP, Olisa Metuh and his company, Destra Investment Limited. Metuh is being tried …

By Igbotako Nowinta, Alltimepost.com Nigerian Bureau Chief Religious leaders and all workers in the vineyard of God have been tasked to throw their weight behind the anti -corruption war being waged by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. Pastor Samson Adeniran of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Kings Parish, made the call recently during a media chat as part of …