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President Bola Tinubu has slashed the number of officials that will accompany him and other top government officials on any foreign trip. The measure, according to the Presidential Spokesperson, Ajuri Ngelale, is part of “massive cost-cutting measures.” Speaking while briefing State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa on Tuesday, Mr Ngelale said the cost-cutting exercise affects the entire apparatus of the …

“Her release will depend on the investigation team. I cannot say whether she will be released or detained; it depends on the investigators, the investigation is still on-going.’’ Managing Directors of three leading new generation banks, were also grilled over their involvement in the alleged N585 million fraud. Sources at the anti-graft agency told Daily Sun that the CEOs arrived …

Popular Nigerian singer and songwriter, Tiwatope Omolara Savage, popularly known as Tiwa Savage, has filed a petition against Afrobeats star, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, over an alleged threat to her life. Savage in a petition addressed to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fayoade Adegoke, and circulating online, alleged that the ‘Omo Baba Olowo’ crooner threatened her over …

ABUJA — Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) today grilled for hours, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, over the payment of N585 million into a private account. Also questioned was her predecessor, Sadiya Umar-Farouq over N37 billion fraud in the ministry. Vanguard authoritatively reported that none of the three bank …

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, adjourned a fresh N1 billion suit filed by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), against the federal government until 4 March for hearing. Justice James Omotosho adjourned the matter following the absence of counsel for Mr Kanu in court. When the case was called, Mr Kanu, who was the …

President Bola Tinubu has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to launch a full-blown investigation into the finances of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation. Tinubu handed down the directive in a statement on Monday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, who also announced the suspension of the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and …

Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 presidential election, Mr Peter Obi, has chided the President Bola Tinubu administration over its ‘huge’ borrowing, saying particularly that the administration’s continuous securitisation of Ways and Means borrowing from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is against the law and the CBN Act. Obi insists that the Tinubu administration is flouting …

The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, says the South-east region must achieve peace and security before demanding the release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Mr Kalu said this while speaking with journalists in his Bende country home on Sunday. He spoke on how best the region could approach its demand for …

They come with backpacks carrying a few spare changes of clothes and whatever money and phones they weren’t robbed of by criminals or cartels along the way, arriving at the United States-Mexico border exhausted from the stress of the journey north. Like the hundreds of thousands of people around them who have also trekked weeks to reach the US, they’re driven by …

The Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja has declared the prolonged detention of the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, without trial as a flagrant violation of his fundamental rights. The court slammed a total of N100m fine against the Federal Government and the Economic Financial Crime Commission and barred them from rearresting or detaining …