Frontline rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr. Femi Falana has lauded the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode for taking the bold initiative to inaugurate the Special Offences (Mobile) Court to summarily deal with growing cases of traffic and environmental abuses in the State. The Lagos State …

CHINEDU WOSU YENAGOA The Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has arrested 9 males and 5 females in Bayelsa state for trafficking in hard drugs. The command said the 14 suspects were arrested in the month of January, 2016 for different drug related offenses. Spokesman of the Command, Superintendent Ikenna …

By OKECHUKWU EMEH Jr & SHASUDIN DAURA At the root of most economic and financial crimes are the proceeds, which are often laundered through lodging in financial and non-designated financial institutions or investment in legitimate business ventures. According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (International Student’s Edition), laundering involves moving money …

Twelve Federal Civil Servants have been honoured by the Federal Government for their punctuality, commitment and dedication to their official responsibilities. The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita who presented certificates of commendation and a Laptop to each of the twelve officers Wednesday in Abuja …

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has made a case for public, private sector collaboration as a way of attracting more foreign direct investment into the country and growing the economy. Jonathan, who stated this in Wiesbaden, Germany where he was hosted by the leaders of the parliament of the state of Hessen …

The Nigerian Army has announced plans for an indefinite closure of identified markets alleged to be trading and aiding Boko Haram terrorists with logistic supplies in Borno and Yobe States. This was announced, Tuesday, in a statement by the Director of Army Public Relations (DAPR), Col. Sani Usman, who did …

United States President, Barack Obama, has formally signed into law an initiative aimed at bringing electricity to 50 million people in Nigeria as well as the rest of the sub-Saharan Africa by 2020. The Electrify Africa Act of 2015 will give legal backing to Mr Obama’s flagship Power Africa scheme, …

Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has said the N433 billion proposed in the 2016 budget before the National Assembly will ensure that the federal government is able to construct and complete about 6,000 kilometres of roads before 2019. Defending his ministry’s budget before the House of …

The Presidency has explained why it allocated N3.219 billion for the upgrade of equipment at the State House Clinic. This is just as it defended the N18.1 billion budget proposed for the State House in the 2016 N6.07 trillion national budget. The Presidency said the N3.219 billion proposed for the …

The senate has thrown its weight behind its president, Bukola Saraki, insisting that the embattled senator will continue to serve in that capacity unless convicted by the courts. Saraki is presently standing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), over alleged false assets declaration charges preferred against him by the …

The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Baba Abubakar has lauded the management of Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing (IVM) Company for providing the needed technical support that has enabled the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) to sustain its operations against the Boko Haram insurgents. The Company, at a time …

The Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria, ALTON, at the weekend decried the heavy taxation imposed on telecom operators in Nigeria by different layers of government, saying it weighs down their operations. The group through its Chairman Engr. Gbenga Adebayo, urged Federal Government to harmonise levies on operators to …

Umbrella body of sports journalists in the country, the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), has given Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh, a seven-day ultimatum to name the journalists he alleged, last weekend, demanded money from him. Oliseh who fumed, Sunday, that Nigerians who are criticizing him for not doing well …

Security has been beefed up at the Presidential Villa in Abuja as Presidency, Tuesday, expressed the fear that terrorists focusing on high profile targets around the world may launch attacks on the complex. Following the development, the Presidency has advised all vehicles into the premises, official and unofficial, to subject to …

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has told President Muhammadu Buhari to’ save the country from the national embarrassment’ being caused by the 2016 Budget which he presented to the National Assembly last December by ‘formally withdrawing the document and re-presenting it.’ According to a statement issued, Tuesday, by his …

The Super Eagles’ early exit at the just-concluded 4th African Nations Championship in Rwanda meant no Nigerian player made the list of the Chan team of the tournament. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) released the starting XI which had four players from champions Democratic Republic of Congo. Chisom Chikatara, …

Nigeria will host the 22nd edition of the Africa Senior Athletics Championships in Lagos, in 2018. An agreement to this effect was signed last weekend between the Minister of Youth and Sports, Barr Solomon Dalung, and President of the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA), Mr. Hamad Kalkaba Malboum, in the …

ADENIKE ADEMOLA Prior to the introduction of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system on Lagos roads, commuters had gory tales to tell in the course of moving from one place to the other in the metropolis. While some had their clothes torn by rickety commercial buses and had to appear …

On Sunday, Valentine day, precisely February 14, all roads in Nigeria lead to Yenagoa, the state capital of Bayelsa State for the swearing–in of Governor Seriake Dickson for a second term. The Toru-Urua-born governor will be officially inaugurated to complete his good work and consolidate the gains of the restoration …

BY ABDULLAH ISAH, MAIDUGURI The Senate Majority Leader, Senator Ali Ndume has said that the National Assembly is on “the same page” with the executive arm of government, and the military in particular, in the ongoing fight against insurgency in the North-East, as legislators are willing to ensure that needed …

Two Nigerians, Ojukwu Nnamdi Roland and Ngene Linus Chibuike, arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos while attempting to smuggle $5, 424,270 USD out of the country, have been convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment respectively by Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court, Lagos. Rowland was …

(Presidency’s Reaction to Brouhaha Over Telegraph Interview) The State House has described as misconstrued, the various interpretations of President Muhammadu Buhari’s comments in an interview granted to the UK’s Telegraph newspaper on February 5, 2016. In a statement released in Abuja on Tuesday, February 9, Malam Garba Shehu (Senior Special …

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Anti-corruption and Financial Crimes, Senator Godfrey Chukwuka Utazi, has expressed the readiness of the Committee to support the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in the discharge of its statutory duties. Speaking at the 2016 budget defence session held on Tuesday, February 9, 2016 …

DENNIS UDOMA, Uyo The one day nation-wide unrest by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC),Trade Union Congress (TUC) and other civil society groups over the hike in electricity tariff by the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission and Electricity Distribution Company (Discos), took place in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital on Monday …