The Governor of Borno State, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, has urged the federal government to structure the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in a way that would make its scrapping or merger with any other anti-graft agency unnecessary. Shetti...
The Lagos State Government has assured about 40 foreign investors desirous of investing in the Lekki Free Trade Zone (LFTZ) and industrial parks of a secured investment in the state, saying the government has put in place, the legal and regulator...
Dissatisfied with the federal government’s slow pace of effort at including them on the third phase of the amnesty programme, militants across the Edo, Delta, Akwa-Ibom and Bayselsa states have threatened to resume hostilities should government f...
Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole on Monday dragged a soft sell news magazine, News of the People to a Benin High Court asking for an undisclosed amount running into millions of naira as damages, alleging libel by the publication. In the cas...
The United States may have changed its decision to designate Boko Haram as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) as a result of mixed reactions that followed a proposal by the Department of Justice to classify the group as such. Top official of ...
Following the recent decision of the Senate Committee on Upstream Oil Sector to conduct investigation to determine the truth behind the acquisition, transfers and payments relating to OPL 245 (Oil Prospecting Licence) between the federal government and...
Edo State Police Command, yesterday, alleged that some unscrupulous politicians were importing arms and recruiting thugs to unleash terror in the state ahead of the July 14 governorship election. The Commissioner, Balogun, Olayinka, who spoke in a chat...
Much has been said in attempts by various groups to score President Goodluck Jonathan’s performance in his one year in office. GEORGE AGBA, in this report, analyses the perception of critics and their divergent views to ascertain the veracity or ...
Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta on Monday said the government would equip the state University Teaching Hospital (DELSUTH) to handle rising urology cases in the state. Uduaghan said while interacting with newsmen in Asaba ...
The former Chairman, Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih, has said he would only reply the abuses allegedly hurled at him by the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, by removing him from office at for...
Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomole yesterday said he was optimistic that the Nigeria police would fish out the killers of his principal private secretary, Olaitan Oyerinde. He spoke yesterday in Ilorin, Kwara State at the resid...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has commended President Goodluck Jonathan on the renovation work at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport. This was contained in a press release signed by the chief press secreta...
The Inter Agency Task Team (IATT) on anti graft war, made up of the EFCC, ICPC, NEITI, Code of Conduct and 17 other government agencies, has advocated a holistic national strategy to combat endemic corruption in the country. The agencies said that the ...
Following the alarming level of corruption in the oil and gas sector, the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, in this interview with JULIET ALOHAN, says there is need for indicted ...
Ibrahim Idris is the Commissioner of Police, Kano State. He was formerly the Director of the International Peacekeeping Operations at Police Force Headquarters and the Mission Police Commissioner for the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) and th...