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SOCIAL MEDIA MEETS THE NIGERIAN SPIRIT: NIGERIANS RALLY TO THE RESCUE OF LAGOS TRICYCLE DRIVER’S FAMILY

December 3, 2019 Mohammed Basah0 comment

A Lagos-based Tricycle (popularly known as “Keke Napep” or “Keke Marwa” in our local parlance) driver had made a passionate appeal on the popular Social Media platform, Twitter, calling on Nigerians to assist him in settling his wife’s hospital bill after she was delivered of a son via Caesarean Section. In a tweet, at about 11:26, on the 2nd of December, 2019, from his Twitter handle, @LolNonny1 he had appealed, “please help me Nigerians my wife and child have been held up in the hospital since November 6th 2019, bcos…

BARRISTER HALIMA ALFA: BETWEEN PATRIOITISM AND ETHNICITY IN THE CHOICE OF VOTING FOR A GOVERNOR FOR KOGI STATE.

November 1, 2019 Mohammed Basah0 comment

It is no longer news that Barrister Halima Alfa has come under vitriolic attacks from a segment of the Igala elite who masquerade themselves as the champion of a so-called Igala agenda in a multi-ethnic state and society like ours. For those who care to know, history will surely witness to the patriotism of Barrister Halima as against the ethnic bigots taste of the proponents of the Igala as against the Kogi state agenda. The election of Yahaya Bello as the governor of our state was the pinnacle event…

EMERGING STORY: KOGI STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY MEMBER BUYS UP LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROPERTIES

October 8, 2019 Mohammed Basah0 comment

A serving member of the Kogi State House of Assembly has bought up properties belonging to one of the Local Government Areas of the state. Details soon!

Chief accountant, cashier detained over N11.4m robbery in Niger State

August 8, 2019 Editor0 comment

Minna-Niger State Police Command has detained the Chief Accountant and Cashier over the N11.4m snatched from them at different spots in Minna, the State Capital, within the last two weeks. File: Police officers on duty. The Chief Accountant attached to the Head of Service, Niger State was on Monday attacked by armed robbers at the gate of the State Secretariat, Minna and carted away with N9.5m. IRT operatives were mistaken for kidnappers – Army(Opens in a new browser tab) The money was said to be overhead for the Office of…

Ex INEC boss Iwu arrives court over N1.2bn alledged fraud

August 8, 2019 Editor0 comment

A former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Maurice Iwu, has arrived the Federal High Court in Lagos for his arraignment. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said it would arraign Iwu for alleged N1.2bn fraud. He faces four counts bordering on money laundering, EFCC said. Iwu was alleged to have, between December 2014 and March 2015, concealed N1.2bn in the bank account of Bioresources Institute of Nigeria Limited domiciled in the United Bank for Africa Plc. The money was believed to be part of the N23.29bn…

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Ex-Gov Okorocha: Our Case – EFCC

July 24, 2019July 24, 2019 Editor0 comment

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, wishes to state that it’s Enugu Zonal Office on Tuesday July 23, 2019 traced and marked some properties traced to the former Imo State governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha as well as those of his family members and cronies. The marking of the properties which is a fall-out of our painstaking investigation, is as a result of the failure of the suspects to honour the Commission’s invitation for questioning on the propriety of their acquisition. The properties include: Dews of Hope Hospital traced to…

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2017 CONSTITUENCY PROJECTS IN KWARA WORTH OVER ₦600 MILLION ARE HARD-TO-TRACK— ENetSuD

July 14, 2019July 14, 2019 Idris Usman0 comment

Elites Network for Sustainable Development (ENetSuD), a Kwara-based Civil Society Organization, has disclosed that some 2017 Constituency projects in Kwara state worth Six Hundred and Nine Million, Seven Hundred and Ninety-one Thousand, One Hundred and Twenty Naira (₦609,791,120) were hard-to-track. This was contained in the 63-page 2017 Annual Report presented by ENetSuD on 6th July, 2019 at Kwara Hotel, Ilorin, Kwara State. During the report presentation by ENetSuD Coordinator (Dr. Alagbonsi Abdullateef), it was disclosed that some of these hard-to-track items include instructional materials, Empowerment items, Film grants, Skill Acquisition…

PINNACLE VERSUS ICPC N1BN SUITE: LEAGUE OF CIVIL SOCIETY REACTS

May 21, 2019 Mohammed Basah0 comment

The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) yesterday, is finally seeking to file its defence to the claim by Pinnacle Communications, out of time. Pinnacle Communications is accusing the anti-graft body of illegally freezing its bank account in Zenith bank without a court order. Pinnacle sued ICPC to the tune N1bn in damages in July 2018. Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, adjourned the case till the 27th June 2019 for the hearing of the application filed by ICPC. In December 2018, the Federal High Court in Abuja…

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Embattled CJN, Walter Onnoghen Loses Again At The Supreme Court…

May 18, 2019 Editor0 comment

The Supreme Court has struck out an application by the Cross River State Government challenging the suspension of Justice Walter Onnoghen as the Chief Justice of Nigeria. The court on Friday said it lacked jurisdiction to entertain the matter and consequently dismissed the application. Justice Onnoghen was suspended in January, by an order of the Code of Conduct Tribunal. Following his suspension, the Cross Rivers State Government approached the Supreme Court asking it to invoke section 232 (1) of the constitution to assume original jurisdiction on the matter, citing…

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Bosworth, Arcadia Petroleum Named in $1.3bn Malabu Scandal

May 6, 2019 Editor0 comment

Arcadia Petroleum Limited and its Chief Executive, Mr. Peter Bosworth are recipients of millions of British Pounds from a $1.3 billion Malabu oil deal, according to the Times, a leading newspaper in the United Kingdom. The reports claimed that multiple court documents identified and his trading firm, Arcadia Petroleum as among the ultimate recipients of funds from the allegedly corrupt 2011 deal in which Royal Dutch Shell and Eni, the Italian company, acquired a prized offshore oil block. Already, according to the report, the deal for the OPL 245 oil…