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Three FIRS directors, others re-arraigned for N4.5bn fraud; FIRS says it happened before new management

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Wednesday, June 23, 2021 re-arraigned Peter Hena, former Coordinating Director of Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS...

Again, Court orders FG to pay Rivers, Akwa Ibom states $3.3bn oil revenue, total now $4.2b

For the second time in two days, a Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday ordered the Federal Government to pay another huge sum...

ICDA disagrees with IPOB, says Igala can never be part of Biafra

The Chairman of the incorporated trustees of Igala Cultural Development Association (ICDA) working committee, Comrade Enemona Emmanuel Omattah has distanced the Igala race from...

Media Not Political Enemy of Federal GovernmentSays proposed media Bills draconian, says NGE

Release Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has said that the media industry is not a political opponent or enemy of the Federal Government, saying many...

ECOWAS Court stops Buhari govt from prosecuting people for using Twitter; FG gets FEC team to meet Twitter

The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja in a landmark ruling today “restrained the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and its agents from unlawfully...

Former House member, Farouk Lawan, goes to jail for seven years over $3m bribe

From Yemi Oyeyemi, AbujaJustice Angela Otaluka of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), sitting at Apo, Abuja, Tuesday found a former...

Nigeria’s situation so bad a family has five graduates with none employed, says Bishop Kaigama

A week after the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the 19 Northern States and the Federal Capital Territory (Northern CAN) lamented the current...

All hail the Sokoto-based “US General” who goes to jail chasing European women

Murtala Abdullateef was known in some social media circles as a United States General serving in crisis-torn Syria; but rather than concentrate on his...

Time to save abducted school children by fire by force as Niger State governor meets security forces

(Above: Niger Governor, Sani Bello, briefing combined security forces; below: a cross section of the team) Following a breakdown of negotiations to free abducted students...

How judges saved Nigeria from angry implosions at detention camps during JUSUN strike – Abuja Chief Judge

By Yemi Oyeyemi, AbujaThe ingenious application of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) by judges at various detention centres granting bail, setting many...

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