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…Agency acknowledges receipt of case file A court in Abuja has referred the case of criminal complaint, made against Senator Hope Uzodinma (Orlu District, Imo State), to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for investigation and appropriate action. Judge Abdulwahab Muhammed of the Grade 1 Area Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Arab Road, Kubwa, Abuja made the ... Read More »

Nnamdi Kanu: Court okays suit seeking trial of Fani-Kayode, Abaribe A Federal High Court in Abuja has given permission for the commencement of a suit seeking to compel the State Security Service (SSS) and the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) to investigate and prosecute former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe and others over their alleged involvement in how Nnamdi ... Read More »

  Edo State Police is currently on the trail of some bankers who engaged in the sale of Nigeria currency. It said some suspects arrested have made statements on how they got the naira notes. Edo Police Commissioner, Babatunde Kokumo, stated this when he paraded eight persons including two females arrested in different parts of Benin City for engaging in illicit ... Read More »

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it is set to increase its 14 per cent market share in the nation’s downstream petroleum retail market. The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Dr Maikanti Baru, said this during NNPC Special Day at the ongoing Lagos International Trade Fair on Thursday in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria, reports that the fair ... Read More »

The Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has ordered the closure of the new ultramodern market in Ado Ekiti over alleged structural defects. The governor, according to a press release by his Chief Press Secretary, Olayinka Oyebode, took the decision following the inspection of the Oja Oba market. The new market was built by the immediate past governor, Ayodele Fayose, ... Read More »

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday turned down the request by the Federal Government to issue an arrest warrant against the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu. The Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property had, on behalf of the Federal Government, urged the court to order the arrest of Ekweremadu following the absence of the ... Read More »

The National Industrial Court of Nigeria, in Abuja, on Thursday ordered both the Federal Government and the organised labour to submit a report of their negotiations on the disputes over the new minimum wage by January 30, 2019. Justice Sanusi Kado had on November 2, 2018 adjourned the case till Thursday after issuing an ex parte order stopping the strike ... Read More »

The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), says the Kano State House of Assembly is not equipped to investigate Governor Abdullahi Ganduje who was allegedly caught on camera collecting bribes from contractors. A video had gone viral on the Internet purportedly showing Ganduje collecting dollars as kickbacks from contractors, a development which prompted an investigation by ... Read More »

An Igbosere High Court in Lagos on Wednesday heard that a lawyer, Mrs Udeme Otike-Odibi, who allegedly stabbed her husband, Symphorosa Otike-Odibi, to death and cut off his penis, believed he was cheating on her. A witness, Chijioke Akukuma, told Justice Adedayo Akintoye that Otike-Odibi complained to him that Symphorosa kept pornographic material on his phone and that he was ... Read More »

A Federal high court sitting in Lagos South-West Nigeria has adjourned till November 15, 2018, the suit filed by Buruju Kashamu, the senator representing Ogun East senatorial District, to forestall a fresh move by the Federal Government Nigeria to extradite him to the United States of America for drug-related charges. Joined as defendants in the suit are the Inspector General ... Read More »