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 Money laundering: I can’t be convicted – Metuh ….As court refuses request for foreign treatment   Former spokesman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh said Thursday that his trial will not lead to conviction. Metuh said: “I will go to the witness box. There is nothing in my case that will ever lead to conviction.” He spoke in ... Read More »

The Federal government has appointed a London based Nigerian private investigator, Victor Uwajeh to help the government trace and recover undeclared assets and proceeds of fraud as part of the ongoing fight against corruption in the country. The appointment of Uwajeh is obtained in a letter signed by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Prosecution matters, Okoi Obono-Obla. ... Read More »

The Obafemi Awolowo University has suspended Professor Richard Akindele over the audio conversation in which he demanded sex from a female student. According to a press statement signed by the Vice Chancellor, Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede, a prima facie case has been established against him. “Having regard to the gravity of the offence for which Professor Richard I. Akindele is found ... Read More »

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has recovered a total of N216,402,565.05 from Swiss Golden Investment, an online investment that purportedly deals in buying and selling of Gold Bars. The recovery was sequel to a petition the Commission received from thousands of complainants who alleged that they invested in Swiss Golden Investment which was advertised as an online investment ... Read More »

The Senate on Tuesday summoned the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, his Finance counterpart, Kemi Adeosun and Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, over alleged payment of $462 million to an American firm for the purchase of helicopters – Helicopters Techno Fight. The upper chamber asked Dan-Ali, Adeosun and Emefiele to appear before its Appropriation Committee ... Read More »

The young twins of the Otun Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Lekan Balogun, have regained freedom from their abductors with payment of N10 million ransom. The five-year old children were kidnapped with their mother last week but the latter was pushed out of their vehicle after her mobile phone’s SIM card was seized. The children regained freedom Monday evening. The ... Read More »

  Thirty four ships laden with petroleum products, food items and other goods are expected to arrive Apapa and Tin Can Island Ports in Lagos between Monday and April 27. The Nigerian Ports Authority ( NPA ) stated this in its publication, ‘Shipping Position’, a copy of which was made available to our correspondent in Lagos on Monday. 15 of ... Read More »

Breaking: 15 out of 113 remaining Boko Haram abducted Chibok schoolgirls alive – Salkida Ahmad Salkida, a journalist known to have access to the leadership of the Boko Haram, says only 15 out of the remaining 113 kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls with Abubakar Shekau insurgents group are alive. Salkida made this known in a series of tweet on his official twitter ... Read More »

  An Agege Customary Court, Lagos, on Thursday dissolved the 11-year-marriage between a civil servant, Adeola Ajulo, 45 and his wife, Isiwat, over incompatibility. The President of the court, Mrs Ibironke Elabor said she observed that the estranged couple was tired of the marriage as all efforts to reconcile them failed. “Since both parties consented to the dissolution of the ... Read More »

Professor Richard Akindele, a lecturer in the Department of Management and Accounting of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, who was allegedly heard in an audio recording which has now gone viral demanding for sex to pass a student has gone into hiding. The audio recording of the professor seeking to have sex with a student five times ... Read More »