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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has waded into the $44.9 million wire fraud and money laundering case against Air Peace Chief Executive Allen Ifechukwu Athan Onyema hours after his indictment in the United States (US). The EFCC, it was learnt, on Saturday raised what sources referred to as a ”special panel” to investigate […]

Canadian authorities have commenced efforts to execute a corresponding arrest warrant issued for a Nigerian businessman accused of fraud in the United States. Allen Onyema, chairman of Air Peace Limited in Nigeria, is facing multiple charges of money laundering and bank fraud in excess of $20 million. A United States grand jury recently indicted Mr Onyema […]

Convener of the Revolution Now movement and Publisher of SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore has sued the Department of State Services  (DSS) over his arrest and continued detention since August 3, 2019. According to SaharaReporters, Sowore is asking the court to order the DSS to pay him N500m as general and aggravated damages for his detention and illegal […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has filed 14 counts of fraud against Internet celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha, alias Mompha, before the Federal High Court in Lagos. In a copy of the charge sheet sighted by Punch correspondent on Friday, Mompha, among other things, was accused of procuring Ismalob Global Investment Limited to retain in its […]

The Debt Management Office (DMO) says that Nigerian’s total debt profile is N25.7 trillion. The Director-General of the office, Patience Oniha, announced this while addressing House of Representatives Committee on Public Account on Friday in Abuja. “As at June 2019, our debt profile is at N25.7 trillion; this includes the federal, states governments and the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari says he tries as much as he can to obey the constitution of the country. The president said this on Thursday when he received speakers of state assemblies at the presidential villa in Abuja. In a statement issued by Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, Buhari said the constitution must be adhered to, or […]

A bill to regulate the use of Social Media as well as curb fake news on the internet has passed second reading at the Senate in Nigeria. The bill, ‘Protection from Internet Falsehood and Manipulations Bill, 2019,’ sponsored by Mohammed Musa was introduced in the Senate two weeks ago. This comes a few years after […]

The Nigerian Governors’ Forum on Wednesday rejected the proposed death penalty for hate speech in the bill at the National Assembly. The governors also expressed their readiness to conclude negotiations with labour unions on the implementation of the N30,000 minimum wage before the December 31 deadline. The governors spoke at the end of their seventh […]

Babcock University has confirmed that a young man and a lady having sex in a video that has since gone viral were indeed its students. The school, however, said both of them have since been expelled even as it maintained that the act did not take place on its premises. Babcock University said in a […]

With four radiation machines for the treatment of cancer, Nigeria is still short of the 180 machines recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO), experts have said. Dr Bello Abubakar Mohammed, a Clinical and Radiation Oncologist at the National Hospital and President of the African Organisation for Reachout and Treatment of Cancer stated this on […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled former Vice President Atiku Abubakar over the death of a close aide, Alhaji Umar Pariya. President Buhari, while reacting to the sad event, in a statement issued on Tuesday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said: “I received the news of the death of your close […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has  said  he won’t  act like  a coward for fear of death. According to him,   he  will continue to  raise the  alarm when things are not right in the country. Obasanjo said these at the two-day interactive session of  the Presidential Youth Mentorship Retreat held at the Youth Development Centre, Olusegun […]

Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan may be suspended from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over his alleged romance with the All Progressives Congress (APC) which contributed to the defeat of his party in last Saturday’s governorship election in his home state of Bayelsa…. Read some of his sins below:   – Daily Trust  

A group of family and friends were gathered in a backyard Sunday to watch a football game when a gunman walked up and began shooting, killing four young men and wounding six others, police in Fresno, California, said. About 35 to 40 people were at the house, including several children, when the suspect — who […]

Worried by the spate of criticisms that has greeted the Hate Speech Bill which passed first reading last week,  the Senate has distanced itself from the proposed legislation The  acting spokesperson for the red chamber,  Senator Godiya Akwashiki, told journalists in Abuja on Monday that contrary to widespread impression, the bill was not the idea […]

Former President Goodluck Jonathan hosted two governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at his residence in Otuoke, Bayelsa state, on Sunday. They are Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa state and Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi. Badaru is the chairman of the APC campaign council for the Bayelsa governorship election, while Bagudu is also […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, David Lyon, winner of the November 16 Bayelsa governorship election. The declaration was made Monday morning at the INEC Collation Centre in Yenagoa by Faraday Orumwense, Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin and the returning officer in the election. The returning […]