Emenike: Palace, West Ham fight
Crystal Palace are rivalling West Ham to sign Fenerbahce striker Emmanuel Emenike, Sky sources understand. Sky Sports had reported last week that the Hammers made an offer to take the 28-year-old on...
View ArticleNigeria needs stringent budget deadlines
Odilim Enwegbara Nigeria’s perennial budgetary problems can only be solved with a law setting stringent budgetary deadlines – from the budget’s presentation, passage, and signing to setting...
View ArticleOf corrupt justice and fight against corruption
Niran Adedokun Judges in Nigeria are taking the flak for the intractable failure of the rule of law in the country. Every waking day, you hear and read postulations about how corruption has become the...
View ArticleIMF to help Nigeria?
The coming of the IMF to assist Nigeria in revamping our bastardised economy is a welcome development. What we need now is a responsible and responsive leadership with political conscious citizens who...
View ArticleTNA can save Nigeria’s economy
Greg Odogwu Thank goodness for oil glut. We now wake up every day to realise the things we did wrong in the past. One fundamental thing we missed being proper national data acquisition and management....
View ArticleGroup kicks against Lagos ban on sand mining
Afeez Hanafi The Joint Lagos State Miners Association has kicked against the stop-work order issued by the state government on excavation of sand in the state. The group, in a letter dated January 26,...
View ArticleEstate manager accuses police of frustrating court order
Ramon Oladimeji An estate management firm, 1004 Estate Ltd., has accused the police of thwarting its move to enforce an order of a Lagos State High Court in Igbosere as regards its management of the...
View ArticlePolice arrest diploma holder for assaulting pregnant woman
Afeez Hanafi The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a diploma holder, Samuel Onochie, for allegedly sexually assaulting a pregnant woman, Esther (pseudonym), in Jakande, in the Eti-Osa Local...
View ArticleSaraki keeps mum as Obasanjo attacks N’Assembly members
Sunday Aborisade and John Ameh, Abuja Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has accused members of the National Assembly of corruption and extravagant wastage of the nation’s resources despite the harsh...
View ArticleOliseh proud as Eagles return
Pius Ayinor The Super Eagles, who crashed out of the 2016 African Nations Championship on Tuesday, are expected to return to the country on Thursday, the Nigeria Football Federation officials have...
View ArticleHow anti-corruption became a game
Abimbola Adelakun In June 2005, a former Inspector-General of Police, Tafa Balogun, was being tried for corruption. It was the era of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...
View ArticleS’Court overturns A’Court ruling, upholds Wike’s election
Ade Adesomoju, Abuja The Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed the elections of Messrs Nyesom Wike, Ibikunle Amosun and Dave Umahi as the duly elected governors of Rivers, Ogun and Ebonyi states,...
View ArticleFalana knocks Okonjo-Iweala, says ex-minister deceitful
Eniola Akinkuotu A Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has berated the immediate past Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, describing her service to Nigeria as one based on...
View ArticleObaigbena released after hours in EFCC custody
Fidelis Soriwei, Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has granted the Publisher of ThisDay Newspapers, Mr. Nduka Obaigbena, an administrative bail. It was gathered that the EFCC’s Special...
View ArticleSuicide bombers attack Chibok, kill 14
Adelani Adepegba and Kayode Idowu No fewer than 14 persons were killed on Wednesday in a suicide attack on the Chibok Market in Borno State. Also, five other persons, who had gone to the bush to fetch...
View ArticleEFCC summons oil magnate, Omokore, again
Fidelis Soriwei, Abuja The Chairman of the Atlantic Energy Drilling Conceits Nigeria Limited, Mr. Jide Omokore, on Wednesday visited the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in connection with an...
View ArticleI won’t speak on arms scandal now – Jonathan
Eniola Akinkuotu Former President Goodluck Jonathan says he cannot speak on the current $2.1bn arms scam now because the matter is in court. A former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki; the...
View ArticleBuhari seeks stiffer penalty for money launderers
John Ameh and Sunday Aborisade, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday introduced two bills to the National Assembly to strengthen the war against money laundering. The bills were titled, “The...
View ArticleMetuh’s firm had N6.6m balance before Dasuki’s N400m
Ade Adesomoju, Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday called an employee of Diamond Bank, Eno-Mfon Effiong, as its fourth witness in the ongoing trial of the National Publicity...
View ArticleDon’t interfere in Olubadan matter, Oyediji tells Ajimobi
Olufemi Atoyebi, Ibadan The head of the Seriki line in Ibadan, Chief Adebayo Oyediji, has urged the Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, not to dabble in the controversy over who will become the next...
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