SaharaReporters has obtained phone records belonging to Ricky Tarfa, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, which shows consistent phone calls to one Justice Mohammed Yunusa of the Federal High Court in Lagos. Read More…
ANOTHER witness, a detective at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Junaid Sa’aid, yesterday testified against the Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh, to Read More…
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has described the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in the last election in the State, Dakuku Peterside as a pathological liar. Read More…
The prosecution in the trials of former chairman, House of Representatives ad-hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy, Farouk Lawan, has stated that it would invite businessman, Femi Otedola, as one of its witnesses in the case. Read More…
A civil society organisation, the Integrity Group, has called on Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, to key into President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade and recover all state funds allegedly looted by the Chibuike Amaechi administration. Read More…
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja was yesterday told how former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki withdrew the sum of N10 billion from the Central Bank of Nigeria and shared same to chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the purpose of the party’s presidential convention. Read More…
The State Security Service on Tuesday announced the arrest of one Abdussalam Enesi Yunusa alleged to a recruiter for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Read More…
A mild drama took place within the premises of the Federal High Court in Abuja this morning, as the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, whose trial is billed to commence today, refused to Read More…
MINISTER of Health Prof. Isaac Adewole yesterday shocked members of the Senate Committee on Health when he informed the committee that the original budget of his ministry had been largely distorted. Read More…
Lauretta Onochie, a member of President Muhammadu Buhari’s media support team, has filed a defamation lawsuit against Emeka Ugwuonye, a controversial US-based lawyer. Read More…
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday declared that he was happy during his incarceration in Yola prison. Read More…
“Why?” demanded my argumentative friend, “ is it always you people? “ Why do you make so much trouble? Always Ogun, Ogun, Ogun! – are you the only state in the nation?” Read More…
As a result of its economy of scale occasioned by the recent introduction of new production lines in Okpella Edo State and Itori in Ogun State worth nine million metric tonnes, Dangote cement has slashed the price of its cement varieties. Read More…
In far away London, United Kingdom, and despite reports that he is on a five-day vacation, President Muhammadu Buhari told Daily Telegraph that one of the biggest suspects in the ongoing probe of corruption in Nigeria lives in their midst. Read More…
By the time you are reading this, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo might have submitted himself to the men of the Nigerian security agencies for alleged economic and other financial crimes committed Read More…
Former Imo State Governor, Chief Achike Udenwa yesterday blamed both the state and national executives of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP for being docile and ineffective, Read More…
The Lagos branch of the Nigerian Bar Association on Monday described the arrest and detention of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Ricky Tarfa, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission as an affront to justice. Read More…
The office of the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has dismissed allegations of a supposed tweet by him in the Twitter exchanges between Senator Ben Bruce and Hon. Chibuike Amaechi as Read More…
Former governor of Rivers State and the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has described the allegation of corruption levelled against him by Governor Nyesom Wike as spurious and deceitful. Read More…
The former Minister of Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in connection with corruption cases perpetrated during the Read More…
A Federal Capital Territory High Court on Monday dismissed the application of counsel to the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, seeking a stay of proceeding. Read More…
A Federal High Court in Lagos, Monday, dismissed an objection by Government Ekpemupolo (also known as Tompolo) to his arrest brought and renewed a warrant order it had earlier issued on the former militant leader. Read More…
Business activities were today grounded to a halt in Nigeria’s federal capital Abuja as Nigerian labor unions embarked on a peaceful mass protest against the outrageous hike in the electricity tariff which took effect early this month. Read More…
It was a disappointing weekend for workers in Ekiti State as the state government on Thursday withdrew two months’ salaries already paid into their bank accounts. Read More…