The embattled spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday tore a statement he voluntarily made to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission regarding his alleged involvement in the $2.1billion arms fraud being investigated by the anti-graft agency. Those familiar with the matter told PREMIUM TIMES Mr. Metuh tore the …
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The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Abdulahi Jalo, has called on former President Goodluck Jonathan to speak out on the current $2.1 billion arms deal scandal. At a press conference in Abuja,yesterday January 11th, Jalo said President Jonathan is still alive and should speak up on whether he …
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday night arrested a former military governor of Kaduna State and chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Lawal Jafaru Isa. Jafaru IsaMr. Isa is the first chieftain of the APC arrested by the EFCC since the beginning of a sweeping probe into …
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President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that those who are found guilty in the $2.1 billion arms deal fraud will be sent to jail. He said this in a recent interview with BBC Hausa. In the interview,he said: “Remember during the campaigns, we said Nigeria is facing three things and nobody …
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The Sun Newspaper announced that they have returned the N9million compensation it received from the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), given to them from the office of the embattled former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki. The money was compensation given to some newspaper houses whose offices were raided by …
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The former national security adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki, currently on trial for alleged money laundering and criminal breach of trust, has been granted bail by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. Dasuki, facing a 19-count charge, is standing trial alongside Shuaibu Salisu,a former director of finance at the office …
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Popular Lagos celebrity blogger,Linda Ikeji has denied collecting N240 million from any aide of ex President Goodluck Jonathan as being asserted in some quarters. This is coming on the heels of an allegation by the domestic aide to Jonathan,who said he gave N240m to a popular Lagos female blogger.Reacting on …
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The immediate past National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, and three other persons were on Monday docked by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Messrs Dasuki; a former Director of Finance at the Office of National Security Adviser, Shuaibu Salisu; a former General Manager at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, …
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I have been reading some depressing stories about the state of the Obafemi Awolowo University, formerly University of Ife, which provide an equally depressing metaphor for the state of higher education in Nigeria. Great Ife as that university is known to its staff, students and alumni, is probably Nigeria’s first model university …
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, says it has arrested the former Chairman of Daar Communications, Chief Raymond Dokpesi. He was picked up in Abuja at about noon on Tuesday and was accompanied to the office of the EFCC by his son Raymond Dokpesi Jnr., who is the current …
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