An Abuja High Court on Thursday granted leave to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to seize 108 properties belonging to the six accused persons involved in the alleged diversion of N32.8 billion Police Pension Fund.
An accident victim, whose N4 million was recovered from the scene of the crash by road safety officials, has disappeared from the hospital where he was receiving treatment.
Security was considerably increased in the vicinity of the Eagle Square in Abuja on Tuesday as Nigerian workers gathered to mark this year’s May Day.
Former governor of Kwara State, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on Monday afternoon surrendered to the Nigeria Police Force at its headquarters in Abuja.
Cast your mind back to October 19, 1986. It was a normal day in the life of a brilliant Nigerian journalist, Dele Giwa. As the day wore on, however, he became a strange statistic – the first Nigerian journalist to be bombed to death! With the recent attacks on media, news hunters have unwittingly become hunted species.
Plateau State Government has ordered the arrest of three prominent traditional rulers for their roles in the recurrent cases of attacks in the state.
The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved the passage of a law criminalising extra-budgetary expenditure by government officials.
An on-going research on the available mineral deposits in the country has shown potentials for commercial discovery of oil and gas in parts of Central and North Eastern Nigeria known as the Benue Trough, Head of the research team, Professor Agbaji Ogezi has disclosed.
The House of Representatives was in a war mood yesterday as House officials and concerned stakeholders in the oil industry prepared for today’s debate on the report of the investigations into the management of the petroleum subsidy regime. (Kindly find inside the list of indicted firms in the report).
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Coordinating Minister for the Economy, has solicited the World Bank’s support to create a good data base to help improve the social safety nets in Nigeria.
