Some individuals who say they passed the information that led to the recovery of funds at an apartment in Lagos have dragged the Nigerian government to court. Abdulmumin Musa, Stephen Sunday and Bala Usman say they approached the EFCC in Lagos in December 2016 and informed the agency about the N13 billion which the National... Continue Reading →

Yakubu Galadima, the lawyer for the whistle-blower who informed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of the $43m, N23.2m and £27,800 (N13bn) recovered from an Ikoyi apartment, says his client will not accept anything below five per cent commission.   Galadima said this during a chat with one of our correspondents on Saturday.   The... Continue Reading →

An officer with the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ondo State was killed in a road accident in Akure over the weekend, SaharaReporters has learned. Sehinde Abolusoro was crushed to death after a speeding driver lost control of his vehicle. The 36-year-old officer was killed on the busy Ilesa-Akure Express Road while on duty... Continue Reading →

The House of Representatives is in the process of passing a law to prevent the United States from extraditing Mr. Buruji Kashamu, the senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, who is wanted in the United States for drug running. This move is contained in the National Assembly Journal of October 20, 2017. The journal indicates... Continue Reading →

Benin indigenes in Abuja have commended the Omo N’ Oba N’ Edo Uku Akpolopolo Oba Ewuare 11, Oba of Benin for visiting President Muhammadu Buhari and Benin indigenes in Abuja.   Some of the indigenes’, who spoke to the newsmen on Sunday in Abuja, described the visit as memorable and historic.   Mr Osarenoma Uwaifo,... Continue Reading →

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari has approved the payment of N164,763,759 for school fees of 106 Chibok girls who have regained freedom from the Boko Haram terrorists.   Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media, in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja the money was meant for the second semester school fees... Continue Reading →

The aspirations by some indigenes of Ile Ife, planing to succeed the incumbent governor of Osun state, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, received the backing of the General Manager, Editor-in-Chief of Vanguard Newspaper, Mr. Gbenga Adefaye, who described the move as “morally correct”. Mr Adefaye, who spoke in Ile Ife on Saturday, while delivering a paper on... Continue Reading →

Atiku Abukabar’s Statement of Resignation from APC I received members of the All Progressives Congress at my house in Abuja. They had come to appeal to me to join their party after my party, the Peoples Democratic Party, had become factionalized as a result of the special convention of August 31, 2013.   The fractionalization... Continue Reading →

The operatives of the Lagos State Task Force at the weekend arraigned 19 arrested motorists for driving against traffic along Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway before Chief Magistrate Amos Olajuwon of the Lagos State Mobile Court at Oshodi.   Olayinka Egbeyemi, Chairman of the Lagos State Task Force who led the enforcement operations along Lagos-Abeokuta expressway disclosed that... Continue Reading →