The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,  EFCC on   April 3,  2012,  arraigned three staff of the Federal Civil Service Commission before Justice Maryann Anennih of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court on a 12 count charge bordering on fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, forgery and fraudulent conversion of funds of the Commission to the tune of over N109 million. The accused persons: Hassan Mo ...

Trial of the six persons arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for their role in defrauding the Police Pension Office to the tune of N32.8 Billion naira (Thirty Two billion, Eight Hundred million naira) will commence before Justice Mohammed Talba of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Gudu, Abuja, on May 28, 2012. The six suspects who were arraigned on a 16 criminal charges ...

 The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, April 3, 2012 arraigned a society lady, Vera Johnson before Justice Ibrahim M.  Buka of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja.  Johnson was docked on a four-count charge of obtaining the sum of twelve million naira (N12,000,000) from one Obiageli Obidiaso under false pretence of securing a plot of land for her in Wuye District, Abuja ...

"The idea is to drag Nigeria kicking and screaming into the league of other oil producing nations such as Brazil and China who have national oil companies which operate as international oil companies in other parts of the world. Imagine our country owning shares in oil wells in the UAE instead of just individual Nigerians owning shares in real estate. It is not clear how far from or close to the table NNPC ...

Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo has urged members of the Nigerian Community in Sudan to be good ambassadors of their country.The vice president made this call  on Monday  when  he met with the members of the Nigerian community in Khartoum.Sambo commended the cordial relationship existing between the Nigerian community and their host country and called on them to maintain the tempo and not to engage in ...

It is no longer news to hear that Ebonyi State since creation has never made significant achievement, due to what I wish to describe as pockets of conflicts spread across the ethnic (groups) of the young state. One of the achievements or legacies of the late General Sani Abacha was the creation of Ebonyi as a state, aimed at developing the state from the grassroots and empowering its citizens economically. ...

Our attention has been drawn to a committee report administered by Mr. Ndutimi Alaibe in which phoney allegations of grand financial crimes were made against the government of Chief Timipre Sylva. Sylva dismisses these allegations as unfounded, and a failed attempt to divert attention from the calamitous political parodies committed in Bayelsa State by these accusers. The report of the kangaroo committee is ...

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, ICAN, has relocated to its multi -million naira office complex at 82, Murtala Mohammed Way, Opposite Denton Police Station, Ebute-Metta, Lagos. The new 5-storey office complex was commissioned by the Executive Governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, FCA on Friday, February 24, 2012. A press release this morning by Dayo Ajigbotosho,assisitant direct ...

A Civil Society Organization, Initiative for Civic Education ,ICE has called on the presidency to take another look at its plan to merge  Civic Education with other courses in Nigerian schools .Dr Lanre Adebayo,executive secretary, ICE  stated in a letter to Dr Ike Neliaku , Senior Special Assistant (Administration), Office of the First Lady of Nigeria, the Presidency, Aso Rock Villa  noting that “we are wr ...

By Niyi Odebode, Olusola Fabiyi, Success Nwogu and Friday Olokor   RESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan appears to have a fresh battle on his hands as civil rights groups and opposition parties on Monday blasted the President for accepting the donation of a multi-million naira church building by an Italian construction firm. Jonathan was reported by a national newspaper (not THE PUNCH) to have said that the chur ...