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EFCC arrests Accountant General of the Federation over N80bn fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested the Accountant General of the Federation, Mr. Ahmed Idris. Idris was arrested in connection with alleged diversion of funds and money laundering activities to the tune of N80 billion. The EFCC announced his arrest in a statement on Monday. “The Commission’s verified intelligence showed that the AGF raked off the funds through bogus consultancies…
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BREAKING: Police Service Commission promotes ex-EFCC boss, Magu, to AIG
The Police Service Commission has promoted former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu to the rank of an Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG). Magu’s promotion was announced in a statement by the spokesman of the PSC, Ikechukwu Ani on Monday. According to him, Magu was promoted alongside some senior officers at the 15th plenary…
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Amaechi sponsored CPC convention as PDP governor in 2011 – El-Rufai
Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has revealed that Rotimi Amaechi funded the Congress for Progressives Change’s convention in 2011 when he was Rivers State governor on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party. El-Rufai made this known when Amaechi visited Kaduna to canvass for votes from delegates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the party’s presidential primaries on…
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FIRS lists NNPC, Mobil, MTN as top taxpayers
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has listed the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) as the nation’s highest tax payer in 2021. This was disclosed in a statement signed by the Special Assistant to the Executive Chairman, FIRS, Johannes Wojuola, on Monday. The FIRS also listed Mobil Producing Limited, Star Deep Water Petroleum, MTN Nigeria Communications Plc, Shell Petroleum Development…
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Women affairs minister, Tallen, withdraws senatorial ambition, fails to resign
Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen says she has decided to withdraw from the Plateau South Senatorial contest and remain in the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari. Tallen said this in a statement she issued on Monday, saying she had not resigned as minister. “With profound gratitude and great humility, I have decided to voluntarily step down from the Senatorial…
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You can’t buy Osun electorate with your money, Oyetola replies Adeleke, PDP
The Adegboyega Oyetola Campaign Council has told governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ademola Adeleke that he wouldn’t be able to buy the electorates in the state with his money. The campaign organisation described as absurd, unthinkable and totally unacceptable the boast by Adeleke that he had acquired enough money in hard currencies to buy Osun and its…
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PHOTO NEWS: Osun PDP guber factional candidates, Adeleke, Babayemi meet
Factional candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State, Ademola Adeleke and Dotun Babayemi met with the reconciliation committee of the party led by Eyitayo Jegede ahead of the July 16 governorship election in the state.
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The Ballad of Bourdillon, By Sam Omatseye
They say he is sick. Yet he is the one showing a dynamo of energy. He had a surgery, nothing new in any man’s life. Some worry, and that is legitimate. We have had persons in the top chair who did not show capacity of action because of poor physical being. But Asiwaju Bola Tinubu threw the challenge last week.…
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Deborah Yakubu: Popular beliefs and self-preservation, By Yemi Adewoyin
Adherents of the Christian faith, particularly Catholics, would be familiar with the Gloria Patri (adapted in the title of this essay) as a doxology. It speaks to God’s glory and adoration as unchanging across time, and forever. In the prevailing context, however, it is about how certain things, notwithstanding the dynamism of cultures and times, won’t probably ever change. These…
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After Soludo’s visit to Nnamdi Kanu, ESN burns down Magistrate Court, council headquarters in Anambra
Hours after the Governor of Anambra State, Professor Charles Soludo displayed the pictures of his visit to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) inside the Department of State Service (DSS) facility in Abuja, members of his separatist group have burnt down public buildings in the state. On Sunday night, terrorists acting under Eastern Security Network (ESN), the…
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