Trial of the six persons arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for their role in defrauding the Police Pension Office of N32.8 billion will commence before Justice Mohammed Talba of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Gudu, Abuja on May 28, 2012.
Author: Dotun Oladipo
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on April 3, 2012 arraigned three staff of the Federal Civil Service Commission before Justice Maryann Anennih of the Federal Capital Territory High Court on a 12 count charge bordering on fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, forgery and fraudulent conversion of funds of the FCSC to the tune of over N109 million.
The Oyo State Government has debunked the allegation of the Peoples Democratic Party that the state Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has 1,000 aides.
The Presidency has consented to the movement by the National Assembly of the benchmark for oil price for the 2012 budget from $70 per barrel to N72 per barrel.
A former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timi Sylva, has said that the outcome of the report of a committee set up by the Bayelsa State Government constituted another means of witch hunting him.
As teams representing 11 states of the federation, including the Federal Capital Territory, that played in the qualifiers gather from tomorrow in Abuja, one question that will be answered on sunday is: who is going to be the new national champion?
Nigeria Premier League champions, Dolphins FC, want the NPL Board and security agencies to look into threats made by Kano Pillars shortly after a league game between both sides in Port Harcourt on Sunday.
The eyes of the football world will once again be fixed firmly on Camp Nou, this evening, as Barcelona and AC Milan, two of the most decorated sides in Europe, clash for a place in the UEFA Champions League semi-finals.
The immediate past President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Sani Abdullahi Lulu, on Tuesday in Abuja debunked reports of any form of financial misappropriation leveled against him by Senator Heineken Lokpobiri in a recent media interview.
The Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman, has said that a former Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, mounted pressure on the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party to annul the primaries that produced him as the candidate of the party for Kogi Central Senatorial candidate in January, 2011.
For accepting a donation of a 2,500 seating capacity church in his hometown, Otuoke, Bayelsa State from a construction company, Construzioni Generali Nigeria Limited, the President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, should be impeached, so says the Action Congress of Nigeria.
Soldiers are reported to have killed at least five persons during the annual hunting festival in Bassa Local Government Area of Jos, Plateau State on Sunday.
“In this situation, when my personal issue divides my beloved nation instead of uniting it, I feel it to be my personal duty to finish my service and resign from my presidential mandate. I ask God’s blessing for Hungary and for your work.”
The number of journalists killed while doing their job in the first three months of the year reached 31, up 50 per cent from 21 deaths a year ago, media watchdog Press Emblem Campaign said on Monday.
Police have dug up a fact more bizarre than fiction in the gang rape of a 39-year-old woman in Hooghly’s Polba, 60km from Kolkata. Investigators say she was raped by the killers she had hired with the help of her lover to murder her husband.
For Nigeria to stamp out sea pirates and oil bunkering, there is the need for government to employ persons with the relevant skills to combat sea crime.
The Ondo State Government has been commended by retirees for its handling of pension payment.
Manchester United FC this evening opened a five-point lead at the top of the Barclays Premier League with a two nil away defeat of Blackburn Rovers.
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, presided over by Justice Charles Archibong, has dismissed the case brought against a former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Erastus Akingbola, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for lack of diligent prosecution on the part of the commission.
The senator representing Oyo Central Senatorial District, Senator Hamzat Ayoade Adeseun, has urged workers in Oyo State to call of the strike action they embarked upon over disagreement with the state government on minimum wage.