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Music Star, D’banj, posted a photo of his mother on his Facebook page yesterday thanking her for all her wise words. The caption on the photo was: ‘Tbt , who sat and watched my infant Head while sleeping on my Cradle. Love you mom thanks for all your wise words’

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has vowed to go violent with the Federal Government over the announcement of hike in fuel price, from N86.50 to N145.00. Reacting yesterday to the new price regime announced late Wednesday through the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, NANS threatened to shut down strategic government […]

The Federal High Court in Lagos has restrained the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its national chairman, Ali Modu Sherrif, from conducting any election into the party’s Southwest Zonal Executive Committee. Justice Ibrahim Buba also barred PDP from recognising any such election until the originating summons is determined. The zonal congress was scheduled to hold […]

“We have got the leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming to Britain… Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world”, UK Prime Minister David Cameron was caught on tape telling the Queen ahead of the anti-corruption summit organized by the UK Government, this week, which was attended by Nigerian President, […]

The Economics and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is an agency of government I admire greatly since its creation by former President Olusegun  Obasanjo and when its pioneer chairman, Malam Nuhu Ribadu held sway. Those were the days when the fear of the EFCC was the beginning of wisdom for all especially the guilty ones, and […]

A former housemate in Big Brother Africa, Evelyn Eveva Sitali has died. The news of her death was announced on her official Facebook page on Tuesday. She was 29 years old at the time of her death. Sitali was said to have been involved in an accident in 2014 and had undergone many operations on her leg. […]

According to Daily Sun, the dark cloud hovering over the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danladi Umar, has refused to clear as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday insisted that he was implicated in a N10 million bribery allegations. Although the CCT had earlier displayed a letter of clearance by the […]

A former manager of a polymer banknote manufacturer, Securency International Pty Ltd of Australia, Peter Chapman, who allegedly bribed Emmanuel Ehidiamhem Okoyomon, a former Managing Director of Nigerian Security, Printing and Minting Company (NSPMC), (facing extradition proceedings in Nigeria), to secure a “multi-million-euro” contract, was on May 11, 2016 convicted by a Southwark Crown Court […]

A cashier at the Nigerian Air Force headquarters, Emmanuel Abu, on Wednesday narrated to a Federal High Court in Abuja, the role he played in the alleged monthly diversion of N558.2m from the Nigerian Air Force accounts by an ex-Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh (retd.). Abu, who was testifying as the […]

The British Government has announced plans to descend  on foreign firms that own property in the country without declaration, in its renewed onslaught  against  global corruption. Now foreign companies that own property in the  United Kingdom (UK) will have to declare their assets publicly in a bid to stamp out money-laundering, the government says. According  […]

In or around May 2013, our law firm was approached by one Mrs. Sylvia Udeagbala, to represent her husband in a criminal case. In our first appearance in court, it transpired that the complainant in the case, Chief Leonard Okafor and the Defendant, Mr. Jonathan Udeagbala, were from the same town. It was thus decided […]

The Niger Delta Avengers have threatened to blow up the oil blocs of former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Minister of Defence, General Theophilus Danjuma, ex-Minister of Petroleum, Alhaji Riwalnu Lukman, other Northerners and South-Westerners in Niger-Delta region. In an email by its spokesperson, Col Mudoch Agbinibo and obtained by Vanguard, the militants who are […]

There are people now convincing others that the removal of oil subsidy is necessary. Senator Shehu Sani is totally against the removal of oil subsidy.

President Muhammadu Buhari pledged Thursday in London that in furtherance of his administration’s anti-corruption war, Nigeria will soon begin the full implementation of the principles of the Open Contracting Data Standard. Presidential spokesman Femi Adesina, in a statement, said Buhari announced this in Nigeria’s country statement to the Anti-Corruption Summit hosted by Prime Minister David […]

Youths in Gaya Local Government Area of Kano State, yesterday, set on fire, the residence of a three-time senator from Kano South senatorial district, Senator Kabiru Gaya for allegedly failing to fulfill his campaign promises. An eyewitness told Thisday that the rampaging youths started the demonstration at about 8.30am barricading major strategic locations leading to […]

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has thrown his weight behind protesting staff members of the Federal Teaching Hospital (FEHTI) Ido-Ekiti in Ido-Osi Local Government Area of Ekiti State, who yesterday prevailed on the governor to support them over their agitation and demand for immediate removal of their Chief Medical Director (CMD), Dr. Lawrence Folorunsho […]

Recently, a big-breasted woman was at Computer Village, Ikeja in Lagos and young men in the area were all over her. They did not let her go without letting her know that they admire her ‘frontal’ asset. From the photos, it looked like they were even hailing her! She did not create herself and her […]

The Guardian of Lon­don has questioned the morality of the British Prime Minister David Cameron, to host a sum­mit on corruption when the International Mon­etary Fund (IMF) and others recognise London as a tax haven. The Guardian, in its Editorial yesterday, was reacting to Cameron’s comment on Nigeria and Afghanistan as two fan­tastically corrupt coun­tries. […]

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has declared the hike in Nigeria’s fuel price from N86/litre to N145/litre by the Muhammadu Buhari administration “unilateral”, saying that it “represents the height of insensitivity and impunity and shall be resisted by the Nigeria Labour Congress and its civil society allies.” A statement issued signed by NLC General Secretary, Dr Peter […]

A South African man has handed himself over to the police after shooting dead a Nigerian over the weekend. The 37 year old Nigerian, Dewunmi Oladele, was a bouncer at a popular Pretoria night club. He was shot in the back, as he headed back into the club, after he had quelled a fracas. The […]