The Senate yesterday moved closer to granting full autonomy for the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIA), an issue for which Nigeria is now on suspension from the Egmont Group.

The doctors who spoke in Abeokuta yesterday under the aegis of National Association of Government General Medical and Dental Practitioners (NAGGMDP) also expressed dissatisfaction with acute shortage of medical and health personnel.

The supremacy battle between the Executive and the National Assembly over the confirmation of certain executive appointments appears intractable.

I think we should tell our people who are lawyers and are teaching Law (practice) that the development of the country should come first before personal ego and conspiracy of silence that pervades the land.

The PDP congratulated Ngilari in a statement issued by Mr Dayo Adeyeye, National Publicity Secretary, PDP National Caretaker Committee, on Saturday in Abuja.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday said it had a strategy in place to check fraudulent activities in the country’s petroleum product depots.


The vessels, which were arrested along with their 14 crew members by operatives of the Nigeria Navy Ship BEECROFT, were handed over to the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).


In this regard, Buhari who is so much concerned about fighting corruption and saving the nation’s revenue from being frittered away by corrupt political leaders would do well to take up the chairmanship of the EFCC.

Apart from the property, the court also ordered a temporary forfeiture of the sums of $2.7 million and N85 million said to be part of rents collected on the property.

A former Special Adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Domestic Affairs, Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, yesterday lost his bid to travel abroad for medical treatment before a Lagos federal high court.

Ndubisi Chuks Nwasike, lawyer to retired employee of Shell Petroleum, Obi Timothy Nwasike, an engineer, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...

The Federal High Court, Abuja has admitted former governor of Jigawa State, Saminu Turaki, to a fresh bail in the sum of N500 million with two sureties at N250 million each.