An official of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Adeyemi Israel Abiodun has been sentenced to one year for N195.2m fraud. Until his conviction Abiodun was the Director of Logistics of the students union body at Federal University, Oye-Ekiti Chapter. The NANS leader, according to a statement on Wednesday by the Economic and Financial…
Coalition of Arewa Civil Society Groups(CACSG),have commended the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited for awarding the contract for the surveillance of crude oil to an ex- Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo better known as Tompolo,to end illegal bunkering,refining and other forms of oil theft in the Niger Delta region. The award of the…
The Bauchi state police command has arrested a retired armourer in connection with the alleged threat to the life of former speaker of the house of representatives, Yakubu Dogara. Dogara had in a petition to the Inspector General of Police dated August 18, alleged that two police officers were conspiring with one Barau Joel Amos…
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has given a fresh deadline for broadcast stations whose licenses were revoked on Friday to renew the licenses. The NBC revoked had on Friday revoked the licenses of African Independent Television (AIT), Silverbird Television (STV), and 50 other state government and private owned television and radio stations over none renewal of their licenses. The…
Former Speaker of House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has written a letter to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), over alleged plots to assassinate him. In the letter dated August 19, personally signed by Dogara and addressed to the IGP, the lawmaker alleged that some police personnel which he identified as Inspector Dakat Samuel and Inspector…
Obadiah Tohomdet presents his perspective on the raging controversy over the involvement of Jaiz bank in the rebuilding of the Jos main market, Plateau state. There has been so much uproar unleashed on the national scene concerning the sponsorship of the rebuilding of Jos Main Market, Plateau State by Interest-free Jaiz Bank. Jaiz is the…
