arms deal

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) in an open letter has listed key questions ex president Goodluck Jonathan needs to answer about the $2.1bn arms deal probe. Did your former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) seek your approval to collect from...

Accord Party (AP) yesterday, admitted that its chieftain and former Governor of Oyo State,Alhaji Rashidi Ladoja, got N100million from the former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih, ahead of last year’s general election. According to...

Former Minister of Education and frontline campaigner of the BringBackOurGirls, Oby Ezekwesili, says the alleged diversion of $2.1bn by the immediate past National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, is irritating. She said it was unfortunate that thousands of Nigerians had lost their lives to...

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, on Wednesday reacted to the allegations made against him by Chairman and editor-in-chief of Thisday newspaper, Nduka Obaigbena over the collection of N50m from the office of the former National Security Adviser, Dasuki...

Former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BOT) chair Tony Anenih has explained how he disbursed the N260 million paid into his bank account from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), headed at the time by Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd), theNation reports. Anenih wrote...

Immediate past National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd) was the one who led a team of three army officers to arrest Buhari on August 26, 1985 He became the ADC (aide-de-camp) to Ibrahim Babangida after the coup. Buhari spent two years in prison and this ruined his first...

A top military officer and technical aide to a former National Security Adviser (NSA), the late General Owoye Azazi and his successor, Col. Sambo Dasuki has been arrested and detained in connection with the $2.1bn arms deals. A high-ranking military chief was said to be in charge of procurement...

Vintage press limited has returned the N9 million it received as compensation for the seizure of copies The Nation and SportingLife in June, 2014 which has been linked to the arms deal scam of Ex-NSA boss, Sambo Dasuki. It will be recall that Sun Newspaper and other media outfits had since...

The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee on Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has advised former President Goodluck Jonathan to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari and confess all he knows about the $2bn arms scandal. Sagay told Punch during an interview that if Jonathan could provide...

The management of The Sun newspaper issued a statement on Sunday, to announce its return of the N9million it received from the office of the National Security Adviser “as compensation for the seizure of its newspapers and stoppage of circulation during the Goodluck Jonathan administration in...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed that it will invite top officials in the Goodluck Jonathan administration that had a hand in the disbursement of funds related to the arms purchase. According to Vanguard Newspapers, a top EFCC source said top on the list is the...

The Federal Government yesterday clarified its position in the ongoing trial of former National Security Adviser (NSA) Mohammed Sambo Dasuki before the High court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. According to The Nation, It said the ex-NSA was being tried because he was involved...

As details of huge funds disbursed by the Office of the National Security Adviser under Col. Sambo Dasuki continue to surface, indications emerged last night that the embattled security czar is set to expose more top Nigerian leaders who benefited from the funds. A source close to the former...

More shocking revelations have come on how huge cash estimated at $2billion meant for arms purchase was allegedly diverted by key government officials and politicians during the Dr. Goodluck Jonathan Presidency. The Nation gathered that a former Director of Finance in the Office of the National...

Will the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) invite ex-President Goodluck Jonathan to say all he knows about the controversial $2 billion arms deals? Will the anti-graft agency take evidence from the ex-President in camera? Will the EFCC allow its comprehensive investigations to be...

The arrest of some chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has placed the former ruling party in a panic mode. Many prominent leaders of the party, New Telegraph learnt, have become apprehensive that anyone could be...