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Acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu has said that it has been difficult for the commission to repatriate stolen funds and assets in safe havens abroad. This is even as he said the agency was fighting powerful forces in the country. The … Read...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday urged President Muhammadu Buhari-led government to diligently implement key recommendations of the 2014 National Conference report to solve the numerous problems rocking the country. Jonathan, who spoke at the launching and presentation of the...

Hon. Alhassan Ado Doguwa represents Doguwa/Tudun Wada federal constituency of Kano State in the House of Representatives. In this interview with RUTH CHOJI, the new majority leader of the house refutes claims that members-elect were paid to vote for Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila as Speaker of the...

Senate yesterday cautioned South Africa over continued killing of Nigerians in that country. In the Riot Act read to the former apartheid country, they asked the authority to find a lasting solution to such barbaric acts of its citizens. The Senate declared during plenary that “Enough is...

The Inspector General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu has said that the Nigeria Police Force is ready to tackle and combat the illegal activities of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) also known as Shiite. The IGP stated this when he visited the National Hospital Abuja, where the … Read...

Senate yesterday cautioned South Africa over continued killing of Nigerians in that country. In the Riot Act read to the former apartheid country, they asked the authority to find a lasting solution to such barbaric acts of its citizens. The Senate declared during plenary that “Enough is...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has released the timetable and schedule of activities for the conduct of the 2019 governorship primaries to select its flag bearers for November 16 Kogi and Bayelsa governorship polls. This was contained in a statement signed by its national organising...

A former governor of Rio de Janeiro says he helped pay a $2m (£1.6m) bribe to secure the Olympic Games for the Brazilian city in 2016.> Sérgio Cabral told a judge the payment was made to secure votes in the decision-making meeting in 2009. He said that Carlos … Read more via Leadership...

Eyo Bassey Francis is the software developer and entrepreneur behind Nigeria’s first Omni-channel retail company, PayPorte Global Systems. He is also the GMD of Rom-Flex Group and has been involved in several projects across Africa including enterprise business solution for the Ghana Post...

Dr Jophia Nanke Gupar, an activist, is the founder of Pan African Young Women Development Initiative (PAYWODI). She is passionate about empowerment of young women... Read more via Leadership Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2FZGkZ4 Get More Nigeria Political News

Former managing director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Timi Alaibe, Senator Dino Melaye and Aminu Abubakar Suleiman yesterday bought governorship nomination forms for the forthcoming Bayelsa and Kogi states gubernatorial elections respectively. Alaibe is contesting in Bayelsa...

The Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA), yesterday said five people were still missing six days after a-20 capacity passengers’ boat capsized on Lagos waterways. The general manager of LASWA, Mr Oluwadamilola Emmanuel said that 12 corpses had so far been found in the rescue operations...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has raised the alarm over the influx of substandard phones and other telecom devices into Nigeria, saying such devices are responsible for low quality of service and associated hazardous health effect. This was made known by the executive vice...

The board of directors of Total E&P Nigeria has appointed Mr. Mike Sangster as managing director/chief executive of Total E&P Nigeria Ltd. (TEPNG) with effect from July 01, 2019. He succeeds Mr. Nicolas Terraz, who is now the senior vice president for Africa, for the Exploration and Production...

Fear has gripped residents of Osun State, especially those in the camps of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and ruling the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of today’s Supreme Court judgement on the last governorship election won by the APC candidate, Adegboyega Oyetola. The...

Human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), has called on the federal government to filed suit against foreign banks keeping money looted from Nigeria. Falana made the call at a conference on “agenda setting for citizen’s interaction with stolen assets of Abacha loot recovery and utilization as...

The chief operating officer, Downstream, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr. Henry Ikem-Obih, yesterday debunked claims by petroleum products marketers that lack of access to foreign exchange was responsible for their inability to import fuel into the country. The corporation...

Quite amusingly but with great lessons to learn from, the recent decisions taken by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on the report of a legally constituted Investigation Panel on the alleged corporate governance abuses in Oando Plc have continued to attract raging controversies with...

Following the arrests of Nigerians abroad over illicit drugs, especially the recent arrest by Saudi Arabia authority, the upper chamber of the National Assembly yesterday emphasised the need to strengthen security at airports in the country. To this end, the Senate mandated the Federal Airport...

Kaduna state governor,Malam Nasir El-Rufai, has on Monday, visited St. Augustine’s Catholic Church, Tudun-Wada, where the church altar was burnt last Friday night, saying investigation into the incident ongoing. The governor who led other government officials to the church commended Kaduna...