Category: Metro
NFIU vandalised as N510bn is traced to BDC with links to Magu
The offices of the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) were vandalised on Thursday night after the presidential panel probing Ibrahim Magu req [...]
Akpabio denies getting N300m fence construction contract from NDDC
Godswill Akpabio, minister of Niger Delta affairs, says he did not get any N300 million fence construction contract from the Niger Delta Development C [...]
IGP withdraws Magu’s security, replaces officers attached to EFCC as Magu seeks bail
The inspector-general of police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu has ordered the withdrawal of policemen attached to Ibrahim Magu, former acting chairman of the [...]
Immigration blocks 58 Nigerian doctors from flying to UK
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has refused to allow 58 Nigerian doctors from heading to the UK.
According to Sunday James, spokesman of NIS, [...]
Group of Igbo men pledge to save Nigerian held as collateral by dreaded Pakistani gang
A group of Igbo men have come together to save a Nigerian man who was seen in a viral video being tortured by a dreaded Pakistani gang after his broth [...]
Gunmen storm Abuja community, abduct residents
An unidentified number of persons were kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Abaji in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja in the early hours of Thursd [...]
Lagos lawmaker, Tunde Braimoh, dies of COVID-19
Popular lawmaker representing Kosofe constituency 2 in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Barrister Taofeek Olatunde Braimoh is dead. He died early Fr [...]
Presidential panel grills ‘Magu Boys’, EFCC directors
The presidential panel probing the activities of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday grilled the ‘Magu Boys’ — a group of [...]
Osinbajo petitions IGP to investigate alleged link to ‘Magu Funds’
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has asked the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to investigate allegations that he received N4 billion from th [...]
We have to take care of ourselves – NDDC MD on how he shared N1.5bn as Covid-19 palliatives
The Senate, on Thursday, said it has uncovered how the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) shared the [...]