The Chairman of the Atlantic Energy Drilling Conceits Nigeria Limited, Mr. Jide Omokore, on Wednesday visited the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in connection with an ongoing investigation into an alleged multi-billion naira oil deal.
It was gathered that he was summoned by the commission in relation with the probe in the oil sector
The Atlantic Energy was involved in the lifting of crude oil controlled by the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company when Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke was the Minister of Petroleum Resources.
There were allegations that millions of barrels of crude oil running into billions of naira were lifted without the requisite payment.
The EFCC had constituted a team of operatives to investigate the NNPC and all oil deals under the former minister in 2015.
The operatives had questioned several officials of the NPDC (both retired and serving) and other top oil chiefs in the country over the oil deal.
A top operative of the commission said that Omokore was
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Nnewi—The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, United Kingdom branch is demanding for fair trial and judgment based on facts, evidences and logic, in the case involving their leader and Director of Radio Biafra, Mr Nnamdi Kanu, saying that the case will make or mar Nigeria’s image in the international community, if mishandled.
The group
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Yenagoa—The Bayelsa State Police Command, yesterday, confirmed the arrest of a 28-year-old mother, who
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the December 5, 2015 supplementary governorship election in Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, was inaugurated on Wednesday as the Kogi State governor without a deputy.
Mr. James Faleke, who was the running mate to the deceased APC Kogi State governorship candidate during the November 21 governorship election, Alhaji Abubakar Audu, did not show up at the ceremony at the Confluence Stadium in Lokoja, the state capital.
Faleke had refused to
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A former Special Adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Political Matters, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, on Wednesday declared himself as the substantive chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Gulak made the declaration inside the National Working Committee Hall at the PDP’s national secretariat in Abuja.
He spoke in company with his loyalists,
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ABUJA—NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, has unfolded strategies to force Imo State Government to recall more than 3,000 sacked workers and pay the backlog of salaries and other benefits of the state workforce.Congress which Monday set up a six-man action committee on planned industrial action against Imo State government, said the committee is made up of Ayuba Wabba; Joe Ajaero, President of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG; Igwe Achese, President of Construction Union; Amechi Asugwunin, General Secretary of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU; Peters Adeyemi and General Secretary of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, Issa Aremu.
Leaders of congress who are on the
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ABUJA —PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, sent his first two executive bills to the Senate, seeking to prohibit money laundering and criminal activities in the country.The bills are:”The Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Bill, 2016″ and “The Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Bill, 2016.”
Buhari, in a letter to the the Senate and addresed to the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, said
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ABUJA—Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has lambasted members of both arms of the National Assembly, accusing them of greed, impunity and corruption.
Obasanjo, whose accusation was contained in a January 13, 2016, letter addressed to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, lamented that the lawmakers had failed to show understanding, in view of the present economic
MAIDUGURI—Two suspected Female suicide bombers, yesterday attacked Chibok Market in Chibok Local Government area of Borno State, leaving 14 persons dead and over 24 others seriously injured, All Progressives Congress, APC, chairman in Chibok, Lawan Pogu, said in Maiduguri.
According to the report from Chibok, the Chibok market shut since the attack in Chibok School where over 200 female students were abducted by Islamic militants,
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DUTSE—Jigawa State Government has confirmed the death of one person as a result of Lassa fever outbreak and 26 others persons who had contact with the decease were at present under surveillance.Confirming the development, Commissioner of Health, Dr Abba Zakar, said the victim who resided at Gujubaki village in Dutse Local Government area of the state had just returned from Port Harcourt in Rivers State and reported to Dutse General Hospital with signs
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ABUJA—The Senate yesterday continued debate on the 2016 Appropriation Bill presented by President Muhammadu Buhari, with a call on the executive to to spend borrowed money on capital projects. The debate on the budget ends today after three days.
This came on a day members of the House of Representatives on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, alleged that the budget document contained constitutional breaches.
The Senators agreed that there was the need to limit the expenditure of monies borrowed to fund capital projects, and stressed the need to diversify the economy, following the dwindling price of oil in the international market.They also identified agriculture and solid mineral sectors
ABUJA—The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, told an Abuja High Court sitting at Gudu that the former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Chibi Dariye, was wanted in the United Kingdom for trial over his alleged involvement in money laundering.
The anti-graft agency told the court presided by Justice Adebukola Banjoko that Dariye jumped bail in the UK where he was arrested in 2004 and was briefly detained by the London metropolitan Police.
Dariye, who was the governor of Plateau State between 1999 and 2007, is answering to a 23-count criminal charge preferred against him by the anti-graft agency.
The defendant is a serving Senator representing Plateau Central.Among those that are lined-up to testify against him include the current Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu.
Meantime, at the resumed trial yesterday, an investigative officer at the EFCC, Mr. Musa Sunday told the court that the case of money laundering for which Dariye was arrested, granted police bail and was expected to report back, is still pending before the London Metropolitan Police.
The witness, while being cross-examined by Dariye’s lawyer, Mr. Garba Pwul, SAN, said the EFCC investigations into the financial activities of Dariye while in office as governor, followed information that was passed to it by the London Metropolitan Police, which showed that the accused
Nigeria crashed out of this year’s CHAN in Rwanda after they lost 1-0 to Guinea in a final Group C match in Rubavu yesterday.
Tunisia thrashed Niger 5-0 to win Group C on five points, while Guinea, also on five points, finished as runners-up. Nigeria were third on four points and Niger finished last in the group with a point.
It was the home-based Eagles first loss under coach Sunday Oliseh and it came at a bad moment and against most expectations as Nigeria were top of the group leading up this West African
BAKALIKI—The Alake of Egbaland, His Royal Majesty, Oba Michael Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo was yesterday installed as the first Chancellor of the Federal University Ndufu Alike Ikwo, FUNAI.
The monarch was installed by President Muhammadu Buhari, represented by Prof A. I. Essien during the 4th Matriculation ceremony of the institution at Ikwo local government area of Ebonyi State.Speaking after his conferment, the monarch who thanked President Buhari for finding him worthy of such appointment charged the students to shun cultism and other vices.
“I urge you to shun social vices and be law-abiding and serious minded in your studies, because those who do not read are to be pitied than those who cannot read.
“Who you are today and where you will be in the next 25 years is directly proportional to your reading habits, the relationship you cultivate with others and your closeness to God”.
The monarch commended President Buhari for his
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Akure—PAN-Yoruba Socio- Political organisation, Afenifere, yesterday, cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari against making the anti-corruption fight his only agenda but to tackle the nation’s dwindling economy.
It also kicked against the plan to finance the 2016 budget
