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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday re-arraigned a former Governor of Kaduna State, Muktar Ramalan Yero, before Justice MG Umar of the Federal High Court, Kaduna on an eight-count amended charge of money laundering. An EFCC statement said Yero is being prosecuted by the EFCC alongside Nuhu Somo Wya (a former minister), Ishaq Hamsa (former Secretary to Kaduna State Government) and Abubakar Gaiya Haruna, former Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party in the state, for their alleged involvement in the sharing of N700 million provided by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, to influence the outcome…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described a letter of a purported suspension of Senator Rochas Okorocha from the party circulating in the public space as fake. The National Secretary of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the party, Senator John Akpanudoedehe in a statement issued yesterday called on the public to be wary of fifth columnists and jobbers relentlessly scheming to use every opportunity to stoke crisis in the party and polity through fake news. He said: “It has come to the attention of the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that a fake letter of a…

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has decried the negative effect of the economy, which has made it almost impossible to tax eligible Nigerians. Okowa spoke yesterday with journalists after a meeting with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the State House in Abuja. He said although his administration is doing as much as it could to grow the number of youth entrepreneur in the state, so as to bring more people into the tax bracket, he said government is being sensitive to the economic plight of citizens so as not to make living difficult for many. According to him, the…

• Urges youths to thirst for political power • Farounbi asks Nigerians to rise against creep dictatorship Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has declared that the country is in desperate need of a paradigm shift in ideology of what political offices should be across all tiers of government in the nation. Akeredolu, who frowned at the manner at which politics, devoid of ideology, was being played in the country, emphasised that leadership must be embedded with traits that the youths could emulate. He stated this, yesterday, during the roundtable discussion organised by the All Progressives Congress (APC) Ondo State Progressive…

• Receives 2022-24 MTEF/FSP, to fix 16yrs for UTME candidates • Sanctions three new federal varsities The Senate, yesterday, passed the all-important bill seeking to establish the Electoral Offences Commission. The passage makes snatching of ballot boxes an electoral offence that attracts a 20 year jail term. The piece of legislation added that any candidate or agent, who damages or snatches ballot boxes, papers or election materials before, during and after an election without the permission of the presiding electoral official at the polling station attracts a minimum of 20-year imprisonment or a fine not less than N40 million. The…

Our greatest distraction in Nigeria today is not social media as some would have us believe. Our greatest distraction is President Muhammadu Buhari, the very personality who is supposed to embody our values of unity of faith and oneness of purpose. From social media spaces to pages of newspapers, Buhari is at the centre of our heated exchanges and hot arguments. He has become the reason some of us make known and unknown enemies, many of whom we really do not deserve. I agree that those who choose to hate him have a right to do so, especially when they…

The last few weeks must go down as season of bitter pills that made some Nigerians holding certain ideological belief or agitating for one thing or the other to squint over the unpalatable news before them. In a way, the season was inaugurated by the arrest and extradition of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) which sends cold shivers down the spine of many of his adherents. Before one could say jack, news about the raid of Sunday Igboho’s residence that resulted to a bloody encounter and loss of lives gives you another sour taste. In…

• Press Bill: We are suspending process for more consultation, says sponsor • Falana urges NPAN, NUJ, NGE to form new code of conduct • Ozekhome: Federal character as reason for rejecting Onochie face-saving • PDP insist on more effort to secure electoral act • Buhari parleys lawmakers over insecurity • Hire private contractors to fight insurgency, Reps tell Buhari It seemed the triumph of people’s power as both chambers of the National Assembly, yesterday, buckled to strident opposition from the public and key stakeholders to the Nigeria Press Council (NPC) and National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Amendment Bill, as well…

The Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Olurotimi Akeredolu, SAN, Human Rights Lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, Mr. JK Gadzama, SAN and Mr Ebun Adegboruwa, SAN, are among the Lawyers expected to speak at this year’s National Bar Association (NBA), Ikeja Branch Law Week. Addressing newsmen at the Bar Centre, Ikeja on Friday, Dada Awosika, SAN, Chairman Planning Committee, said the annual law week is one of the cherished traditions of the Bar. He explained that the week could not hold last year, because of the restrictions occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic. The theme of the weeklong event according to him is, “The…

A Myopic Strategy in the Fight Against Terrorism and Kidnapping in Nigeria This article by Akintayo Balogun highlights the foolhardiness of the proposed Bill considered by the Senate, to criminalise the payment (and receipt) of ransom payments, in light of the Government’s obvious failure to secure the lives and property of the people This article by Akintayo Balogun highlights the foolhardiness of the proposed Bill considered by the Senate, to criminalise the payment (and receipt) of ransoms payments, in light of the Government’s obvious failure to secure the lives and property of the people The news filtered in on Wednesday,…