A UK court has ordered a Nigerian businessman, Arthur Eze to pay £1m in damages to Richard and Deborah Conway, a British couple, for pulling out of a deal to buy their seven-bed London mansion. The couple had reached an agreement of £5 million with Eze who reportedly paid 10 percent deposit. When Eze failed…
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Ebun Francis || The Senate on Tuesday ordered the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ibrahim Idris, to investigate and arrest the perpetrators of the Benue attacks that led to the death of over 73 persons within two weeks. In a related development, the House of Representatives has also decided to set up an ad-hoc…
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday disclosed that leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) had to use `strong-arm tactics’ to get former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh out of office. Jammeh, who re-contested Gambia’s presidential election on Dec. 1, 2016, had refused to step aside even after failing to win the re-election. President…
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The federal capital territory development control department on Tuesday demolished a property allegedly owned by the former first lady, Patience Jonathan. The building, located inside A. Aruera Reachout Foundation/Women For Change and Development Initiative, is situated on Shehu Yar’Adua Way along Mabushi-Kado Life Camp Expressway, Abuja. A lawyer with EA Ezugwu and Associates, Emmanuel Anene…
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Ebun Francis || The House of Representatives on Tuesday mandated its committee on national security and intelligence to investigate reports of $44 million allegedly missing from the vaults of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). A national daily last week reported that the said was removed from the vault of the agency shortly after President Buhari…
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The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says inflation rate, measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), further dropped to 15.37 per cent in December 2017 from 15.90 per cent recorded in November of the same year. The NBS disclosed this in its CPI report for December 2017 released on Tuesday in Abuja. The CPI, which…
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About 577 officers of the Nigeria Customs Service would soon be weeded out of the service on accout of age and the mandatory years of service. According to the circular erroneously dated 27 January 2017 and titled CIRCULAR NO/HRD/2017/003-LIST OF OFFICERS/MEN FOR STATUTORY RETIREMENT IN YEAR 2018 and signed by Sulaiman, M.S.J, Comptroller Establishments on…
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The management team of Nigerian Ports Authority(NPA) has continued to maintain sealed lips over the allegation of secret recruitment of staff it carried out last year, thus defiling all entreaties by some agitating workers and stakeholders to extract official position of the agency on the vex issue. It was gathered that the agency conducted a…
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As the dare-devil smugglers are having a field day on the inland waterways where they carry out their nefarious activities with little checks from the Nigeria Customs Service, the two specialized security patrol boats acquired at over $100m (N16.300billion) by the Service more than three years ago are currently rotting away at the Marina jetty,…
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Ebun Francis || The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has once again asked a Federal High Court Sitting in Lagos to grant an order of interim forfeiture of the sum of $3,645,013.73 (Three Million, Six Hundred and Forty Five Thousand, Thirteen United States Dollar, Seventy Three Cent) domiciled with First Bank of Nigeria Ltd…
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Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom on Monday met with President Muhammadu Buhari with a delegation of prominent leaders from to brief the President on the ongoing crisis between farmers and Fulani Herdsmen that has lead to the death of over seventy individuals. Mr. Ortom also said the visit was to appreciate the president for his…
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