LAWMAKERS in Nigeria's House of Representatives are trying to resolve an ongoing dispute between the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (Amcon) involving Diezani Alison-Madueke.
Former petroleum minister Ms Alison-Madueke, has been at the centre of the...
ECONOMIC and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) chairman Abdulrasheed Bawa has revealed that the total amount of the jewellery seized from former petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke totals about N14.46bn ($35m).
Oil minister during the tenure of former president Dr Goodluck Jonathan, Ms Alison-Madueke has been the...
ECONOMIC and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) chairman Abdulrasheed Bawa has revealed that the agency is unhappy about the fact that it has been unable to prosecute former petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke because she is out of its jurisdiction.
Oil minister during the tenure of former president Dr Goodluck...
FORMER president Dr Goodluck Jonathan has called for the changing of Nigeria's electoral laws so courts can no longer determine the winners of elections as is currently the case that has resulted in governors getting elected on the basis of legal technicalities.
In several states, particularly Imo and Bayelsa, candidates who...
NIGERIAN electrical engineer Joel Adams has broken a 102 year tradition by becoming the first non-UK born person to be commissioned into the British Royal Air Force (RAF) as an aero systems engineer with the rank of Flying Officer.
Flying Officer Adams, a native of Abejukolo in the Omala Local Government Area of Kogi...
SECESSIONIST group the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (Massob) has warned ex-president Dr Goodluck Jonathan and All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader Asiwaju Bola Tinubu not to run for president in 2023 because it is the turn of Ndigbo.
Although not constitutional, Nigeria's component...
FORMER president Dr Goodluck Jonathan, has been named as the African Leadership Magazine's Africa Peace and Security Leader of the Year 2020 in recognition of his sterling work across the continent.
Dr Jonathan who left office in 2015 after losing an election to incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, received widespread...
MALI'S new government has been sworn-in in the capital Bamako today after the interim president Bah Ndaw named the members of his cabinet who will govern the country for the next 18 months.
On August 18, the Malian military seized power toppling President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and prime minister Boubou Cisse. Following the...
MALI's military junta has been given until September 15 by the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) to appoint a civilian head of a transitional government as part of a wider plan to restoring democracy within a year.
Last month, what started off as a military mutiny over salary arrears, ballooned into a full...
MALI'S military junta has agreed to the proposed Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) transition programme that involves them conducting elections and handing over to a democratic government within a year.
Earlier this month, what started off as a military mutiny over salary arrears, ballooned into a full blown...
