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The family of Miss Chinyere Awuda, 27, who was discovered dead inside a hotel swimming pool on July 16 has claimed that their daughter was the victim of a plot and purposeful murder. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Chinyere was reported to have gone out clubbing on July 16 but was discovered dead the following morning in an abandoned swimming pool on the hotel grounds. By way of their attorney, Eziafa Enwedo,...

On the grounds of the Federal High Court in Lagos State, Department of State Services agents detained a senior official of Ikoyi Prisons. The custody dispute involving suspended Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Godwin Emefiele and the arrest may have some bearing on the situation. The secret service agents later freed the Ikoyi jail official who had been violently handled and forced into the DSS car. It was previously reported that a minor drama occurred...

James Ibori, the flamboyant governor of the oil-rich state in southern Nigeria from 1999 to 2007, was jailed in Britain in 2012 for money laundering and fraud as a result of a Metropolitan Police operation. A UK court ordered him and his criminal associates to repay £130 million ($167 million) that he stole while governor of Delta State. Financial investigators from the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) then started confiscation proceedings. The judge at a...

The Managing Director/CEO of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello-Koko, has been dragged to the Federal High Court Kaduna over allegations of fraud and financial misconduct. Bello-Koko is also accused of gross abuse of office, misappropriation of public funds and money laundering while serving as Executive Director, Finance and Administration as well as MD/CEO of the NPA between January 2015 till date. In a suit filed by Comrade Isah the Buta, the National Coordinator...

President Bola Tinubu has yet to comply with the constitutional requirement that he submit the names of ministry nominees to the Senate for consideration and confirmation 60 days before the deadline. Recall that on May 29, when former President Muhammadu Buhari passed the reins of power to President Tinubu, he took the oath of office. The Senate has not yet received the whole list of nominees for ministerial positions, according to multiple sources in the...