The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Monday got the approval of a Federal High Court, Abuja to arraign an ex-governor of Abia State, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu on May 16.
The former governor is expected to enter a fresh plea to an amended 112-count charge dated February 11, 2008 having pleaded not guilty to the earlier 107 charges.
Justice Anwuli Chikere gave EFCC the nod to re-arraign Kalu following the submission to her of the judgment...
Monday, 11 April 2016
President Muhammadu Buhari who left Abuja Sunday night for Beijing, China is expected to confer with President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang and the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National Peoples’ Congress, Zhang Dejiang on strengthening bilateral cooperation for the diversification of the Nigerian economy.
A statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adeshina said that the trip is expected...
President Muhammadu Buhari is not happy with certain details of the 2016 budget sent to him for assent by the National Assembly.
He has therefore asked the legislators to take back the budget and reinsert some key national projects which they allegedly removed and to remove the ones inserted by them to enable him assent to the document.
Vanguard reports that the President would in the alternative "sign the budget as a formality and introduce a...
Sunday, 10 April 2016
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has declared the election in Gwagwalada, Kuje, Abuja Municipal and Kwali Area Councils of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja inconclusive.
At the Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC collation centre, for example, the Returning Officer, Prof. Sunday Ododo told newsmen that the election was declared inconclusive because the total number of cancelled votes cast, 15,560, was more than the margin...
The Niger State Police Command recently killed three kidnappers of Fulani origin and rescued five of their victims.
Two Fulani men who had earlier kidnapped three people from Abuja were traced by the police to their hideout in Agaie area of Niger State.
In the ensuing gun battle, both kidnappers were killed.
In another development, one of three Fulani men said to have abducted two young girls in Lambata, Gawu Babangida area of Gurara Local Government...
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