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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has arraigned a House of Representatives member for Oron Federal Constituency, Mr. Nse Ekpenyong, at the Federal High Court, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, for alleged certificate forgery. Ekpenyong is being arraigned on nine count charges which revolves around the forging of a national diploma of Abia State Polytechnic, Aba, Abia State.

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, on Wednesday, condemned the nature of the investigation launched into the clash which involved some Yoruba and Hausa people in Ile-Ife recently.

The 2017 Zenith Bank Basketball League has been scheduled to start on April 10 in Abuja with the financial institution committing N35m to the sponsorship of the competition. The Deputy Managing Director of the bank, Ebenezer Onyeagwu, on Tuesday at the Zenith Corporate headquarters in

The Senate ad hoc committee on Saturday summoned the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami; the Minister of Interior, retired Lieutenant General Abdulrahman Dambazau; and others to appear before it on April 6. The Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Alleged Misuse, Under Remittance and other Fraudulent Activities in Collection, Remittance and Expenditure of Internally Generated Revenue by MDAs, invited the duo for briefing over their involvement

Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, the Chief of Army Staff, says this year’s Nigerian Army Small Arms Championship is holding in Sambisa Forest to consolidate the army’s grip on the area. Buratai announced this while speaking with newsmen on the final arrangements for the event on Saturday in Maiduguri, Borno State. He said: “We have been in the North East, fighting the Boko Haram terrorists, and you know the significance of the Sambisa forest to them. “It used to be one

                               Shareholders of Zenith Bank Plc. yesterday approved final dividend of N55.573 billion for the year ended December 31, 2016, bringing the total payout to N63.422 billion. The dividend, which translates to N1.77 per share was paid out of N129.65 billion recorded for the year. The shareholders gave the approval at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in Lagos. In all, the bank paid a total dividend of N63.422 billion, having paid an interim dividend of N7.849 billion before now. In approving the

Labour unions in Taraba State and Governor Darius Ishaku may be poised for a showdown over the ban on protests and demonstrations. The ban was announced by the governor on Saturday. The Deputy Chief Press Secretary, Illiya Bekyu, made the announcement in Jalingo on behalf of Ishaku. But Peter Gambo, the Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Taraba State chapter, has swiftly responded by describing the governor’s directive as a mere

Juju Music legend Ebenezer Obey has recalled the problems he faced during the period he dumped secular music for evangelism. Obey, who stated that late Archbishop Benson Idahosa contributed to his decision to go into ministration in an interview with  

Whatever you do, never say it to veteran actress, Ngozi Nwosu’s hearing that she is no longer relevant in the make-believe world. That would cause her to flare up. In a recent chat with  

There are fresh indications as to why Diageo Plc, the parent company of Guinness Nigeria Plc, failed in its bid to increase its share capital in the brewery giant. It may be recalled that Diageo had in mid September 2015 announced its intention to make an offer through its wholly owned subsidiary, Guinness Overseas Limited for up to 15.7% of the share capital of Guinness Nigeria Plc. The

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), has said only President Muhammadu Buhari can determine the fate of the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu. Malami said this on

The   certificate scandal   involving the senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye, may be far from over,  as his name was not found on the Ahmadu Bello University alumni website,   SUNDAY PUNCH   reports. Melaye’s trouble began on

The Ali Modu Sheriff and Ahmed Makarfi factions of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are locked in a fresh face-off, this time over the planned recruitment of staff for the party by the Sheriff faction. The Makari camp is resisting the planned recruitment. All the staff at the PDP national secretariat are refusing to work with Sheriff. They have rebuffed all overtures from the faction to return to work, preferring to

Banks have placed their workers under close watch following intense pressure by ‘big’ customers on majority shareholders and directors to monitor overzealous staff eager to take advantage of the whistle blowing initiative of the federal government. Account Officers from different banks told our correspondent the development was to prevent them from squealing on classified accounts by perceived looters and corrupt government officials. One of them, who confirmed the

After weeks of planning and intense capital expenditure, actress, Omoni Oboli got the shock of her life when she was stopped from premiering her new movie,   Okafor’s Law , on Friday, by a Federal High Court of Nigeria, in Lagos. All preparations had been put in place, from the red carpet, cocktails, cinema hall to the after party, and a lot of entertainers had

The Lagos State police commissioner, Fatai Owoseni, has stated that suicide attempt or committing suicide is an offence punishable under the law. Owoseni said this yesterday in his office while counseling a Lagos textile dealer, Mrs. Taiwo Momoh(both pictured), who was saved from jumping off Third Mainland Bridge to her death on Friday.

The end hasn’t been heard about pop singer, Davido, and his Ibadan, Oyo State-based Baby Mama, Ayomide Labinjo, who had alleged that Davido is the father of her three-year-old child, Anuoluwapo. In another exclusive interview with

Former President Goodluck Jonathan says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will come out of its crisis stronger. Jonathan expressed the optimism at his country home in Otuoke, Bayelsa state, when he received the report of the reconciliation committee led by Seriake Dickson, governor of Bayelsa. He said resorting to courts for political disagreements was abnormal. He

Sabi Abdullahi, senate spokesman, says the upper legislative chamber has been vindicated in its rejection of the nomination of Ibrahim Magu as the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Abdullahi was reacting to a leaked security report on Magu, which the Department of State Services (DSS)‎ sent to the attorney-general of the federation (AGF).

The Group Managing Director (GMD), Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Dr. Maikanti Baru, has set machinery in motion to recover the sum of $25,000,000.00 million as unpaid debts from fraudulent crude oil allocations to two Nigerian oil marketing companies. The companies are Aiteo owned by Mr. Ben Peters and Ontario owned by the jailed Walter Wagbatsoma. Baru, our correspondent gathered has been told by President Muhammad Buhari to recover every penny owned the Corporation by local and foreign oil firms using every available means. A top Presidency source told

The ministry of finance says it has so far received 2,351 tips from whistleblowers, on cases bordering on embezzlement of government funds, looting of assets, contract inflation, among others. In a statement signed by Festus Akanbi, special adviser, media to Kemi Adeosun, minister of finance, said the tips came via text messages, calls, email and forms filled on the ministry’s website. “We have received

Popular lotto company in Nigeria, Surebet247 is recently enmeshed in a scandal where a winner is fighting the company over a betting he won which the company refused to pay. Kunle Asulegan narrated how he placed a bet at the Blue Cottage, Oke-Ado, Ibadan on the 27th of September, 2016 and valid receipts of the receipts of the games he placed was issued to him, but to his utmost surprise

THE Department of State Services (DSS) has dismantled Boko Haram’s aggressive fundraising operations to finance its plans through kidnapping, armed robbery and gun-running. In a statement issued in Abuja yesterday, the DSS said it was questioning two suspects, Ibrahim Sule and Bello Shehu, who were arrested on March 13, at Nasarawa town in Kaduna State for alleged involvement in the kidnap of two Germans – Dr. Peter Breuning and Johannes Brehinger – at Pahkogo village in Kaduna State on February 22.

A property located along Admiralty Way, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos where popular singer, Banky W, lives has been destroyed by fire. A neighbour to the artiste told our correspondent on the telephone that the fire was caused by a faulty air conditioner. The fire was believed to have started

In Pablo Nurada’s poetic line, Nothing But Death ‘…death arrives among all that sound, like a shoe with no foot in it, like a suit with no man in it, comes and knocks, using a ring with no stone in it, with no finger in it…’ thus explains the dilemma of the dead as it comes to late socialite, Kunle Adeagbo whose business has come to ruins just 7 years into his demise. The late Adeagbo’s Royal Cedar hotel at the

The Ibadan social circle was shut down on Friday, February 10, 2017 when the news hits the city about the demise of a popular socialite, Femi Lekuti. The socialite who joined politics and contested for the State’s House of Assembly under the All Nigerian Peoples Party but