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Investigations into the alleged diversion of the $2.1billion arms fund has taken a new dimension as Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) stormed Kaduna at the weekend, evicting occupants and sealing off property believed to have belonged to the lead suspect and former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) and his alleged accomplices. The property include an hotel ...

A principal suspect in the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association, PENGASSAN, N559.5 million housing fraud (names withheld), has jumped bail and gone into hiding as operatives of the fraud unit, Panti, Lagos, intensify investigation into the scam. NREH has earlier reported the scam that has put the umbrella body for senior staff in the nation’s petroleum industry in ...

Two persons were, yesterday killed, goods and property destroyed when the popular Kaduna Railway Station Fruits Market located in Kaduna South Local Government Area was gutted by fire. The two victims were said to have been sleeping in one of the shops, while some who sustained injuries were rushed to St. Gerard Catholic Hospital, Kauri. An eyewitness revealed that the ...

Due to the increasing incidents of building collapse, building construction experts have called for more awareness on the role of foundation in sustaining a building. At a stakeholders’ forum conveyed by the Building Collapse Prevention Guild, Kosofe Cell, for foundation experts, drillers and other professionals, it was noted that the foundation was one of the major causes of building collapse ...

The Ogun State Government has relocated villagers at Itoku-Elewe Irepodun along Sagamu-Abeokuta Expressway to a new settlement within the area, where it has built 96 modern houses for them. The Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Taiwo Adeoluwa, disclosed this on Friday while briefing journalists on the programme of events for the state’s 40th anniversary celebration. He said the relocation ...

The Lagos State Public Works Corporation has chosen April as the completion date for the rehabilitation of the bad portion of the Ile-Epo end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. According to a statement signed by the Head, Public Affairs, LSPWC, Mr. Yomi Oladapo, the state government has renewed its commitment to speedily complete the construction of the drainage alignment and the ...

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has declared his administration’s resolve to provide quality education infrastructure across  the state. He said the aim was instituting a world class education system. The governor stated this at the weekend after inspection of ongoing construction road and school projects. He said his administration would develop a boarding system for the secondary school education sub-sector ...

The trial of a former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on a 23-count charge bordering on money laundering and diversion of funds, continued on Monday with the anti-graft agency presenting its witness before Justice Adebukola Banjoko, of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja. Mr. Dariye is accused ...

Two witnesses brought before a Federal High Court in Abuja by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have told the court how the spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, and his company, Dextra Investments Limited, transferred the sum of $2million allegedly collected from the office of the National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki. According to Premium Times, the first ...

The Environmental Health Officers Association of Nigeria, Lagos State Chapter, on Monday said that it had killed no fewer than 4,400 rats at six major markets in the state under its de-rat market programme. Its president, Samuel Akingbehin, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that his association carried out the exercise at Onigbongbo, Oshodi, Oke-Odo, Ikotun Idanwo, Ojuwoye and ...