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The Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission has recommended the suspension of the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, from his throne over an alleged misappropriation of N3.4 billion. According to the commission, the crime was committed between 2014 and 2017. The recommendation was contained in a preliminary …

A bank account containing £211m (approximately N82bn) has been traced to a former Nigerian military dictator, General Sani Abacha. The money was recovered and subsequently confiscated in Jersey, Channel Islands, on the request of the United States of America Government. Late Abacha was said to have laundered the money through …

Workers of the Securities and Exchange Commission under the aegis of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, SEC Branch, on Tuesday rejected the judgement of the court reinstating the suspended Director-General, Mounir Gwarzo. The workers shut the premises of the commission and paralysed business activities on Monday morning …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Monday conducted a supplementary Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination for 490 candidates whose computer based Test centres were earlier suspended for malpractices and other infractions. The UTME was held in JAMB CBT centre in Kogo, Abuja, JAMB Bayelsa State office, Yenagoa and JAMB National …

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, sentenced to 42 years imprisonment, the convicted former acting Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Calistus Obi, for N136 million fraud. The court handed Obi a seven-year imprisonment on six of the counts he was convicted and …

THE Presidency has denied that President Muhammadu Buhari approved the establishment of State, Local Government Police. The Presidency said that President Buhari had requested that the report would be studied and white paper produced within three months. A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and …

THE All Progressives Congress, APC, Zamfara State Chapter, Monday, expelled the immediate past governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari. Also expel was the Deputy National Chairman (North) of the APC, Lawali Shuaibu for conniving with Yari to sabotage the National Working Committee of the party during the botched primary Elections …

The Christian Association of Nigeria has condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to Saudi Arabia for a meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation a day after his inauguration. CAN, which described the President’s visit for the meeting as unconstitutional, said it confirmed worries about his alleged Islamisation agenda. In a …

Wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, has urged the National Social Investment Programme to support poor people in Katsina State including those devastated by banditry. Aisha who was in Batsari, Katsina State, to distribute relief materials to victims of banditry, said although N500bn was released by the Federal Government to …

At least 60,000 candidates on Saturday sat for the Computer Based Test (CBT) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) recruitment exercise in the country. Isaiah Inuwa, Chief Operating Officer Corporate Services, said this to reporters while monitoring some of the CBT centres in Abuja. He said the exam was …