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The United Kingdom has launched a fresh bid to confiscate “proceeds of loot” in the £117 million worth of properties linked to James Ibori, former governor of Delta state. In 2012, a UK court sentenced Ibori – who governed Delta from 1999 to 2007 – to prison after convicting him …

  The National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has aked the chief Justice of Nigeria, Ibrahim Muhammad, to send a Rivers state high court judge, Augusta Kingsley-Chukwu to compulsory retirement, saying the judge has poor knowledge of the law and should be made to go. Oshimhole …

The Honourable Member Representing Ughelli North, Ughelli South, and Udu Federal Constituency, at the House of Representatives, Hon. Francis Waive, has called on elders and leaders of Urhobo nation, to prevail on the sponsors of the civil society groups calling for the resignation of the Deputy President of the Senate, …

Unknown gunmen have been reported to have abducted two teachers at Obi Primary School in Avbiosi community in the Owan West Local Government Area of Edo State. Newsmen gathered that the hoodlums kidnapped the teachers – a male and female – while they were teaching their pupils who had just …

Shouting match ensued yesterday between the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Adams Oshiomole , and the National Vice Chairman (North-East) of the party, Mustapha salihu, while in a National Working Committee meeting at the National Secretariat. Salihu who was reported to have stormed out of the meeting after …

The Nigerian Custom Service has released the lists of requirements candidates will need at the different centres where the aptitude test will be conducted. The Nigeria Customs which shortlisted a total of 162,399 candidates for aptitude test in its recruitment exercise which began in 2019, said the candidates were selected …

The Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has denied the authenticity of a reports by coalition of civil society organisations, that allege the conviction of the senator for felony by a United States’ court in 1996. Omo-Agege who admitted that he was sued in California, United States …

The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, has fault the plans to hike electricity tariff, by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), saying that the plan is Completely Unacceptable. Elumelu who totally condemn the plan argued that any increase in electricity tariff would worsen “the already …

Amnesty International has ascribed the continuous killings in River state to the “failure” of the Rivers state government to arrest and punish perpetrators. The organisation, in a release, expressed worry, saying that ” We are deeply concerned that the authorities are doing little or nothing to protect residents from violent …

Three expatriates, two Russians, and one India, who were rescued from the den of their abductors by the men of the Nigerian Navy, have expressed gratitude to the command for the rescue. Speaking to Newsmen after their rescue on behalf of the freed expatriates, one of them said they spent …