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Mr Doyin Okupe, former Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Media to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday evening, paid N13 million for the 52-year jail term bagged for N240 million money laundering offence. Recall that Justuce Ijeoma Ojukwu, in a judgment, had found Okupe guilty in 26 out of the 59 counts preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes …

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has said the commission has recovered more than N30 billion from the suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Idris Ahmed.

The Department of State Services (DSS) has withdrawn a suit before a Federal High Court in Abuja, to detain an alleged terrorists’ negotiator, Tukur Mamu, for 60 more days. Counsel to the DSS, A.M. Danlami on Thursday requested the court applied for the discontinuation of the matter which was granted by the court, on the grounds that it had been …

Sixty-three percent of persons living in Nigeria,  that is 133 million, live in poverty.

Brigadier-General Audu Ogbole James, Director of Finance at the Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Centre (NAFRC), Oshodi, Lagos, is dead.

An Abuja High Court sitting in Maitama has convicted the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, for contempt of court.

 A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, ordered an interim forfeiture of 40 landed property, nine in Dubai, linked to Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, former Deputy Senate President. Justice Inyang Ekwo following an ex -parte motion filed and moved by Ibrahim Buba, lawyer to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, are currently in custody in …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a Kogi State House of Assembly candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Ismaila Yusuf Atumeyi with N326million and $ 140,500 cash. Atumeyi, who is seeking to represent Ankpa 11 Constituency in the State Assembly, was arrested on Sunday. Spokesman of the anti-graft agency, Wilson Uwujaren, revealed that one Abdumalik …

Hundreds of youths and residents of the Yelwa Labura area of the Bauchi metropolis Monday morning blocked the Bauchi -Tafawa Balewa highway in protest against the release of a suspect who allegedly killed his friend, Adamu Babanta, with his car. Daily Trust reported that as early as 7:00am, the youths stormed the busy Bauchi -Tafawa Balewa road beside the College …

President Muhammadu Buhari is travelling to the United Kingdom for medical check-up today.