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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday alleged that a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Rickey Tarfa, bribed Justice Mohammed Yunusa of the Federal High Court with N225,000. It alleged that Tarfa, last January 7, transferred the money to Justice Yunusa, and that the judge acknowledged the “bribe” with the words: “Thank you my senior advocate”. This allegation is ...
Investigation
February, 2016
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18 February
Sacked DGs disobey Buhari’s directive
Some of the 26 sacked DGs from government agencies have acted in defiance of President Buhari’s directive – Buhari had directed the sacked DGs to vacate office and handover to the most senior officers – Some have refused to handover while some others handed over to those who were not the most senior officers Five of the 26 heads of ...
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18 February
Jonathan ADC Denies Saying ‘Nigeria Will Burn.If He Reveals’
The EFCC said it had obtained a remand order to keep Col. Ojogbane Adegbe, the Aide-de-Camp to former President Goodluck Jonathan in detention pending investigations. A reliable source in the EFCC told our correspondent on Wednesday that with the remand order, Adegbe could remain in custody for the next 20 days. The ex-president’s ADC has meanwhile denied media reports that ...
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17 February
PDP Chair: Ali Modu Choice Deepens Party Crisis
As reported earlier by younews,PDP has run into monumental crisis with the choice of former Borno State Governor Ali Modu Sheriff for the top job. Governors elected on the platform of the party and members of the National Working Committee (NWC) endorsed Sheriff’s candidacy for the job, which former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman Nuhu Ribadu turned down. The ...
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16 February
EFCC To Invite Patience Jonathan For Sharing Trillions Of Naira 2wks To Election
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) may soon invite Goodluck Jonathan’s wife to explain her role in the sourcing and disbursement of huge funds spent by the presidency during the last two weeks before the general elections. The fund, estimated at over a trillion naira, was reportedly disbursed through the Amnesty office to some political bigwigs in the Peoples ...
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16 February
Uncovered! Pope John Paul II Letters To Woman Friend Over 30yrs
The relationship between Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and Pope John Paul II lasted more than 30 years. The letters to Polish-born American philosopher, Tymieniecka, had been kept away from public view in the National Library of Poland for years. The documents revealed a rarely seen side of the pontiff, who died in 2005. There is no suggestion the Pope broke his vow ...
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15 February
$2.1b arms fund: Soft landing likely for those returning loot
Constitutional lawyer and Presidential Anti-corruption Advisory Committee Chairman Prof. Itse Sagay has hinted of a possible soft landing for treasury looters and corrupt politicians, who return their shares of the $2.1 billion arms procurement and other loot traced to them. Sagay, in an interview with The Nation in Warri, Delta State at the weekend, confirmed that some members of the ...
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13 February
Rivers Lawmaker Assasinated For Moving From PDP To APC
Unknown gunmen on Thursday shot a former member of Rivers State House of Assembly, Monday Eleanya, in Port Harcourt, the state capital, Daily Trust is reporting. A witness said Eleanya, who represented Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Constituency in the Rivers State House of Assembly between 1999 to 2003 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, was shot in the early hours of ...
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13 February
‘Saraki Must Resign Call’ Reawakens, Faces ICC March 10
The trial of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on 13 counts of false assets declaration is to resume March 10 before the Code of Conduct Tribunal…and the call for his resignation is getting louder again. A seven-man panel of the Supreme Court presided over by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, unanimously ruled in its judgement on ...
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13 February
Chibok Girls Location Uncovered In Sambisa!
Ureka!Hope rises yesterday,against dimming hope by ex president obasanjo that chibok girls can not be found again.Possible locations of the abducted Chibok school girls may have been identified by the Nigerian Air Force. The Director of Public Relations of the Air Force, Group Captain Ayodele Famuyiwa, told Channels Television that the force has therefore abstained from attacking the identified areas ...
