EFCC quizzes ex-Northern ministers, others over Diezani’s N23bn fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC in continuation of its investigations into the N23 billion laundered by the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison Madueke during the 2015 General Elections through Fidelity Bank plc, has so far unravelled how a total of N5,097,064,000 was disbursed and received by representatives from seven states in the Northwest zone of the country.
Obasanjo faults Yoruba monarchs on supremacy tussle
ABEOKUTA—Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, condemned rivalry for supremacy among traditional rulers in the South-West.
Obasanjo donates chimpanzee named Patience to wildlife sanctuary
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has donated a three year old chimpanzee named Patience to a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), Pandrillus, operator of the Drill Ranch Afi Mountain
Accident: 7 Kano students, driver buried amid tears
The seven Kano State students and their driver, who died on Tuesday while returning from Lagos after attending a national quiz competition along Iroko road, via Ibadan, Oyo State, were buried at the Tarauni Graveyard, Kano yesterday amid tears.
Protest in Aba as soldiers allegedly kill two butchers
ABA—What would have been a major ethnic clash was averted yesterday in Aba, Abia State following protests over alleged killings of two Igbo butchers at the Waterside abattoir by soldiers.
Declining oil prices threat to indigenous companies—Stakeholders
Indigenous companies operating in Nigeria, yesterday said that declining oil prices may derail the local policy of the federal government as international oil companies, IOCs continue to defer or cancel their capital projects.
