Once judges are found to have transgressed, they are offloaded from the bench. It is on record that none of the judges that had been sent off the bench has been prosecuted for criminal offences; corruption and abuse of office, engaging in money laundering are offences under the Criminal Code, EFCC Act, Money Laundering Act, and Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC Act. So, we then have an odd situation where judges that have been found to have committed criminal offences are only given administrative discipline and sanction.

SIXTEEN months into the President Muhammadu Buhari regime (which peddles a robust anti-corruption profile), high revenue-earning Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the Federal Government are yet to make public the details of their earnings, expenditures and contributions to the national till to promote transparency and accountability.

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Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State said, yesterday, that he neither collapsed nor was flown abroad for medical attention as reported by a section of the social and main stream media.

Bauchi State government, in collaboration with security agents, has rescued 450 teenage girls from traffickers.

The relegation of Heartland Football Club of Owerri, has been described as “a tragedy that could have been averted if the state government did the needful at the appropriate time”.

MANCHESTER City striker Kelechi Iheanacho has received the backing of his father to score more goals for the Super Eagles as they chase qualification for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

THE Director General, Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, Captain Usman Muktar said, yesterday, that the current economic recession in Nigeria forced United and Iberia airlines to suspend their operations in Nigeria as the airlines claimed the operating conditions were no longer conducive for their operation.

A chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has described the recent arrest of judges by the Department of State Service, DSS, operatives across the country as sacrilegious and a desecration of the judiciary

OIL and gas producing communities in Delta State have warned the state House of Assembly against the dissolution of the board of Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, following the controversy surrounding the N28 billion budget of the commission.

The Technical Director of Chemical Engineering and Construction Company Limited, SMIEC, Engr. Mma Okezie, has expressed shock over the purported invitation of the owner of the company by the Senate Committee on Niger Delta, over alleged abandonment of Shore Production project at Koko, Warri North, Delta State.

To all the doomsday prophets, a word of caution, hope is rising for Nigerian tennis as wild card entrant, Clifford Enosoregbe yesterday achieved the unprece-dented by upsetting eight seed Maciej Smola to reach the men’s singles quarter-final of the Lagos Governor’s Cup Futures 5.

CALABAR—Tragedy struck, yesterday, when suspected cultists engaged a police patrol team in a gun battle at Nkwa Street off Eyamba, Calabar, Cross River State, killing an inspector, Mr. Edet Archibong.

The Federal Government has said it would step on more big toes in its anti-corruption war.

Students at the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, UNEC, yesterday, lashed out at the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Benjamin Ozuba, accusing him of diverting the mandatory N5,000 re-roofing levy foisted on them three years ago.