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EFCC: Transparency Africa advises Tinubu not to appoint anybody with baggage

EFCC: Transparency Africa advises Tinubu not to appoint anybody with baggage

…says name being peddled now will rubbish image of his renewed hope agenda …reminds president that an indicted personality can’t head an anti-graft body Transparency and Anti-Corruption Campaign in Africa, TACCA a non-governmental organisation has called on President Bola Tinubu to avoid any baggage carrying personality as chairman of Nigeria’s topmost anti-graft agency, the Economic […]

NGO Trains 29,000 Entrepreneurs to be Employers of Labour

NGO Trains 29,000 Entrepreneurs to be Employers of Labour

By Ibrahim Hassan,Kaduna The Executive Director and Founder ofHope Builders, an NGO,Rev. Mathias Bodam Yashim has said that his organisation has so far trained 29,000 entrepreneurs and called on graduates from university and other higher institutions to go for skills acquisition to become employers of labour. Speaking at a press conference in Kaduna on Monday,Rev […]

Tinubu snubs Niger coup leaders’ overtures for direct talks

Tinubu snubs Niger coup leaders’ overtures for direct talks

As efforts to resolve the Niger crisis continue, overtures by the head of the military junta in that West African country, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, to have direct access and discussion with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been outrightly rejected by the Nigerian leader, Empowered Newswire reports.

NDLEA arrests 67-yr-old for ingesting cocaine to fund marriage

NDLEA arrests 67-yr-old for ingesting cocaine to fund marriage

….Arrests Saudi-bound lady with 52 pellets at Kano airport By Kingsley Omonobi abuja—Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 67-year-old trafficker, Chukwuemeka Clement, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja, for ingesting 100 wraps of cocaine. Chukwuemeka claimed he ventured into the criminal enterprise to raise enough money to […]

Using local governments to scoop national funds, By Owei Lakemfa

Using local governments to scoop national funds, By Owei Lakemfa

Aare Afe Babalola, the 94-year-old Senior Advocate of Nigeria with a 60-year experience at the bar, recently revealed an open secret: that virtually all state governors are stealing the funds of the local governments. The nonagenarian founder of Afe Babalola University lamented on September 7: “When I was a councillor, in those days, local government […]

A captured temple of justice, By Chidi Odinkalu

A captured temple of justice, By Chidi Odinkalu

In July 2023, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, presided over a meeting of the National Judicial Council, NJC, to appoint his own son a judge of the Federal High Court. On October 4, as his father presided over the swearing in of his own son, it fell to the Old Students Association of Ikolaba […]