El-Rufai slams fresh N10bn suit against ICPC, alleges denial of access to family
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA— The detained former Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has filed a N10billion suit against the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), alleging gross violation of his fundamental rights. In the suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1852/2026, which he lodged before the Federal High Court in Abuja, the embattled former […]
Awolowo to Achebe: We are disappointed
The storm generated by renown novelist, Prof Chinua Achebe, over his claim that war-time Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, and the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo formulated the policy of genocide against Igbo during the civil war continued, yesterday.
Attack on Awo: Babatope takes on Achebe
Literary giant Chinua Achebe’s depiction of Chief Obafemi Awolowo as a man driven by an overriding ambition for power at the expense of Ibos was Friday described as nonsensical and a twist of facts.
5 private varsity students in $27,000 fraud
The Oyo State Police Command Thursday paraded some students of a private university in Ibadan who allegedly defrauded their victims of over 27,000 dollars.
Flood sacks 7,000 in Delta
…1,200 houses submerged BY FESTUS AHON UGHELLI—No fewer than 1,200 houses had been submerged and 7,000 persons displaced at Abare and Toru-Angiama in Patani Local Government Area of Delta State. Also, 46 communities across Isoko South, Ndokwa East and Ndokwa West affected by the surging flood, are now taking refuge in Ivrogbo, an upland community […]
