UNPAID SALARIES: VP DIES OF HUNGER IN OYO STATE

There was a stampede in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, Wednesday as a teacher at Saint Lukes Grammar School, Molete, Nasiru Lukuman, slumped while teaching in the classroom.

WITNESS SAYS ORONSAYE FIXED GOVT FUND IN PERSONAL ACCOUNT

Former Head of Service and Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Financial Action Task Force, PCFATF, Steven Oronsaye Photo Credit: EFCC

The trial of the former Head of Service and Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Financial Action Task Force, PCFATF, Steven Oronsaye, continued on Wednesday April 13, 2016 before Justice O. O. Goodluck of the FCT High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja.

Oronsaye is being prosecuted on a 2-count charge of abuse of office and obtaining by false pretence preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

SARAKI MOVES TO REPEAL THE FEDERAL LAWS UNDER WHICH HE IS BEING TRIED BY MOBILIZING NIGERIAN SENATORS

Senate President Bukola Saraki

Saharareporters reports that in another desperate attempt to evade justice, Senate President Bukola Saraki convened a meeting last night in his home with "likeminded" Senators during which they agreed to go after two of the major laws that have ensnared him.

PANAMA PAPERS EXPOSE RETIRED GENERAL THEOPHILUS DANJUMA'S OFFSHORE COMPANY

Theophilus Danjuma, a retired army general, and former defence minister is one of Nigeria’s richest personalities, courtesy of his ownership of one of Nigeria’s most lucrative oil blocs and a money-spinning shipping firm.

The retired general is a long time user of offshore entities, and the Mossac Fonseca files has now exposed another company of his – Eastcoast Investments Inc – which he incorporated in Nassau, in the Bahamas, on March 25, 1997.

At inception, Mr. Danjuma and a certain Colin Marcel Dixon were directors of the company.

BOKO HARAM PLEDGES ALLEGIANCE TO ISIS AGAIN [VIDEO]

The terrorist organization Boko Haram has released another video pledging its support to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which emerged yesterday on social media sites.

The video is reportedly titled “Investigate” and was first released on March 31st, 2016.

ARMED ROBBERS ATTACK UBA BRANCH IN BAYELSA WITH DYNAMITES AND OTHER INJURIOUS WEAPONS | CART AWAY ATM MACHINES

Gunmen Source: Informationng

Suspected militants in a speedboat invaded the United Bank for Africa(UBA), located in the university town of Ammassoma in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, on Friday.

The militants carted away an Automated Teller Machine (ATM).

The gunmen, numbering twelve and armed with sophisticated weapons and dynamite, invaded the Ammassoma community at about 11:03pm through the waterways, according to sources speaking to SaharaReporters.

BREAKING: FORMER DELTA STATE GOVERNOR HAS DIED!

The first executive governor of Delta state, Felix Ibru, is dead.

He died at the ago 80.

A family source told Saharareporters that Mr. Ibru died in a Lagos hospital after a protracted illness.

Mr. Ibru was elected on the platform of the Social Democratic Party as governor of Delta briefly between 1992 and 1993, he was sacked when the military junta led by late general Sanni Abacha sacked all civilian governors in a bloodless coup.

PHOTOS OF LATE MINISTER OF LABOUR, JAMES OCHOLI, WIFE, AND SON'S LAST MOMENT

 

The Minister of State for Labour, his wife and son passed away yesterday in a fatal motor accident. 

Below are photos from the accident scene:

 

 

GOVERNOR ROCHAS OKOROCHA'S AIDES NABBED FOR DIVERTING BAILOUT FUND MEANT FOR PAYMENT OF SALARY

Nigeria’s anti-graft agency has arrested three top officials of Imo State government for allegedly diverting the sum of N2 billion bailout fund given for payment of salary arrears of civil servants. 

 

Governor Rochas Okorocha

SaharaReporters has exclusively reported that the operatives of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, March 2, 2016, arrested three top officials of Imo State government for allegedly diverting the sum of N2 billion bailout fund given to the state by the Federal Government for payment of salary arrears of the state’s civil servants.

KANO STATE GOVERNOR STONED AND BOOED BY ANGRY MOB

Fans of Kano Pillars football club are reported to have thrown pebbles, pure water sachets and slippers at the Kano state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, on Sunday, February 29.

21 PEOPLE IN 21MILLION: OLAMIDE, OMOJUWA, DON JAZZY, WIZKID, MO ABUDU, OTHERS MAKE GUARDIAN AFRICA'S POWER LIST

Lagos, a Mega city home to an estimated 21 million people, is Nigeria’s cultural and political powerhouse.


It’s home to Nollywood, the world’s third-largest film industry, it’s the centre of the country’s music industry and it’s also where some of the world’s happiest citizens live.