The Kaduna State House of Assembly has set up a committee to investigate the government’s expenditure and project implementation during Nasir El-Rufai’s tenure as governor, which spanned from 2015 to 2023. The committee’s focus will include scrutinising loans, grants, and how these funds were used for projects undertaken during El-Rufai’s eight years in office. This move comes amid concerns raised by the current governor, Uba Sani, regarding a significant debt burden inherited from his predecessor....

Dr. Nelson Omenugha, the Special Adviser to Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State, graciously welcomed a delegation from the Solar Hands-on Training and International Network of Exchange (SHINE) at his office in the Government House on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. SHINE, a capacity-building project sponsored by the European Union Commission, aims to empower individuals in the field of renewable energy, specifically solar energy. The delegation, led by Rev. Father Christopher Anso, the director of Jobitech,...

A High Court sitting in Lokoja, Kogi State, has stopped the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from infringing on the fundamental human rights of former Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello. In a two hour judgment delivered on Wednesday, at the High Court 4 and presided over by Hon. Justice I.A Jamil, in suit no HCL/68/M/2020, the court restrained the EFCC from arresting, detaining and prosecuting the applicant except as authorised by the Court....

120 women from the six south west states to get the sum of N60million from The Renewed Hope Initiative, a social intervention programme of the wife of the President, Mrs. Oluremi Tunubu. The First Lady, who disclosed this on Tuesday at the launch of the Renewed Hope Initiative Women Agricultural Support Programme for the south west and flag off of the 2024 Ogun State Planting Season, held at the Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta, also said...

The Chairman Kano State Anti-Corruption and Public Complaints Commission Muhuyi Magaji said the commission will file new corruption charges and maladministration against former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje. He said commission’s investigations uncovered the diversion of N51.3 billion from local government funds to unauthorized individuals during Ganduje’s tenure. Magaji alleged that the Ganduje administration transferred N4 billion to an agricultural company from Kano’s consolidated revenue account and withdrew N1 billion monthly from state coffers before its tenure...

The Minister of Interior, Mr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has for all hands to be on deck to fight the menace of corruption and corrupt practices which fuel insecurity in the country. Tunji-Ojo was speaking when he paid a courtesy visit to Dr Musa Aliyu, SAN, the Chairman of Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), on Tuesday in Abuja. Tunji-Ojo said the purpose of his visit is to seek synergy between his ministry and...