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The arraignment of the executive director of Aso Savings and Loans, Maimuna Aliyu, mother of Maryam Sanda, who was recently charged for murder, has been stalled following the absence of a judge. Our correspondent reported that judges of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court were absent on Tuesday to attend a training exercise. Mrs. Aliyu had been charged by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for allegedly selling off three plots of land - 2432, 2433, and 2434 - in Cadastral Zone, B08, Jahi District, Abuja, for N57m on behalf of Aso Savings and Loans without remitting the sum to the bank. Her arraignment has been rescheduled for Tuesday, December 5, before Justice M.A. Nasir at the FCT High Court in Jabi, where her daughter was docked last week for murder. Mrs. Aliyu’s daughter, Mrs. Sanda, made national headlines after being accused of killing her husband, Bilyamin Bello, the son of a former Peoples Democratic Party...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has told the court that Jones Udeogu, a former Director of Finance and Accounts at the Abia State Government House, once claimed that the state engaged the company of a former governor of the state, Orji Kalu, to import Okrika (second-hand clothes) from Cotonou, Benin Republic. According to EFCC investigator John Egem, the former director made the claim when he was confronted with documents showing movement of funds from the coffers of the Abia State Government House into the Inland Bank account of Mr. Kalu’s private company, Slok Nigeria Limited. He said that when Mr. Udeogu was asked to produce documents showing any contractual agreement between the Government House and Slok Nigeria Limited, he was unable to do so. Mr. Egem appeared on Tuesday as a prosecution witness before the Federal High Court in Lagos where Mr. Kalu, Mr. Udeogu and Slok Nigeria Limited are being tried for an alleged fraud of N2.9bn. The ...

Popular Nigerian cross-dresser, also known as the Nigerian male Barbie, Idris Okuneye aka Bobrisky, has said that his lover is a government official. Bobrisky unraveled the identity of his most talked about partner on Snapchat on Tuesday and hinted that his partner is over 50 years. The Nigerian Snapchat sensation also revealed that he prefers his partner, ”old rather than young.” “Both ex and present bae are over 50 years old; I like them old. Dating a government official is sweet but the trouble you face in it is hard. My bae has locked me up before,” he said. Since Bobrisky’s emergence on the Nigerian social scene a few years ago, the real identity of his lover, who is believed to finance his lavish lifestyle has been shrouded in secrecy. A big spender, Bobrisky is always quick to attribute his wealth to his lover, whom he fondly refers to as his bae (lover). A self-confessed homosexual, when he was arrested at his Lekki, Lagos home on November 10 and released a day...

Ismaila Chafe:  Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has warned that three ship loads of 120,000 metric tons of Thailand rice are to be smuggled into Nigeria. The ships are going to berth in one of the neighbouring countries, from where the rice would be smuggled into Nigeria, he said. “It is very clear that the rice is meant for Nigeria because they don’t consume parboiled rice in that country; they consume the white broken rice. “Our neighbours do excellent business with allowing rice to come into Nigeria.” The vice-president recalled that a similar thing happened last Christmas when Nigeria blocked about 500,000 metric tons of rice coming into the country from one of its neighbours. “Our neighbours do excellent business with allowing rice to come into Nigeria.” The smuggling of agricultural produce into Nigeria is an existential threat to the country’s agricultural sector, he said on Monday at the Sixth Presidential Business Forum held at the Banquet Hall of the Presid...

                                  Churchill Okonkwo Churchill Okonkwo    This is the confessions of a dangerous mind that lied, to tell the truth. Even though it is very dark where I am held against my wish, I saw IPOB shake and tremble, and then fall to pieces like a house of cards. By using IPOB to promote the divisive rhetoric of seductive but destructive whisper that is pushing Ndigbo to the false comfort zone of isolationism, I erred. I scratched the itching eye with the piece of wood meant for scratching an itching ear. In my arrogance, I never imagined that should the Nigerian security operatives make a determined effort to extinguish me, the human rocks I had piled as a barrier around my father’s house would come tumbling down. The invasion of my father’s house by murderous Nigerian security...

    The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, yesterday, said there was urgent need for the different regions in Nigeria to come together and agree on how to fix the country. Ekweremadu Ekweremadu, who spoke at the opening session of 2017 Annual Conference of the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators, ICMC, in Abuja, insisted that Nigeria, as presently constituted, is not working well. He faulted President Muhammadu Buhari for refusing to implement the 2014 National Conference Report, which he discribed as “most recent roadmap produced by every shade of opinion and group in the country.” He said it was unfortunate that several months after the Senate requested President Buhari to transmit the Confab Report to the National Assembly for legislative actions, nothing has happened. Ekweremadu said he was perturbed that Nigerians are now “dangerously split along ethnic, religious, and sectional lines”, decrying that “the gap is widening on a daily...