June 20, 2013

Ex-Lagos Deputy Governor Wanted For N130m Fraud – PM News, Lagos

By PM News, Lagos Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu, former deputy governor of Lagos state has been declared wanted by the Police Special Fraud Unit (SFU), in Lagos, over an alleged fraud [...]

Edwin Clark’s Group, Others Drag Orubebe Before EFCC

By SaharaReporters, New York The political troubles for Godsday Orubebe, Nigeria’s Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, appear to be intensifying as a coalition of groups loyal to Edwin Clark, a [...]

June 19, 2013

Thuraya Phones Banned In Maiduguri To Thwart Their Use In Attacks By Boko Haram

By SaharaReporters, New York In a move describe as an anti-terrorist measure, the Nigerian military today banned the use of Thuraya phones and their recharge cards in Borno State, hotbed [...]

Lebanese Suspects Re-arrested Over Hezbollah Arms -PM News, Lagos

By Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A criminal charge slammed against four Lebanese arrested in connection with an illegal arms cache discovered in Kano, Northern Nigeria, was on Wednesday struck out [...]

US Doctors Tell Gov. Suntai’s Family He Can’t Function As A Normal Person

By Saharareporters, New York Neurological doctors treating Governor Danbaba Suntai of Taraba State in the United States have told his family and the state government footing his medical bills the [...]

Nigeria:Drug Barons Devise Strategy To Evade Jail; 110 Accused Persons Jump Bail

By SaharaReporters, New York An investigation by SaharaReporters has revealed what one insider called an increasing boom in Nigeria’s hard drug business, with serious lapses in the prosecution of suspects. [...]

Agip Keeps Mum As Bayelsa Community Groans Over Effects Of Serious Gas Leak

By SaharaReporters, New York Some members of the Ogboibiri community in Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa have criticized the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) for what one of [...]

June 18, 2013

President Jonathan Reverses Decision To Fire PDP Chairman, Bamanga Tukur

By SaharaReporters, New York In a case of the hunter becoming the hunted, President Goodluck Jonathan has succumbed to pressure and backed off from getting rid of the chairman of [...]

Boko Haram Kill 9 Students, 13 Fishermen In Maiduguri – PREMIUM TIMES

By Ola Audu Residents of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, said suspected members of Boko Haram on Monday killed 22 persons in separate attacks. They said the terrorists were on [...]

Wake Up! CSNAC Urges Police Service Commission To Review Mounting Cases Of Extra-judicial Killings By Police

Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC) has called on the Police Service Commission (PSC) to undertake independent investigations of the mounting allegations of extra judicial killings against the police in [...]

NEMA Warns Southern Nigeria of Impending Heavy Rainfall

By SaharaReporters, New York The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has warned residents of the southern parts of the country to prepare for heavy and potentially-dangerous rainfall. read more Read [...]

Covenant University’s Former Vice-Chancellor Suspended For Examination Fraud

By SaharaReporters, New York Professor Aize Obayan, a former Vice Chancellor of Covenant University, Ota has been suspended from his position as director of the Education Commission of the Winners [...]

June 17, 2013

PDP To Fire Chairman Tukur And NWC Members

By SaharaReporters, New York On a day in which he ate his words and recalled a governor he suspended only days ago, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman Bamanga Tukur may [...]

N22billion Secret Government Largesse To 84 ‘Lucky’ Nigerians: HEDA Warns AMCON

By SaharaReporters, New York Human and Environmental Development Agenda [HEDA Resource Centre], has threatened to drag to court and to infamy the Assets Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON) over a [...]

Panicking PDP Chairman, Bamanga Tukur, ‘Recalls’ Wammako to PDP

By SaharaReporters, New York Less than one week after Governor Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State dismissed as a political prostitute the Peoples Democratic Party chairman (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, the [...]

Delta State: Auditor General Accused Of Falsifying Documents To Evade Retirement

By SaharaReporters, New York Several sources in Delta State told SaharaReporters that Ms. Brown Mary Njokanma, the auditor general for local governments, is causing tension in the civil service over [...]

Nigerian Security Operatives Briefly Detain Ukrainian Cargo Plane At Kano Airport

By SaharaReporters, New York There was temporary excitement on Saturday night at the Mallam Aminu International Airport (MAKIA) in Kano as security operatives impounded a Ukraiinian aircraft which was found [...]

June 16, 2013

How Ex-Nigerian Petroleum Minister, Dan Etete, Laundered Millions Of Dollars

By SaharaReporters, New York Former Minister of Petroleum Dan Etete laundered hundreds of millions of dollars he extorted from oil companies in a complex web that took investigators years to [...]

Ahead 2016: Dickson Recruits 10,000 Cultists

By SaharaReporters, New York Gov Seriake Henry Dickson of Bayelsa State on Saturday stunned the public and observers of political developments with the announcement of enlistment in a youth empowerment [...]

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