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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured an interim order to seize the $2.8million which its operatives recently intercepted at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu. The anti-graft agency has also retrieved documents on foreign transactions from the Enugu branch of Union Bank. Neither the bank nor the Bankers Warehouse has approached the EFCC to lay formal claim to the cash. Bankers Warehouse only allegedly wrote to an unnamed Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the cash. The Nation gathered that the EFCC secured the interim forfeiture order from a Federal High Court in Enugu on Friday. The commission filed the forfeiture application following the submission of an interim investigation report which indicated that there might be more to the movement of the cash. The EFCC said: “A vacation judge granted the interim forfeiture order following an application by our counsel, Anasoh Onyedikachi. The forfeiture will subsist till ...

Benue State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni Fatai Owoseni, a former Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, has joined nine other senior Police officers in retiring from the Nigerian Police Force after 35 years of service. Owoseni was Police Commissioner in Lagos from July 1, 2015 to September 1, 2017. According to NAN, the officers kicked off their retirement on Saturday at a colourful ceremony in Lagos, attended by family members, colleagues and other dignitaries. Peace Ibekwe Abdallah, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Force Criminal Intelligence Investigation Department (FCIID), who represented Ibrahim Idris, the Inspector General of Police, commended the officers for their service to the nation. “Congratulations to all the retiring senior officers and to their families, we say a big thank you for the support. As you bow out today, the IG, the entire Police and the nation say a big thank you. You have served well and God will reward you abundantly,” she said. Tunji Alapi...

NACA's logo, erected at its office in Abuja The companies’ address at 169 Ademola Adetokunbo Crescent, Wuse 2, Abuja was a residential apartment now being converted to a plaza John Idoko, former Director General of NACA between 2009 and 2016 Office building of Benue State Agency for the Control of AIDS in Makurdi NACA's logo, erected at its office in Abuja The ICIR Hundreds of millions of naira released for HIV campaigns, counselling and testing services may have ended in private pockets of contractors and government officials, as companies were specifically registered to siphon funds meant to save the lives of the infected.  Brazenly stolen money In October of 2015, National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) awarded 38 contracts to 23 firms at the cost of N1.2 billion. Their shared responsibilities were to conduct HIV counselling, testing and demand creation for HIV services in 26 out of Nigeria’s 36 states. That year, NACA broke its own fiscal record as its capital budge...

Emmanuel Tsamdu, Deputy Speaker of Adamawa State House of Assembly, has just been impeached, SaharaReporters can report. In a rare sitting on Saturday, the Assembly also sacked the Majority Leader, Hassan Mamman Barguma (Hong Constituency); Deputy Majority Leader, Abubakar Isa (Shelleng Constituency); and Deputy Chief Whip, Abdullahi Nyapak (Verre Constituency). Consequently, Lumsabani Dilli (Demsa Constituency) is now the Deputy Speaker, while Hayatu Mohammed Atiku (Uba-Gaya) was elected Majority Leader to replace his kinsman from Hong. Others elected as principal officers are Safiyanu Aminu Aliyu (Song Constituency) as Deputy Chief Whip and Sani Shehu (Mubi North Constituency) as Deputy Majority Leader. However, embattled Tsamdu has rejected his impeachment, saying "13 people cannot impeach me". The Adamawa Assembly is made up of 25 members, meaning those who carried out the impechment were not up to two-thirds the assembly. Politics Breaking News News AddThis :  Featur...

The late Shehu Shagari, leaving the National Hospital, Abuja. The body of Shehu Shagari, a former Nigerian President, has arrived Sokoto. Shagari passed on on Friday evening at the National Hospital in Abuja. See Also Breaking News BREAKING: Former President Shehu Shagari Dies At 93 0 Comments 22 Hours Ago He was 93 years old at the time of his death. The late Shehu Shagari, leaving the National Hospital, Abuja.      His body arrived Sokoto from the National Hospital, Abuja, on Saturday and was received by Aminu Tambuwal, Governor of Sokoto State. The funeral prayer for his burial in Shagari town, Sokoto, is currently ongoing. Politics News OBITUARY AddThis :  Featured Image :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  source http://saharareporters.com/2018/12/29/photos-shehu-shagaris-body-leaves-national-hospital-abuja-sokoto

As the hide-and-seek game between Dino Melaye, the senator representing Kogi Central District in the National Assembly, and the Nigerian Police Force continues at his residence in Abuja, SaharaReporters can authoritatively report that the power supply to the lawmaker's house has been cut off by the security operatives, who have been keeping vigil at the house. The Police had invaded Melaye's house on Friday, over allegations he was culpable in the shooting of a police officer in July 2018. See Also Police JUST IN: Melaye Refuses To Come Out As Police Invade His House In Abuja 0 Comments 1 Day Ago The Police had also insisted that its officers would wait at the house until the lawmaker surrenders himself. See Also CRIME We'll Continue Waiting At Melaye's House Until He Surrenders Himself, Say Police 0 Comments 21 Hours Ago According to a source, policemen have disconnected the building from the national grid with the view to rendering the home inhabitable. ...

The National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Chief Olu Falae, yesterday, told Prof. Jerry Gana that it would amount to contempt of court for him to attend his (Gana’s) presidential campaign launch and stakeholders’ summit. Chief Falae, in a statement he personally signed, confirmed that he received a letter dated December 27, 2018, from Prof. Gana seeking “leave of the national chairman” to “unveil the vision and programme” of his presidential campaign and inviting him as “chief host” at both the unveiling on Saturday, December 29, 2018, and at the “summit of stakeholders” which he was planning for Saturday, January 5, 2019. The statement read, “Earlier correspondence from Prof. Gana makes it clear that he is basing these proposals on the judgement of the FCT High Court dated 14th December, 2018.” Falae said since all the relevant processes had been served on Prof. Gana’s counsel, the party could not and should not attend any of the events being scheduled by Prof. Gana...