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Mugabe,Coup Chief Meet with Smiles and Handshakes

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A smiling President Robert Mugabe was pictured shaking hands with Zimbabwe’s military chief a day after the army seized power, throwing confusion over predictions that the 93-year-old’s nearly four-decade rule had come to an end. Mugabe unexpectedly drove from his lavish “Blue Roof” Harare compound in Harare, where he had been confined since troops took to the streets, to State House, where official media pictured him meeting military chief Constantino Chiwenga and South African ministers sent to mediate the crisis. The official Herald newspaper carried no reports of the outcome…

Promoting Transparency And Accountability In The Recovery Of Stolen Assets In Nigeria: Proposals For Reform By Femi Falana

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Introduction: Upon the inauguration of the Mohammadu Buhari administration the governments of the United States, United Kingdom, and Switzerland assured the federal government that stolen funds and assets stolen from Nigeria would be repatriated. Not only have these countries refused to cooperate with Nigeria they have also frustrated the efforts of the federal government to recover and repatriate such tainted funds and assets. In a display of sheer arrogance and hypocrisy in June last year the then British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron described Nigeria as “a fantastically corrupt country”.…

Autopsies Of 26 Dead Nigerian Girls Revealed, 2 Pregnant

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Autopsies on the bodies of 26 teenage Nigerian girls found dead in the Mediterranean in early November has been confirmed that they drowned at sea by Italian news agencies. The victims’ bodies were found floating in the water by a Spanish military ship and brought to Italy on November 3 after two separate rescue operations. According to the autopsy report carried out in Salerno, Italy, 25 of the girls died from asphyxiation in the water, while one girl suffered a wound to her liver. Two out of the 26 women…

N112m Scam: EFCC Commences Trial of Delta INEC Official

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Justice E.O Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Asaba, Delta State on Thursday, 16 November, commenced hearing of a matter involving a former official of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Fidelia Omoile, who is facing trial on a one- count charge bordering on bribery to the tune of N112, 480, 000.00 (One Hundred and Twelve Million, Four Hundred and Eighty Thousand Naira only). Omoile was a former INEC official in the Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State during 2015 general elections. She is among scores…

ICPC Arrests Former Nigerian Judge For Alleged N220m Scam

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The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, said it has arrested a former Kano State High Court Judge, Kabiru Auta, for an alleged N220 million fraud. The spokesperson of the commission, Rasheedat Okoduwa, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. Mr. Okoduwa said the suspect was detained on Tuesday when he honoured an invitation by the commission over allegations of criminal conspiracy, cheating and forgery. Mr. Auta, according to her, allegedly conspired with some other persons to defraud a Kano businessman named Bashir Yakasai of N220 million.…

Google Doodle Honours Chinua Achebe

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Google has resolved to change its logo to a doodle in honor of the late Chinua Achebe, who is considered to be one of Africa’s greatest storyteller. He would have been 87 on Thursday. Born in Ogidi to an Igbo family of Nigeria, West Africa in 1930, Achebe was the son of an evangelical priest. In love with reading and writing, he completed English studies at the University of Ibadan in just four years instead of five, which was the standard. Achebe was disappointed in the European interpretation of African…

NATIONAL SECURITY: FG TO BUILD NAVAL BASE IN NIGER

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Gov Sani Bello

The Federal Government has resolved to build a naval base for the Nigerian Navy in Shagamu, Borgu Local Government area of Niger State by 2019. The Minister of Defence, Brigadier General Monsur Dan Ali (rtd) disclosed this to newsmen in his office in Abuja after a closed door meeting with the Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani-Bello. The minister said plans for the building of the naval base have reached advance stage, alluding the progress made on the project to the determination of Governor Sani-Bello , whom he said initiated…

RECESSION HAS IMPROVED SERVICE DELIVERY – Aliyu Ilias

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Ilias Aliu

The Chief Executive Director, Customer Service Award Ltd (CSAL),Dr Aliyu Ilias has said that one of the gains of recession was improved service delivery from both public and private sector. Ilias said this at the just concluded 2017 Customer Experience Management Conference in Abuja. He said that the recession had caused improved customers service delivery as a result of competitions from service providers both public and private sector. He said that the recession had made money to be scare and people had to prioritize their needs hence the competition by service…

Stakeholders Call For Policy, Infrastructure for Creative Industry

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L-R: Victor Ehikhamenor; Former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke; Tayo Amusan; Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen with other panelists at the Creative Industryg Session of the Alaghodaro Investment Summit in Benin City, on Saturday, November 11, 2017

Stakeholders in the nation’s creative industry on Saturday called on the Edo State Government to invest in theatres, incubation centers for creative people and put in place the right policies to drive her prestigious art and craft sector.Leading discussions during the session on “Edo Creative Industry” at the Alaghodaro Investment Summit in Benin City, former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, commended Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, for creating a separate session for the creative industry, in his effort to rebrand the sector in the state.“I congratulate the…

Welcoming The ‘Boss’ On Board

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Mariam Mohammed – Let me begin with an unreserved apology. After my last piece I took some kind of ‘French’ leave at the expense of you, my esteemed readers. It is my slightest doubt that my inability to feature in subsequent editions of this column may have in a way robbed off on my readers. Evidently, some of you like my good friend and professional colleague, Aliu Akoshile, called and whimsically inquired if my ink had gone dry. Far from it! The unavoidable break was actually not intended and while…