The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday said that every former governor and indeed any individual with corruption cases will face the anti-graft agency’s investigation. The commission’s zonal commander, ACE Aliyu Yunusa stated this at the opening of a one-day EFCC Civil Society Organisations engagement organised in Sokoto. According to Yunusa, no one…
NEPWHAN, in Gombe State, on Thursday, announced the demise of four of its members had died for allegedly using herbal HIV treatment. The Programme Officer of the association, Mr Muhammad Ibrahim shared the information in Gombe at an event to commemorate the 2023 World AIDS Day. Ibrahim said the increase of the use of herbal…
The “upsurge” in respiratory illness in China is not from “a new or novel pathogen,” the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reassured members of Congress on Thursday. The surge is concentrated in northern China, she said, where NBC News has reported hospitals have appeared to be “overwhelmed with sick children.” Since…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has discontinued its money laundering case against a former Lagos State Attorney-General, Olasupo Shasore. The EFCC withdrew the 14-count charge it filed against Shasore and his firm, Middlesex Investments Limited, before an Abuja Federal High Court on Thursday. According to EFCC counsel, Bala Sanga, the discontinuation follows a directive…
ISSUES There is an increasing consensus that the American form of liberal democracy that we currently practice in the country is not quite working for us. As far back as 2011, then President Goodluck Jonathan proposed a single tenure of six years for presidents and governors in the country, beginning from 2015. Suspicions over his…
Abia State Coordinator of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), Mrs Ufuoma Dick-Iruenabere, has decried the increasing rate of demands for relocation to other states by Corps members deployed to Abia. Dick-Iruenabere raised the concerns at the NYSC permanent orientation camp, Umunna, Bende LGA of the state, during the swearing-in ceremony of the Batch C…
Abia State Governor, Alex Otti has sworn in Mayors and their deputies for the 27 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the State. The governor charged the officials to serve and secure their communities. Otti, who gave the charge at Michael Okpara auditorium, Umuahia, during the swearing-in ceremony of the 34 appointees, said that the first…
Abia State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has inaugurated a 5-man committee tasked with tackling unethical behaviours among Journalists in the Council. The committee, which is headed by former Chairman of Corespondent Chapel, Emmanuel Ugwu and Nkechi Nnaemeka Isaac of the BCA chapel as Secretary, was mandated to go after any Journalist who…
Three people have been shot dead in Jerusalem after two attackers who Hamas says are their members reportedly opened fire at a bus stop. The attack left at least six others injured – some of them critically The gunmen were shot dead by police The attack comes a day after two Palestinian boys, 8 and…
Chairman of Abia State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on the recovery of government properties and funds, Justice Florence Duroha-Igwe (Rtd) has expressed displeasure over the attitude of some security agencies. Justice Duroha-Igwe, who stated this during the panel proceedings in Umuahia, said that she issued a bench warrant on Director of Finance, Abia State Housing…
