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$11 bn award: Danjuma’s Tita-Kuru tackles P&ID over project design
A local firm, Tita-Kuru Petrochemicals Limited associated with General Theophilus Danjuma has surfaced to be part of the deal in which Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) is taking pound of flesh from Nigeria over a botched gas monetization contract. According…
Court affirms Senator Bassey Otu Cross River APC guber candidate
From ANIEKAN ANIEKAN, Calabar The federal high court sitting in Calabar has affirmed the nomination of Senator Bassey Otu as the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial flag bearer in Cross River State. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu in her over 90 minutes…
Diezani: EFCC secures order to seize houses, cars
A Nigerian court has ordered a final seizure of two properties and cars owned by former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke, the country’s economic crimes commission said on Monday, in the latest ruling related to graft allegations against her. Diezani was…
Kanu wins more court orders for his freedom __Ozokhome
Leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has secured confirmation of his acquittal from the terrorism charges pressed against him by the Federal Government of Nigeria. According to reports quoting a member of the legal team,…
South East leaders demand Kanu’s immediate release
Say Appeal Court ruling is path to peace From BONIFACE OKORO, Umuahia A joint body of traditional rulers and religious leaders in the South East has joined in the call for immediate release of the detained leader of Indigenous People…
Nnamdi Kanu’s discharge: Buhari’s men threaten legal war
Sopuruchi Onwuka The decision of the Court of Appeal on Thursday that the trial court lacks jurisdiction to hear terrorism case against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu because of his unlawful extradition from Kenya is a major progress for the leader of…
Court thrashes FG’s amended charges against MNK, allows open trial
Sopuruchi Onwuka Federal High Court in Abuja has agreed that government might be exploiting court processes to extend the detention of leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. It also thrashed new ammeded charges in order…
NCDMB dismisses pejury allegation against Wabote as charade
Sopuruchi Onwuka The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board has dismissed allegations of perjury against its Executive Secretary, Engr Simbi Wabote, as disingenuous and diversionary tactic to stampede into dropping his suit challenging allegations that he operates a foreign account….
Defamation: Oil industry group demands justice for Wabote
Sopuruchi Onwuka An association of indigenous petroleum players in the country have risen in support of the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr Simbi Wabote, in his demand for justice over defamatory publication by…
Interpol tests resilience of American drug cartels
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports Recent successes in bursting powerful and dreadful drug trafficking rings in South America appears to signal a new verve in the concerted efforts of northern American and European countries to block the notorious Mexican narcotic…
