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Nigeria: 300 Trafficked Children Rescued in Kogi State It  saddens me to see stories like these in the news. Poverty has no pity on children, slaves in their own generation,  what leaders would they become later in life? Recently, In Lokoja — More than 300 children from Benue State have been rescued from human traffickers by the Quick Response Group Team (QRP) of Nigeria Army along Itobe-Ajaokuta and Okene road. P arading th e children in Lokoja at the Weekend, Major General Alphonsus Chukwu told journalists that the vehicles transporting the children was intercepted along Itope - Ajaokuta - Lagos road by the Quick Response Group (QRG) of his command during a stop and search operation. He  said the children, who are between ages 3,10 and 15, and both male and female were heading to Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Ondo and Ekiti for holiday jobs, saying that they were however not coherent in their explanations. Ma jor General Alphonsus said it was shocking when buses...

Arsenal players, Bacary Sagna, Lucas Podolski and Per Meterserker are in Nigeria to meet with some of their fans. Kaffy dancer/fitness instructor taught them the azonto dance during workout with Malta Guinness low sugar consumers at the Eko Hotel Lagos yesterday. Beautiful pix right?lol

Abacha family loses bid to recover $800m loot from FG Abba Abacha, son of late military Head of State, General Sani Abacha The family and 19 close associates of the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, have lost their bid to recover $800 million seized by the Federal Government. The fund, allegedly looted by Abacha’s family, was recovered by the General Abdulsalami Abubakar – led government. The family and 19 companies owned by the family had gone to the appellate court seeking to upturn the decision of the Federal High Court Abuja, which dismissed their suit, challenging the constitutionality of the letters written by the Federal Government to governments of some foreign countries. Justice Suleiman Galadima, who delivered the lead judgment recently at the Supreme Court, threw out the appeal saying it is incompetent and lacking in merit. The money was recovered by the government from Muhammed Sani Abacha and nineteen (19) other companies between 199...

Share Page Like Fan Page Connect via Meebo <img src="https://d5nxst8fruw4z.cloudfront.net/atrk.gif?account=NF32g1aYS500W5" style="display:none" height="1" width="1" alt="" /> I didn’t love my husband at first- Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde Anytime Nollywood actress, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde speaks about her husband, her face lights up in a smile. And then, no question about the sort of relationship they both share is complete without the shapely actress saying, “If I had not married him, I would not have married anyone else.” And this is quite understandable, as their union of 16 years has weathered the storm and is one of the few in the industry that is scandal free. Surprisingly, the actress says scandals are expected when an individual is famous. As such, they add up in making her life story more interesting. She adds that she is not bothered because her husband is very understa...

ACN condemns First Lady’s, Yar’Adua’s wife’s land tussle The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN)has described the legal tussle between the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan and her predecessor, Hajiya Turai Yar’Adua over a plot of land in the Federal Capital territory as a study in despicable sycophancy, insider abuse, arbitrariness and manifestation of the culture of impunity. In a statement issued in Lagos yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary,  Alhaji. Lai Mohammed, the party said in more decent climes the scandal would have seen the immediate exit of the Federal Capital Territory Senator Bala Mohammed from the cabinet and severely affected the political fortunes of President Goodluck Jonathan. The party said while it is not holding brief for Hajiya Turai Yar’Adua, it is clear from  the court records that the disputed land was first duly allocated to her non-governmental organisation: Women and Youth Empowerment Foundation by the Minister for the F...

Alleged N13b fraud: Ali’s, Tukur’s sons face trial Nasamu Ali and Mahmud Tukur Court orders EFCC to seize suspects’ travel passports TWO children of ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chiefs were arraigned yesterday in Lagos for alleged fuel subsidy fraud. Arraigned before the Lagos High Court, Ikeja Division were Mahmud Tukur, son of PDP National Chairman Bamanga Tukur, Nasamu Ali, son of the party’s former National Chairman, Alhaji Ahmadu Ali and others, including Christian Taylor, a foreigner. But Abdullahi Arisekola, son of Ibadan frontline businessman Alhaji AbdulAzeez Arisekola-Alao, arraigned for two sets of charges before two judges, was remanded in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) till Wednesday when h...

Oteh: Jonathan demands fresh status report from finance minister Ms Arunma Oteh President Goodluck Jonathan may have demanded a fresh comprehensive status report from the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Ms Arunma Oteh. The President has also got security report on how PricewaterhouseCoopers audited Oteh’s tenure, The Nation learnt. The report of the audit firm led to Oteh’s reinstatement  as the DG of SEC. Following protests by SEC employees and the House of Representatives on Oteh’s reinstatement, the President asked for an independent opinion on the challenges in the commission. It was learnt that the security report was at variance with the report of Pr...

Subsidy scandal: Our stand on Tukur’s, Ali’s sons, by PDP Dr. Sam Sam Jaja The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has opened up on the party’s position on the sons of two of the party’s bigwigs undergoing trial for their alleged involvement in the fuel subsidy scandal.  Mahmud, son of the national chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and Mamman Nasir, son of a former national chairman of the party, Dr. Ahmadu Ali are among the 20 suspects standing trial for alleged fuel subsidy fraud. At a news conference yesterday, Deputy National chairman of the PDP Dr. Sam Sam  Jaja declared that the involvement of Mahmud and Mamman Nasir in the scandal is not the business of the PDP and that the party would leave them to bear their cross. Jaja pleaded that members of the public should stop linking Tukur and Ali, fathers of the two suspects to the scandal, stressing that the ...

female pedestrian was crushed to death on Thursday morning by a container that fell from a moving trailer, at the Berger area of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway . The trailer was heading out of Lagos around 7a.m when it lost one of its tyres, making the driver to lose control of the truck. As he struggled to regain control of the truck, it tipped over to its right side. As the truck fell, it landed on the woman, who was walking beside the road, in search of a commercial bus to her destination. The unnamed woman died instantly while a gridlock formed on the outbound Lagos side of the busy expressway for hours. Traffic officials are currently at the scene trying to lift the truck and its container with a crane back on the trailer’s tyres.

Arraignment of subsidy fraud suspects begins A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja on Thursday arraigned one of the oil subsidy fraud suspects, Abdulai Alao, who is the son of Arisekola-Alao, an Ibadan politician. Mr Alao was arraigned along with his company Axenergy by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a 7 count of fraud. The EFCC alleged that the suspect obtained the sum of two billion, six hundred and forty million naira (N2, 640, 000.00) being payments received from the Petroleum Support Fund for the purported importation of 33.3million litres of Premium Motor Spirit. Counsel to the EFCC, Rotimi Jacobs proceeded with the arraignment after apologising to the court for the absence of the attorney general and Minister of justice, Mohammed Adoke Bello who failed to show up again after citing “pressing state matters” requiring his attention. Meanwhile, Muhammad Tukur son of Bamanga Tukur the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairman, is still in court w...

Nigeria: Jonathan Vows to Clampdown On Oil Thieves ·            ·            ·            President Goodluck Jonathan has vowed to intensify the Federal Government's efforts to stamp out crude oil theft in the Niger Delta region, promising to deal decisively with anyone caught in the criminal activity. The president, who spoke at a presidential retreat on the maritime sector with the theme, 'Harnessing the Potential of Nigeria's Maritime Sector for Sustainable Economic Development', at the Presidential Villa in Abuja yesterday, said that the rising incidents of illegal oil bunkering had decelerated economic development and was causing embarrassment to the nation in the eyes of the global community. Jonathan's threat came in the wake of revelations that the country loses over N2 trillion annually to foreign countries through capital flight, ...