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A former official of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Christian Nwosu, has told a Lagos Federal High Court how operatives of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, coerced him into agreeing to have benefited the sum of N30m from former Petroleum Minister, Dieziani Alison-Madueke.

An Ado-Ekiti High Court, on Friday, sentenced one Kolawole Oluwasola to death by hanging for armed robbery and murder.

A Magistrate with Kogi judiciary, Mr Sam Unwuchola, has been kidnapped on Ajaokuta-Lokoja road. Our correspondent gathered that the magistrate was kidnapped at Jimgbe, near Salem University, at about 7 p.m on Thursday. According to an authoritative source in the state judiciary, the gunmen shot and wounded the magistrate’s friend whose name was yet to be known, saying that the friend had been admitted at an undisclosed medical facility in Lokoja. The source also said that the victims ran into the hoodlums who opened fire on them thereby forcing them to stop, adding that the kidnappers had demanded N100 million ransom from the wife of the magistrate. When contacted, the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Ali Janga, said the police had commenced investigation into the matter. NAN reports that Unwuchola, a 2002 Law graduate of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma in Edo, is the President, Upper Area Court, Onyedega in Ibaji Local Government Area of the state. The battle...

The Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, on Friday, met with President Muhammadu Buhari, behind closed doors in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Two men, Samuel Oyeniyi, 30, and Friday Utu, 27, were on Friday at an Ikeja High Court in Lagos, sentenced to 14 years imprisonment each for attempted armed robbery.

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Central Bank of Nigeria governor , Mr Godwin Emefiele,  has explained how President Muhammadu Buhari’s  promise to provide 360,000 jobs for youths nationwide,  will be actualised.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday  met with a delegation of the justices of the Supreme Court, where he made case that a new approach be applied to hasten the decongestion of prisons in Nigeria.

President Buhari at FEC Meeting A Kaduna Senator, Shehu Sani, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to step down from the position of a petroleum minister.