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Hundreds of oil and gas companies, many of them hurriedly assembled, may have terribly bent federal rules to claim illicit trillions of naira of fuel subsidy money that nearly forced the Nigerian economy on its knees. As the ongoing House of Representatives investigation of the subsidy management regime has shown, many of the companies got paid round tripping, importing less-than-agreed ...

The Oodua Liberation Movement (OLM), a Yoruba pressure group, on Tuesday said Boko Haram has no ideology, adding that it is the creation of the northern elites and merely driven by the lust for power of the hegemonic northern elite. The group said this after the extremist Boko Haram sect recently sent a message to the Federal Government asking for ...

In the wake of the threat by the extremist Boko Haram sect to kill Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, a Yoruba socio-political group, The Oodua Liberation Movement, (OLM) has on Tuesday said that any attack by the group on him would spell doom for Nigeria. The group stated this in a statement entitled, Boko Haram threat against Soyinka: We shall ...

Following various jail breaks in which three quarters of core prisoners escaped from prison custody, the Federal Government has sacked 50 officers of the Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS) from 2007 till date. Speaking in Abuja on Tuesday during an interactive session with top officers and zonal coordinators of prison formations, the new Controller-General of the NPS, Alhaji Zakari Ohinoyi Ibrahim, ...