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Kogi State APC Chairman, Alhaji Hadi Ametuo, has assured Kogi people that his party’s candidate in the forthcoming governorship poll, Prince Audu Abubakar, would return the over N11 billion he allegedly stole while in office. Audu is being prosecuted by the anti-graft agency, EFCC, for misappropriating N11 billion of the states’s funds while he was governor between 1999 and 2003. Responding to the questions from the media regarding Audu’s 11billion naira EFCC case, he said “Nobody is a saint. No governor can claim he has not done any malpractice or stolen anything during his time in the office. “We heard of Saraki’s case, even Tinubu is being accused of stealing funds but the truth is that Prince Abubakar Audu has pledged to return the money to the Kogi treasury when he gets elected on the November 21st, yes he will return the 11billion naira or even more than that and that will add to the Kogi economy”. Ametuo, who rated Audu’s first term in the office more t...

See Faces Of Boko Haram Members Behind Abuja Explosions Following last Friday’s multiple suicide bombings in Nyanya and Kuje areas of Abuja, which left 18 people dead and 45 injured, Boko Haram militants, claiming loyalty to Islamic State (Isis), in a statement, yesterday on Twitter, said they were behind the bombings. Recall that sometime in March 2015, Boko Haram renamed itself Islamic State’s West Africa Province (Iswap). The leader of Isis, a militant group that controls parts of Syria and Iraq, however accepted the pledge of allegiance from Boko Haram, in May 2015. Eventhough, the authenticity of the statement, which issued under the name Iswap, could not be verified, the group released the photos of three male suicide bombers who it said were behind Friday’s deadly attacks.

Mixed reactions have trailed the proposal by the national assembly to grant immunity to its presiding officers with many Nigerians describing the move as unnecessary and Ill timed. The minority leader of the House of Representatives Hon. Leo Ogor was quoted as saying that the national assembly was proposing to amend the constitution to grant immunity to the presiding officers as well as the head of the judiciary as enjoy ed by the president t and his vice and governors and their deputy. But speaking with Vanguard in Abuja, respondents said the move was not borne out of altruism. According to a lawyer, Barrister Manasseh Ejiofor, the proposal was uncalled for and smacks “legislative rascalism” “Why are they bringing up the issue of immunity now? Whose interest are they serving? There are so many issues for the national assembly to address the least of which is the issue of immunity for its presiding officers. They should concentrate on making laws for the benefit ...

Following last Friday’s arrest and conditional bail of Nigeria’s former Petroleum Minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, and four other suspects, the British National Crime Agency ordered them to report today (Monday) at the Charing Cross Police Station. Journalists, early on Monday morning, stormed the Charing Cross Police Station, London, to await the arrival of the former minister who is b eing investigated over alleged money laundering case and bribery. Broadcaster and activist, Kayode Ogundamisi, in a series of tweets via his Twitter handle, @ogundamisi shared photos from the Charing Cross Police Station, as well as photos of court 10 at the Westminster Magistrate Court, London, where the ex-minister is purportedly to be charged. Ogundamisi, said: “Only three cases listed for court 10 at the Westminster Magistrate Court. Diezani Alison-Madueke is not listed. Officials at West Minster Magistrate Court said they have not seen the former Petroleum Minister, D...