A former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Maurice Iwu, has urged a federal court in Lagos to transfer his N1.2 billion alleged fraud case to Abuja due to 'old age'. Ahmed Raji, counsel to Mr Iwu, on Thursday told Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Lagos Division of the…

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nasiru Danu, has written to the publisher of an online medium, Point Blank News, Jackson Ude, demanding for N4 billion over alleged defamation and publication of fake information which he said target to tarnish his image. In a letter of demand by…

Ghana’s Minister of Information, Kojo Nkrumah, will Tuesday, February 25, at the Accra Swiss Spirit Alisa Hotel give the keynote address at the country launch of Dubawa, the transnational fact-checking organisation, according to a statement by Caroline Anipah, country editor and programme lead for the Premium Times Centre Investigative Journalism…

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his administration will soon commence an aggressive campaign to rout Boko Haram. Mr Buhari said this while condemning a recent Boko Haram attack in Adamawa State. The Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria has caused over 30,000 deaths since 2009 and displaced millions of…

The Kaduna State Government has vowed to appeal the court ruling that freed 91 Shiites who had been detained for over four years. PREMIUM TIMES reported how a Kaduna State High Court on Friday discharged the Shiites whom the Kaduna government accused of "Criminal Conspiracy, Culpable Homicide, Unlawful Assembly, Disturbance…

A Kaduna State High Court has discharged and acquitted 91 members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN). The presiding judge, Hajaratu Gwada, acquitted the defendants of the charges filed against them by the state government in her judgement delivered on Friday, Channels TV reported. The freed members of the…

The Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, on Thursday, met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Mr Uzodinma was sworn in as governor last month after a ruling by the Supreme Court which sacked the former governor, Emeka Ihedioha. Mr Ihedioha, a member of the opposition Peoples…

President Muhammadu Buhari has named a new acting managing director for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The president named Kemebradikumo Pondei, a professor of medicine, as the new acting managing director. Mr Pondei replaces Joy Nunieh who was also acting in that capacity. According to a statement by his…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday re-arraigned six persons accused of N20 billion fraud in the Police Pension Scheme. In a statement signed by the EFCC spokesperson, Tony Orilade, on Tuesday, he said the accused were arraigned before Justice Hussein Yusuf of the Federal High Court, sitting…

A senior official working in the State House, Abuja, has been murdered. Laetitia Dagan, an Assistant Director of Administration in the State House, was murdered in her house on Monday night, an official said. Attah Esa, the Deputy Director Information in the State House, said 47-year Ms Dagan, from Plateau…

President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to double efforts to free Leah Sharibu, a schoolgirl who was kidnapped two years ago. Miss Sharibu and 109 other schoolgirls were kidnapped by the Boko Haram from the secondary school in Dapchi, Yobe State, on February 19, 2018. A total of 107 girls survived…

A High Court in Uyo, on Friday, sentenced Nwalozie Julius to three years imprisonment for impersonating the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. Justice Agatha Okeke said Mr Nwalozie's sentence is without an option of fine, according to a statement by the anti-graft agency, EFCC, on…

President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the latest round of attacks on farmers by bandits in Damkal and Tsanwa villages in Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State. At least 30 people were killed in the attacks on the two communities, the police said on Saturday. The president was quoted in…

The Kaduna State Police Command has confirmed that seven persons were killed and five others injured in Maro village, a border community between Kajuru and Kachia Local Government Area of the state. The Kaduna police spokesperson, Mohammed Jalige, gave the confirmation in a statement issued on Thursday in Kaduna. Mr…

The Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ) has announced a change in its leadership as Oluwatosin Alagbe assumes the role of programme director, following the departure of Joshua Olufemi, the former programme director of the organisation. Ms Alagbe, formerly the deputy programmes director, has assumed substantive leadership of the…

Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, has directed the immediate probe of suspended officials who were accused of contravening government’s directive on Treasury Single Account. The officials are the Vice Chancellor of the Kogi State University, Mohammed Abdulkadir; Rector of the Kogi State Polytechnic, Mohammed Atureta; Chief Medical Director Of Kogi…

Governors of the South-east geo-political zone, on Wednesday, endorsed the new community policing model of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), for effective security in the zone. Rising from the South East Geo-political Security Summit, initiated by the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Abubakar, the governors in a communiqué read…

Nigeria was one of the three major African countries targeted by hackers on dating apps in 2019, Kaspersky said in a report released on Wednesday. ...analysis has shown that within 2019 the region saw a circulation of 1,486 threats under the guise of over 20 popular dating applications in Africa,…

You may like Google. You may love Facebook. You may desire to build a company of phenomenal growth trajectories as GTB, Zenith or OPay but while you dream those lofty dreams you need to first acknowledge that high growth organizations are never products of accident. So how exactly is “High…

A robust cooperation between Nigeria and Ethiopia will provide a strong pillar for African integration, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. Mr Buhari noted that this would give concrete effect to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), a statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on media…

A magistrate in Ilorin, A.S Muhammed, has adjourned the case of defamation against two journalists, Gidado Yushau and Alfred Olufemi. Last year, the duo were arraigned by the police for criminal conspiracy and defamation over an instigative report against Hill Crest Agro-Allied, a company owned by Sarah Alade, an Economic…

A former attorney-general, Bello Adoke, has been freed from custody after he was granted bail by another federal judge in Abuja on Monday. The former AGF met with his lawyers at Mike Ozekhome Chambers in Abuja on Monday evening before heading home to his family, PREMIUM TIMES gathered. Aliyu Abubakar,…

In 2020 Shell will face unprecedented legal scrutiny over decades of human rights abuses in Nigeria, Amnesty International said on Monday, as the oil giant braces itself for conclusions in a string of European court battles. Allegations range from complicity in unlawful executions to systemic pollution and environmental damage in…

At least 34 unauthorised IDP camps exist within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), an overflow of the insurgency-propelled migration from battered communities in the North-east. This humanitarian crisis is on a scale that is insufficiently captured by the agencies charged with the responsibility of such capture. The Internally Displaced Persons…

The Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government has constituted a committee, headed by President Roch Kabore of Burkina Faso, to study and make a full report on Nigeria’s land border closure with her neighbours. The decision to set up the committee was agreed Sunday night in Addis Ababa,…