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Share For the fourth consecutive time, the embattled chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, on Wednesday failed to show up before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) for his trial on an alleged N738.6 million contract scam. Maina was arraigned before Justice Abubakar Kutigi, sitting at Gwagwalada, Abuja, on November 21, 2019, alongside his secretary, Ann Olachi, on a nine-count charge bordering on contact racketeering and stealing to the tune of N738.6m by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The commission alleged that the emba...

The former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, has pleaded for another bail at the Federal High Court, Abuja, |

High-profile corruption cases to watch out for in 2021 Published 7 January 2021 Some politicians facing corruption charges will begin their prosecutions afresh in 2021 having had their convictions overturned in 2020. DAYO OJERINDE writes The senator representing Abia North, Orji Kalu, and a former spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, are some of the high-profile politicians who had their convictions overturned in 2020. Kalu, who is the current Senate chief whip of the senate was convicted on December 5, 2019, and sentenced to 12 years in prison for allegedly stealing N7....

The year 2020 did not end without some trending photos that set the Internet on fire and got many Nigerians talking about them. Frontline activist and co-convener of #BringBackOurGirls movement, Aisha Yesufu’s power salute photo during the #EndSARS protests in October tore the Internet and at the last count, had garnered over five million retweets on Twitter. Coming in close at second was the photograph of President Muhammadu Buhari visiting his farm in Daura, Katsina State, where he inspected how his cows were doing in the wake of the abduction of 344 schoolboys from the Government Science...

Twenty-six months after killing her husband, Maryam Sanda was sentenced to death by hanging. The most discussed issue of the month was the decision of the Supreme Court led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, to sack Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and to declare Senator Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who came a distant fourth during the governorship poll as the Governor of Imo State. The Federal Government declared the Western Nigeria Security Network codenamed Operation Amotekun launched by the six states of the South...