February 25, 2021

Prof Itse Sagay who is the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) has warned that the fight against corruption would suffer a set back if the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, is allowed to exert undue influence on the activities of the newly confirmed chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa.

According to Prof Sagay, Malami commands too much influence that must be put in check for anti-corruption agencies to function independently.

Recall that Bawa was confirmed as substantive chairman of the EFCC by the …

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, yesterday, told his Edo State counterpart, Godwin Obaseki, that he would do everything possible to woo him back to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Recall that on the road to the 2020 governorship election in Edo, Obaseki. Governor Obaseki defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from APC. Although his defection followed his disqualification by the APC screening committee over issues relating to his certificate.

Obaseki defeated the candidate of the APC, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, at that governorship election. This weakened the influence of his predecessor and political foe, Adams Oshiomhole, the erstwhile National …

Despite rumors of his defection to the ruling all progressives congress (APC), former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode on Thursday came out to pledge his readiness to continue to advance the cause of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, stating that leaving the PDP was never an option.

The ex-Minister stated this on Thursday in his Abuja residence when members of the PDP National Working Committee,  NWC, led by Prince Uche Secondus paid him a solidarity visit ‘We had a very extensive and fruitful meeting and I want to state here and now that, whatever issues there may have been, …

Nigeria’s minister of finance on Thursday insisted that the country will continue to source for external loans to execute infrastructural projects across the country.

This assertion was made by the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, during a press briefing at the State House, Abuja, while trying to justify the need for government to continue to borrow to provide basic infrastructural facilities, she said; ‘If we say we will not borrow and therefore not build rails and major infrastructure until our revenue rises enough, then, we will regress as a country, we will be left behind, …