More than ₦1.23 trillion in naira, alongside hundreds of millions of dollars, pounds and euros, have been recovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC during the 34 months of Ola Olukoyede’s leadership. The figures tell a story of an anti-graft agency that says it has moved beyond chasing suspects and seizing assets to pursuing the money, taking cases to court and returning recovered value to those entitled to it. Olukoyede disclosed the figures on Monday, August 31, 2026, while giving an account of his stewardship as Executive Chairman of the EFCC. According to him, the Commission recovered ₦1,233,612,040,411.11…
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For millions of people around the world, daily life has become a struggle to balance rising pressures, strained relationships, uncertainty and the search for something that can provide hope. It is against this backdrop that the September 2026 Campaign is being launched by Jehovah’s Witnesses, with more than nine million members worldwide expected to take part in a global effort to offer neighbours a free, interactive Bible study programme. The campaign, titled: “Finding a Better Life in a Challenging World,” is built around a simple question: can practical lessons from the Bible help people cope with the challenges of everyday…
The Nigeria Police Force, Zone 2 Command, has flagged off a training for senior officers of the police, military and other security and paramilitary agencies on election security management, ahead of the 2027 general election. The event, themed: “Professionalism, Neutrality and Collaboration: Strengthening election security for safe and credible polls” was held at the Zone 2 Headquarters in Onikan, Lagos, in partnership with the Institute for Police and Security Policy Research, IPSPR. It adopted a train-the-trainer approach, with participants expected to cascade the knowledge gained to personnel who will be deployed for the election in their various commands. The Assistant…
The political road to Nigeria’s 2027 general elections took a significant turn on Monday as Nigeria opposition parties from six political platforms agreed to begin structured negotiations toward forming a joint coalition against the ruling government. The agreement emerged from the G100 first summit of party leaders held in Abuja, where representatives of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Allied Peoples Movement, APM, Nigerian Democratic Congress, NDC, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Peoples Redemption Party, PRP and Social Democratic Party, SDP, came together to discuss the possibility of presenting a stronger opposition front and resolved to address pressing national issues, including widespread…
The case involving human rights activists’ Comrade Hassan Taiwo alias Soweto and Comrade Dele Frank after their arrest outside the Lagos State House of Assembly on January 28, 2026 has been stalled again. Recall that the two men were arrested in connection with an anti-demolition protest by residents of Makoko, Otumara, Owode-Onirin, and other waterfront communities who had converged to express their grievances over demolitions. The police dispersed the protesters with tear gas and seized several items used during the demonstration. Among the seized properties were a Dell laptop, loudspeakers, generators, a channel mixer, wired and wireless microphones, a stabilizer…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP and the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE have urged the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, to “immediately reject and withdraw the Foreign Aids (Regulation, Transparency and Disclosure) Bill, 2026 (SB.1034), as the Bill is unnecessary, unlawful, unconstitutional and threatens civic space, media freedom and democratic participation in Nigeria.” The organisations said, “if enacted, the Bill would establish an extensive framework for governmental control over civil society organisations, independent media, religious organisations and other organisations and private entities receiving foreign assistance.” The Bill, sponsored…
Open Letter To Mr President: Start The Dance On Electricity. The Privatization Failed. The Owners Are Billing Darkness. Your Excellency, I write not to insult anybody. I write to end a national pretence. In April this year, our own regulator, NERC, published the figures. Of 13,625 megawatts of installed generation capacity, only 4,286 megawatts were available for dispatch. Thirty-one per cent. Ten plants out of twenty-eight produced eighty-one per cent of everything the country generated. Six days ago, on Saturday 22 August, the grid fell to 1,132 megawatts at half past eight in the evening, down from above 4,000 megawatts…
Legal expert and Managing Partner of Perchstone & Graeys, Dr. Tolu Aderemi, has issued a direct challenge to African leaders, the African Union, and the African Development Bank, arguing that decades of trade focused intervention in the continent’s most fragile states have failed to deliver the stability they promised, and that continued reliance on this approach will produce the same disappointing results. Speaking as keynote speaker at the Lady Justice Joyce Aluoch Moot Competition in Nairobi, jointly organised by United States International University Africa and Women in ADR Kenya, Dr. Aderemi delivered a pointed analysis of why trade alone has…
Leading diplomats and international law experts have reaffirmed Nigeria’s readiness to collaborate with foreign partners and investors in building an international legal order that promotes sustainable prosperity through inclusive and equitable trade and investments. The recommendation was made at the high-level opening ceremony of the inaugural Africa Policy Dialogue, held during the 82nd Biennial Conference of the International Law Association, ILA holding in Vienna, Austria. Since 1873, the Biennial ILA conferences have brought together leading international lawyers, diplomats, law academics, members of governments and international organisations every two years, in different jurisdictions. The inaugural Africa Policy Dialogue was convened this year by…
It started with a serious allegation at the recently held Nigerian Bar Association, NBA Conference in Port Harcourt. Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, VDM, accused some police officers manning checkpoints on major highways of allegedly passing information about travellers to kidnappers and bandits, claiming the information could be used to facilitate abductions for ransom. The allegation quickly attracted the attention of the Nigeria Police Force, which has now challenged VDM to provide evidence to support the claim. In a statement signed by the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Ani Iniedu, the Police said allegations of such magnitude could…