Britain’s High Court ruled on Thursday that oil major Royal Dutch Shell cannot be sued in London courts over Nigeria oil spill allegations.If the High Court had ruled in favor of the two groups, other claimants against British-based multinationals could […]

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday seized a property belonging to a former Assistant Director (Finance and Account), of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH), Mahmud Deji Sambo.Sambo is facing trial with Musti Bukar for allegedly […]

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday urged the Federal High Court in Lagos to order the forfeiture of N9.billion allegedly laundered for former Minister of Petroleum Resources Diezani Allison-Madueke.Mrs Alison-Madueke, who is in London, has denied any […]

This handout picture taken and released by the Senegalese presidency on January 20, 2017, shows a motorcade with a car bearing the Gambian flag entering the presidential palace in Souar. Regional leaders held 11th-hour talks with Gambia’s Yahya Jammeh to […]

Adama Barrow and Yahya Jammeh  The military operation was suspended to allow a final diplomatic push to convince Jammeh, who has ruled the former British colony since seizing power in a 1994 coup, to leave the country. “We have suspended […]

The Nigeria police yesterday raided the head office of an online medium, Premium Times in Abuja, and arrested the newspaper’s publisher, Dapo Olorunyomi, alongside the judiciary correspondent, Evelyn Okakwu.Plain-clothes officers conducted a search at the office shortly after 5:00p.m. yesterday […]

Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday agreed to hear the pending applications by former Minister of Aviation Chief Femi Fani-Kayode and former Minister of State for Finance, Senator Nenadi Usman.The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission […]