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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC)  on Monday quizzed a former Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati over alleged N50million remitted to him by the Office of the National Security Adviser( ONSA) under ex-NSA Sambo Dasuki. The cash was said to be part of the $2.1 billion arms funds being traced by the anti-graft commission. According to a source, who spoke in confidence, Abati was invited by the EFCC to come and explain what informed the allocation of the N50million since his office was on monthly imprest.

​ Does he have immunity? Is he not a Nigerian?Everybody is equal before the law. He should be questioned. Many leaders in Africa have gone to jail for corruption. We should avail ourselves the opportunity to combat corruption by showing people they won’t get off scot-free when they leave office having plundered the state.There is nothing political about it. If I steal money, won’t I be investigated? Won’t the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission invite me? Is that political? Why should politicians be provided with a life-long immunity from being probed? If he (Jonathan) is probed, some people will say the past president’s can of worm is opened. That is the problem we have in this country. We must make it clear to everyone that no one is above the law. At some point, you must be held accountable for your stewardship. I don’t think quizzing Jonathan has anything to do with politics. It is about cleaning the system and enforcing our laws.We have outsourced our criminal prosecutionto o...

​ Fast rising Nollywood actress, Genny Uzoma,has said being wooed by a colleague, directoror producer does not translate to being sexually harassed.In a recent chat, The Husbands of Lagos actress admitted to have been wooed by a filmmaker but said she had never been harassed.“Wooed by a filmmaker? Ok, let’s put it this way, wooing is by no means sexual harassment, so I guess it’s safe to say yes, I’ve been wooed by several filmmakers,” she said.When asked for her take on filmmakers preaching dignity and talent for roles but practise sex for roles behind closed doors, Genny stylishly evaded the question.“Well, stuff like that happen but I can’t comment further on that. ..I plead the fifth,” she said.Queried if her beauty or her talent had helped her this far, she simply said she is very confident of her talent though she can’t take away the fact that she is beautiful.“I’m a hundred and one per cent confident of my talents, The raw talent is definitely there, I also nurture and build it ...

​ DangoteAkinpelu Dada and  Samuel AwoyinfaThe current recession rocking the Nigerian economy has hit one of the biggest employers of labour in the country outside of the government as the Dangote Group, belonging to Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has fired 48 members of staff.Our correspondents gathered that those sacked were made up of 36 expatriate and 12Nigerian workers from the group’s headquarters and one of the subsidiaries, Dangote Cement Plc.Though no official of the group was willing tospeak on the matter on Sunday, one of our correspondents gathered from highly placed sources that the decision to sack the workerswas not unconnected with the current high cost of running business in the country occasioned by the unavailability of foreign exchange and the unprecedented hike in the naira to dollar exchange rate.It was further gathered that the huge amounts in foreign currencies being paid to the expatriate workers had become a burden on Dangote due to the steady deprec...

​ Olusola Fabiyi and Peter DadaOne of those claiming to be the governorshipcandidates of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo State, Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim, has sent a petition to President Muhammadu Buhari over the activities of some members of staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission.The petition was also sent to the Chairman ofthe commission, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu.Ibrahim alleged that a member of staff of the commission demanded $1m bribe from him before she could collect his nomination papers from him.He brandished a copy of the petition at a press conference he addressed in Abuja on Sunday.In the petition, which was dated October 21, Ibrahim alleged that the affected member of staff (name withheld), insisted that she must be paid the amount before she could obey the court order that asked the commission toput his name as the candidate of the PDP.The Chief Press Secretary to the chairman of the commission, Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi, said there was no iota of truth in Ibrahim’s al...

​Two members of the Alliance for Democracy in Ondo State sustained serious injuries after they were attacked in Owo, the headquarters of Owo Local Government Area of the state.The two victims, Sunday Akadiri and Adeniran Adeyemi, were reportedly pasting posters of the AD governorship candidate, Olusola Oke, when they were allegedly attacked by some men suspected to be political thugs.Akadiri, who was receiving treatment at the Federal Medical Centre, Owo, where he was rushed to after the attack, alleged that his attackers were supporters of the governorship standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN). But the Akeredolu campaign organisation denied this.

​ Success Nwogu, Ilorin The Kwara State branch of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, has accused the Kwara State Government of illegally deducting N33.6bn from the accounts of the 16 local government councils in the state.The Secretary, NULGE, Kwara State chapter, Mr. Afolabi Abayomi, in a statement in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital on Sunday urged the state governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, to ensure the refund of the alleged deductions.He urged the government to henceforth stop the payment of 434 JSS teachers’ salaries and allowances from the allocation of 16 LG councils in the state.Abayomi said, “The state government should refund to the 16 LG councils N33.6bn being the financial implication of the salaries of theJunior Secondary School teachers in the 16 LG councils for 84 months at N400m monthly being total sum paid on behalf of theKwara State Government illegally deducted from the LGA statutory allocation.”But the state Commissioner of Information, Mr. Babatunde ...