Court orders Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Jonathan, Buhari govts to account for $5bn Abacha loot

In a landmark judgment, Nigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Nigeria, has ordered the disclosure of the spending details of about USD$5 billion Abacha loot recovered by the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari.” The court ordered the government of President Bola Tinubu to “disclose the […]

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Forecast of What Atiku, Tinubu, or Obi Govts Might Be, By Farooq A. Kperogi

If the general election holds in February next year, one of three people will be declared president: APC’s Bola Ahmed Tinubu, PDP’s Atiku Abubakar, or Labor Party’s Peter Obi. Only a natural disaster, such as death, can change that reality. There is no foretoken of indications at the moment that can reveal with certainty which […]

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United Nations alarmed by alleged torture, ill-treatment meted out to Kanu by Nigerian and Kenyan govts

United Nations (UN) has expressed concern over the arrest of the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and his continous detention and alleged torture while in the Department of State Services (DSS) custody. This was contained in UN’s Mandates of the Special Rapporteur on Torture and other cruel, inhuman or […]

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