Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro bears responsibility for grave rights violations including crimes against humanity, UN investigators said on Wednesday. In a 411-page report, the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela documented evidence of crimes aimed at quashing the opposition, including systematic and widespread imprisonment, disappearances, torture, sexual violence, and murder since …
Read More »Nigeria Reels from Twin Crises That Threaten Food Availability
Mal Shehu Ladan took a boat across what was, until this month, a growing rice paddy. Now, like thousands of hectares of rice in Nigeria’s Kebbi state, it is under water. “Almost all my farm has been flooded. I didn’t harvest any rice,” Ladan told Reuters. “It’s going to be …
Read More »Children in Richest Countries Face Obesity, Lack of Skills – UN
The report ranks 41 European Union and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries on children’s health, skills, and happiness. Denmark, the Netherlands, and Norway top the league table, while Bulgaria, Chile, and the U.S. are ranked the worst places to be a child among high-income countries. According to …
Read More »Nigeria To Spend N722.3mn For Forensic Audit Of NDDC
The Federal Executive Council has approved N722.3m for the forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission. Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, disclosed this on Wednesday after the virtual FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari. According to Akpabio, the field auditors will undertake a complete forensic …
Read More »IPOB Kills DSS Operatives In Violent Attack
The Nigeria’s Department of State Security Services (DSS) Sunday saidthat its patrol team attacked in Emene, Enugu State by members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). “The Service lost two personnel in what was clearly an unprovoked violent attack launched by IPOB on the team,” Peter Afunanya, DSS’sPublic …
Read More »Police Recapture Oyo Serial Killer, Sunday Shodipe
Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force, Oyo State Police Command, have re-arrested the notorious murder suspect, Sunday Shodipe(picture) who escaped from lawful custody on 11th August, 2020. He was re-arrested today, Sunday, 23rd August, 2020 by Police operatives at the Bodija area of Ibadan, the Oyo State Capital. It would …
Read More »How Osinbajo’s Aide Collected N250mn without Executing Contracts
After receiving N250 million, Dr. Donald Wokoma, a Special Assistant (SA) to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, allegedly failed to execute some contracts awarded to his firms in 2018. The Economic Confidential gathered that Wokoma was a signatory to the bank accounts of the companies when he was Special Assistant to …
Read More »Salami Panel: Magu Boys Caught on Tape Demanding N75mn Bribe
A businessman has played a tape recording before the Justice Ayo Salami-led Presidential Probe Panel on how some operatives of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), popularly known as ‘Magu boys’ used a lawyer to demand bribery of N75mn to be paid into different accounts. The businessman, Mr. Donald Wokoma …
Read More »Son of Angola’s Ex-President Jailed 5yrs for US$500mn Fraud
Angola’s Supreme Court on Friday handed a five-year jail sentence to Jose Filomeno dos Santos, the son of the oil-rich country’s former president, for fraud when he headed the national sovereign wealth fund. Dos Santos, 42, was summoned before court in December over allegations he tried to embezzle up to …
Read More »Nigeria, Ireland Sign MOU to Repatriate €5.5million Abacha Loot
The government of Ireland has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Nigerian government for the return of €5.5 million stolen by a former military head of state, Sani Abacha. The Irish minister for justice, Helen McEntee, said the return of the asset followed a forfeiture order by a high …
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