Tag: Abubakar Malami
US arbitration tribunal relieves Nigeria of $15bn liability in Interocean Oil...
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Dispute (ICSID) in the United States of America has relieved Nigeria of a $1.5bn liability in connection...
Nigeria receives $311m Abacha loot from US, Jersey
The federal government has received $311,797,866.11 as part of recovered assets of the late military head of state, Gen Sani Abacha.
The fund was repatriated...
Abacha Loot: Situating the U.S. anger correctly
Yemi Adebowale
Last Sunday, the media was awash with reports that the
federal government had denied entering into any agreement to pay the Kebbi
State Governor, Abubakar...
FG set to repatriate $321m Abacha, €6.8m Ibori loots
The federal government is set to repatriate another $321 million
Abacha loot in a tripartite understanding between the Island of Jersey, the
United States of America...
Amotekun and fears of the northern elite
Rotimi Fasan
In the massive controversy that surrounded the inauguration
of the Western Nigeria Security Network, otherwise called Amotekun or
“Operation Amotekun”, the lone voice that...
Southwest governors, FG resolve Amotekun impasse
The federal government and southwest governors have
reportedly reached an agreement on Operation Amotekun.
Mr. Laolu Akande, media to the vice president, Prof Yemi
Osinbajo, disclosed known...
TI’s corruption perception index places Nigeria at 146th position
Nigeria has been ranked 146th out of the 180 countries in the
2019 corruption perception index report released by Transparency International.
It is one of the...
Those opposing Amotekun are ignorant of its provisions – Tinubu
National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has finally broken his silence on the contentious Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN)...
Widespread discontent as FG declares Amotekun illegal
The federal government has stirred the hornet’s nest by declaring the Amotekun security outfit put together by governors of the six southwest states as...
FG declares ‘Amotekun’ security outfit illegal
The federal government on Tuesday described as illegal the newly launched Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN) code-named, Amotekun.
The attorney general of the federation and...