Former Malian finance and economy minister Bouaré Fily Sissoko was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in Bamako on July 8 in a landmark corruption trial over the controversial 2014 purchase of military equipment and a presidential B737-700(BBJ) under former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported. Sissoko was convicted of “damaging public property,”…
The appeal was dismissed for lacking merit. The Supreme Court has affirmed the election of Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the governor of Edo State, upholding the decision of the Court of Appeal in Abuja. The five-man panel led by Justice Mohammed Garba Lawal held that the appellants could not establish…
The US embassy in Nigeria reduced the validity period and entry allowance for most non-immigrant and non-diplomatic visas issued to citizens. The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has met with the United States ambassador to Nigeria, Richard Mills over the recently introduced visa procedures by the US government for Nigerians. Tunjo-Ojo disclosed this in a…
Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has said that lawmakers serve to sacrifice for future generations rather than to enrich themselves. Akpabio disclosed this during Wednesday’s plenary, while contributing to a debate on the general principles of the bill for an Act to amend the Electricity Act, 2023. The bill was sponsored by the Chairman of the…
House of Representative member representing Ibadan North-West/South-West federal constituency, Adedeji Dhikrullahi Stanley OlajideChairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Digital, Information Communication Technology and Cybersecurity, Hon. Adedeji Dhikrullahi Stanley Olajide. Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Digital, Information Communication Technology and Cybersecurity, Hon. Adedeji Dhikrullahi Stanley Olajide, has issued a clarion call…
A 16-year-old girl has been sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of culpable homicide punishable under Section 221 of the Penal Code. The girl, Miss Joy Afekafe, was convicted for causing the death of Dr Mrs Funmilayo Sherifat Adefolalu, a lecturer at the Federal University of Technology (FUT) Minna, Niger State, on 28…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo has strongly denied rumours suggesting the party is in coalition talks with other political parties. The party described such claims as false and malicious, aimed at destabilising the party. In a statement issued by the Imo State PDP Chairman, Rt. Hon. Austine Nwachukwu in Owerri on Thursday, the…
In May 2023, as Bola Ahmed Tinubu assumed office as President of Nigeria, the nation stood at a precarious juncture. Its landscape had become pockmarked by a constellation of crises: insurgency in the North-East, rampant banditry across the North-West, separatist unrest in the South-East, industrial-scale oil theft in the Niger Delta, and communal bloodletting in…
Jigawa State government has set aside the sum of N4.2 billion for prevention measures and emergency response against the predicted flood disaster in the 27 local government councils. This was disclosed by the Jigawa State chairman of the Local Government Environmental Management Committee and secretary of the Jigawa State local government Vice Chairmen Association of…
Politicians across political lines are currently engaged in political horsetrading ahead of ongoing political transfers across party lines, investigations by Sahel Standard have revealed. For the past two weeks, members of the various political parties have commenced alignment and realignment, which are likely to shake the political fabrics of the state, Checks among various political…
