The trial of former Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Ahmed Idris, on alleged N109 billion corruption charges stalled on Wednesday at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) over the disappearance of one of the statements he made to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) during investigations.The statement dated July 5, 2022, could not be located by the EFCC in its own file, that of the High Court, or that of the defense team.At...

The ex-governor of Anambra state cum the vice-presidential candidate for the opposition party in the last general election has said Nigeria would not have needed to spend so much in procuring vaccines if its National Vaccine Production Facility was operational.“The issue of vaccine is one that I feel a sense of pain. Nigeria as a country in 1940 established what we called the National Vaccine Production Facility domiciled in Yaba, and that was able to produce virtua...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has frozen 126 bank accounts belonging to a suspected drug lord, Nsofor Chukwukadibia who was arrested last October.The accounts domiciled in various commercial banks, had cash inflows of N4.3bn and outflows of N7.9bn, while over N50bn had passed through them.This was contained in court documents obtained by our correspondent in Abuja on Friday.Chukwukadibia was arrested last October following the discovery of a large consign...