Quham Babatunde, 34, a Nigerian asylum seeker, was fatally stabbed near Dublin’s main shopping district. Babatunde was attacked in the early hours of Saturday, 15 February, 2025 on South Anne Street after reportedly attending an Afroswing event at a nearby nightclub. Emergency responders treated him for multiple stab wounds, including one to the heart, The Irish Independent reported. Despite being rushed to St James’s Hospital, he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. A second man, who sustained non-life-threatening injuries, including a suspected fractured cheekbone, was also treated at the same hospital. Gardaí have launched a murder investigation and confirmed that…
Author: Abimbola Ogunaike
Osun State Government has rejected the security advice from the Nigeria Police which advised for the suspension of the local government election planned for Saturday, 22 February, 2025 (today). The government, in a statement signed by Kolapo Alimi, the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment on Friday, 21 February, 2025, stated that the grounds for rejecting the advice were based on the rule of law and aversion to police partisanship. Acknowledging the security advice, the state government revealed that it reviewed the advice and came to the conclusion that the proposal from the force headquarters was biased, partisan, and in…
Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Ifeanyi Emefiele, has denied any ownership of properties recently ordered to be forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria by the Federal High Court in Lagos. In a statement issued by his legal representative, Barrister Olawale Fapohunda, Emefiele clarified that while some of the forfeited assets belong to his relatives, neither he nor his immediate family have any ownership interest in them. Emefiele’s remarks follow a ruling by Justice Yellim Bogoro of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, which ordered the final forfeiture of $4.7 million, ₦830 million, and multiple properties allegedly linked to Emefiele. The ruling also…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has pledged to collaborate with the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) to enhance transparency, accountability, and good governance in the country. The Chairman of ICPC, Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu (SAN), gave this assurance while receiving a delegation from NSITF at the Commission’s Headquarters on Tuesday. Dr. Aliyu, who highlighted both agencies’ crucial roles in ensuring ethical governance, emphasized the need for synergy to combat corruption effectively and stressed the importance of sensitizing and educating NSITF staff and the general public on corruption prevention. He further noted that ICPC and…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has joined forces with the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) to improve the mandates of the two agencies in anti-corruption. The two agencies highlighted key strategies for collaboration to boost anti-corruption efforts when the Acting Controller General of the NCoS, Sylvester Ndidi Nwabuche, MFR, and his team paid a visit to the Chairman of the Commission Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu SAN, at his office in Abuja on Tuesday. In his remarks, the ICPC Chairman, Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu SAN, appreciated the NCoS boss for the visit just as he highlighted key…
The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has promised improved welfare for members of staff of the Commission before the end of the year 2025. The ICPC Boss gave the assurance during the opening ceremony of a two-day sensitization workshop organized for the staff of the Commission. Dr. Aliyu emphasized that plans have been set in motion to ensure an effective turnover in the welfare of staff promising that the much-anticipated positive change would manifest soon. He said, “I want to use this opportunity to reassure all officers that Management is working assiduously to…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) is to formally launch the Accountability and Corruption Prevention Programme for Local Governments in Nigeria (CPP-LG) aimed at tackling systemic corruption and promoting transparency at the grassroots level in the country. This development follows recent legal affirmations of local government autonomy, which are expected to strengthen their financial independence and operational efficiency. The Chairman of ICPC, Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, SAN, who revealed the plan on Wednesday during a summit organized by the Gombe State government on “Local Government Autonomy, Fiscal Responsibility, and Sustainable Development,” explained that the initiative will…
The ex-Naval Chief, Vice Admiral Jibrin Usman (Rtd.), and Brigadier-General Ishaya Bauka are still on ICPC’s wanted list for their alleged involvement in a N3 billion fraud. Therefore, any claim that the amended charges by ICPC have exonerated the duo of charges concerning embezzlement and abuse of office is fallacious and a figment of the imagination of the writers, it should be disregarded. It should be clearly stated that there is a subsisting arrest warrant against the two ex-military officers, whoever sees them could assist in bringing them to justice. For the avoidance of doubt, the charges against them were…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned one Mr Oseni Adeolu Olayinka, a staff of the Federal Ministry of Water Resources, Abuja, on a 3-count money laundering charge. The accused was arraigned before Honourable Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja on Thursday. In a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CR/584/2024, the Commission accused Olayinka of acquiring millions of naira by including his wife and son on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) portal of the Ministry between 2023/2024 and corruptly receiving salaries through his wife’s and son’s accounts thereby committing an offence…
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has continued to touch the lives of people living in the Niger Delta region in the past 25 years of existence, irrespective of where they live. In River State for instance, it powered communities, empowering lives in Ahoada East Local Government Area, with the provision of 250KVA generator set for Edoha Community Motherless/Rehabilitation home and a 500KVA transformer in Egbelu Phase II Obio/Akpor Local Government Area. These initiative have significantly improved the lives of residents and boosting commerce in the area.