ABUJA – The Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) has announced four panellists for its 10th annual conference, scheduled to hold on Thursday, October 8, 2026, in Lagos. The panellists are Dr Abayomi Shogunle, Commissioner of Police, Election Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, Force Headquarters, Abuja; Prof Tayo Popoola, Head of the Department of Mass Communication, University of Lagos; Adaora Onyechere Sydney-Jack, Creative Director of Gender Agenda and Founder of WEWE Network Afrique; and Lanre Arogundade, Executive Director of the International Press Centre. They will discuss the conference theme, “2027 Elections: Trust, Transparency and Shared Responsibilities.” GOCOP Publicity Secretary, Ms Kemi…
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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused the APC Campaign Council of deliberately distorting the outcome of the Mambilla arbitration, saying the ruling party has taken a tribunal award, amputated its legal meaning, stuffed the gaps with political propaganda and presented the result to Nigerians as a corruption verdict against him when no such verdict was delivered. Atiku said the distortion rests on a false and intellectually lazy assumption: that because he served as Vice President in the Obasanjo administration, every action taken by that government must automatically be attributed to him. History itself demolishes that argument. When the controversial…
Justice Muhammed Danjuma of the Court of Appeal, Abuja on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, affirmed the conviction and sentence of a former Managing Director of Nigeria Export Import Bank, NEXIM, Robert Orya by Justice F.E. Messiri of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, Abuja. Orya was convicted and sentenced to 490 years imprisonment for bank fraud on Thursday, February 5, 2026. The convict was arraigned in 2021 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on a 49-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretences, forgery and advance fee fraud to the tune of N2.4 billion. Dissatisfied with…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has broken its monetary asset recovery record in both national and foreign currencies in the 34 months of Ola Olukoyede’s leadership. The disclosure was made on Monday, August 31, 2026 when the Executive Chairman of the Commission, Ola Olukoyede, addressed the media on his stewardship. Available records showed that recovery in naira hit an all-time high of ₦1, 233,612,040,411.11, (One Trillion, Two Hundred and Thirty-three Billion, Six Hundred and Twelve Million, Forty Thousand, Four Hundred and Eleven Naira, Eleven Kobo). In dollars, it hit $684,478,457,32, (Six Hundred and Eighty-four Million, Four Hundred and…
The trio of Emmanuel Serah Motunrayo, Awotunde Olugbenga and Idowu Olugbemi have been arraigned before Justices Olusola Adetujoye and Olusola Adetujoye of the Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan. Motunrayo alongside Olugbenga were arraigned on Wednesday, by the EFCC, on a forty seven-count charge bordering on forgery, altering of documents and obtaining money by false pretense to the tune of N23, 404, 600 (Twenty-three Million, Four Hundred and Four Thousand, Six Hundred Naira). Count two of the charges reads: “That you, Emmanuel Serah Motunrayo ‘F’ and Awotunde Olugbenga ‘M’ on or about 1st March, 2025 at Ibadan, Oyo State…
The people of Ifelodun Community, Agunbelewo, Osogbo have congratulated Governor Ademola Adeleke, on his re-election, describing his victory as a clear demonstration of the confidence and trust reposed him by the people of the state. The congratulatory message was contained in a statement signed by Chairman of Ifelodun Community, Agunbelewo Osogbo, Pastor Abimbola Okeyinka and Secretary, Mr Maruf Usamotu and made available to journalists by the Public Officer of the Community, Dr Atoyebi Olumuyiwa. The people of Ifelodun Community, Agunbelewo, Osogbo noted with pride that Governor Adeleke secured victory in all the polling units within Ifelodun Community, saying the result…
Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State is confident of winning the governorship election ongoing across the state. He spoke while addressing newsmen after casting his ballot at Polling Unit 9, Ward 2, Sagba Agbogunde, in Ede North Local Government Area. The governors enjoined all eligible voters across the state to turn out in large numbers to vote for the candidate of their choice. Prompt News Online reports that the three top contenders in today’s election are: Governor Ademola Adeleke of the Accord Party, Bola Oyebamiji of the APC and Nojeem Salaam of the ADC. Adeleke said: “I’ve done my civic…
*Personally deposes to affidavit as suit challenges President’s qualification for 2027 election; asks INEC to produce Tinubu’s CF001 records Former Vice President of Nigeria and Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, on Friday personally appeared at the Registry of the Federal High Court, Abuja, where he deposed to an affidavit in support of a suit challenging the qualification of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to contest the 2027 presidential election. The action, instituted by Atiku and the ADC against Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), invokes, among other provisions, Sections…
As the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC, launches investigation into the operation of the ‘fake’ Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC, human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, is alleged to have withdrawn from legal representation of its self-acclaimed Director-General, Mathew Adeniyi Adeyemi. Adeyemi had alleged that the Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila demanded a 48 per cent share of the agency’s reported ₦27.3 billion take off grant. He also accused the presidential aide of receiving ₦400 million through an intermediary and requesting an additional ₦200 million to facilitate presidential approvals. However, Gbajabiamila has strongly denied the allegations, insisting he has…
A third Prosecution Witness, PW3, in the trial l of former Taraba State Governor, Darius Dickson Ishaku alongside the former permanent Secretary in the Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in the state, Bello Yero, on Monday, July 13, 2026, informed Justice S.C. Oriji of the Federal Capital Territory , FCT, High Court Abuja, how N1, 800, 000, 000, 000 (One Billion, Eight Hundred Million Naira), meant for the purchase of Christmas grains in Taraba State, was transferred into his company account from one of the Local Government Salary Transmission Accounts. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is…