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The International Criminal Court, ICC, at The Hague has acknowledged that it is considering petition submitted to it by a human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, over alleged crimes against humanity committed in the context of the arms procurement scandal. The ICC revealed this in a letter...

The Board of Directors of Blueprint Newspapers has refunded the N9m compensation paid to newspaper owners whose copies were seized by security agents during the administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan. The company’s Executive Director,Operations, Salisu Umar, who explained this in a...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in search of more evidence on the unravelling $2.1 billion arms purchase scandal have raided the Abuja offices of former Vice President Namadi Sambo. The raid was carried out Saturday night in the central business district in...

Senate Majority leader, Senator Ali Ndume says he is ready to testify against former National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki and all those indicted in the $2.1billion arms deal at the International Criminal Court, ICC. Ndume said this in an interview with Daily Trust, while applauding the...

Details have emerged about what the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, allegedly wrote in the torn statement which he made under caution while in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.. Metuh allegedly tore his statement on January...

The management of Leadership Holdings Limited, publishers of Leadership newspapers, has returned the N9m it received from the office of former National Security Adviser through the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria as compensation for the seizure of its publications in June 2014. In...

A witness, Eno Mfon Effiong, a staff of Diamond Bank on Wednesday told Federal High Court in Abuja that the spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, had N400 million paid into his account on November 24, 2014 by the office of a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki. Ms...

An official of the Office of the National Security Adviser, Mr. Bali Ndam, on Tuesday narrated to a Federal High Court in Abuja the processes leading to the charges of money laundering and fraudulent receipt of the sum of N400m from the ONSA in November 2014, preferred against the National...

The Deputy National Leader of the Northern Elders Forum, Dr. Paul Unongo, has said that former President Goodluck Jonathan should be probed over the $2.1bn arms deal. Unongo, said the former President should be jailed if found to have corruptly enriched himself in the $2.1bn arms deal and...

Embattled National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Olisa Metuh appeared at the Federal High Court Abuja today, handcuffed. Related: Nigeria's Arms Deal: How We Helped Metuh Exchange $2million – Witnesses tell Court See Photos:

Two witnesses were brought before a Federal High Court in Abuja, today, told the court how the spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, and his company, Dextra Investments Limited, transferred the sum of $2million allegedly collected from the office of the National Security...

Barr. Bashir Maidugu, Deputy National Legal Adviser of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, debunked reports that there are factions in the party. Maidugu said, there are only ‘camps’ not ‘factions’ in the opposition party, PDP. While speaking with DailyTrust, Maidugu, who admitted...

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has requested the International Criminal Court to “investigate allegations of crimes against humanity committed against the Nigerian people by top government officials in criminal diversion of $8 billion earmarked to procure equipment for the armed forces to...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been torn into four camps over the $2.1 billion arms deal scandal which involved many high-ranking members of the party been dragged to court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), DailyTrust revealed. - One of the factions has sympathy...

There are indications that the Peoples Democratic Party spokesman, Olisa Metuh, is being kept in a prison cell where financial scammers and those who had committed frauds were being held, Punch reports. It was learnt that Metuh, who was remanded at the Kuje Prisons, Abuja on the order of a...

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has said that it will not provide sureties for its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh over its involvement in arms deal scandal. The party said since Metuh was being prosecuted for offences that have nothing to do with it, its...

A Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama, Abuja, on Friday granted bail to the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh in the sum of N300m with two sureties in like sum. The total bail sum is N600m‎. According to PUNCH, Justice Ishaq Bello...

A Federal High Court in Abuja, today, again postponed the trial of a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, who is accused of money laundering. Mr. Dasuki is accused of diverting N19 billion. The counsel to the EFCC, Rotimi Jacobs, told Justice Husseini Yusuf on Friday that an...

Afenifere chieftain and National Chairman of Social Democratic Party, SDP, Chief Olu Falae, yesterday, said he has fixed next week to adequately address his alleged involvement in the ongoing arms deal scandal involving the former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd). Falae...

Justice Baba Yusuf of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama, Abuja on Thursday adjourned the trial of the immediate past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), with respect to the charges of alleged diversion of about N32bn, part of fund meant for procurement of arms...