BREAKING: CAS lifts Manchester city’s champions league ban

Manchester City will be free to play Champions League football next season after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) lifted a two-season ban from European competitions imposed by UEFA on Monday. An initial fine of 30 million euros ($34 million, £27 million) was also reduced to 10 million euros on appeal. City were accused…

Why U.S., UK, others are monitoring Magu’s probe

SOME of Nigeria’s strategic partners in the anti-corruption battle have taken more than a passing interest in the ongoing probe into activities of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) under suspended acting Chairman Ibrahim Magu. Key countries – some of them having mutual legal assistance treaties with the country – are monitoring the process…

Akpabio, Nunieh in verbal war over NDDC

The immediate past acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Dr Joi Nunieh, has denied that the agency spent N22.6billion under her stewardship, just as she alleged that the Niger Delta Affair Minister, Senator Godswill Akpabio, threatened her to do his bidding or be removed from office. But Akpabio, has denied the…

Seized properties cornered by top EFCC officials, Magu’s friends – Panel

…says suspended commission boss failed to account for 332 recovered houses All allegations are lies, concocted to tarnish Magu’s image, says counsel Ade Adesomoju and Oladimeji Ramon The suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Ibrahim Magu,  could not give a proper account of missing 332 out of the 836 recovered…