Author: Olabanji Ayoola

The immediate past governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, has reacted to the Friday invasion of his two private houses by security agents to remove vehicles. Matawalle who spoke to BBC Hausa service in an interview on Saturday morning accused the security agents of looting the personal belongings of his wives and children, including clothing […]

More facts have emerged on how President Bola Tinubu endorsed a former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio, for the senate presidency. Sources close to the President told one of our correspondents on Saturday that the deal to make Akpabio president of the senate was sealed a day before the presidential primary of […]

Suspended CBN governor Emefiele arrested The Department of State Services, DSS, is likely to approach the court on Tuesday to obtain an order to keep the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, in its custody for as long as his interrogation will last. A source in the DSS confided in one […]

Nigeria’s secret police, the Department of State Services (DSS), has taken into custody the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele. This development, which came hours after President Bola Tinubu suspended him from office, was confirmed a statement by the agency’s spokesman, Mr. Peter Afunanya who said: “The Department of […]

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has called two additional witnesses to further prove his allegation of malpractice at the February 25 election. The two make a total of 18 witnesses he has so far called out of the 100 witnesses planned for the exercise. Abubakar and his party filed […]

The Department of State Services (DSS) has confirmed the arrest of the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Godwin Emefiele. The DSS spokesperson, Peter Afunanya confirmed this on Saturday in a statement on his Twitter handle. “The Department of State Services (DSS) hereby confirms that Mr Godwin Emefiele, the suspended Governor of the Central […]

Ex-apex bank chief faces DSS probe over alleged money laundering, terror financing, others Folashodun Shonubi to act as Central Bank helmsman The suspension yesterday of Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele by President Bola Tinubu may have been triggered by the probe instituted against him last week by the House of Representatives, it was learned last […]