Native Brazilians arrest monkeys with what is called Cumbuca. They make a hole in a gourd that is big enough to accommodate the hand of a monkey. The gourd is then affixed to the ground of the place monkeys infest. Placed inside the gourd is usually a banana for the attraction of the monkey. The monkey then hops down the …

To begin with, let me ask whether you knew that abusing the Naira is a worse offence than stealing or embezzling the Naira? You can steal billions of Naira and walk away free. But abuse the Naira and end up in jail with automatic alacrity! Worse still, you can leverage the riches so suddenly acquired to contest election into high …

A female police officer who was the aide-de-camp to former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has been arrested and detained by the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). The ADC was arrested alongside other police officers attached to 48-year-old Bello, and is being detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. According to sources, the officers were arrested on …

A human rights lawyer, Deji Ajare has urged the Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Hon. Umar Yusuf to begin impeachment proceedings against the Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Usman Ododo over allegations of misconduct and abuse of office. In a letter addressed to the Speaker, through the Clerk of the House on Friday, Ajare said that the use …

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has placed former Kogi Governor Yahaya Bello on watch list. The NIS called for Bello‘s arrest at any point of exit or entry into the country by security agencies. In a letter by an Assistant Comptroller of Immigration, D S Umar on behalf of the Comptroller-General, Kemi Nanna Nandap, the Service said Bello was facing trial …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, wanted for offences relating to economic and financial crimes. On its official Facebook page around 5 pm (Nigerian time), the anti-graft commission published the wanted notice which featured the former governor’s image. The message that accompanied it read: “Ex Gov Yahaya …

The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi has called on the immediate-past governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello to follow the path of decency and submit himself for probe. Bello is being wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged corrupt practices while in office as governor. The last 24 …

Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court Abuja has adjourned the suit instituted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, to next Wednesday. The adjournment is for substituted service and possible arraignment of Bello for alleged N84 billion money laundering. At the resumed sitting, EFCC counsel, Kemi …

There’s always the tendency to ascribe our failings and flailings in our developmental and democratic growth as a nation, to our amoeboid leadership recruitment process. I differ slightly though from this perspective. My contention is that prospective leaders must first be identified and groomed before they can be deployed to the various sectors we expect them to function. Tunji Olaopa’s …

Kogi State Government has raised the alarm over what it described as a desperate attempt by ‘criminals masquerading as politicians’ to tarnish the image of the immediate past governor of the state, Yahaya Bello, through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In a statement by the Commissioner for Information, Kingsley Fanwo, the government wondered why the EFCC had, in …