A special anti-corruption investigator who was recently sacked by the Buhari administration has levelled gruesome allegations of misconduct against some senior government officials. Victor Uwajeh said he was asked to focus exclusively on opposition politicians in his investigation of undeclared and suspicious properties owned by politically-exposed Nigerians in foreign countries, a demand he said he rejected in principle. The government has, however, rejected the allegations, describing it as strange and insisting that the investigator was sacked because he failed to disclose that he had active corruption cases against him during the hiring process. Mr Uwajeh was hired in March to…

There appears to be no end in sight for the Nigeria’s electricity crisis as a system adequacy report submitted by Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) to Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has indicated that Nigeria would continue to suffer from severe grid electricity shortage in the next 10 years. The report said this would happen because under the most optimistic assumptions of high technical availability, high rainfalls, and low demand growth, energy deficit in the country would remain at a level of around 3,000 megawatts (MW). The country, it explained would however experience an average increase in power demands by…

The federal government has inaugurated its upgraded website to encourage e-participation and bring governance closer to Nigerians. Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha, during the launch of the website, on Monday in Abuja, said the idea of the website was in line with the government’s policy of encouraging transparency in all its dealings. SGF explained that the launch was in line with the civil service reforms strategy, which calls for greater openness, transparency, and public responsiveness in government agencies in their delivery on policies and programmes. He added that Nigerians now have the opportunity of…

Funmi Olaitan, Ibadan Towards putting a stop to killings of innocent Nigerians by herdsmen in some parts of the country despite all security measures being put in place to check the menace by the federal government, Anglican Church, Nigeria, on Monday, called on the Federal Government to seek foreign assistance. Archbishop of Ibadan Anglican Diocese, Mr Segun Okubadejo, who made the call in his address at the Second Session of the Seventh Synod of St. Paul Anglican Church, Yemetu, Ibadan, said shedding of innocent blood is against the law of God and the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,…