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A private investigator, Victor Uwajeh, has claimed that he was disengaged from the Special Investigation Panel on the Recovery of Public Property, because he refused to probe Senate President, Bukola Saraki and members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Uwajeh was appointed to the panel to track stolen funds stashed in the UK in March, but was fired on April 23. The investigator was said to have been disengaged, for failing to disclose a criminal charge pending against him. In a statement on Tuesday, Uwajeh said though the mandate given to him was to track assets of politically exposed persons, he realised that the panel had its agenda. “This was also followed by a memorandum of understanding dated 3rd April 2018 and signed by the Chairman of the Panel Okoi Obono Obla. Subsequent upon these, I started working for the panel to trace assets of politically exposed persons in line with the mandate given to me in the documents executed. “It was the procedure of the P...

The Federal Government has faulted claims by the Lagos State Government that a Federal High Court had shut down the Ikoyi marriage registry, insisting that the report was false. The Ministry of Interior said that the court, presided over by Justice Chuka Obiozor, simply upheld the judgment of a Federal High Court delivered in 2002, which was not appealed. It explained that the case, Suit No: FHC/L/CS/1760/16, between Egor Local Government Area, Edo State and three others Vs. Ministry of Interior & others, cited by the Lagos State Government, was actually struck out by Justice Obiozor in his judgment delivered on April 30, 2018. The Director of Legal, Ministry of Interior, Bola Odugbesan, made the clarification in a statement in Abuja on Friday, in reaction to a press statement on Thursday by the Director, Public Affairs, Ministry of Local Government and Community Affairs, Bisi Olufuwa. Olufuwa had claimed that Lagos State had secured a court injunction restraining the...

Media personality turned politician, Dayo Adeneye aka D1, shared his grace-to-grace tale at Success Stories Africa, in Lagos this past weekend. At the gathering no question was out of bounds for the Ogun State Commissioner for Information and Strategy. He opened up about his rise from practically nothing to becoming a household name in Nigeria’s showbiz terrain and now politics. Adeneye, 58, has contributed in no small measure to changing the face of Nigeria’s thriving music industry. In 1998, he started the AIT Jamz music show alongside his close friend Kenny Ogungbe, and their platform went on to discover music superstars including 2Baba, Tony Tetuila, Paul Play Dairo, Eedris Abdulkareem and many others. In 2015, he ventured into politics and he is the currently the spokesman for Ogun State government. Here are excerpts from Mr. Adeneye’s session at the event as captured by our source. My time at Ray Power : My father was upset that I returned from America and chos...