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The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has announced that it will carry out an immediate audit of the operations of the distressed carrier, Med-View Airlines. The announcement was made in a statement signed by Mr. Sam Adurogboye, NCAA’s General Manager (Public Affairs). According to the statement, an operations audit has become necessary following last week’s report of European Commission (EC), which listed the airline among 181 carriers  banned from the European airspace . The NCAA said that the outcome of the audit will determine steps to be taken by the regulatory body and its interaction with the EU over the listing of Med-View. In addition, the statement explained that the audit is aimed at arriving at a resolution as well as getting the ban on the airline lifted. However, the management of the airline continues to insist that the EC ban has no effect on Med-View flights to the United Kingdom, as the aircraft that invited the ban, a Boeing 767, has been undergoin...

The Kano State House of Assembly has suspended probe of the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II. The Emir was initially being investigated over the complaints of “questionable expenditures and financial misappropriations” estimated at N3.4 billion. But the House has decided to drop the probe after Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, pleaded on behalf of the emir. Ganduje did not act alone. Here are the individuals who prevailed on the House to stop the Investigation: The Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, a lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria. President of the Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki. Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representative, Yakubu Dogara. Governor of Kano State Abdullahi Ganduje Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, the spiritual leader of Nigeria’s seventy million Muslims.  Retired –General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, former head of state and Grand Commander of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Retired-General Abdulsalami Abubakar,...

Emeka Ephraim Ugwuonye, a former United States-based Nigerian lawyer, who was disbarred in New York and Maryland for professional misconduct, was yesterday also disbarred in Nigeria, to which he had relocated, for the same offense. Nigeria's Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) of the Body of Benchers, which punishes misconduct among lawyers, ordered the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court of Nigeria to strike out Mr. Ugwuonye’s name.  The order followed a case in which he was accused of having failed to disclose his personal interest in a property he was briefed to obtain letters of Administration for, which involved a widow. Details of the Direction of LPDC will be released in due course.  Mr.  J.S. Okutepa (SAN) who is the Chief Prosecutor of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) at the LPDC found Ugwuonye liable for fraud. Mr. Ugwuonye relocated to Nigeria after a story of fraud broken by SaharaReporters led to a series of court cases in the United Stat...

Nigerians across the country rallied against corruption on Tuesday during the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s anti-corruption march, led by Acting Chairman Ibrahim Magu. The anti-graft agency hosted the walk in order to raise awareness of the EFCC’s fight against corruption. Speaking in Lagos, EFCC Acting Head of Operations Mohammed Rabo described the walk as a way of showing the world that the agency and country will not give up on the fight against corruption. Mr. Rabo added that though corruption is fighting back, the agency is also recording success in its bid to eradicate corruption in Nigeria. “This is a fight we shall fight to the end. It is a fight for everybody and the nation and we shall not stop. Corruption is the highest evil in the nation and we shall continue to fight and not get tired. “Corruption is fighting back seriously, but we are giving it punches and we shall show that we are equal to the task,” he told a crowd in Lagos. Among the participant...

The Lagos Democratic Forum (LDF) has condemned what it described as the ongoing desecration of democratic ethos in the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In a press statement signed by Chief Kunle Dada and Comrade Wale Andyright, the group's Coordinator and General Secretary, respectively, the Forum observed that Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s 'directive' given to the party rank-and-file to jettison party primaries for the forthcoming local government elections in the state is undemocratic and contradicts the APC’s constitution and values. "What Asiwaju Tinubu is doing to the Lagos APC is unfortunate. APC, as a progressive party, is supposed to model the  grundnorm  of democracy, yet one of the basic requirements of that  grundnorm  is internal democracy. Candidates of the party must emerge as the popular choices of all registered and qualified members of the party, voting freely," the LDF wrote in its statement. At a meeting of local governme...