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A prosecution witness, Sunday Alade, on Monday informed an Abuja Federal High Court that he and his colleague took turns to count N1.22bn cash former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro delivered to the aide of the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose. Alade, an official of Zenith Bank, Akure Branch in Ondo State, made the disclosure while been cross-examined by the defence counsel, Mike Ozekhome in the ongoing trial of Abiodun Agbele, Fayose’s associate on charges of money laundering. Disclosing that the huge cash was in N1000 and N500 bills, the prosecution witness said his team evacuated the money allegedly airlifted to Akure airport twice by Obanikoro, before they began counting. The banker who stated that he “got worried” when he saw the huge cash, revealed that the counting went on between 8am and 3pm for 10 days, adding that the total amount was N1,219,490,000. Alade also identified documents, including account opening packages for the accounts of Fayose, Spotless...

President Muhammadu Buhari’s name has been reportedly dragged into Ghanaian politics to describe the ’empty promises’ made by politicians to selfishly sway voters during election campaign exercises. The National Organizer of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams, has admonished Ghanaians not to make the same mistake as Nigerians, who have regretted voting out former President Goodluck Jonathan, Ghanaweb reports. Addressing party supporters on Ghana President John Dramani Mahama’s second day campaign tour of the Greater Accra Region in Tema last Saturday, the NDC national campaign coordinator said Nigerians have regretted replacing Goodluck Jonathan’s government with that of President Mahammadu Buhari who has deepened the economic woes of Nigerians. “President Buhari in his maiden speech asked Nigerians not to expect any change from him culminating in his abysmal performance as he has succeeded in running down several policies and initiatives introduced by his predec...

President Muhammadu Buhari has safely arrived Morocco ahead of international conference on climate change.  President Muhammadu Buhari on arrival   Nigeria's first man, President Muhammadu Buhari was given a royal welcome as he arrived Morrocco on a two day working visit.   The conference is expected to last for two days after which Buhari will return to Nigeria to continue his official duties to the nation. The climate change conference COP 22 will be taking place in Marrakech. Buhari swiftly had a taste of a rare African food as well as a solution assumed to be water or tea.   See more photos:

A recent report released by a data gathering and analysis firm based in Nigeria has revealed the spate of insolvency among component states.   BudgIT has released an updated list of states that can't pay the salaries of their workers. In 2015, BudgIT said only 19 states were caught in the web of insolvency, but now the number has swollen to 33. Here are the states that are finding it hard to pay workers: Akwa Ibom is last on the table of ability to meet monthly recurrent expenditure commitments followed by Bayelsa, Oyo and Osun, BudgIT revealed.    Akwa Ibom    Bayelsa     Oyo     Osun     Ogun,     Plateau,     Delta,     Kwara,     Adamawa,     Abia,     Benue,     Bauchi,     Jigawa,     Kano,     Cross River,     Kogi,     Imo,     Ondo,     Nassarawa,     Yobe,     ...