Featured News Top Stories

Parties involved in OPL 245 guilty, says Italian prosecutor

Ihesiulo Grace 4 July 2020 0

The Italian deputy prosecutor on Thursday told a Milan court prosecuting Shell and Eni over the OPL 245/Malabu affair that all parties involved in the deal were corrupt. He said President Goodluck Jonathan, who led Nigeria from 2010 to 2015, Dan Etete, who allocated OPL 245 to Malabu Oil and

Features Law

Corruption fight: AGF Malami & OPL Malabu deal, Goje case, JP Morgan

Ihesiulo Grace 12 February 2020 0

Recently the media was awashed with news reports on the inaction and actions taken by the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami (SAN) on the fight against corruption in the country. In this write up Dr.Umar Jibrilu Gwandu takes a look at Malami actions , AGF’s power to enter Nolle […]

Featured Politics

Malabu deal: waste no time in publishing your evidence Jonathan tells Lamido

Ihesiulo Grace 26 November 2019 0

We call on anyone, who has any shred of evidence linking former President Jonathan to any wrongdoing in the case of the Malabu incident to waste no time in publishing such evidence or forever remain silent former President Goodluck Jonathan has challenged Sule Lamido, ex-governor of Jigawa state, Lamido had said Jonathan traded off the […]

News Nigeria

ActionAid expresses concern over poor agriculture funding

Ihesiulo Grace 14 November 2018 0

ActionAid Nigeria has expressed concern about the inability of Nigeria to meet the stipulated 10 percent financial commitment to Agriculture as agreed at Malabu Declaration on Food Sustainability. The African Heads of State in 2014 entered into an agreement to halve the poor indices of hunger by 2052. However, since the declaration, experts have raised […]

News Top Stories

Malabu scandal: UK Govt approved $875m payment to Etete- JP Morgan

Ihesiulo Grace 9 April 2018 0

The banking giant, JP Morgan Chase, has revealed that the United Kingdom (UK) anti-money laundering unit, Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), now renamed the National Crime Agency gave authorisation for the transfer of $875 million to accounts linked to Dan Etete, a former Nigerian Minister of Petroleum Resources in the controversial Malabu scandal. JP Morgan […]

News Top Stories

Malabu: AGF under fire over letter to Buhari

Ihesiulo Grace 20 February 2018 0

.Wants President to drop case against Adoke, others for lack of evidence .Lawyers express divergent views *!AGF queries Magu, Keyamo over charge against CCT chair Malabu: AGF under fire over letter to Buhari .Wants President to drop case against Adoke, others for lack of evidence .Lawyers express divergent views *!AGF queries Magu, Keyamo over charge […]

News Top Stories

Malabu oil deal: Italian Court endorses trial of Eni, Shell

Ihesiulo Grace 21 December 2017 0

Italian Federal Court has ordered the Italian giant Eni and Shell Petroleum company to stand trial in Italy over bribery and corruption allegedly committed in 2011 purchase of an offshore OPL 245 oil block in Nigeria A judge in Milan who endorsed their trial on Wednesday also ordered Chief executive of Eni , Claudio Descalzi […]

News In Brief Top Stories

[ICYMI] Malami announces recovery of $85 million from UK

Ihesiulo Grace 26 October 2017 0

The Nigerian government on Thursday announced the recovery of $85m from the United Kingdom (UK). The said money is a part of funds stolen during the controversial Malabu Oil deal. Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami said this at the ongoing consultative meeting on assets recovery in Abuja. Malami decried the negative attitude […]

News Nigeria Top Stories

Malabu $1.1 billion deal: Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Jonathan endorsed agreement – Adoke insists

Ihesiulo Grace 13 March 2017 0

Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN), the former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation has insisted that the controversial Malabu oil Block Agreement was endorsed by the previous administrations of Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan. In an official letter written to his successor and the current Justice Minister, Abubakar