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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reportedly stormed the home of former Vice President, Namadi Sambo, in Kaduna State. The security operatives, who came heavily armed like commandos, were said to have invaded the home of the former vice president around 3:00pm and left at about 5:00pm. Sambo, who was vice to former President Goodluck Jonathan, had his home raided by the operatives of the anti-graft agency on Wednesday. During the operation that lasted for about two hours, it was learnt that the operatives cordoned off the residence of Sambo located at No 1 Alimi road, Kaduna State, went in and allegedly carried out a search of the home.An eyewitness account said that they came in three vehicles, a Coaster bus, Toyota Hilux Van and a Toyota Corolla car, with which they used to block the entrance to the street where the house is located. The eyewitness, a residence of the area, told newsmen that the security officers came with so much fiercenes

In what looks like one of  the reasons the country should be restructured, a civil rights organisation, Campaign Against Military Impunity, has raised the alarm over alleged recruitment scandal in the Nigerian Air Force. The organisation alleged that the Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, had compromised standards in the recruitment exercise for non-commissioned officers from the core North. Currently at the Airforce Base in Kaduna, there is ongoing pre-training formalities and tests for successful recruits, where 80 per cent are Northerners, CAMI alleged. The Executive Director of CAMI, Victor Coker, told journalists in Abuja, that the government should carry out an audit of the exercise and courses going on in all the military training institutions. “To unravel this misnomer, there should be an audit of the courses going on in all the training institutions. The audit should look at the composition and last three batches of those in training”, he ad

Senate President Bukola Saraki says he is unperturbed by the decision of the federal government to appeal the ruling of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) which acquitted him in a false assets declaration trial. The CCT had upheld the plea of no case submission Saraki made on the 18-count charge of false asset declaration preferred against him, and dismissed the case. However the office of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) says it has filed an appeal against the ruling of the CCT. Saraki, in a statement by Yusuph Olaniyonu, his Special Adviser (Media and Publicity) claimed that the chairman of the Presidential Advisory Community on Anti-Corruption (PACAC) Prof Itse Sagay and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are engaging in corrupt acts and practices in a desperate bid to nail him on the charges brought against him. He however said he is confident that the verdict at the appellate court would not be different from that of the tribunal as t