Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has accused the federal government of plotting to shield the real owner of the sums of $43,449,947, £27,800 and N23,218,000 (about N13.3 billion) recently recovered from an Ikoyi apartment in Logos State, calling on Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to prove to Nigerians that its activity was not lopsided by naming and prosecuting its true owner. The umbrella organisation of all political parties and association in the country warned that it will mobilise its members, well-meaning Nigerians, and civil society groups to resist any cover up of the real owner of the stashed…

Food aid will be cut for more than a million hungry Nigerians affected by Boko Haram's insurgency if promised funding from the international community doesn't arrive, according to a United Nations official. Peter Lundberg, the deputy U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Nigeria, wrote in the French newspaper Le Monde that just 15 percent of the U.N. aid appeal for one of the world's worst humanitarian crises has been received. Over the next six months, $242 million is needed to help 1.8 million people, he said. "Without sufficient financing, the World Food Program will have to reduce its vital support," he wrote…

The controversy surrounding ownership of the N13bn ($43.4m, N23m and £27,000) found by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission at the Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos, took a dramatic turn on Friday evening when Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and National Intelligence Agency claimed ownership of the money. National Intelligence Agency on Friday said the money belonged to it. A national daily had earlier reported that the money belonged to the NIA. Sources at the agency confirmed to one our correspondents late Friday that the money belonged to the agency and that it had written a formal letter to President Muhammadu…

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has decried the indiscriminate arrest and continued detention of former Governors of Benue and Niger States, Mr Gabriel Suswan and Dr Babangida Aliyu as well the National coordinator of Peoples Democratic Party National Youth Frontier (PDPNYF), Comrade Austin Usman Okai, describing their continued detention as further demonstration of All Progressives Congress (APC) government regime of vindictiveness and disrespect for the laws of Nigeria. The governor said there was no law permitting security agents to detain Nigerians indefinitely, adding that; “It is even more worrisome that former Governor Suswan has been in detention since February…