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A human rights group in Nigeria, the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ) has called on the newly appointed Minister of Defence, Monsur Dan-Ali and the authority of the Nigeria Army to bring out the controversial Senior Secondary School Certificate (SSCE) of the President and Commander-in-Chief of Armed Forces, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd). General Buhari had before the election insisted that his controversial original Certificate was with the authority of the Nigeria Army. The rights group in the seven (7) days ultimatum said that failure of President Buhari to order the authority of Nigerian Army as their Commander-in-Chief, to release his original Senior School Certificate, which he used to be enlisted in the Army, would amount to “blatant lie of the highest order from the acclaimed incorruptible President Buhari.” In a statement issued and signed by the CHRSJ’s Executive Chairman, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman, he said, “Following the recent statement credit...

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has discovered 17 staff members of the Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) with fake NYSC exemption certificates. Four of the suspects were handed over to the police by the corps for onward prosecution while others are to be arrested for prosecution. Speaking with newsmen at the handing over in Abuja, the NYSC Director of Certification, Alhaji Hudu Aliyu Taura, said the arrest was made possible through the cooperation of their employers, who alerted the scheme for verification of their certificates. He disclosed that 17 certificates were found out to be fake during the verification exercise carried out by the scheme, adding that three out of the suspects who are currently using the certificates to work in one of the financial institutions bank were on the run. He assured that the remaining 10 people and those on the run would soon be arrested. “Some employers came to verify those certificates, specifically GTB sent certificates to be verified by u...

Former Governor Lucky Igbinedion of Edo State has accused incumbent Governor Adams Oshiomhole of squandering trillions of Federal Allocations and Internally Generated Revenue the state has collected in the last seven years. Igbinedion also dismissed a statement credited to Oshiomhole that he kept quiet for seven years on the illegalities and fraud allegedly perpetrated by the former governor while in office because he could not “report a thief to an armed robber”. In a statement he personally signed in Abuja on Saturday, the ex-governor promised to expose his successor at the appropriate time. The back and forth between Oshiomhole and his predecessor began on Wednesday when the former said his administration had begun moves to recover $31m allegedly “fraudulently taken” from the government coffers, during Igbinedion’s administration. Oshiomhole also vowed to publish records of fraud allegedly perpetrated by the ex-governor, adding that he would forward all the files contain...