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The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) high court has granted Stephen Oronsaye, former head of the federal civil service, bail in the sum of N10m and two sureties in the sum of N5m each. The sureties could be either directors in the federal civil service or retired directors, the court directed. Paul Uket, counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), had asked the court to remand the accused person in prison after he pleaded not guilty to the charges of corruption and obtaining by false pretence. “In view of the plea my lord, we urge this court…
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How NNPC dubiously paid N36.4 billion water projects money to ex-NSA Dasuki’s office – Audit Report.
National Petroleum Corporation in 2014 diverted N36.4 billion meant for the construction and rehabilitation of dams in Nigeria, and dubiously paid same to the Office of the National Security Adviser, a government audit has said. Former NSA Sambo Dasuki is currently standing trial for alleged corruption, following revelations that his office diverted $2.1 billion meant for the purchase of arms for the fight against Boko Haram. Mr. Dasuki denies any wrong doing. The funds, according to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, were instead distributed to government cronies and politicians ahead of the 2015 general elections. The bulk of…
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Malabo condemned recent political violence in Rivers State, saying the killing of people over political differences was “primitive, barbaric and unacceptable”. “We will deal decisively with all sponsors of violence. I have given the security services clear directives in this regard,” the president said. There has been an upsurge of violence in the oil-rich state ahead of National and State Assembly rerun elections on Saturday. The All Progressives Congress, Mr. Buhari’s party, accuses the Peoples Democratic Party-led Rives government of sponsoring and stoking violence against its members. Some APC members have been killed…
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THE first time Wole Soyinka misdirected himself, it had to do with his “cautious endorsement” of Muhammadu Buhari’s presidential candidacy. He offered a platter of reasons for the stunning faux pas, of course. But, post-election, his out of sync reading of Nigerian politics has been patently exposed. To recap, it happened that in the run-up to the presidential ballot, Professor Soyinka, long time combatant on the side of the oppressed, announced that the best thing that could happen to Nigeria was a President Buhari. His rationalisation: “It is pointlessly, and dangerously provocative to present General Buhari as something that…
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC has swept all the proceeds it made from oil and gas exports since April, 2015 to service Joint Venture (JV) Cash Call funding, implying, according to the report, a zero remittance to Federation Account from its operations. The oil company report made available yesterday showed that it’s losses rose to N255.28 billion from N240.98bn recorded in October. The firm’s loss for the month of November alone was N14.29bn up from N12.22bn recorded in October. For instance, in November, the corporation recorded $402.55 million as proceeds from Crude oil sales, LPG,…
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A manhunt is launched for two suspects after four officers are wounded in an anti-terror raid in Brussels linked to the Paris attacks. One suspect was “neutralised” during the raid on a house in the Brussels suburb of Forest. It is not clear if the suspect was killed. A major police operation is under way, with two suspects on the run. Forest is close to Molenbeek, home to several people involved in November’s Paris attacks. Parts of the area are in lockdown, with police telling residents to stay indoors. Local media are reporting that there may be more…
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A god who accepts money for everything. Who lacks integrity as much as the Nigerian who believes in him/her. A god whom theiving politicians rush to with 10% and all is forgiven. who supports cheating as a means of success when it favours his/her children. A god called upon to prosper the murderers trade. A god who puts the poor at the back always and the rich at the front. A god whom needs to be thanked in the course of an employee robbing his employer blind. A god praised when the employer withholds wages and buys State of the…
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It will be a show of political might and test of their strength. Amaechi who came into the state weekend said he was on ground to mobilise his All Progressive Congress, APC members for the election. On the streets of Port Harcourt, the perception has been that the election will be a clash of “federal” and “local” might. Amaechi in a monitored radio programme in Port Harcourt promised that the state will be flooded with heavy presence of soldiers to forestall rigging. Already soldiers have been conducting mop up operations in several communities in the state ahead of…
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AS SURELY as the sun rises in the east, a major American political party could never nominate Donald Trump for president. Such was the certainty of “data” and “explanatory” journalists at sites like Vox (“Here’s Why [Trump] Won’t Win”), FiveThirtyEight (“Dear Media, Stop Freaking Out About Donald Trump’s Polls”), the New York Times’s “Upshot” (“Donald Trump…will most likely follow the classic pattern of a party-backed decline”), and even The Economist (“[Mr Trump’s] failure to impress GOP elders…all but precludes [him] from becoming the party’s flag-bearer”). Such prognosticators will have a hard time explaining Mr Trump’s formidable delegate lead. He…
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President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday disclosed that his administration has plans to extend oil and gas exploration into new fields in the Lake Chad Basin in the North East and in the coastal states, like Lagos, where oil has been discovered in commercial quantity. The president, who was represented by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, disclosed that, as part of strategies to reposition the Nigerian oil and gas industry, his government had commenced the process of implementing carefully conceived initiatives which would see the country hitting a production target of 2.8 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil. The president…
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In recognition of his personal integrity, exemplary leadership style and courage to fight terrorism in order to ensure peace and safety in Africa, President Muhammadu Buhari was on Monday in Malabo conferred with the highest national honour of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea. This was disclosed in a statement through the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Femi Adesina. The statement added that the honour of “Gran Collar De La Orden De La Independencia” translated “Grand Collar of the Order of the Independence” was conferred on President Buhari by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of…
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” Amaechi is just playing to the gallery, and should not be taken seriously ” – Army Boss. The commander, 2 Brigade of Nigerian Army, Port-Harcourt Brig. General Stevenson Olabanji has expressed disappointment over comments credited to the minister of transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi. The Army commander said his loyalty is not to Amaechi or any minister for that matter. Olabanji stated: “It’s indeed regrettable that the minister will go about on radio stations to politicize the Nigerian Army. What right has a minister to order the deployment of soldiers to any part of the country? The minister was…
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Investigators at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said Monday they have uncovered evidence showing how prominent politicians, mostly from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, allegedly shared N3.145billion in the build up to the last presidential election. Named in the alleged bazaar are a former aviation minister and director of media for the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign organization, Femi Fani-Kayode; former Secretary to the Government of the Federation and leader of the Social Democratic Party, Olu Falae; a former finance minister, Nenadi Usman; a former Imo state governor, Achike Udenwa; former minister of state for foreign affairs, Viola…
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A young man identified as Ikechukwu Anigbo was reportedly killed and burnt to death over the weekend around a relaxation centre in Apo Mechanic Village, Abuja. According to reports, the 32-year-old barber from Aku, Enugu State took a bike and argument ensued between him and the motorcycyclist when he paid. The man insisted his money is N60 instead of N50. It was alleged that attracted his colleagues to the scene by shouting “thief”. The mob gathered and started beating Ikechukwu after which they set him ablaze. Confirming the tragic incident, Mr. Ezema Virginius Chukwudike, the taskforce chairman of…
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Governor Nasir El-Rufai,of Kaduna state has been accused of “thinking of removing President Muhammadu Buhari.” According to the Interview magazine, Mr Sani said: “It would be counter-productive for the Governor to start thinking of evicting Buhari in 2019 to be the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. El-Rufai should do his job and stop putting his eyes on the Presidency.” Senator Sani and Governor El-Rufai have been loggerhead for undisclosed political reasons, leading to Sani’s suspension by the state branch of the party. Sani accused El-Rufai of ruling like “an emperor,” promising to “give him war or…
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Eze Onyekpere It is amazing how Nigerian leaders make very simple issues appear complex and complicated. The idea is to give the impression that they are doing so much when they are doing so little. The usual game plan is to draw out the patience of the public so that when that little is done, the public is expected to applaud the leaders for doing what amounts to nothing. In the process, the idea of the big picture is forgotten and the public dwells on virtual inanities. Since 2011, Nigerians have been asking the National Assembly to open up its…
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The Federal Government may have dropped her lead counsel, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs in the ongoing trial of the embattled President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki. According to reports, the Federal Government has already hired a Lagos Based lawyer, Mr Dipo Okeseyi (SAN) in Rotimi Jacobs’s (SAN) stead. Rotimi is reportedly dropped because the newly hired counsel by Saraki, a former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Kanu Agabi (SAN), was an immediate boss to Rotimi Jacobs when the former was the AGF. The commencement of trial proper was slated for last Friday but was stalled…
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Economists have long found Nigeria to be something of a conundrum. The macro picture has always appeared compelling – large population, oil reserves, mineral reserves, endless tracts of arable land, land and sea borders for regional domination. Indeed the absurdity of our underperformance is only surpassed by our ability to accurately quantify our losses and missed opportunities. In the short period that I have been privileged to serve as Minister of Finance, I have observed that even the most basic systems and controls over the management of our resources are in dire need of strengthening. While we are regaled…
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The Peoples Democratic Party , PDP, has won the three legislative positions at Saturday’s re-run elections in Taraba State. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,’s Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Mr. Habu Hinna announced the results at a briefing on Sunday in Jalingo. Hinna stated that the candidate of the PDP, Mr Dan-Asabe Hosea won the Sardauna/Kurmi/Gashaka Federal constituency with 37,645 votes as against his closest rival, Ibrahim Elsudi of the All Progressives Congress, APC, with 37,609 votes. The Commissioner said the former Speaker of the state Assembly, Mr Abel Diah of the PDP defeated Mr. Emmanuel Bongo…
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DAKAR (Reuters) – When customs officers in the sleepy Senegalese town of Koumpentoum discovered a stash of pills hidden in a bus from Mali in late February, they initially thought it was counterfeit medicine. They stored the haul, poorly concealed in blue plastic bags and a yellow jerry can, in the back of the customs office. Its owner escaped, slipping away into the sprawl of shacks and hawkers. Days later, according to two officials involved in the seizure, a top officer from regional headquarters took a closer look at the trove and identified it as the drug methamphetamine.…
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The web of teenage abductions ravaging the country has hit the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. This time, a 16-year old, SS-2 student of Government Secondary School, Apo Resettlement, Ifesinachi Ani, was abducted about six months ago and taken to unknown destination. The missing girl is a native of Amaechi Awkunanaw in Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu State. The mother, a widow of four, lamented that neither the FCT Police Command nor other organisations have been able to offer any reasonable assistance to secure the release of the girl and called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the…
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Today, Wednesday 7 October 2015, is the 48th anniversary of the mass execution of 700 Igbo male, boys and men, in Asaba (twin Oshimili River port of Biafra) by genocidist Nigeria military brigade commanded by Murtala Muhammed and Ibrahim Haruna and Ibrahim Taiwo. This was during phase-III of the Igbo genocide which Nigeria launched on 6 July 1967. Emma Okocha’s Blood on the Niger (TriAtlantic Books, 2006), a compulsory reference in the study of the Igbo genocide, meticulously catalogues the savagery and aftermath of this massacre. Okocha, who lost most of his family during the slaughter, survived the execution…
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In just a matter of weeks, the NDDC will have a new boss, and he is the defeated governorship aspirant of the APC in April 11, 2015 election in Akwa Ibom state, Chief Umanah Umanah, a popular Akwa Ibom politician, former SSG and commissioner of finance. As SSG in former Governor Akpabio’s cabinet, the APC standard bearer reject his nomination for the position in 2014, and thereafter got removed from office by the governor. His rejection of the position was seen as a strategy to send him out of the state to pave way for Mr. Emmanuel Udom, who…
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President Buhari has refused to give an inch in his rock-solid determination not to devalue the naira. Unsurprisingly, this has earned him critical opprobrium among professional neoclassical economists and others knowledgeable in the links between exchange policy and economic growth and corruption. This much was revealed in his recent Al Jazeera interview and discussions among many Nigerians. To many the president’s foreign exchange policy does not make economic sense. But is that really true? Let me offer a perspective that will shed some light on the sense and sensibility of the president’s “stubbornness” with regard to devaluation. Before I…
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“Let me start by saying that I am Fulani (laughter). My grandfather was an Emir and therefore I represent all that has been talked about this afternoon. Sir Ajayi has written a book. And like all Nigerians of his generation, he has written in the language of his generation. “My grandfather was a Northerner, I am a Nigerian. The problem with this country is that in 2009, we speak in the language of 1953. Sir Olaniwun can be forgiven for the way he spoke, but I cannot forgive people of my generation speaking in that language. “Let us go…
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Like the gold rush of California in 19th century America, the small settlement of Oloibiri, a district headquarters in Ogbia in the defunct Eastern Region, came into limelight in second half of the 20th century when workers of Shell Darcy converged on the town in search of the black gold. However, the explorers made history in June 1956 when they struck the black gold in swampy communities of Otuabagi/Otuogidi in the Oloibiri District of Ogbia, making the latter district the first in West Africa where crude oil was discovered in commercial quantity. Providence again ensured that the Ogbia kingdom…
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When people look for power at all costs, beware of them. Don’t listen to them. In short chase them away from where you are, or run away from them as far as you can. They don’t mean well! I challenge anyone to be bold to tell me here and now that the buhari they presented to us to vote for is the same buhari that is in Aso Rock now! The Country is going down hill because of the ineptitude of that impostor in Aso Rock (please bring back the tinubu created buhari). Over 4 million Nigerians have lost…
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President Muhammadu Buharis late realization that Senate President, Bukola Saraki, would become the next acting president of Nigeria, has quickly cancelled VP Osinbajo’s trip to India, as he also will be out of Nigeria next week.Nigeria’s Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo, has made a last-minute cancelation of a trip to India owing to protocol blunders by the Protocol Department of the Presidency as well as a realization that Senate President Bukola Saraki would have had to act as President for a couple of days. Mr. Saraki is currently embroiled in a trial for corruption that he and his…
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Smarting from his embarrassing outing in far away London, the United Kingdom where a Biafran agitator lambasted him for being an embarrassment to the Igbo race, Governor Okorocha seems to have decided to turn his anger on ordinary Imolites who definitely do not have any hand in spoiling his outing. Grapevine sources squealed to Yours Sincerely that the Governor believes that the young IPOB agitator who is based in the UK could not have had such damaging information on him if not for what he is being fed with from home, hence his decision to punish all those “gossips”…
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Ghana has prohibited some items from entry into its domain, following Nigeria’s foot steps that restricted 41 items from access to foreign exchange. Ghana however has placed a ban on some goods from being imported into the country. Ghanaian Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah stated yesterday that Ghana and Nigeria are said to account for some 68 per cent of the ECOWAS region’s Gross Domestic Product. President Muhammadu Buhari with his Ghanaian counterpart, President John Dramani Mahama. Nigeria accounts for almost 10 per cent of Ghana’s foreign trade volume, whereas Ghana is listed as the…
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Dr Oyinwola Oni, a Lagos based DNA expert says that 40% of men do not know that they are not the biological fathers of their first child. Dr Oni said this while sharing his experience on how a former girlfriend wanted to force a set of twins on him. Read what he told City People below; “How I got into doing DNA is an interesting story which all man should learn from. I lost my wife about 6 years ago. About that time there was a lady I have known for long in Nigeria but who now lives in…
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The All Progressives Congress, APC, is set to engulf itself into a leadership feud, as top members of the party are currently pushing for the dismissal or resignation of the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie Oyegun. The Authority has confirmed. It was reliably gathered that officials of the party, have succeeded in forcing Oyegun to embark on a 10 day leave, a move which has doused tension among party heavy weights, as his opponents insist that he must not return to his seat after the break. This development has grounded activities at the APC National Secretariat…
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The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, is kicking as investigation has unmasked some top chieftains of the party and ministers in the inner caucus of President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet, who have been sabotaging the effort of the federal government. Post-Nigerian, in a thorough analysis of a statement credited to Buhari during a recent interview he granted to Al-Jazeera, discovered that the president was obviously referring to some key chieftains of the APC and top members of his administration. During the interview, Buhari let the cat out of the bag by saying that there are some people in his government,…
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President Muhammadu Buhari, has launched a full scale anti-corruption war within the All Progressives Congress, APC, over allegations of corruption and mismanagement of election campaign funds, The Cable has confirmed. The president is said to be accusing top leaders of the APC over the mismanagement of about N7 Billion used for the 2015 general election. According to sources, the decision of the president not to offer ‘financial bailout’ to the party, since his assumption into office has led to serious internal crisis within the party. “The president is furious with the party leaders, and has refused to support them…
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One of the advantages of the exit of former President Goodluck Jonathan from the seat of power is that it has deprived those who derived joy in blaming him for every negative thing under the sun. If ex-president Jonathan was still in power, the Imo State government would have blamed him for the recent altercation it had with Labour Unions. We would have been inundated with unnecessary propaganda of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government at the centre inciting Labour Unions to shoot down Imo State because Imo is an All Progressives Congress (APC) governed state. The state government would…
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President Buhari and Ibe Kachikwu must understand that the pro-corruption caterwauling oil workers trying to slow down Nigeria’s progress at NNPC cannot be handled the way you handle Dasuki or Alex Badeh. Alleged thieves like Dasuki and Badeh are billionaires. When their own corruption fights back, it is refined and civilized fighting. That is why you see them in court, all smiles, exchanging banter with journalists and lawyers, receiving phone calls, reading novels and newspapers, and watching Cossy Orjiakor on their phone screens during trial proceedings. They are contented thieves. They know Nigeria. They know that at the end…
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC) has announced the appointment of the President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, Mallam Garba-Deen Mohammed, as the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the corporation. According to a statement by the NNPC in Abuja, in addition to 53 other appointments, Deen-Garba takes over from Mr. Ohi. Alegbe, who is now the Group General Manager (GGM), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The NNPC said, “As part of the recent reorganization of NNPC, the management of the organization wishes to formally announce the following appointments, redeployments and secondments into key positions. These appointments…
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Nigeria’s third-most powerful politician appeared in court on Friday to face false declaration of assets charges, with 66 lawyers on his defence team. Senate President Bukola Saraki’s lead counsel, Kanu Agabi, took about 10 minutes to read the long list of advocates and for them to acknowledge their presence at the Code of Conduct Tribunal. Saraki is facing 13 counts of false declaration of assets relating to his time as governor of the north central state of Kwara. There was no immediate explanation about why so many lawyers were needed but it is not the first time in Nigeria…
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Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy is becoming less attractive to investors who are wary of the country’s economic future at a time the country’s currency is overvalued. According to a member of the central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee, having a fixed exchange rate when there is a plan to increase government borrowing just doesn’t work. Dr Adedoyin Salami, a faculty member of the Lagos Business School said the naira was 10 percent over-valued. The naira trades at more than 35 percent below the official rate on the black market versus the dollar. The academic, who is one of the 12…
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Boko Haram is still holding plenty of territory in Northern Nigeria, commander of the US Africa Command (USAFRICOM), General David Rodriguez, has said. General Rodriguez’s claim challenges Nigeria’s official position on the seven-year old insurgency that has so far claimed about 20,000 lives and displaced 2.5 million people. Rodriguez’s assertion comes almost two months after President Muhammadu Buhari told the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki Moon, that the terrorist group was no longer “holding any territory as we speak.” Buhari, who was speaking on the sidelines of the World Future Energy Summit in the UAE,…
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President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday, made good his threat to deal ruthlessly with top civil servants who altered figures in the 2016 budget thereby making nonsense of his zero budget plan. No fewer than 184 top budget officials were flushed out of budget duties and sent to establishments that have little or nothing to do with budget, as a punishment for their roles in padding this year’s fiscal document, now before the National Assembly. A top official in the Budget office confirmed that 22 top officers from the Budget Office of the Federation were affected in the mass deployment. The…
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Muhammadu Sanusi II, emir of Kano, has described the current system of government practised in Nigeria as wasteful, saying the country does not need to have 36 governors. Speaking in Lagos on Thursday during the inaugural lecture of Sikiru Adetona, the Awujale of Ijebu land, the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) lamented that about 80 per cent of the country’s resources is spent on government officials. “You sometimes wonder if anyone needs to tell any group of persons that you don’t need 36 governors, 36 deputy governors, each with commissioners, special advisers, a president,…
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The governor of Bayelsa State, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson has reunited the leaders of the Imo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as the leaders and elders unequivocally pledged their loyalty to the PDP National Executive Council (NEC). It would be recalled that following the resolve of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP to unite its members and strengthen the party across the country, the national chairman, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff on March 8, 2016 set up a peace and reconciliation committee headed by Governor Dickson. In a communiqué made available to LEADERSHIP jointly signed by Mr Achike…
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Ali Modu Sheriff, the National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has promised that candidates would not be imposed in the party’s forthcoming congresses and national convention. Sheriff gave the assurance when he received a delegation of PDP from Adamawa state led by its Chairman Joel Madaki at the Party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday. He said nobody in the National Working Committee led by him would be allowed to manipulate the process in any state in the forthcoming congresses. “We will conduct congresses that will not be manipulated by anybody. We will send people to local governments…
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According To Hope for Nigeria, Former Rivers state Governor, Rotimi Amaechi has written to Bancorp Bank in Minnesota in the United States that the alleged $757 million Dollars domiciled in an account in his name; was authorized by him in error; from a Rivers State Government Account with Access Bank Plc. The Nigerian most corrupt governor according to CNN letter reveals that a similar letter was also written to a bank in Switzerland; stating that a similar authorization was made in error. The letter stated that the said transfers to both banks were for the purchase of security Helicopters,…
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The Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to the former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh (retd), to the tune of N2billion. Badeh is facing trial over allegation that he diverted about N3.9billion from accounts of the Nigerian Air Force within 2013. No handcuffs Badeh In a ruling this afternoon, trial Justice Okon Abang said he was minded to exercise his discretion in favour of the erstwhile military chief who has been in custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, since February 8. Placing reliance…
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Senior and junior workers unions’ action to protest the unbundling of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, is already taking its toll as power generation dropped to 1,580.6 megawatts, MW, in the early hours of yesterday. Recall that generation capacity had inched up to 4,387MW on Friday, after crashing to 2,800MW prior to that from a peak of 5000MW due to gas pipeline vandalism, according to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC. Data from the Nigerian Systems Operations Department of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, website,www.nsong.org, indicated that the situation had gone even worse, with generation peaking at…
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Lt. Gen Ayatollah T. Yusuf Buratai says he is the defender of democracy THE Nigerian Army Unit Commander stationed at Ovre-Eku community, Ethiope East Local Government Area, Delta State, Lt. E. D. Oworobo, has told a police source that the reason he ordered his men to flog the women who had embarked on a peaceful protest over a disputed land claimed by PRESCO Oil Company, was because they attempted to disarm his men. Oworobo and his men of the 4th Brigade Command, Benin-City, Edo State, had last Wednesday, flogged and kicked hundreds of women protesting at Ovre-Eku (Iwevbo) community…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Dakuku Peterside, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2015 governorship in Rivers, as director-general of Nigerian Maritime administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). NIMASA is under the supervision of the ministry of transport, which is headed by Rotimi Amaechi, former governor of Rivers state who spearheaded Peterside’s electioneering campaign. Yetunde Sonaike, director of public relations in the ministry of transportation, confirmed this in a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday. She said the appointment was with immediate effect. The statement said Peterside holds a doctorate degree in Management Science from the…
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Former military Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, retd; yesterday owned up to fathering a love child with the late public relations expert, Princess Edith Ike Okongwu, bringing to an end the 48-year-old paternity dispute over Musa Gowon. Musa, who returned to Nigeria at the end of last year, was acknowledged by Gen. Gowon upon the report of a conclusive DNA test. The paternity dispute was the subject of a legal action that reached the Supreme Court in Nigeria, which Okongwu won. However, execution of the judgment was thwarted by the arrest of Musa by United States law enforcement…
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Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mr Femi Adesina, was guest on Radio Continental programme Friday last week (March 4,2016). Here are excerpts from the interview: Q: Fulani herdsmen have on several occasions been accused of ransacking places they pass through while they are herding their cattle. Nigerians are wondering and asking why there seems to be a very loud silence on the part of the federal government on the matter? A: If anybody says there is a loud silence, it means that person has not been listening. At times, it is so very easy…
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The house of representatives has given Lawal Daura, director-general of the Department of State Service (DSS), 48 hours to appear before it and explain the alleged invasion of the Ekiti state house of assembly by the DSS. The summon followed the unanimous adoption of a motion under matters of urgent public importance moved by Leo Ogor, minority leader, on Tuesday. Presenting the motion, Ogor condemned the action, saying such interference violated the principle of separation of powers. “It is a clear violation of the provisions of the constitution; it is unacceptable as it demonstrates interference with an arm of…
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The famous rapper and singer Akon (Aliaune Damala Badara Thiam.. yeah.. that’s his real name) in 2014 decided to give filling dance floors a break in favor of bringing solar energy to people living in rural Africa. The idea came when the researches showed that the continent averages 320 days of sunshine a year. So why not use this advantage? There are just so many people in Africa still living in darkness while the world fights over who has more followers on Instagram. It’s insane. Akon has decided to seriously diversify and set up charity “Akon Lighting Africa” in…
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The House of Representatives said on Wednesday that the N1.4trillion fine imposed on MTN by the Nigerian Communications Commission “must” be fully paid as against the N780billion the Federal Government negotiated with the telecommunications service provider. The House also expressed unhappiness over the role played by the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami, in the negotiations leading to a reduction in the $5.2billion fine. Its Committee on Telecommunications said at a meeting with the Minister of Communication, Mr. Adebayo Shittu, and top officials of NCC in Abuja that Malami usurped the powers of the…
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As labour takes responsibility for paying civil servants The Imo state government has decided to reduce the salaries and allowances of civil servants by 30 percent as a result of the agreement signed between labour and government recently. In the heat of the imbroglio between the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Imo state government recently, government rescinded the decision to implement the sacking of about 3,000 workers in the various parastatals in the state. This was because the NLC consented to the use of 70 percent of the total revenue accruing to the state for the payment of…
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President Muhammadu Buhari just arrived the Washington DC, ahead of tomorrow’s meeting with US President, Barack Obama. Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, who took to his twitter handle, tweeted: “Pres. @MBuhari has just arrived the Joint Base Andrews Int’l Airport, Washington DC for tomorrow’s meeting with President Obama.
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THE Senate has begun the process into the probe of the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to unbundle the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. In a point of Order by Senate Chief Whip, Senator Olusola Adeyeye on the floor of the Senate today, he drew the attention of other Senators to the unbundling of the nation’s agency in charge of the oil and gas sector in the country. Adeyeye who will formally present a motion tomorrow where there would be extensive debate at the plenary, described the exercise as illegal as the federal government did not consult the…
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) is experiencing financial distress and has been unable to pay the salaries of its staff. At a news briefing on January 25, John Oyegun, national chairman of the party, had admitted that the party was having financial challenges, but he added that the party did not want to bother President Muhammadu Buhari because it was not his constitutional duty to finance the party. “There has been this talk in the media but that goes to tell you that just like the economy, the party too is suffering from the stresses and strains of funding…
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The House of Representatives has summoned the Director General, Department of State Services, Mr. Musa Lawal Daura, over what it called the invasion of the Ekiti State House of Assembly. Daura is expected to appear within the next 48 hours. Officials of the DSS had arrested four members of the state assembly within its premises last Friday, drawing condemnation from members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The House resolution followed a motion sponsored as a matter of urgent national importance by the Minority Leader, Hon. Leo Ogor, who described the act as abuse of the sanctity of…
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Nigeria’s GDP Slows to 2.11% in Fourth Quarter as Oil Sector Contracts. Nigeria’s real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate declined to 2.11 per cent in the fourth quarter of last year compared to 2.84 per cent in the third quarter, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Nigeria’s economy grew at 3.86 per cent and 2.35 per cent in the first and second quarters of 2015. According to the fourth quarter report released yesterday by the statistical agency, the growth rate was lower by 0.73 per cent relative to the growth recorded in the preceding quarter…
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Following the alleged invasion of the Ekiti State House of Assembly and subsequent arrests of four lawmakers and appointees of Governor Ayodele Fayose by the Department of State Services, the Nigerian Bar Association and the organized labour have told President Muhammadu Buhari to drop the toga of dictatorship for the survival of Nigeria’s democracy . A statement by NBA Chairman, Dr Foluke Dada in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday said the body views the arrest and detention by the DSS as a sharp departure from the tenets of Democracy and a clear contravention of the Law setting up the Institution.…
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“Democracy lets all voices, even those against it, be heard. Democracy’s true strength is its ability to incorporate the needs and desires of a diverse population into a governing consensus over a long period of time.” (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOATIONS, VBQ p 36). Last week, this article started with a defence of the rights of Mr Kanu – the pro-Biafra leader. This is only a continuation of that and other instances in which the DSS might be exaggerating threats to the country and exacerbating crisis. Incidentally, the over-kill adopted by the Army in Zaria against the Shii’te Muslims is…
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Oil workers all over the country have shut down the operations of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) throughout after the unbundling of the corporation ordered by the state minister of petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu. The members of staff and management of the corporation arrived their various offices on Wednesday morning to discover that they could not gain entrance. Staffs were told to return home as oil workers enforce total strike. More details on this to follow
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Ekiti State lawmakers have made a shocking revelation that they were offered $1 million dollars to impeach the incumbent governor of the state, Ayodele Fayose. Ekiti State House of Assembly members have made a shocking allegation as they revealed that they are being pressured to impeach Governor Ayodele Fayose, and that a sum of $1 million was being promised some of the members that will be ready to be a part of the impeachment plot, Vanguard reports. The report states further that the Assembly members vowed that the 2006 experience, in which Assembly members in Ekiti State were forced…
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The Federal Government has unbundled the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation into seven divisions comprising 20 subsidiaries, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Group Managing Director of the corporation, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has said. Kachikwu, who spoke to journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, also stated that the subsidy regime on petrol and kerosene had not been terminated by the Federal Government. He, however, noted that what the government had done was to modulate the prices of the commodities based on the fall in crude oil prices internationally. The minister, who spoke in details on plans and actions undertaken…
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The Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) and its mobile subsidiary (MTEL) are to employ 10,000 Nigerians, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications has been informed. The new owners of the once state-owned telecommunications giant, NATCOM, which is a consortium of seven local and foreign companies, made the disclosure at an investigative public hearing by the committee on over the weekend in Abuja. NATCOM chairman, Mr. Olatunde Ayeni, had told the House committee that having met all requirements and due diligence in the process leading to the acquisitions of NITEL and MTEL, the company has put in place a…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says the implementation of the federal government’s Treasury Single Account (TSA) is affecting its income generation as it can no longer invest savings to fund budget deficits. The commission made the assertion in a statement on its website titled ‘The Nexus between SEC and TSA’. It said that like many other initiatives, TSA came with teething problems, which include adjusting to the new ways and getting the procedures right. But most disturbing, SEC said, is the “inability of the commission to directly invest its savings as was the practice to generate interest income…
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The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 3 Division of the Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Muhammed Aliyu, has been involved in a ghastly auto crash along Damaturu, Maiduguri road in Yobe State with some other officers. One General is confirmed dead with the GOC critically injured. The identity of the dead General is yet to be ascertained. The military were conveying the injured GOC to Jos, Plateau State for better medical attention. Yobe State Deputy Governor, Abubakar Aliyu, the Secretary to the State Government, Baba Malam Wali, State Police Commissioner, Zanna Muhammed were among the early sympathisers at the General Sani…
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The PDP NEC after exhaustive deliberations approved the extension of the tenure of office of all organs of the party at all levels until the conduct of Congresses and National Convention. This is however with the exception of Edo and Ondo States. The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the PDP in its 69th meeting deliberated on critical issues as they relate to the party and the nation, and resolved as follows. A. Party Congresses and National Convention; 1. NEC approved the time-table for the party’s Congresses and National Convention. Congresses commence on Saturday, April 23, 2016 and culminate in…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mr. Steve Oronsaye, for an alleged N240m fraud. Oronsaye, who is already being prosecuted by the EFCC on 24 counts of money laundering, was arrested again on Tuesday based on fresh evidence. The former civil service boss is alleged to have abused his position as Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Financial Action Task Force and obtained a sum of N240million from the Central Bank of Nigeria in the guise of assistance to the committee without the knowledge of other committee…
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Nigerians voted for change and to attain it there is a need to do things differently, in the recognition that doing what we have always done will only result in more of the same. That change has started with the ongoing offensive against corruption, which has had a huge and adverse effect on our economy. Much of the debilitating underinvestment in our infrastructure that has handicapped our economic growth has arisen because funds were diverted to enrich a few at the expense of the wider populace. At the lower levels, the waste, inefficiency and culture of non-performance have, like…
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There are three fundamental reasons why Nigeria should recalibrate its relations with South Africa. One, South Africa is now post-apartheid. Two, post-apartheid South Africa has been ungrateful to Nigeria. And, three, Nigeria is now by far the leading economy in Africa. After Nigeria secured independence from Britain in 1960, Africa immediately became the “centrepiece” of Nigeria’s foreign policy. This translated to automatic support of Nigeria for other African countries agitating for political independence. The struggle to end the apartheid system of political and social oppression of the black majority by the white minority in South Africa also gained Nigeria’s…
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It is now about nine years since Ibrahim Mantu, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, left office as deputy president of the Nigerian senate. During his tenure, Mr. Mantu was one of the most powerful politicians in the land, and was regularly described as the most trusted henchman of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in the Senate. After he was defeated by a little known politician in 2007, Mr. Mantu slipped into political obscurity, building his business and strengthening his relationship with God, he says. In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES’ Musikilu Mojeed and…
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The Federal Government has amended the charges of preferred against a former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Godsday Orubebe, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal. The amendment which saw the number of the original counts filed against Orubebe reduced from four to one, has eliminated the charges bordering the acceptance of N70m bribe by the ex-minister. Only one out of the two counts bordering on false assets declaration in the former charges was retained in the new one Lead prosecuting counsel, Mr. Mohammed Diri, told the Danladi Umar-led CCT on Tuesday that the amended charge was dated March…
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Outspoken Senator and businessman, Ben Murray-Bruce, representing Bayelsa East senatorial district, has said that it is unfair for President Muhammadu Buhari to ban foreign exchange for Nigerian students abroad, while his own children school abroad. Mr. Buhari during an interview granted to Al Jazeera said: “Nigeria cannot continue to subsidize the forex needs of everyone.” “Those who can afford foreign education for their children can go ahead, but Nigeria cannot afford to allocate foreign exchange for those who decided to train their children outside the country. We can’t just afford it. That is just the true situation,” he said.…
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Reports from the banking system have indicated that over $30 billion worth of unmet demand for foreign exchange have been piled up at the official window of the foreign exchange market maintained by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, in the last six months. This came as the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, challenged Federal Government to implement policies that would ensure a drastic reduction in the use of foreign raw materials, if the nation must achieve its manufacturing needs. This $30 billion represents bids submitted by importers through their various banks to CBN for foreign exchange allocation for…
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Dangote and Emir Sanusi II Black Rhino, an indigenous portfolio company of Blackstone Energy Partners, and Dangote Group of Companies, are to jointly invest up to $10 billion in energy infrastructure projects in Kano State and in East South Nigeria. The projects are with particular emphasis on renewable energy, power transmission and building of pipelines. Muhammadu Sanusi II, emir of Kano, who is the chairman of Black Rhino Group, disclosed that his group and Dangote Industries would contribute $5 billion each for the construction of a coal power plant and a solar energy project in Kano,…
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Only Boko Haram, Isis, and al-Shabab were deemed deadlier than the little-known militant group from West Africa The military has been stretched by recurrent attacks from Boko Haram and now the Fulani militants. The fourth deadliest known terrorist group has been named as the Fulani militant group operating in Nigeria and parts of the Central African Republic. The little-known group, formed of individuals from the semi-nomadic pastorial ethnic group Fula people existing across several West African nations, has seen a dramatic escalation of its activities in the past year. In 2013, the Fulani killed around 80 people in total –…
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Until the official AR is released, let’s take a 2nd look at these images: The front windshield and front windows are still intact though shattered. However the rear window/screens are gone. Note: The driver and Adc were most likely in the front section. *eyeroll* The rollover safety cage for the entire car is still intact and rigid. The roof didn’t cave in to crush any skulls even with the multiple somersaults. Miraculously, even the backseat head rests have clearance and appear relatively unscathed. Most cars sound seatbelt alarms for front seat passengers. It is therefore safe to conclude…
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Representatives of the Swiss government are expected in Nigeria on Tuesday to discuss with their Nigerian counterparts on the repatriation of another tranche of huge public funds stolen by late Head of State, Sani Abacha.The delegation would be led by the Swiss Minister for Foreign Affairs, Didier Burkhalter, who is expected to meet with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, over the repatriation of the $321million confiscated from the family of late former head of state, Sani Abacha. An official of the Swiss Embassy in Nigeria, Pascal Holliger, confirmed the visit exclusively on…
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Eng Chinedu Okpalanma was one of the founders of #BringbackGoodluck2015 & GIFT now coodinating #IStandWithBuhari campaign The Director-General of the #iStandWithBuhari campaign, Engr. Chinedu Okpalanma, has responded to Kayode Ogundamisi, the journalist and political commentator who accused him of being a fraud because of his past role as co-founder of the #BringBackGoodluck2015 initiative and GIFT(Goodluck initiative for transformation). He said he was dismayed by Ogundamisi’s “vicious campaign” against his character and person just so he could pull down a “nationalistic movement to which I and millions of well-meaning Nigerians have freely subscribed to via the affirmative statement #istandwithbuhari.” Okpalanma…
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday, held its 69th National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting at its National Secretariat, Abuja. A communique signed by Chairman, Ali Modu Sheriff and Secretary, Prof Adewale Oladipo, said the meeting deliberated on critical issues as they related to the party and the nation, and resolved as follows: “Party Congresses and National Convention; NEC approved the time-table for the party’s Congresses and National Convention. Congresses commence on Saturday, April 23, 2016 and culminate in the National Convention on Saturday, May 21, 2016. “NEC approved the party’s Guidelines for Congresses and the National Convention. National…
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Following the inability of the federal government to produce any of the eight witnesses scheduled to testify before the court, the defendants, through their lawyer, Chief Chuks Muoma, SAN, applied to be discharged and acquitted of the charge against them. They predicated their application on the provision of section 351(1) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015. Earlier, the DPP informed the court that the witnesses said they would not appear to testify against the defendants unless the are allowed to wear masks or their identities shielded from both lawyers and people observing the proceeding. ‘My lord…
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In the event of the unfortunate death of Nigeria’s minister of state for labour due to an accident occasioned by a tyre blowout and the fact that in Nigeria now-a-days, we have many untrained drivers, it has become pertinent for me to write this. There are 6 simple steps to take within a maximum of 2 minutes and you will be safe, these by the grace of God I have been familiar with for decades. They are as follow: (1) DON’T PANIC in the event of a blowout, calm yourself down fast because your car will start misbehaving and…
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Due to the uncertainties surrounding the conduct of court ordered rerun elections in Imo State, I deem it fit to suspend discussion on that till the electoral umpire must have come out with credible information on the date for the conduct of that election. However, the topic under discussion also has a lot to do with that, as it is expected to help the people arrive at a better choice as regards whom they will be electing to represent them at any level in the legislative chambers, especially, as it is that these elections are particularly to fill up…
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Court rejects ex-Defence Chief Badeh’s application for bail Ex-Defence Chief Badeh bought N1.4 billion mansion with public funds, EFCC claims A Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, has ordered a former Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh, remanded at the Kuje Maximum Prison, pending the determination of his bail application on March 10. Justice Okon Abang gave the ruling Monday after Mr. Badeh was arraigned for alleged fraud, relating to the diversion of N3.9 billion meant for the purchase of arms for the Nigerian military. Mr. Abang struck out the bail application filed by Mr. Badeh’s counsel, Samuel Zibiri,…
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Wife of Vice-President, Dolapo Osinbajo Dolapo, wife of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, on Sunday lamented the various abuses women and girls are being subjected to in Nigeria. Mrs. Osinbajo, who spoke at a service to mark this year’s Mother’s Day at the Aso Villa Chapel at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, regretted that girls who are supposed to be mothers of tomorrow were no longer safe in the country. “The girls are under threat,” Mrs. Osinbajo said According to her, many girls in the country are passing through difficult times as they are being sexually abused, abducted and killed. The Vice-President’s…
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President Muhammadu Buhari says there are some persons in his administration who are not “100 percent loyal” to his government. Buhari was speaking in an interview he had with Al Jazeera during his recent trip to Qatar. He described the controversies surrounding the 2016 budget as unfortunate, saying those responsible for the embarrassment will not go unpunished. When asked if he meant there were those sabotaging his government, he replied: “Certainly!” He added that those who want to be fair to his government will appreciate the effort made in cutting the cost of governance. “I will like people to assess…
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I read somewhere that a recent poll has revealed that President Buhari’s popularity has gone down below 40%. This is just the beginning. Before 2019, it might drop further to less than 20%. I have said it several times that Nigeria’s political system is evil. It ruins people… Prof. Maurice Iwu had a rich CV in the world of academics. We gave him INEC Chairman and he became ruined. Goodluck Jonathan had a rich CV as a PHD holder in Bootany and Zoology and was former deputy governor, governor, Vice President, and became our breath of fresh air president,…
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Suspected kidnappers of the schoolgirls. The three abducted schoolgirls of Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary in Ikorodu, Lagos, have been rescued by the police. It was gathered that the schoolgirls were rescued in an overnight operation by the police while some of the kidnappers were arrested. The Lagos State Police spokesperson, Dolapo Badmos, confirmed the rescue and arrests to our correspondent. “Yes, the girls have been rescued safely by the police in an overnight operation. We also made some arrests,” she said. The PPRO promised to get back to our correspondent with details of the operation. The pupils,…
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Is this the change you promised us? Actress, Regina Askia asks in an open letter to Buhari Dear Mr President… Thank you for all your effort at containing the corruption in Nigeria however unpopular. Nigerians elected you through serious acrimony , loosing several lives and facing deadly unrest but they chose you. Though you are from the North of OUR country you are president of all. How is it that violence and deaths still hold sway? My hope and prayer was that on your ascension you would deploy our military with fiat and alacrity armed to the teeth and…
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Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha yesterday supposedly regretted collecting the N26 billion bailout funds from the federal government. He said the monthly deductions, which will run for the next twenty years, have drastically affected the allocation of the state. Stating that the state was in dire financial strait, Okorocha explained after implementation of agreement with Labour, which left the state with 30 percent of the allocation, the salaries and entitlements of senior functionaries were slashed by 35%. He debunked insinuations that the bailout funds were diverted or misappropriated. The governor restated that the funds were used for payment of…
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Strong indications emerged at the weekend that security agencies probing alleged corruption in the nation’s judiciary have formally notified the leadership, through the National Judicial Council (NJC). Names of judges with “questionable” cash balance in their bank accounts were also said to have been made available to the judiciary leadership. A highly-placed judiciary source told our reporter that “administrative procedure of getting the affected judiciary personnel to explain their side of the story” might have been sanctioned. In plain language, the judges were to be queried regarding “material acquisition that is suspected to be above their legitimate earnings.”…
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Silent crisis rocking the leadership of the ruling All progressives Congress becoming messy as members of members of National Working Committee, (NWC) staged a walk out, insisting that the national Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun resigns. Last week, it was reported that Chief Oyegun handed over the mantle of leadership of the party to former Ekiti State Governor and the Deputy National Chairman of the Party, Chief Segun Oni, stating that he, Oyegun was going on 10 days vacation. According to our source, The development has grounded activities at the APC National Secretariat as all the National Working Committee (NWC)…
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Anytime you hear a Nigerian veer into a conversation whose nuances she/he can’t even grasp with “it is our culture and it is none of your business”, rush to the nearest clinic and take vaccination shots against stupidity before you move near this Nigerian again lest she/he infests you with the stupidity virus. The tragedy is that the Nigerian hardly ever mobilizes cultural alibis to defend what is good. Speak of Nigerian innovation, genius, creativity, etc, you will never hear, “it is our culture”. Mention anything untoward, any uncatholic thing or practice and onward soldiers of culture and religion will…
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Imo state governor Rochas Okorocha is reportedly involved in the alleged diversion of over N2 billion from the N26 billion bailout fund given to Imo by the federal government for the payment of civil servants salaries. After rounding up three senior aides to the governor who are believed to be connected to the diversion of the bailout funds by the EFCC, This Day says he may have absconded from the country. Dr Paschal Obi, a deputy director in the ministry of Health, in charge of optical services; director of finance, government house, Casmir Uzoho and the government house treasurer,…
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Taking a brief look at our history, the Native Authority (NA) system was the first colonial system of local government administration under which indirect rule and exploitation was the order of the day. This centralised local government system was established in Northern Nigeria before later being extended to Southern Nigeria, with varying degrees of success. The Native Authority system did not satisfy the needs and aspirations of the local people, hence there were intense agitations from the citizenry for greater participation in their own affairs. There followed a series of reforms as a result of the perceived failures of…
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Fellow Nigerians, something melodramatic occurred some days ago in Doha, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, where President Muhammadu Buhari dropped a bombshell inadvertently. And what was the matter? The President in his usual candour and uncommon honesty announced that one of his major campaign promises was no longer feasible and practicable; the plan to pay unemployed youths a paltry sum of N5,000 monthly stipend was thus summarily jettisoned. Or so it seemed. To be accurate, what Mr President said with a wry smile was that this was a campaign promise of his Party and was one of the cardinal points…
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…Says FG not in contempt of his bail order The embattled former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki, retd, yesterday, failed to persuade an Abuja high court sitting at Maitama to stop the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, from prosecuting him on a 22-count criminal charge bordering on alleged diversion of N19billion arms fund. In a ruling yesterday, trial Justice Peter Affen, dismissed as lacking in merit, Dasuki’s application to be discharged by the court. Former National Security Adviser, NSA, to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Col. Sambo Dasuki Justice Affen held that the continued detention of the…
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