Following an appeal by the 36 state governors seeking President Muhammadu Buhari’s intervention over the inability of some states to pay workers’ salaries, the President has agreed to meet with governors tomorrow. This is just as the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, has advised affected states to explore available avenues to alleviate the plights of the workers. The meeting between ... Read More »
Governor Muhammad Badaru of Jigawa State says his administration has concluded arrangement to empower 8,610 widows across the state. Badaru made this known on Monday in an interview with newsmen in Dutse, the state capital. He said between 25 and 30 widows would be selected from each of the 287 wards in the state to benefit from the programme. Badaru ... Read More »
A total of 22 cars have allegedly been recovered from the wives of the immediate past governor of Bauchi state, Isa Yuguda, by the transition committee set up by the state’s new governor, Mohammed Abubakar. Chairman of the transition committee, Senator Mohammed Mohammed made this known while addressing newsmen at the State Government House in Bauchi yesterday June 18th. “We ... Read More »
Facts have emerged showing why Senate President Bukola Saraki led a delegation of Senators to meet former President Olusegun Obasanjo at his hilltop mansion, Abeokuta, Ogun state on Friday. A source close to the meeting told PREMIUM TIMES that the Senate President was in Abeokuta to beg Mr. Obasanjo to reconcile him with President Muhammadu Buhari and his party, the ... Read More »
Ekiti state government will be sending youths to Aba, Abia State and Onitsha, Anambra State for stomach infrastructure. VANGUARD reports that the disclosure was made by Hon. (Dr.) STB Omotoso, member Ekiti State House of Assembly. He said the youths will be sent to Aba and Onitsha for apprenticeship under the state’s stomach infrastructure programme. He said, ”Stomach infrastructure is ... Read More »
By FCC Jones Former Governor of Imo State and topmost statesman, Chief Ikedi Ohakim has left the office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to his house in Asokoro. The eminent technocrat, industrialist and leader of the IGBO Conversational GROUP – ICG, spent less than five hours with the anti-graft Agency, before he was left to go home. Chief ... Read More »
By Kola Popson The Police has allegedly invaded the premises of the former Rivers State Commissioner for Information in the administration of Rotimi Amaechi, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari on the order of the incumbent governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike . Explaining her experience on this ugly incidence, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari noted on her Facebook timeline how her house has ... Read More »
A former governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Mr. Ohakim, governor between 2007 and 2011, was arrested Thursday at about 10.05 am at his residence in the Asokoro district of Abuja. A source at the commission said an invitation was sent to the former governor but that he failed ... Read More »
By Kola Popson The Senate President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Bukola Saraki has reacted to the alleged nine billion naira (#9, 000000000) allocated as wardrobe allowance for the new Federal lawmakers, noting that it is N506, 600 per senator as against N21million claimed by many. Reacting to this issue via his twitter handle, Senator Bukola wrote, “Chairman ... Read More »
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