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 »
The PDP Media Watchdog has reacted to the statement credited to President Muhammadu Buhari in which he declared and admitted that age will limit the rate of his performance in office as President of Nigeria. The group while reacting to the statement on Wednesday June 17, 2015 said the APC and President Buhari are gang of hypocrites and liars. “The ... Read More »
Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State has been elected the chairman the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors’ forum. Mr. Mimiko was elected at a meeting of the PDP governors in Maitama, Abuja, on Wednesday. The Ondo governor was deputy to the former chairman of the forum, Godswill Akpabio, the immediate past governor of Akwa Ibom State. The coordinator of the ... Read More »
A FEDERAL High Court in Lagos yesterday ordered First Bank of Nigeria Plc to disclose details of the loan facility it granted the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) for the 2013 purchase of two bullet-proof BMW cars for the then Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah. According to a statement, Justice Mohammed Yunusa issued the order while delivering judgment in a suit ... Read More »
United States has pledged a $5million contribution to the Nigeria led Multinational Joint Task force fighting Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast and some parts of the West Africa sub-region. The U.S embassy in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday said it announced $5million contribution and not $10million as reported by the media. Leader of the U.S government delegation ... Read More »
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