Nigeria’s new leader will meet the head of a leading global watchdog on corruption to see how billions of dollars in oil revenue leakage can be curbed. The head of Oslo-based the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is expected to meet Nigeria’s president or vice president this week, its local arm said on Monday. Stamping out corruption was one of ... Read More »
Category Archives: Politics
Final Clearing! Tinubu Orders Ambode To Sack 46 Fashola Loyalists
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has sacked 76 Managing Directors, General Managers and all heads of Government Parastatals and Agencies as he dissolves all boards of parastatals in the State. Affected by the sack are the General Manager, Lagos State Traffic Management Agency (LASTMA); former Governor Babatunde Fashola’s sisters, Ms Olayinka Fashola; Managing Director, Lagos Internal Revenue Service, Tunde ... Read More »
Buhari To Fight Graft With 5 Special Laws
President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to employ five proposed laws as his weapons in the fight against corruption, close associates of the President have disclosed. Presidency sources disclosed that a committee of legends in law, led by the vice-president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo identified the five bills which have been passed on to the President for further scrutiny. The President in ... Read More »
Second Round Of Exams To Select New Accountant General Underway
Officials in the office of the Head of Service of the Federation are to conduct a second round of examinations to select a new Accountant General of the Federation. The first round of the test held on Monday at the conference hall of the office of the Head of Service at the federal secretariat complex Abuja. All Directors of Finance ... Read More »
Kwankwasho Calls On APC To Punish Saraki
Former Kano State Governor and member of the Senate, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, has called the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to sanction the Senate President Bukola Saraki for violating the party discipline. Speaking in an interview with selected journalists in Abuja on Monday, Kwankwasho said Saraki’s over-ambition gave way for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to reap where ... Read More »
Speaker Dogara Appoints Ex-colleague As Chief Of Staff
By Abdul Gafaar Bello – The newly-elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has appointed an ex-colleague in the lower Federal legislative chamber, Hon. Jerry Manwe as his Chief of Staff (COS). The appointment which was made public Monday, was stated in a letter signed by Dogara, dated June 15, 2015, with reference number, NASS/SPK/MGT/VOL.I/002 and ... Read More »
Bayelsa APC Expels Two, Suspends Seven Party Leaders
The All Progressives Congress in Bayelsa State has expelled two and suspended seven of its leaders for anti-party activities. The two expelled members were former Chairman of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Perekeme Kpodo and a stalwart of the party, Mr. Sunday Oputu. Those suspended were Mr. Godwin Sidi, Fred Akamu, Rosemary Okeazi, Chief Livinus Opratapu, Harrow Zuokumo, ... Read More »
PDP Not Well Informed On Ambode’s Asset Declaration, Says Lagos APC
The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was not well informed on Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode’s declaration of assets. Mr Joe Igbokwe, the Publicity Secretary of APC, in a statement in Lagos, described the demands of PDP as ‘uncoordinated thought’. The Lagos State Chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, had ... Read More »
OYEGUN IN TROUBLE OVER SARAKI, DOGARA AS AKANDE, ATIKU BATLLE FOR BoT CHAIR
The crisis in the All Prog re s s ives Congress (APC) over its loss of the National Assembly leadership positions is set to worsen as party leaders are spoiling for a war with the National Chairman, Chief John Odigie- Oyegun, on the matter. Odigie-Oyegun, in what amounted to a volteface by the APC had, last Friday, said the party ... Read More »
GOVERNOR AHMED SIGNS FOUR BILLS INTO LAW
The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has signed for four bills into law with a pledge to redouble efforts to improve the welfare of the people despite the downturn in the national economy. The new laws are: A Law to Amend The Environmental Sanitation Law, A Law to Repeal the Kwara State Transport Corporation, A Law to Amend the ... Read More »