THE Presidency has approved the decision of the Presidential Amnesty Office under the Interim Administrator, Col. Milland Dixion Dikio to conduct a verification exercise for the 30,000 ex-agitators captured under the programme in the last 11 years. Already, the Interim…
GIMBA Kumo, a former son-in-law to President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to the $65 million fraud allegation against him, saying he was never invited before he was declared wanted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission. Kumo,…
AFTER grilling him for hours over alleged diversion of N9 billion, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday detained former Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed. Sources within the anti-graft agency confirmed that the former governor was not…
THE Justice and Equity for Peace and Unity Initiative (JEPUIN) – the premier pan-Nigerian organisation – yesterday backed most of the decisions taken by Southern governors at their meeting in Delta State. In a statement by its Chairman, former Jigawa…
FORMER Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Board member Senator Binta Masi Garba yesterday recounted how she was removed for raising observations over the agency’s financial records. She alleged that her observations did not go down well with the suspended NPA Managing…
GOVERNOR Samuel Ortom of Benue State on Thursday said any Nigerian opposed to the Southern Governors’ decision banning open grazing of cattle has a hidden agenda. Ortom made the remark at Holy Ghost Parish Hall in Makurdi while delivering his…
MAURITANIA’S former president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz (pictured), was on Tuesday put under ‘house surveillance’ by a judge after he was questioned in an inquiry which has seen him charged with corruption. It was the second time Aziz had gone…
THE Federal Ministry of Transportation says its minister, Rotimi Amaechi never asked the suspended Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman to award $1.5 billion channel management to two Chinese companies. A national daily had on…
SOME aides to President Muhammadu Buhari, including Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, the President’s nephew, Mamman Daura, Director of the Department of Petroleum Resources, Sarki Auwalu, and certain players in the oil and gas sector of the Nigerian…
SIR: Abia communities of Isiala Ntighauzo and Ntighauzo Amairi all in Ntighauzo Ancient Kingdom, Obingwa Local Government Area, recently joined the list of communities that have protested abandonment of road projects in their domain by the Niger Delta Development Commission.…
