Beyond the Headlines
The Delta State Government has denied receiving £4.2 million looted by its former governor, James Ibori. The Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris on Tuesday while appearing before the Senate committee investigating the status of recovered loot noted that the fund has been returned to the state. However, the Chief Press Secretary to the […]
Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra state, says restructuring will boost the nation’s economy and end insecurity. The former governor spoke on ”restructuring, security challenges and development” at the fourth Adada public lecture organised by the association of Nsukka professors (ANP) at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) on Tuesday. According to NAN, Obi said […]
Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has said Nigeria needs a new Constitution, not mere alterations or amendment to the 1999 Constitution. Okowa stated this when he received the Senate Sub-Committee on review of the 1999 Constitution led by Senator James Manager at Government House, Asaba, on Wednesday. He said a new Constitution for the country […]
By Frederick Nwabufo What fuels an insurgency? The combustible mixture of ideology and ignorance. If a clump of uninformed people has an ideology they can die for, they will do the illogical for it. The intercourse of ideology and ignorance does not follow logic. Insurgency ignites and thrives in the residence of seductive dogma. The […]
Nasir el-Rufai, the Kaduna State governor, has sacked 19 political appointees in a continuation of the rightsizing exercise the Kaduna State Government has embarked on. The sacked officials included two special advsiers, a deputy chief of staff and several special assistants. The disengagement of the political appointees was announced on Wednesday afternoon. A statement from […]
Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, has explained why his principal, president Muhammadu Buhari didn’t attend the burial of his late Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, in Abuja on Saturday. According to Shehu, the President stayed away from the burial because he didn’t want to inconvenient […]
The Kaduna State Government and the Federal Government received security briefing about the intention of terrorists to strike at a number of places in and around Kaduna state, including Kachia Road and Greenfield University, but the warnings were ignored, FIJ can report. According to a security source who spoke with FIJ on Wednesday, intelligence officials […]
A declaration by governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress suggesting that the party may jettison zoning in 2023, is causing disquiet within the party. The Chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum, Abubakar Bagudu, while welcoming the Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade into the party last week had said, “APC belongs […]
An officer with the Ekiti State Police Command on Friday led other officers to a secondary school in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital to harass the school officials for scolding his daughter. Sunday Tribune gathered that a teacher in Mary Immaculate Girls’ Grammar School had reprimanded the officer’s daughter for her indecent hairstyle, which was against […]
The Northern Youth Leaders Forum has blamed the pervading insecurity in the country on former President Goodluck Jonathan. The NLYF, a coalition of northern socio-political groups, argued that the country would have been spared the current security challenges if Jonathan had respected the agreement he reached with northern state governors and leaders of thought to […]
