Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, says the Nigerian air force (NAF) diverted two armoured helicopters worth $10 million bought by the state government to fight oil theft and sea piracy. Speaking on Thursday at the re-launching of the state security outfit, codenamed C.4.I, in Port Harcourt, Wike said the aircraft donated by the state were […]
The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has declared Rochas Foundation as being moribund few months after its controversial bid to take over a university registered in imo State government’s name. A statement by a group of concerned Imo Citizens said the information they obtained from the Corporate Affairs Commission revealed that the foundation is moribund contrary […]
The North Central Zonal Caretaker Committee, overseeing the activities of the Peoples Democratic Party in Niger State, has reversed the suspension of a former governor of the state, Babangida Aliyu, from the party. The caretaker panel in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Suleiman Mohammed, late Monday night, described the ex-governor’s suspension as fake news. […]
Abdulrasheed Bawa, chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says he will resign from office if he’s asked to do anything against the law. In a series of tweets on Saturday, the anti-graft agency said Bawa stated this on Friday when he featured on One-on-One, a programme on Nigerian Television Authority (NTA). Bawa […]
The Kogi State Government last year spent N90 million on software that the developers now offer for only N300,000. The software, approved by a COVID-19 sceptic, Governor Yahaya Bello, was for tracking coronavirus cases in the state. However, the software is no longer functioning as the developers said they had a contract to host it […]
A high court in Akwa Ibom state has sentenced Peter Ogban, a professor of soil science at the University of Calabar, to three years in prison for manipulating election results, The Cable is reporting. Ogban was the returning officer in the senatorial election in Akwa Ibom north-west in 2019. He was prosecuted by the Independent […]
Ifeanyi Okowa, governor of Delta, says his government has written a protest letter to President Muhammadu Buhari over the James Ibori loot recovered by Nigeria. Okowa said this on Wednesday when he appeared on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme. A few weeks ago, the UK made a commitment to return the £4.2 million loot […]
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), of the House of Representatives on Tuesday quizzed the Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Col Dixon Dikio (rtd), over the 21 different audit queries raised by the office of the Auditor General of the Federation against the agency, raising the alarm that the programme had been grossly mismanaged […]
Thee is growing tension between Nigerian governors and a ring of powerful presidential aides over some $418 million (about N159 billion at the current official exchange rate of $1 to N380.5) said to be owed six individuals and entities who purportedly offered services to states and their local governments on the payment of Paris Club […]
The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru, and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, have been summoned to appear before an ad-hoc committee of the House of Representatives next month. Members of the ad-hoc committee, chaired by Olaide Akinremi, summoned both men on Monday after they failed to […]
