By Ibe Paschal Arogorn The factional Chairman of the Imo State Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze E . C. Okeke, has dismissed claims by the Imo State Police command that it arrested a traditional ruler involved in kidnapping, describing the assertion as untrue. He denied any involvement of any traditional ruler in kidnapping or armed […]
Former Minister of Education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, has scolded Bello el-Rufai, the son of Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, for threatening to rape the mother of someone who disagreed with him on social media.The former World Bank Vice-President also asked Bello to apologise for making acerbic comments laced with tribalism. Ezekwesili, who also served […]
… As Forum warns FG, citizens to brace up Following scary reports of COVID 19 from across the world and the lackadaisical attitude of most Nigerians over the pandemic, Abuja Concerned Citizens’ Forum (ACCF), has cautioned the Federal Government on the urgent need to take the issue of providing palliatives to the vulnerable and effectively […]
Movie actress, Funke Akindele Bello has been arrested for flouting social restriction orders of the Lagos state government. Akindele ran foul of the authorities in Lagos when she defied the threat of the rampaging coronavirus to host a party in her home in Lagos. A statement by the spokesman of the Lagos state Police Command, […]
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Governor Abdullahi “Gandollar” Ganduje is no doubt a contemptibly philistine monster of avarice and debauchery who dethroned Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as Emir of Kano because he couldn’t stomach the former emir’s disapproval of the electoral fraud that brought him to power. There is also no doubt that Sanusi’s […]
By Ogu Bundu Nwadike, M.A Four ex-governors of four States of Nigeria are currently languishing in maximum prisons of the country, doing their time for doing the financial crime. From the evidence before the world, some more ex-governors are good to go to prison too for stealing public money belonging to their respective States. Reading […]
The House of Representatives has mandated a committee to investigate allegations of plans to divert the recently recovered $308 million Abacha loot into private accounts using Julius Berger Nigeria Ltd. as a conduit. The Federal Government had said the money will be used to expedite work on the Lagos–Ibadan expressway, Abuja–Kano expressway and the second […]
Three soldiers of Operation Lafiya Dole (OPLD) have been rewarded with special promotion to the next rank for their outstanding performance in the ongoing war against insurgency in the North-East. The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, decorated the soldiers during a visit to their camp on Sunday as part of his operational visit […]
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operating Unit (FOU), Zone C, Owerri has confiscated 5,040 cartons of red grape wine smuggled into the country. The NCS also seized 143 bales of fabrics with each bale containing 1,200 dozens of garments. These impounded contraband items amounted to N143,200,000 in Duty Paid Value, the NCS said. Controller […]
…Says, statutory agencies were shut out The Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Contracts awarded from June 2011 to May 2019 headed by Justice Benjamin Iheka, yesterday, ordered the State Auditor General and the Auditor General for Local Government, to submit within seven days, their audited reports for years under review. This followed revelations of corruption […]
