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
Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign state of Biafra (MASSOB) has declared that the burial of Eze Israel Okwu Kanu and his wife Ugoeze Sally Kanu, slated for 14th of February is an Igbo traditional rite and not a Biafran function. Speaking to journalists, Comrade Uchenna Madu, MASSOB leader urged the army to resist
Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (Rtd) on Tuesday disclosed that the Custom Command at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) had intercepted 8.06 million U.S. dollars from the airport. Ali, during a media briefing in Lagos, said that the dollars loaded in six big `Bagco’ bags were packed in a coaster bus belonging to
The fact that unemployment in Nigeria is a ticking time-bomb has yet again been buttressed by the ongoing recruitment exercise of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). Developments from the recruitment exercise strongly suggest that no substantial intervention may have been made in the area of unemployment in Nigeria even as
Aso Rock, Presidential Villa officials on Friday barred a bailiff from the Federal High Court from serving Hanan Buhari with court processes, The PUNCH has reports. Hanan, who is daughter of President Muhammadu Buhari, has been sued alongside the Department of State Services and MTN for N500m by a trader, Anthony Okolie, who was detained