The newly appointed Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Prisons Service, NPS, Ja’afaru Ahmed, has been accused of falsifying his age. According to SaharaReporters, in 2015, Ahmed used an age completely different from what he put down when he joined the NPS. Ahmed was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari in May 2016 as successor to Peter Ekpendu.…
An FCT High Court Seating in Apo, Abuja, has struck-out the Motion filed by the former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ali Modu Sheriff that prayed it to set aside the Court Judgment that nullified the process that produced him as National Chairman. In his Judgment delivered on Friday July 8, 2016,…
A Niger Delta group has kicked against the removal of Ibe Kachikwu as the Group Managing Director, GMD, of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, by President Muhammadu Buhari this week. The Niger Delta Indigenous Movement For Radical Change, NDIMRC, an oil monitoring group which had earlier warned of plot to remove Kachikwu as the NNPC…
Bekee Anyalewechi, the SA on Media to Mrs Ibim Semenitari, the Acting MD/CEO of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has condemned a report by one Promise Uzoma Okoro against his principal. In a statement issued on Thursday, Bekee said, “I’ve been inundated with calls this night to respond to one ‘story’ by one puoreports.com no…
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos will on Friday, July 8, 2016, deliver final judgment in a suit opposing the Federal Government’s bid to increase electricity tariff. It would be recalled that a Lagos-based lawyer, Toluwani Adebiyi, instituted the action in May 2015, following the announcement of the proposed hike by the then Chairman…
Some youths have taken over the streets of Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, chanting anti-Governor Ayodele Fayose songs. Most of them carried placards with various inscriptions. The protesters described the governor as an anti-people and called for his resignation from office as they march round the city. Fayose is having it rough with the Economic…
The immediate past President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, has congratulated Muslims in the country on the successful completion of the Ramadan fast. In his short message posted on his Facebook page on Wednesday, the former Nigerian leader wished the Muslim faithful a “happy Eid el-Fitr”. “I join well wishers in wishing the Muslim Ummah a…
Major General Nelson Williams, the Sierra Leone’s Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, who was kidnapped last week, has been released. The former head of Sierra Leone’s army is said to be in Abuja at the moment and he is reportedly in sound health. Last Friday, Williams was abducted by some gunmen on his way to…
The story below is an exclusive report by Vanguard newspaper on a local government in Sokoto State that has no single secondary school despite getting billions of Naira as allocation from the Federation Account. Here is the full report: It came as a great shock to learn that 102 years after the amalgamation of the…
a As Muslims across the globe celebrate Eid-el-Fitr, the Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, has called on Muslim faithful and indeed all Nigerians, to shun all forms of corruption and violence even after the holy month of Ramadan. “Even after Ramadan, let us not forget the values, ethos and virtues we embraced during the holy…