sheriff The governorship primary conducted by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State on Monday has been declared illegal by the embattled former National Chairman of the party, Ali Modu Sheriff. Sheriff, in a letter to Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, signed by him and the National Secretary of the party,…
A new militant group called the Red Scorpion has claimed responsibility for blowing up two pipelines belonging to Elf Oil Company in Awara in Ohaji Egbema Council Area of Imo State. The group, which is based in Imo State, has also threatened to attack oil facilities belonging to Shell in Oguta. Red Scorpion warned that…
Mrs Aisha Buhari has removed her controversial and viral tweets directed at Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State. The President’s wife had reportedly posted on her Twitter handle that the Ekiti State number one citizen was a mad dog. Some Nigerians berated her for reacting that way, saying she should have remained silent on the…
The ongoing war between Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State and wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, may have taken a new twist with the intervention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Fayose earlier raised an alarm that Aisha Buhari was indicted in the popular Halliburton scam alongside Dumebi Kachikwu, younger brother to Minister of…
Wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, has lambasted the Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, after the latter accused her of being involved the popular Halliburton scandal alongside Dumebi Kachikwu, younger brother to Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu. Mrs Buhari took to her Twitter page to take Fayose to the cleaner, likening the Ekiti State…
The arraignment of Nnenadi Esther Usman, a former Minister of Finance and Director of Finance PDP Presidential Campaign Organization in the last general elections along with Femi Fani-Kayode also a former Minister and Director Media/Publicity of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organization, Danjuma Yusuf and Jointrust Dimensions Nigeria Limited by the EFCC at the Federal High…
The EFCC, on Tuesday, June 21, 2016 arraigned Air Vice Marshal Alkali Mohammed Mamu, a former Air Officer Training Command and a member of the Committee for Procurement, Ministry of Defence, before Justice Salisu Garba of the FCT High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on a 3-count charge of bribery. Mamu, while being the Air…
Acting Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has re-affirmed the Commission’s preparedness to strengthen relationship with Microsoft Nigeria Limited with a view to effectively tackle corruption in Nigeria. He gave this assurance on Tuesday, June 21, 2016, while receiving the country’s representative and managing director of Microsoft Nigeria Limited, Kabelo Makwane, who was at the…
Justice Candid Johnson of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Igbosere today, June 21, 2016, struck out a motion filed against the EFCC by Azibola Robert, a cousin of the former President Goodluck Jonathan, asking the court to restrain the Commission from arresting, detaining or investigating him. The motion was struck out on grounds…
The case of a N2 billion fraud brought against a former Head of Service, HoS, to the Federation, Stephen Oronsaye, by the EFCC, before Justice Gabriel Kolawole of a Federal High Court, Abuja, continued on June 21, 2016 with the commencement of a trial-within-trial. Oronsaye is being charged along with Osarenkhoe Afe, managing director of…