***Describes Buhari’s Govt As Anti-People Ogun State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has vehemently condemned the increase in price of Premium Motor Spirit from N86 to N145 per litre as announced by the Federal Government on Wednesday, May 11, 2016. The party, in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Malik Ibitoye, and…
Officials of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, have sealed a company owned by popular Nigerian businessman, Jimoh Ibrahim. On Thursday, May 12, 2016, men of the FIRS stormed the premises of NICON Luxury Hotel and pasted their stickers on the property. It was gathered that the action was taken against the company because of…
Members of the top Management of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, have commenced a retreat to draw a roadmap for the development of the Nigerian maritime sector. The roadmap which is in fulfilment of the promise of the Director General, Dr. Dakuku Peterside to stakeholders is aimed at engendering a conducive atmosphere…
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the international community to urgently create anti-corruption infrastructure and a strategic action plan to facilitate the speedy recovery and repatriation of stolen funds hidden in secret bank accounts abroad. Buhari made this plea on Thursday in London at the opening of the Anti-Corruption Summit hosted by Prime Minister David Cameron…
Not less than two persons have been feared dead in a blast that occurred at a secretariat in Maiduguri, Borno State, on Thursday, May 12, 2016. It was gathered that a bomb explosion rocked the busy Musa Usman Secretariat Main Gate in Maiduguri. The incident happened in the early hours of the day and left…
The Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, in Edo State has been closed down by angry demonstrators. The protesters, under the aegis of Network of Civil Society Organisations of Nigeria, NOCSON, blocked the entrance of the company. They have prevented workers of the BEDC from entering their offices since Wednesday, May 11, 2016. It was gathered…
On Wednesday, the Federal Government finally announced the scrapping of the controversial fuel subsidy regime and declared that every Nigeria is now free to import fuel into the country as long as the product meets “existing quality specifications and other guidelines issued by Regulatory Agencies.” The government further said Premium Motor Spirit, also known as…
The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, has kicked against the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government, which has now led to a new pump price of N145 per litre. The labour union in a statement issued on Wednesday disclosed that it would resist the increment because the action “represents the height of insensitivity and…
Governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo state, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, was arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes, EFCC. Ize-Iyamu was apprehended on Tuesday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, over allegations of financial impropriety. It was gathered that the man hoping to take over the Edo Government House from…
A prosecution witness, Wakili Dauda, in the ongoing trial of a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Patrick Akpobolokemi, and six others, has told a Lagos State High Court how the agency paid him the sum of N96, 764, 689.00million( Nine-six Million Seven Hundred and Sixty-four Thousand Six Hundred and Eighty-Nine…