The handcuff of National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, to court on Tuesday has continued to generate mixed reactions, but the Nigeria Prisons Service, NPS, has explained why it took that decision. Spokesman of the NPS, Francis Enobore, explained to Punch in a phone interview that Metuh was handcuffed to…
Following a revelation by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed that 15 former governors and 55 powerful Nigerians stole the sum of N1.34 trillion from 2006 to 2013, the governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has challenged him to expose the said individuals or keep his mouth shut permanently. Fayose, in a statement…
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has directed the Department of State Services, DSS, to take the Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to Kuje prison pending his trial for treason. Justice John Tsoho gave the order on Wednesday after listening to counsels to the DSS, Mohammed Diri, and that of Kanu, Chuks Muoma…
Embattled former National Security Adviser to former president Goodluck Jonathan, Sambo Dasuki, was not present in court on Wednesday, where he is being tried for money laundering. His absence in court angered the judge, Justice Adeniyi Ademola, who ordered the Federal Government to produce him at the next hearing on February 16, 2016. It was…
The President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has been warned by the Ekiti State House of Assembly against using the backdoor to oust the state governor, Ayodele Fayose. The House, during a plenary presided over by the Speaker, Kola Oluwawole, on Tuesday in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, accused the Federal Government of attempting to remove Fayose through…
The Federal Government has warned corrupt judges to repent or risk criminal charges leveled against them when caught. This warning was given by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister for Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), at a function held in Lagos on Tuesday. According to a statement issued by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project,…
Henceforth, all bank customers in Nigeria will pay N50 as stamp duty on every money received into their accounts. This, according to the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, headed by Godwin Emefiele, is to boost the Federal Government’s revenue with the alarming fall in the price of crude oil in the international market. In a…
World’s leading consumer health and hygiene company, RB, alongside representatives from Save The Children, recently visited Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo at his office in Abuja to present a ‘Save a Child a Minute’ initiative to him. The programme is to tackle diarrhea in the country, which claims the lives of nearly 100,000 children under…
President Muhammadu Buhari has been implored to priotise the payment of the N800 billion owed the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, by the immediate past administration of Goodluck Jonathan. This passionate call was made by the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Tuesday in a statement issued in Port Harcourt, the…
A bilateral agreement was signed on Tuesday by Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates, UAE, in Abu Dhabi. According a statement by President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the pact between the two countries is to cover finance, trade and judicial matters. Adesina explained that Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Mrs…