Spokesman of the Nigerian Senate, Aliyu Abdullahi, has clarify the controversy trailing the N6.08 trillion 2016 budget said to be missing at the National Assembly. On Tuesday, reports went viral that the document was no where to be found. Later in the day, the Senate President, Bukola Saraki met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the…
Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, has hinted that those coming into the Force may be subjected to a psychiatric test. He also added that this may apply to serving officers too. Arase made this disclosure on Tuesday at the Nigeria Police Force Health Policy Revalidation meeting in Abuja. According to the police chief,…
Following reports on Tuesday that the N6.08 trillion 2016 budget was missing at the National Assembly, the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, had a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. Saraki was at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Tuesday night for a meeting with the President, ostensibly over the missing budget. However, he declined speaking…
Reports reaching us indicate that the 2016 budget proposal presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari on December 22, 2015, is nowhere to be found. The document containing fiscal expenditure of the country for the year 2016 was declared missing during a closed door session on Tuesday that lasted about 90 minutes. Members…
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has been described as the number enemy of the Igbo tribe. This announcement was made by the apex socio-Igbo cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo. This followed the demolition of a market in Oshodi largely dominated by the Igbos by the state government last week. The Lagos State Government explained that…
According to reports making the rounds, Director General of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission, NBC, Emeka Mba, has been nabbed by officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Mba was said to have been arrested in Abuja on Monday morning over an alleged N15 billion fraud. The NBC DG was reportedly taken to the…
President Muhammadu Buhari has been advised by Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly to implement recommendations of the 2014 National Conference organised by the government of Goodluck Jonathan. Bakare, in his state of the nation address at his church on Sunday entitled ‘Road map to successful change,’ the respected cleric said Nigeria is…
The Nation reports that the detained National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, has confessed receiving N400 million from the immediate past National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki. Dasuki is in trouble with the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government for allegedly diverting about $2.1 billion earmarked for the purchase of arms for…
Ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has denied an allegation made by the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that President Muhammadu Buhari has turned Nigeria into a single-party state. The PDP made the allegation at the weekend while reacting to the release of a chieftain of the APC, Jafaru Isa, by the Economic and Financial Crimes…
Erstwhile Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Victor Olabimtan, has been kidnapped by some unknown gunmen. Olabimtan was reportedly seized on Monday morning in Abuja by the hoodlums and was taken to an undisclosed location. His ordeal is coming shortly after he indicated his interest to contest the 2016 governorship election in Ondo…