Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has reacted to allegations against him by the Rivers State government that he spent N82 million to host Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, when he was the governor of the state. Amaechi governed Rivers for eight years from 2007—2015 and has been engaging in a war with his successor, Nyesom…
Spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, spent the night in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Metuh was arrested on Tuesday morning by operatives of the Commission at his residence in Abuja. He was later taken to the agency’s headquarters in Abuja to answer questions on how about…
A former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Haliru Bello, has been placed under security watch at his hospital in Abuja. Bello was arraigned in court on Tuesday by the Economic and Financial Commission, EFCC, over allegations bordering on corruption. He was also in court along with his son, Abbah. But the former PDP…
Some women in Kaduna State staged a peaceful protest on Tuesday, January 5, 2016, demanding the immediate release of the detained Shiite leader, Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. The leader of Shiite movement in Nigeria is believed to be in the custody of the Nigerian Army, who raided members of the group at their base in Kaduna…
An aide to the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, has dismissed reports that his boss was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday. A statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja by Special Assistant to Metuh, Richard Ihediwa, explained that the opposition party’s spokesman was only…
Former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mohammed Haliru, on Tuesday, January 5, 2016, appeared in court on a wheelchair. Haliru is facing trial over allegation of aiding the diversion of funds meant for arms procurement by the Office of the National Security Adviser in the immediate past government of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. He…
Wife of leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, Uchechi Okwu, has been delivered of a bouncing baby boy. This news was confirmed by one of the pages operated on Facebook by Biafra sympathisers on Tuesday. The message read, “Good morning great Biafrans with joy in our hearts and celebration of new…
Spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, has been apprehended by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Metuh was nabbed by the anti-money laundering agency on Tuesday morning at his Abuja residence on 14, Drive 1, Prince and Princess Estate, near the Abuja Games Village. About four operatives of the Commission stormed…
Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, IMF, Christine Lagarde, is in Nigeria on a four-day visit. Lagarde is in the country to hold talks with President Muhammadu Buhari and other key policy makers concerning economic developments affecting Nigeria. She arrived Nigeria on Monday According to a statement issued by the IMF, “The visit to…
Dakuku Adol Peterside will in the first quarter of 2016 liberate the people of Rivers State from the shackles of evil and maladministration to which they have been subjected in the past seven months by the Nyesome Wike administration, the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has said. APC, in a statement issued…