It has been a bloody 48 hours in the northern part of the country. No fewer than 82 people were killed in three attacks on Monday and Tuesday in Plateau, Kaduna and Yobe States. Twenty people, including a policeman, were killed by bandits in Yobe State; 32 were killed by gunmen in Plateau and 30…
The Federal Government, through the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, disclosed that traders, farmers and other artisans in the country depend on the passage of the 2014 Appropriation Bill to survive. Addressing State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Maku said the directive by leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to its members…
Going by a report recently published by National Daily newspaper, the controversial Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has been fingered in a money laundering fraud. The amount involved in the scam is said to be $8 billion. MTN and Stanbic IBTC bank were also implicated in the scam. Read the…
The State Security Service, SSS, has invited the Publishers of Paparazzi Magazine to its headquarters in Abuja for questioning. The magazine is managed by the duo of Moji Danisa and Ogbeni Olawale Dawodu. The Publishers of the softsell magazine were asked to appear for the drilling on Thursday, February 6, 2014 by 10am. Though the…
Serial fraud kingpin, Fred Ajudua has been remanded in Kirikiri Prison for allegedly defrauding former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi (retd.), of about $8.395m (about N1.3 billion). Justice Oluwatoyin Ipayeordered on Wednesday that he should be remanded in prisons custody following a fresh 13-count charge of fraud brought against him by the Economic…
Controversial Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, on Tuesday in Abuja, told the Senate that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, kerosene subsidy is a scam. Sanusi’s allegation is coming few months after he made a similar allegation in his late 2013 letter to President Goodluck Jonathan, where he noted…
The Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, has disclosed that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar will return to its fold when he fails to win at the polls flying the flag of the All Progressives Congress, APC. The former number two citizen of the country left the ruling party on Sunday to join the opposition party. Prior…
The Rivers State Police Command spokesman, Almad Muhammed, has said that the embattled Commissioner of Police in the state, Mbu Joseph Mbu, has not been removed as widely speculated in some quarters of the Nigerian media. Muhammed noted that Mbu is still in charge of the police in Rivers State, contrary to several reports. The…
Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, at the November 16, 2013 governorship election in Anambra State, Senator Chris Ngige, has lost his alleged ‘triple voters’ registration’ case against Willie Obiano of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP. The suit was struck out on Monday by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. Ngige’s party had…
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Magaji Doho, has stated that the defection of former Vice President, Atiku Abaubakar, to APC from the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, will help the party become successful at the 2015 general elections. Doho, the Interim Chairman of APC in Gombe State, told the News Agency of Nigeria,…