TWO international audit firms – KPMG and Price water house Cooper (PwC) – were yesterday appointed by the Federal Government to examine the books of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and other revenue generating agencies. They are to forensically audit the accounts of the NNPC, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) […]
By Ayo Balogun – After six days of silence, former Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babatnde Fashola opened up on the N78 million website scandal leveled against him. The former governor, in a statement on Thursday said he is clean and innocent of the allegations against him of upgrading his website with N78 million instead […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has terminated the appointment of the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Alhaji Sanusi Ado Bayero. Bayero’s termination according to the President’s SA on Media and Publicity, Femi Adeshina was with immediate effect. Consequently, the former NPA boss has been directed to hand over the management of the agency and […]
By Eric Ojo, Abuja – Zero Corruption Coalition (ZCC) has urged the National Assembly to ensure adequate budget appropriation for the newly inaugurated Presidential Committee Against Corruption and other anti-corruption agencies in the country in order to enable them deliver on their constitutional mandates. The coalition made of non-governmental organization (NGOs) also called on all […]
President Muhammadu Buhari said Wednesday in Abuja that his administration will give the fullest possible attention to boosting power supply in Nigeria because it was convinced that steady electricity will launch the country into faster socio-economic development. Speaking after being briefed by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Power, Ambassador Godknows Igali, President Buhari said […]
By Ayo Balogun – Emergency responders have confirmed four people dead, six rescued and two others still missing in the helicopter which crashed into the Lagos Lagoon at Oworonshoki, Lagos. The helicopter crash occurred around 3pm as it suddenly plunged into the Lagos Lagoon. Officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, police, NEMA, […]
By Ayo Balogun – Two former Rivers State government officials under the administration of Chibuike Amaechi have written to President Buhari explaining that allegations of corruption and fraudulent enrichment against the former Rivers governor and his administration were untrue adding that facts of the issues were grossly twisted. Former SSG, George Peyii and Former Commissioner […]
By Agabus Pwanagba, Jos – The Transition Committee setup by Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau state has uncovered a debt profile of over N222 billion left by the immediate past administration of the State. This was disclosed Tuesday in Jos, the State capital, by the Chairman of the Committee and Deputy Governor, Prof. Sonny Tyoden, […]
President Muhammadu Buhari said Tuesday in Abuja that the prosecution of persons who have stolen national resources will begin in a matter of weeks. Speaking at a meeting with members of the National Peace Committee led by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar in the Presidential Villa, President Buhari declared that his administration was irrevocably committed to doing […]
By Ignatius Okpara, Owerri – A total of 30 suspected smugglers were last month nabbed by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘C’, Owerri, over importation of various contraband goods worth N197, 385,747. The Customs Area Controller, (CAC) in charge of the zone, Mr. Dimka Victor David, made this known to […]
Ayo Balogun – Three persons have died as a passenger bus collided with a trailer at Ajah area of Lagos, Nigeria. The passenger bus owned The Young Shall Grown was on a top speed when it ramped into an articulated trailer conveying an earth moving machine on Ajah-Epe Road around 10am on Tuesday. The accident […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen – Former Military Head of State and a member of the National Peace Committee for the 2015 general elections, Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar (retd.), is leading other committee members in a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at Presidential Villa, FCT Abuja. Also in the meeting which the subject is yet to […]
A group in Rivers state, COALITION OF CONCERNED RIVERS PROFESSIONALS (CORIP) has warned immediate past First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan; governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state and former governor of Rivers, Peter Odili to steer clear of the state’s immediate past governor, Chibuike Amaechi. In a press statement signed by the group’s President, Dr Owen T […]
For failing to carry out its statutory responsibility in prosecuting the Chairman, Police Service Commission , Mr. Mike Okiro over alleged abuse of office, corruption and misrepresentation of facts with a view to embezzle the sum of N275.5 million PSC election funds, a law firm Prodigy Chambers has challenged the anti graft bodies to either […]
Ayodele Ayodele, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counsels the All Progressives Congress (APC) to always be sincere and stop appropriating the achievements of past administration as theirs. The party said, instead, the APC and President Muhammadu Buhari should make haste and activate the various economic outlets which have been stagnated as a result […]
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu – The Enugu state chapter of the ruling All Progressive Congress, (APC) has expressed optimism that it will reclaim its alleged stolen mandate from Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). State Chairman of the party, Dr. Ben Nwoye, stated this Sunday while speaking with newsmen at the […]
The Ijaw Young Professionals (IYP) on Monday berated members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State who set to decamp to the All Progressives Congress (APC), describing their action as “shameful and disgraceful.” It was widely reported at the weekend that many of the ruling party’s leaders and members in the state were […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – Anambra state born business mogul and philanthropist, Engr. Arthur Eze, has demanded the sum of N200 billion naira from management of WemaBank Plc to assuage the damage he suffered on account of the false and defamatory publication of his personality. The Bank, had recently published the photograph of Eze, among […]
BY IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – Another round of crisis has enveloped the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu, over the recent removal of the Principal of the hospital’s School of Post Basic Studies, Mrs. Cecilia Oduburu by its management Board. Mrs. Oduburu, was removed from office for allegedly running a full time 1st and masters degrees programmes […]
Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, immediate past SGF has dragged Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, the National Vice-Chairman (South-South) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) before an Abuja High Court, claiming the sum of One Billion Naira as general, aggravated, punitive and exemplary damages over publicatons and interviews granted by Ojougboh in which he alleged that the Centenary […]
