2023 presidency: Ogun Gov in confusion over Tinubu, Osinbajo
Ogun State governor Dapo Abiodun is in a state of dilemma over who to support for the 2023 Presidential contest between former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Both Tinubu and Osinbajo played pivotal roles in ensuring that Abiodun emerged as the governor of Ogun State in 2015, so supporting one at […]
Nigeria misses January OPEC quota, Oil Revenue Plunges
Nigeria missed its January Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) quota for January 2022, pumping 1.46 million barrels per day against a target of 1.683 million BPD. The Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited said the country’s continued inability to meet its output target had caused the repeated plunge […]
EFCC returns recovered properties to Chief Arthur Eze
The Enugu Zonal Command of the EFCC, on Friday, January 28, 2022, returned eleven houses recovered in different parts of Enugu to Chief Arthur Eze. The properties were recovered by the EFCC from the duo of Olisaebuka Okechukwu Eze and Onyeka Nnadozie Eze, administration and finance manager respectively in Arthur Eze’s firm, accused of criminal […]
Suspect: My former boss promised me N30m to harvest human parts for money ritual
Timothy Odeniyi, a 35-year-old suspected ritualist disclosed how he severed the hands and legs of a corpse at a cemetery in Ondo State after he was promised N30 million. Odeniyi, who was arrested by men of the Ondo State Network Agency, also known as Amotekun Corps, stated that before he was caught, he was to […]
BREAKING: Electoral Bill transmited to Buhari for assent by NASS
On Monday Arch. Olatunde Amos Ojo the Clerk to the National Assembly transmitted the amended Electoral Act Bill to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent. A source confided that the Bill is now with President Buhari for assent Recall that in December the President vetoed the bill, leading to a fresh amendment of the Bill by […]
Fire razes Obasanjo farm
Some portion of Orchard Farm belonging to the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo went up in flames on Saturday. The former president had acquired about 2,420 hectares of farmland at Howe, a few kilometres away from Aliade, headquarters of Gwer East local government area of Benue State where he planted mango and orange trees. While […]
Over 20 projects to be inaugurated as Diri celebrate second anniversary
No fewer than 20 projects will be inaugurated by Douye Diri on February 14 as the Bayelsa State Governor celebrates second anniversary The projects which include road, educational, health, media and agriculture consist of those inherited from the past administration of Senator Seriake Dickson and completed in the last year and others initiated by the […]
Diri laments illegal oil bunkering in Bayelsa, says Monarch’s dethronement irrevocable
Senator Douye Diri, Bayelsa State Governor has said despite protests from some quarters, the sacking of the paramount ruler of Otuokpoti community in Ogbia Local Government Area, Chief Cousin Wongo, is irrevocable. The governor had announced the monarch’s dethronement as well as the removal of the community development committee chairman and its youth president on […]
IPOB to Asari Dokubo: “Mind your utterances, you are not Igbo”
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB has warned a former militant leader in the Niger Delta Asari Dokubo, over his utterances against a pro-Biafra agitator, Nnamdi Kanu. IPOB said Dokubo should mind his utterances against Kanu as they never declared war on him. The group noted that it would hold the former militant leader responsible […]
Osinbajo: Corruption is cancer, we must call it out
Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that the pursuit of the common good requires a collective condemnation and exposure of corruption and corrupt practices, which he termed cancer to the country. Osinbajo made this known while speaking on Friday in Abuja at the 1st Annual General Assembly of Catholics in Politics and Catholic Business Leaders […]
