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Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has named Edward Adamu as the new chairman of the governing board of the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON). Adamu from Kaltungo in Gombe State is to take over from Muiz Banire SAN, from Lagos State, who was appointed by the President in July 2018 and was later confirmed by […]
Continue ReadingA High Court in Kano on Tuesday granted an interim injunction to stop the Kano State Government from taking any action on the Kano emirates controversy without consulting some allies of the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi. Governor Abdullahi Ganduje last week signed a new law approving the creation of four new emirates and the […]
Continue ReadingThe Emirate of Kano kingmakers, on Tuesday, filed a motion on notice before the Kano State High Court, seeking an injunction to restrain Governor Abdullahi Ganduje from inaugurating the state council of chiefs. In the suit, the kingmakers also urged the court to restrain the traditional rulers, who constitute the membership of the state council […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Aviation Minister, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, wants to know whether it is only former governors of Christian faith that should be convicted of corruption in the Buhari-led administration. In this post he shared on his Facebook page, he wondered if it is only Christians that are stealing. His post comes days after a Federal […]
Continue ReadingSpeaking at a summit to mark the United Nations International Anti-Corruption Day in Abuja on Monday, Playwright and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on why he opposed the hate speech Bill proposed by Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, said even though he had been a victim, he would not support any attempt to “terminate recourse to […]
Continue ReadingHuman rights lawyer, Femi Falana SAN says Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS) sent a delegation to the court on Monday, December 9, to apologise for the invasion by its operatives during the re-arrest of Sowore. Speaking at the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting event in Lagos, Falana said the delegation visited the court […]
Continue ReadingThe Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) has released a new video showing the execution of two Nigerian soldiers and a policeman. According to Channels TV, information provided in the video which was dated December 8th, showed that those killed were reportedly abducted at a fake checkpoint in Benisheikh, a village seventy kilometers west of Maiduguri, […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari has named Mr. Muhammad M. Nami as the new chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service. Nami, a northerner, replaces Mr. Babatunde Fowler, from southern state of Lagos whose tenure expired on Monday, December 9. Nami is a tax consultant and graduate of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State. The […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Aviation Minister, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, as usual, has tweeted about the replacement of Babatunde Fowler as FIRS chairman. President Buhari rejected the reappointment of Babatunde Fowler as the chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and appointed Muhammad Nami as Fowler’s successor. He asked when Tinubu and Osinbajo will accept that they […]
Continue ReadingArewa Youths Consultative Forum (AYCF), in a statement signed and made available to media men on Monday by Alhaji Yerima Shettima, its National President claimed that Northerners who are in the Southwest State to earn their living were being attacked and humiliated by the State’s taskforce. The group’s statement reads: “Our attention has been drawn […]
Continue ReadingLead counsel to Omoyele Sowore, convener of RevolutionNow Movement, Femi Falana SAN, on Monday alleged that the Nigerian government offered the activist a “death warrant” deal while in custody of the Department of State Services (DSS), according to Daily Post. The rights activist disclosed that the Nigerian government reached out for the deal during Sowore’s […]
Continue ReadingA Nigerian man has been apprehended by residents of Post Service Army Estate in Ojo, Lagos for allegedly setting his girlfriend on fire. alleging that she cheated on him. The suspect has been identified as Victor Oji from Benue State. When asked about his profession, Victor disclosed that he is an internet fraudster. He also […]
Continue ReadingNigerian presidency has denied ordering the arrest of Omoyele Sowore who they described as a “person of interest” to the Department of State Services. “The DSS does not necessarily need the permission of the Presidency in all cases to carry out its essential responsibilities that are laid down in the Nigerian Constitution. They added that Nigerians […]
Continue ReadingLagos State House of Assembly says it will not repeal the state’s pension law permitting former governors and other public office holders to receive huge pensions from state coffers. Chairman, House Committee on Information and Strategy, Mr. Tunde Braimoh, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday that Lagos Assembly would not go the […]
Continue ReadingNigerian lawyer and rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana SAN, on Sunday, refuted the Department of State Service’s claim that its operatives did not disrupt proceedings at the Federal High Court, Abuja, in their bid to rearrest his client, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, on Friday. In a statement, Falana said, contrary to the DSS’ denial, issued on […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Bar Association (NBA) has responded to the Friday invasion of the Federal High Court, Abuja, by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) in an attempt to rearrest Sahara Reporters publisher, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, who had been released less that 12 hours before. NBA’s full statement: DESECRATION AND ASSAULT ON THE FEDERAL HIGH […]
Continue ReadingRemains of a lecturer, Dr Nicholas Igbokwe, was on Saturday morning found in his office at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Prior to his death, Igbokwe was a lecturer in the Physical and Health Education Department of the university. There is no official statement yet as to how the incident happened, but a source in the […]
Continue ReadingNew Jersey Senator and member of the US senate foreign relations committee, Robert Menendez has condemned the arrest of Omoyele Sowore at the Federal High Court in Abuja which ignited an uproar. The most senior Democrat in the US Senate who wondered if President Muhammadu Buhari is not aware that the arrest is tarnishing his image, stated […]
Continue ReadingPlaywright and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, says dogs act more civilised than the operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) that stormed the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, to re-arrest the convener of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore. The Prof. said this in a statement titled: ‘Lessons from the African Wild Dog (Lycaeon Pictus)’ […]
Continue ReadingAisha Buhari, wife of Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, says “bad people” have taken over the country from people who are “supposed to be in charge.” Aisha said this on Thursday during a phone-in interview on Television Continental (TVC)’s ‘Journalists Hangout’ programme. She said it is unacceptable that those who should be in control of the […]
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