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Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola has said the issue of money cannot be eradicated from politics, due to the cost of running election campaigns. Fashola said this in Lagos on Friday during the discussion of ‘Love does not win elections’, a book written by Ayisha Osori. The former governor said as chairman... Read More
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Senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani has said the list of looters to be published by the Federal Government should also include members of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Why it matters: The Federal Government had said it would publish the names of looters in all agencies. What Sani said: Sani, in a cryptic message... Read More
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President Muhammadu Buhari administration has reportedly reinstated wanted former chairman of the Presidential Task Team on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, into the civil service, Premium Times reports. According to the online news medium, Maina who is still on the EFCC’s wanted list was recalled and promoted to the position of director in charge of Human Resources... Read More
Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has slammed Femi Adesina, spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari, describing him as a “mouthpiece to a murderous government.” What happened: Former President Goodluck Jonathan had said the people who criticised the government for increasing fuel price to N83 have refused to talk now that it is N145 under... Read More
It’s official, this administration’s media team trades in alternative facts. Looks like they got a copy of Donald Trump’s playbook…. Or couldebee that Kellyanne Conway schooled them? Valid questions, really, when you listen to what makes its way out of Femi Adesina’s mouth — a whole Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to a President.... Read More
Every day on the Nigerian internet, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we read their rants, opinions, perspectives on political and social matters, etc. Sometimes, they are just downright ridiculous. We make it our job to take down the names of these noisemakers. Here’s our list from today:... Read More
Former United States intelligence community’s top expert on Nigeria, Mathew Page, has said that the U.S. and the United Kingdom are the biggest recipients of funds looted from Nigeria. Page stated this on Friday in Abuja at a roundtable organised by the Centre for Democracy and Development, a civil society organisation. His submissions were contained... Read More
The Political section of Twitter Nigeria has been tackling themselves over Nigeria’s former Vice President’s  company’s woes with Nigerian Ports Authority. One group finds it curious that shortly after Mama Taraba declared support for Atiku’s 2019 election campaign, the Federal Government via Hadiza Bala Usman of NPA suddenly finds reason to terminate Intel contract (Atiku... Read More
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said the President Muhammadu Buhari administration is not a promise and fail government. Osinbajo said this during the flag-off of the governorship campaign of the All Progressives Congress in Onitsha, Anambra State. What he said: The government has paid $2bn for the Second Niger Bridge in the South East it promised.... Read More
Good evening. Here are the top 5 stories that drove conversation today: It’s President Muhammadu Buhari’s second day in Turkey where he is attending the D-8 Summit and, as you’d expect, is doing whatever he can to portray Nigeria in the best light. In a statement, President Buhari outlined how he plans to make Nigeria... Read More
Nasarawa State government on Friday said it has recorded one suspected case of Monkeypox in the state. Dr Danail Iya, Nasarawa State Commissioner for Health disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria. Background: No fewer than 11 people have been placed under surveillance in Bayelsa, following a suspected outbreak of Monkeypox. The Federal Government had warned Nigerians... Read More
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu has said the fight against corruption is getting tougher. Magu said this in Lagos on Friday during the sensitisation forum on the plan to launch “EFCC-Creative Youth Initiative Against Corruption; Corruption Busters”. What Magu said: He said the fight against corruption is not personal.... Read More
Suicide bomber, Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is serving life sentence in a US prison has sued the government for “infringing on his rights and maltreating him”. Popularly known as “underwear bomber”, Farouk is the son of Umaru Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian businessman and the chairman of Jaiz Bank. Background: On Christmas day in 2009, Abdulmutallab attempted to explode a... Read More
An Appeal Court in Kebbi has sentenced the state’s Accountant-General, Mohammed Dakingari to 70 years in prison. Dakingari was found guilty of N1.6bn fraud. A Kebbi State High Court had earlier discharged & acquitted Dakingari, but Court of Appeal on Friday overruled it & upheld the appeal of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The court had... Read More
“See that one” he said, nudging me with his elbow. He was using his eyes, to avoid drawing attention as he discreetly pointed at two brown earthenware bowls sitting next to an electric pole standing on one side of a four-street intersection at Igbogbo, Ikorodu. The bowls were half-filled with water and had kola nuts sitting... Read More
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