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These are the top five stories you should monitor today. Closure of Abuja airport has brought hardship on Nigerians – Lai Mohammed Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has said there is no doubt that Nigerians have experienced hardship due to closure of the Nnamdi Azikiwe airport in Abuja. 2. Mismanaged funds: Senate summons SGF... Read More
by Azeez Adeniyi The Management of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria has said it would release a statement on Wednesday addressing allegations that Senator Dino Melaye did not graduate from the institution as claimed, Punch reports. An online news platform had alleged that Melaye had no degree in Geography as he had claimed, while stating that... Read More
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by Dolapo Adelana These are the top five stories that drove conversations today. 1. You don’t expect a retired army officer like Ali to wear Customs uniform – Retired General Retired Major-General and former governor of defunct Western State, David Jemibewon says wearing a Customs uniform will belittle Hameed Ali’s military achievements. 2. Senator Melaye... Read More
Sahara Reporters has literally “come again” as they say. Today the subject of their exposure series is Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi West. According to the online news medium, Senator Dino Melaye did not meet the requisite points that would have enabled him graduate from his geography programme at the Ahmadu Bello University when he... Read More
by Dolapo Adelana The Senator representing Kogi West senatorial district Dino Melaye has said he would not express any shock if online news medium Sahara Reporters one day disclosed he is not a Nigerian. Melaye, stated this on Monday via his Twitter account. The news medium had early Monday alleged that Melaye did not graduate... Read More
by Anthony Ademiluyi The separation of powers theory is what shot Baron De Montesquieu to fame. His radical ideas which the then decrepit monarchy viewed with utmost suspicion was the remote cause of the popular 1789 French revolution which made France the first country in the entire Europe to jettison the monarchy for a republic.... Read More
Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye has alleged that the Economic And Financial Crimes Commission was cooking up allegations against him. Melaye made the claim on Twitter, stating that the anti-graft agency was conducting forensic tests on his bank accounts. He, however, pointed out that he was ready for the commission’s investigation. Melaye wrote, “I... Read More
We do not know what the mission is but what we do know is that Senate President Bukola Saraki has led a delegation of senators to Morocco and they have met with the Moroccan Senate President and parliament. Details of the meetings they’ve held are not known but what we know again is they are... Read More
We found our Senators, but we’re not sure we should have | YNaija Effectiveness Ranking for Senators
Last week was a confusing one. It looked like we couldn’t find our Senators. Good news – we located them. But in even more confusing developments, we realized they were in Morocco, of all places. Some of them, anyway (including Bukola Saraki and Dino Melaye.) It’s tempting to say it would have been better for all... Read More
Acting EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu has just completed his screening before the Senate and after a brief deliberation and majority vote, the Eighth Assembly has again rejected his nomination as Chairman of the anti-graft agency. What we find questionable in all of these is the abrupt appearance of a fresh DSS report cited by Kogi... Read More
Senator Bukola Saraki rises along with Senator Chukwuka Utazi on this week’s YNaija Effectiveness Ranking for senators. Both Senators enter the top 10 thanks to a strong and necessary statement regarding the worrisome nature of actions by the DSS. Of course, there’s been some significant degree of confusion regarding the speech, delivered at the National Dialogue... Read More
by Dolapo Adelana The senate has ordered a fresh probe into the affairs of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). The senate, which made the resolution at plenary on Wednesday mandated its committee on the downstream sector to investigate the corporation’s non-remittance of funds into the Federation Account. The resolution followed a motion by the... Read More
Dino Melaye sees himself slip all the way down to the number 32 position on this week’s YNaija Effectiveness Ranking for Senators. This regression for Senator for the Kogi West district is the result of a number of actions during the past week, not limited to a childish Twitter campaign against Kogi Governor Yahya Bello, as... Read More
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A gathering of saints filled with the Spirit, loaded with their bottles of anointing oil, power-filled handkerchiefs, blemish-free white garments, spewing firebrand prayer points on Nigeria’s 2017 budget. As for the chosen saints who have been divinely endowed with celestial eyes, they will seek and find every irregularity that is hidden in the budget. This... Read More
Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye has said the 2017 budget was not different from previous ones which had frivolous needs planted into them. He stated this in Abuja while speaking to the media on the 2017 budget presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari. Melaye urged the Senate not to rush the... Read More
The latest YNaija Effectiveness Ranking sees Senate President Bukola Saraki slip out of the top 10. Senator Saraki occupied the number 2 spot in our last ranking but the past week has seen him take a hit in the form of the Federal Government increasing the charges being brought against him for his false asset declaration... Read More
We’ve been watching with passive amusement as some of the top government officials fall over themselves to inform us of their phone conversations with President Buhari, all so we can quit the idle talk about his death and health. Since this is already looking an unfolding drama, we won’t hesitate to help write the rest... Read More
N250million – Senator Dino Melaye revealed that the cost of constructing the Vice President’s official residence had been inflated and his gatehouse alone is to cost this amount. 150 – The number of cows Zimbabweans have to donate to their President, Robert Mugabe in preparation for his 93rd birthday celebration. 3,332 – The Nigerian Army... Read More
The Chairman Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Dino Melaye has said the National Assembly will review the contract for the construction of the official residence of the Vice-President. He said this while addressing journalists in Abuja on Thursday. Melaye alleged that the cost of the project may have been inflated, stating that... Read More
Senator representing Kogi East, Dino Melaye has said construction of the gatehouse of the Vice President’s official three-bedroomed apartment will cost N250m. Melaye said this on Thursday at a press briefing in Abuja. He said lawmakers should call for a review of the contract awarded for the construction. Melaye also said cost of the official... Read More
The YNaija Effectiveness Ranking for senators comes up this week with a lot of movement noticed on the first half of the list. It is an upward climb for Senators, Bukola Saraki, Dino Melaye, Shehu Sani and more, while Godswill Akpabio, the former governor of Akwa Ibom suffered a seven-point slide from 11th position to... Read More
The Ministry of Power, Works and Housing and the Bureau of Public Procurement may be probed by the Senate over alleged inflation of costs of contracts executed. The Ministry which is headed by Babatunde Fashola has been accused of conspiring with the BPP to change names of contractors to execute a project as well as... Read More
Yesterday at plenary session, Senator Dino Melaye raised a point of order on what he calls a “cyber space attack in the last one week”. He condemned the spread of photos that do wrongly represent the Southern Kaduna killings on the internet. That Senator Dino Melaye was the one who raised the concern is not... Read More
Senator Dino Melaye on Tuesday warned religious leaders against promoting hate speeches. Speaking on the floor of the Senate, Melaye urged the senate to sound a note of warning to such leaders to avoid a full-scale religious crisis. “Mr. President, I rise this afternoon in fear and pain on our cyberspace in the last one week. Mr.... Read More
Senator Ali Ndume representing Borno South constituency and APC Majority Leader in the upper chamber stepped out to observe his afternoon prayer when the Senate made the decision to remove him as leader of the majority group. The letter dated January 10, 2017 and titled “Notice of change of leadership” was read to the House... Read More
Senator Dino Melaye says his political clout cannot be undermined by anybody in the All Progressives Congress (APC). Melaye stated this over the weekend at Ayetoro-Gbede, his country home, where he distributed empowerment materials worth over N200 million to members of his constituency. He said, “There are so many unnecessary comments and rhetoric going around.... Read More
by Soma Oj. Keeping with the general theme of this listicle, we won’t be saying too much. It’s a new year and we don’t want to have to deal with these people’s statements (and utter ridiculousness) anymore. So here is a list of all the Nigerians who need to keep it low in 2017. Solomon Dalung... Read More
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