Niger Republic: It’s about time Maina’s abettors were brought to book too

The news of Abdulrasheed Maina’s arrest is making the rounds and causing much buzz among Nigerians. The former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), who is allegedly facing a 12-count money laundering charge filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), was reportedly arrested in the Niger Republic on Monday. The arrest was said... Read More

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Abdulrasheed Maina, EFCC, maina, pension scam

January 11, 2018

[The Injustice Blog] Malami couldn’t have approached the court without Buhari’s knowledge

An application seeking to stop the National Assembly from probing the illegal reinstatement and promotion of wanted fugitive Abdulrasheed Maina was recently filed by none other than the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN). Maina who is currently in hiding had caused major upsets in 2017 and now Malami’s... Read More

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Buhari, maina, Malami

January 11, 2018

[The Injustice Blog] Why is Malami who has already been accused of complicity in Maina’s corruption sticking his neck out for him?

Nigerian politicians thrive on drama. How else do you explain the recent shenanigans embarked upon by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN)? According to news reports, he approached a Federal High Court in Abuja under the Lordship of Justice Binta Nyako to stop the National Assembly from probing... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

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December 5, 2017

[The Injustice Blog] #Mainagate: Is Maina going to cost Buhari a second term?

2019 is around the corner and every close watcher of Political events in Nigeria knows that a year to election, governance stops. Indirectly this means every Nigerian expecting something good from the Buhari Presidency has to get it on or before December 31,2017. Anything after, the waiting game stops except for some politically motivated decisions... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

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December 4, 2017

[The Injustice Blog] #Mainagate: Who is after Abdulrasheed Maina

As the narrative continues on the Mainagate saga it’s important we ask ourselves a pertinent question which remains unexplored. Why is Abdulrasheed Maina in hiding? In a February 2013 article titled Evidently Above the Law, respected columnist and editor in chief of Thisday Newspapers Mr Olusegun Adeniyi describes Maina’s reign at the pension task force... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

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December 1, 2017

[The Injustice Blog] Why don’t we forgive the Pension thieves?

This headline may look unpatriotic or any way you chose to look at it but the fact remains we’ve had enough drama from the pension issues and it’s high time we move ahead and reform the much larger ecosystem that has allowed person like Maina to thrive, we’ve channeled so much energy on Maina, energy... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

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December 1, 2017

The YNaija Cover this morning – the 1st of December

Follow the links to read the stories and analyses on YNaija: The way Jonathan reacted to oil scams shook me – Saraki I take responsibility for Maina’s reinstatement – Perm Sec AU, EU, UN set to establish a task force in Libya to tackle slavery

Cover Stories

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November 28, 2017

Who are the “saints” standing between Maina and Buhari?

by Alexander O. Onukwue Exiled former boss of the Presidential Task Team on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, has come out against persons working with president Buhari who have prevented him from meeting the president. Mr Maina revealed this in a rare interview granted to Channels Television from an undisclosed location. After his reinstatement to the... Read More

Thinking Through

Buhari, maina, pension scam, ynaija analysis

November 4, 2017

Opinion: Buhari and his government of “Fugithieves”

By Jude Ndukwe The frequency of scandals bedevilling the Buhari administration in recent times would require an app to keep track of them. It certainly is beyond human capacity to do so. While Nigerians were yet to grapple with the dirty details coming from the $25bn NNPC saga and the obvious crass lack of corporate... Read More

Opinion

Buhari, corruption, maina, nigeria, opinion, Politics

November 4, 2017

Farooq Kperogi: Unravelling of the corruption in Buhari’s “anti-corruption” fight

by Farooq Kperogi The latest thunderbolt from the Head of Service of the Federation that President Buhari was actually aware of, and perhaps even countenanced, the reinstatement and promotion of Abdulrahseed Maina against her counsel is probably the final nail in the coffin of the Buhari administration’s rib-tickling pretence to being an “anti-corruption” government. “I... Read More

Opinion

Babachir Lawal, corruption, Farooq Kperogi, maina, mustapha, nigeria, opinion, Politics

November 2, 2017

Will Buhari also demonstrate against Abba Kyari?

by Alexander O. Onukwue In this week alone, there have been three public demonstrations about the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari. The first two took place around the premises of Unity Fountain, Abuja, between praise singers of the Chief of Staff showing their solidarity, and another other group who expressed disenchantment with... Read More

Story of the day

Abba Kyari, Buhari, maina, Pension scam scandal, Story of the day, The hread

November 2, 2017

FEC Report: Oyo-Ita made a strong case for her innocence

by Alexander O. Onukwue News reports from the Aso Villa council chambers on Tuesday paid much focus on a heated moment between the Head of Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita and the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari. Mrs Oyo-Ita, as wells as prominent members of President Buhari’s cabinet, has been at... Read More

Story of the day

Abba Kyari, Buhari, fec, maina, nigeria, Politics, Story of the day

October 30, 2017

Fisayo Soyombo: The men who shouldn’t be in Buhari’s government

by ‘Fisayo Soyombo This piece is laden with unsolicited advice. It ordinarily should not have been written, but for recent evidence that the quality of advice available to President Muhammadu Buhari is questionable. Friends of people in power often speak in hushed tones about how the President never listens, about how difficult it is... Read More

Opinion

anti-corruption, Buhari, Fisayo Soyombo, maina, Malami, nigeria, opinion, Politics

October 28, 2017

Reno Omokri: Ali Bubu and the forty thieves

by Reno Omokri With the recent revelations that Abdulrasheed Maina (a man that former President Jonathan fired from the civil service and declared wanted for allegedly pilfering 100 billion Naira from the Pension funds) was secretly recalled, reinstated and given a juicy position within the Buhari administration, not even the most hardcore Buharist can still... Read More

Opinion

anti-corruption war, Buhari, maina, nigeria, opinion

October 26, 2017

Olusegun Adeniyi: The Harvey Weinsteins of Nigeria

While “The Godfather” remains the most successful novel of Mario Puzo, his second mafia epic, published almost three decades later, “The Last Don”, is equally engrossing as he takes the reader into the inner recesses of Hollywood where licentiousness seems to be the order of the day. Even when a lot of things may have... Read More

Opinion

Harvey Weinstein, maina, nigeria, Olusegun Adeniyi, opinion

October 24, 2017

[The Legislative Blog]: Senator Shehu Sani has the perfect analogy for Maina’s reinstatement

From the Twitter fingers that brought you the animal farm analogy for Nigeria’s political situation months ago comes another thought-provoking breakdown of this administration’s latest undoing, this time using football. The referee ruled that Mainaldo's goal was offside;that was after the spectators protested.The linesmen blaming each other. — Senator Shehu Sani (@ShehuSani) October 24, 2017... Read More

The Legislative Blog

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October 24, 2017

Reuben Abati: Baba, Maina, Idris and other stories

by Reuben Abati “I hear say our Sai Baba don return from Turkey” “Did you hope that he would stay there permanently? He went for the D-8 meeting, and he is bound to return.” “D-8 meeting. I have been thinking about it. We are supposed to be a secular country but internationally, we have continued... Read More

Opinion

Buhari, maina, Malami, opinion, pension scam, reuben abati

October 23, 2017

The Thread: “What a government” “Buhari has no integrity” | TwitterNG reacts to the Maina saga

Nigerians are no longer buying Buhai’s anti-corruption gospel, not after Maina happened to us. In case you missed it, former Pension Boss who was put on Interpol’s watch list for pension scam was re-instated into the civil service again, and even promoted. Premium Times broke the story and all hell broke loose. [Catch up on... Read More

Opinion

anti-corruption, Buahri, maina, nigeria, The Thread

October 23, 2017

The Thread: “Maina isn’t the first person fired by GEJ for corruption that Buhari brought back” | ‘Wailers’ react

It’s confusion galore in Nigeria today. First, Ex-Pension boss, Abdulrasheed Maina, who was declared wanted by the EFCC for absconding with over 2 billion naira was in a strange turn of events re-instated into the civil service and promoted. When news broke of his reinstatement yesterday, Buhari’s Special Assistant on Prosecution, Okoi Obono-Obla, defended the... Read More

Opinion

Buhari, corruption, maina, nigeria, pensions, The Thread, TwitterNG

February 28, 2015

Abdulrahman Leme: Pres. Jonathan has tried his best but it’s not good enough

by Abdulrahman Leme The only way Nigeria will reclaim its lost glory in Africa and the world at large is by ensuring a successful common sense revolution has taken place. The 2015 election in Nigeria is seen by many as a make or mar election, and arguably the most crucial one since Nigeria’s independence. Over... Read More

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April 27, 2014

Opinion: Do the Nigerian youth really have a future?

by Ayodeji Somefun I want to believe there are some heavy weights behind this case who will really love to see that man rot in jail. I wonder why people like Maina (the Pension Funds Thief), Farouk Lawan (The bribed Legislator) and many others who have clearly stolen public funds are not being awarded such treatments. Growing up... Read More

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April 25, 2013

“With a gun”: Student sentenced to death in Delta for stealing N2,000

by Hauwa Gambo Cue our collective outrage reaction to this kind of news when political and business leaders across the country are getting away with the (alleged) theft of millions of naira daily. Case in point, our report from March 27: Court vacates arrest warrant against sacked pension thief, Maina. Well, a Ogwashi-Uku High Court... Read More

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Niger Republic: It’s about time Maina’s abettors were brought to book too

[The Injustice Blog] Malami couldn’t have approached the court without Buhari’s knowledge

[The Injustice Blog] Why is Malami who has already been accused of complicity in Maina’s corruption sticking his neck out for him?

[The Injustice Blog] #Mainagate: Is Maina going to cost Buhari a second term?

[The Injustice Blog] #Mainagate: Who is after Abdulrasheed Maina

[The Injustice Blog] Why don’t we forgive the Pension thieves?

The YNaija Cover this morning – the 1st of December

Who are the “saints” standing between Maina and Buhari?

Opinion: Buhari and his government of “Fugithieves”

Farooq Kperogi: Unravelling of the corruption in Buhari’s “anti-corruption” fight

Will Buhari also demonstrate against Abba Kyari?

FEC Report: Oyo-Ita made a strong case for her innocence

Fisayo Soyombo: The men who shouldn’t be in Buhari’s government

Reno Omokri: Ali Bubu and the forty thieves

Olusegun Adeniyi: The Harvey Weinsteins of Nigeria

[The Legislative Blog]: Senator Shehu Sani has the perfect analogy for Maina’s reinstatement

Reuben Abati: Baba, Maina, Idris and other stories

The Thread: “What a government” “Buhari has no integrity” | TwitterNG reacts to the Maina saga

The Thread: “Maina isn’t the first person fired by GEJ for corruption that Buhari brought back” | ‘Wailers’ react

Abdulrahman Leme: Pres. Jonathan has tried his best but it’s not good enough

Opinion: Do the Nigerian youth really have a future?

“With a gun”: Student sentenced to death in Delta for stealing N2,000

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