Buhari salutes El-Rufai after inauguration of projects in Zaria
President Muhammadu Buhari has continued the inauguration of projects executed by the Kaduna State Government, with stops at Zaria, heaping encomiums on Governor Nasir El-Rufai. Speaking at the palace of the Emir of Zazzau, Amb. Ahmed Bamalli, the president noted that within the context of scarce resources and prevailing economic reality, the Kaduna State Government has done well for the...
Buhari returns to Dodan Barracks, 37 years after palace coup
By FEMI ADESINA On August 27, 1985, he was taken out of Dodan Barracks, the then seat of government, in Ikoyi, Lagos, by those who had overthrown him in what was popularly called a palace coup. President Muhammadu Buhari was not to return to a place that was his abode for 20 months, and from where he administered the country, till...
Bayelsa West: The truth about zoning
By EBIDE BROWN We have always put out our views on the issue of the debate about zoning propagated by some persons who are scared of contesting in a free and fair election. Our position has always been that there is no binding and valid agreement on zoning implemented at any election period in the history of Bayelsa West. Our views are...
N’East APC lawmakers pass vote of confidence in Buhari, Buni
All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers in all the Houses of Assembly in the North-East zone have passed a vote of confidence in President Muhammadu Buhari and the Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker Committee of the party. This was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of an extraordinary meeting of the Conference of Nigeria State Legislatures, North-East zone, on Thursday...
Thank you for associating me with your success, Buhari tells El-Rufai
President Muhammadu Buhari has commended Malam Nasir El-Rufai for committing himself to changing Kaduna, noting that the Kaduna State Governor has been successful in that quest. The president, who is on a two-day working visit to Kaduna State to commission some of the state’s urban renewal projects, was speaking today at the Murtala Square in Kaduna. He had arrived in Kaduna...
A’Ibom Assembly approves fresh N4.7bn loan request from Emmanuel
By CHIDI OKOH The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly has approved Governor Udom Emmanuel's request to guarantee a loan of N4.7 billion from Zenith Bank for Mimshac Digital Automobile Assembly Plant, Ikot Ukap, Itu Local Government Area. The governor in a letter sent to the Speaker of the House and read by the Clerk, Mrs. Mandu Umoren at plenary on...
EFCC docks woman for N38.2m diesel scam in Kano
A woman, Wasila Musa Ibrahim, and her company, Najaatu Petroleum Limited, was on Thursday arraigned before Justice Mohammed Nasir Yunusa at the Federal High Court, Kano. They were arraigned on a 10-count charge bordering on money laundering and tax evasion by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The complainant alleged that sometime in 2020 the defendant approached him with a...
Araraume’s removal as NNPC Board Chair: Imo’s politics of self-destruction
By CHIKE MBONU The removal of Senator Ifeanyi Araraume as chairman of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) has brought to the fore, the dangers of the politics of self-destruction which is currently undermining the socio-political and economic development of the state. Today, Imo State has become a theatre of war, blackmail and political brigandage which is...
Hidden cameras found in changing room of women’s handball team
A women’s handball team in Germany, TuS Metzingen, found two cameras hidden in their changing room at the start of the week, the Bundesliga club said on Thursday. An investigation into a person close to the team is taking place after the club reported the find to police. The suspect is no longer working with the club. “This disgusting act, especially committed by...
Court bars NNPC, Ministry from allocating crude oil to Addax Petroleum
Justice Tijjani Ringim of a Federal High Court in Lagos has granted Federal Government's motion barring the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Ministry of Petroleum Resources and National Petroleum Investment and Management Respondent Services (NAPIMS) from allocating crude oil to Addax Oil. The judge made the order, on Wednesday, January 19, sequel to a motion for mareva injunction filed and...
