Ever since Kogi State was created, our pending problems have always been our inability to provide or elect for ourselves a good and responsible government that will always react adequately to the problems of the state and also proffer lasting solutions to these problems as they develop. This political lack, …
Read More »Tinubu’s Alphabeta Consulting firm in alleged money laundering scandal
Ex-MD, Dapo Apara petitions EFCC These are not the best of times for the Doherty Akin-led Alphabeta Consulting Limited and Alphabeta Consulting LLP, a Lagos-based management, information systems and technology consulting firm allegedly owned by the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The …
Read More »Nigerians abroad urged to return home
The Federal Government has appealed to Nigerians in the diaspora to return home and help build the Nigeria of everybody’s dream, assuring them that things are changing in the country. Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, made the appeal at a series of Town Hall meetings with Nigerians in the U.S. He told …
Read More »Breaking: APC commences sale of forms, bills N45m for presidential aspirants, N22.5m for governorship
The All Progressives Congress, APC has on Wednesday commenced the vending of nomination forms for its members into various political offices. The nomination forms according to the party would end on the 10 of this month. In a statement disclosed by the party on Tuesday, APC stated that presidential aspirants …
Read More »Raid: Police apologizes to Edwin Clark
The Inspector General of Police, Idris Ibrahim has send a high powered delegation comprises of a DIG and other Senior Police Officers to apologize to South South Leader, Chief Edwin Clark over reportedly unauthorized raise in his Abuja home. Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood, a DCP in a updated …
Read More »IGP denies knowledge of raid on Edwin Clark’s Abuja residence
The Nigerian Police Force (NPF) on Tuesday said the IGP, Ibrahim Idris, is not aware and did not order raid on the Abuja residence of Chief Edwin Clark. A statement by Police spokesman DCP Jimoh Moshood said the IGP has ordered the immediate detention of four police personnel and informant …
Read More »Saraki condemns Police raid on Clark’s home, calls for probe
President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has condemned the unwarranted search in the Abuja home of nonagenarian, Chief Edwin Clark, by the police, and called for an open, comprehensive investigation into the incident. Saraki while reacting to the incident described it as “unwarranted harassment of the statesman” who …
Read More »N1.6bn fraud: Jonathan’s ex-aide denies link with Dasuki
The former Senior Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, yesterday before a Federal High Court in Lagos, denied ever having anything to do with the Office of National Security Adviser or the Central Bank of Nigeria. Dudafa and one Iwejuo Nna Joseph were on …
Read More »FG asks MTN to pay $2bn tax arrears
The Federal Government has asked MTN Nigeria to pay taxes of $2bn (N700bn), six days after the Central Bank of Nigeria ordered it to repatriate $8.13 billion ‘illegally taken out of the country’. The telecom company said in a brief statement that the Attorney General’s office gave “notice of an …
Read More »Delta APC defends Uduaghan, says we’ll send Okowa, PDP into exile in 2019
The All Progressives Congress, (APC) in Delta State, has come in defence of the immediate past governor of the state, Dr. Emmanuel Ewetan Uduaghan over a statement ascribed to him that the “APC will wrest power from the PDP in 2019” which has come under attack by the ruling party, …
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