A credible source at the Nigerian Senate has told SaharaReporters that members of the Senate Committee on Finance led by Senator Ahmed Makarfi have been offered unspecified amounts of bribe by agents of Nigeria’s Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, and officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), to endorse the committee’s interim report…
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Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, and Charly Boy (real name Charles Emeka Oputa), first son of late Justice Chukwudifu Oputa, are having issues over the burial of the late iconic jurist. Okorocha’s spokesman, Sam Onwuemeodo, said in a statement issued today in Owerri that Justice Oputa’s burial programme signed by Charly Boy and published…
The Lagos State Police Command, yesterday, paraded three suspected members of a notorious kidnap gang that killed former Deputy Governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chudi Nwike.They were picked up in their den last year. Nwike was kidnapped on March 19, 2013 and a N30 million ransom was demanded by his abductors who reportedly murdered him…
The Senate will today vote on some of the new proposals up for amendment in the 1999 Constitution. The Deputy Senate President and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Constitution Amendment, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, announced yesterday at plenary that the voting, which had been postponed twice in the past, will take place today. The voting,…
The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, yesterday, insisted that no general or any of its officers were undergoing
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, yesterday endorsed peaceful assemblies and protests anywhere in Nigeria. The IGP, however, noted that against the backdrop of current security challenges in the country, “coupled with a recent intelligence report of a likely infiltration and hijack of otherwise innocuous and peaceful protests by some criminal elements having links…
There are indications that Kano State governor, Rabi’u Kwankwaso, could emerge as the presidential candidate of the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2015 general elections. This follows the decision of the party to dump former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu from the race…
To our heroes, we say ‘we shall never forget’. We are grateful for your exploits. We hold you in high esteem for your efforts. Although this is coming late, we know you have forgiven and accepted our thanks. And to our dear Chukwu Abiama, we thank you for being with your people. May glory and…
The Senate Committee on Finance has said that President Goodluck Jonathan should be blamed for the unilateral spending of N685.910bn by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on kerosene subsidy in 2012 and 2013. The committee which probed the alleged $49.8bn missing oil money, said Jonathan set aside a directive by the late President Umaru Yar’Adua…