Group wants Jonathan to contest for 2023 presidential election

A group of Nigerians under the aegis of Youths Earnestly Demand For Goodluck E. Jonathan (YED4GEJ 2023) has asked former President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2023 presidential election. The Chairman of the group, Prince Teddy Omiloli, and the Director Operations, Comrade Douye Daniel, in a statement yesterday, said the group was willing to fund Jonathan’s campaign if he agreed to contest. The group explained that Jonathan saw the need to restructure Nigeria while in power and called for a national conference in 2014, but was not allowed to implement…

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Bala Hadiza orchestrated my removal from NPA’s board -Binta Garba

Former member of the Board of Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Binta Masi Garba, said she was removed for questioning the operations of the agency by the suspended MD, Bala Hadiza In a statement credited to Garba, she said: ‘’I was appointed into the board of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) sometime in March 2020. In January 2021, Sen. John Akpanudoedehe and I were removed from the board and our removal was clearly orchestrated by the leadership of NPA. ‘’Before my removal, I was not comfortable with the way the board…

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Bamidele Onalaja To Be Installed 20th President Rotary Club of Maryland

Respected property magnate and Chief Executive Officer of RevolutionPlus Group, Rtn. Bamidele Onalaja is to be installed President of Rotary Club of Maryland, Ikeja. He will be instalyled as the 20th President of the 20 year old club and the event is slated for the MUSON Centre, Lagos with the Ooni of Ife, His Majesty, Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi as Royal Father of the day. Onalaja, a serial entrepreneur and philanthropist, who sits atop eight companies in the RevolutionPlus Group of Companies is the current Chairman of Real Estate Developers Association…

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Buhari’s son-in-law wanted over $65m fraud by ICPC

Gimba Yau Kumo, son-in-law of President Muhammadu Buhari, has been declared wanted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for an alleged $65 million fraud. In a notice published on Thursday, Azuka Ogugua, spokesperson of the anti-graft commission, said Kumo is declared wanted alongside Tarry Rufus and Bola Ogunsola over alleged misappropriation and dispersion of national housing funds. Kumo, a former managing director of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, married Fatima, the president’s daughter, in 2016 at Daura, Katsina state. The ICPC statement in the…

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NCC Chairman, Prof. Adeolu Akande’s undergraduate daughter commits suicide

The Chairman of the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC), Professor Adeolu Akande, has lost his daughter, Miss Feranmi Fasunle, who died at the age of 19. Miss Fasunle was a 200 student of Political Science at the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, and she was said to have died on Thursday at the  Federal Medical Centre, Owo, Ondo State. According to a statement issued on Thursday by Professor Akande, the family will reach out to the authorities of the university for an investigation into the circumstances over her death while also…

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COVID-19: FG restricts mass gatherings, re-introduces curfew

As part of the efforts to curtail further spread of COVID-19, the Federal Government has re-introduced a nationwide 12am to 4am curfew. The National Incident Manager, Mukhtar Mohammed, disclosed this at a press briefing of the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 in Abuja. Mohammed said the curfew would take effect from midnight of Monday. He also said with effect from Tuesday, night clubs, gyms and others would remain closed till further notice. He said gatherings of religious groups and weddings among others have been reduced to 50 per attendance, while…

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Buhari’s Chief of Staff residence inside Aso Rock burgled

The official residence of the Chief of Staff to the President, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, around the presidential villa, Abuja was said to have been attacked by burglars in the early hours of Monday. It was gathered that the men of the underworld attempted to break into the house at about 3am but were apparently unsuccessful. The Chief of Staff, Prof. Gambari confirmed the incident to journalists covering the Presidential Villa. However, the Chief of Staff, through the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu…

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Ortom to el-Rufai: “You are a sycophant and religious bigot”

The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, during the weekend, carpets his Kaduna counterpart, Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State for saying he (Ortom) has failed as a governor. El-Rufai had thrown the first salvo against his Benue counterpart during a webinar on Friday. El-Rufai said, “I know him (Ortom) and he is not somebody I take very seriously, frankly. He has other issues of governance that he is using the Federal Government as a punching bag to divert attention from his failures. “Go and find out how many months’ salaries are…

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Buhari suspends Hadiza Usman as NPA MD, commences probe

President Muhammadu Buhari has suspended the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala-Usman. After her suspension, a panel of enquiry has also been constituted to look into the matter that prompted her suspension, as well as other concerns. The panel begins its work on Monday. It was, however, not clear what necessitated the suspension of the NPA boss, who was only reappointed in January this year by President Buhari. This disclosure is contained in a statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and…

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80 year-old grandma, grand-daughter nabbed with 192kg cocaine, heroin

It is indeed a shocking news to many, as an 80-year-old woman, Mrs. Mary Adebayo, her 19-year-old granddaughter, Funmilola Adebayo and two other ladies were arrested in Akure, the Ondo State capital, by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for selling assorted illicit drugs like cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, tramadol, swinol and skunkweeds. Following intelligence-based raids and follow-up operations on their locations on Sunday, May 2, 2021, over 192 kilogrammes of cocaine and other psychoactive substances were recovered from the suspects while the octogenarian, her granddaughter and two…

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