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Former Head of Service arrested in Bauchi for vote-buying
Former Head of Service inBauchi State, Abdon Dalla Gin has been arrested by men of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegations of vote-buying at the ongoing Dass State Constituency bye-election. Dalla, who is also the Special Adviser to Governor Bala Mohammed on Civil Service and Labour Matters, was arrested in his Polling Unit in Dass. After casting his vote, Dalla addressed the press and returned to his car. He was about moving when the operatives of the EFCC asked him to stop. EFCC officials found N1.5million inside…
Read MoreProminent businessman, Chief Harry Akande is dead
International businessman, Chief Harry Ayoade Akande is dead. Akande, who was the Agba Oye of Ibadanland, died after a brief illness in the early hours of Saturday. He died at aged 77. Akande, a former presidential aspirant, who was also a one-time Chairman, Board of Trustees of the All Nigeria Peoples Party during his lifetime as a politician was well known for his robust contacts within and outside the shores of Nigeria. His death was announced in a statement on Saturday by Olumide Akande, who described the death of the…
Read MoreNathaniel Solomon: ‘I saw 4 corpses at Lekki Tollgate’
A man who identified himself as Nathaniel Solomon said he saw about four bodies on the ground when he went to pick his brother’s remains at Lekki Tollgate in the aftermath of the shootings by soldiers on October 20. Solomon was one of the complainants at the Lagos State Court of Arbitration and Mediation in Lekki, venue of Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS-related abuses and other matters. He said his younger brother, Abouta Solomon, was shot dead and had since been buried in…
Read MoreAppeal Court sacks Senator Araraume
A Court of Appeal, sitting in Owerri has sacked Senator Ifeanyi Araraume and declared Sir Frank Ibezim as the authentic candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the rescheduled Imo North senatorial bye-election. The judgment, was delivered less than 24 hours to the bye-election, was read by Justice Uchechukwu Onyemenam. The Court of Appeal roundly faulted the November 6, 2020, judgment that sacked Ibezim and announced Araraume as the candidate of APC, having won the party primary election. It was the considered opinion of the Judge that the revalidation…
Read MoreMaryam Sanda’s death sentence affirmed by Court of Appeal
Maryam Sanda, the daughter-inlaw to a former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Mohammed Bello Haliru, who allegedly stabbed her husband to death, is back in the news after her death sentence by a High Court in Abuja. Again, a Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, in a unanimous judgement by a three-man panel of Justices led by Justice Stephen Adah, said it found no reason to set aside the verdict of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, which okayed Maryam to die by hanging. The…
Read MoreArik Air disengages 300 workers
THE management of Arik Air says it has disengaged 300 of its workers. Adebanji Ola, Arik corporate affair manager said the decision was owing to the economic impact of COVID-19 which has affected the airline from carrying out its routine maintenance on its aircrafts and limited revenues against operational costs. “Arising from the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to the constrained ability of the airline to complete heavy maintenance activities and return its planes to operations, stunted revenues against increasing operational costs, the management of Arik Air (In…
Read MoreRe-arrested Abdulrashid Maina extradited
Former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrashid Abdullahi Maina has been repatriated to Nigeria from Niamey, Niger Republic on Thursday, December 3, after he was arrested having been declared wanted by a Nigerian court over a pending criminal trial against him. Maina was arrested on 30th November, 2020 through the collaborative efforts of the operatives of the Nigeria Police Force, INTERPOL NCB, Abuja and their Nigerien counterpart. He was said to have sneaked away from the country into Niger Republic while trying to evade justice, leading to…
Read MoreWe need to know if Buhari is medically fit as president -Ezekwesili
Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, a co-convener of Bring Back Our Girls advocacy group and former presidential aspirant in the 2019 general elections, explained that she requested for the full disclosure on the state of mental and physical health of President Muhammadu Buhari following the killing of farmers/fishermen on November 28 at Zabarmari community in Borno State and his administration’s recurrent failure to provide a credible response to the spate of massacres in the country. The former vice president of World Bank lamented the rate at which citizens are being killed without…
Read MoreZamfara ex-deputy governor explains why he dumped APC for PDP
Two-term deputy governor of Zamfara State, Ibrahim Wakkala, has defected from the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Peoples Democratic ruling Party (PDP). Wakkala served former Governor Abdul’aziz Yari in that capacity of deputy governor from 2011-2019. He said that his move was personal, and that would not affect his relationship with his former allies, because his decision was because of the socio-economic progress the state is experiencing under the current leadership. “My guiding principles and philosophies are focused on the development and socio-economic progress of Zamfara,” Wakkala noted, adding…
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