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Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra State, has described security votes as the biggest source of waste in the country and asked that governors be made to account for them. Obi, who also described security votes as unconstitutional, spoke at The Platform, a programme organised by Covenant Christian Centre, Lagos. The former governor said: “Let me tell Nigerians; there is nothing in our constitution called security votes. Anybody who tells you that is lying. It is a terminology that was formulated over the years. What we have is contingency fund.…

Failure of the Federal Government to give a new minimum wage to workers in the country led angry workers in their thousand to disrupt the 2017 May Day celebrations at the Eagle Square, Abuja. The workers insisted that the Federal Government had a responsibility to give them a definite position on the lingering issue of a new minimum wage in the country. The workers were also angry that neither the President nor the Vice President was at the event to address them on the grave issues of survival affecting them.…

At CNN ‘Richard Quest Means Business’ anchored in Lagos on Friday, Nigeria’s minister of Information and Culture, Lai Muhammed has said that the best Jollof rice is made in Senegal. Reports has it that Nigerians were disappointed at the minister, thus expected him to cease the opportunity to promote Nigeria made products. Responding to a question on the country that  makes best Jollof rice, the minister said: “I want to say probably Senegal”. Quest earlier expressed surprise at the minister’s response, thus doused the tension by saying that the minister misunderstood…

Dennis Ukpabi, self-acclaimed whistleblower, and a blogger, Fejiro Oliver have been arraigned by the Nigeria Police Force for cyber stalking. It was learnt that Ukpabi, who is a former employee of Sterling Bank Plc, was arrested for publishing a book titled, ‘The Whistleblower’, in which he accused some employees of the bank – Adekanla Desalu, Eguru Nyenke, Janet Akpan and Kojusola Ajao – of fraud. Ukpabi also alleged that after exposing the fraud in the bank, one of his colleagues involved in the fraud was promoted because she was dating…

Self-acclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has finally been released from Kuje prisons in Abuja, after perfecting his bail conditions. He was reported to have met the bail conditions imposed on him by Justice Binta Nyako on April 25, with Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe standing as surety. Others who stood as surety with Kanu include Immanuu El-Shalom, an Igbo Jewish Rabbi from Port Harcourt, Rivers State, and Tochukwu Uchendu. Kanu, who was brought to the Federal High Court in Abuja, accompanied by family members, lawyers and…