Category: Politics

Keystone Bank Limited has denied having in its custody any illegally hidden money belonging to the Federal Government of Nigeria or any of its agencies. Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi West Senatorial district had accused the bank of colluding with the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to conceal about $137 million and thereafter illegally withdrew $4 million. But Keystone Bank, in a statement by the General Counsel & Company Secretary, Dr. Michael Agamah on Tuesday said, “We wish to state categorically that Keystone Bank Limited has never illegally hidden or…

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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday, issued a rather detailed 13-page statement, calling on President Muhammadu Buhari not to seek re-election in 2019. Mr. Obasanjo, in a special press statement entitled, “The Way Out: A Clarion Call for Coalition for Nigeria Movement” said Mr Buhari has performed far below expectation and should honourably “dismount from the horse” to join the league of the country’s former leaders whose “experience, influence, wisdom and outreach can be deployed on the side line for the good of the country.” Mr Obasanjo, a two-term president…

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Rivers State Governor,Barr.Nyesom Wike, yesterday said the government of Rivers State funded the recent military and DSS joint operation which led to the elimination of notorious killer, Johnson Igwedibia, a.k.a. Don Waney, whose reign of terror left several persons killed in Ogba Egbema Ndoni Local Government Area. Wike, in a media programme in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, was reacting to the widespread notion that the security offensive which killed Don Waney was ordered by President Mohammadu Buhari, without knowledge of the Rivers governor. “The State Government funded the…

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President Muhammadu Buhari has again tried to allay fears that he harbours a bias against the south-east, pointing out that he appointed four senior ministers from the zone where he got only 198,000 votes in 2015. Speaking on Thursday at a dinner for chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja, Buhari said he is fully aware of the issues confronting the country. Buhari said: “There is something that hit me very hard and I am happy I hit it back at somebody. Seven states of the north are…

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An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan on Friday, has declared the judicial commission of inquiry set up by Gov. Abiola Ajimobi to review the 1957 Chieftaincy Declaration of Ibadanland as unconstitutional, illegal and of no effect. Oyo State Governor, Gov. Abiola Ajimobi had on May 19, 2017, set up a commission to review the 1957 chieftaincy declaration and other related chieftaincies in Ibadan under the leadership of RTD. Justice Akintunde Boade. The commission, had submitted its report to the governor on Aug. 18, 2017 recommending 32 beaded-crown Obas…

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THE Muslim community in Ekiti State has stated that it will not settle for anything position lesser than the deputy governor in the coming electoral dispensation in the state. Rising from a congress of Muslim Community of Ekiti State, held at the Central Mosque, Ado Ekiti, on Thursday, the Muslims said in a communique that “the Congress also resolved that Muslims in the state will not accept less than Deputy Governor from any political party in the state”. At the meeting convened by the President-General, League of Imams and Alfas…

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Hon. Fatee Muhammed, a businesswoman and politician, is the director-general of Atikunation, a volunteer group for the Atiku Abubakar 2019 presidential project. The PDP House of Representatives aspirant in Ifako-Ijaiye, Lagos, in this interview, speaks of her group’s aims and passion for the Atiku project, her political dream, among other issues. Excerpt. What is that project or accomplishment that is considered to be Alhaji Atiku’s most significant in his political career that you think should win him instant followers and needed support toward 2019? Institutional reforms were part of the…

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The organisation representing African countries has demanded that US President Donald Trump apologise after he reportedly called nations on the continent “shitholes”. The group’s mission in Washington DC expressed its “shock, dismay and outrage” and said the Trump administration misunderstood Africans. The US leader made the alleged remark in a Thursday meeting on immigration. But Mr Trump has denied using the language reported. He has been backed by two Republicans who were at the White House meeting, but Democratic Senator Dick Durbin said Mr Trump called African countries “shitholes” several…

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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that the State Government will amend the State Anti-kidnapping Law to prescribe death sentence for criminals involved in cultism, robbery and kidnapping. In a state broadcast on Monday on the killing of Johnson Igwedibia alias Don Wanny, Governor Wike stated that the Rivers State Government has zero tolerance for crime and criminality, hence it will continue to take measures to protect lives and property. He said: “We reiterate our zero tolerance for all forms of criminality and reassure all residents of our…

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Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has assured Nigerians that the Peoples Democratic Party is the only party that will transform the country and take its economy back to its prosperity. Atiku expressed this in Kaduna at the weekend, when one of his supporters, Miss Zainab Musa Pindar, organised a reception for him at the Arewa House, welcoming him back to the PDP. A statement signed by Jacob Onjewu Dickson, spokesman for the Chairman of Atiku Care Foundation, Ambassador Aliyu Ibn Abbas, made available to newsmen in Kaduna on Monday, said…

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