Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, has said that some of the fiercest critics of his boss, President q Muhammadu Buhari, dine with him at Aso Rock in Abuja. He disclosed this in a piece titled, ‘Buhari, FFK, And The Quality Of Mercy’. According to Adesina, the defection of former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress last week has caused “not a small ruckus” because of his past acerbic comments against Buhari. He said though Fani-Kayode…

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Mr. Abubakar Malami, Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, assured yesterday that no stone would be left unturned in the prosecution of Boko Haram financiers, saying it wasn’t yet time to name and shame their sponsors. Malami, in a statement signed by his media aide Dr. Umar Gwandu, said investigation to unravel those behind activities of insurgents in the country had reached advanced stage. According to the statement, the AGF, who spoke in New York, in continuation of the ongoing 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly,…

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The mansion of former Governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has been seized by the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, over N5 billion indebtedness. AMCON said that the takeover followed the order of Hon. Justice A.M. Liman of the Federal High Court, Lagos Division, who also ordered the freezing of the Bank Accounts of the former governor and his two companies including Trans Properties and Investment Limited and Trans It Consulting Limited AMCON noted that the former governor who is one of the founders of the newly established…

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Rotimi Akeredolu, Ondo State Governor, has berated his counterpart in Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, over the latter’s comment on anti-open grazing law. El-Rufai had described the anti-open grazing laws being signed by some of the southern governors as unrealistic. Akeredolu, in a statement issued by the state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr Donald Ojogo, said such a statement should not have come from a leader. In the statement titled, ‘Anti-open grazing: El-Rufai’s attack on southern governors devious, a hysteric ploy to externalise banditry’, Akeredolu reiterated that the anti-open…

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Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria, has flayed the Federal Government’s plan to source for fresh loans, saying borrowing to accumulate debt for the next generation was criminal. It will be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari had written the National Assembly, seeking approval to borrow fresh sums of $4,054,476,863 and €710 million in an addendum to the 2018-2020 borrowing plan. In the letter, the President explained that owing to “emerging needs”, there was need to raise more funds for some “critical projects”, while seeking the parliament’s nod to also…

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