Pandora Papers: Offshore havens and hidden riches of world leaders and billionaires exposed …Peter Obi allegedly implicated in global money laundering scandal Millions of leaked documents and the biggest journalism partnership in history have uncovered financial secrets of 35 current and former world leaders, more than 330 politicians and public officials in 91 countries and … [Read more…]
Niger State Governor, Abubakar Bello, has said that the bandits troubling the north have aligned with terrorist organisations to wreak large-scale havoc in the region. Governor Bello stated this weekend at the Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida Specialist Hospital, when he visited some soldiers injured recently following attacks by bandits in Shiroro within the Kagara … [Read more…]
THE Archbishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah, yesterday, declared that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration is not sincere in dealing with terrorists killing Nigerians. Wondering why it is difficult for the government to release names of sponsors of Boko Haram terrorists, the cleric declared that “Nigeria is decomposing from within.” … [Read more…]
Indications have emerged that the Federal Government’s bond issues are squeezing the private sector out of the bonds market as it has raised over N4.7 trillion, far above what private sector organisations have been able to raise from the Nigerian capital market, Year-to-Date, YtD August 2021. The private sector raised N802 billion in corporate … [Read more…]
Ladi, first son of the late legal luminary, Chief Fredrick Rotimi Williams (SAN), died of the coronavirus in the early hours of yesterday. He was 74. According to his son, Kunle, the legal luminary was fully vaccinated with the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine. “My father passed away this morning from COVID despite being double … [Read more…]
The Federal Government on Sunday threw its weight behind moves by herdsmen to sue southern governors over the anti-open grazing bill they recently signed into law. The Special Assistant (Media) to the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Dr Umar Gwandu, who disclosed this in an interview with The PUNCH, said … [Read more…]
I am sure you too must have been as pleasantly surprised as I was when the President, Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) stirred the hornet of officialdom in an interview aired on Thursday, June 10, 2021 during The Morning Show on Arise TV. The president stated among other things that: “We have killed the Local Government totally. … [Read more…]
By Okenwa Cyril American Martin Luther King Jr., once said ”Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness”. Regrettably, humanity is inclined more to inhumanity, greed and selfishness, to wit. Insatiable and horrible selfishness! How noble and plausible it is for … [Read more…]
…Akpugo High School students rewarded for academic brilliance, another bags scholarship up to Masters degree in choice varsity By Nnamani Samuel Freeman, Prince Ejeh Josh and Onochie Jon-Igwesi A foremost USA female footballer, Mia Hamm, once said: “No one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But … [Read more…]
Joint team of NEMA and Enugu SEMA, flag-off agro input distribution to farmers affected by 2020 flood The National Emergency Management Agency NEMA in partnership with SEMA and Enugu State government flagged-off distribution of agro inputs to farmers at the Nsukka Local Government Headquarters. The agro inputs distributed included rice seeds, fertilizers, herbicides and water … [Read more…]
Bandits raid police headquarters, emir’s palace, kill cop, civilians Nigeria’s insecurity continues to worsen as scores of bandits invaded a divisional police headquarters and an emir’s palace in Niger, killing at least a cop and two civilians. The police command in Niger confirmed the killing of three people by the bandits who attacked the palace … [Read more…]
PDP Governors Meeting: Governors Zone Party Chairmanship to the North. PDP governors voted to zone the party’s national Chairmanship to the North at their meeting in Abuja on Wednesday. Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party have voted to allow the chairmanship of the party move to Northern Nigeria, sparking speculations that … [Read more…]