Buhari appoints Hadiza Usman MD of Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA)
Like we had reported earlier, Hadiza Bala Usman will oversee all of Nigeria’s ports in her new role as managing director; and Aso Rock has just confirmed our exclusive. President @MBuhari has...
View ArticleSenator Dino Melaye to Remi Tinubu: “I’ll beat you up on this floor and...
It rained handbags at the senate today with Senator Dino Melaye threatening to beat up and kill people, according to sundry reports. We head to SaharaReporters for the full gist below: Nigeria’s upper...
View ArticleGrilled by EFCC for receiving N162m from Dasuki, Okupe has been allowed to go...
Former Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, has been quizzed for the second time within a month by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...
View Article‘Buhari persecuting me for my political views’| Fani Kayode is back!
Fresh out of detention, former spokesperson of the Goodluck/Sambo presidential campaign, Femi Fani Kayode says he’s been victimized for being a staunch critic of the Muhammadu Buhari administration....
View ArticlePHOTOS: Dino Melaye flies 331 miles to stroll through Tinubu’s street in Lagos
This has been the week when an idiot hired a truck and mowed revelers in Nice, France; when a coup plot in Turkey went horribly wrong; when civilians and police officers arrested the coupists and then...
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REPORT: Buhari’s government lied to Nigerians about the arms procurement probe
There’s been hue and cry over the arms procurement probe report which indicted some serving and retired top military officers. Specifically, critics and the opposition have wondered why Buhari’s...
View ArticleSimon Kolawole: Taxation without tears
You must have seen the pictures before. Heavily armed policemen — showing off their latest AK47s — surround the premises of a company, as if they just spotted Abubakar Shekau in the building....
View ArticleOsinbajo: Inequality and poverty are Africa’s biggest problems
Nigeria and other African nations have to rise up to the urgent need of addressing the problems of poverty and inequality even as the global community focuses on its new Sustainable Development Goals,...
View ArticleReuben Abati: Nigerians and the failed Turkey coup
Turkey is about five hours away from Nigeria by air, about 2, 634 miles from here, but the night there was a coup attempt in Turkey, July 15, with soldiers shutting down parts of Ankara and Istanbul,...
View ArticleEFCC seizes more Fayose property estimated at N1.3bn
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has again seized six choice properties allegedly acquired by Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State with stolen public funds. Already on shaky...
View ArticleKano govt pays N460m accommodation subsidy for 2016 Hajj pilgrims
The Kano State Government said it has paid N460 million accommodation subsidy for its 5,600 Hajj pilgrims to Saudi Arabia in 2016. The State’s Deputy Governor, Hafiz Abubakar, made this known while...
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Dwindling revenue won’t affect anti-polio drive in Kano, Gov Ganduje assures
Dwindling income, occasioned by fall in global price of oil will not affect Kano state government’s commitment to eradicate Polio, the state governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has assured. “We...
View ArticleIf you reside in Lagos, TCN explains why you’ll be subsumed in darkness today
The Transmission Company of Nigeria, Lagos Region, has announced that many parts of the state will experience blackout between 10am and 1pm today (Monday). According to the TCN, the affected areas are...
View ArticleIt’s now clear to all that Buhari is the grandfather of corruption–Fayose
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to stop acting like the grandfather of corruption in Nigeria by shielding his men from probe, just as he asked Nigerians to...
View ArticleFormer IGP Arase stole 24 vehicles and the new police boss isn’t pleased...
Acting Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris, turned his guns on the past IGP Solomon Arase, with a demand that he should be investigated in the wake of massive fraud, poor governance and...
View ArticleOkupe: It was Jonathan who ordered Dasuki to hand me N100m
Doyin Okupe who served as senior special assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on public affairs, has given a breakdown of how he spent millions of naira sent his way by erstwhile NSA Sambo...
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Women pour out onto the streets to protest against Dino Melaye in Lagos
The Women Concerned Group has hit the streets in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, to call out the senator representing Kogi West in the upper legislative chamber, Dino Melaye. In several placards,...
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‘I’ll run the NPA with zero tolerance for corruption’| New ports boss Hadiza...
The new Managing Director of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman, has promised to enshrine best practices and professionalism in one of Nigeria’s major financial arteries. At the...
View ArticleMelaye: It takes a real man to brush aside the rude disposition of Remi Tinubu
Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west senatorial district at the national assembly, has alleged that Oluremi Tinubu, his colleague who represents Lagos central, almost “slapped Senator Rafiu...
View ArticleJudiciary frustrating my anti-corruption war–Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari who rose to Nigeria’s number one office on the back of a promise to crack down on institutional, entrenched graft, has bemoaned that the judiciary is hell bent on...
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