A former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Kingsley Obiorah, on Thursday said the board of the apex bank never recommended the 2022 Naira redesign to former President Muhammadu Buhari. Obiorah said this while testifying virtually before the FCT High Court at the resumed hearing in...
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Former President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday despatched ten of his ex-ministers to condole former minister of women affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen, following the death of her son, Richard Tallen. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Richard, the only son of the one-time deputy governor of Plateau, died...
Former presidents Muhammadu Buhari, Goodluck Jonathan, who attended the Council of State meeting on Tuesday physically, and all other former presidents, who attended virtually, passed a vote of confidence in President Bola Tinubu. Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Hon. Dele Alake, said this while briefing State House...
The outgoing Head of Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF), Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan, has attributed her success in service to the support given to her by both former President Muhammadu Buhari and incumbent President Bola Tinubu. Yemi-Esan made the remarks on Thursday in Abuja, at a Town Hall...
The arraignment of Mr Saleh Mamman, former Minister of Power under ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, was, on Thursday, stalled at a Federal High Court, Abuja, due to ill-health. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mamman, whose plea was fixed for Thursday morning, collapsed outside the courtroom...
Nigerian politicians have perfected the art of reducing almost everything to situational comedy. They just put us through a fortnight of celebrations on the altar of democracy. That is about the only word that unites them in their diversity of costumes and intentions. It was a...
Senate has urged its ad-hoc committee to ensure thorough investigation of the N30 trillion “Ways and Means” disbursed by Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN)during administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari. NAN report that Ways and means is a loan facility through which the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) provides...
A former Minister of Works, Sen. Adeseye Ogunlewe, has said it is needless blaming the country’s present challenges on President Bola Tinubu or the immediate past administration. Ogunlewe, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos....
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – Former presidential aide and social critic, Mr. Reno Omokri, has revealed how former President Muhammadu Buhari destroyed the country’s economy under his 8-years tenure. NATIONAL ACCORD recalled that between 2016 and 2022, the Buhari led government raised total revenues of N26.67tn and expended...
A new book on former President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed how prominent pastors vigorously campaigned and prayed for him to lose the 2015 election and progressed from there to pray against him and his government after he won the poll and assumed office as Nigeria’s leader. The book,...
President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday said that the Federal Government would continue with the various developmental strides of the past APC-led administration. He said this at the public presentation of books on the former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in Abuja. “Our administration will continue to work , from...
Former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouk, on Wednesday, failed to appear at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Jabi, Abuja, to answer questions over an alleged N37.1 billion fraud. A top EFCC source told Channels Television that...
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has arrested a contractor, James Okwete, in connection with the ongoing probe into the N37bn allegedly laundered by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development under former Minister, Sadiya Umar-Farouk. The development coincides with the probe of three...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has recovered a total sum of N37,170,855,753.44 allegedly laundered in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs under the immediate past minister, Sadiya Umar-Farouq. This was revealed in the ongoing probe of the ministry by the EFCC. It was gathered that the minister,...
After more than four months of investigation, the Special Investigator probing the Central Bank of Nigeria, Jim Obazee, has said the former CBN Governor Mr Godwin Emefiele and others embezzled billions of naira and committed other gross financial offences. According to a report by the online newspaper Premium Times,...
The authors of the iconic book “Why Nations Fail,” Daren Acemoglu and James Robinson, stated that it is the parasitic political and economic classes that are the primary cause of why nations fail. What counts to them is what they get out of the system, not what...
One of the most exciting teachings I received during my formative years was the lessons on prophecy. It was during my catechism class as a Catholic Christian, and prophecy as a topic posed a huge but thrilling challenge to me. On that day, at that time and in that...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has renamed some federal airports after several notable Nigerians. This is according to a memo by the Federal Ministry of Aviation dated June 1, 2023, and signed by Mrs Joke Olatunji for the Director of Airport Operations. The copy...
Within a fortnight in power, President Bola Tinubu may have set the tone and tempo for what promises to be a dizzying presidency. Right from the inauguration ground at Eagle Square, he could not suppress his anxiety to be in power and in control at the same time. Most...
Concerned Parents of Chibok Girls have appealed to President Bola Tinubu to help facilitate the release of 92 abducted girls still in Boko Haram’s captivity. The parents made the appeal in a a letter issued on Monday by Yana Galang (mother to Rifkatu Galang still in captivity) and Zanna...