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Daily Archives: September 7, 2017

Fayose faults FG’s claim on economic recession

Fayose faults FG’s claim on economic recession, says statistics meaningless to hungry Nigerians

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has faulted claims by the Federal Government that Nigeria was out of economic recession, saying, “The reality is that Nigerians are suffering and dying, with foods and drugs out of their reach and no [...]

September 7, 2017 Government and politics
impersonated the Oba of Lagos

Fake ‘Oba of Lagos’ lands in court over alleged N15m scam

A 27-year-old man, Salami Oluwatobi Peter, who impersonated the Oba of Lagos, was yesterday arraigned by the Police from Lagos state Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) Panti-Yaba, over alleged N15 million fraud. The police accused the fake traditional ruler [...]

September 7, 2017 Government and politics
Buhari told APC he won’t contest in 2019 – Mama Taraba

Buhari told APC he won’t contest in 2019 – Mama Taraba

Buhari told APC he won’t contest in 2019: Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Aisha Alhassan has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari told the All Progressives Congress, APC, before contesting for President in 2015 that he would only seek [...]

September 7, 2017 Government and politics
Buhari

Buhari’s anti-Corruption war now clogged

by Ike Abonyi “Failing to indict a criminal, sitting President sends the message that those in power are above the law.” -DaShanne Stokes Whenever a bone is thrown to a dog and it walks away, the owner should be worried [...]

September 7, 2017 Crime
Atiku Abubakar

What APC, Buhari did to me after I brought them to power – Atiku

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, Wednesday, alleged that he had been pushed to the corner by President Muhammadu Buhari-led government which he said he helped into power in 2015. Atiku’s salvo at the government came on a day one of [...]

September 7, 2017 Government and politics
I am loyal to Buhari – Alhassan

I am loyal to Buhari – Alhassan

Sen. Aisha Alhassan, Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, declared on Wednesday that those criticising her Sallah visit to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in Yola, were being “mischievous”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quotes commentators on social [...]

September 7, 2017 Government and politics
Chris Akiri

‘Restructuring; let’s go back to 1963 constitution’

AS the debate on restructuring rages, a member of House of Representatives, Hon. Emmanuel Oghene Egoh, has urged the nation to go back to the first Republic constitution, which he described as the constitution the founding fathers of Nigeria agreed [...]

September 7, 2017 Law
Hurricane Irma hits Trump’s properties

Hurricane Irma hits Trump’s properties [PHOTOS]

Hurricane Irma swept over U.S. President Donald Trump’s 11-bedroom Caribbean mansion on Wednesday, the first of several luxury Trump properties threatened by the storm’s path. It was not immediately known whether Irma damaged Trump’s beachfront Chateau des Palmiers, or Castle [...]

September 7, 2017 Government and politics
2638 Nigerians repatriated from Libya

2,638 Nigerians repatriated from Libya

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Wednesday said it had received another batch of 121 stranded Nigerians from Libya, making a total of 2,638 Nigerians repatriated since February. The Zonal Coordinator of NEMA, Mr Suleiman Yakubu, received the new [...]

September 7, 2017 Africa
China Electric Cars

China’s sale of electric cars soars

China’s new energy vehicle (NEV) industry has seen rapid growth in the past few years, with growing sales and an improved industry ecosystem, according to an industry association. Production and sales of NEVs have surpassed 1 million units so far, [...]

September 7, 2017 International
Justice Walter Onnoghen

Breaking: I’m ready to surrender myself to EFCC- CJN

ABUJA-The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, on Wednesday, said he was ready to surrender himself to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for probe.   Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, Justice Onnoghen, who maintained [...]

September 7, 2017 Law