OBJ, Yar’Adua, GEJ misused N1.2trn – Senate Report

By HENRY UMORU & JOSEPH ERUNKE ABUJA—A Report of the Senate Committee on Public Accounts, presented to the Senate, yesterday, revealed how the Federal Government under three successive administrations from 2002 to 2012, grossly abused funds from the nation’s Special Funds Accounts to the tune of N1.2 trillion. According to the report presented by Senator [...]

Sue me or leave me alone, Yar’Adua’s man tells EFCC

The former principal secretary to the late president Umaru Yar’adua, Mr. David Edevbie, has filed an action at the Federal High Court in Lagos, praying the court to either compel the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to prosecute him for his alleged involvement in money laundering or in the absence of any concrete evidence [...]

Ezekwesili queries how Yar’Adua, Jonathan spent $67bn

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A former Vice President (Africa), World Bank, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, has said the Umaru Yar’Adua and President Goodluck Jonathan administrations need to tell Nigerians how they spent the $45bn left in the foreign reserves account and $22bn in the Excess Crude Account by the former President Olusegun Obasanjo administration. Ezekwesili, who was a former Minister [...]

Holyfield to establish boxing facility in South-South

Arrangements have been concluded for the establishment of a sporting facility in the South-South to develop boxing talents among youths in the country. Evander Holyfield, a four-time World Heavy Weight Boxing Champion, who disclosed this during a courtesy call on Governor Liyel Imoke in Government House, Calabar, said the facility would create avenue for talented [...]

FG to spend N3.1bn on Obasanjo, others in 2012 (What a waste of public resources)

February 6, 2012  by Olusola Fabiyi and Oluwole Josiah   The Federal Government plans to spend N3.19bn on the pensions and allowances of former Presidents, Heads of State, their deputies, former leaders of the National Assembly and their families in the year 2012. The proposed N3.19bn represents an increase of about N2bn from what was [...]

Yar’Adua financially supported my guber campaign –Oshiomhole

  -Sun The Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole yesterday disclosed to the shock of the crowd gathered for the launch of the ‘Power, Politics and Death’, by the former Special Adviser on Media and Communications to Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi, that the late president generously supported his guber race with financial donations. [...]

Troops deployment in Somalia: Why Jonathan revoked Yar’Adua’s plan

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Indications have emerged that the prospect of Nigeria’s deployment of troops in war-ravaged Somalia is very slim. This is contrary to an earlier promise by the government to do so in 2007. SATURDAY PUNCH investigations showed that the Federal Government might have taken a second look at the arrangement made by the late President Umaru [...]

Investigation reveals that Yar’Adua died poor, without a house of his own

Last week, when the Federal Government and, indeed, Nigerians marked the first anniversary of the death of the late President Umar Musa Yar’Adua, not many knew that for the family, there was not much to cheer about the former number one citizen of the country. This is so because he did not leave anything, in [...]

Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua – One Year After

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  Today marks one year anniversary of the death of former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. The Katsina-born statesman was committed to good governance. He enunciated a seven point agenda that encapsulated his administration’s policy thrust including electoral reform and resolving the Niger Delta crisis. He initiated the amnesty programme as part of efforts to find [...]

Yar’Adua, Aondoakaa pressured UK to drop charges against Ibori – WikiLeaks

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The Yar’Adua Administration, with its Justice Minister, Michael Aondoakaa leading the charge, refused to cooperate with Britain on a prisoner transfer agreement unless the United Kingdom dropped corruption charges against former Delta State governor, James Ibori, documents released by WikiLeaks stated on Friday. Britain, keen to secure an agreement allowing the transfer of more than [...]

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