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Plot to sack Saraki thickens

A grand plot to remove Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, is in the works and is being allegedly championed by a former governor and a serving senator.

This is even as meetings are said to have been held to actualise the removal.

The plot was said to have been weaved around the former governor and other key players, especially on the roles they are expected to play.

End fuel queues in one week –Senate tells FG, NNPC

— 26th January 2018 •NASS is broke, says Saraki Fred Itua, Abuja Senate has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Federal Government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to, within one week, end long queues in fuel stations across the country. The resolution followed the unanimous adoption of an interim report of its Joint Committee […]

OBJ’s letter to Buhari baseless –Diya

OBJ’s letter to Buhari baseless –Diya — 26th January 2018 • Good message, wrong messenger, says ADP Aidoghie Paulinus, Abuja Former Chief of General Staff, General Oladipo Diya, has said that apart from the issue of nepotism raised by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo in his letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, there is no point in the 18-page letter. […]

Igbo elders reject cattle colony

— 26th January 2018  Fred Ezeh, Abuja Igbo Elders Council has vowed to resist any attempt by the Federal Government to extend its cattle colony policy to South East states. Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbe suggested the implementation of cattle colony policy few weeks ago, as alternative to the open grazing which has been responsible for […]

Restructuring: El-Rufai panel recommends state police, fiscal federalism, merger of states

— 26th January 2018 Job Osazuwa The All Progressives Congress committee on restructuring has presented its report to the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, with the committee making several recommendations it said were based on opinions of Nigerians. Some of the panel’s key recommendations are resource control, making local government an affair of […]

Diezani faults EFCC on withdrawal of $1.3bn from NNPC’s account

— 26th January 2018 Henry Umahi The former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has thrown some light on the process for the release of funds requested by security/intelligent agencies in the country. Reacting to publications in traditional and new media titled “Diezani in trouble again over withdrawal of $1.3b from NNPC accounts,” she averred […]

Jonathan is Nigeria’s poorest ex-president – envoy

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA – FORMER Career Diplomat and retired Permanent Secretary, Ambassador Godknows Boladei Igali, has said that former President Goodluck Jonathan, has remained one of the poorest former Nigerian leaders, even in Africa, in recent years. Nigeria ex-President Jonathan . Ambassador Igali also said that the immediate past Nigerian President was currently struggling […]

IS infiltrates, Benue, Edo, Kogi States, Presidency raises the alarm

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA – THERE are indications that the Islamic State in West Africa, ISWA, have infiltrated the North Central and some South South States of the country to carry out its dastardly act. Garba Shehu Already, the security operatives especially the Department of State Services, DSS, is said to be on top of […]

2019 Polls: Daura youth to purchase nomination forms for Buhari, Masari (What a joke)

Daura Emirate Youth Progressive Movement (DEYPM), an NGO, on Sunday said it would purchase nominations forms for President Muhammadu Buhari and Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State to enable them recontest in the 2019 general elections. Malam Abdulkadir Lawal, the chairman of the movement, disclosed this in Daura at a rally, which was attended by […]

Buhari, don’t run in 2019 – Amb. Hagher

Buhari, don’t run in 2019 –Amb. Hagher — 20th January 2018 Former Nigeria’s envoy to Canada and Mexico, Prof Iyorwuese Hagher is a blunt Nigerian who tells it as it is. In this exclusive interview with Saturday Sun, the erstwhile Minister of Steel spoke on his January 5 open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, which went […]