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How FG drains NNPC accounts – Audit report •Presidency disowns fake PIB

Posted by admin Presidency Monday, July 16th, 2012

AN independent audit report has discovered how the Federal Government has continuously drained the accounts of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). According to an audit report published by Reuters on Monday, the Federal Government was owing the NNPC some improper and informal loans, which were used to cover a range of expenses, from a […]

Jonathan’s asset declaration: SERAP seeks court order for document release

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency Monday, July 16th, 2012

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Federal High Court sitting in Ikeja for an order compelling the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), Mr Sam Saba, to release documents on President Goodluck Jonathan’s asset declaration. SERAP’s request, in a suit number FHC/IKJ/CS/159/2012, was brought pursuant to section 20 of […]

How Jonathan sidelined forces against new CJN

Posted by admin Judiciary, Presidency Monday, July 16th, 2012

FURTHER details emerged, on Monday, on how President Goodluck Jonathan frustrated moves by some powerful forces, which were bent on stopping the nomination of Justice Aloma Mukhtar as the new Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). Sources in political circles confirmed to the Nigerian Tribune that the forces had all along followed the career progression of […]

Ex-Obasanjo’s aide faults Boko Haram claim on killings

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency Wednesday, July 11th, 2012

Former Special Adviser to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo on Media and Publicity, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has faulted statements credited to Boko Haram that it was responsible for the killings in Plateau State on Saturday and Sunday. Okupe told our correspondent on the telephone on Wednesday that the claim of the Islamic fundamentalists was an attempt to […]

I invited Met Police, FBI to probe Obasanjo, Atiku – Ribadu

Posted by admin Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency Wednesday, July 11th, 2012

By Oscarline Onwuemenyi ABUJA — Former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has asserted that he investigated former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his vice, Atiku Abubakar, during his tenure as head of the nation’s most visible anti-corruption agency. Ribadu, who spoke, yesterday, at a special Visitors’ Forum, organised by […]

Jonathan’s assets: Go to CCB, SERAP told

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency Wednesday, July 11th, 2012

The Presidency has advised a civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, to seek information about President Goodluck Jonathan’s assets declaration from the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, since the bureau “has the powers and responsibility for addressing the issues such as the one you are pursuing.” This response followed a request by […]

‘Jonathan not soft on corruption’

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency Monday, July 2nd, 2012

President Goodluck Jonathan has been living up to his promise of zero tolerance for corruption, the Presidency said yesterday. It added that Dr. Jonathan has takes various measures in his push against corruption, in a statement by his media adviser Dr. Reuben Abati. Abati was reacting to “reports, comments and agitations aimed at creating the […]

Jonathan’s Stance On Asset Declaration Violates US, Nigeria Agreement

Posted by admin American Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency Sunday, July 1st, 2012

THERE are strong indications that President Goodluck Jonathan’s recent statement that he does not “give a damn” about making his assets declaration public, is a violation of an agreement between Nigeria and the United States governments, according to investigation that points to aspects of a joint communique on the issue, signed by both countries recently at […]

Jonathan/Sambo’s assets: Our hands are tied – CCB

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), National Politics, Presidency, Top Stories Saturday, June 30th, 2012

The Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau, Mr. Sam Saba, has said the constitution bars the bureau from making public the asset declaration forms of President Goodluck Jonathan and Vice-President Namadi Sambo. He said this in an interview in Abuja, on Friday. He said the National Assembly had yet to provide the required guidelines […]

Jonathan under fire over foreign trips

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency Saturday, June 30th, 2012

Civil rights groups, opposition parties, the Trade Union Congress and eminent Nigerians on Friday took a swipe at President Goodluck Jonathan over his overseas trips. The groups, including the Action Congress of Nigeria, the Congress for Progressive Change and the Campaign for Democracy, warned the President against following in the footsteps of former President Olusegun […]