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Tuesday, October 6th, 2015
Ministers nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari The names announced ministerial nominees read out by the Senate President are: 1. Rotimi Amaechi 2. Babatunde Fashola 3. Adebayo Shittu 4. Audu Ogbeh 5. Kayode Fayemi 6. Chris Ngige 7. Amina Ibrahim 8. Kemi Adeosun 9. Lai Mohammed 10.Ogbonnaya Onu 11. Ibe Kachikwu 12.Aisha Alhassan 13. Hadi Sirika […]
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Monday, October 5th, 2015
The Federal Government has signed a $2.3bn assistance agreement aimed at fighting extreme poverty with the United States Agency for International Development. The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday. Akande said the agreement would help the government to combat extreme […]
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Monday, October 5th, 2015
Nigeria ex-minister’s cash seized A court in London has approved the seizure of cash from Nigeria’s former oil minister Alison Diezani-Madueke, reports BBC Africa’s Sam Piranty. The amount seized from the former minister is about $41,000 (£27,000), following an application brought by the UK’s National Crime Agency under the Proceeds of Crime Act. The court […]
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Saturday, October 3rd, 2015
Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke The British National Crime Agency has dispatched a team of detectives to Nigeria who are now working with the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to probe Diezani Alison-Madueke, Nigeria’s former Petroleum Minister, during the administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan. Findings by SUNDAY PUNCH revealed […]
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Friday, October 2nd, 2015
The immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, was on Friday arrested in the UK National Crime Agency, PREMIUM TIMES can exclusively and authoritatively report. The former minister, who was one of the most powerful officials of the President Goodluck Jonathan administration, was arrested Friday morning alongside four other people by the British law […]
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Thursday, October 1st, 2015
-Punch Former President Goodluck Jonathan Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari for budgeting N70m for the Independence Day anniversary. El-Rufai noted in a Facebook post on Thursday that under former President Goodluck Jonathan, the Federal Government spent billions every year on Independence Day. He noted that between 2011 and 2014, […]
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
Femi Fani-Kayode | credits: Photo file A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, says President Muhammadu Buhari, who is a Fulani man, is sympathetic towards Fulani herdsmen. The former minister said this in a Facebook post titled, ‘Herdsmen from hell’ while reacting to the abduction of a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, […]
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015
By Henry Umoru ABUJA- SENATE President Bukola Saraki who appeared before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT following a 13-count charge against him by the Code of Conduct Bureau, over alleged falsification of assets he admitted, said Tuesday that if he was not the Senate President, he would not be going through the present trial. […]
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Monday, September 21st, 2015
Chief Olu Falae | credits: Sunday Aborisade Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, has been kidnapped by gunmen on Monday on his farm at Ilado village in Akure North Local Government area of Ondo State. The incident occurred on the day the former presidential candidate of the All Peoples […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2015
By Vincent Ujumadu & Chimaobi Nwaiwu The Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hassan Karma yesterday in Onitsha accused the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB of breeding criminals even as the command paraded 43 MASSOB members in Awka. The police Commissioner also proclaimed ban on the police in the state […]
