PHOTOS: Atiku, Wike, Others Attend PDP National Caucus Meeting Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, and Mr Nyesome Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, attended the PDP’s national caucus meeting in Abuja on Wednesday, ahead of the party’s National Executive Committee meeting on Thursday. This will be the first time the former Rivers state governor has attended a PDP conference since the presidential election last year. Mr Wike has been at odds with the PDP leadership and did not endorse the party’s selection of Abubakar as its presidential candidate in…
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PDP NEC Meeting: FCT Minister, Wike Wins Championship Position FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, has continued to maintain an upper hand in the leadership crisis plaguing the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a meeting of the national caucus of the party, last night, did his bidding by asking the acting National Chairman, Illya Umar Damagum, to continue in office. By this fresh bill of health, Damagum is to continue acting in office till the next NEC meeting after today. To this end, today’s NEC meeting would have nothing to do with leadership change until the next national convention of the…
EXCLUSIVE: Kogi Gov Ododo To Be Arrested, Jailed Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has warned members of the public against preventing its officers from carrying out their lawful duties. The commission said that it is a criminal offence to obstruct or prevent personnel from conducting their lawful duties, citing section 38(2)(a(b) of the EFCC Establishment Act. According to the agency, culprits risk a jail term of not less than five years. Ibom Focus earlier reported on Wednesday that Governor Usman Ododo of Kogi State smuggled his immediate predecessor and political godfather, Yahaya Bello out of his…
VIDEO: EFCC Lays Siege On Yahaya Bello’s Residence The Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, has laid siege on Abuja’s residence of former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello. Men of the anti-graft agency stormed the house located in Wuse Zone 4, Abuja, on Wednesday morning. Recall that the EFCC had a few months ago listed Bello as one of the defendants in a multi-billion-naira fraud case, even as it declared the former Kogi governor wanted. Below is the video as captured by AIT.
BREAKING: Gov Ododo ‘Whisks Yahaya Bello Away’ As EFCC Officials Depart His Residence Usman Ododo, the current governor of Kogi state, has allegedly whisked away his predecessor, Yahaya Bello, amid a massive security crackdown on his Abuja residence by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) operatives. The operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have also left the Abuja residence of Yahaya Bello, former governor of Kogi state. The EFCC operatives had earlier restricted movement in and around Bello’s house situated on Benghazi street, Wuse Zone 4. After a few hours, Usman Ododo, governor of Kogi, arrived at…
EFCC’s Attempt To Arrest Me Is Illegal, Says Yahaya Bello, Reveals Next Action The Kogi State former governor, Yahaya Bello, on Wednesday, described the attempts made by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to arrest him as illegal and against a subsisting court order. It was earlier reported how the agency was able to track former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello to Abuja by outsmarting him on Wednesday. The attempts to arrest Bello were related to the N84 billion fraud case against Yahaya which the anti-graft agency is currently prosecuting. Reacting to these developments in a statement…
How Yahaya Bello Was Outsmarted By EFCC, Tracked To Abuja Hideout Through Aide’s Phone After Leaving Own Phone In Kogi The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was able to track former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello to Abuja by outsmarting him, SaharaReporters has learnt. It was learnt that Bello deliberately left his mobile phone at the Government House in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital to avoid being tracked to Abuja not knowing that EFCC operatives were already tracking the mobile phone of his aide he used. Through his aide’s mobile phone, the former governor was tracked to where he…
BREAKING: Policemen Attached To Governor Ododo Prevent EFCC Personnel From Arresting Yahaya Bello Policemen attached to Governor Usman Ododo of Kogi State on Wednesday prevented the personnel of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from arresting former Kogi governor, Yahaya Bello. It was earlier reported that EFCC operatives on Wednesday barricaded Bello’s house in Wuse, Abuja. Ododo visited the embattled former Kogi governor on Wednesday afternoon with a retinue of security operatives amid the siege at the latter’s Abuja residence. EFCC sources said that policemen attached to Governor Ododo prevented the EFCC personnel from arresting the former governor. According…
BREAKING: Embattled Ganduje Hands Over To APC Deputy National Chairman The embattled National Chairman of the ruling All Progressive’s Congress APC, Dr. Abdulahi Ganduje has hand over to his deputy
Nigerian Army Confirms Soldiers Stabbed Each Other In Market The Nigerian Army has confirmed the stabbing of its personnel attached to the 74 Supply and Transportation Brigade, 82nd (Airborne and Amphibious) Division, Private Aliyu Musa Abdullahi by his colleague, Private Yahaya Sani. “At about 152030A Apr 24, a case of fighting and quarreling was reported by the Admin Officer 74 ST Bde against 23NA/85/10795 Pte Aliyu Abdullahi and 23NA/85/10147 Pte Yahaya Sani both of 74 ST Bde,” an incident report by the army. “It was reported that both soldiers fought at the Artisan new market in Enugu State. Pte Yahaya…