Kaduna Debt Crisis: I Have No Regrets Criticising Uba Sani – Says Suspended APC Women Leader, Exposes Another Top Secret Maryam Suleiman, the suspended Women Leader of the All Progressives Congress in Kaduna State, has stated that she has no regrets over her criticisms of Governor Uba Sani. Suleiman, in a telephone interview with The PUNCH on Monday, described her suspension by the party for criticising the governor as an act of God, adding that she remained unruffled. The Kaduna State APC leadership had on Sunday slammed Suleiman with indefinite suspension following her criticisms of the state governor, who had…
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Like Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Kogi, FCT Set To Be A State When Nigeria returned to democratic governance in 1999, a new crop of “professional politicians” emerged. Nyesome Wike was one of them. Elected chairman of Obio/Akpor Local Government in 1999, he has been on in the past 25 years as an LGA chairman, chief of staff, minister of state, governor and now Minister for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). As both local government chairman and state governor, he controlled massive budgets as his local government is one of the richest in Rivers State, which is itself one of the richest…
JUST IN: Gunmen Block Travelers, Kidnap Students Gunmen attacked and kidnapped an unspecified number of students traveling on the East-West road in Ughelli, Delta State. A source told our publication that the event occurred on Monday, although facts are vague at this point. Security authorities have yet to remark on the subject as of yet. More details shortly…
Amnesty International Slams Nigerian Govt For Not Prosecuting Deborah Samuel’s Killers Since 2022, Says Culprits Faced Camera, Bragged And Held A Matchbox Global human rights body, the Amnesty International, has decried the failure of the Nigerian authorities to hold to account killers’ of Deborah Samuel over alleged blasphemy more than one year after she was lynched by school mates. Amnesty International which stated this in statement posted on its X (formerly Twitter) handle on Monday, regretted that despite the fact that the killers of Deborah Samuel did not hide their faces in camera while committing the heinous crime, yet the…
BREAKING: Explosion Rocks Nigerian Army Cantonment The Nigerian Army has called on residents and the general public not to panic over with it described as “minor explosion” that occurred within its Cantonment in Ikeja, Lagos State on Monday. A statement by the Director Army Public Relations, Major General, Onyema Nwachukwu, said the incident which occurred on a farmland near the Mammy Market within the Cantonment, had been put under control. “This is to notify the general public that today Monday 1 April 2024, a minor explosion occurred within the Nigerian Army (NA) Cantonment in Ikeja, Lagos. The incident occurred on…
FG To Invite More Global Investors Into Cement Sector The Federal Government has been urged to invite more global investors into the cement manufacturing sector in order to create fair market prices of the commodity. According to the president, National Association of Blockmoulders of Nigeria (NABMON), Prince AdesegunBanjoko, government should also discourage export by way of smuggling through Nigeria‘s porous borders to neighbouring countries. This, he said, will create respite in the sector. He also called on the Federal Government to reduce duties on imported components for manufacturing cement. In his message during Easter, he said: “Of recent, the issue…
BREAKING : Many Causalities As Terrorists Ambush Nigerian Soldiers, Capture, Destroy Sophisticated Weapons The extremist armed group Islamic State (ISIS) militants have carried out an ambush against the Nigerien Army in Tillabéri. The ambush was a shocking development in the ongoing conflict between terrorists and Niger military. The aftermath of the attack has also revealed some disturbing details about the sophisticated weapons that the militants were able to capture and destroy. One of the most striking pieces of equipment that fell into the hands of the terrorists was a South Africa-made OTT Technologies’ Puma M36 MK5 MRAP. The heavily armoured…
Nigerian Police Ordered Cells To Be Opened For Criminals Willing To Repent The Delta State Police Command has deleted a post on its X platform handle where it announced that the police commissioner in the state had ordered that cells should be opened for detained criminals ready to repent, in the spirit of the Easter celebration. The command on Monday morning made a post on its X handle announcing that the commissioner had ordered area commanders, divisional police officers and tactical commanders to open their cells to detained criminals willing to repent from their criminal ways. According to the message,…
2024 Budget: Drama As Senator Abandons Live TV Interview To Avoid ‘Problem’ Apparently, to avoid suspension from the Senate, the Cross River North Senator, Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe, on Sunday, abandoned a live TV interview midway over the subject of the 2024 Budget in order to, according to him, avoid facing ‘wahala’. Jarigbe was a remote guest on Arise News Channel’s breakfast show, and one of the anchors had took him to task on the details of the 2024 Budget. Drama, however, ensued when the lawmaker said he did not scrutinise the budget line by line to which the female anchor…
I’m Now A Prophet, Says Umahi David Umahi, minister of works, says President Bola Tinubu will govern the country for eight years. Umahi spoke when he appeared on Sunday Politics, a Channels Television programme. The former governor of Ebonyi state said Tinubu’s presidential election victory in 2023 was “divine”. He said the president is working hard to right the wrongs of the past and hand the country back to the citizens. “You called me a pastor but I am also a prophet and you must know the coming of Mr President is divine and when God starts a thing he…