The Managing Director of Assets Management Company of Nigeria, Mr Ahmed Kuru is cooling his heels at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) custody following his arrest.It was gathered that the anti-graft agency apprehended him on Wednesday based on allegations ofdiversion and sales of seized assets to cronies at below value prices by businessmen accused of loan default with banks. The arrest is sequel to last minute arrangements by the AMCON to release list of Bank loan defaulters which the debtors have been put on notice severally. But some Bank defaulters were said to have petitioned the Economic and…
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By Daniel Abogonye, Lafia The Nasarawa State chapter of the National Youth Council of Nigeria, (NYCN), is currently facing leadership crisis following the removal of its chairman, Comrade Idris Ojoko and his deputy, Muhammed Atose from office. The NYCN state executive council at its meeting in Lafia, passed a vote of no confidence on the embattled chairman for gross misconduct, while his deputy, Atose, was relieved of his position to enable him face the responsibilities of his new place of work. In a communique issued at the end of a state management committee meeting of the Youth Council, the group…
For violating the rights of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nndi Kanu a High Court in Umuahia, Abia State, on Wednesday ordered the Nigeria Government to pay him the sum of N1 billion The presiding Judge Benson Anya described the invasion of Kanu’s Afaraukwu residence as notorious and brazen. He also ordered the Nigerian Government to issue a public apology to the IPOB leader in three national dailies and advised that a political resolution be adopted in resolving Kanu’s case. Kanu in a suit filed through his counsel, Aloy Ejimakorm accused the government and Abubakar Malami,…
By Tunde Olusunle If I were to encounter Tunde Ipinmisho, retired general manager in-charge of public communication at the Federal Housing Authority, (FHA) or Hakeem Bello, longserving media adviser to Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, former governor of Lagos State and incumbent minister of works and housing, in your presence, I would most certainly be hailed by them with the same alias they have both known me with, for almost four decades now. We all worked as journalists, colleagues, good friends and brothers in the primordial Daily Times of Nigeria Plc, (DTN). Those were good old days, when the profession was…
Renowned journalist and respected columnist, Mahmud Jega deviated from the norm in his write up titled, “In Zamfara, everyone is a bandit sponsor?” which appeared in a very promising online newspaper, 21st Century Chronicle recently. In the article which was no doubt a veiled reply to the recent briefing by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara State, the veteran journalist stepped down from the high pedestal his many years of handiwork placed him when he opted to take sides in the political imbroglio in the sate. The press conference was a reaction to an earlier one organised by the…
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has commiserated with his Sokoto State counterpart, Aminu Tambuwal over the death of his elder brother, Mohammed Bello. According to the family, the octogenarian died on Tuesday evening and was buried according to Islamic rites on Wednesday morning. The Kogi Governor, however, described the death of Bello, who held the Waziri Tambuwal title until his death, as painful, noting that the people of Sokoto and humanity at large will miss his wise counsel. Being the eldest in the family, Bello succeeded their late father, Alhaji Umaru Waziri Usman, as Waziri 37 years ago. “It…
We at the Zamfara state office of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are highly surprised over the claim by some certain group that there exist two factions of our great party in the state with each aligning itself to the two former political leaders of ex-governor Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar and former Senator Kabiru Garba Marafa. Most worrisome is when these claimants begin to assert frivolities against the party leadership and government in the state, especially over the contradictory alleged attack on one Shamsu Kasida whose said attack came under two versions. That he was attacked as the victim and that he…
The Senate on Wednesday backtracked as it reamended the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2021, it earlier passed on November 18, 2021. The lawmakers amended Clause 84(2) of the report where they approved direct, indirect primaries or consensus as procedure for the nomination of candidates by political parties for the various elective positions. They also approved the recommended Clause 84(3) that “A political party that adopts the direct primaries procedure shall ensure that all aspirants are given equal opportunities of being voted for by members of the party.They also said such a party shall adopt the procedure outlined below:(a) In the case…
Not fewer than 106 Coalition of Civil Society Group, CSOs have commended President Muhammadu Buhari and the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN), Godwin Emefiele over the launched of the largest rice pyramids in Abuja yesterday. In a press statement jointly signed by the President, Coalition of Civil Society Groups, Bassey Etuk Williams and 36 other state coordinators in Abuja, he explained that the program has shown that President Buhari agenda on food security is yielding required results. Williams noted that the rice sufficiency goal was achieved effectively due to the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele that introduced Anchor Borrowers…
****Roots for Senator Sani 313 Ahead of the national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) slated for February 26 in Abuja, a South-south Emerging Leaders’ Forum (SELF) has warned leaders of the party not to elect some former governors and individuals in the race who have been indicted for some financial crimes by anti-corruption agencies. In a statement released to newsmen Wednesday in Abuja, national coordinator of the group Barrister Preye Wilson, warned that the ruling party does not need a national chairman that will be dragging in and out of the anti-corruption agencies’ offices to explain their dealings…