[su_dropcap]T[/su_dropcap]HE South-South and the South-East chapters of the All Progressives Congress have supported the criticism of the Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu by the APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The South-South APC advised the minister to resign if he was incapable of doing his job, Punchng report. This was contained in a statement […]
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[su_dropcap]T[/su_dropcap]HE cash recovered from former public officers under probe by anti-graft agencies will not be made public yet because it will be used as evidence against them in court, the Presidency said yesterday. Presidential spokesman Mallam Garba Shehu said much as President Muhammadu Buhari would have liked to let Nigerians know how much has been […]
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[otw_shortcode_dropcap label=”B” size=”medium” border=”border” border_color_class=”otw-red-border” shadow=”shadow”][/otw_shortcode_dropcap]ARELY three days after the Presidency claimed that 300 persons and companies were implicated in N116billion “curious” contracts issued by the Office of the National Security Adviser(ONSA), details of the cash some of those indicted will refund have emerged. Also at the weekend, it was learnt a former Director of […]
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[su_dropcap]T[/su_dropcap]HE Chairman, Senate Committee on Land Transportation, Senator Gbenga Ashafa, has said that Nigerians can still scrutinise the content of the 2016 budget, which was passed into law last week by both chambers of the National Assembly. Ashafa, who stated this in an interview with Punchng, explained that any individual or group that believed that […]
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[su_dropcap size=”4″]N[/su_dropcap]ATIONAL Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday ruled the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, out of order for saying he should not be expected to conjure magic in resolving the current fuel crisis in the country. He said the minister strayed from the progressive […]
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[su_dropcap size=”4″]P[/su_dropcap]resident Muhamadu Buhari yesterday told Nigerians that the change agenda of his party, All Progressives Congress (APC), will come faster if citizens imbibe the virtues of Jesus Christ and place national interest above selfish, personal and group interests. Buhari in his Easter message said the country stood a better chance of achieving a peaceful, […]
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[su_dropcap size=”4″]F[/su_dropcap]OR declaring he was not a magician capable of conjuring the availability of fuel, the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has asked the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Emmanuel Kachikwu, to resign. Dr. Kachikwu had suggested that he saw no possibility of fuel […]
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[su_dropcap size=”4″]A[/su_dropcap] former Director of Finance and Account of the Nigerian Air Force, Air Commodore Aliyu Yishau (retd.), told a Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday that a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh (retd.), inherited the tradition of diverting N558,200,000 from NAF’s account monthly from his predecessors. Badeh served […]
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[su_dropcap size=”4″]T[/su_dropcap]he grim economic situation in the country appears to be deepening by the day as 27 states in the country are finding it difficult to pay the salaries of their workers. President Muhammadu Buhari said this in his remarks at the second National Executive Committee meeting of the All Progressives Congress in Abuja on […]
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[su_dropcap size=”4″]T[/su_dropcap]HE current fuel scarcity in the country took a turn for the worse on Thursday as motorists and other petrol consumers flocked filling stations in major towns nationwide in what industry stakeholders described as panic buying fuelled by the statement made by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr.Ibe Kachikwu, the previous day. […]
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[su_dropcap size=”4″]L[/su_dropcap]awmakers have retained the N500 billion intervention fund for the poor in this year’s N6,077,680,000,000 budget. The Muhammadu Buhari administration plans to dole out N5,000 to the poorest in the land and feed school pupils, among its populist programmes, The Nation report. But the National Assembly yesterday passed the 2016 controversial budget with a reduction […]
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[su_dropcap]B[/su_dropcap]ARLEY 24 hours after passing the 2016 budget, the National Assembly has transmitted the Appropriation Bill to the Presidency. The Senate and the House of Representatives had on Wednesday passed a harmonised budget of N6.06tn, cutting about N17bn off the initial N6.077tn proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari on December 23, 2015. Findings indicated that there was […]
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