The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) has berated President Mohammandu Buhari for inaugurating the advisory and monitoring committees for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) without a substantive board in place. It insisted that the committee’s inauguration was akin to building ...
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Many contractors have returned to site over NDDC forensic audit as EFCC investigates unexecuted projects
Acting Executive Director, Projects in the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Cairo Ojougboh, has said many contractors had returned to the site for fear of the forensic audit of the commission. Hosting a delegation ...
Read More »Again, Farouk Lawan fails to open defence in alleged $620,000 subsidy bribery case
The trial of former member, House of Representatives, Farouk Lawan, has again been adjourned and for the third time consecutively as his defence team failed to open his defence in his trial for an alleged infraction in the fuel subsidy ...
Read More »Niger places total ban on street begging as group lauds Kano govt’s action against menace
The Niger State government has placed a total ban on any form of begging in the state. Commissioner of Information and Communication, Alhaji Mohammed Sani Idris, who disclosed this to journalists in Minna, said the law was not aimed at ...
Read More »ICPC arraigns SEC ex-DG, NIMC official for alleged N4.9m fraud
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned the suspended Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Dr. Mounir Gwarzo and a Principal Manager with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Jamila Ahmad Muhammad before ...
Read More »Ex-agitators push for amnesty coordinator of Akwa Ibom origin
Ex-agitators Forum of the Presidential Amnesty Programme has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint a qualified indigene of Akwa Ibom State origin as the next Special Adviser/National Coordinator of the programme. Leader of the forum, Comrade Imoh Stephen Okoko, in ...
Read More »Admit us in port, and we will stop chasing fake products in markets and warehouse
The Director-General of Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) Mr Osita A bolo ma disclosed in a one day Stakeholders forum Organized by the agency recently in Lagos in A papa that he wants (SON) to come back to the ports. ...
Read More »Benue people still under herdsmen attacks, killings, says Rep member as abducted priest regains freedom
Representative of Kwande/Ushongo Federal constituency of Benue State, Bob Tyough, has raised the alarm that herdsmen are still attacking and killing his people on daily bases. In a statement made available to newsmen, he said the reaction became necessary to ...
Read More »Ijaw’s claim to Delta governorship race in 2023 faces challenge as Urhobo demand justice, equity
Subtle moves by the Ijaw of Delta South Senatorial District to occupy Government House, Asaba in 2023, has been challenged by the Urhobo, who have argued that the Ijaw were trying to truncate the procedure for transition. They insisted that ...
Read More »Anti-graft war lopsided, targeted at Christians, group alleges
EFCC arrests Kogi ex-gov’s son, Muhammed Audu for alleged fraud The Federation of Progressive Youths (FPY) has alleged that the anti-corruption war being prosecuted by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is lopsided and mainly targeted at Christians in the country. ...
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