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The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu has revealed lessons he learned from the Kuje correctional centre Abuja when he was incarcerated over alleged fraud while serving as governor of Abia State. Senator Kalu was convicted by the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court on December 5, 2019, and sentenced to 12 years in prison over alleged N7.65 billion misappropriation. However, Justice Mohammed Liman of the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court on June 2, 2020, ordered the former governor’s release, leading to his freedom after six months. In a statement on his verified Facebook page…

He served as the Chief of Army Staff between October 1981 and October 1983, during the Second Republic. The former Chief of Army Staff, General Mohammed Inuwa Wushishi, is dead. According to a family source, General Wushishi died at a London Hospital. General Wushishi was born in 1940 in Wushishi, Headquarters of Wushishi Local Government Area of Niger State. He served as the Chief of Army Staff between October 1981 and October 1983, during the Second Republic. He served in the Nigerian Army in various capacities, including General Officer Commanding, 4 Infantry Division, Nigerian Army, 1976; Commandant, Staff College, Jaji,…

Bolarinwa Oyegoke Babalakin, an influential judge, who retired as a Supreme Court justice, has died. He was aged 94. Mr Babalakin, the father of billionaire businessman and lawyer, Wale Babalakin, who was called to the London Bar in the late 1950s, died on Saturday morning. Prayers will be held for him today at his hometown of Gbongan in Osun State. Details later…

Group tells Buhari to sack acting NPA MD Bello-Koko It noted that the then Managing Director of NPA couldn’t have been able to dip her hands in the national treasury without the active connivance of the Executive Director in charge of Finance.   A group, Nigeria United Against Corruption (NUAC), has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the acting Managing Director of Nigerian Port Authority (NPA), Bello Koko over his alleged involvement in some high profile corrupt practices. The group in a statement signed by its Spokesman, Amb. Zarewa Salisu Sageer, stressed the need for Mr. Mohammed Bello-Koko, acting Managing…

Maid Strangles Lucky Igbinedion’s Mother To Death, Disappears With Her Money, Jewelries Maria had remained confined to a wheel chair since her 80th birthday, unable to move around, just managing to stay alive. THE Igbinedion’s household has been thrown into a mournful mood following the manner Maria Oredola Igbinedion, mother to two-time former governor of Edo State, Lucky Nosakhare Igbinedion was killed. THE WHISPERER had reported that Maria from Usen in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State, passed on, on Thursday December 2 at her home in Ugbo, Benin-City, the Edo State capital at the age of 85. Unfortunately,…

RE : CHIEF UMEH KALU, SAN. Our attention has been drawn to the open letter written by a former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Abia State, Chief Umeh Kalu, SAN to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu. As a policy, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu will not engage in any public exchange with any of his appointees, former or serving. It will be disingenuous and inexpedient, administratively and politically, to do so. If Chief Umeh Kalu was truly desirous of passing any information or concerns to a Governor who found him fit and proper to serve as Chief Law Officer of the State for…

Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Sadiya Farouq travels to US for childbirth The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, has travelled to the United States of America for childbirth. Farouq, who was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019, is by age, the youngest minister in the federal cabinet of the president. Her history with the President dates back to the defunct Congress for Progressive Change when Farouq was the national treasurer of the party. She was one-time national treasurer of the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, APC from June 2013 to June 2014.…

Abia Speaker to Umeh Kalu: You are Treacherous and Shameless The new tradition in Abia State today seems to be a situation where some former government officials booted out of office due to gross incompetence, redundancy and or crass ineptitude resulting from over-stay in a particular office in government, have formed a 'Gang of the Aggrieved' whose only mission is obviously to pull down the government(s) in which they once served just to get even with the government and all those associated with it. The latest of the vitriols to come from the "Gang of the Aggrieved" is the one…

Former governor of Edo State, Mr. Lucky Igbinedion, has lost his mother, Mrs. Maria Oredola Igbinedion. According to the former governor, she died in the early hours of Thursday, at the age of 85, Igbinedion said the burial arrangement of the Octogenarian who is survived by Children, grand Children and great grand Children, will be announced later. Late Mrs. Oredola Igbinedion was married to the Esama of Benin, Chief Gabriel Igbinedion. Mr. Lucky Igbinedion was the governor Edo State on the platform of Peoples Democratic party, PDP between 1999 and 2007.

Amaechi visits Nnamdi Kanu in DSS custody Amaechi visited Kanu alongside the co-Chair of the Interfaith Dialogue Forum for Peace, Bishop Sunday Onuoha. Nnamdi Kanu’s sibling said the visitors “had a meaningful interaction” with the IPOB leader. Chief Mbazulike Amaechi, a first republic parliamentarian and former Minister of Aviation, on Thursday visited the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, who is in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS). This was made known by Kanunta Kanu, younger brother of Nnamdi Kanu via his known social media pages. Amaechi visited Kanu alongside the…