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Yoruba Group Says Alleged Indictment Of Peter Obi A Ploy To Divert Attention From Leadership Issues A South West socio-cultural group, Yoruba For National Renaissance (YNR) has expressed regret over a report published by a leading online newspaper in Nigeria, Premium Times in which a former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi was fingered in a Panama Paper as one of Nigerian leaders who allegedly laundered money overseas using the offshore shell. The group says the report is not only misleading but a sponsored campaign to smear the character of Obi whom it says not only maintained a high integrity…

President Muhammadu Buhari will present the 2022 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the National Assembly on Thursday. The Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, disclosed this on Tuesday in the Senate Chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja. He made the announcement while presiding over the plenary as the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, was absent. Before the announcement, Senator Omo-Agege informed the lawmakers that President Buhari has submitted the revised 2022-2024 Medium Term Expenditure Framework MTEF and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP). In a letter addressed to the Senate, the President urged the lawmakers to approve the planning…

WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook are currently down for many users. The three apps – which are all owned by Facebook, and run on shared infrastructure – all completely stopped working shortly before 5pm. Other products that are part of the same family of apps, such as Facebook Workplace, also stopped working. Visitors to the Facebook website simply saw an error page or a message that their browser could not connect. The WhatsApp and Instagram apps continued to work, but did not show new content, including any messages sent or received during the problems.Prin

The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has called the attention of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, to attempts by unidentified staff to turn the port to a Christian crusade camp. The warning was contained in a press statement circulated on Monday by the group’s director and founder, Prof. Ishaq Akintola. The MURIC cited the example of some senior staff of NPA giving out Christian literature as parting gifts to official visitors to the facility. The statement reads: “The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) is now in the habit of giving Christian literature as gifts to its visitors. “A group of people who…

Governors of South South geo-political zone are currently meeting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital. The governors of Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa , Delta, Rivers, Cross River and Edo States are members of the South South Governors’ Forum. The agenda of the meeting is yet to be revealed to journalists but sources said issues concerning open grazing, security and economic well being of South South geo-political zone may be discussed at the meeting.

Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, head of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to reveal the names of Boko Haram sponsors. The cleric described Nigeria as a broken country decomposing from within while “lives are hemorrhaging by the day”. Kukah spoke at the priestly ordination of five deacons at the Holy Family Cathedral. The church released his sermon on Sunday, the weekend of Nigeria’s independence celebration. The bishop lamented why the Buhari administration was refusing to expose the names of Boko Haram sponsors. In September, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) published the names of six Nigerians prosecuted…

NECA DG Timothy Olawale slumps, dies in Abuja The Director-General of Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) Timothy Olawale slumped and died in Abuja on Friday night. The Sun reported that the incident happened while Olawale was in a meeting with the board of the Industrial Training Fund (ITF). The paper said Olawale was on his seat but could not get up and died before help could get to him. However, the NECA Secretariat also announced Olawale’s death in a statement issued in Lagos on Saturday. The statement said: “It is with the deepest sadness that we announce the passing of…

Air Commodore Ibrahim Kefas (Rtd), who served as Military Administrator of Delta State during the military regime of General Sani Abacha is dead. Kefas, who also served as Military Administrator of Cross River State died as Nigeria marks her 61st anniversary of independence. Kefas was Military Administrator of Cross River State between December 1993 and September 1994, and then of Delta State until August 1996. As a Group Captain, Kefas was appointed Governor of Delta State on 26 September 1994. While Governor of Delta State, he sacked professor Frank Mene Adedemiswanye Ukoli, Vice-Chancellor of Delta State University for political reasons,…

Renowned Chartered Accountant, Dr. Ibe Okwara Osonwa has on Thursday congratulated Nigerians for witnessing the country’s 61st Independence Anniversary. Osonwa said “Nigeria has come a long way and has overcome many challenges in the past 61 years, noting that only a peaceful and united nation can attain meaningful development. In a goodwill message to mark Nigeria’s 61st Independence Anniversary, personally signed by him, commended “Nigeria’s founding fathers, who made meaningful sacrifices for the country to become what it is today”. Osonwa said challenges notwithstanding, Nigeria will prosper as a nation in the future. “Congratulations to Nigerians on the auspicious occasion…

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari said yesterday his government was ready to take decisive actions against secessionist agitators and their sponsors who threaten the nation’s security. He also said that the recent arrests of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and that of the promoter of the Yoruba nation, Sunday Adeyemo, as well as the ongoing investigations being conducted had revealed certain high-profile financiers behind these individuals. He said the government was vigorously pursuing the identified financiers, including one identified as a serving member of the National Assembly. Buhari equally declared that the past eighteen months…