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Peace Corps bill to be passed soon – Doguwa A bill for an Act to establish the Nigerian Peace Corps currently before the House of Representatives is to be passed soon, House Majority Leader, Alhaji Alhassan Doguwa, has said. A statement by the Public Relations Officer of the Peace Corps, Mrs Millicent Umoru-Osakwuaoguwa, said that Doguwa gave the assurance during the reconstitution of the State Commands of the outfit for Jigawa, Kano and Katsina, held in Kano on Thursday. It quoted Doguwa as pledging continous support for the Peace Corps of Nigeria and its resolve to engage youths within the…

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to be more effective in securing the lives and property of Nigerians. Commenting on the widespread insecurity in the country, Wike accused Buhari of attempting to shift his constitutional powers of securing lives and property to governors. The governor spoke at the commissioning of the 21-kilometre Odufor-Akpoku-Umuoye Road in Etche Local Government Area of the State on Tuesday. Wike said the All Progressives Congress-led federal government has no idea of how to tackle the troubling security issues and make the country safe for Nigerians. He enjoined the federal government…

  Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has claimed that the Federal Government has repaid up to $150m out of the $2bn loan borrowed from China to construct rails. Amaechi stated this while answering questions on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme on Wednesday. The minister noted that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration only borrowed for the Kaduna-Abuja and the Lagos-Ibadan railways. When asked how much of the Chinese loans obtained that the Federal Government has repaid, Amaechi said, “The right ministry to respond to that question is the Ministry of Finance; they borrow and they repay but I think the last…

N25.7bn fraud: Ex-Bank PHB MD sentenced to 6 years imprisonment There was a tense atmosphere in an Ikeja High Court on Wednesday night as Francis Atuche, a former Managing Director of Bank PHB, begged Justice Lateefa Okunnu not to send him to prison following his conviction for defrauding the bank of N25.7 billion. Mr Atuche and Ugo Anyanwu, a former Chief Financial Officer of the bank, were both found guilty of 22 of the 27 counts of conspiracy and stealing charge proffered against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in 2011. The News Agency of Nigeria reports…

Appeal Court upholds election of Governor Akeredolu, dismisses Jegede’s appeal The Court of Appeal sitting ìn Akure has upheld the election of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu and his Deputy, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, in the Ondo October 10, 2020, governorship election. According to Justice Theresa Ngolika Orji-Abadua, who delivered the judgement via Zoom, the court ruled that the case filed by Jegede lacked merit. Akeredolu was declared winner of the 2020 gubernatorial election by the INEC State Returning Officer and returned as Governor for his second term. He polled 292,830 votes to defeat his closest rival, Mr. Eyitayo Jegede of the Peoples Democratic…

How Sani Abacha Died— Ex-Chief Security Officer, Al-Mustapha Former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha (rtd), has dismissed insinuations that the military ruler died after eating an apple from his concubines. According to ThisDay, Al-Mustapha said the late military ruler’s health suddenly collapsed on June 7, 1998, from the Abuja International Airport, after one of the security personnel, who accompanied President Yasser Arafat of Palestine shook hands with him. Giving account of the incident, the former CSO to the Abacha said: “Shortly after the hand shake, I noticed the change…

The Nigerian Army will stop at nothing until they arrest a top lawyer of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Ifeanyi Ejiofor, whose three domestic workers are still with the military. Military sources revealed that Ejiofor is believed to be in possession of “highly classified documents” about IPOB and the Biafra agitation, especially related to the financing of the groups by external forces. It is also believed that Ejiofor is linked to top politicians in the South-East region, who are discreet members of IPOB and support the secessionist agenda of the IPOB. One of them said, “In September 2017, the…

Twitter Ban: Trouble For Buhari As ECOWAS Court Gives FG 30 Days To File Defence In A Suit By One Love Foundation The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice has given the Nigerian government 30 days to file defence in a suit filed by a human rights lawyer, Samuel Ihensekhien Jnr. on behalf of civil society group, One Love Foundation. Samuel filed the suit on behalf of the President of One Love Foundation, Chief Patrick  Osagie Eholor. The lawsuit is challenging the government of President Muhammadu Buhari over the indefinite suspension of the microblogging platform, Twitter. The lawyer had, on June…

10 years after, Buhari approves automatic employment for siblings of slain NYSC members who died in 2011 post election violence President Muhammadu Buhari has approved automatic employment in the Federal Civil Service for one graduate from each of the immediate families of the 10 slain National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members in 2011 in Bauchi State. Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, disclosed this during the inauguration of the National Governing Board of the NYSC on Tuesday in Abuja. According to Mr Dare, the President also approved scholarships to the four children of Adowei Elliot, a Delta State…