The Minister in the administration of Jonathan spoke in Abuja at the 26th October Lecture of the Nigerian Society of Engineers
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The firm, Dredging International Services (Cyprus) Ltd, was indicted by Switzerland for allegedly wiring $20 million bribe into the accounts of shell companies and fronts of some former officials of the Nigerian Ports Authority
The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, said members of Jonathan’s cabinet and ranking members of the Peoples Democratic Party, from the party’s former National Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu, deceived the former president and told him outright lies about his chances
It was a huge surprise to many Nigerians last Thursday when Wike, in company with the former Peoples Democratic Party Acting National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, stormed the Government House, Yenagoa. After the customary photo ops, Governor Dickson and his guests met behind closed-doors for about three hours. Both governors emerged from the meeting hugging each other right before the inquisitive Government House correspondents, whom they later addressed
Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, ruled out the implementation of the report on Sunday night, when he appeared on a Channels Television’s programme on Nigeria’s 57th Independence anniversary celebrations
EFCC detectives probing the disappearance of the cash have traced eight suspected assets in Dubai, United Arab Emirate to a former Managing Director of the Pipelines and Product Marketing Company, Haruna Momoh
Jonathan said this in his office in Abuja on Thursday when he received a delegation of the former Speakers of State Houses of Assembly elected on PDP platform
Now that the military’s Operation Python Dance II exercise has managed to lower the tension in the South East (despite inconveniences to the civilian population) and IPOB’s activities have been proscribed, it is important to reflect on the lessons learnt from the whole situation
A national of Saudi Arabia, who was at the hotel to catch a glimpse of President Buhari, wondered why Nigeria had such as small delegation. He had to inquire if the country was still in recession
The committee is chaired by the Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir el-Rufai
He said that reports making the rounds on the rift were meant to cause disaffection between the two and to create tension in Bayelsa.
Makarfi gave the advice when he received a delegation of of Bayelsa Executive Committee of PDP led by its Chairman, Cleopas Moses, at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday.
Speaking in an interview with the BBC in Lagos, Obasanjo noted that former President Goodluck Jonathan did not take the insurgency seriously in the belief that the terror group was a device by the North to torpedo his government
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the National Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday that Nigeria has exited its worst economic recession in more than two decades, notching up growth of 0.55 per cent in the second quarter of 2017.
The Federal Government had on Tuesday announced the cancellation of the meeting through the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed
The highly authoritative newspaper said top on the list of those being probed are the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen; Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State; his predecessor and the current Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi; and the immediate past Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
In an interview in the current edition of The Interview, Uwazuruike accused Kanu of working hand-in-glove with security services to destabilise the struggle for Biafra, starting with the forthcoming November 18 governorship election in Anambra State
Investigators from the Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department are looking into allegations that outside lawyers acting as middlemen for the company, known as Sinopec, funneled illicit payments from its Swiss unit to the Nigerians through banks in New York and California, said the two people, who didn’t want to be named, discussing an active investigation
The explanation was offered by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami
To me the (YLPI) summit communique of June 29, 2017 should be taken as a template at this rally: there is little or nothing to add to it