NAN reports that the red cap signifies a colour of the party as well as representing Kwankwasiyya political group of the former governor of Kano, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso.
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The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Fasehun, also an active member of National Democratic Coalition, died at about 1am on Saturday, at the intensive care unit of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja.
Useni polled 1,018 votes to defeat 12 other candidates at the party’s primaries.
Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, stated this in a statement in Abuja on Saturday.
Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer to late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, says he will join the presidential race if prevailed upon by Nigerians to do so.
If we want this country to survive and Nigerians to have peace and security, Buhari should be stopped from the relentless war being waged on Nigeria by pampered militias
SERAP said: “The authorities have a legal obligation under the UN Convention against Corruption to which Nigeria is a state party to make sure that the returned Abacha loot is properly and efficiently used, both from the viewpoint of using asset recovery as a tool of ensuring justice to victims of corruption and breaking the cycle of grand corruption. But the plan to share the loot among households is mere tokenism and would neither have significant impact on poverty alleviation nor satisfy the twin objectives of justice and development.”
Tukur Rumar, of the National Cash Transfer Office, said this at a roundtable on assets recovery organised by the Swiss Embassy on Thursday, in Abuja.
As a people and a country, we are awash with so many days that are important to us. We know of October 1, May 27 being Children’s Day, and most recently for about two decades now the anniversary of our hard won democracy, May 29. We hear speeches from our country’s presidents. This year’s own was taken by President Muhammadu Buhari
He took it and as he was trying to hold it in his hand firmly, Abacha who had been eyeing the coveted prize greedily grabbed it in 1994. He immediately increased the price of petroleum products
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, during a courtesy call on him by Bonfrere, said redeeming the pledge was a sign of government’s commitment to integrity.
Declaring open the 8th Commonwealth Conference of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Africa, Buhari, represented by Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, said it was one condition given by the Switzerland authorities for the repatriation of the funds.
Allegations of missing money are often translated into naked truth, in this season, without due reflection, and regard for the facts of the case. This is so, in this instance, because of reports of corruption involving and surrounding the OPL 245 transactions and foreign investors – Shell and ENI, into which the courts in the home jurisdictions of those companies are inquiring
Abubakar spoke in Lagos at the 10th Memorial Symposium of the late NADECO Chieftain, Chief Abraham Adesanya, at which he was chairman.
Last Friday the United States Government released a damning human rights report on Nigeria, saying “grave violations of human rights”…
Ambassador Pio Wennubst, the Assistant Director-General and Head, Global Cooperation Department, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, disclosed this to a the Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria in New York.
Oluyinka Akintunde, the Special Adviser, Media and Communications to the Minister of Finance, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.
According to the founder, the institution has also graduated the first set of postgraduate students who were awarded master’s degrees in various fields of study.
Lokosa netted the first goal of the night from the spot in 60th minute, just as the former Bridge Boys of Lagos lad doubled the lead after five minutes to extend his goal run to 14 this season.
The organization also urged Buhari to “instruct appropriate authorities to publish details of how his government plans to spend and monitor the spending of the $85m returned by the United Kingdom from the controversial Malabu deal involving $1.6bn, so as to remove the risks of corruption or mismanagement of the money”.