The Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Alhaji Idris Ahmed, says President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s financial reform is yielding positive dividends Alhaji Ahmed also said that it has recorded commendable achievement in the management of scarce resources since assumption of office in 2015. He spoke at his investiture as...
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By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with Sen. Teslim Folarin, the lawmaker representing Oyo Central senatorial district, over the demise of his wife, Angela Folarin. The president’s condolence message was contained in a.statement issued his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, on Friday in Abuja. The statement...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. Orji Kalu, has condoled with Sen. Teslim Folarin over the death of his wife, Mrs Angela Folarin. The wife of the lawmaker representing Oyo Central Senatorial District died on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022 in the U.K In...
Antonio Conceiçao, Coach of the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon, says the objective of his team is to secure a win against Gambia in their Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) clash on Saturday. Conceiçao, speaking at a pre-match press conference on Friday in Douala ahead of their quarter-final match against...
Ibom Air has once again emerged the best airline in Nigeria, an award it also won in 2021, its first year of operations. This was disclosed by Mr Ikechi Uko, Organiser, Travellers Award and publisher ATQnews. Uko said this was based on the ranking of Nigerian airlines, using the...
The €250,000,000.00 fraud trial involving a Malaysian, Tan Ah Chai Richard (now late), and his company, Coastal Asia Investments Limited, before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos has been adjourned till March 4, 2022 for continuation of trial. Richard and his company were...
Ahead of the APC National convention in February and General Elections in 2023, the Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun is confident that the President Muhammadu Buhari will give necessary guidance to ensure that equity and justice is reflected within the party’s zoning formula. The Governor expressed this view...
By OLA MUDOPE, Ibadan b- Oyo State Governor, ”Seyi Makinde, on Friday, promised his administration’s support for his alma-mater, the University of Lagos, Akoka, to enable the institution to host the Nigerian Universities Games (NUGA). Governor Makinde, who stated this while receiving a delegation of the University, led by...
The Seme Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), on Friday, said its men intercepted a bus conveying religious books which contained cocaine weighing 11.913 kilogrammes with a street value of N3.9billion. In a statement by the spokesman of the command, Hussain Abdullahi, a copy of which was...
A tanker laden with substance suspected to be Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, has exploded in Anambra State. According to reports, the incident occurred on Friday morning at the Upper Iweka junction of Onitsha – the state’s commercial hub. The South East Zonal Coordinator of the...
Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Friday, January 28, 2022, dismissed the no-case submission filed by one Osho Aluko-Kola, who is standing trial on a nine-count charge bordering on conspiracy and stealing to the tune of N206, 502,490.02. Aluko-Kola, who was first...
The West African bloc ECOWAS on Friday suspended Burkina Faso following a coup, but will not impose other sanctions for the time being, a participant at a virtual summit said. ECOWAS is also calling for the new junta to release ousted president Roch Marc Christian Kabore and other officials...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) women have vowed to mobilize over 45 million young Nigerian women to support the women folks in the forth coming 2023 general elections and to champion the marginalisation of women. The women under the aegis of PDP Angels and...
An Upper Area Court in Zuba, Abuja, on Friday admitted popular aphrodisiac seller, Hauwa Muhammad (Aka Jaruma) to N500, 000 bail. The police charged Jaruma with false news publication, intimidation and defamation of character In his ruling, the judge, Ismailia Abdullahi ordered the defendant to produce one surety in...
The Police Command in Gombe State, has arrested six suspects over attempt to defraud residents of the state. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Ishola Babaita made this known at a news conference on Friday in Gombe. Babaita said that the arrest was made possible through its community...
In the last three years, the alleged hostilities between Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State and Rauf Aregbesola, his predecessor in office, stayed only in the realm of speculations. But, in a week or two ago, the cat was eventually let out of the bag when the Minister of...
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubuhas again jetted out of Nigeria to seek medical attention abroad, an exclusive by SaharaReporters has shown. This comes barely three weeks after he informed President Muhammadu Buhari of his ambition to contest the position of president in 2023. Tinubu, who...
Mr Kunle Ademulegun is one of the children of the late Brigadier Samuel Ademulegun, who was killed in the first military coup in 1966. In this interview with PETER DADA, the 65-year-old speaks about the life after the death of his father When Brigadier Ademulegun died, where were you?...
Controversial crossdresser, Bobrisky has been accused of claiming another man’s house after his housewarming party was cancelled. According to Gistlovers, while likening the act to what the relationship blogger, Blessing Okoro did, revealed that the house Bobrisky flaunted, belongs to the friend of the Delta State politician Kelvin Olu,...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Zone ‘B’ Federal Operations Unit (FOU), has seized 250 parcels of goods amongst other smuggled goods worth N275.989 million between Dec. 22, 2021 and Jan. 27. The Controller in charge of the zone, Al-Bashir Hamisu, made this known to newsmen in Kaduna, on Thursday....