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Sep

2024

EFCC Arrests Former Governor Over Fraud Allegation Of N27 Billion

EFCC Arrests Former Governor Over N27 Billion ‘Fraud’ Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have arrested a former governor of Taraba State, Darius Ishaku, over alleged N27bn fraud. It was learnt that Ishaku, who left the as governor of the State in 2023 after spending 8 years, was picked up at his Abuja residence in the early hours of Friday. Impeccable sources within the commission confided in our correspondent that the former governor was still in the anti-graft agency’s custody as at when filing this report Friday night. One of the sources revealed that at least 15-count…

Sep

2024

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Bribery Scandal: Reps Invite EFCC Chairman, VDM, Bobrisky

Crime, National Assembly, News Flash

Alleged Bribery: Reps Invite EFCC Chairman, VDM, Bobrisky Following the House of Representatives resolution to investigate allegations of bribery against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Joint Committees of the House has extended an invitation to the chairman of the commission Ola Olukoyode. In a letter dated 27th September 2024, the committee asked the EFCC Chairman and the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Correctional Service to appear on Monday the 30th, with all officers involved in the allegation. The allegation of bribery against the anti-graft agency and the Nigeria Correctional Service followed a trending social media voice conversation…

Sep

2024

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Bobrisky: We Will Not Shield Anyone – FGN Vows

Crime, FGN, News Flash

Bobrisky: Nobody Will Be Shielded – FG Vows The Federal Government has promised to sanction any officer found guilty in the alleged bribery saga involving a crossdresser Idris Okuneye aka Bobrisky. In a viral video, the crossdresser who was sentenced to six months in prison for naira abuse was said to have served his term outside of a correctional facility after paying some officers of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS). But speaking during a media in Abuja to mark his one year in office, the Minister of Interior Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo said no officer of the NCoS found wanting in the…

Sep

2024

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Taking Stock, Looking Ahead: Being Gov. Otti’s Speech At Special Retreat For State Executive Council And Senior Appointees Of The Government

Abia State, Good Governance, News Flash, Politics

TAKING STOCK, LOOKING AHEAD… Being the Text of an Address by Governor Alex C Otti, OFR, at the 2024 Special Retreat for Members of the Abia State Executive Council and Senior Appointees of the Government Held at Panyu Hotel and Resort, Aba on Friday, September 27, 2024. Protocols For many of us, this particular auditorium has come to represent a learning theatre, a place where excellent plans are laid, questions are asked and clarity established. Shortly after our victory in the 2023 general election, the best brains and thinkers from different parts of the country and beyond assembled here to…

Sep

2024

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It’s ABIA O’clock: Why Not Alex? – By Ukoha Njoku Ukoha (CPS To Gov. Otti)

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Good Governance, News Flash

WHY NOT ALEX? Today is a happy day for me. Not just because it’s my birthday but because it’s another step of God’s goodness and preservation in our lives. The almighty has used the instrumentality of the revolutionary Alex Chioma Otti government to not only ease but studiously improve the living standards of Abians in particular and Nigerians in general. It is all this realization that has lifted my spirits and inspired me to do this piece. For those who follow my writings, sometime in early 2019 (prior to the then elections) I did a piece “WHY ALEX?” This treatise…

Sep

2024

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Gov. Otti Thanks President Tinubu For Appointing Engr. Jennifer Adighije As The MD/CEO Of Niger Delta Power Holding Company, Says Power Is Central To His Economic Development Agenda For ABIA State

Abia State, Good Governance, News Flash, Power & Energy

GOV. OTTI THANKS PRESIDENT TINUBU FOR APPOINTING ENGR. JENNIFER ADIGHIJE AS THE MD/CEO OF NIGER DELTA POWER HOLDING COMPANY, SAYS POWER IS CENTRAL TO HIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENDA FOR ABIA STATE. Abia State Governor Dr. Alex Otti, OFR, has expressed his gratitude and that of the entire State to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the appointment of Engr. Jennifer Adighije as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC). Engr. Jennifer Adighije is the Daughter of Senator Chris Adighije, who once represented Abia Central Senatorial District in the…

Sep

2024

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How I Received $300,000 To Pay Yahaya Bello’s Daughters’ School Fees – Witness Tells Court

Crime, News Flash

How I Received $300,000 To Pay Yahaya Bello’s daughters’ School Fees – Witness Tells Court An Abuja-based Bureau de Change operator, Jamilu Abdullahi, has told a Federal High Court in Abuja how a former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, repeatedly paid the school fees of his three daughters in dollars, through him and his companies. Abdullahi is the third prosecution witness in the trial of Ali Bello, the ex-governor’s nephew alongside Abba Daudu, Yakubu Adabenege, and Iyada Sadat. The defendants are standing trial on 18 charges of money laundering and misappropriation to the tune of over N3 billion. A statement…

Sep

2024

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Bobrisky: FGN Suspends Prisons Officers

Crime, FGN, News Flash

(Bobrisky): FG Suspends Prisons Officers The Federal Government has suspended the officers in charge of the Maximum and Minimum Custodial Centres, Kirikiri, Lagos State, following an audio leak indicating that cross dresser, Idris Okuneye aka Bobrisky who was convicted of a crime and sentenced to six months in jail was given an apartment outside the custodial centre. Secretary of the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board CDCFIB, Ja’afaru Ahmed disclosed this in a statement issued Thursday in Abuja. Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo had on Wednesday initiated a probe of the allegations. Ahmed in the statement said…

Sep

2024

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Jonathan Tackles Sanusi As $49.8Billion Missing Allegations Gathers Momentum At Book Launch

Columns/Opinions/Letters, Economy, News Flash

Jonathan Tackles Sanusi As $49.8 Billion Missing Allegation Rears Head At Book Launch Former President Goodluck Jonathan tackled ex-Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Muhammad Sanusi Lamido Sanusi over claims that sum of $49.8 billion dollars got missing from the national coffers under his watch as president. Sanusi made the allegation when he served in the administration of Jonathan as the CBN governor. However, Sanusi who is now the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi 11 was suspended from office soon after he made the allegation. Jonathan suspended Sanusi on 20 February, 2014, few months to the end of his…

Sep

2024

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United Igbo Elders Council (UNIEC) Worldwide: 2024 SPECIAL IGBO DAY ANNIVERSARY

News Flash, People & Events, South East

UNITED IGBO ELDERS COUNCIL(UNIEC)*WORLDWIDE * 2024 SPECIAL IGBO DAY ANNIVERSARY 1.Unquantified number of Igbo peoples perished in the trans-Saharan slave trade and wars, connecting the Mediterranean, Middle and Far Eastern ancient worlds with Igbo metal technologies. The Igboukwu/Awka axes bear testimony to this. 2.Countless millions of Igbo were thrown into or drowned in the Atlantic ocean; perished in the plantation, railroad, industrial and domestic service Americas; opened several modest countries in the Caribbean; fought for and created the first black independent state of Haïti; participated in the continental independence struggles of Bolivar; and authored and inspired the civil rights revolution,…