Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to start his anti-corruption war by looking inwards within his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC.Mr. Fayose said the Buhari government’s anti-corruption drive is mere noise-making, witch-hunt and diversionary.Speaking through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the Ekiti governor said the move is only meant to divert public attention from the seeming failure of the administration to deliver on its electoral promises.“If President Muhammdu Buhari knows exactly where the stolen funds are kept and who looted the funds, he does not need all these…
Author: Wale Adebayo
The Archbishop Emeritus, Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie on Wednesday pleaded with Nigerians to give President Muhammadu Buhari more time to enable his administration succeed.Okogie, who made the plea at an interactive session with newsmen in Lagos, explained that President Buhari would need to be meticulous in his planning and execution of actions and this requires adequate time.“You know when you are entering a new job, you don’t rush; you got to take your time, because if you do not take your time you make a lot of mistakes.“And right at his inauguration, he even mentioned it that…
Former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) said that the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan facilitated the acquisition of weapons for the military in the last one year that helped in the recovery of many local governments that were occupied by Boko Haram terrorists. Dasuki named some of the acquired weapons to include Alpha jets, APCs, MRAP vehicles, advanced artillery pieces, assorted arms and ammunitions, as well as highly sophisticated surveillance drones. The administration also deployed Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles that were bought and could withstand improvised explosive device (IED) attacks and ambushes. “The vehicles had protected…
A daughter of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has been nominated as commissioner in Adamawa State. Fatima Atiku Abubakar was listed among the 22 commissioner nominees sent by Governor Bindow Jibirilla to the state House of Assembly for screening on Thursday. Also, a former director of press and public affairs to former Governor Murtala Nyako, Ahmed Sajoh, was also named a commissioner nominee. The list also has two former commissioners of the Nyako administration, namely, Lilian Nabe Kayode, and Mohammad Mustapha. Altogether, four women made the list; they are Shanti Victoria Shashi, Kaletapwa Farauta, Fatima Atiku Abubakar and Lilian Nabe…
Famous Nigerian singer, Oritsefemi just shared a photo of himself and his friends staring at a huge snake lying on the ground. Oritsefemi claimed that he intends to eat the snake, and some fans criticized him for his comment. See the photo below: –
Veteran American rapper, Busta Rhymes (real name is Trevor Tahiem Smith Jr.) has just been arrested after he reportedly threw a protein drink at a worker in Manhattan’s Steel Gym on Wednesday, August 5. The incident occurred after the worker tried to tell the Dangerous rapper to leave the gym Wednesday. The ‘Break Ya Neck’ rapper has been charged with second-degree assault after officials said he hit the worker in the head with a 17-ounce strawberry drink in a cardboard box. According to an eyewitness Sean Aird, ”things got heated” between the two, and ”Busta splashed water on him and…
Stoke City will be without defender Ryan Shawcross for two months due to a troublesome back injury. The club skipper had a scan on his back this week and the club have now confirmed that the centre-back is to undergo surgery and will miss “at least the first two months” of the season. The club said in a statement: “The central defender has suffered a recurrence of a back problem that troubled him last season. The Club had hoped surgery would not be necessary and that the summer break would provide a solution.Stoke City’s Ryan Shawcross Sidelined for 2 Months.…
Globacom has received 95,000 popular terrace match tickets and 9500 reserved terrace access cards from the League Management Company (LMC). The telecommunication giants signeda three- year, one billion, eight hundred and ninety- six million, seven hundred and thirty thousand naira (N1,896, 730, 000) sponsorship deal with the Nigerian League body in May 2013. Chairman of the LMC, Alhaji Shehu Dikko, says the customised cards exclusively produced for Globacom is in furtherance of the League’ renewed commitment to delivering world class hospitality services to sponsors of the league.The Digital Advertisement Board Was First Used in Nigeria During the 2014 Super 4…
The claim by an Abuja-based newspaper – Nigeria Pilot – that President Muhammadu Buhari and his entourage spent N2.2 billion on his recent official visit to the United States, has been rubbished by the Presidency.The newspaper had in its recent editorial put the total cost of the four-day trip at N2.2 billion but the Presidency Wednesday said not even up to 10 per cent of the amount claimed was expended on the visit.A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said contrary to the newspaper’s assertion, the total cost of the trip…
Former member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mufutau Egberongbe, has said Senate President Bukola Saraki can still make the country proud by resigning honourably as fresh facts emerge that the Senate rules under which he was elected, was forged. The police investigation of the allegation by the Senate Unity Forum confirms that the Senate Rules used in the June 9 election of presiding officers for the red chamber was forged. Egberongbe, who represented Apapa constituency 1 in the 7th Lagos Assembly, wondered why politicians could throw away morality in their desperation to hold on to power in apparent…
Tunisian club Esperance have explained that they reneged on contractual agreement with Enyimba for the services of Kingsley Sokari because they concluded the numbers of foreign players in their squad was sufficient and that coach José Anigo had opted to keep Ivoirian Fousseni Coulibaly instead of the Nigerian. Sokari, 20, arrived in Tunis to negotiate a deal and complete a possible medical after helping Nigeria to a second-round finish at the Fifa U-20 World Cup in New Zealand in June, but the much publicised move inadvertently fell through. Enyimba had earlier revealed they opted out of the midfielder’s transfer because…
Sunderland have completed the season-long loan signing of French midfielder Yann MVila. The 25-year-old made over 100 appearances for Rennes- the French club where he began his playing career. M’Villa had been linked with Real Madrid and Liverpool in the past, before moving to Russia to play for Rubin Kazan. He spent last season on-loan at Italian club Inter Milan, a spell which was truncated by the coach Roberto Mancini side. “I’m very happy,” M’Villa told the club’s website. “I had a very good feeling training with the team; every player welcomed me and the feeling was very good with…
Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere could be sidelined for six to eight weeks through a hairline fracture to his right ankle. Wilshere suffered the injury during training when he received a heavy tackle in training on Saturday ahead of the FA Community Shield. Arsenal defeated Chelsea 1-0 in the Premier League curtain raiser, courtesy of an Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain strike. The BBC Sport reports that England international will not require surgery to the small bone crack, but is expected to be laid off for around six to eight weeks. Jack Wilshere Could Be Sidelined for Two Month. Wilshere required two operations to…
Ahmed Musa scored twice as CSKA Moscow progressed to the play-offs of the Uefa Champions League with an entertaining 3-2 win away to Sparta Prague on Wednesday. Musa, who announced the birth of his first daughter earlier that day, arrived the Czech capital on the back of last week’s dicey 2-2 draw in Russia. Another Nigerian Kehinde Fatai put Sparta 2-0 up after Ladislav Krejci’s opener in Prague. But two goals either side of the break from Musa levelled the tie for CSKA, before Sparta had Marek Matejovsky sent off in the 64th minute. The Moscow club then capitalised on…
President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent visit to the United States brought an estimated N2.7 trillion ($13.6 billion) worth of direct investment to Nigeria, according to the Presidency. In a statement, yesterday, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said besides the economic benefits, plans were already in motion to lift hindrances to the flow of military support for Nigeria’s war against insurgents in the North-East. “Apart from the Nigerian pilot’s mischievous mathematics, it is shortsighted and misleading of the newspaper to have claimed that President Buhari’s trip to the US achieved nothing. “Nigerian-US relations had…
On Tuesday, August 4, glamour model pageant, Miss Bum-Bum 2015 caused traffic gridlock as they took a stroll on the streets of Sao Paulo in Brazil. The models took a stroll in order to campaign for public votes during the competition. However, out of the 27 shortlisted candidates, only 15 of them with the highest number of votes from the public votes would be allowed to contest in the grand finale of the event. Explore more photos below:
President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) has expressed concern over the enormous debt profile of Nigeria’s aviation sector, saying that his administration will act quickly to redress the situation. “I am concerned about the enormous debt profile in the aviation sector. The Federal Government has to do something quickly because safety, security and international respectability are involved here,” he said after receiving a briefing from officials of the Aviation Ministry, led by the Permanent Secretary, Binta Bello. He further directed that counterpart funding for the upgrading of the international airports in Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt and Enugu, should be captured in…
The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, has described the lifting of arms embargo imposed on Nigeria by the United States of America, USA, as the first diplomatic breakthrough of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. The National Publicity Secretary of CNPP, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, who made the remarks while reacting to the development, also described the move as a “harvest and dividend of Buhari’s uncommon integrity”. You may recall that the U.S. under the Leahy Act, refused to sell arms and military hardware to Nigeria to use in its war against Boko Haram insurgency following reports of alleged human rights abuses…
In keeping with his avowed commitment to working for the development and well-being of all Nigerians, President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday in Abuja approved several actions to fast-track the long delayed implementation of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Report on the environmental restoration of Ogoniland.The actions approved by President Buhari, based on recommendations to him by the Executive Director of UNEP, the UNEP Special Representative for Ogoniland, Permanent Secretaries of the Federal Ministries of Environment and Petroleum Resources, and other stakeholders, include the amendment of the Official Gazette establishing the Hydrocarbon Pollution Restoration Project (HYPREP) to reflect a new governance…
Veteran Nollywood star and comedian, Mr Ibu decided to pay his fellow partner in the business a visit at his manson. John Okafor aka Mr. Ibu visited comedian AY at his Lekki crib today. AY posted these photos of them together on Instagram and wrote: – “When a funnier man pays u a visit….. U can’t help but be the one doing all the laughing. It was nice to have u in my crib.” See more pix below: