I don’t know how true the $100,000 part is, but I leave it to you guys to judge. In a recent interview with Encomium Magazine, Majek Fashek has again countered reports that say he’s broke and goes cap-in-hand, begging for money to feed and survive. Read excerpts below: – Speculations that he begs The Nigerian press, the print in particular, not electronic, have been blackmailing me. They are trying to ruin me writing all sorts of things against me. I did nothing. I was in America, I had to come back to prove them wrong. I’m a Rastafarian man, a…
Author: Wale Adebayo
Martins Ugwu, who used his friend’s medical credentials to secure employment in the Federal Ministry of Health’s headquarters in Abuja, is to refund nine years salaries he drew while impersonating his friend. The federal health ministry is “computing all salaries and allowances which accrued to Ugwu during his mischievous sojourn in the ministry for full retrieval by law enforcement agencies”, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Linus Awute said. Ugwu had reportedly stole the identity and credentials of his childhood friend, Dr George Davidson Daniel, the name under which he worked since 2006 at FMOH, police confirmed on Tuesday. The…
The National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki has denied that President Muhammadu Buhari gave a blanket order for the dismantling of all military checkpoints nationwide. “Contrary to popular belief, the Presidency has never ordered the dismantling of all military checkpoints along Nigerian highways”, a statement by PR-Nigeria, media consultants to the Nigerian security agencies stated on Thursday. The statement said: “The National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) told PRNigeria after a meeting with top military and security officers in his office in Abuja on Thursday (July 9, 2015) that President Muhammadu Buhari never ordered a blanket dismantling of checkpoints from the…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted former Governor of Imo State, Chief Ihedi Ohakim bail, a day after remanding him over corruption charges. Mr. Ohakim was arrested by the EFCC on Tuesday and was arraigned on Wednesday p the hearing of his bail application on Thursday. At the hearing of the bail application today, the defence counsel, Chief Chris Uche (SAN), urged the court to grant his client’s prayer. Mr. Uche noted that his client, whose passport had been seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had remained faithful to the bail conditions granted him by…
The crisis of confidence rocking the Peoples Democratic Party appears to have reared its ugly head once more following the appointment of Mrs Amina Zakari as acting Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, by President Muhammadu Buhari. While the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh condemned the appointment alleging nepotism, his deputy, Malam Abdullahi Jalo, called for caution on the part of the opposition party. According to Jalo, while there was need to play the role of opposition, such role, he insisted, must be played with decorum. He also warned the leadership of PDP against…
President Muhammadu Buhari may seek alternative ways of funding road projects across the country outside the national budget. This was one of the points of the briefing made by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Works, Mr. Dauda Kigbu, to the president at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Thursday. The perm sec. said he used the opportunity of the briefing to put the president through all the ministry’s major projects across the country and stressed the need for government to explore other channels of funding road projects. He said, “I took the President through the activities of the Ministry of Works.…
The Ekiti State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has slammed Governor Ayo Fayose’s comments that the state’s share of the ‘bailout’ ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari is the ‘legitimate’ earning due to the state from the Federation Account and not a favour. The party described the governor’s comment as “an act of ingratitude taken too far, irresponsible statement and an attempt to deceive Ekiti people and shortchange workers who are still owed arrears of salaries, allowances and bonuses”. The APC, in a statement yesterday by its Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said while other governors, labour unions and workers were…
A former Special Adviser on Youth and Student Affairs to ex-Governor Sule Lamido, Comrade Danjani Umar, has described his former boss’ travails in the hands of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as political witch-hunt. Umar, who made this known in a telephone interview with Daily Trust while awaiting the arrival of the former governor at the premises of the Federal High Court in Kano, earlier today, said Lamido will be vindicated at the end of the day. “You see we know what is happening is just meant to tarnish the image of our boss. The whole world agrees…
The Presidency yesterday denied claims by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the financial relief package made available to state governments and public sector workers were from savings by former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. A statement by President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said the PDP claim was false and ridiculous. The statement reads: “The Presidency deplores the attempt by the PDP and its agents to create an unnecessary controversy over the well-intentioned effort by President Muhammadu Buhari to give some relief to state governments and long-suffering public sector workers. “We also reject the banal…
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano has remanded a former Jigawa State governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, and his two sons, Aminu and Mustapha, accused of fraud, in prison custody till September 28. The former governor, who was formally arraigned alongside his children in court today after flight issues from Abuja stalled the proceedings of the court on Wednesday, are accused of receiving N1.35 billion as kickback from a government contractor. The money was allegedly paid into accounts controlled by the governor and his sons. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is accusing the four suspects of money laundering, amongst…
Professor Sadiq Suleiman, who was the personal physician to former Head of State, General Sani Abacha has revealed that no one could say for sure that Abacha was poisoned by some women with apple as no autopsy was done on his corpse… Addressing newsmen recently, Professor Wali, while relieving detail of June 7, 1998, the day Abacha died, Professor Wali said: ”Abacha was generally healthy though he had some health issues. He was treated and responded very well. He didn’t have any heart-related diseases at that time.” ”around 6 am I had a phone call from his security officers, and…
Some beneficiaries of the Phase two amnesty programme have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to pay their allowances, which they alleged stopped coming since March, 2012. The beneficiaries from Delta State, who carried their protest to the correspondence chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Benin City, Edo State on Wednesday, said they were warned not to protest in Delta State again. Two ‘ex-generals’, Pawpaw Julius and Gideon Ogbe, who led the protest, accused the immediate Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Kingsley Kuku, of conniving with their leaders to defraud them. They also said the few allowances they…
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, on Wednesday revealed that the country’s foreign reserve rose from $29 billion to $31.89 billion in one month under President Muhammud Buhari. As of the time former President Goodluck Jonathan left office, the reserves stood at $29 billion. Emefiele, who stated this when he paid a courtesy visit on the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, also frowned at the way and manner officials of the past administration granted import waivers to their cronies and friends on various products such as rice and sugar. The CBN boss, therefore, pleaded…
HURIWA National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko The re-introduction of stop and search by the Inspector General of Police Mr. Solomon Arase, has been rejected by the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA). According to HURIWA, the move is an indirect way of re-introducing avenues for police harassment and extortion of innocent Nigerians through the back door. This is contained in a statement yesterday by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs Director, Miss Zainab Yusuf, who said the decision is hasty, emotive and error prone and should be overturned. Besides, the Rights group demanded the…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday expressed his condolences to Nigerians who lost relatives in the latest terror attacks in Jos, Kano, and Zaria. The president, in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, joined other Nigerians in mourning their loved ones who were brutally murdered in suicide bombings and attacks that also caused horrifying injuries to others. He urged all Nigerians, however, not to be unduly disheartened by the seeming resurgence of terrorists’ attacks and atrocities in the country, saying his administration remains fully committed to overcoming the challenges of insecurity, terrorism and…
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari for assisting states with financial lifelines to settle outstanding months of unpaid salaries to workers. The group’s position was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday by its director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola. MURIC also decried comments credited to the Spokesman of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, who reportedly said Nigerians asked for change, therefore, they must live with the consequences, which includes the resurgence of Boko Haram attacks. Mr. Fani-Kayode has however said his comments were misunderstood. In reaction, MURIC said the comments by the PDP chieftain…
The Senator representing Niger East Senatorial District, David Umar, has accused the State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello of marginalisation, saying his appointments so far were not equitably distributed among the three zones of the state. The senator, who made the observation while addressing journalists in Minna, the Niger State capital, pointed out that Governor Bello’s administration did not give recourse to the principle of federal character, lamenting that nobody from his zone was appointed. “What we have now is that our people are being short changed. Secretary to the State Government (SSG) is from the governor’s hometown of Kontagora. I want…
The Peoples Democratic Party candidate in the April 11 governorship election in Plateau State, Senator Gyang Pwajok, is alive, his spokesman, Chuwang Dung, has said. The people of Plateau State woke up yesterday to rumours that the former senator had passed away but Dung, who is Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Pwajok, said his boss was hale and hearty. “There is no truth to the rumour, Senator GNS Pwajok is alive”, he said. Pwajok was favoured by the immediate past Governor of the State, Senator Jonah Jang to succeed him but the Plateau voters had different plans as…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Wednesday arraigned two former state governors, Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State, Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State and Nyako’s son Abdul-Aziz, before the Federal High Court, Abuja on charges bordering on corruption, abuse of office and money laundering. Nyako and his son, a serving senator, were docked before Justice E. Chukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on a 37- count charge bordering on criminal conspiracy, stealing, abuse of office and money laundering. They were charged alongside Abubakar Aliyu and Zulkifikk Abba. They are alleged to have at various times between 2011 and 2013…
No doubt about it Don Jazzy seems to have the Midas touch when it comes to producing and churning out chart busting music and music acts. Don Jazzy led Mavin Records no doubt is one of the top rated and respected music labels in Nigeria in recent time. The music outfit can be likened to Kennis Music in the 90s and early 2000s, when it was the hob of the entertainment industry in Africa. The record label is one record label many artists will give anything to be signed to the label for the level of growth Mavin artistes enjoy…