Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, has commended the economic and political policies initiated by President Muhammadu Buhari, noting however, that the elite are frustrating the current administration’s reform agenda. Mr. Agbakoba, who stated this while bearing his mind on the state of the nation to newsmen in Lagos, yesterday, pointed out that since May 29, when President Buhari took oath of office, there has been an economic correction in the country, as well as an ideological shift to the left to serve the people’s interest. He cited the implementation of Treasury Single Account (TSA), quality…
Author: Wale Adebayo
The Registrar/Chief Executive Officer of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Dibu Ojerinde, has been appointed Emeritus Professor of Education at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, becoming the second ever to attain that position in the university’s Faculty of Education, after the late Emeritus Professor Babatunde Fafunwa. The appointment, which was made by the university’s Governing Council and communicated to Professor Ojerinde, midweek, allows him to be a permanent member of staff at the university, taking lectures once in a while and supervising students, though without financial commitments. Though Ojerinde, a professor of Education Tests and Measurement at…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has berated Governor Ayodele Fayose for what it termed “breach of protocol” at the presentation of the 2016 Appropriation Bill at the House of Assembly on Tuesday. The party gave Mr. Fayose knocks for bringing out a gavel and symbolically “passing” the budget into law after presenting the proposal to lawmakers. The Ekiti APC argued that aside brandishing the gavel, the governor’s choice of dressing made a mockery of the office he occupies. Governor Fayose had appeared before the lawmakers to present the 2016 Appropriation Bill dressed casually in a T-shirt and…
House of Representatives has ordered the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to follow the directive by former President Goodluck Jonathan and offer letters of appointment to 176 Nigerians injured during their recruitment excises. The lawmakers also directed that 48 members of the deceased families be deployed and their salaries effected. The House gave the directives yesterday while adopting the report of the Femi Gbajabiamila-led three man panel that probed the ill-fated recruitment exercise into the NIS in 2013. The lawmakers blamed the supremacy battle between the presidential committee set up by Jonathan and the Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons Board on the appointment, for the…
Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje yesterday maintained that dialogue remained the best solution to the lingering protests and agitation for Biafra Republic by youths in the South East geo-political zone of the country. The governor also allayed the fears of large population of Igbos in Kano over the possibility of spill-over of the South East protests in the state, following what he considered as untrue reports that a mosque was bombed in Anambra state. “Virtually, no mosque was bombed. I had a meeting with non-indigenes. They said they were not party to Biafra because they are not even non-indigenes…
The panel set up by the Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima to probe claims of fresh mass abductions of women and girls in Bam-Buratai, Biu Local Government Area of Borno State, has confirmed that a family of six was missing. The media was awash with news that Boko Haram insurgents abducted several girls almost two weeks ago, after killing many in the village during the attack and setting their homes ablaze. The report brought to mind the abduction of over 400 schoolgirls from their hostel in by Boko Haram, over a year ago. While some of the girls were able…
Former Chairman of Daar Communications Plc, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, might not be let off the hook anytime soon as the Federal Government is investigating his alleged connection with another fraud involving about N8billion, counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Rotimi Jacobs (SAN) told a Federal High Court in Abuja Thursday. According to Mr. Jacobs, the Federal Government is about concluding investigations into fresh allegations of N8.4billion Mr. Dokpesi collected from the Goodluck Jonathan administration for airing the FIFA U-17 world championship, which Nigeria hosted in Jan 27, 2012. He stated that even though the broadcast right was granted Daar communications by…
Senator Shehu Sani, who represents Kaduna North Senatorial District, has given the Kaduna State Government knocks for organising music festival as the nation faces economic and security challenges. In a statement he personally issued Thursday, the rights activist-turned senator warned that the music fiesta the Nasir El-Rufai administration plans to organise was uncalled for, as there were projects competing for attention coupled with the financial challenges of the state. According to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, “The upcoming multi million naira jamboree known as Kaduna music festival stands unreservedly condemned. “The event is an…
A former Director of Finance in the Office of the National Security Adviser, Mr. Shuaibu Salisu, has revealed that $47 million was withdrawn from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in 11 suit cases for Dasuki, money he suspects might have been given to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). According to Shaibu, who says he only carried out instructions from the ex-National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd), he was innocent. Following his statement written under oath in the presence of investigators of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Justice Ishaq Bello,…
The erstwhile Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Hon. Momoh Jimoh-Lawal, on Thursday denied that he had been impeached. The Kogi Assembly is 25-member strong comprising 14 PDP and 11 APC lawmakers. Hon. Jimoh-Lawal was impeached by 17 members of the House on Thursday over allegations of financial misconduct. But the embattled lawmaker insisted that his purported removal did not follow due process. According to Jimoh-Lawal, the signatures of lawmakers that reportedly supported his impeachment were forged, saying the police will be invited to investigate the matter. “I remain the Speaker”, he asserted.