Eminent Nigerian Playwright and novelist, Captain Elechi Amadi, who wrote famous books like The Concubine, Isiburu, Sunset in Biafra, Peppersoup and The Road to Ibadan, on Wednesday, died at the Good Heart hospital in Port Harcourt at the age of 82, just about a week after he took ill. It was gathered that the deceased was billed to […]
Continue ReadingValentine Ashi, a judge at an Abuja High Court, has declared as “null and void” the process that produced a former Borno State governor, Ali Modu Sheriff, as chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.Ashi faulted the amended PDP Constitution in 2014, which led to the emergence of Mr. Sheriff as the party’s chairman, after […]
Continue ReadingOsita Nwaja, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s director of public affairs, on Wednesday in Enugu, announced that more than 300,000 applications were received for the 750 positions recently advertised by the EFCC. Nwaja said the recruitment was segmented, the first phase of the exercise ending on June 26. “We had more than 300,000 applicants that applied […]
Continue ReadingThe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has restated its commitment toward recovering the loots from Nigerian treasury, asking looters to “vomit’’ what they stole in the interest of justice.Mr Osita Nwaja, the commission’s Director of Public Affairs, gave the looters a piece of advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […]
Continue ReadingA former minister, who held several ministerial positions in Nigeria, Ojo Maduekwe, has died at the age of 71. The cause Madueke’s death is not clear as the former minister is not known to suffer any terminal ailment. Maduekwe, who is from Abia state, has held several ministerial positions – notably minister of transport in […]
Continue ReadingTeenage sensation DKT aka DKT Baba is here with a bang! The Afro hip rapper/singer has premiered a crisp and dope visual to his brightening single ‘No Vacancy’ featuring Falz TheBahdGuy. Having amazed music fans with the audio and thereby generated 10s of thousand downloads; the 18-year old rapper has followed up with a befitting […]
Continue ReadingSen. Udoma Udo-Udoma, Minister of Budget and National Planning says the Federal Government will adopt simple planning process to achieve inclusive growth and development in the country.Udo-Udoma said this when he was fielding questions from some participants at the 2016 Annual Public Lecture of the Nigerian Economic Society (NES) in Abuja. He said the country […]
Continue ReadingThe new foreign exchange regime implemented by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) saw the naira “effectively devalued” from 197 to about 283 against the dollar on the official side. The naira has lost over 30 percent of its value to the dollar since the start of the new regime, but many foreign investors are […]
Continue ReadingAdeboyega Adeniyi, of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, has dismissed an application filed by a former aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, seeking the enforcement of his fundamental human rights. Mr. Fani-Kayode is facing a 17-count charge of money laundering alongside a former finance minister, Nenadi Usman, and Danjuma Yusuf. Fani-Kayode had approached the court on […]
Continue ReadingInformation from Kogi reports, emphatically states that security operatives believed to be taking orders from the Presidency last week, blocked Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello from boarding a Turkish airline flight for a planned trip to Saudi Arabia for lesser hajj.It was reported that when Bello went to the office of the Vice President, […]
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