Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to imitate former President Goodluck Jonathan by conceding is if he loses in 2019. Speaking at the UK parliament, where he delivered a lecture titled ‘African Politics: The Dynamics and Lessons,’ Ekweremadu advised Buhari to be conscious of the fact that Nigeria is playing pivotal and […]
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Mr Olisah Metuh, former PDP’s spokesman has been ordered to appear at the Federal High Court, Abuja for his trial on Feb. 5 or risk arrest. Justice Okon Abang gave the order on Thursday, when he delivered ruling in an application filed by Metuh, seeking an adjournment to his trial on health grounds. The judge […]
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The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, says has lamented the wastage under the administration of Peoples Demoractic Party (PDP). Amaechi said former President Olusegun Obasanjo left $65 billion in the excess crude account but it was frittered away. Amaechi made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sidelines of the […]
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Former President of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has said he will not rest until the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) returns to presidency in 2019. He maintained that he takes responsibility for the defeat of the PDP in the 2015 general elections. The former Nigerian leaders said this when he received Bode George, a chairmanship aspirant […]
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The national leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, said the Goodluck Jonathan administration won a gold medal in corruption. Tinubu said this on Thursday while giving a keynote speech at the presentation of ‘Making Steady, Sustainable Progressive for Nigeria’s Peace and Prosperity: A mid-term scorecard on the President Muhammadu Buhari Administration’. The […]
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The immediate past President of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo as the “boss of all bosses”, saying ignoring the elder statesman is at one’s peril. Jonathan said this while speaking with Dele Momodu, publisher of Ovation Magazine, on the 2019 election and the chances of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar if […]
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The Department of State Services (DSS) has produced Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser, at the federal high court in Abuja for the trial of Olisa Metuh. Metuh, a former spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who is being tried for alleged money laundering, had requested Dasuki to appear as a witness to defend […]
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has asked the federal high court sitting in Abuja to quash the subpoena ordering him to appear as a witness in the ongoing trial of Olisa Metuh award N1,000,000,000 (one billion naira) for his security and travel expenses. Okon Abang, the judge handling the case, had insisted that Jonathan must testify […]
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Senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Garba Shehu, has described Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, as one of the “monsters created by the government of Goodluck Jonathan”. Jonathan had appointed Maina as head of the pension task force in 2010 but he was dismissed […]
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Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, told the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday that he would subpoena as his defence witness former President Goodluck Jonathan. His lawyer, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN), told Justice Okon Abang that he had written Jonathan to that effect but that the former […]
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