The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has said that it recovered N53 billion from a real estate developer for the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria. Chairman of ICPC, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye who made the disclosure during a meeting with the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee Investigating the Operations of Real Estate Developers in FCT, said that the developer took the money without providing houses for its subscribers. He stressed that the Commission will always deploy its mandates against developers who took public funds with the promise to provide houses for public or civil servants without doing…
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Again, some bandits have reportedly killed three persons in a separate attacks in two local government areas of Kaduna North and Kajuru. The victims included a pilot and two other persons. The pilot, Captain Abdukkarim Bala Na’Allah, said to be the eldest son of Senator Bala Na’Allah, was killed by the hoodlums in his Malali (GRA) residence in Kaduna North LGA on Sunday. Senator Na’Allah represents Kebbi South Senatorial seat in the Senate and was the Deputy Majority leader in the Eighth Senate. An aide to Senator Na’Allah, Malam Garba Mohammed, confirmed the killing of the trained pilot. “Suspected Kaduna Bandits…
Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has lauded the performance of Raphael Varane after making the Frenchman made his debut for the club. Our summer signing from Real Madrid helped the Reds to an important clean sheet, as part of a tense 1-0 victory against Wolves. With the result at Molineux, United also set an English top-flight record by going 28 consecutive matches unbeaten. It was a busy afternoon for 28-year-old Varane, as Wolves looked to make things as uncomfortable as possible, but he passed the test with flying colours. “This was ‘welcome to the Premier League’ – tempo, hustle…
The invasion of Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) is indeed embarrassing and extremely unsettling. But what is more unsettling is the fact that this high-level security breach is said to be orchestrated by “bandits”. While I had never underestimated the lethality and offensive capacity of these bandits, I still find it hard to believe they orchestrated this attack. And here is why: Although most of us are unaware of the very nuanced categorisation of bandit groups operating in North-West and North-Central Nigeria, still, whenever we hear the word “bandit”, our minds go to the Fulani militia that have been meting out…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the reported shooting of a civilian market boat ferrying foodstuff and other household goods, allegedly by a military helicopter in Dutch Island area of Rivers state. The PDP, in a statement released by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, said she is is alarmed by reports of how the said military helicopter allegedly circled, targeted and shot at civilians, who were ferrying foodstuff and household items from Nembe-Bille jetty, in a bloody assault, in which the traders sustained gunshot wounds. Our party calls for an immediate and comprehensive investigation into the terrifying…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is shocked and saddened by the death of highlife music maestro, famous sculptor and academician, Sir Victor Uwaifo. This is contained in a statement released by National Publicity Secretary, Mr.Kola Ologbondiyan and made available to journalists on Saturday Victor Uwaifo PhD, was a highly talented Nigerian, who used his music, intellect and creativity to promote unity, and peaceful co-existence as well as our rich cultural heritage as a people. “Guitar Boy” as Victor Uwaifo was popularly called, was a rare gem; a nationalist, who, for decades, ruled the airwaves, and used his music and arts…
An early morning inferno broke out in Circus Maximus, Rome on June 19, 64 A.D. It spread like bushfire through the ancient city. Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar’s reaction was immediate: he scapegoated Roman Christians of the time and inflicted a persecution scarcely heard of in Roman history on them. Highly chagrined by the nauseating no-holds-barred interview granted by Retired Commodore Kunle Olawunmi on Channels television last week which exposed its security underbelly, the current Nigerian government found the template of this Roman emperor, renowned for debaucheries and political murders, fascinating. It thereby went on a route similar to Nero’s, unleashing…
The Alumni Association of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) has felicitated with a member of the federal house of representatives, Hon. Shina Abiola Peller on the conferment of chieftaincy title, Ayedero of Yoruba Land, on him by the Alaafin of Oyo, His Imperial Majesty Oba (Dr.) Lamidi Adeyemi III. The LAUTECH Alumni Association, in a goodwill message signed by its Global President, Hon. Onilede Solomon Limo, felicitated with family members, friends, business associates and political allies of Hon. Shina Peller on the chieftaincy title. “As a successful businessman, politician and promote of Yoruba cultures and traditions, Hon. Peller is…
Cristiano Ronaldo has taken to social media to pen a farewell Instagram post to Juventus following the news the 36-year-old will join Manchester United this month. He wrote: “Today I depart from an amazing club, the biggest in Italy and surely one of the biggest in all of Europe. I gave my heart and soul for Juventus and I’ll always love the city of Turin until my final days. “The “tiffosi bianconeri” always respected me and I tried to thank that respect by fighting for them in every game, every season, every competition. In the end, we can all look…
Kebbi State High Court has ruled that Prince Unche Secondus remains the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) pending the determination of the case against him. Giving the order in a suit brought before her in Birinin Kebbi, the state capital in case KB/AC/M. 170/2021, Justice Umar said she was satisfied after reading the affavidit of the respondents that an interim order should be granted on the purported suspension of Prince Secondus pending the determination of the case. “An order of this Honourable court granting leave to the first respondent (Uche Secondus) to continue exercising all the constitutional…