Ibrahim Lamorde removed as Chairman of EFCC

Ibrahim Lamorde has been replaced as the chairman of the EFCC .Lamorde held that position since 2011.His replacement, Ibrahim Magu, is a top level official of the Economic and Governance Unit of the EFCC.He was removed along with several other key officials by Farida Waziri when she became chairman in 2008.

Atiku congratulates Aisha Alhassan over her victory at the Taraba tribunal

He shared his congratulatory message on his Facebook wall this evening.

Little boy hails Governor Fayose

The little boy reportedly shouted Osokoooooo when the Governor visited Oja Oba Market, Ado Ekiti before the market old structures were demolished on Saturday in readiness for the construction of a new ultra modern market.

Gov. Aregbesola accused of withholding bailout funds

Governor Rauf Aregbesola has been accused by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of causing hardship on the people of the state, especially civil servants, by withholding the bailout funds given to the state by the FG by not paying workers' salaries.

Photos: Saraki leads other Senators to the wedding of Senator Wammako's daughter

Senate President, Bukola Saraki led other senators to the wedding of the daughter of their colleague, Senator Magatakarda Wamakko in Sokoto yesterday November 7th. More photos after the cut...

Photos: Reuben Abati's wife throws him surprise 50th birthday party

The former presidential spokesperson turned 50 yesterday and his wife Omolara in collaboration with close friends, threw him a surprise birthday party. Explaining how he was surprised, Abati said;

Buhari Calls Golden Eaglets, Exhorts Them To Victory Against Mali

For about 25 minutes on Saturday evening, President Muhammadu Buhari spoke with the Golden Eaglets and their officials, urging them to strive for victory Sunday in the final of the Under-17 FIFA World Cup holding in Chile.

8 Trillion Naira Nigeria Proposes For 2016 Budget

Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo

The Nigerian government is proposing a budget of 7 to 8 trillion naira for 2016, up from 4.4 trillion this year, a document from the office of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo seen by Reuters showed on Friday.

President Jonathan rocks military uniform ,visits troops in Maidugri,Mubi..(Photos)

President Jonathan visited Maiduguri,Mubi and Baga to address troops fighting Boko Haram ..

Buhari’s Speech at Chatham House – Nigeria’s Transition

Read the speech below...

Permit me to start by thanking Chatham House for the invitation to talk about this important topic at this crucial time. When speaking about Nigeria overseas, I normally prefer to be my country’s public relations and marketing officer, extolling her virtues and hoping to attract investments and tourists. But as we all know, Nigeria is now battling with many challenges, and if I refer to them, I do so only to impress on our friends in the United Kingdom that we are quite aware of our shortcomings and are doing our best to address them.

Buhari pictured as he leaves London apartment for Chattam House

Buhari pictured this morning with other APC party leaders including El Rufai and Rotimi Amaechi leaving his London apartment to Chatham House where he is expected to make a presentation. Photo credit- Dele Momodu

Missing $20 million Oil Money: Why we can’t publish full details of audit report – Nigerian Govt.

Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke

The Nigerian government has finally opened up on why it has refused to disclose the full findings of investigations into the alleged missing $20 billion oil money, several months after a forensic examination had been concluded by an independent firm.

The audit report by PriceWaterHouseCoopers on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, accused of diverting the money, has been ready since September 2014, but the government has declined repeated demands to make the document public.

Amid pressure from the public and the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, the government early February issued a “highlight” of the report, with a conclusion that the alleged missing $20 billion, exposed by a former Central Bank Governor, Lamido Sanusi, was a farce.

The “highlight” concluded that less than $2billion was missing.

Anglican Primate refuses to pray for a certain presidential candidate…

Primate of the Orthodox Anglican Church, Nigeria, Bishop Christopher Umane, has revealed that he declined an invitation to pray for one of the leading presidential candidates so as not to offend God.

While speaking to journalists on Tuesday, February 24, in Benin City, Edo State, Umane urged President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and his opponent in the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, to stop personalising political campaigns.

“They approached me few months ago and wanted me to be part of a group praying for one of the presidential candidates, they want to corrupt the image of the church. I asked them what about my responsibility, because I have a responsibility to all of them. ”

“In other words, in my church, I cannot tell my members to vote for A or B, what I will say is look at what they said they want to do and we are praying that God should give us a better candidate and a better candidate will come from the things they are telling us they will do.”

“I will pray that God should give the better one. If you are campaigning, give us the best manifesto, don’t say you are going to do this or that and you are not going to tell me where the money is going to come from, there are so many things they are taking for granted.”

“It is when they are bereft of ideas that they begin to personalise campaigns, they have nothing to offer us that is why they are going emotional, attacking themselves instead of issues. Somebody who wants people’s votes should be able to say I will do this and that for you and the people will have a reason to vote for you or not. They should leave name calling – this one was a thief, this one is a thief, then I ask, who has not been a thief?”

Fayose is dragging Ekiti in the mud || Opeyemi Bamidele describes his governor as a ‘cancer’

A member of House of Representatives, Opeyemi Bamidele, has described Ekiti state Governor, Ayodele Fayose, as a ‘cancer’, over his constant attacks and seeming obsession with the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Bamidele bemoaned the fact that Fayose was denigrating the age and person of Buhari to the extent of wishing him dead”, while also admonishing him to be civil in his actions and utterances in the public domain.

In a statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, February 24, Bamidele said: “Even if, according to Governor Fayose, General Buhari had visited a hospital during his foreign trip, the reasonable question to ask, I would think, is whether or not General Buhari deserves rest or even a medical check-up after a full-fledged and most rigorous (over 30 days) campaign during which he did not miss a single rally?”

Buhari, Jonathan not fit to rule Nigeria, says Borno cleric who exposed N7b bribe to CAN

The Borno-based cleric who accused the Christian Association of Nigeria of collecting N7 billion bribe from President Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday, lambasted both Mr. Jonathan and the Presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Muhammadu Buhari.

I betrayed Kwankwaso, Amaechi, others – Gov. Lamido

The Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido, on Tuesday admitted that he betrayed his fellow Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governors who later decamped to the All Progressives Congress in November 2013.

Mr. Lamido said this after holding a closed-door meeting with the PDP National Chairman, Adamu Muazu, at the party’s secretariat, Abuja‎.

The five governors, called G-5, who decamped consist of Rivers State Governor, Roti‎mi Ameachi; Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed; Sokoto State Governor, Aliyu Wammako; Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwanso; and the impeached Governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako.

Originally G-7, consisting of the aforementioned and then ‎Mr. Lamido and Niger State Governor, Aliyu Babangida, the governors staged a walk-out from an August 2013 Special National Convention of PDP, alongside other party stalwarts, including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former party Secretary, Sam Jaja and former Kwara Governor, Bukola Saraki.

Olusegun Obasanjo I don’t have a Twitter or Facebook account, Ex-President says

Obasanjo stated this following reports that he had tweeted a series of insults against Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) spokesperson, Femi Fani-Kayode.

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo (Punch)
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has said that he does not own any account on Twitter or Facebook.
Obasanjo stated this following reports that he had tweeted a series of insults against Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) spokesperson, Femi Fani-Kayode.

“Fani-Kayode is a democracy wrecker, who’s very fluent in stupidity. Give him food, and he will sing and do “shoki” dance for you,” the tweet from an account named @SegunObasanjo read.

Obasanjo however denied owning the account saying that all his previous social media profiles had been deactivated.

Lagos Court Frees Babalakin over N4.7billion Fraud

A Lagos state high court has acquitted the Chairman of Bi-Courtney Limited Mr Wale Babalakin, over a N4.7billion fraud allegations brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He was acquitted today.

Mr Babablakin alongside his aide, Alex Okoh, were arrested in 2012 by the EFCC over accusations that the men laundered N4.7billion from the Delta state government coffers on behalf of James Ibori, the convicted ex-governor of Delta state.

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London: Things Get Awkward for Fayose As Buhari Takes Photo With Tony Blair

Following the statement by Gov. Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state in which he claimed that the APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, had travelled to the UK to treat his worsening health, another photo has emerged from Buhari's trip that make it difficult to believe Fayose.

In this photo are Buhari, the governor of Ogun state, Ibikunle Amosun, Senato Olubukola Saraki and Tony Blair, the British Prime Minister.

APC slams “barbaric” AIG Mbu for advocating killing of civilians February 14, 2015Press Release

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has described the police Assistant Inspector General in charge of Zone 2 Command, Joseph Mbu, as a lawless and barbaric policeman who should urgently be called to order by his boss before he starts another around of his trade-mark nihilism in his new posting.


In a statement issued in Lagos on Saturday by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, the party said Mr. Mbu’s actions since he was posted to Lagos have neither dignified the police as an institution nor portrayed him as a well-trained law enforcement agent.

It said the temperament, comportment, utterances and actions of Mr. Mbu, a very senior police officer, are capable of inciting mass killings, violence and anarchy.

”Since his posting to the Zone 2 Command, this contumacious policeman has exhibited an egregious act of lawlessness by barging through the Lekki Toll Plaza without paying toll and then ordering the arrest of policemen and workers at the Plaza. Is it not an irony that a man who is trained to enforce the law is the same who is breaking the law?

”But that action, as bad as it was, pales into insignificance when compared to his most recent statement in which he was basically inciting the police against the citizenry and encouraging the killing of civilians. It is sheer irresponsibility for a senior policeman to say that for every policeman who is killed during the election, he will kill 20 civilians.

”Lest we are misunderstood, our party will never condone the killing of police personnel or of any law enforcement agent for whatever reason, just as we will not condone the killing of any innocent Nigerian. If a senior police officer does not know how to convey to his officers and men that they should protect themselves while also avoiding extra-judicial killing of any citizen, then the funds spent in training him have been wasted,” APC said.

The party said such languages as “fire-for-fire”, “If one of my men is killed, I shall kill twenty of them” or “you have the power to stop the Governor” are inappropriate, inciting and barbaric, especially under a democratic dispensation, and is most unbecoming of a senior law enforcement agent.

It therefore said Mr. Mbu should be held solely responsible for any violence or killing of innocent citizens before, during and after the elections in the area under his command.

APC warned Mr. Mbu to mind his utterances and actions, shake off all the vestiges of lawlessness and barbarism for which he has become infamous, and comport himself like a senior police officer that he is if he wants to succeed in his new assignment, saying ”if he continues in his old, unedifying ways, he will face a public opprobrium as he has never done before”.