Month: June 2016

  • Rice Theft: Moves To Shield Culprits Exposed

    Rice Theft: Moves To Shield Culprits Exposed

    Top Officials Confess As Investigations Close In On Real Offenders IDPs Rue Why Governor Shettima No Longer Weeps Over Citizens Southern Borno Elders Decry Neglect In Rehabilitation Efforts By Yahaya WAKILI, Maiduguri and Ali MUSA, Biu This is not the best of times for Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima as he has been battling to…

  • PDP Wants EFCC, Reps To Probe Obaseki On N5.5bn Deal

    ByMonday EBALU, Benin City Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has called on the House of Representatives and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to expedite action on its investigations into the alleged N5.5 billion deal involving the APC governorship candidate, Mr. Godwin Obaseki. The State Chairman of the party, Chief…

  • Why I still Drive Myself At 85 – Balang Balami

    Why I still Drive Myself At 85 – Balang Balami

    At 85, he still drives himself around and mixes with both the young and old. He engages in political debates very often. Mr Balang Balami told nationalTRAIl during his birthday, that Nigeria has lost its democratic essence when one compares the experiences of his time with contemporary democracy. Exerpts: At your age many people have…

  • Buhari, Best Leader For Nigeria – Osinbajo

    Buhari, Best Leader For Nigeria – Osinbajo

    By Enwenede PRECIOUS Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that Nigeria has the kind of president it needs at this time in the person of Muhammadu Buhari. He said this when he received Pastor W. F. Kumuyi, the General Overseer of the Deeper Christian Life Church, who paid him a courtesy visit in Abuja describing…

  • FG plans $7Bn IPP Project In A’Ibom- Kachukwu

    FG plans $7Bn IPP Project In A’Ibom- Kachukwu

    By Patrick ODEY, Uyo The Federal Government has said that it has brokered an investment worth at least $7 Billion to be deployed in Akwa Ibom. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Dr Ibe Kachukwu made this known last week in Uyo during a town hall meeting organised by the Federal Ministry of Information for…

  • Sheriff Holds The Ace In PDP Crises – Hon  Mikko

    Sheriff Holds The Ace In PDP Crises – Hon Mikko

    Hon. Bernard Mikko, from Ogoni Area in Rivers State started his political career as a Councillor in 1988, and rose to become acting Chairman of the local government then. That local government, Bori, has now been divided into four LGs of Kana, Gokana, Eleme and Tai local governments. In 1998, upon the death of Abacha…

  • Boko Haram: When IDPs Prefer To Live In Camps

    Boko Haram: When IDPs Prefer To Live In Camps

    By James BWALA Life in most of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in Maiduguri, the hotbed of the Boko Haram insurgency has been in its lowest ebb. Gloom, anxiety, self pity fill the faces of people in these camps owing to the fact that they miss their homes so much but could not return.…

  • PDP Crisis: Seven Govs Align With Sheriff

    PDP Crisis: Seven Govs Align With Sheriff

    Apparently realizing that, National Chairman of the opposition Peoples democratic party, PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff holds the aces in the ongoing leadership tussle; five out of the eight governors, who had initially taken sides with the Senator Ahamed Makarfi, led caretaker committee may have shifted camp having been noticed holding secret meetings with Senator…

  • Borno Gov’s Office Turn Boxing Ring

    Borno Gov’s Office Turn Boxing Ring

    By Yahaya WAKILI, Maiduguri APC Chairman/Legislator In Fisticuff Govt Officials At War  Over Ramadan Largesse Dep Gov, Commissioners, Others under Probe Over Rice Theft The economic hardship seems to be biting harder on top Borno state Government officials as key members of the Governor Kashim Shettima’s kitchen cabinet have resorted to open altercations and fisticuff,…

  • NEITI Report: Senator Hunkuyi Calls For Proper Legislation

    By Lola SERIKI- IDAHOSA, Kaduna Senator Sulaiman Hunkuyi, representing Kaduna North Senatorial District in the Senate has called for a proper legislation that will help check the corruption and diversion of public funds. Hunkuyi made this known while commenting on Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) report which revealed that the country lost at least…