Category: Headlines
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NLC/Nasarawa State Govt Trade Tackles Over Strike
By Abubakar LAWAL, Lafia The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC in Nasarawa State and the Nasarawa State Government have continued to trade words over the strike embarked upon by the organised labour, which enters its second week, giving indications that the strike may linger beyond expectations that it will be called off this week, when an…
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EFCC Probe: Borno Govt Officials In Rush Accounts Reconciliations
By Yahaya Wakili, Maiduguri Permanent Secretaries and Heads of Finance and Accounts of Ministries and extra ministerial departments in Borno State have been running from pillar to pole looking for how to reconcile their accounts and retire billions of Naira squandered in their names in the last four and a half years. The Government last…
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Plans To Embarrass Badeh At EFCC Exposed
By Sam ADEGBE, Abuja Former Chief of Defence staff, Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh who last week honoured the invitation by the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will again be at the headquarters of the anti-graft agency on Monday. Badeh was asked to go back and return Monday to enable the commission meet up some…
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Untold Story Of 2016 Budget Padding
By Emmanuel IFFER, Abuja Many top civil servants are yet to wake up to the realisation that things have changed in the way government business is conducted, this is evident in the attempt by some government officials handling budget estimates to as usual manipulate and introduce some items for selfish gain into the 2016 estimate.…
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Boko Haram Fights Back In Defeat
Authorities Caught Napping As Sect Unleashes Terror, Kills 278 In Borno Sect’s Resurgence Embarrassing To Buhari’s Govt- Shehu We Are On Top Of The Situation, Boko Haram Weakened – Military The Nigerian Military seems to have underestimated the residual strength of the dreaded Boko Haram sect, and may have been in a rush in announcing…
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Revealed: How GEJ Released $37m To Rig Ekiti Election
Senators Uba, Omisore, Obanikoro,Ex-service Chiefs As Conspirators – PDP Scribe It was a can of worms last Sunday, following damning revelations by the Secretary of the Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Temitope Aluko who gave a blow to blow account of how the military was used to rig the 2014…
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Tempers In NASS Over Corruption Allegations
Saraki/Dogara Fires Back At Obasanjo, Refutes Allegations Lawmakers Say NASS Under Former President Was More Corrupt Senate President Dr Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House Of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara may replied former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s letter to them in which he accused lawmakers as being corrupt and insensitive to the economic realities of the…
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Gov Shettima Risks Alamieyeseigha Treatment
How EFCC Visit Caused Scare In Borno Members of the Borno state House of assembly may be under pressures to initiate moves for the impeachment of Governor Kashim Shettima, reminiscent of the late Diepriye Alamieyeseigha saga in Bayelsa state, to pave way for his investigation and prosecution over the alleged mismanagement of the state resources,…
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Maiduguri Residents Jubilate Over EFCC Visit
By Yahaya Wakili Latest developments in Borno state reveal that residents of Maiduguri, the state capital have been jubilating over the visit by the Economic and financial Crimes commission, EFCC, even as Law makers whose premises was invaded yesterday may have all fled out of fear that they will be arrested, for aiding the plunder…
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Abubakar Bello has been sworn in as Governor of Kogi state
Abubakar Bello has been sworn in a Governor of Kogi state at a colourful ceremony in Lokoja, the state capital. Gob Bello took the oath at about 12:15local time, but without a Deputy.