The Director-General of National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), Mr Jelani Aliyu, has commended the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) for being the first institution to produce electric car in the country. Aliyu made the commendation in Nsukka on Monday during the unveiling of a five-seater Electric Car, named ‘Lion Ozumba 551′, produced by the Faculty of Engineering in the university. He urged other universities in the country to emulate UNN in giving serious attention to issues concerning innovations and technology in order to move the country to the next level. He said: “NADDC on Feb. 6, invited UNN,…
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Spokesperson of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign organization and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Festus Keyamo, has accused the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of attempting to blackmail the Supreme Court. Keyamo told Atiku to always expect the Supreme Court to do justice even if heavens fall, while reminding him of the court judgement which nullified the All Progressives Congress (APC), elections in Zamfara. This is sequel to Atiku’s reaction to the Supreme Court judgement on Osun State’ governorship election on Friday which was ruled in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC), where…
The immediate past Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri, has declared his intention to contest for the November 16 Governorship election in Bayelsa on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC). Lokpobiri made his intention known on Saturday after consultation with the state leadership of the APC at the party’s Secretariat in Yenagoa. Lokpobiri told the party leadership that he was ready to lead APC to the “Creek Haven’’, Bayelsa State seat of power, so that he can build an economy beyond oil for the state. “I am here to formally inform my political family…
Nigeria beat Cameroon 3-2 on Saturday to qualify for the quarter final in the ongoing 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). Odion Ighalo scored twice while Alex Iwobi added the winning goal thus sending the defending champions, the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon, packing. China-based forward Ighalo bundled home a scrappy opener but Clarence Seedorf’s Cameroon hit back through Stephane Bahoken and Clinton Njie with two quick goals within five minutes before half-time. Nigeria drew level as Ighalo scored his second goal in the second half and he then turned provider to play in Iwobi to steer home three minutes later…
Governor Gboyega Oyetola on Friday defeated Ademola Adeleke at the Supreme Court in the 2018 Osun State election case. Reacting to the governor’s victory, the President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan congratulated the Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun over his victory at the Supreme Court, urging him to be magnanimous in victory. Lawan, in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mohammed Isa described the judgement as victory to democracy, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the people of Osun. He urged Oyetola to put behind him past events during the electioneering and its aftermath litigation,…
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has suspended some of its top members at the House of Representatives because of the crisis surrounding the selection of minority leader in the house. This was contained in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan. The members are; Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, Hon. Wole Oke, Hon. Lynda Ikpeazu, Hon. Anayo Edwin, Hon. Gideon Gwadi, Hon. Toby Okechukwu and Hon. Adekoya Abdul-Majid. The statement, which was shared on Twitter, reads, “The national working committee of @OfficialPDPNig met today, the 5th of July 2019 and reviewed…
A Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna has upheld the nomination of Malam Nasiru el-Rufai as the All Progressives Congress (APC), candidate for the governorship of the state. The court ruled on Thursday that El-Rufai was properly nominated as the APC Governorship Candidate for the 2019 governorship election in the state. Yahaya Shinko, a former member of the APC, had filed a suit at the court, challenging El-Rufai’s nomination. He asked the court to set aside El-Rufai’s nomination. However, in his ruling on Thursday, the presiding Judge, Justice Zainab Abubakar held that Yahaya Shinko’s case lacks merit and affirmed the…
The Nigerian Senate on Thursday adopted a motion seeking additional funding for Primary Health Care centres across the country. In a motion sponsored by Senator Oluremi Tinubu representing Lagos Central Senatorial district and 108 others, she said that primary health care in Nigeria, which was adopted in 1998 by National Health Policy as means of providing health services to rural dwellers, has collapsed. Relying on the World Health Organisation (WHO) indicator, the lawmaker said Nigeria’s health care facilities have low performance in the world. She added a corroborative index by the World Bank that the primary health in Nigeria was…
The Galvanised Iron and Steel Manufacturers’ Association (GISMA), has urged the authority of the Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON), to address the germane issue of curbing the importation of substandard galvanized roofing sheets into the country. GISMA also alerted the Federal Government that if in 30 days’ time, SON and other security agencies failed to abate the menace of substandard roofing sheets in the market, its members may be forced to offload about 20, 000 workforce into the labour market. Spokesman of GISMA, Mr. Lateef Bello, in a statement on Wednesday, advised SON to always compliment the strides of President…
Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, on Wednesday told President Muhammadu Buhari to apologise to Nigerians for saying that the former Head of State, late General Sani Abacha did not loot the country. Falana speaking during Human Environment Development Agenda (HEDA), conference on Wednesday in Abuja said it was necessary for Buhari to apologise after his administration recovered part of the Abacha loot. Falana further lamented the looting and alleged mismanagement of huge sums of money belonging to Nigeria, adding that if the monies were recovered, there would be no need for Nigeria to borrow money from abroad. Falana said,…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted the prayer of Chief Mr Elvis Chinda for an abridgement of time in the suit seeking an order disqualifying Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State from contesting the 2019 governorship election in the state. A five-man panel of Supreme Court Justices led by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Tanko Muhammad granted the abridgement as filed by Chinda’s lawyer, William Nwobodo, to reply to response by counsel to Gov. Wike, Chief Ferdinand Orbih SAN. On March 8, Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, dismissed a pre-election suit brought by Chinda,…
Former First Lady, Patience Jonathan on Tuesday appealed the forfeiture of her N12.2billion to the Federal Government. Jonathan prayed the Court of Appeal in Lagos to set aside the judgment of Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of the Federal High Court in Lagos. Jonathan, through her counsel Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), said the judge erred in law by ordering the final forfeiture when she had no jurisdiction to do so. A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday ordered the final forfeiture of the 8.4 million dollars and N7.4 billion found in accounts linked to a former First Lady, Patience Jonathan. The…
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday ordered the final forfeiture of N9.2 million and $8.4 million dollars belonging to Patience Jonathan, wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had, through its counsel Rotimi Oyedepo, in October 2018, moved a motion before Justice Mojisola Olatoregun for the final forfeiture of the funds said to belong to the former First Lady. The funds were domiciled in Diamond Bank, Fidelity Bank, Eco Bank, Stanbic bank, Skye Bank, Zenith Bank and First Bank. According to Justice Olatoregun, there was not enough cause in the affidavits filed…
An Abuja division of the Federal High Court on Monday issued a bench warrant against the President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick. The court also ordered the arrest of four other officials of the NFF accused of misappropriating funds belonging to the football body. The presiding judge, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu gave the order after the case involving the NFF officials was called and they were absent in court. Others to be arrested are: NFF Secretary, Sunusi Mohammed; the 1st Vice-President, Seyi Akinwumi; the 2nd Vice-President, Shehu Dikko and an Executive member, Yusuff Fresh. Recall that the Federal…
Ministerial lists are being reportedly prepared by state chapters of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the consideration of President Muhammadu Buhari for his next cabinet, though the Presidency did not officially request for that. Although governors elected on the platform of the party have also publicly conceded the absolute right on federal cabinet appointment to the president, it has also been gathered that the state helmsmen have not given up on having an input in choosing ministerial appointees from their states. With the president in the middle, political factors and factions within the party at the state level…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the weekend claimed that the bitter infighting and hostilities in the All Progressives Congress (APC), and the Presidency was a result of the alleged stolen presidential mandate of the election conducted on February 23, this year. It also alleged that the vicious fight for positions as booty of a stolen mandate further exposes the APC and the cabal in the Muhammadu Buhari presidency as power mongers. PDP spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, made these allegations in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja. He further claimed that the APC elements are only interested in power…
The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chuks Ibegbu, has asked the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, to shelve any ambition he is nursing for 2023 presidential election. Ibegbu, who made the group’s position known, in an interview with reporters in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, urged the ex-Lagos State governor to rather form a Non Governmental Organization (NGO), to assist poor Nigerians and democratise the wealth some of them accrued from the country. The former Minister of Works, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe, had declared that a national leader of the All…
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has reacted to remark credited to the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II that Nigeria is on the path of total bankruptcy following unfavourable economic policies by the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari. Frank said the President Buhari-led APC government has driven “100 million Nigerians into abject poverty.” The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had said this during the ongoing 3rd National Treasury Workshop organized by the office of the Accountant General of the Federation holding in Coronation Hall, Government House, Kano. Sanusi…
The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, on Thursday, struck out an application filed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and President Muhammadu Buhari, seeking dismissal of the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM). PDM’s candidate, Aminchi Habu, and his party are challenging their exclusion from the February 23 presidential election. They are asking the tribunal to nullify the poll and order the conduct of a fresh one which would include them. INEC and Buhari, being the second respondent, had asked the tribunal to dismiss and strike out the petition filed by the PDM on the grounds that it…
Nigeria’s Super Eagles on Wednesday beat Guinean opponents 1-0 to maintain Group B leadership with six points from two matches and qualify for Round of 16 at 2019 AFCON in Egypt. The result makes the Nigerian side the first team to progress from the first round at the competition. Also, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the release of funds for Super Eagles players at the ongoing 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), in Egypt. The fund was released after Super Eagles players protested over unpaid allowances and match bonuses at their Helnan Palestine Hotel in Egypt. The aggrieved players had…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday closed its case in a 59-count charge, bordering on money laundering, criminal diversion of funds to the tune of N702,000,000 against former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Media, Doyin Okupe. Okupe was facing prosecution by EFCC before Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja. EFCC spokesman, Tony Orilade disclosed this in a statement in Abuja. He added, “At today’s proceedings, prosecution counsel, Ibrahim Audu presented his last and sixth witness, Shuaibu Salisu, former Director Administration and Finance in the Office of National Security Adviser…
The President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan has said that there was nothing like jumbo salary for National Assembly members as being speculated in some quarters. Lawan made the disclosure, when members of the Senators’ Forum paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Abuja on Tuesday. While further dismissing the jumbo pay issue, he revealed that his monthly salary as a lawmaker and that of his colleagues was N750,000. “What I want to emphasize here is that I never believed that that there is anything called Jombo pay to the National Assembly. “The National Assembly members both…
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the February 2019 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, has said his request and that of his party to inspect the server of the Independent National Electoral Commission was not rejected by the Presidential Election Tribunal. The former Vice President in a statement by his media aide, Paul Ibe, entitled, “He who laughs last, laughs best,” on Tuesday, said the tribunal rather ruled that proceeding was still at preliminary stages and the main case has begun, adding that that the matter of granting access to inspect the INEC server is not relevant to…
The Senator representing Osun East Senatorial District, Francis Fadahunsi has said that the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, was by his behaviour exhibiting traits of the head-boy of a primary school. He added that members of the ruling APC, who had ambitions during the just-concluded leadership election in the National Assembly, ignored Oshiomhole and disregarded his directives for being too shallow and childish. The lawmaker spoke during a Thanksgiving Service he organised in his hometown at Ilase-ijesha, to appreciate people of his senatorial district over his electoral triumph. According to Fadahunsi, both the Senate President, Ahmed…
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Monday dismissed the application filed by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), seeking to inspect INEC server allegedly used in collating results for the Feb. 23 general election. Justice Mohammed Garba, Chairman of the panel, held that granting such application at this interlocutory stage would preempt the substantive petition. Garba explained that the court was yet to keep abreast of testimonies of witnesses and documentary evidence from all parties in the matter, adding that granting the request at this stage would pre-empt the proceedings. Dr Levi Uzoukwu SAN, Counsel for the petitioners/applicants,…
Mavrodi Mundial Moneybox (MMM), the Ponzi scheme which dashed the hope of over three million Nigerians in 2017, is back but not with a bang. This time dubbed MMM Cooperation, the scheme promises as much as 50 percent return on any amount invested in it – 20 percent more than what the extinct version offered. Just like the previous version, participants are to register, invest a particular amount in the form of “providing help” and “get help” with their investment and interest back after 30 days. It is surprising that some Nigerians are falling for it yet again! The scheme…
Former Minister of Works, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe has declared that a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu was the best person to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. The former Minister, who recently decamped from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said he is going to support the former Lagos Governor to emerge President in 2023. Ogunlewe, who had never been on the same page with Tinubu politically, made the sudden U-turn, adding that nothing in life is static. “I have been reading and watching a lot of comments about it. I believe 2023 should be thrown open,” he…
President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act, 2019, to further strengthen the ongoing fight against corruption within and outside Nigeria. The President’s Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Mr. Ita Enang, revealed this in a statement in Abuja on Friday. According to him, the new law is meant to obtain from other countries, on reciprocal basis, mutual assistance in the prosecution of criminal matters including the location and identification of suspects, witnesses and other materials for prosecution of criminal matters. He said that the objectives of the law include: “Identification, tracing, freezing,…
The Kogi State High Court, sitting in Koton-Karfe, has ruled that Governor Yahaya Bello and the State House of Assembly jointly or unilaterally, cannot remove the Chief Judge of the State, Justice Nasir Ajanah, without recourse to the National Judicial Council (NJC). In its ruling on Friday, the court also declared that the Chief Registrar of the State High Court held a statutory position as the accounting officer of the judiciary and was, therefore, not subject to the control and supervision of either the executive or the legislature. The presiding judge, Justice Alaba Omolaye-Ajileye noted that it is the NJC…
Nigeria Senate President, Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan has withdrawn the appointment of Mr Festus Adedayo barely 48 hours after his appointment as Special Adviser on Media and Publicity. In a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday in Abuja by the Special Assistant to the Senate President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Mohammed Isa, the appointment was rescinded in his best interest. Part of the statement reads: “The office of the President of the Senate has reviewed the appointment of Mr. Festus Adedayo as Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the President of the Senate and decided to rescind its decision…
