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With APC victory over PDP, Nigerians look forward to a corrupt free government that would block all loopholes and making for an economic Eldorado. But after over two years the common man is worse shit than they were under PDP. With the happenings in the last one month, especially the Mainagate, the people have become more disillusioned about the system, even with tokenistic sack of the former SGF. The major challenge of governance in our clime is the fact that no one really fight for the general good. Once people get into government, their preoccupation becomes primitive private accumulation. No matter the background before assuming office, no one is bothered about transparency and accountability, nor the issues that will benefit the people. We are, at all times engrossed in rapacious plunder for ourselves. We have representatives and Senators who are paying themselves outlandishly, while the ordinary worker is left to live on pittance and no one seem to care about their p...

·               Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has filed an application before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, asking for an order of court wholly setting aside the issuance and service of the subpoena ad testificandum issued on him by the court on October 23, 2017, for the purpose of compelling him to appear in court to give evidence in proceedings of a charge delineated FHC/ABJ/ CR/05/2016. The suit was filed by the Federal Republic of Nigeria against Olisa Metuh and Destra Investment Limited with a seven-count criminal charge. Jonathan further asked in the alternative for an order mandating Olisa Metuh to deposit the sum of one billion naira with the court in line with the provisions of Section 241 (2) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015. The one billion naira according to former President Jonathan, is to cover his travel expenses and that of his security personnel from Otuoke to Abuja and for l...

·      The Head of Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita,  has said  President Muhammadu Buhari is aware of the reinstatement of a former Chairman  of the Pension Reforms Commission, Mallam Abdulrasheed Maina, into the civil service. She however said she warned the President against it. Oyo-Ita said that her warning was based on the implications such reinstatement would have on the anti-corruption war of the Federal Government. The HoS stated this in her memo to the Chief of Staff to the President, Mr. Abba Kyari. The memo, with reference number HSCSF/HCSF/LU/COR/FCSC/750/T, was dated October 23, 2017. The memo, titled, “Re: Abdulrasheed Abdullahi Maina,” was received in the office of the Chief of Staff to the President on October 23. A copy of the memo was sighted by our correspondent in Abuja on Monday. The President had directed the HoS to investigate the circumstances that surrounded the return of Maina to the civil serv...

FILES) This file photo taken on October 16, 2017 shows former Donald Trump presidential campaign manager Paul Manafort during Game Four of the American League Championship Series at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx borough of New York City. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and a business associate were told to surrender to federal officials on October 30, 2017 in the probe into Russia’s attempts to tilt the 2016 presidential vote in Trump’s favor, the New York Times reported. There was no word on what charges have been filed by special counsel Robert Mueller, the former FBI director leading the Russia probe.The Times said Manafort and his longtime associate Rick Gates were told to surrender to federal authorities. Manafort managed Trump’s presidential campaign between June and August 2016. / AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / ELSA Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was charged Monday with conspiracy against the United States and ...

The Delta State Government has approved the construction of the proposed Teachers' Professional Development Centre (TPDC) in the state. This was part of the approvals made by the State Executive Council during its meeting held in Government House, Asaba. The state Commissioner for Information, Mr. Patrick Ukah, disclosed in Asaba on Monday (October 30, 2017) that the approval was a fallout of one of the resolutions of the 2-day Education Summit organised by the State Government in October 2015. Mr. Ukah explained that the institute will help to retool, upgrade, train and retrain teachers to meet extant and future challenges as well as improve the quality of teachers in the state at all levels. According to the commissioner, the Institute will also provide conducive venue for the training of all strata of personnel in the state and can be used for retreats and policy crafting sessions in addition to hosting strategic meetings as the state government may deem fit. He sa...

President Mohammadu Buhari has terminated the appointments of Babachir Lawal, suspended SGF, and Amb Ayo Oke, former DG, NIA. The President has also appointed Mr Boss Mustapha the new Secretary to the Government of the Federation. These were announced moments ago in a Tweet by Femi Adesina on his Twitter handle. Details later…..

One cyclist trailed after Trump's motorcade as it was leaving the Trump National Golf Club in Virginia and eventually snaked her way next to his car, just to flip him off.  Trump should have opened his window and use his own finger to grab the gusto. Trump is a HUGE star The SS did not block off the road way and this lady sneaked on to the road way  https://mobile.twitter.com/W7VOA/status/924430902733824000 vin.....///

Following the Maine saga most reasonable Nigerians are now disappointed in the man from Daura.Anyone who still claims not to be disappointed has either suspended common sense or mentally deranged. Buhari is surrounded by a cabal of senior officials that are even more corrupt than those who surrounded former President Jonathan. For now, the integrity of GMB and the Regime has declined with the no action yet on Osinbajo's Report. Is the SFG and the DG NIA still being paid while suspended or not? Buhari is an abysmal failure. It is a shame that, so many believed and were all taken for a ride. What a shame? At this juncture, President Buhari needs to put up or shut up on this talk about fighting corruption in Nigeria. This is the time to show resolve and make statesmanlike decisions for which he would be positively remembered in the near and distant future. The trio of senior public officials involved in Mainagate should be suspended immediately until the invest...

PREMIUM TIMES r eport  indicates that t he Nigerian Army has redeployed eight top officials including six generals. Those redeployed include a major-general, five brigadier-generals and two lieutenant colonels. Top military insiders told PREMIUM TIMES that those redeployed include I.O. Rabiu, a major general, who was formerly military secretary at the army headquarters, He was redeployed to defence headquarters as director, technical and equipment. F. Yahaya, a brigadier general, was posted from the army headquarters, department of administration, and appointed as acting military secretary. A.O. Abdullahi, a brigadier general, was posted from the army headquarters to the headquarters of 3 Division where he is to serve as the Chief of Staff. O. J. Akpor, also a brigadier general, was deployed from the army’s operation centre to become the Commander, 1 Division of the army. O. C. Ajunwa, a brigadier general, was posted from the headquarters of the 3 Division and appoi...

A  video  has gone viral on socail media showing church members angrily walking out as Pastor Adefarasin of the House on the Rock,  Lagos , was preaching about tithing yesterday. In his response,  Freeze  who is against paying tithes says, ‘the revolution has begun’. Source: LIB

Customs Comptroller General Hameed Ali tears into President Buhari. The president should listen to him. Customs Comptroller General, Col Hameed Ali, is one of the few persons President Muhammadu Buhari proudly calls ‘friend’. They really are that close. It is little wonder that when Buhari settled into the task of putting together his kitchen cabinet after the rigours of a 2015 electioneering campaign, he naturally handpicked Ali, a retired Army Colonel, to clean up a corrupt Customs service. Like Buhari, Ali is austere, taciturn, disciplined, ascetic and possesses a disdain for corruption. Legend has it that after leaving the army top brass, Ali had only one beat up car to his name. Not for him the idiotic accumulation of wealth for which his peers in the army are better known. Ali only took up the Buhari Customs job because he couldn’t say no to an old friend—someone who shares his values. He was with Buhari during the President’s CPC and ANPP days. As Buhari lo...

American troops are fighting in multiple African countries without anyone back home really noticing. President Trump’s inexplicable  fight  with the widow of a Green Beret who was killed in Niger has sparked a political firestorm that shows no signs of dying down. It’s also brought new attention to a little-known aspect of Washington’s ongoing war on terror: The Pentagon is rapidly expanding its presence in Africa and is now engaged in military operations — including active combat — in more than half a dozen African countries. It’s a fight that takes place largely in the shadows, led by small teams of US special operations forces. In Somalia, Navy SEALs are  hunting  members of al-Qaeda and ISIS-linked militants from groups like al-Shabaab (one of the commandos  died  in a botched raid earlier this year). In Libya, they’re carrying out counterterror missions like the one that  captured Ahmed Abu Khattala, a militant linked to the deadly ass...