August 20, 2019

Know the ministers in the new FGN cabinet

August 20, 2019 10:31 pm

Babatunde Fashola

Fashola born June 28, 1963 in Lagos State is a lawyer and a politician. He won the governorship election of Lagos State in 2007 and 2011 on the platform of the defunct All Progressives Congress (APC). He was appointed the Minister of Power, Works and Housing by President Buhari in 2015 and has been re-nominated as minister.

Olorunnibe Mamora

Mamora, a medical doctor, is a former speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly. He was elected senator for the Lagos East constituency in 2007. He was appointed Managing Director of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) in …

Cameroon anglophone separatist leader gets life sentence

August 20, 2019 7:32 am

A military court in Cameroon on Tuesday handed a life sentence to the head of the country’s anglophone separatist movement, Julius Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, and nine of his followers, lawyers said.The 10 were convicted of charges including “terrorism and secession”, the state’s lawyer, Martin Luther Achet, told AFP.

The sentence was confirmed by a lawyer for the separatists, Joseph Fru, who condemned what he called a “parody of justice”.

The defendants refused to recognise the right of the military tribunal in Yaounde to try them.

Their lawyers have yet to say whether they will file an appeal.

Ayuk Tabe,

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'Political elite, learn from Ekweremadu’s Nuremberg attack'

FG demands prosecution of Ekweremadu’s attackers

August 20, 2019 7:10 am

The Federal Government has called on German authorities to unmask the identity of and try the Aug. 17 attackers of Sen. Ike Ekweremadu in Nuremberg, Germany.

In a statement issued on Monday by Nigerian Embassy in Berlin, the embassy also demanded that the attackers be tried in accordance with German laws.

The embassy stated that investigations would help identify the attackers with a view to bringing them to justice.

The Nigerian embassy, which said that investigating the perpetrators would discourage any individual or group from carrying out acts of violence against Nigerian government officials on German soil, cited the threat …

Nigeria may become failed state – Echefu

August 20, 2019 6:23 am

President, Congress for Non-Political Party Members (CNPM), Comrade John Mayor Echefu, has warned that if caution is not taken, Nigeria may be history, as every group is showing loyalty fatigue to the nation.

In this interview, he spoke on various national issues.

What is your view on the state of the nation?

Nigeria is in a slippery slope to something that is very disastrous to the corporate existence of this nation and we must do everything possible to avoid this from happening. It is sad, very sad.

The situation is so bad and we have never experienced what we are …

Why EFCC raided Ambode’s residence

August 20, 2019 5:59 am

The Economic and Financial Crime Commission Tuesday raided the residence of the former governor of Lagos State in Epe.

EFCC spokesman Tony Orilade told The Guardian that the raid was in connection with an ongoing investigation into finances of Lagos State under the former governor.

“It is just the continuation of the ongoing investigation,” Orilade said.

The commission secured a court to freeze three accounts of the state earlier in the month. The accounts are domiciled in First City Monument Bank, Access Bank and Zenith Bank.

The accounts, EFCC said, needed to be frozen until the conclusion of the investigation

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