September 2021

Prominent leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have claimed that about ₦1 trillion worth of stolen funds and assets have been recovered since President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office in 2015.

In a statement on Thursday, a former National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr. Lanre Issa-Onilu; member of the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Barr Ismail Ahmed, Presidential Aide, Mr. Tolu Ogunlesi; and Director-General of the Progressives Governors’ Forum, Salihu Lukman, said high profile recoveries were made from 2015 to date.

According to the statement, all final forfeitures are being deployed for use in the government’s Special Infrastructure …

The Kogi State government has threatened to take legal action against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Commissioner of Information and Communication in the state, Kingsley Fanwo, issued the threat on Thursday while briefing reporters at the Kogi Liaison Office in Abuja.

He accused the EFCC of a calculated attempt to malign the integrity of the state governor, Yahaya Bello, over an alleged ₦20 billion salary bailout funds said to be in fixed deposit at a commercial bank.

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The commissioner described as false and malicious the claims by the anti-graft …

The Presidency on Wednesday went hard on the global human rights advocacy group, Amnesty International, accusing it of playing ‘domestic politics.’

While stating that the organisation has no legal rights to operate in Nigeria, the federal Government accused it of allegedly legitimising the cause of the proscribed group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, and its leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

This was contained in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, titled, ‘Why Amnesty’s Entreaties Should Be Ignored, by Presidency.’

The statement read in part, ‘Despite Amnesty’s self-proclaimed mandate to impartially transcend …

President Muhammadu Buhari has asserted that Nigerians might not feel the impact of most of his projects until he leaves office in 2023.

The president made this assertion after inaugurating the new board of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA).

At the brief ceremony which was held at State House, Abuja, Buhari tasked the board to make more investments that support economic diversification, as global oil prices were projected to drop to around $40 per barrel by 2030.

The president restated his administration’s commitment to implementing long term projects and programmes that create jobs for Nigerians.

The President boasted that …

The Presidency has alleged that the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has amassed a substantial stockpile of weapons across the country to cause chaos.

The allegation was contained in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Wednesday.

The Presidency in the statement entitled, ‘Why Amnesty entreaties should be ignored’, said that ‘Amnesty International’s latest salvo at Nigeria is but more of the same.’

The statement read: ‘Again, they have decided to side with terrorists, before the liberty of those they injure, displace and murder.

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Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has given the reason behind a reshuffle in the cabinet he formed on August 21, 2019.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that Mohammed Sabo Nanono, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, and Sale Mamman, Minister of Power, were fired.

They were replaced by Dr. Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar, Minister of Environment, and Abubakar D. Aliyu, Minister of State, Works & Housing.

Speaking through Femi Adesina, his media aide, the president said the changes were sequel to the ‘tradition of subjecting our projects and programmes implementation to independent and critical self-review’.

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