STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE: TUNDE IDIAGBON WAS A RARE EXAMPLE OF LOYALTY – PRESIDENT BUHARI “The late Major General Tunde Idiagbon was a very rare example of what loyalty to fatherland and to a superior should be. “Tunde was strong, loyal and extremely committed to the cause of positively changing the narrative about Nigeria, which the administration set out to do at that time,” the President Muhammadu Buhari has said. Speaking, Monday, when he received APC governorship aspirants and members of the party from the three senatorial zones of Kwara State at State House, President Buhari recalled how his former…
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Ekiti State Government Sacks Perm Sec Over ‘Fraudulent’ Employment The Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has approved the immediate retirement of the Permanent Secretary, Office of Establishments and Training in the state’s civil service, Olusesan Alabi. This was contained in a statement on Monday by Fayemi’s Chief Press Secretary, Yinka Oyebode. The statement directed Alabi to hand over to the most senior officer in the office. Alabi was sacked over the release of employment letters to those the immediate past Administration of former Governor Ayo Fayose directed should be employed despite NOT following civil service procedures as laid….…
Nigerian Army orders for 10,000 ballistic vests, helmets. The Nigerian Army has ordered for 10,000 ballistic vests and helmets from an indigenous company to kit its troops, especially those deployed in the fight against insurgency and other internal security operations. The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen Tukur Buratai, gave the order for the supply of the vests on Monday in Osogbo, after inaugurating the Nigeria Machine Tools (NMT) ballistic production facility. Buratai said that the local production of such military hardware would enable the army to provide its troops in the field with protective elements. According to him, the company,…
Amosun’s anguish today is Jagaban and Asiwaju’s telling silence!! The silence is killing him having failed in his antics, has resorted to selling his ‘remove Oshiomhole from office’ campaign to his colleagues, giving newspapers false impressions. Read him still dropping PMB’s name. A PMB who told him to go sort out his issues with his party. APC Crisis: Governor Amosun talks tough, accuses Oshiomhole, ‘Lagos cabal’ of fraud. The Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, on Monday continued his protest against the outcome of the All progressives Congress (APC) primaries in his state as he accused the National Chairman of the…
Prophet arrested over alleged plan to kidnap church member DETECTIVES from the Ondo State Police Command have arrested a Prophet and founder of a Cherubim and Seraphim Church, the Gethsemane Zion Church, Prophet Godwin Ayenugha, in Igbokoda headquarters of Ilaje Local Government Area of the State, over his alleged involvement in the kidnap of a member of his church, Omosaye Segun. The Prophet, Ayenugha, was arrested with an accomplice, Ibukun Adetigha who used to send text messages to their victims informing them of their impending kidnap. Speaking on the arrest, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Gbenga Adeyanju, explained that…
EFCC Convicts Lebanese for Under-declaration The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission today October 19th, 2018 secured the conviction one Haytham Aldahrah, a Lebanese who was arrested at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport while on board Egypt Air to Cairo for refusing to declare the sum of $105,000 and €65,000 respectively to the Nigeria Customs Service. Upon his arrest, Aldahrah declared the sum of $95,000 (Ninety Five Thousand Dollars) but after search was conducted on him, it was discovered that he was carrying another sum of $105,000 (One Hundred and Five Thousand Dollars) which he concealed to the authorities. When…
Sir, I can’t support you Prof Osinbajo because your boss jailed my father for 5 years because of £1,600 found on him at the Airport. The money my dad earned during the tour he was returning from. As promised, you have come and you have seen us here. I am grateful that you said this place is big. Big prophets and pastors visit us. Not everyone smoke igbo, I don’t smoke igbo from day one.!!!! Pastor Ituah is one of our big fans. He loves my dad philosophy. Yes, Pasuma, 2Baba, Davido, Timaya, myself, Made my son have all performed…
Corruption: MTN, UBA staff testify in dismissed Justice’s trial Two prosecution witnesses of EFCC on Monday testified at before Ikeja Special Offences Court in the ongoing trial of a dismissed judge of the Federal High Court, Lagos, Justice Mohammed Yunusa. Mr Adekunle Ogunbadejo, a staff of MTN Communications and Mr Robinson Imafidon of UBA, testified to prove the anti-graft agency’s allegations of corruption against the embattled judge. Yunusa is standing trial alongside Esther Agbo, a staff of the law chambers of Mr Rickey Tarfa (SAN). The dismissed judge is facing a four-count charge of attempted perversion of the course of…
Labour Insists On N30,000 Minimum Wage, Begins Nationwide Strike Nov 6 – says no more negotiations Organised labour, comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and United Labour Congress (ULC) yesterday resolved to resume its nationwide strike, November 6, if the federal government fails to agree on the N30,000 minimum wage. In a statement jointly signed by NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, TUC president, Kaigama Bobboi and ULC president, Joe Ajero, labour accused the government of sabotaging the quick passage of a new minimum wage The organised labour argued that it is not true that they proposed N30,000…
Don’t Underrate The Conspiracy Of Nigerian Vultures By Senator Babafemi Ojudu In 1985, the military and civilian arms of the Nigerian looters came together and aborted the march of Nigeria to true independence and development. At the time, the duo of Generals Muhammadu Buhari and Tunde Idiagbon held sway as Head of State and Chief of Staff Supreme Headquarters respectively. Prior to their assumption of office on 31 December, 1983, the prognosis for the state of health of the country was very bad. The country was clearly in need of resuscitation in the intensive care unit, yet the ‘doctors’ on…
