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The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has slammed minister of labour, Chris Ngige over his recent claims that the South-East geopolitical zone has not being expunged from the scheme of things under the current administration. The group accused Ngige of running his mouth just to please his pay master in Abuja. Ngige had while speaking during the annual convention and 2016 graduation ceremony of Skill Acquisition Students of Bina Foundation, Enugu, said contrary to the statement purportedly made by Ohanaeze that Ndigbo were being excluded, the antecedents of  Buhari showed that he loved Ndigbo. But IPOB, while reacting via a statement by its spokesman, Emmanuel Powerful, said people like Chris Ngige and other political jobbers feeding off the crumbs from the master’s table should be ashamed of themselves and know that the day of reckoning was fast approaching. He said, “Anybody or group of persons against the new found courage of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in supporting the quest fo

President Muhammadu Buhari has concluded plans to sell two presidential aircraft – a Falcon 7x executive jet and Hawker 4000. In October this year, the presidency confirmed that the sale of two jets had been approved by Buhari(http://dailypost.ng/2016/10/04/fg-puts-two-presidential-jets-sale/) and adverts were placed in newspapers for interested buyers. A top Presidency source told PUNCH on Monday that the process of selling the aircraft, which was handled by the Office of the National Security Adviser, had been concluded. He said: “The bids were opened in the presence of all interested parties about two weeks ago. “At the end of the exercise, all those who participated commended the process which they described as very transparent.” He, however, refused to disclose the identities of the preferred bidders and the amount the Federal Government would realize from the sales. But promised that the details would be made public soon. “The report will be made available to t

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang has explained that the federal government will go ahead with the $29.9billion borrowing plans despite Senate’s rejection. Giving clarification on Senate’s stance, Ita Enang explained that the Senate needed some information that were strategic to the borrowing plans which the budget office was already working on it. What is happening is that there are strategic information that should be made available to them before considering it and the DG, Budget was already working on it”, he noted. Enang was optimistic that the Senate would approve the loans as soon as all necessary information were made available. He added that the Senate understands that economic recession confronting the nation deserves sincere approach, while insisting that the proposed external borrowing of the President would properly fund the budget in the interest of National development.

MMM Founder, Sergey Mavrodi has allegedly written an open letter to the Federal Government of Nigeria explaining the benefits of the scheme. The letter was displayed on the page of all participants of the Scheme. Recall the the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had warned Nigerians against participating in the scheme which it described as a “Ponzi”. The House of Representatives in October also ordered an investigation into the operation of the scheme. According to the letter, Mr Mavrodi implored the government to look at the benefits of the scheme rather than be against it without knowing how it was helping Nigerians. He insisted that if the government was really interested in the welfare of the Nigerian participant, then the scheme should be left alone arguing that MMM was helping the over 3 million Nigerian participants. Read below the full script of the letter as obtained by our correspondent from the Dashboard of one o

Promoters and participants of Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox, otherwise known as ‘MMM’ in Nigeria, are currently in panic as the ponzi scheme has been frozen. All confirmed accounts, as at early hours of Monday, were frozen. Mavro is the conventional unit for measurement of help provided to other participants in MMM. With all confirmed Mavros frozen, all users who have provided help and awaiting to get help in few days can’t do so until the ban is off. A circular sent out to all users yesterday said all money has been frozen for a month. The circular urged all participants to be calm, saying it was to help prevent any problems during the New Year season. The circular read: “Dear members! “Moreover, it has to deal with the constant frenzy provoked by the authorities in the mass media. “The things are still going well; the participants feel calm; everyone gets paid – as you can see, there haven’t been any payment delays or other problems yet – but!.. It is better to avoi

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has struck out a defamation suit instituted by President Muhammadu Buhari against DAAR Communications, owner of the African Independent Television, AIT. The defamation suit, which was filed last year, was struck out by Justice John Tsoho on Wednesday. Details later…

Wife of Nigerian President, Aisha Buhari, has claimed that she has not received any gift from anyone since her husband assumed office as the number one citizen of the country, warning those who would want to gift her this season to bury the idea. Mrs. Buhari made this disclosure at the unveiling of a new campaign against graft tagged, “Women Against Corruption” in Abuja, on Wednesday. According to her, she did not also intend to collect gifts as the wife of the president even in the future. She said, “People have been trying to bring some gift items to me but I have not been collecting them. Right from when I was campaigning with the Wife of the Vice President for our husbands, we did not take a dime from anyone and we have continued like that till today. “I have never collected any gift and I am not ready to do so even in the future,” she said, and received thunderous applause from the audience made up of top government officials, Nigerians women and businessmen.

Former minister of aviation and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Femi Fani-Kayode has warned the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, against rigging Saturday’s governorship election in Ondo state. Fani-Kayode told the electoral umpire that any attempt to rig the Ondo election just like it did in Edo State would be consequential. The outspoken PDP chieftain while congratulating the PDP candidate, Eyitayo Jegede ahead of the poll,  urged the people of the Ondo to come out enmasse and vote for the ruling party in the state. He gave his warning in an article entitled: Ondo election – A warning to INEC Prince Adedeji Soyebi who is the INEC National Commissioner for the south west is leading the team for the Ondo state governorship election tomorrow whilst Professor Kayode Soremilekun the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye is the Returning Officer. This is a dangerous combination. Both men are anti-PDP and Soremilekun is the same indiv

Today, November 26, the electorates in Ondo, the Sunshine State would march to polling booths across the state to elect the next Chief Servant of the State. The eventual winner of today’s contest would take over the mantle of leadership from Olusegun ‘Iroko’ Mimiko next year. Mimiko is expected to take the exit door from the government house, Alagbaka next year having successfully completed his two terms as enshrined in the constitution. The electoral body had released names of 28 successful candidates who have indicated interest in becoming the next governor of the State. The battle is, therefore, drawn along this line. However, among the 28 contenders, three persons have been tipped for the position. Among the three top candidates are: Rotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress, Olusola Oke of the Allaince for Democracy and Eyitayo Jegede of the Peoples Democratic Party, who is having the backing of the outgoing governor, Olusegun Mimiko. Today’s election

In what seems like end of the road for Jimoh Ibrahim, the fired governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the businessman says he has given up the fight for the party’s ticket. The Supreme Court had on Thursday affirmed Eyitayo Jejede as the candidate for the Saturday’s Governorship election in Ondo State. A five man panel led by the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen struck out all appeals challenging the decision of the Appeal Court to replace Jimoh Ibrahim with Eyitayo Jegede. The latest order came 24 hours after the  Justice Ibrahim Saulawa-led panel explained reinstated Jegede as the authentic candidate of the PDP. In a tweet Thursday evening, Jimoh Ibrahim said, “I am humbled.” In series of tweets before the Supreme Court judgment, Ibrahim had said: “The truth is, I feel very relaxed than you can ever imagine until the Supreme Court says otherwise. So lets enjoy the moment. “The court did not make a consequential order asking IN

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, has stated Nigerian crude oil is not an abandoned commodity. Addressing newsmen after declaring open the 2016/2017 bid for crude oil grades, Baru said the nation’s crude is not struggling or stranded but remains a hot cake in the oil market. “Nigerian crude has continued to earn premiums and it is hot cake all over for refiners because of the light nature of the crude. “It induces very high yields on the valuable products that you produce from crude oil. Nigerian crude oil continues to maintain market. “In fact, contrary to a lot of speculation that a lot of Nigerian crude goes to China, they do not. “Most of them are consumed and refined in India and Europe, particularly this year and last year; most of Nigerian crude end up in European refineries.’’ He also dismissed as false, the report that the corporation operated a separate crude account. He said the corporation

The Senate on Thursday passed the Nigerian Peace Corps Bill into law, thereby giving approval for the establishment of the Nigerian Peace Corps as an agency under the Ministry of Interior. Presenting the report of the Committee on Interior on the floor of the Senate, the committee chairman, Senator Bayero Nafada urged the Senate to support the passage of the Bill, saying “the organisation will be of great benefit to the Nigerian youths”. “In response to increasing complexity of the factors responsible for insecurity and the method by which peace and security is being undermined in Nigeria, there is need to develop comprehensive, multi-sectoral, multi stakeholders and inclusive approaches in order to stem these threats,” he said. The Nafada-led committee recommended that the Nigerian Peace Corps and the National Unity and Peace Corps should be merged as one, since both formations appear the same. Speaking further, Senator Nafada said the committee received 237 written mem

The Supreme Court  on Thursday  affirmed Eyitayo Jegede as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in  this Saturday’s  governorship election in Ondo state. A five-man panel led by the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen struck out all appeals challenging the decision of the Appeal Court which ordered the  reinstatement of Jegede as the PDP candidate in the Ondo election.   The Onnoghen – led panel said all the issues raised by factional Chairman of the PDP in Ondo State, Biyi Poroye, against Jegede had been overtaken by yesterday’s ruling of the Court of Appeal. Poroye, who is of the Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff’s faction had appealed against the ruling of the appeal Court that reinstated Jegede as PDP governorship candidate. “The decision of the lower court on the substantive matter yesterday 23/11/2016, that decision has rendered the instant interlocutory appeal academic as appellant has the right to, against the said judgement, including the

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has lambasted the North and Western Nigeria for being silent over the alleged illegal detention of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu. Recall that Kanu has been in detention since he was  arrested by the Department of State Services, DSS ,  last year. In a statement by its spokesman, Emma Powerful, the pro-Biafra group frowned at Yoruba and the Hausa people for not speaking against the injustice meted out to Kanu. The group claimed that Nigeria’s current crises is because God is angry with the nation over the alleged illegal detention of its leader. The statement reads: “The indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) worldwide and the Directorate of State (DOS) want to use this medium to let Nigerians and the world understand that the leader of the indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the director of Radio and Biafra television, Prophet Nnamdi Kanu, committed no crime against the government of Nigeria and her citizens.“Nevertheless, the people of Ar

Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi, a staunch loyalist of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has refuted the claim by the Plateau State Governor,  Solomon Lalong, that the former governor of Lagos is sick. Lalong said it was the reason that stopped Tinubu from attending last Saturday’s Ondo State APC governorship rally. In press release on Tuesday, Afikuyomi said Lamont’s claim was false. Afikuyomi, who claimed that he travelled to the United States of America with Tinubu to witness the recent US elections, said that the former governor “Is in a remarkable state of mental and physical wellness.” He said, “It is therefore absolutely incorrect and most embarrassing for anyone to attempt to invent such a laughable reason for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s absence at the rally. The fact that somebody went for medical check-up does not mean he is ill. “In the likely event that Asiwaju, like all mortals, was ill at all, I doubt if Mr. Lalong would be