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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.