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The Federal Government will probe and prosecute those behind the mismanagement of funds meant for the development of the Niger Delta region. The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, made this known in his remark after receiving on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari, the report on the forensic audit of the Niger Delta Commission (NDDC). Malami said the huge gap between invested resources without commensurate infrastructural development called for the forensic audit of NDDC. The report was presented to Malami by the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Sen. Godswill Akpabio. “The call for the…

Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and Department of State Service (DSS) have uncovered and seized hard drug named Captagon Pills. Area Controller of Apapa Command, Comptroller Malanta Yusuf, said this in a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of the command, Abubakar Usman, in Lagos yesterday. Yusuf said the drug was concealed inside an imported machine at Apapa Port, Lagos. He noted that the discovery, which was made in a joint operation by the three services lasted for about a week, following intelligence and painstaking dismantling of the machine involved, deployed service personnel and…

Says 13,000 Projects Abandoned in Niger Delta Reports recommend part time board members The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio on Thursday submitted the Forensic Audit Report on the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The report was submitted to the President through the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN in Abuja. Akpabio, who noted that although the exercise had a checkered history, thanked the President and all those who supported and ensured its success. He stressed that the exercise was not done to witch-hunt anyone but to ensure that the…

Jide Ojo On Monday, August 23, 2021, I was invited by the Nigerian Television Authority to discuss the exodus of Nigerian health workers. We were three on the panel with me being the only non-medical professional among them. It is very disheartening that this ugly phenomenon of emigration of medical workers which started way back in the 1980s has today assumed a frightening dimension. What obviously prompted that discussion on “Nigeria Today” on the NTA News 24 was the reported Saudi Arabia health ministry’s recent recruitment of Nigerian doctors in Abuja. There was a video clip trending on the…

Abimbola Adelakun Last Thursday, the Department of State Services issued a press statement to deny they dispersed doctors attending a recruitment for Nigerian doctors intending to migrate to Saudi Arabia. The denial was typical of the inelegant press releases the DSS churns out -a rambling word salad, full of feigned indignation, and signifying the characteristic ruse of reducing every issue to a matter of “national security.” This particular statement even read like a chatterbot cranked it up. Notably, it did not deny that the DSS was present at the venue of the recruitment. Given how much that recruitment embarrassed the…

“The President has shown extraordinary patience stomaching a lot of the garbage that Governor Ortom has been pouring about him. I am not sure that in the history of this country, there had been any president who would have taken all of the insults that Governor Ortom has been heaping on this President, and on the President’s directive, we have ignored him.” The opening quote was made by Garba Shehu, veteran journalist, former President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, former longtime aide of ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar and now, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President,…

Gunmen, on Wednesday, invaded the Government Day Secondary School, Kaya, in the Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State and abducted no fewer than 73 students. The PUNCH gathered that the attack, which came barely five days after some students of the  College of Agriculture and Animals Science, Bakura, were released, occurred around 11am when the students were sitting their examinations. As of the time the gunmen were attacking the Kaya school, the state governor, Bello Matawalle, was attending a prayer session organised by his administration, where he called on the residents of the state to rise up and fight the…

Cristiano Ronaldo revealed his relationship with former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson played the key role in convincing the Portuguese to return to Old Trafford. Ferguson retired as boss of the Red Devils in 2013, four years after Ronaldo departed for Real Madrid in a then world record £80 million move. However, he remains a club ambassador and confidant of current United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who also played under Ferguson for many years. Ronaldo looked set for a return to England with Premier League champions Manchester City last week until Ferguson and a host of his former United teammates…

Justice Tijjani Garba Ringim of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, has ordered the interim forfeiture of the funds as well as properties traced to the suspended aide to Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, Abidemi Rufai. Justice Ringim gave the order, following an ex parte application filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Also joined as respondents were Rufai’s firm, Omo Mayodele Global Investment and Sterling Bank Plc as second and third respondents in the suit. EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren in a statement on Wednesday, said the order covers Rufai’s property located at 11, Omodayo Awotuga…

President Muhammadu Buhari has relieved two ministers of their appointments. They are the Ministers of Agriculture, Alhaji Sabo Nanono and his Power counterpart, Saleh Mamman. Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity), Femi Adesina, confirmed this development on Wednesday in Abuja. He said the Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abubakar, has been redeployed to the Ministry of Agriculture while the Minister of State for Works, Abubakar Aliyu is to take over as Minister of Power. [GuardianNG]