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Former army chief Buratai not linked with house we recovered N175m, $220k – ICPC
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission says it is yet to co conclude investigations on billions of naira and cars seized in a house in Abuja. There had been reports that the house belonged to former Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai Rtd. But in a statement by its spokesman Azuka Ogugua on Friday, the…
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P&ID: court convicts Marqott over gas contract scam
A federal high court in Abuja has ordered the closure of a certain company, Marqott Nigeria Limited, for money laundering. Donatus Okorowo, the presiding judge, made the ruling on Thursday. Marqott is one of the 30 companies associated with Process and Industrial Development Limited (P&ID), an Irish engineering company. P&ID had claimed it entered into a contract to build a…
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Peter Obi offers prayers in solidarity with Ike Ikweremadu
Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has offered prayers for former deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, who is being tried alongside his wife Beatrice in the UK for alleged organ harvesting. The London metropolitan police arrested and charged Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, to court on for allegedly bringing a child to the UK for organ harvesting.…
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Marketers want new fuel pump price, insist N165 per litre unsustainable
Oil marketers in the country have asked the Federal Government to increase the pump price of petrol in the country. The Deputy National President, Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Zarma Mustapha, told The PUNCH that the Federal Government had been put on notice concerning marketers’ intentions to increase petrol price. “The current pump price is no longer sustainable and…
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Civil servant gets merit award for saving FG N90bn on Ajaokuta Steel Complex deal
President Muhammadu Buhari has conferred the presidential merit award on Umar Tsoho, a civil servant, for saving the country from a N90 billion loss on the Ajaokuta steel project. Tsoho was one of the 10 officers who were awarded the presidential public service merit award by the president at the 2022 Civil Service Day Commemoration, held in Abuja, on Thursday.…
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Foreign exchange rate reason for high diesel, aviation fuel cost, says Sylva
Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Slyva says the high cost of diesel and aviation fuel in the country is caused by the foreign exchange rate. He made this known in an interview on Thursday. According to him, but the prices of both products are deregulated, there is nothing the Federal Government can do to intervene in the rising prices.…
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Seeking third term didn’t end well for man who sought it, Buhari tells Boris Johnson
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday held a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister of Great Britain on the margins of the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Kigali, Rwanda, during which he once again reiterated his resolve to respect the maximum term limit in the Nigerian Constitution. The PM, obviously not quite familiar with the maximum two terms limit, had…
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Electoral Act: Supreme Court strikes out Buhari, Malami’s suit against National Assembly
The Supreme Court has struck out the suit by President Muhammadu Buhari and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami seeking to void the provision of Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act 2022. In a judgment on Friday, a seven-member panel of the apex court, headed by Justice Musa Dattijo Mohammed, was unanimous in holding that Buhari, having…
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Dealing with Peter Obi’s pandemic of distortions, By Olabode Opeseitan
It is time for Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party to pause and ask if he is deliberately distorting facts to feed gullible Nigerians with false information to win their hearts and gain their confidence or if the misrepresented facts he has continued to use are genuine mistakes he urgently needs to fix. In the context of…
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Faozey, senatorial aspirant for Oyo central dumps APC, moves to Accord Party
Former senatorial aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Faozey Nurudeen has defected to the Accord Party for reasons he described as “undemocratic” principles of the APC. Faozey who was a strong contender for Oyo Central Senatorial ticket on the platform of the APC, announced his defection to Accord Party via a statement by…
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