Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has finally broken his long silence on claims of his Igbo paternity. Obasanjo described the insinuation as laughable, saying he doesn’t believe anybody should be driven away from any part of the country because “we own this country together.” The former president spoke when he received in audience the leadership of Ndigbo Amaka Progressive Market Association, an umbrella body of major markets in Lagos State at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) Abeokuta, Ogun State on Thursday. Obasanjo’s Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, in a statement, said the former president who was tacit on the…
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Suspected gunmen have kidnapped Anambra State Commissioner for Youths Development, Patrick Aghamba, and his wife while on their way to Abuja. It was however gathered that the commissioner’s aide, whose name was given as ABK Offiah was gunned down by the assailants during the operation. The commissioner, his wife and aide were said to be travelling to Abuja to attend the wedding of the daughter of the Governor Chukwuma Soludo, Adaora, scheduled for tomorrow (Saturday) in Abuja when the incident occurred. Anambra State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, had yet to make any statement on the incident as…
Impressed with the defection of 30 loyalists of former Ondo State governor, Dr. Segun Mimiko, from opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the campaign body for Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa has said Mimiko will be received with open arms into the APC. Mimiko is currently a chieftain of the PDP. In a statement issued on Friday by the Director of Contacts and Engagement for Lucky Aiyedatiwa Campaign Organisation Foot Soldiers Independent Council (LACO-FSIC), Dr. Marindoti Oludare, the Aiyedatiwa campaign body said the 30 defectors from the PDP were wise enough to dump their party for…
Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. Limited, on Friday, announced the release of one of the three Presidential jets seized from the Nigerian government following an order by a French court. Recall that the Chinese firm seized a Dassault Falcon 7X, a Boeing 737-7N6/BBJ and an Airbus A330-243 belonging to the Nigerian government stationed at Paris-Le Bourget and Basel-Mulhouse airports. This is due to the revocation of a contract by the Ogun State Government in 2016. The judgment is the latest arbitration effort against Nigeria by a foreign company accusing the country of reneging on an agreement. In 2013, Zhongfu, a…
Agency Reporter The Police Command in Lagos State says suspected motorcyclists, whose motorcycles were seized, are the suspects that allegedly attacked a BRT bus on Wednesday in Orile area of the state. Command’s Spokesperson Benjamin Hundeyin said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Friday. Hundeyin said that it was not a case of armed robbery, but the attack was a reaction by the suspected motorcyclists to the seizure of their motorcycles. He said that the Lagos State Taskforce on Environment and Special Offences, Enforcement Unit, had raided commercial motorcyclists plying the BRT…
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has set aside the orders by Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja barring three chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from further attending any meeting of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) or participating in deliberations or proceedings of the meetings in any manner. The PDP chieftains are the party’s former National Chairman, Uche Secondus; sacked Rivers Governor, Celestine Omehia and a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Austin Opara. In three separate judgements on Friday, a three-member panel of the Court of Appeal unanimously upheld the appeals…
…authorizes company to seize Nigerian properties over $70m arbitration award An appeal court in the United States of America has given Chinese firm, Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. Ltd, final charging orders over two residential properties belonging to the Nigerian government. The US court ruling comes as the Chinese firm seeks to enforce a $70 million arbitration award against the Nigerian government. In a verdict delivered on August 9, the majority ruling affirmed the judgment of the US district court for the District of Columbia that held that the arbitration award is enforceable. The latest development has worsened the crisis…
Suspected gunmen have kidnapped over 20 medical and dental students and a House Officer in Benue State. The students, who were on their way to the Federation of Catholic Medical and Dental Students (FECAMDS) annual convention in Enugu, were traveling through the state when the incident occurred. The students from the University of Maiduguri and University of Jos, were said to be traveling together when they were ambushed by the unknown gunmen at about 5:30 p.m. in the Otukpo area of the state. Benue State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Catherine Anene, confirmed the incident. The PPRO disclosed that an…
Chinese firm, Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co Limited has initiated legal actions to seize Nigeria’s assets in the following countries across the world: United Kingdom United States of America Canada Belgium Singapore France Switzerland British Virgin Islands