An Edo Senior Special Assistant from Urhonigbe South ward 8, Faith Obasuyi has resigned from Governor Godwin Obaseki’s government ahead of the governorship election scheduled to hold in the state in September. In her resignation letter which was sent in on Friday August 14, Obasuyi alleged that recent activities of Obaseki’s administration will not lead to the actualization…
Governor Nyesom Wike has said that the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government has failed Nigeria. The Rivers state Governor who said this while receiving the newly inaugurated Executive Council members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House in Port Harcourt, stated that the ruling APC has failed to deliver…
Obadiah Mailafia, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disclosed that he got his information of a northern governor leading Boko Haram from traders in a market. The former Presidential candidate who revealed that he did not know his comment will go viral, said he got the information from “some Fulani traders”…
The Supreme Court in Angola has handed a five-year jail sentence to Jose Filomeno dos Santos, the son of the country’s former president, for $500m fraud. The 42-year-old was accused of trying to embezzle up to $1.5bn from the sovereign wealth fund, which he oversaw from 2013 to 2018. He was later charged with stealing $500m from the…
Four judicial officers have been recommended by the National Judicial Council (NJC) for elevation to the supreme court. Two out of the four nominees were part of the panel that dismissed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Atiku Abubakar’s petition which challenged the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari at the 2019 poll. The National Judicial Council (NJC)…