MAGU v MALAMI: Presidential Panel Makes U-Turns, Accuses Malamii

Prosecutor with Special Presidential Investigation Panel, for Recovery of Public Property, Mr Ojaomo accused Malami, of withholding approval for the prosecution of 100s of assets forfeiture &other criminal cases. Mr Oluwatosin Ojaomo explained that the cases were investigated and handed over to the AGF’s Office by the SPIP, on the directive of President Buhari, in 2019. In 2019, the President dissolved the SPIP, & directed Malami to take over all investigations and activities of the SPIP.

BANK CHARGES: While explaining the new CBN financial guide, Musa Jimoh, a director in CBN’s payment system management department, said individuals are not supposed to pay N50 service charge when making payments with a point of sale (POS) machine. “No single individual should pay N50 in addition to the cost of the good." Stamp duty is not to be paid by individuals that are consuming the goods and services of the merchant. The merchants who are receiving the money are the ones who are supposed to pay.

In Nigeria, Plans for the World’s Largest Refinery

On any given weekday, commuters in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, are snarled in traffic for hours. Container trucks and tankers take up several lanes of traffic on the major thoroughfares close to the city’s ports. Often these trucks have been parked on the highways overnight. Cars and minivans snake along the remaining single lane, sharing it with pedestrians fighting off early-morning road rage as they slowly make their way from one end of the city to another.

The EFCC has arrested the head of the Kirikiri Prisons, Emmanuel Oluwaniyi, a Dep Controller & another top official of the Nigeria Correctional Services, Hemeson Edwin, for aiding a convicted fraudster, Hope Aroke to transact several business deals worth over $1M from inside. Both top officials were arrested for helping a convict, Hope Aroke, who is serving a 24-year jail term, to escape from Prisons & lodged at the Police Hospital under the pretext of being ill & using that excuse to freely transact numerous deals & attend social events in the town.

CONSTITUENCY PROJECT: N1tn Wasted in 10 Years, Says President Buhari. The President decried constituency projects for which the federal government has appropriated N1 trillion in the last 10 years without corresponding impact on the lives of the people. He said that a report had confirmed federal govt’s worst fear that constituency projects had no trickle-down effects on the masses. Constituency projects are initiated by NASS lawmakers to be sited in their respective constituencies as a way to attract development to their people

1. Egyptian TV News Report Alleges Turkey Supplying Weapons to Nigeria's Boko Haram

Raymond Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow in Journalism at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and an expert on the Middle East and Islam, appeared on Thursday's afternoon's edition of CBN's........... 2. ......Newswatch to talk more about Turkey's alleged ties to Islamic terrorism. Newswatch is seen weekdays on the CBN News Channel. For a programming schedule, click here. Turkey is clearly a terrorist state with a broad reach, according to an Egyptian television news program.

Please Meet President Buhari’s New Economic Management Team Members

1. Prof. Doyin Salami – Chairman
Senior lecturer at Lagos Business School where he leads sessions in the economic environment of business. Also served as director of programmes for five years until January 2005. Mr. Salami is a doctoral degree graduate of Queen Mary College, University of London. His research interests include corporate long-term financial management; macroeconomic policy; corporate competitiveness and risk management; & characteristics of small and medium enterprises.

1. OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUHARI:
Former Senate president writes Buhari over Obasanjo's interests in Nigeria

Sir, let me congratulate you on the constitution of your #Nextlevelcabinet, which process of confirmation of the Ministerial nominees is ongoing at the Senate. 2. I am overwhelmingly elated that you have shamed your antagonists and ardent critics by the quality of your nominees. They comprise competent and trusted technocrats, professionals and politicians who can assist you in propelling your laudable vision in the next four years,

1. Bureau de Change, Governors, others involved in stolen millions by soldiers

On-going investigations into the circumstances in which 5 soldiers on a VIP escort duty vamoosed with millions of naira between Sokoto & Kaduna state have revealed a new twist into the messy scandal. 2. High ranking military sources familiar with the findings of the probe panel investigating the incident told said that, confessional statements of Major General Hakeem Oladapo Otiki, the General Officer Commanding, GOC of the Nigerian Army 8 Division in Sokoto, who is at the

1. Malabu Scandal's Background:

The Malabu scandal involved the transfer of about $1.1 billion by oil multinationals, Shell and ENI, through the Nigerian government to accounts controlled by a former Nigerian oil minister, Dan Etete. 2. From accounts controlled by Mr Etete, about half the money ($520 million) went to the accounts of companies jointly controlled by Abubakar Aliyu, popularly known in Nigeria as the owner of AA oil, and Mr Etete.

TY Danjuma and his Oil Wells

Theophilus Danjuma is not a person the Biafran people will forget in a hurry. He supervised the brutal killing of General Aguiyi Ironsi, the first military head of state of Nigeria. He was among the troops that invaded the Biafran territory during the civil war and was fabled to be heartless in the discharge of his duties towards Nigeria.
He convinced Obasanjo to become Nigeria’s head of State after the assassination of General Murtala Mohammed in 1976.

Tinubu Bombs Obasanjo In Open Letter - "You’re An Election Rigger Without Peer"

Tinubu accused Obasanjo of being responsible for the flaws in Nigeria’s political economy since 1999, and described former president Olusegun Obasanjo as an “election rigger without peer.” Tinubu said the former president is shameless and has a wicked sense of humour in a letter titled ‘Chief Obasanjo – At war against his own deeds’. Former President Obasanjo is many things to many people, but he is all things unto himself.

The shocking story of how Nigeria's de-facto vice-president Tunde Idiagbon died at 56 and why Buhari burst into tears during his-burial in Ilorin

On the 24th of March, 1999, a retired Major-General of the Nigerian Army and a former de facto vice president of Nigeria, Babatunde ‘Tunde’ Abdulbaki Idiagbon died under mysterious circumstances at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Ilorin, Kwara State. He was just 56 and there were so many questions about his demise.

Murtala Muhammed Was Assassinated While Trying To End Corruption In Nigeria – President Buhari

President Buhari said he developed a great liking and respect for Muhammed who showed “genuine interest and concern for up-and-coming officers like myself”. General Murtala Mohammed was on his way to putting Nigeria back to the path of order and discipline by ending corruption before his life was truncated by a military coup on February 13, 1976.

How Buhari stopped me from unnecessary borrowings for Nigeria’s rail projects – Amaechi

The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi said that in the course of executing the Warri-Itakpe Rail line, stations were built in the villages of Peoples Democratic Party chieftains. Mr Amaechi disclosed this at the `Next Level Presentation’ at Presidential Villa Banquet Hall to signal the commencement of the campaign of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2019 general elections.

The minister who made a presentation titled `What We are Building ’

MAY YOUR ROAD BE ROUGH

- By Tai Solarin, Jan. 1, 1964

I am not cursing you; I am wishing you what I wish myself every year. I therefore repeat, may you have a hard time this year, may there be plenty of troubles for you this year! If you are not so sure what you should say back, why not just say, ‘Same to you’? I ask for no more.

Our successes are conditioned by the amount of risk we are ready to take. Earlier on today I visited a local farmer about three miles from where I live.

1. Late Dr. Chuba Okadigbo on Muhammadu Buhari

"In one of their campaigns in Kaduna, Chuba took the microphone and said; 2. The Estabilishement might not allow us to Rule Now, but be that as it may, on a very good day, at the appointed time, Buhari will rule Nigeria. What I do not know, is whether I will be around when that happens. But even if am not there, (Chuba turned to Buhari)