Kwara govt builds 1,600 housing units for residents
He further revealed that all preliminary activities had been completed for the construction of an additional 250 housing units
Anti-homosexual bill: Museveni replies Obama
I HAVE seen the statement President Obama of the USA made in reaction to my statement that I was going to sign the anti-homosexual Bill, which I made at Kyankwanzi.
Between Sanusi and the National Assembly
Barely two weeks after the House of Representatives almost turned the green chamber into a war zone over alleged $1million bribe given to five All Progressives Congress, APC, legislators that defected to Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the House had a rowdy session over the suspension of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi by President Goodluck Jonathan.
‘A CBN governor should not be a talkative’
Mixed reactions yesterday trailed the suspension of Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as CBN Governor from office.
In his reaction former Vice President Atiku Abubakar asked the suspended Governor to approach the Court to seek redress and challenge his suspension in the interest of constitutionalism and the rule of law, just as he said that President Goodluck Jonathan has no such powers to suspend the CBN governor from office.
CBN stinks as FRC open lid on financial malpractices, corruption
The Financial Council audit report on the Central Bank of Nigeria which led to the suspension of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi from office accused the apex bank management of several financial practices that border on fraud. It said that there is a provision for “Facility Management of N7.034 billion in 2012; N5.751 billion in 2011.
Bode George’s Prison Memoirs: First week in jail was tough because I was viciously angry!
On December 14, 2013, reprieve came the way of a former Chairman, Board of Directors, Nigeria Ports Authority, NPA, Chief Olabode Ibiyinka George, through a judgment by the Supreme Court which voided the two years jail term which he (George) served after being convicted for fraud by a Lagos High Court on October 26, 2009. The apex court said George was tried under a law that did not exist at the time he served on the NPA Board, hence he was let off the five-and-a-half years of the albatross hung on his neck.
Others freed by the apex court with George, who was military governor, old Ondo State; Deputy National Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Director-General of the Presidential Campaign that produced the Yar’Adua/Jonathan presidency in 2007, were former Managing Director of the NPA, Mr. Aminu Dabo, Alhaji Abdullahi Aminu Tafida, Captain Oluwasegun Abidoye, Alhaji Zanna Maidaribe and Mr. Sule Aliyu.
