Year: 2016

Wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha Buhari’s  will be visiting the United State of America in August a State House memo has revealed. Aisha Buhari’s trip to the US follows accusations by embattled Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose that she was involved in the famous Halliburton scandal and, as a consequence, cannot go to the US for fear of being arrested. Independent investigations by SaharaReporters and the New York Times have found that the First Lady Aisha Buhari is not the same “Aisha Buhari” involved with the Halliburton scandal, despite Fayose’s persistent remarks. According…

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Wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha Buhari’s  will be visiting the United State of America in August a State House memo has revealed. Aisha Buhari’s trip to the US follows accusations by embattled Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose that she was involved in the famous Halliburton scandal and, as a consequence, cannot go to the US for fear of being arrested. Independent investigations by SaharaReporters and the New York Times have found that the First Lady Aisha Buhari is not the same “Aisha Buhari” involved with the Halliburton scandal, despite Fayose’s persistent remarks. According…

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The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, on Thursday said he would not engage his former ally and House member from Kano State, Abdulmumin Jibrin, in political mudslinging, saying he won’t respond to jokes. Mr. Dogara was responding to a deluge of requests from Nigerians online who asked him to respond to allegations of high-level corruption leveled by Mr. Jibrin against him and other principal officers. Mr. Jibrin was sacked as chairman of House Committee on Appropriation on Wednesday. In a lengthy statement Thursday, he accused the speaker…

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Former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, on Friday defected back to the All Progressives Congress. Mr. Ribadu said in a statement he posted on his Facebook page that he rejoined the party online on Friday, and then hosted officials of the party from his Bako Ward in Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa State. Then on Friday, he visited the Yola South secretariat of the APC to present himself to the party. He had left the party for the Peoples Democratic Party in…

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The Niger Delta Avengers on Friday faulted claims by President Muhammadu Buhari that his administration was holding talks with the militants for possible compromise. The militants had claimed responsibilities for series of attacks on oil facilities across the region in recent times. A statement issued by the group’s spokesman, Mudoch Agbinibo, the group was not aware of any ongoing peace talks. It said the militants would only hold peace talks with the government if the international community were involved. They alleged that the government was dialoguing with its own mercenaries…

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A member of the House of Representatives representing Lagos’ Ifako-Ijaye Federal Constituency, Adewale Oluwatayo, is dead. Mr. Oluwatayo, a former Special Adviser to Lagos State Government, died in the early hours of Wednesday in Abuja, sources said. The lawmakers spoke on anonymity because Mr. Oluwatayo’s family was yet to issue a statement about his passing. They said his death was shocking because he was at the National Assembly barely yesterday. Mr. Oluwatayo was a special adviser on Education in Lagos State between 2009 and 2011. Before then, he served as…

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‎Former chairman of the federal house of representatives appropriation committee, Abdulmumin Jibrin, on Thursday said the speaker of the house, Yakubu Dogara, is a hypocrite and alleged that he had a hand in the controversial padding of the 2016 budget. Jibrin, who was removed as chairman of the vital committee on Wednesday, accused Dogara of dining wit‎h the enemies of President Muhammadu Buhari. He specifically said he was removed because he refused to yield to the demand of Dogara and that of some members of the house leadership to “allocate to themselves N40bn out…

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President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja said that his administration is talking to Niger Delta militants through oil companies and law-enforcement agencies to find a lasting solution to insecurity in the region. Speaking at a farewell audience with Mr. Michael Zinner, the outgoing Ambassador of Germany to Nigeria at the State House, President Buhari said that government is studying the instruments of the Amnesty Programme inherited from the previous administration with a view to carrying out commitments made that were undelivered. “We understand their feelings,” the President said. “We are…

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