A legal practitioner, Inibehe Effiong has called on President Bola Tinubu to scrap the N-Power and other social intervention programmes. The programmes are under the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation. Effiong, who was a guest on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on Monday, made the demand while commenting on the controversy surrounding embattled…
The four remaining siblings of late Nabeeha Al-Kadriyah have regained freedom, Daily Trust can report. The sisters were abducted alongside their father early January. Their abductors had given a deadline for the payment of ransom, and failure of the family to meet their demand led to the killing of Nabeeha. After killing the victim, the…
A former Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, has disclosed how former President Muhammadu Buhari proved that he was not ‘Jubril of Sudan’ as claimed by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. Adesina said Buhari had remembered his name and commented on his dress sense upon his return from London in 2019. Buhari…
Femi Adesina, a former Presidential aide, has downplayed the possibility of former President Muhammadu Buhari being a bigot. Adesina recalled how Buhari, who is a Muslim, called the name of Jesus four times after former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo survived a helicopter crash. He disclosed this in his recently launched book titled: ‘Working with…
Femi Adesina, a former spokesman for ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, has revealed that the president intervened to prevent the elimination of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), from his hideout. Adesina said the then government would have eliminated Kanu but Buhari prevented such a move. This was contained in Adesina’s…
A Nigerian man, who has been identified as Safiu Kareem, has raised an alarm regarding the abduction of his father, Akeem Kareem, and an undisclosed number of individuals in the Ofosu area along the Benin-Ore Expressway. Safiu told The PUNCH correspondent that the bandits, who abducted the victims on Wednesday afternoon, were “already demanding money”….
Babatunde Fashola, the former Minister of Works and Housing and ex-Governor of Lagos State, has explained that the only financial benefit he receives from the government is a N577,000 monthly pension as a former governor of Lagos State. The ex-minister also said that he is not receiving billions of naira from the federal government,…
The Abia State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has arrested four suspects for operating an illegal refinery in the state. The state Commandant, Usman Alfadarai said the arrest made after a 48-hour sustained surveillance within and around Obiakpu, Obuzo-Asa, in the Ukwa West area of Abia State, is “a major…
Confusion ensued at Desalu Street, Odo-Ona, in Ibadan South-West Local Government Area of Oyo State when personnel from an undisclosed hospital dropped off a sick woman, identified as Blessing Ayeni, in front of her husband’s shop. According to the Nigerian Tribune, the incident happened on Friday afternoon, January 19, 2024. An eyewitness, Remilekun Tawose,…
Femi Adesina, the former spokesperson for ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, has disclosed that the president’s aircraft came close to crashing, along with him and his aides, in November 2015, just six months after Buhari’s inauguration. In the book “Working with Buhari: Reflections of a Special Adviser, Media and Publicity (2015-2023)”, written by Adesina, Buhari was…