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Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, a former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFFC), says President Muhammadu Buharis re-election will sustain the fight against corruption in the country. Ribadu, who was the Chairman of President Buharis re-election Campaign Organisation, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja. According to him, the ongoing anti-graft war in the country marked deviation from the past and Buharis emergence as winner of the presidential poll will help to sustain the feats. I do not think there is any anti-corruption agency in the world today that is doing what EFCC is doing. The facts are out there, the figures are there, the results are there. As an anti-corruption agency your work is to investigate, put it forward to the court system and I do not think there is any one organisation in the world that has the results that EFCC is showing now. The number of cases they have in the courts, the recoveries they...

The special adviser to the President on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, says President Muhammadu Buhari is likely to dissolve his cabinet before May 29, 2019. Adesina, while speaking on a program on Arise TV on Thursday, February 28, said President Buhari will not spend much time in choosing his cabinet members. " One thing about governance is that the first mandate was for four years. "That mandate lapses on May 29, and shortly before May 29, the president is likely going to officially dissolve his government. That is the way it is usually done," the spokesperson said. Adesina added that " He says thank you to everybody that he has called to work with him and then he dissolves that government officially. “Then when he is inaugurated for a second time, he now reconstitutes a government; he appoints his personal aides, he forms his cabinet, he appoints other people to fill other positions." The President attracted widespread criticism after it took him...

National chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, says former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, was destined never to become president of Nigeria. Oshiomhole stated this while addressing journalists at the APC national secretariat in Abuja on Thursday, February 28, 2019. The APC chairman accused Atiku, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), of having poor understanding of the voting pattern of the regions. "It borders on arrogance that our future is tied on his presidency. Atiku is destined never to be president of Nigeria," Oshiomhole announced. He continued: "Leadership is about character. Atiku's desperation is so obvious, so desperate that in 2003, he challenged his own boss president Olusegun Obasanjo not to do a second term. And they fought naked in Wise market. "Rather than Atiku that rigging has come to stay and why the numbers don't add up in the absence of massive rigging, I just think that h...

A federal high court sitting in Port Harcourt has removed Dumo Lulu-Briggs as the governorship candidate of the Accord Party in Rivers State. Justice E.A Obile said Lulu-Briggs did not participate in his party's primary elections and should not be the governorship candidate. The court ordered the name of Lulu-Briggs to be replaced with Precious Baridon , the authentic governorship candidate of the party. The court also ruled that Dumo Lulu-Briggs should henceforth desist from parading himself as the candidate of Accord Party. Lulu-Briggs' candidacy was challenged by the Rivers chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who argued that he failed to meet the requirements of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the primary elections. ridoola.blogspot.com.ng

Facebook will soon release a tool which allows users to delete their private information captured on their account. The tool which is named ‘clear history’ will work a bit like similar functions in web browsers, which people often used to cover their tracks of any activity done. In May last year, Mark Zuckerberg announced the feature and revealed that it will be a simple control tool to clear your browsing history on Facebook, “what you’ve clicked on, websites you’ve visited, and so on.” Now, Facebook’s chief financial officer, David Wehner has come to reveal that the tool will be rolled out later this year. The moment the tool is rolled out, users will be able to see information about the apps and websites interacted with, and then will be able to clear this information from the account. Mr Wehner said, “You’ll even be able to turn off having this information stored with your account,” adding that, “You may have to sign back into every website, and you may have to reconfigure...

The maniacal and below-par Machiavellian cling to ego-trippping political power of the APC was evident on Saturday. Aside the celebrated incompetence of the election postponement, aside the blatant attempt to subvert public enthusiasm that comes as an attendant to the postponement, aside the brazen classlessness of the 14 million votes the APC posted as returns for its primaries, aside the sham of the Ekiti and Osun gubernatorials; February 23, 2019 represents a rainbow of disappointment and dark humour in the political evolution of Africa's largest democracy. The maniacal and below-par Machiavellian cling to ego-trippping political power of the APC was evident on Saturday. But that's not the crux here. The issue is how their cohorts argue that the PDP must matter-of-factly, for the sake of democratic sportsmanship, concede defeat and publicly congratulate Buhari. While this is the standard norm in countries where the system freckled more by loyalty to propriety than partisan...

Senator Godswill Akpabio has described the outcome of the Saturday, Feb 23 national assembly elections as a temporary setback, after losing his senatorial seat. The former governor of Akwa Ibom state lost his bid to return to the national assembly after he was defeated by Chris Ekpeyong of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). According to the announcement made by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the PDP candidate got 118,215 votes to defeat the candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) who polled 83,158 votes in the Akwa Ibom North West senatorial district election. The former Senate minority leader however said he did not lose the election, adding that something must have gone wrong during the collation of the results. While speaking to the press shortly after the presentation of certificates of return to President Muhammadu Buhari and vice president Yemi Osinbajo in Abuja on Wednesday, February 27, the lawmaker said he is going to challenge the outcome i...

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, has confirmed that President Muhammadu Buhari and his supporters are not worried about the plan by PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar to challenge results of the presidential elections held on Saturday, Feb 23. Having gained more votes in the election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), announced Buhari as the winner of the presidential poll. The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate polled 15,191,847 votes to defeat his closest opponent of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who got 11,262,978 votes. The PDP candidate, Atiku, rejected the outcome of the election describing it as the worst election in Nigeria's history. He vowed to challenge the result in court. Reacting to Atiku's decision, Mustapha said there is nothing to worry about. He said, " We are not jittery at all because the process was open and transparent. It was a credible election and we will continue to...

Yoruba actor, Alfred Rotimi Popoola has passed away on Thursday, February 27, 2019 in Abeokuta, Ogun state. Well known as 'Ilu Venture', Rotimi reportedly died at his residence in Abeokuta after a brief illness. The actor's death was confirmed by the Abeokuta chapter of Theatre Arts and Movie Practitioners Association of Nigeria, TAMPAN. ALSO READ : Yoruba actress, ‘Ijewuru’ passes away In a statement confirming his death, the association announced plans by the actor's family to bury him on Thursday, February 28, 2019. “ It saddens me to announce the untimely death of our beloved colleague Hon. Alfred Rotimi Popoola aka Ilu Venture. After brief sickness yesterday 27th Feb., 2019. "There will be a short memorial service at St Jude Cathedral, Church, Iberekodo, Abeokuta by 12:00noon on February 28th. In order to give him last respect we planned to join the family at Lantoro Mortuary by 10am tomorrow from where we will move to the church. May his soul rest in pe...

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Mrs Dorothy Chinyere Anyiam-Osigwe, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Anyiam-Osigwe Group, on her 90th birthday. Mr Femi Adesina, Presidents Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, made the felicitations in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday. Adeshina said Buhari joined family members, friends and associates of the nonagenarian in celebrating a lifetime of achievements and Gods benevolence to the passionate teacher. Buhari affirmed that as the President of the Osigwe Anyiam-Osigwe Foundation, Osigwe had made significant contributions to human development in the country through the annual lecture series of the foundation. He said that such contributions were worthy of commendation by all true lovers of knowledge and the place of education in nation building. The president paid tribute to the exemplary leadership of the Anyiam-Osigwe matriarch, whom he described as a passionate mother, entrepreneur and humanitarian. He wished the celebra...

Some residents of Umuahia and Benin, both in Abia and Edo have reacted to the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari to remain in office for the next four years. While some expressed jubilation over the re-election, others who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) congratulated the president calling on him to carry everybody along in his second term in office. In Umuahia, Mr Dennis Okoronkwo, a trader at Isi Gate said I thank God for the peaceful elections. I was not surprised at all that Buhari won, because I saw it coming. People are saying Atiku Abubakar should not accept the result, but I would advise him not to listen to them. Election should not be a do-or-die affair. We need to move forward in this country. Also, Mr Chinedu Kalu, a resident urged those who are aggrieved to sheath their swords and allow peace to prevail. Is it not an election? Somebody must win and somebody must also lose. So, we have to move forward in this country, he said. Celebrating the victo...

A total of 36 youths, including three females, were arrested for drug abuse over the past two weeks in Kwara, Mr Ona Ogilegwu, State Commander, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has said. He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin on Wednesday that the suspects were between 14 and 25 years of age. “We arrested 25 people for drug abuse a week before the election, while the remaining 11 were arrested four days to election in 16 different spots within Ilorin metropolis, in areas like Asadam, Maraba motor garage, Idiape and Oko-olowo ” We usually counsel those that consume Indian hemp and prosecute the dealers of Indian hemp for the law to take it course on them, ” he said. The NDLEA boss said that more youths were involved in abuse of drugs such as Tramador, Indian hemp, and even inhaling pit latrine. “Three months ago, acting on information from a reliable source, we seized over three tonnes of compressed Indian hemp, coming into the state from Ghana,” he said. ...