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Allegations of massive fraud in the operations of the National Social Investment Programme Agency, NSIPA, as well as the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, have sparked calls for President Bola Tinubu to probe the administration of his predecessor, former President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari set up NSIPA in 2016, a year after he assumed office as Nigeria’s President, to drive his administration’s National Social Investments Programmes, NSIP. The Social Investment Programmes were conceived to tackle poverty and hunger across the country. NSIPA is currently an agency under the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation. The Ministry of…
A political economist, Professor Pat Utomi said the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Labour Party (LP), the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) have agreed to form a mega party that will wrestle power from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2027. Utomi made this revelation in an interview on Channels Television on Sunday. He said, “It’s a really clean start. You have to start from the premise that Nigeria has not had a political party since 1999. And let’s be very honest with ourselves. What we have managed is to create platforms that enable…
The Concerned PDP League, CPDPL, a pressure group within the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 presidential election, not to contest again in 2027. The group’s advice was contained in a communiqué signed on Sunday and released in Abuja by its National Secretary, Alhaji Tasiu Muhammed and acting National Director of Publicity and Strategic Communication, Gbenga Adedamola. CPDPL also asked the chairman of the PDP Governors Forum, Gov. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, not to nurse any ambition for the presidential office until 2031, to avoid a repeat…
We’ll Continue To Strengthen Security Architecture In Oyo -Makinde Oyo State governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, on Sunday, said the state would continue to provide more support to the security agencies and also continue to strengthen the security architecture so as to keep residents of the state safe and secure and maintain peace and order. The governor stated this at The Cathedral of St. Peter, Aremo, Ibadan, during a service to commemorate the 2024 Armed Forces Remembrance Celebration Church service. Governor Makinde, who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government ( SSG), Prof. Olanike Adeyemo, stated that the state government…
Men of the Oyo state police command have arrested a Lagos-based blogger, Mr Gbenga Dan Asabe over alleged defamation of Satguru Maharaj Ji. The blogger and publisher of Asabe Africa Afrika TV on YouTube was arrested by a team of policemen from State CID, Iyaganku, Ibadan, on Saturday. Asabe is currently being detained at the Iyaganku, Ibadan by the Oyo State Police Command. This was revealed in a statement made available to Nigerian Tribune on Saturday. According to the statement, he was arrested on Saturday morning at a mosque located at Iyana-Ipaja area of Lagos, after some months of…
A university lecturer with 4 master’s degrees and a Ph.D recounts his woes as he resigns from his job after 10 years to hawk vegetables due to financial constraints The former lecturer, Sandeep Singh used to be a faculty member at a Punjabi University before financial difficulties drove him into resigning He told India Today that the university salary was very low and never came on time, driving him to seek for other means to sort his bills. “I taught at Punjabi University – five years on a junior research fellowship and seven years as a guest faculty. In…
A suspected rapist, Abubakar Yakubu, who allegedly defiled two minors in Limawa area of Minna, Niger State capital, has disclosed that he committed the act due to lack of confidence to approach mature ladies. The suspect, aged 30, of Limawa area of Minna assaulted little girls within the ages of six and eight years Parading the suspect at the Niger State Police headquarters in Minna, the State Commissioner of Police, CP Shawulu Ebenezer Damamman said the suspect lures his victims with a token of fifty or hundred Naira. According to him, “On 2/1/2024 at about 1700hrs, based on information…
by Tonnie Iredia In many developing societies where the government of the day is unable to provide basic facilities to improve living standards the way out is usually to resort to the tokenism of distributing palliatives to citizens. Nigeria adopted the option in 2015 – an option which from inception has been unable to wear a transparent and credible toga. No one including those in government had faith in Sadiya Farouq, pioneer minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development as well as her officials who were mandated to superintend the subject during President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. The…
Ruth Ogunleye, a soldier, has accused three senior officers in the army of harassment, intimidation and threat to life. In a video she published on TikTok, the soldier accused a colonel and two other senior officers of threatening her. Ogunleye said her trouble started when she was posted to the Cantonment Medical Centre, Ojo, Lagos, where she met the colonel. The female soldier alleged that the colonel made sexual advances to her and she rejected him. She claimed that the senior officer consequently threatened to dismiss her from the army, denied her promotion courses, and rejected her army pass…
Thirty-two-year-old Alli and Abdullahi, aged 35, who were the two suspects arrested by personnel of the Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN), popularly known as Amotekun Corps, in Saki, Oke Ogun area of Oyo State, in connection with a human head found in the abode of one of them, have spoken on how they got it. The suspects also revealed their use of human parts for themselves and clients who might desire fortune. One of them, Alli, even confessed that he was once caught burning a human bone and animal parts for fortune making, while Abdullahi said he had a…