Category: National

International investigations into the activities of Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) in Nigeria and other flagged African countries have allegedly discovered a curious lodgement of $2,039,975 (Two million and thirty-nine thousand, nine hundred and seventy-five US dollars) into one of the accounts of Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Marlin Sylva. Pointblanknews reports.  Investigators are suspecting the money to be slush fund. Working on the premise that Sylva does not own a thriving private business, the investigators are suspecting the money to be proceed of crime or an outright bribe…

 The Chief Medical Director of Chevron Nigeria Limited,  Dr. Rotimi Olalekan Babalola is in a messy divorce as his wife,  Adediwura Adebukola Babalola has approached the Lagos High Court for dissolution of their marriage.  In a Suit No: LD/9231WD/2021,  Mrs. Babalola brought the petition against her husband on the ground that he has been displaying act of intolerable cruelty and inhuman conduct towards her and the only child of the marriage. According to the facts filed in support of the divorce petition, which constitute the grounds upon which the petition…

The former military administrator MILAD of Kano state, Brigadaire General Dominic Oneya Rtd is dead. Abubakar Aminu Ibrahim, media aide to Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano state announced his death on today. Oneya, aged 73 was said to have died in his sleep. News of the People was told by a family member that he had complained of chest pain at night but was advised to take a rest and see his doctor the following morning. ‘He didn’t wake up’, the family member concluded. Oneya was military governor of Kano…

President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to leave Abuja today for London to see his doctors. Also, he’s to participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education 2021-2025. This was contained in a statement by the president’s media adviser, Femi Adesina. He is expected back in Nigeria by the second week of August 2021. The statement read, “President Muhammadu Buhari will today Monday July 26, 2021, travel to the United Kingdom to participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025. “The…

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday ruled that former Minister of Finance Mrs. Kemi Adeosun was ineligible for national youth service. The court said she was not supposed to present herself for National Youth Service because under the 1979 Constitution, which was in force at the time of her graduation, she was not a Nigerian citizen either at the time of her graduation or when she turned 30. According to the ruling, the constitution does not require her to present her first-degree certificate or any other certificate, including…