FG uses recovered stolen funds to uplift poor Nigerians

Presidency says the Federal Government is judiciously using the recovered ‘Abacha loot’ and World Bank credit to address the plight of poor and vulnerable Nigerians. Mrs Maryam Uwais, the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social Investments said this on Monday in at a public function in Port Harcourt, Rivers. Uwais, in a statement by…

NBA reacts to Achuba’s sack as Kogi Deputy Governor

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has reacted to the impeachment of the Deputy Governor of Kogi State, Elder Simon Achuba, by the state House of Assembly. The NBA in a statement on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kunle Edun, described Achuba’s removal as illegal and unconstitutional because it was against the findings of the…

Kwankwaso attacked in Kano

Former Governor of Kano State and the immediate past Senator representing Kano Central, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, was attacked by thugs who are yet to be identified in Kano, Monday. The attack, which followed the former governor’s visit to his hometown, Madobi where he had gone to open a midwifery school, was said to have been…

I am not Yoruba, says Fani Kayode

Nigeria’s former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has said that he is not Yoruba. Fani disclosed this on Twitter while stressing that the word Yoruba is alien to his culture and not known in the Anago language while revealing that the name Yoruba was derived from “Yariba” and that it means “shady and unreliable” Fani-Kayode in…