•Lt. Yerima A young Nigerian Navy officer, Lt. A.M. Yerima, who recently had a confrontation with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, reportedly escaped an assassination attempt this evening. Military sources told our correspondent that Yarima was trailed by unidentified men dressed in black and riding in two unmarked H...
•Wike and Yerima In spite of the viral video circulating on social media, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has said that he “wouldn’t have called a military personnel a fool”. Wike said this at a press conference today, following his recent altercation with a naval officer, Lieutenant A. Yerima, over […]...
•Wike and the military officer yesterday Over 600 civil society organizations (CSOs) have thrown their full weight behind former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd.) and taken a step further to demand the immediate sack of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike over his public insult of a naval officer. The [&helli...
•The scene of the face-off Lawyers and a Civil Society Group have flayed the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike over his altercation with a military officer over the demolition of a property belonging to an ex-Chief of Naval Staff yesterday. Speaking to our correspondent, the Executive Director of the Civil Society [&h...
•Screenshot of altercation between Wike and military officer There was a heated confrontation today between the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and an unidentified military officer over an alleged land-grabbing incident at the Gaduwa District in Abuja. A video of the altercation, sighted by The Frontier, showed Wike acc...
•Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike The battle for the control of the Peoples Democratic Party took a new twist on Monday in Abuja when loyalists of the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike, forcefully took over the party’s National Secretariat, Wadata Plaza, in the absence of governors elected on the party’...
•Wike (C) and sons (L and R) Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has come under heavy criticism for attending the 2025 Asia Pacific Cities Summit and Mayors’ Forum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with his two sons. The development has triggered widespread outrage among Nigerians who accused the minister of using public [&he...
•Nyesom Wike The Northern Elders Unity Forum of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has launched a blistering attack on the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, and his political allies, accusing them of plotting to destroy the PDP and weaken opposition politics in Nigeria. In a communiqué issued at the end of […...
•Nigeria Governors’ Forum The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has given Nigeria’s 36 governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, seven day to urgently make public how they have spent the estimated N14 trillion fuel subsidy savings received through FAAC allocations. The organisation...
•Cole and Wike A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Tonye Cole, has taken a swipe at the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, over his relationship with the ruling APC while claiming to be a member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Cole, who was Rivers State governorship candidate [&helli...
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