•Late Ali Hassan Mwinyi Former Tanzanian president Ali Hassan Mwinyi, who introduced multi-party democracy to the East African nation, died yesterday aged 98, the presidency said. “I’m saddened to announce the death… around 5:30 in the evening,” President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on state television TBC1, adding that he had been receiving trea...
Concerned about the present state of the nation, the conference of former Speakers of the State Houses of Assembly of Nigeria, has called on the federal government to immediately embark on initiatives capable of ameliorating the hardship faced by Nigerians. The call was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of a one-day meeting […...
•Yakubu Gowon Former Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, has advised President Bola Tinubu to listen to concerns about the security situation in the country and deal with the situation decisively. Gowon spoke, yesterday, at the Bible Society of Nigeria (BSN)’s 15th Founder’s Day, Annual Lecture and Awards, held at the Nigerian Institute of Internatio...
•Late Bukar Abba Ibrahim The first civilian governor of Yobe State Bukar Abba Ibrahim has died while receiving medical treatment in Saudi Arabia. Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni confirmed the death of the former Senator representing Yobe East district. A statement via Buni’s Director General of Press and Media Affairs Mamman Mohammed noted t...
•Ahmed Idris The former Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, has accused the Economic and Financial Crime Commission of deceiving him to admit to the allegations against him. The ex-AGF claimed that the EFCC told him they wanted to use him to get the minister of finance and some other governors. Idris and his […]
•Ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma Sierra Leone’s former president Ernest Bai Koroma, charged for his alleged role in what authorities call an attempted coup, left the country and arrived in Nigeria yesterday. Koroma landed in Abuja yesterday afternoon, welcomed by National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu and the president of the ECOWAS Commission O...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says its operatives from the Lagos Zonal Command have arrested a former Minister of Commerce and Industry, Charles Chukwuemeka Ugwuh, for an alleged conspiracy and fraud to the tune of N3.6bn. Head Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Dele Oyewale in a statement today, said Ugwuh was arrested [&h...
•Former Sierra Leone President Ernest Bal Koroma The Economic Community of West African States(ECOWAS) has concluded plans to relocate former Sierra Leone President, Ernest Bal Koroma to Nigeria tomorrow Thursday, January 4, 2024, reports Nigerian Tribune. This is part of the agreement reached by the mission to Freetown on December 23, 2023 of...
•Late Na’Abba A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Umar Na’Abba died today Wednesday, December 27. Family sources said that the late Na’Abba battled with the ailment for a long time before passing away, reports The Nation. He was initially flown abroad for medical treatment and stayed there for several months before re...
The chairman of Titan Trust Bank (TTB), Babatunde Lemo, has been summoned by the Special CBN Investigator, Jim Obazee in connection with the acquisition of Union Bank of Nigeria Plc by TTB. Lemo, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, was directed to appear at the Department of Force Intelligence in Abuja […]