• Donald Trump The US state of Maine yesterday blocked former president Donald Trump from its Republican presidential primary ballot, the second state to disqualify him over his role in the January 2021 assault on the US Capitol. Maine’s top election official, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, decided in favor of the citizens who had [&hellip...
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 […]
•Peter Obi and Tinubu The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has faulted the federal government’s planned demolition of about “200 houses” in the Nuwalege community of Abuja to make way for the expansion of the presidential fleet. In a post on his X account yesterday, Obi said he was shocked and […]
•Wike The Director of the Department of Development Control has been directed by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, to ensure that the Nuwalege community along Airport Road makes way for the presidential fleet. This was following the request from the Nigerian Air Force, reports The Nation. Speaking through the di...
•The presidential aircraft Presidential aircraft, Falcon 900B, has been put up for sale, with the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) asking interested persons to submit their bids for the purchase of the aircraft. This was disclosed in a tweet on NAF’s X page today where it said the aircraft was put up for sale following the […]
•Former US President Donald Trump Former President Donald Trump holds an edge over President Joe Biden in a series of hypothetical matchups among registered voters in four key swing states, new polling from The New York Times and Siena College shows. In Nevada, a state Biden narrowly carried in the 2020 presidential election, Trump boasts [&he...
•Adedotun Ayo-Vaughan Amid the raging debate on the N5bn presidential yacht to be procured by the federal government, as captured in the 2023 supplementary budget submitted to the National Assembly, the Nigerian Navy yesterday affirmed that it had taken delivery of the yacht. The Director of Information, Nigerian Navy, Commodore Adedotun Ayo-V...
The Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Ali Ndume has revealed that the deal of presidential yacht included in the supplementary budget has already been signed and delivered. Ndume made this revelation in an interview with Arise Television today. He said, “The deal has been signed and delivered, but not paid, and that’s what brought […]...
•Tinubu The House of Representatives has rejected the N4.79bn budgetary allocation for a presidential yacht contained in the N2.176trn supplementary budget for the 2023 financial year transmitted to it on Tuesday by President Bola Tinubu. In passing the supplementary budget on Thursday, the House moved the sum proposed for the yacht to student...
•Tinubu President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said that he never requested for a presidential yacht. The president said this through his spokesman, Tope Ajayi. There has been outrage since details of the N2.1 trillion supplementary budget Tinubu submitted to the National Assembly were published, reports Daily Trust. According to the budget, N5.09 bi...