Nigeria’s former Petroleum Minister in the President Goodluck Jonathan administration, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been charged with bribery in the United Kingdom. She was arrested by the UK’s National Crime Agency’s (NCA) International Corruption Unit and would appear in court on October 2, 2023 According to Reuters, the British police said they had charged her with bribery offences, saying they suspected she had accepted bribes in return for awarding multi-million-pound oil and gas contracts. She served as petroleum minister from 2010 to 2015 and also acted as president of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). “We suspect Diezani Alison-Madueke…
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The federal government of Nigeria under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has been urged to include Pilot training and aeronautic engineering students in the ongoing students loan scheme, due to escalating cost in the global aviation industry. Chairman of a Lagos based aerospace and flight training agency, PPK Aviation International, Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe, in a statement on Saturday and made available to newsmen in Lagos, said the call has become necessary, because Commercial Pilot License training fees now cost as much as $95,000 for Helicopter and $85,000 for fixed wings, including Multi-Engine and Instrument Ratings, CPL/ME/IR. He noted…
By Fred Edoreh Delta State Governor, Rt Hon Elder Sheriff Oborevwori, has unfolded a series of palliative measures for the state public service staff and other segments of the society to cushion the biting economic effect of the removal of petroleum subsidy by the Federal Government. The regime includes the payment of additional N10,000 for the next three months to each of the 50,196 members of the state public service and the reduction of working days through the implementation of a weekly shift system. The Governor who unravelled the package on Tuesday in Asaba during the swearing in ceremony of…
By Max Collins Asiwaju’s ministers are helping to further Renew Hope. They are in some healthy competition to outperform their predecessors, their contemporaries! Exactly what we voted for last February; RESULTS. Nyesom Ezinwo Wike, the FCT minister, set the ball rolling yesterday immediately after his swearing in. His two point agenda are restoring the master-plan of the federal seat of power and creating an enabling safe environment needed to attract investors, to reassure residents. His Works counterpart, David Umahi, is assuring that all federal roads under construction or abandoned for whatever reasons after award of contract, would be given deserving…
Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori has called on all Deltans to be committed to making the state the investment destination of the world. Oborevwori made the call on Monday in an address read on his behalf by his deputy, Sir Monday Onyeme, at the second coronation anniversary celebration of the Olu of Warri Kingdom, His Majesty Ogiame Atuwatse III at the Olu Palace, Warri, Delta State. He said, “It gives me great pleasure, indeed, a great honour to be here to celebrate a King who is a great image maker, a great marketer of Warri Kingdom nay Delta…
The trio of Atiku Abubakar, Rabiu Kwankwaso, and Peter Obi have begun to discuss the possibility of a merger, with the ultimate goal of setting up a formidable party that can more effectively challenge the APC. The meeting of these three political leaders, which had been going on for a while, it was gathered, started with the one between Atiku, the presidential candidate of PDP and Kwankwaso. After the first leg of the meetings was adjudged successful, another one between Obi, the presidential candidate of LP and face of the OBIdient Movement, and other critical elements in PDP started to…
Security operatives have arrested a legal practitioner, Barrister Femi Oniyide, in connection with the publication of a malicious story against the Secretary to the Ogun State Government (SSG), Mr Tokunbo Talabi. Oniyide was arrested on Friday at Alagbado, Ogun State, based on a petition written against him by solicitors to the SSG, alleging “Criminal Threat To Life, Malicious Falsehood, Criminal Defamation And Misuse Of Police Connection.” Security operatives have been on his trail for a while but he had been evading arrest. He is presently in the custody of the Force CID Alagbon, Lagos. The publisher of Metro Online, an…
Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori has congratulated the Olu of Warri, His Majesty Ogiame Atuwatse III, CFR, on the second anniversary of his coronation. Oborevwori in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Sir Festus Ahon, in Asaba, praised the revered traditional ruler for keeping Warri Kingdom peaceful and inviting for investment since ascending the ancient throne. He remarked that since his ascension to the throne, the king had also played a key role in various economic endeavours to revive trade and commerce in the kingdom. The Governor described Atuwatse III as “a man of peace and a…
Over two weeks after all parties made their final arguments in the petitions challenging the victory of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigerians have grown apprehensive over what they regard as a delay by the tribunal to deliver judgment or at least set a date to deliver judgment. The perceived delay may have been interpreted to mean different things. While some allege it was a ploy to tinker with the verdict, some others argue that the tribunal needed time to critically study the arguments of the parties in the dispute. Some of those who spoke to BusinessDaySunday said that was the…
Late Justice Niki Tobi has a message for you in his ruling in Buhari vs. INEC & Ors (2008) LPELR-814 SC), @ pages 175-178 : “The Court of Appeal cannot collect evidence from the market overt; for example from the Balogun market, Lagos; Dugbe market, Ibadan; main market, Jos; Central market, Kaduna; Central market (former Gwari market), Minna; Wuse market, Abuja. On the contrary, the Court of Appeal, has to wait for evidence, as the court did, in the court building duly constituted as a court qua adjudicatory body. Courts of law being legal and sacred institutions do not go…