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Former President of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Jonathan has denied allegations of withdrawing Billions of Naira from the Nations treasury while he was in office. The former president who spoke at a meeting organised by the Anglican Community in Abuja on Friday described the allegation has false and misleading. He expressed sadness at what he described as ‘low’, people who tell lies against others. “I remember a particular incidence where somebody was talking about billions that were removed from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and I asked them, how many trucks were used to carry all these billions? “In Nigeria, we get carried away by figures and it’s sad that we go too low to tell lies against people.” Jonathan urged for more prayers over the spate of insecurity in the country and asked that more should be done to nip the crisis in the bud. “As a nation, we have been passing through a lot of challenges; the issues of kidnapping, armed robbery, and even to travel to very near

“For refusing to support the APC, they cannot come to the table to demand the presidency slot. The South Southerners frustrated APC chieftain, Rotimi Amaechi and minister of APC government transportation who had failed in the gallant attempts to sell his people to the Muslim anarchical government after betraying Godswill Akpabia, has turned his shameless countenance against the parochial Igbo and said “the people must not demand the presidency slot in 2023 for refusing to back the All Progressive Congress (APC)”. Amechi should be rest assured that no Igbo man in his right senses will pick any presidential ticket in APC. That had never been the South Easterners'  party. He should be prepared to loose as the West under Tinubu is building a formidable support of his people against 2023 and he is still in the divide-and-rule concept of his south southerners.  We shall live come 2023 to the people who willvote Amechi in Rivers State after he had killed their beloved ones to

Zarif: nobody suffering from ‘hallucination’ of taking on Iran US: potential for ‘miscalculation or misidentification’ of planes Iran’s foreign minister said on Saturday “there will be no war” with the US, since “nobody in the region is suffering from a hallucination to think that he is able to confront Iran”. Nonetheless, US diplomats warned commercial airliners flying over the Persian Gulf that they faced a risk of being “misidentified” amid heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran. The US has ordered bombers and an aircraft carrier to the Gulf over an unexplained perceived threat, raising tensions a year after Donald Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal between world powers and the Islamic Republic. John Bolton: the man driving the US towards war … any war   In remarks quoted by the state-run IRNA news agency at the end of his trip to China, the foreign minister, Mohammed Javad Zarif, said the Islamic Republic was “not seeking war”, adding: “In fact, as t

The Supreme Court has rejected a suit by the home state of the immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen – Cross River State – faulting his suspension from office by President Muhammadu Buhari. President Buhari had, upon an ex-parte order issued by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) on January 23 this year, suspended Onnoghen from office pending the conclusion of his trial before the CCT on charges of breach of Code of Conduct for Public Officers. Onnoghen remained on suspension until he retired and was, on April 18 this year , convicted by the CCT after finding that he did not declare some of his assets. In a judgment on yesterday,  six members of a seven-man panel of the Supreme Court, headed by Justice Olabode Rhoes-Vivour, held that the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the case, because the Attorney General of Cross-River State, in whose name the suit was instituted, lacked the requisite locus standi to initiate the case. The lead judgment, authored

Femi Fani-Kayode, former minister of Aviation, has commended the National Leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bolu Tinubu. Fani-Kayode hailed Tinubu following his alleged courage to aspire to be next president of Nigeria in 2023. According to the former minister, Tinubu by aspiring to be president has challenged the notion that the North owns Nigeria. Fani-Kayode on his Twitter page wrote: “I am not in Bola Tinubu’s party but I commend him for having the courage to aspire to be Pres. in 2023. “ How many southern politicians from either APC or PDP have had the guts to do that? If nothing else he has challenged the myth that the north owns Nigeria.”

The Federal Ministry of Water Resources claimed that no less than 50 per cent of residents of Nigeria’s capital, Abuja defecate openly, because of the non-availability of public toilets. The claim was made by Emmanuel Awe, the ministry’s Director, Water Quality Control and Sanitation. His figure was based on a survey done by the National Bureau of Statistics and UNICEF on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) Norms. Awe spoke at the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) Meeting with Head Teachers of Primary Schools in the Federal Capital Territory. The NBS report also showed that no fewer than 47 million Nigerians are involved in open defecation and poor sanitation and Hygiene practices, with Nigerians in North Central in the lead. Awe said the meeting with head teachers coincided with the efforts of the ministry to improve access to water and sanitation in the country. “It is very sad from available data from WASH Norms that the north central part o