Year: 2017

The Senator representing Cross River North Senatorial District, Dr Rose Oko and 41 senators on Tuesday called for the scrapping of the Excess Crude Account, ECA, describing it as an illegality and a drain pipe. This was contained in a motion sponsored by Sen Oko, where she noted that the ECA that was set up in 2004, ostensibly to provide savings for the country and stabilization for the economy during periods of shortfalls in oil revenue, but without constitutional back up for 13 years of existence. The motion tititled, Excess…

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Worried by the clash between Fulani herdsmen and farmers in Ugaga community in Yala Local Government Area which claimed one life and injured another, Cross River State, Governor Ben Ayade has directed immediate deployment of all the security apparatus in the state to forestall breakdown of law and order in the area. Ayade who disclosed this to newsmen shortly after an emergency state Security Council meeting in Government House, Calabar, yesterday stated that the meeting was one of his proactive steps in stemming the security crisis in the area from…

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The Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, on Monday ordered the redeployment of troops who participated in the special military exercise in the Niger Delta to Lake Chad region. Mr. Buratai, a lieutenant general, announced the redeployment at the closing of Exercise Crocodile Smile II in Igwuruta, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers. He said the redeployed to Lake Chad was to flush out remnant of Boko Haram insurgents, and also complement efforts of security outfits in the area. According to him, the Nigerian Army is passionate and committed to…

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Following the termination of the appointments of the former secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), Engr Babachir Lawal and the former director-general of the Nigerian Intelligent Agency (NIA), Ayo Oke, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has called for the immediate impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari, over what the PDP described as a breach of his oath of office to defend the constitution. On the Abdulrasheed Maina’s return and promotion sage, the PDP also called for the arrest and investigation of the two Ministers involved in the return…

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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said he conceded defeat to President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 presidential election as a way of avoiding “anarchy” and setting a standard for democracy in the country. Speaking on Thursday at the 6th edition of African Ambassadors Interactive Forum (AAIF), Jonathan said Nigeria needs to phase out the era where court judgments are required to decide who wins an election. At the forum and dinner organised by African Third Sector Resource (ATSR), in Abuja, Jonathan was presented with the “African Leadership & Achievement Award”.…

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Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described the President Muhammadu Buhari led government as one that is rotten and covered with scandalous corruption, saying; “within the last one month, Nigerians have been confronted with messy revelations that gave credence to my earlier position that President Buhari is the life patron of corruption in Nigeria.” The governor, who also alleged that there was a grand plot to release another set of Chibok Girls as another means of shifting the attention of Nigerians from the various scandals rocking the government, added…

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