UK Governnent Gives Reason For Delay in Repartration of Umaru Dikko’s loot —

            

The British government has denied allegations that it aids corruption in Nigeria, saying it is committed to repatriating Nigeria’s looted funds kept in the country.

The denial was made following an allegation by a United Kingdom-based organisation, Security in Africa.

According to a director of the organisation, Ben Oguntala, the British government allegedly aids and abets corrupt leaders in Nigeria and other African countries.

Why Buhari Does Not Like Ndigbo

There has been a spate of criticism and worry from the Eastern end complaining that President Buhari’s appointments thus far have been lopsided, and has generally ignored the South-Eastern Igbo in large part, and the minorities of the South, to some extent.

The president’s profile of appointments to key military, security, and corporate institutional positions has tended more to be from the North. In a sense, the President has made the office of the president, the face of his administration, a profoundly regional one. The most disturbing to most people was the quick overturning of the appointment of Mr. Nwabueze C. Obi, as the acting MD of the National Maritime and Safety Agency, NIMASA, replaced with Mr. Haruna Jauro in quick order on the orders of the president.

N78.3m WEBSITE FRAUD UPDATE: CACOL replies Fashola, insists on allegation

 The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders on Saturday took a swipe at the former Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, describing his administration as draconian and anti-people.

The activist group was reacting to Fashola’s condemnation of its call on President Muhammadu Buhari not to consider the ex-governor for appointment for his alleged mismanagement of state funds.

CACOL said the Fashola-led administration was engulfed in several controversies which could not be overlooked.

Thousands of PDP Supporters Defeat To APC In Yenegoa

Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital was brought to a standstill, yesterday, as thousands besieged the Samson Siasia Stadium to witness the formal declaration of over 70 leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, led by the embattled state Chairman, Col Sam Inokoba (rtd), and a  former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC, Timi Alaibe, for the All Progressives Congress APC.

ICPC seizes 24 property from three Most Corrupt Civil Servants

              

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Related Offences Tribunal has commenced a clampdown on very wealthy civil servants.

Already, the agency has seized 24 property and several cars from three civil servants with one of them having 18 property.

A document obtained from the Office of the Chairman of the ICPC, Mr. Ekpo Nta, with the title ‘Notice of Seizure of Movable and Immovable Properties Pursuant to Section 45 (4) a – (b) of the Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Ac 2000, revealed that the commission seized the property from three officials of the Ministry of Niger Delta.

UNILAG RAPE UPDATE: Another Victim Ascribe Her Ordeal To ASTHMA Crisis

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Crashed Bristow helicopter Black box found

 The Accident Investigation Bureau on Friday announced that it had recovered the Black Box of the Bristow helicopter that crashed into the Lagos lagoon on Wednesday.

The black box contains the cockpit voice and the flight data recorders.

Crisis Between TINUBU/FASHOLA Gets Dirtier Than Expected

The crisis between two ex-governors of Lagos State, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Mr Babatunde Fashola deepened on Friday with reports that loyalists of both gladiators have drawn up battle plans, even as stakeholders in both the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Lagos State are said to have waded in, calling for a truce.

A former member of the Lagos State Executive Council who did not want to be named, told Ashiwaju.org on Friday that “some elders are planning a peace meeting between the duo.”

The Return to Idoto: When Pilgrims pay Homage to a Forlorn god

The grasses were fresh with dew when we arrived; pilgrims in search of an abandoned god. We were nothing like the Maggi; so we made our journey at the best time of the year – when the countryside is redolent with the fragrance of blooming flowers. Before us, the plains of Ojoto spread out in their greenest splendor; heaving with life. Not knowing what to expect, Odili and I had set forth at dawn. We wended our way down the slope, tracing the contours of a low hill to the beckoning grove.

UPDATE: Borno State Government Confirms Deputy Governor, Mr. Zannah Mustapha's Death Rumour

WE earlier reported about the demise of Borno State Deputy Governor, in the same vain, the state Government has confirmed that the death report of Mr. Zannah Mustapha who passed on at the early hour of Saturday 15th August, 2015. in an hotel in Yola, Borno state capital.

A statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Usman Jidda Shuwa, said Mr. Mustapha died in his sleep Saturday morning while visiting Yola, the Adamawa State capital, to attend the convocation ceremony of Modibbo Adama University of Science and Technology, Yola.