Muawuya Zakariah Adam Gombe

Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke (SAN), yesterday, said Nigeria was yet to receive about €175 million starched in a foreign account by late military dictator, General Sani Abacha. Adoke, who spoke at the 2013 ministerial press briefing held in Abuja, yesterday, to highlight the mid-term achievements of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration as it pertains to the Ministry of Justice, said Federal Government had intensified its efforts to trace and repatriate Nigeria’s stolen assets abroad. He said: “In this connection, we have maintained effective liaison and communication with targeted jurisdictions to keep pace with asset recovery proceedings in those jurisdictions. Recovered monies “ In 2011, our close liaison and negotiation with the Island of Jersey led to the recovery and repatriation of £22.5 million confiscated by the Royal Court of Jersey from Raj Arjandes Bhojwani, an Indian national and associate of General Sani Abacha, on ac...

President Goodluck Jonathan has promised to ... leave a legacy of proud and prosperous Nigerians at the end of his tenure. He vowed to continue to work hard in order to create a brighter and enduring future for all Nigerians. Jonathan made the commitment in the 320-page book, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan: Champion for Women, edited by the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madu Eke. The book presentation took place on Wednesday as part of the present administration’ s mid-term report. Jonathan said, “We shall continue to do all that we can to create a brighter and enduring future for all Nigerians a future of hope and prosperity; a future where we can be a strong and developed nation, a shining example for a mighty continent. We hope to leave a legacy of proud and prosperous citizens where everyone is treated equally and women are able to reach their full potential in all aspects of human development.” Jonathan, who said it was his ambition to continue to work towards...

Do not bring us American chocolate or candy, kindly bring to us a Democratic Computer that will ensure credible elections, with some legislative computer applications that will implement political promises, we need a gift of fireware that can arrest and prosecute corrupt leaders, we also need a financial operating system that will compel budget implementation, giv ... e us a web base phishing portal to help track the real sponsors of Boko Haram & the whereabout of the likes of Shekau. Mr. President Sir, tell Bill & Melinda Gates to deliver the Mosquitor nets themselves because the millions of Dolars they sent in was looted through unproductive seminars and workshops in most of the hotels in our states. If you get back to White House safely, remember to send us a mail telling us when precisely your country will stop patronizing our crude oil. One more single request Sir, any chance for Comic Show in Holywood, our Minister of Information is an upcoming star ready for audition....

National Chairman of the  Independent National  Electoral Commission,INEC, Prof Attahiru Jega, has assured Nigerians to expect free, fair and credible elections in 2015. He also highlighted the commitment of the electoral body to review the electoral process, stating that “the 2015 election will be much more remarkable than the 2011 election.” Jega stated this, yesterday, in Abuja at the quarterly interaction with political parties. He also unveiled the permanent voter’s card before political parties. According to him, the restructuring that was carried out in the Commission was to put round pegs in round holes. The INEC boss also promised to make the final copy of the Commission’s guidelines available to all political parties from today. Commenting on the recent restructuring at the commission, Jega said, “I know that...

Sultan of Sokoto Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III has stated that the insurgency in the north was created by foreigners with the aim of destroying the country. The Sultan who spoke at the Nupe Day Celebration in Minna, the Niger State capital, yesterday, described Nigerians as good, hospitable and God-fearing people who would not deliberately set out to destroy the country, just as he stressed the importance of commitment in finding solutions to the current security challenges. Sultan Abubakar predicted doom for those who are trying to create a problem for the country and destroy it because Nigeria would continue to exist as one indivisible people who have the fear of God. He said, “What we need is commitment in our leadership at all levels. If we don’t see ourselves as one, we will continue to have those problems; we must have solution to these problems.” He further urged leaders to always lead well and not trample on the rights of the common man, saying that “nobody lives fore...

By Iheanacho Nwosu, Abuja The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Tambuwal, yesterday raised the alarm over what he called a dangerous trend ahead of the 2015 general elections, alleging that some politicians are introducing doctrines that are alien to democracy and destructive to peaceful, social co-existence in a civilised society. Addressing members of the Lower Chamber of the National Assembly at the resumption of plenary after their two-week annual break, Tambuwal accused some politicians of being busy fanning embers of partisan hate and strife. Giving details of the political trend that is fast taking root, Tambuwal said: “It is a political offence for a member of one political party to exchange greetings with someone in another political party. It is indeed a heinous crime for one to visit, attend the burial, birthday, coronation, wedding or any such ceremony of someone in an opposing political party.” He said; “proponents of this shameful doctrine not only offen...

The House of Representatives, Wednesday, confirmed wide-spread speculations over its planned rejection ofPresident Goodluck Jonathan’s proposal for the amendment of the 2013 Budget by throwing out thefiscal document on the ground that it was incurably bad. The House rejected the President’s budget amendment proposal aft er a report on it was presented at Wednesday’s plenary session by the Chairman of the House Committee on Rules and Business Hon. Sam Tsokwa on behalf of the joint Committees on Rules and Business , Judiciary and Justice which was given the responsibility to examine and determine the legality of the President’s letter to the National Assembly last March. Hon. Tsokwa had in the report informed the House that going by the content ofthe letter, the President wassilent on what should be amended in the 2013 Appropriation Act adding that he should have presented a Supplementary Appropriation Act. Citing reasons why the lawmakers dumped the budget amendment proposal, Hon Tsokw...

Despite their recent public spat and purported animosity towards each other, the governors of Rivers and Plateau States respectively, Rotimi Amaechi and Jonah Jang, were sat next to each together at Thursday’s National Economic Council (NEC) meeting in Abuja. Contrary to the previous arrangement, the Chairman of the NGF is always positioned close to the Chairman of the NEC meeting, Vice- President Namadi Sambo, but this time, the governors were made to sit alphabetically according to their states. The meeting proved even more unpredictable as Amaechi and Jang who are engaged in a leadership tussle of the NGF, have never sat down together at the same table since the disputed May 24 th  election until today. Amaechi, who arrived the meeting venue before Jang and on getting to his seat declared: “So we are sitting together, authentic and the fake chairman.” Following the entry of Jang some few minutes later, the two governors greeted and shook hands. However, a...

Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger and the Chairman of the Northern States Governors’ Forum said on Wednesday that Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers was duly elected as Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum. Mr. Aliyu made the statement at the installation of his Deputy, Ahmed Ibeto, as Wali Raya Kasar Nupe by Estu Nupe, Yahaya Abubakar, in Bida, Niger. “No governor betrayed anyone; we were united in electing a chairman. If other people recognised another person as a chairman, we will solve our problem. “We must recognise Amaechi as Nigeria Governors’ Forum Chairman,” he said. The Niger Governor said “35 governors voted, 19 for and 16 for a particular candidate.” “Those who go around destroying reputation should just bury their hatchet. “We cannot go to 2015 with faction and disunity, there will be no progress, we must unite and come as a group,” Mr. Aliyu added. He said Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau emerged as a candidate from the North after the forum discovered th...

The Speaker of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Musa Ahmed, said on Thursday that his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, would win the governorship seat in the 2015 general elections. Mr. Ahmed said this while speaking with journalists in Lafia on his return from legislative studies tour of German, Polish and British parliaments. He said “with the strong structures of PDP on ground and the thousands of those that decamped from other political parties in the state, we will win the 2015 governorship election.” “PDP had already built its structures in order to capture its governorship seat in the state come 2015.” The speaker said that with the “developmental strides” of the previous PDP government, people would vote massively for the party in the 2015 general elections. “I am appealing to our aggrieved members who left for other political parties, to see the need of returning home,” he said. He said the required machinery was on ground to ensure level play fie...

A boy approached his father returning from work and the father asked him "why crying?" he reply that his friends speak good English because their schools is better than his own! He told the father that he will not go back to his school because they teach almost all lessons in Hausa. HOW POSSIBLE?

There was mild drama on Wednesday night at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, venue of the Presidential dinner organised by President Goodluck Jonathan, news website, The Eagle Online, is reporting.  A presidential bodyguard stopped embattled Rivers state Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, from getting close to President Jonathanto pay homage. Mr. Amaechi, who is the chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), and his loyalists arrived thevenue when the event wasalready in progress.  They came in from the Rivers Governor’s lodge where they met earlier for about 15 minutes and thenadjourned to honour the President’s invitation.  On his entourage were Governors Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti); Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun); Adams Oshiomole (Edo); Sule Lamido (Jigawa); Rabiu Kwankwanso (Kano); Abdulazeez Kyari-(Zamfara); Muritala Nyako (Adamawa) and Magartakada Wamakko (Sokoto).  Governor Amaechi, after settling down, got up and made his way towards where President Goodluck ...

Former Director of Studies National Institute for Policyand Strategic Studies (NIPSS) Kuru Professor Bashir Ibrahim and member of the Arewa Consultative Forum Barrister Solomon Dalong at the weekend challengedthose calling General Muhammadu Buhari a religious bigot to buttress their allegations with facts. Professor Ibrahim, who presented a paper titled ‘General Buhari Yesterday, Today in the Nigerian Context,’ organized by the General Muhammadu Buhari Concern Supporters Forum in Jos, said “the president of CAN who derives pleasure in castigating Buhari purely on this religious bigotry should be asked this question since he was old enough to know what Buhari was when he was Governor of Borno State, asMinister of Petroleum, Head of State and Chairman of the PetroleumTrust Fund”. He described corruption and impunity as the bane of Nigeria’s retrogression which he said led to the emergence of insecurity and the evolution of deadly groups such as MASSOB, OPC, MEND and B...

Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi The meeting will hold onWednesday night. The Rivers State Governor and Chairman of theNigeria Governors Forum,Rotimi Amaechi, has called for a meeting of the forum. The meeting is expected tohold on Wednesday by 8:00 p.m. at the Rivers Governors Lodge, Abuja. The invitation for the meeting was signed by one Chidinma Onyenalim, an aide to the forum chairman. The meeting is the first to be called by Mr. Amaechi since his controversial re-election on May 24 at a governors’ meeting. The Rivers Governor had defeated Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau by 19 votes to 16 to emerge chairman. Mr. Jang, however, rejected the result, proclaimed himself chairman, and has since been presiding over meetings of a faction of governors loyal to him. Mr. Amaechi, who has beensuspended by the Peoples Democratic Party, is believed to command the loyalty of about 18 governors, although it is not clear if they’ll all attend the meeting.

If President Goodluck Jonathan has his way come July at the special convention of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, the National Working Committee of the party which will be elected there will be filled with his loyalists. Already, supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan and the party leadership have initiated moves to ensure that some immediate past members ofthe PDP National Working Committee do not return to the committee. It was revealed that the President and Tukur’s loyalists have also identifiedsome prominent PDP members who lost out during the party’s 2012 national convention as aspirants that must be stopped from being elected into the NWC at the forthcoming convention of the party, as such politiciansare those said to be against Jonathan’s 2015 ambition and Tukur’s continued leadership of the PDP. Our source in Abuja said that the loyalists decided tomove against such politicians on learning that they had started reaching out to see if they could be favou...

11/3/1434. H 23/1/2013 M Lalle mu ‘Yan Kungiyar IZALA sai mu yi murna mu yi farin ciki saboda yadda Allah Madaukakin Sarki yayi wa shugabanninmu mutum goma sha hudun nan da suka rubuta wa Kungiyar Jama’atu Izalatil Bidi’ah wa Iqamatis Sunnah Constitution dinta watau:- M. Isma’ila Idris. M. Hudu Chikaji Zaria. M. Sidi Attahir Sokoto. M. Alhasan Sa’id Adam Jos. M. Sa’idu Hasan Jingir. M. Rabi’u Daura. M. Yakubu Musa Hasan Katsina. A. Ahmadu Gyallesu. A. Yaro Bichi. A. Bashir Makama. A. Ali Ibrahim Hikima. A. Bala Jaban. A. Mamman Malunfashi. A. Isa Waziri.Sai mu gode wa Allah Madaukakin Sarki da Ya yi wa wadannan mutum 14 muwafaka da taufiiqi a lokacin da suka rubuta Constitution din kungiyar Izala, ta yadda suka rubuta shi bisa tsarin da ya dace, watau suka rubuta shi a bisa tsarin da bai saba wa Shari’ar Musulunci ba. Ta yadda dukkan wani wanda ke son ya maida kungiyar wata kungiyar ‘yan bidi’ah mai take ka’idodin Shari’ah ba zai samu damar yin hakan ba matukar dai zai jingina wanna...

Last Wednesday news emerged that the 20-year feud that had polarized members of the Muslim organization Izalatil Bidi’ah Wa Ikamatis Sunnah, popularly known as Izala, had been resolved. Twenty years is a long time to be fighting over anything; this news must therefore come as big relief to Muslim all over the country, but in particular to Muslims that openly identify with the Izala group. According to a Hausa language newspaper publication, Aminiya, which appeared last Friday, the reconciliation came as a culmination of several weeks of meetings and consultations among the leadership of the two main factions of the group. The two factions are made up of the Kaduna group, which until the reconciliation was led by Sheikh Yusuf Sambo Rigachikun; and the Jos faction led by Sheikh Muhammad Sani Yahaya Jingir. Consequent upon the reconciliation, Sheikh Muhammad Sani Yahaya Jingir emerged as the national leader of the Izala council of Ulama (Muslim scholars and leaders), ...