The police authorities have eventually bowed to pressure and have redeployed the controversial Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, Mbu Joseph Mbu to the Abuja Police Command. His redeployment came weeks after leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, ordered their members at the National Assembly to block all Executive Bills pending when the Federal…
Day: February 6, 2014
SSS Detains Paparazzi Publishers In Abuja
Report reaching this office confirms that the State Security Service, SSS, has held the duo of Moji Danisa and Ogbeni Olawale Dawodu, publishers of wave making weekly political tabloid, Paparazzi, after they showed up at the office of the security agency office in Abuja on Thursday morning for questioning. The SSS, through one of its…
Bloody 48 Hours: Gunmen Slaughter 82
It has been a bloody 48 hours in the northern part of the country. No fewer than 82 people were killed in three attacks on Monday and Tuesday in Plateau, Kaduna and Yobe States. Twenty people, including a policeman, were killed by bandits in Yobe State; 32 were killed by gunmen in Plateau and 30…
Farmers, Traders Depend On 2014 Budget To Survive–FG
The Federal Government, through the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, disclosed that traders, farmers and other artisans in the country depend on the passage of the 2014 Appropriation Bill to survive. Addressing State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Maku said the directive by leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to its members…
CBN Gov, MTN, Stanbic IBTC In Messy $8b Scam
Going by a report recently published by National Daily newspaper, the controversial Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has been fingered in a money laundering fraud. The amount involved in the scam is said to be $8 billion. MTN and Stanbic IBTC bank were also implicated in the scam. Read the…
SSS Invites Publishers Of Paparazzi Mag For Questioning
The State Security Service, SSS, has invited the Publishers of Paparazzi Magazine to its headquarters in Abuja for questioning. The magazine is managed by the duo of Moji Danisa and Ogbeni Olawale Dawodu. The Publishers of the softsell magazine were asked to appear for the drilling on Thursday, February 6, 2014 by 10am. Though the…