The Nigeria Customs Service has been directed to take all the confiscated relief items in their various warehouses to designated officials for onward distribution to Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in the country. This order was handed to the customs by President Muhammadu Buhari. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, on Sunday…
Day: January 18, 2016
President Appoints Uwais As Special Adviser
Wife of former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Muhammadu Uwais, Maryam, has been appointed as Special Adviser to the President on Social Protection Plan. The appointment was made by the President, Muhammadu Buhari, some weeks ago, according to what a source told Premium Times. Mrs Uwais is a lawyer based in Abuja and she has since…
I Was Never Told To Refund Money–Falae
Foremost Elder statesman, Olu Falae, said on Sunday that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, did not order him to return the N100 million he collected from former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Tony Anenih as being speculated. Falae, who is the National Chairman of the Social…
Tompolo Alerts Buhari On Threat To Life
Embattled former militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, well known as Tompolo, has petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari over an alleged plan to kill and implicate him (Tompolo) by some new members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bayelsa and Delta States. Tompolo, who has a bench warrant on his, claimed that the defectors from the Peoples…