Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor How govt officials, security agents, family members, banks stole N17 billion pension cash ALLEGED STOLEN CASH *Award of fictitious contracts to cronies – N5.7 b *Payment to ghost pensioners – […]
A 16-year old 100-level student of Microbiology at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Mercy Afolaranmi, has committed suicide, an official told PREMIUM TIMES. According to the school’s Chief Security Officer, Babatunde Oyatokun, Miss Afolaranmi, poisoned […]
The Abuja Environment Protection Board (AEPB) has cleared the refuse dump at the Federal Secretariat Complex, a week after PREMIUM TIMES reported the eyesore and slum within it. The AEPB had cleared most of the […]
President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption adviser, Itse Sagay, has said the anti-graft war of the administration is “pure”, regardless of growing criticisms over the government’s handling of corruption allegations against top officials. Mr. Sagay said this […]
The embattled former civil servant, Abdulrasheed Maina, came highly recommended to head a team tasked with cleaning up a pension mess at the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation, when he was […]
Abuja – Pressure is building up gradually on President Muhammadu Buhari to join the presidential race for 2019, even though his body language is not clear yet on his ambition. SATURDAY INDEPENDENT gathered that stakeholders […]
FOR allegedly killing his wife, renowned wrestler, John Eke Uti a.k.a. Power Uti, was on Tuesday docked before an Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court. Uti, 55, was accused of killing his wife, Toyin, in their residence. […]
Former Education Minister, Ibrahim Shekarau, has indicated interest to run for the presidency in 2019 on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. His spokesperson, Sule Ya’u Sule, said Shekarau, who is also a former […]
When American politician, Newt Gingrich, said: “If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by”, he probably had the likes of Alhaji Abdulrasheed Maina in mind. […]
The jubilation over Nigeria’s qualification for the global football fiesta, the FIFA World Cup in Russia in 2018, is justified, considering the nation’s performance in the fifth appearance at the 2014 edition. This time, the […]
Taking inventory of the present situation in Nigeria and the capacity of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to deliver the country from economic, social and political quagmire, in the face of the recent happenings within […]
The former Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, threatened yesterday to open a can of worms and implicate what he called a cabal in the government of President Muhammadu Buhari. Disclosing […]
Samuel Awoyinfa, Femi Makinde, Success Nwogu, Simon Utebor, Alexander Okere, Peter Dada, Hindi Livinus, Gibson Achonu, Clement Nnachi and Olaide Oyelude Chieftains of the All Progressives Congress in some states of the federation have asked […]
The Nigeria senate is impotent. So impotent that it engages in theatrical probes to conceal the absence of a legislative manhood. I have followed the senate closely. In fact, I covered that arm of the […]
Yakubu Gowon, former head of state, says the current composition of Nigeria makes it difficult for restructuring to take place. Speaking in Minna, Niger state capital on Friday, the retired general advised the people to […]
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has dismissed the reports that some people are trying to Islamise Nigeria. The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has made this allegation repeatedly – the last being shortly after the federal government […]
Some Brazilian generals have given notice that they will overthrow the government of President Michel Miguel Elias Temer. One month has rolled by since the notice was given, yet there has been no official reaction, […]
The honourable AGF knew when he was writing his letters and issuing his directives that Maina was a scofflaw and fugitive from justice. But he was not restrained by that knowledge. Abubakar Malami (SAN), by […]
Simon Cowell has thanked fans for their “concern” after he was rushed to hospital after falling down the stairs of his London home and injuring his neck. The X Factor judge was stretchered out of […]
Comrade Peter Esele, a former president of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), speaks with KUNLE ODEREMI on the NNPC crisis and the politics of oil, among other issues. Excerpts: […]
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