U.S. pledges to help trace, recover “billions of dollars” stolen from Nigeria

Buhari and John Kerry US Secretary of State, John Kerry, made the pledge on Thursday in Washington DC while responding to comments by President Muhammadu Buhari on the commitment of his administration to the war against corruption and the need for the US government to help repatriate the country’s stolen wealth stashed abroad.“It will greatly help our country if you assist us to recover all our stolen funds which we can establish to be within...

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5 Buhari's Ministers That Have Been Asked to Resign

Since their inauguration into office, several of President Muhammadu Buhari's ministers have been advised to resign by the dissatisfied Nigerian public and civil society organizations.See list of Ministers that have been asked to resign:1. Kemi Adesoun The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) once asked the Minister to resign due to the padded 2016 budget. Ifeanyi Ubah of Capital Oil also wants the minister to resign...

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Nigeria declares state of emergency for petroleum products distribution

In a desperate move to end the recurrent fuel shortages, particularly of premium motor spirit, PMS (petrol) being experienced in the country, the Federal Government has declared a state of emergency for petroleum products distribution. This comes even as private operators in the country now have the responsibility to bring in 60 percent of the scarce commodity in the second quarter, Q2 import allocations.A very competent source revealed yesterday...

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We Have No Sufficient Electricity To Give Nigerians - Fashola

Nigeria’s Minister of Power Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, says there is currently not enough power to distribute unless more turbines are switched on.

He attributed recent power outages in some parts of the country to four turbines which stopped working, but hoped electricity supply would be stabilized soon as three of the four turbines have been restored.“Yesterday morning we had some outages in Jebba but I am happy to report now...

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How Nigeria's power generation totally collapsed to zero megawatt yesterday

Nigeria’s power generation collapsed completely on Thursday at exactly 12.58pm to zero megawatt and this persisted for about three hours.Data from the country’s System Operator showed that around 1pm on Thursday, no power generation company in Nigeria produced a single megawatt of electricity.Industry operators revealed that as a result of the complete collapse, no electricity distribution company received load allocation beginning from when the...

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There is crisis and division in APC - Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Timi Frank

The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Timi Frank, says a festering crisis, brewing in the ruling party has the potential of destroying it.Frank said this at a media briefing in Abuja on Thursday, where he claimed that there were internal disputes in the APC despite the attempts of its leaders to project an image of cohesion.He explained that he had warned of a crisis in the Bayelsa State chapter of the APC before...

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Aribisala, Ezekwesili, Sagay clash at roundtable on corruption war

Controversial scholar, Femi Aribisala clashed with  Oby Ezekwesili and Itse Sagay at a round table convened‎ to brainstorm on winning the war against corruption at the University of Lagos on Thursday.The round table, organised by the Department of Jurisprudence and International Law, tagged “Winning the War Against Corruption” was also an opportunity to launch the book ‘Legal Perspectives to Corruption, Money Laundering, and Assets Recovery...

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