The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested Reuben Abati, a former spokesman to former President Goodluck Jonathan, over allegations of financial crimes.
According to an EFCC source, Abati is being interrogated over allegation of collecting about N100 million from the former National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki.
The source added that Abati is likely to be detained by the EFCC in its Abuja detention facility.
Credit: dailytrust

Dr. Aliyu Modibbo Umar, Former FCT minister has defected from PDP to APC yesterday.
During an Interview with newsmen, The Minister said "I Join APC to help President Buhari toward his good ambition for the people of Nigeria"

Dr. Aliyu Modibbo Umar, Former FCT minister has defected from PDP to APC yesterday.
During an Interview with newsmen, The Minister said "I Join APC to help President Buhari toward his good ambition for the people of Nigeria"

Two Former Ministers and one Former Chief of staff and Others Set to Dump PDP and Join APC In Gombe
.
• Former Minister Of FCT, Dr. Aliyu Modibbo
• Former Minister Of Transport, Barriser Idris Hina
• Former PDP youth leader, Alh. Habu Mu'azu
• Former Chief of Staff and PDP elder, Lamido Umar Chikeire and others

Two Former Ministers and one Former Chief of staff and Others Set to Dump PDP and Join APC In Gombe
.
• Former Minister Of FCT, Dr. Aliyu Modibbo
• Former Minister Of Transport, Barriser Idris Hina
• Former PDP youth leader, Alh. Habu Mu'azu
• Former Chief of Staff and PDP elder, Lamido Umar Chikeire and others

EFCC Sealed-up Bauchi Former Governor Isa Yuguda mansion located at Sir Kashim GRA Bauchi State

Even the wife of American president Michelle Obama, belongs to Obamas kitchen...

President Muhammadu Buhari's latest update on his official Facebook page. #PMBinGermany

Klopp Beats Guardiola, Wenger To Premier League Award

Klopp Beats Guardiola, Wenger To Premier League Award

FAQs on the released #Chibok Girls...

President Muhammadu Buhari says he feels the pains of Nigerians at this time of fuel scarcity, poor power supply and economic downturn . “As a government that was propelled into office by the power of the people , we cannot but feel the pains of our compatriots, and we deeply empathise with them . We are working round the clock to ease the pains of Nigerians , and the efforts of the government have started yielding fruits as we seek to make the petroleum products available nationwide, restore gas supply to the power generating firms , reflate the economy and put Nigerians back to work, ” President Buhari said . Speaking at the 2015 Vanguard Awards in Lagos on Friday night , where he was honoured with the Personality of the Year Award 2015 , the President, who was represented by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said he understands that Nigerians have started questioning whether this indeed is the CHANGE they voted for, while some have even gone as far as saying that by voting for the All Progressives Congress ( APC ) , Nigerians have entered “One Chance ”. “Well , I can tell Nigerians that our CHANGE AGENDA is real, and that indeed , they will get the change they voted for. Nigerians have not entered ‘ One Chance ’ , because the ‘ One Chance ’ drivers and their conductors have been driven out of town , ” the President said . “Change is a process , and that process has begun… The pains of today are temporary, and will soon give way to abundance joy as we put our country firmly on the path of sustainable growth and development .” The President said all Nigerians , the Civil Society Organisations and the media are the real heroes of the last general elections in particular and the country’ s democracy in general, adding : “And they, more than anyone or group of people , deserve all the accolades .” He commended the media for the role it played in ensuring the relative success of the last general elections , and the resilience of the nation’ s democracy since the beginning of this Republic. “When the history of the last general elections as well as our democracy is eventually written, I have no doubt that the media will occupy a prominent place on its honour ’ s list. This is not a surprise , because there is no contesting the fact that from the pre -independence years through the years of independence , the various attempts at democratic governance and the years of military interregnum, the media has stood solidly on the side of the people and has fought for the national interest, without compromising its integrity , ” President Buhari added. In bestowing the honour on the President, the Vanguard described him as ”a living example of what tenacity , fortitude, and perseverance mean in human experience, and until future experience proves otherwise, he is the closest yet that Nigeria will have to America’ s Abraham Lincoln.”
http://www.informationng.com/2016/04/fuel-scarcity-i-feel-your-pains-buhari.html

Borno State yesterday said up to $ 6 billion ( N 2
trillion) has gone down the drains and about
20, 000 people killed , with two million others
displaced in the state since the Boko Haram
insurgency in the country stated.
Governor Ibrahim Shettima said this during the
First National Economic Forum organised by
The Nation in Lagos.
According to him, the $6 billion financial losses
do not include losses incurred by local and
international businesses located in the capital
city, Maiduguri. He said before the insurgency,
a branch of one of the tier one banks in
Maiduguri was processing over a billion naira
daily , the biggest cash centre in the country.
However , despite the challenges in the state ,
Shettima gave hope of creating a new Borno
State . He showed the immense reconstruction
activities going on in the state where the
displaced persons will be rehabilitated .
“Our government has increased funding for
education and made it free and compulsory .
From practical experience and findings from
on- the- spot assessment of our visits to
schools, there were large school drop-outs due
to poor feeding and paucity of infrastructure
especially for the girl- child . We have also
introduced a model transportation system that
has encouraged more parents to send their
children to school as against what we had
before ,” he said .
Shettima noted that his state has the second
largest land mass in country, therefore , has
enough land for farming but regretted that the
state known for its huge agricultural potential
with prosperous farmers , has become a
shadow of its self with former big time farmers
turning to beggars .
He noted that there is a direct correlation
between poverty and insurgency, youth
unemployment and insurgency, militancy in the
Niger Delta and lack of skill and
unemployment.


http://www.informationng.com/2016/04/borno-has-lost-20000-lives-n2trn-to-boko-haram-insurgency-shettima.html

Oh dear…who did this to former President
Jonathan? This was spotted inside the toilet of one
government agency located in the central business
district of Abuja. Not nice at all!
Source:Olufamous






http://www.informationng.com/2015/11/omg-official-portrait-of-goodluck-jonathan-dumped-inside-toilet-photo.html

Following reports of biting fuel scarcity in the
country, Ibe Kachikwu, the minister of state
for petroleum resources has ordered the
Department of Petroleum Resources (DPP) to
seal off fuel stations found to be hoarding
petroleum products and give out the
petroleum free to the public.





https://www.naij.com/640869-petroleum-minister-orders-dpp-distribute-hoarded-fuel-public-free.html

Gombe Governorship tussle goes to appeal court. The All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate in the April 11 governorship poll in Gombe State, Alhaji Mohammed Inuwa Yahaya, have approached the Court of Appeal, praying it to void the judgment of the tribunal which upheld the election of Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo.


The tribunal, headed by Justice Mohammed Sirajo, dismissed the petition brought before it by Yahaya and his party and held that Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was duly elected as the state governor. Specifically, the tribunal dismissed the two grounds for which the petition was premised on the ground that it lacked merit.



“Having resolved the two main issues formulated for determination in this petition against the petitioners and in favour of the respondents, we hereby dismiss the petition for lacking in merit,” the three-member panel of justices held.


Dissatisfied with the verdict of the tribunal delivered on October 14, 2015, Yahaya and the APC headed to the Court of Appeal sitting in Yola. At the appellate court they are contending that in arriving at its decision, the tribunal erred in law and misdirected itself, a misdirection, which they said, occasioned a miscarriage of justice.


Their team of lawyers led by Chief Adeniyi Akintola (SAN) raised 22 grounds of appeal before the appellate court. Others joined as respondents in the appeal are the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).



The appellants are contending that members of the tribunal erred in law when they held that they did not call evidence to prove their case. They said the tribunal’s position that the documents they tendered cannot be considered as evidence because they were not backed up by witnesses was erroneous. In its verdict, the tribunal held thus: “In our consideration, where a party calls a witness or tenders a document as an exhibit, it will be deemed to have called evidence. However, in this case, a party only attempted to call evidence by attempting to tender a document.


“Without success, he cannot be said to have called evidence, because a document that is rejected is not evidence before a court. In a civil proceeding, attempt to do a thing is not the same as doing that thing. It is only in the realm of our penal laws that attempt to commit an offence is itself an offence. We hold that the 3rd respondent did not call evidence in this petition and is therefore under no obligation to file its final address first. The written final address of the 3rd respondent (INEC) dated 29th September, 2015 is properly and validly filed. But the lawyer to the appellant, Akintola is arguing before the appellate court that while INEC opened its case by tendering form EC, the rejection of the document does not amount to the fact that INEC did not call evidence.



He said the document rejected could be re-admitted by the Court of Appeal because INEC, having opened its case and tendered document, must file her final address first. The appellants told the appellate court that there was nothing like an attempt to tender document by the 3rd respondent (INEC) since the document was not withdrawn before it was rejected and so marked.



“The analogy of an attempt introduced by the
honourable tribunal is novel and has occasioned a
miscarriage of justice. Failure of the honourable
tribunal to discountenance the final written address
of the 3rd respondent in the circumstance cannot
be justified,” Akintola stated.




He argued that the tribunal erred in law when it struck out paragraphs 38 to 174(ii,vii,x) of the appellants’ petition on the ground that the facts are not clear, precise, but vague, nebulous, generalised and generic.




According to Akintola, the tribunal did not consider
all the averments in the petition together, even when
parties have joined issue on the averments contained in the paragraphs of the petition struck out. He added that the averments in a petition or pleadings must be read together and not one paragraph in isolation.




The appellants are also contending that the tribunal
erred in law by holding that the depositions adopted
by witnesses, PW2, PW3, PW7,PW10, PW11, PW12, PW14 and PW17 are incompetent “on account of failure of the person that interpreted the statement to sign the column for interpreter and accordingly expunged the evidence found on the said depositions of the witnesses.


we need justice, because we vote PDP out during last governoship election

With barely four days left to the Kogi governorship
election, members of Senator Smart Adeyemi’s
political organisation and notable Peoples
Democratic Party’s chieftains in Okunland have
defected to the All Progressives Congress.



Leading the defectors in an elaborate ceremony held
on Monday in Iyara, headquarters of Ijumu Local
Government Area, was Fehinti Dada, director-general
of the organisation and former chairman of the
council.


Receiving the defectors, the APC standard bearer,
Abubakar Audu, commended their courage, saying
the wind of change spreading across the country
had finally come to Kogi.



He urged them to bring their wealth of experience to
bear on the party to enable it shine at Saturday’s
poll.



Mr. Dada said he and the other members of the
organisation defected from the PDP because the
party had failed the people.



He said a survey conducted by the organisation
showed that the PDP-led administration in the state
had collapsed activities at the third tier of
government and placed council staff on percentage
pay.




“I was in Ikole local government area of Ekiti last
week.



“To my surprise, the council did not owe workers
and recorded lot of achievements that had direct
impact on the people, despite receiving less
allocation in comparison to most councils in Kogi”,
he said.


Mr. Dada assured Mr. Audu that the defectors would
work with the existing party structure on ground and
deliver the council to the APC.




In a related development, Duro Meseko, a former
member of the House of Representatives, who
represented Kabba/Bunu Federal Constituency
between 2003 and 2007, also dumped the PDP for
the APC with thousands of his supporters at Iluke in
Kaba/Bunu constituency.



Mr. Meseko said he and his supporters could not
afford to be left out in the wind of change blowing
across the country and implored the people of Bunu
to come out en-masse and vote for the APC on
Saturday.



Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi West
Senatorial District in the Senate advised the
defectors to join hands with older members of the
party to defeat the PDP administration in the state.




He said Mr. Audu remained the best of the
candidates jostling to rule the state because of his
wealth of experience in statecraft and verifiable
achievements that had continued to affect lives
positively across the state.




Up Up Up APC



http://www.informationng.com/2015/11/smart-adeyemis-group-ex-rep-member-others-defect-to-apc-in-kogi.html

Former Super Eagles player now coach of the
national U-23 football team, Samson Siasia has
received news that his mother Madame Ogere
Siasia has been kidnapped in Bayelsa.


His mum was reportedly abducted at her house in
Odoni community of Sagama Local Council Area of
Bayelsa State earlier today 17th November,2015.



According to reliable reports, Madame Ogere Siasia
had her house stormed by the kidnappers that took
her away on a motorcycle.


Former Super Eagles player now coach of the
national U-23 football team, Samson Siasia has
received news that his mother Madame Ogere
Siasia has been kidnapped in Bayelsa.


His mum was reportedly abducted at her house in
Odoni community of Sagama Local Council Area of
Bayelsa State earlier today 17th November,2015.




ASP Ansinim Butswat, who is the Bayelsa state
police command’s spokesperson, has confirmed the
kidnap and assured that the force is on top of the
matter.




http://www.informationng.com/2015/11/mother-of-samson-siasia-kidnapped-in-bayelsa.html

President Buhari is set to formally launch
N20billion ‘Anchor Borrowers’ Programme’
which the Central Bank of Nigeria has set aside
for rice farmers across Nigeria.


The programme is an initiative of the CBN
aimed at creating an Ecosystem to link out-
growers (small holder farmers) to local
processors.


Femi Adesina, presidential media aide,
informed about this via his Twitter account
stating that that the leader of the nation has
already landed.



Up Baba Buhari

Na sacrifice or suicide?.......what ever RIP

According to reports reaching Naij.com, the robbers have been shooting sporadically into the air for about 45 minutes now. While many have decided to stay indoor to stay cover, Nigerians have been implored to stay off the route for now as we bring you more details later. Heard now there is serious robbery in festac town this morning… anybody passing that route should stay off

Its not an english forum. all i know its 9ja forum and i think i have a right to write with any kind of language..... am i right?

Duk da cewar Gomnatin tarayya ta tallafawa jahohi kimanin goma shatara wadanda suka hada da jihohi kamar haka


Abia (N14.152bn)
Adamawa ( N2.378bn)
Bauchi (N8.60bn)
Bayelsa (N12.85bn)
Benue (N28.013bn)
Borno (N7.680bn)
Cross River (N7.856bn)
Delta ( N10.036bn)
Ebonyi (N4.063bn)
Edo (N3.167bn)
Ekiti (N9.604bn)
Enugu (N4.207bn)
Gombe (N16.459bn)
Imo (N26.806bn)
Kastina (N3.304bn)
Kebbi (N0.690bn)
Kogi (N50.842bn)
Kwara (N4.320bn)
Nasarawa (N8.317bn)
Niger (N4.306bn)
Ogun (N20.00bn)
Ondo (N14.686bn)
Osun (N34.988bn)
Oyo ( N26.606bn )
Plateau (N5.357bn)
Sokoto (N10.093bn)
Zamfara (N10.02bn

da biliyoyin naira don share kurar basussukan da ma'aikata suke binsu na alawus alawus da sauransu.





A jahar Gombe dai abun kamar malam yaci shirwa, domin kuwa har yau ma'aikatan jahar basusan inda kudin yabiba, domin kuwa ba kudin ba labarinsu sannan kuma babu wata bayani daga Gomnatin jahar kan kudaden.

Duk da cewar Gomnatin tarayya ta tallafawa jahohi kimanin goma shatara wadanda suka hada da jihohi kamar haka


Abia (N14.152bn)
Adamawa ( N2.378bn)
Bauchi (N8.60bn)
Bayelsa (N12.85bn)
Benue (N28.013bn)
Borno (N7.680bn)
Cross River (N7.856bn)
Delta ( N10.036bn)
Ebonyi (N4.063bn)
Edo (N3.167bn)
Ekiti (N9.604bn)
Enugu (N4.207bn)
Gombe (N16.459bn)
Imo (N26.806bn)
Kastina (N3.304bn)
Kebbi (N0.690bn)
Kogi (N50.842bn)
Kwara (N4.320bn)
Nasarawa (N8.317bn)
Niger (N4.306bn)
Ogun (N20.00bn)
Ondo (N14.686bn)
Osun (N34.988bn)
Oyo ( N26.606bn )
Plateau (N5.357bn)
Sokoto (N10.093bn)
Zamfara (N10.02bn

da biliyoyin naira don share kurar basussukan da ma'aikata suke binsu na alawus alawus da sauransu.





A jahar Gombe dai abun kamar malam yaci shirwa, domin kuwa har yau ma'aikatan jahar basusan inda kudin yabiba, domin kuwa ba kudin ba labarinsu sannan kuma babu wata bayani daga Gomnatin jahar kan kudaden.

Sarki sunusi mai abun mamaki