Turkish police detained seven people including four pilots on Thursday in an investigation of how ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn touched down in Istanbul as he fled Japan en route to Lebanon, according to reports.

Read more: https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2020/01/02/ghosns-escape-why-turkish-police-4-detain-pilots-others/

Fresh allegations of financial and reputational crisis have hit the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) following reports linking a serving Brigadier- General of the Nigerian Army, Brig-Gen Charles Nengite to alleged wire-transfer of about N3.6bn ($11.6m) to his wife’s account in the United States. Intelligence reports detailing $11.6m as the amount in question which was reportedly found in Mrs Nengite’s US private account have been reportedly dispatched to the Presidency .

Read more: https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2019/12/30/nddc-how-general-nengite-allegedly-wired-n3-6bn-into-wifes-us-account/

The Presidency has reacted to the release of the Convener of the Revolution Now protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore and a former National Security Adviser, Mr. Sambo Dasuki by the Department of State Service (DSS)

Read full story: https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2019/12/26/why-sowore-dasuki-was-released-despite-not-agreeing-to-court-verdicts-presidency/

Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen has responded to the accusations of false assets declaration by the Code of Conduct Bureau, clarifying that he forgot to update his asset declaration forms, according to some reports.

read more at http://www.newdiplomatng.com/2019/01/13/cjn-onnoghen-replies-code-of-conduct-bureau/

Says: ”Amosun’s Treachery akin to Modern day Akintola’s Misdeeds in Yoruba“
By The New Diplomat’s Political Intelligence Desk

A global coalition made up of prominent Nigerians in North America have commended President Muhammadu Buhari for stemming the past tide of corruption including previous acts that contravened political transparency and threatened to undermine the nation’s democracy in the nomination of candidates into political offices, warning that current attempts by Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State to impose one Adekunle Akinlade, (someone with unacceptable background) on the peace-loving and intelligent people of Ogun State amounted to not only grave political corruption and acts akin to the series of corrupt practices during dark days of the then ruling Peoples Democratic party (PDP) in “Nigeria which Nigerians have joyfully thrown to the dark pages of history” but also amounts to political treachery, acts comparable to late Akintola’s misdeeds against Yoruba interest during the First Republic.

The international forum which is one of the frontline umbrella bodies of eminent Nigerians in the Professions with its office in New York known as Coalition for Democratic Governance in Nigeria (CDGN) also accused Governor Amosun of attempting to work against the political interest of President Muhammadu Buhari and national stability ”through his alleged secret, dubious and clandestine plots to tarnish the image of the All Progressives Congress(APC), the party whose platform he rode on to power.”

The CDGN warned: ”The current political misconducts and actions of Governor Amosun is totally unacceptable, reprehensible and most unbecoming of a Governor. We want to put on record that people like Amosun who never fought for this hard-earned democracy during the trying days of NADECO are daily heating up the polity because his preferred candidate for the Ogun state Governorship, one Adekunle Akinlade, whose background remains questionable (just like Kemi Adeosun, who forged NYSC certificate yet she was the one whom Amosun appointed as Finance Commissioner in Ogun state and later recommended for Ministerial position thereby, bringing disrepute to Ogun state in particular, the Yoruba nation and Nigeria in general) was roundly rejected by the intelligent people of Ogun State who saw through the Governor’s smokescreen plots to impose another person whose background remains totally unacceptable and rejectable.”

The CDGN who applauded Buhari’s vision for Nigeria, especially his anti-corruption posture urged Nigerians not to listen to the antics of the opposition PDP and frustrated politicians who are hell-bent on turning back the country’s political clock, stressing that it is better to build ”the nation now with a credible President than to listen to some frustrated politicians who want to open the tap of corruption and at the end steal the country totally dry and empty with nothing for our children and succeeding generations.” “Sadly and ironically. Amosun is threading that infamous, dangerous and most satanic path at the moment given his conduct and actions which further bring disrepute to Nigeria’s global profile.”

It would be recalled that the CDGN, an umbrella body of Nigerian Professionals in North America, Europe and Asia that is committed to democratic and transparent governance in Nigeria had similarly last month petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari and the United Nations Headquarters in New York to call Governor Amosun of Ogun State to order over alleged attempts by the later to further rubbish Nigeria’s rising global profile in the comity of nations in general and Buhari’s international image in particular.

The CDGN with its office in New York in the petition addressed to President Buhari and copies submitted to the UN Secretary General’s Office had accused Governor Amosun of plotting surreptitiously to tarnish Nigeria’s rising global image through imposition and nomination of persons with dubious and questionable credentials to the Presidency, stressing that it” was Amosun’s shameful nomination of Kemi Adeosun, a crooked lady, who criminally forged an NYSC certificate to procure appointment, first as Ogun State Commissioner for Finance under Governor Amosun’s watch and later as Federal Finance Minister…thereby bringing Nigeria’s international profile to grave disrepute and inflicting unquantifiable damage on President Buhari administration’s image…”. The Group had continued :”In all of these and while the criminal drama lasted, Amosun, the man who forwarded Adeosun’s name to Buhari kept sealed lips, uttered nothing and pretended as if he knew nothing about the sordid drama while the Presidency and Nigeria as country bore the shameful brunt of his alleged misdeeds. And rather than Governor Amosun showing grave remorse and tendering public apology to Nigerians over the irreparable damage he inflicted on Nigeria’s image by nominating someone who criminally skipped NYSC and proceeded to illegally procure a fake NYSC exemption Certificate to procure nomination for Ministerial position (Kemi Adeosun), he is currently busy trying again “to impose one Adekunle Akinlade, another person whose background remains totally unacceptable to the people of Ogun State, an act which cannot Stand and should never be tolerated at any rate because the people of Ogun State have in a transparent, democratic, fair and open process and primary, chosen Dapo Abiodun, a well known professional and a solid technocrat to take Ogun State to the next level.”

The CDGN which then asked the Presidency to call Amosun to order and ask him to desist from further clandestine moves to rubbish the country’s rising international profile had queried: ”How can somebody who nominated a crooked lady as Minister now want to dictate who would be Governor of a viable, well educated, enlightened and great State as Ogun…We cannot take further risk. Nigeria as a country is yet to recover from that Amosun’s alleged misadventure.”

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop deluding themselves and come to terms .

read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/08/10/pdp-blows-hot-apc-cant-impeach-saraki-ekweremadu/

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has discovered 19 illegal polling units in Akwa Ibom State.

read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/08/06/inec-discovers-19-illegal-polling-units-in-akwa-ibom/

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Wednesday urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to begin the probe of President Muhammadu.

read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/08/02/security-vote-probe-buhari-first-ortom-blast-efcc/

A Sokoto legislator has made a stunning claim of bribery against Gov. Aminu Tambuwal, who left the All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday.

read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/08/02/tambuwal-offered-me-%E2%82%A613m-to-dump-apc-says-sokoto-lawmaker/

The All Progressives Congress has urged the Senate president, Bukola Saraki, to quit the office after he defected to the opposition.


read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/08/01/apc-blows-hot-demands-sarakis-resignation-as-senate-president/

The Executive Governor of Sokoto State and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has also .

read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/08/01/breaking-kwara-assembly-speaker-others-dump-apc/

Eight out of 30 lawmakers in Benue State House of Assembly have served an impeachment notice on Governor Samuel Ortom.

read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/07/30/breaking-8-apc-lawmakers-serve-gov-ortom-impeachment-notice/

Real Madrid have dismissed as "absolutely untrue" reports of a €310 million bid for Paris Saint-Germain's Neymar that sparked rumours.

read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/07/04/real-deny-neymar-bid-as-ronaldo-rumours-swirl/

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted bail to the former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd).

read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/07/02/breaking-court-grants-ex-nsa-sambo-dasuki-bail/

Joe Jackson, patriarch of pop’s most famous family, has died aged 89, his family has said.

read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/06/27/breaking-michael-jacksons-father-joe-jackson-dies-at-89/

The Department of State Services (DSS) says it has arrested, in Kukuntu village, Gwagwalada, Abuja, two Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/06/21/dss-arrests-two-isis-commanders-in-abuja/

The Ekiti State Police Command has clarified that the convoy of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi

READ MORE AT https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/06/20/police-fayemis-convoy-did-not-knock-down-any-pedestrian/

The Ekiti State Police Command has clarified that the convoy of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.

read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/06/20/police-fayemis-convoy-did-not-knock-down-any-pedestrian/

The criminal trial of Peter Nwaoboshi, a Peoples’ Democratic Party senator, began Wednesday at the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court.

read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/06/20/trial-of-pdp-senator-peter-nwaoboshi-begins/

There are indications that members of the outgoing national working committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) party seeking re-election

read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/06/20/convention-anxiety-in-apc-over-unity-list-of-aspirants/

The All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign aimed at gaining support for the flag bearer in the July 14 Ekiti governorship election

read more here https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/06/19/live-osinbajo-oyegun-tinubu-storm-ekiti-for-apc-gov-campaign/

The scheduled mega rally of Mr. Kayode Fayemi, the governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) for the July 14 election in Ekiti state

read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/06/19/%e2%80%8eekiti-apcs-mega-rally-witnesses-tight-security/

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Monday advised the All Progressives Congress (APC) to be ready to accept defeat in the July 14 governorship election in Ekiti State.

read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/06/18/atiku-apc-should-be-ready-to-accept-defeat-in-ekiti/

The Nigeria Police Force says it prevented an attempt to kidnap the Deputy Comptroller of the Nigeria Customs Service and her family members n Saturday.

read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/06/18/police-foil-attempt-to-kidnap-deputy-comptroller-of-customs-in-lagos/

read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/06/17/2019-makarfi-declares-intention-to-run-for-president/

Super Eagles’ Head Coach, Gernot Rohr said the team’s 0-2 loss to Croatia in their opening match of Russia 2018 was due to “many mistakes’’.


read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/06/17/croatia-2-0-victory-rohr-admits-making-too-many-important-mistakes/

…Expresses worry over rising violence, despite huge security spending Canvasses state police
Worried about the incessant killings and rising level of insecurity in Nigeria, a former Chief of Army Staff and member of the defunct National Democratic Coalition, General Alani Akinrinade (retd.)

read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/06/17/buhari-must-change-nigerias-security-architecture-says-akinrinade/

• Chieftains under pressure from supporters over timing, party

Plans by members of the nPDP to dump the All Progressives Congress (APC) appears stalled for now, seven days to the crucial national convention of the ruling party.

read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/06/17/deadlock-in-npdp-over-defection-plan/

Falmata Abubakar, the mother of the Boko Haram factional leader, Shekau Abubakar, has regretted the many havocs wreaked by her son on innocent citizens following decade of attacks and hostilities against Nigeria

read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/06/16/my-son-brought-problems-for-many-people-shekaus-mother-laments/

Former President Goodluck Jonathan thrice rebuffed suggestions he bestow the Grand Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic honour on Chief MKO Abiola.

read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/06/15/kola-abiola-jonathan-thrice-rejected-gcfr-for-mko/

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has berated the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EfCC for their unconcealed bias in their execution of the anti corruption war in the country.

read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/06/14/secondus-attacks-efcc-for-harassing-pdp-states/

For allegedly conducting himself in a violent manner at plenary among other misconduct, the Ekiti State House of Assembly has suspended

read more at https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/06/13/ekiti-assembly-suspends-member-for-alleged-violent-conduct/