Ray Ekpu, co-founder of Newswatch magazine, has dismissed the allegation of Chris Omeben, a retired police officer, who accused him of hiding the prime suspect in the murder of late Dele Giwa. Omeben accused Kayode Soyinka, London correspondent of Newswatch at the time, of being behind Giwa’s death, saying Ekpu shielded Soyinka from justice. “I…
Atedo Peterside is sad and that is because the proverbial frost of misfortune has carved into his fate, the disaster of ill-luck. The Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRC) has suspended the Chairman of Stanbic IBTC bank, Mr. Peterside Atedo; Managing Director, Mrs. Sola David-Borha and KPMG’s Arthur Oginga and Dr. Daru Owei over accounting…
It is as if the battle line will never seize to be drawn between political godfather, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and President Muhammadu Buhari. Current situation in the country attests to this. The two politicians are obviously not in good times if information at our disposal is anything to go by. We gathered that few weeks…
Many Nigerians know that the country’s Senate President, Bukola Saraki has been seriously enmeshed in various controversies in his career both as businessman and politician. Some years back, Bukola Saraki was involved in an alleged boardroom manipulations that crippled the once beloved Societé Generale Bank of Nigeria (SGBN) as exclusive details of the charges to…
The Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode hoped to swear in members of his cabinet on the 5th of October, 2015, believing that members of the state’s House of Assembly would have screened the nominated men and women whom he wished to work with. But these hope were dashed on Tuesday as the honourable members of…
Serial governorship aspirant Ndutimi Alaibe is back on what he knows how to do best, withdrawing from governorship contention. The topmost contender for the All Progressives Congress governorship race in Bayelsa State, Alaibe, a former managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), said he withdrew from the contest in the interest of the…
Erstwhile Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Dikko Abdullahi Inde has surely prepared for life after retirement. The Musawa, Katsina State-born Customs officer is rumoured to have acquired vast hectares of land and also purchased various modern-day equipment to commence operation. It is also hinted that Dikko Inde has employed workers for the farm. Not…
Information reaching Global News affirmed that the Ologudu of Ogudu, Oba Waheed Fashola is currently entangled in a land crisis that may threaten his throne and probably give him some level of disrespect from his subjects. The monarch is alleged to have sold lands at the Ogudu foreshore which actually belong to a top chieftain…
Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai yesterday went into an outburst when some critics faults his political appointments so far describing it as lopsided. El-Rufai who visibly lost his temper while answering questions from stakeholders at the 4th town hall meeting with Kaduna Central, otherwise known as zone 2, said he could not give appointment…
