'Obasanjo runs his mouth to remain relevant' - Ayo Fayose says.

In a recent interview with The Sun, Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, says 79 year old former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, runs his mouth just to remain relevant in the political scene.

"Do you ever take Obasanjo seriously? I don’t take him seriously. By his nature, Obasanjo wants relevance at all times.

Over 40,000 people sign petition for Obama to run for Presidency in France!

Some French Citizens, faced between the choice of electing scandal-hit politicians, are opting to hire Barack Obama as the President of France.

A campaign spreading across France has garnered support with over 40,000 people putting their signature on a petition to have Obama run for the French presidency.
Organizers of the unofficial Obama17 campaign have spread posters across Paris with the slogan "Oui on peut" which translates in English to "Yes we can ".

The LGBT rights page has been erased from the Whitehouse website now that Donald Trump is president!

Shortly after Donald Trump assumed office, everything on the Whitehouse’ official website was moved and archived on a new Obama website and was replaced with a Trump site!

The updated WhiteHouse.gov website neglected to include certain social issues that seem to matter to some America citizens, issues like LGBT rights, Civil rights and climate change.

New Policy - You can now report a financial crime and earn 5% from the recovered sum!

The Nigerian Government has reportedly approved a policy that would see it paying 'whistle-blowers' to encourage the reporting of crimes and other scandals.

Premium Times reports that part of the highlights of the new policy is that whistle-blowers, whose revelations lead to recovery of money, would be entitled to up to five percent of the recovered sum.

The report says the policy was approved Wednesday, December 21, 2016 at the meeting of the Federal Executive Council , chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari inside the Council Chamber of the Aso Rock Villa.

I don’t care how sick you are, stay alive long enough to cast a vote - Donald Trump.

GOP presidential nominee, Donald Trump, had this message for America’s terminally ill people on Wednesday: 'Stay alive long enough to cast a vote for him next month'.

“I don’t care how sick you are,” Trump said at a rally in Henderson, Nevada. “I don’t care if you just came back from the doctor and he gave you the worst possible prognosis, meaning it’s over, you won’t be around in two weeks. Doesn’t matter. Hang out till Nov. 8. Get out and vote.”

Speaking, Trump then assured those dying people that, after they are gone, “all we’re going to say is, ‘We love you and we will remember you always.’”

To be fair, Trump prefaced his comments by saying “I say kiddingly, but I mean it.”

President Obama and wife celebrate 24th wedding anniversary with loved up photos.

President Obama and wife, Michelle, have been married since 1992 and have two beautiful daughters, 18-year-old Malia and 15-year-old Sasha. He shared the photos on his Twitter and Instagram pages. See another photo after the cut...

Court to rule on Patience Jonathan $15.5m October 7.

 

A former Special Adviser on Domestic Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Waripamo Dudafa, yesterday, urged the Federal High Court in Lagos to nullify the guilty plea by four companies linked to Jonathan’s wife, Patience.

The companies, on September 15, pleaded guilty to laundering $15,591,700 (about N5billion) when they were arraigned.

Slaughter any straying cow found in Abuja City - Senate to Abuja residents.

Chairman of the Senate Committee on FCT, Dino Melaye, yesterday, asked residents of the FCT to, henceforth, slaughter straying cows found in the city. He said this when the Minister of the FCT, Mohammed Bello, appeared before the committee, ‎yesterday, September 26th.

EFCC uncovers new 9 houses, 2 hotels, one plaza allegedly owned by Patience Jonathan.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigators probing ex-First Lady, Patience Jonathan’s link with five choice buildings, including a N5billion hotel in Abuja, have unearthed seven additional properties believed to be owned by her.
The detectives were in Port Harcourt (Rivers State) and Yenagoa (Bayelsa State) all week trying to establish whether four properties in the two cities truly belong to Mrs. Jonathan.

Those who stole from Nigeria recruited militants in the Niger Delta to fight us - Pres Buhari says.

President Buhri yesterday, said that those, who stole Nigeria dry, are angry with his government and so have recruited the services of militants in the Niger Delta to fight his government. He said this while addressing a group of Nigerians professionals residing in the US.

"We got into trouble as a country, because we did not save for the rainy day. For example, between 1999 and 2015, when we produced an average of 2.1 million barrels of oil per day, and oil prices stood at an average of $100 per barrel, we did not save, neither did we develop infrastructure. Suddenly, when we came in 2015, oil prices fell to about 30 dollars per barrel. I asked; where are the savings? There were none.

Dame Patience Jonathan says alleged slush fund accounts belong to her late mum.

 

A twist has occurred in the alleged slush accounts traced to  former First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan. According to her counsels, two of the accounts among the 5 in dispute, belong to Dame's late mother, Madam Charity Fyneface Oba. Mama Peace's counsel, Mr. Charles Ogboli,  also admitted that only three of the five accounts in dispute could be traced to the ex-First Lady and her mum.
At press time, it was gathered that Mrs. Jonathan was in Abuja, where she was strategising on how to win her case.

$15m: Niger Delta group vows to bomb NNPC Towers in Abuja if Patience Jonathan is arrested.

A group, known as The Niger Delta Peoples Professional Volunteer Force (NDPPVF), have released a Statement vowing to bomb the four wings of the NNPC towers in Abuja if former first lady, Patience Jonathan, is arrested over the $15million found in her account.

Spokesman of the group, Parkinson George-Amabo, in the Statement released yesterday, said it is not in support of corruption, but against the manner in which the antigraft agency has carried out its investigation into the foreign currency linked to Mrs Jonathan. ‎The Statement in part reads;

Former First Lady, Turai Yar’adua's Domestic Worker Arrested For Alleged N91 Million Fraud.

The Police Command in Katsina, on Tuesday, said that it had arrested a 60-year-old domestic worker serving former first lady, Turai Yar’adua, over missing goods worth N91 million. 
  
The police Commissioner in the State, Usman Abdullahi, disclosed this to journalists on Tuesday in Katsina.
“The police has arrested Alhaji Yusuf Sarkin-gida after a formal complaint by Hajiya Turai Yar’adua to the Police two weeks ago.

Obaseki vows to produce 100 millionaires in four years if voted Edo Governor.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, flag bearer in the coming Edo State governorship election, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has promised to produce 100 millionaires in four years, if given the mandate to govern the State. Speaking in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area, Obaseki said the State was too endowed with natural resources for it to be riddling in poverty.

Nigerians Clap Back At President Buhari Over His Tweet On Meeting Obama...

Nigerians Nawa o! Lol.. Not only did they curse out their President, they also tagged President Obama's twitter handle so that he'd see what they were saying!

President Buhari in bilateral meeting with US President Barack Obama (Photos).

President Buhari, yesterday, was in bilateral meeting with US President, Barack Obama, at the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting (UNGA 71) in New York.. More photos after the cut..

Patience Jonathan Gives EFCC 14 Days To Defreeze Her Accounts.

SOLICITOR to former First Lady, Mrs. Patience Goodluck Jonathan, First Law Associates, has given the Economic and Financial Commission, EFCC, 14 days, with effect from September 18th, to defreeze her accounts and tender a public apology to her. 

Senior Partner, First Law Associates, Timipa Okponipere Esq. in an open letter to EFCC chairman, Ibrahim Magu, urging the Commission to leave Mrs. Jonathan alone, warned that it refused to conform: “We shall file an action at the African Commission on Human Rights at the Gambia demanding N5 billion in exemplary and punitive damages.” The solicitor observed: “There is no established legal or political precedent for what the EFCC is currently doing to our client.

President Buhari is Nigeria’s major problem - Governor Fayose.

 

According to a Statement issued in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has described President Muhammadu Buhari as the major problem of Nigeria that Nigerians must solve, saying; “Our President, through his actions and inactions, is destroying everything that makes Nigeria a country and well-meaning Nigerians must stand-up to be counted in the crusade to save the country from going under.”

The Governor said it was President Buhari that went to foreign countries to de-market Nigeria by calling all Nigerians thieves and dishonest people, asking; “Which foreign investor will invest his money in a country of dishonest people? Who made investors to leave Nigeria if not President Buhari, who created atmosphere of economic and political instability in the country by his acts of nepotism and vindictiveness?”...

EFCC to invite Patience Jonathan's security aides over $15m scandal.

EFCC operatives have reportedly written to the Department of State Security requesting for permission to interrogate some of the security aides of former First lady, Patience Jonathan, who is currently involved in a $15 million scandal.

The anti-graft agency believes that the security aides of Mrs Jonathan helped deposit cash into the controversial accounts of companies that have been linked to her and are under investigation for money laundering and fraud.

$15m Scandal: Patience Jonathan Claims Hired Mercenaries Of EFCC Pleaded Guilty.

Former First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has picked holes in the authenticity of the representatives of the four companies who pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of money laundering at a Federal High Court in Lagos, presided over by Justice Babs Kuewumi.
 
The 1st, 2nd and 3rd defendants told the court through their counsel that their clients were challenging the validity of the representatives of Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited; Seagate Property Development and Investment Company Limited; Trans Ocean Property and Investment Company Limited; and Avalon Global Property Development Company Limited on the basis that they failed to produce a letter of authority to represent the companies as required under section 477 (2) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015.