Benue Reps member swindles ex- member over N7.6billion contract...

A member of the House of Representatives, from Benue State, Hon. Adamu Ochepo Entonu have been accused of fraud by a former member of the same House. In a petition written to the Police, copy of which was made available to our Reporter, one Hon.J. Idemeto, who is now a businessman claimed to have paid the total sum of 4.3million Naira to the Zenith Bank account of Hon. Ochepo Entonu at his behest and direction in order to secure a contract which ha since proved non-existing.

HOW BUDGET PADDING AND FINANCING JONATHAN ELECTION GOT 23 PARASTATAL HEADS INTO TROUBLE...

Many of them must have been used to doing it. Unknown to them, the cart and the mouse game between the National Assembly and the Federal government coupled with increasing circumspection of members of the Federal cabinet meant that it was no longer government as usual.
Abujareporters.com gathered that many of the removed heads of parastatals lost their jobs over the way and manner they inflated the budgets of their departments as presented to the National Assembly. They were alleged to have been quickly sought out by the EFCC after comparisons were done between the budget heads submitted to the President by their ministries and those allegedly presented to the Senate.

PUBLISHER CALLS FOR SACK OF CBN GOVERNOR...

 As the Naira continues its downward turn against the dollar, publisher Newsday Newspaper Chief Edet Isong has called for the sack of the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Godwin Emefiele. According to him the CBN Governor has plunged the Nigerian economy into an unprecedented tumble and made life wretched for Nigerians. This evidently isn’t the change that citizens voted for. There has been consistency in the poor management of the country’s forex and the fluctuation of the Naira on daily basis since Emefiele became governor. Many businesses have either been crippled or collapsed as a result of his poor handling of the economy, none of his policies have lasted for two weeks and he is yet to take proactive measures to stabilize the exchange rate and forestall inflation and unpredictable currency valuation system. According to financial experts the current decline will be persistent and there is currently no solution in sight.

POLICE ARRESTS HOMOSEXUAL GROOM AND BRIDE AS THEY WED...

Last week, residents of Jiwa community in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) witnessed a ceremony marking the solemnisation of a gay marriage in the area. DAVID ADUGE-ANI reports that the ceremony was however cut short by the intervention of men of the Nigeria police who promptly arrested the suspects.
On Saturday February 6, 2016 a popular hotel in Jiwa Community of Abuja, King’s Land Hotel hosted two male guests who were there to celebrate their marriage, otherwise known as same-sex marriage.

NORTHERN AGENDA FOR NBC?

We told you before...
Three weeks ago, through our sister-blog, abujareporters.com, we disclosed how some elements within the National Broadcasting Commission wanted Emeka Mba out by spuriously alleging that some money was missing from the Commission’s accounts. The EFCC had picked Mba for over four weeks and he was neither charged to court nor freed even when stakeholders went on national

INTEGRITY GROUP ASKS BUHARI TO DO MORE OF GOVERNANCE THAN TOURING, TRIAL BY THE MEDIA...

An NGO, Initiative for Integrity and Good Leadership has praised the President for his bold step in cleaning the Augean stable left by his predecessor while also advising the President to do ore of governance than touring. According to the group’s spokesperson Titus Kilanko, ‘President Buhari must sit down and do the real governance now. The economy is suffering. From 224 Naira to the Dollar, the Naira has slipped to about 350 Naira which is the worst in the life of this nation. Knowing fully well that nothing ever comes down after going up in Nigeria, we can all see the direction the economy is going if we don’t avoid the looming disaster.