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The Presidency is constrained to respond to the banner headline story in a national newspaper of Wednesday, April 26, entitled: BUHARI'S GOVT HARASSING MY FAMILY, SAYS JONATHAN. The paper said former President Goodluck Jonathan made the allegation in a new book, "Against The Run of Play", written by the Chairman of ThisDay Editorial Board, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi. The former president also reportedly disagreed with the style being used by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari in fighting corruption. We make bold to state unequivocally that President Buhari harasses nobody; he merely allows the law to take its course. For the umpteenth time, we say that anybody without skeleton in his or her cupboard, has nothing to fear about the bared fangs of the anti-corruption initiative. Fear belongs only to those who have abused trust while in office. Anybody who feels aggrieved is free to approach the courts to seek redress or justice. Pres...

President Muhammadu Buhari has requested for the approval of the National Assembly to borrow $6.9b for infrastructural development.  Buhari, in a letter read by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, said $5.8bn would be borrowed from the Chinese Exim bank for the repair of the railway transport sector.  He said $1.1b would be taken from the World Bank for the North East geopolitical zone and social security program of his administration.

Justice Abdulaziz Anka of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on Monday, April 24, 2017 ordered the interim forfeiture of a 12-storey building belonging to Peter Nwaoboshi, a serving Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and two companies; Golden Touch Construction Project Limited and Bilderberg Enterprises Limited for alleged contract Scam of N1.5bn. Nwaoboshi's company is alleged to have supplied second-hand equipment to the Delta State Director Labour Agency sometime in 2010 through his company Bilderberg Enterprises Limited while the Delta State Government paid for new ones. The contract is alleged to have been worth N1.580bn and the property in question is located at 27, Marine Road, Apapa. Counsel to the EFCC, George Chia-Yakua argued that his ex parte application was brought pursuant to Section 44 (2)(k) of the Constitution and sections 28 and 29 of the EFCC (Establishment) Act 2004. Chia-Yakua urged the court to grant an interim...

After a comment that went viral on social media , where a police officer was alleged to have said that if President Buhari dies, he will kill 200 Nigeria. The Nigerian Police PRO, have released a statement to that effect. Read below, what the Force Public Relations Officer have to say.  Credit to:  Abia Facts Newspaper

Lai Mohammed, minister of information, says ‎President Muhammadu Buhari will now work from his residence at the presidential villa. He was speaking to state house correspondents at the end of the meeting of the federal executive council (FEC) chaired by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo in Buhari’s absence. He said Buhari needed some rest and has asked that all the files on his desk be brought to him at his official residence for treatment. Details later… Thecable

The Federal High Court Lagos on Wednesday granted a fresh exparte application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for an order forfeiting the sum of $5.8 million belonging to former First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan. EFCC wants the sum forfeited to the Federal Government pending the determination of the motion on notice. Justice Mojisola Olatoregun held: “Order is granted as prayed” The new order was granted 24 hours after the EFCC withdrew a pending application for stay of the court’s judgment which had earlier unfrozen Jonathan’s account.

Inusa Saidu Biu, a police officer from Biu, an LGA in Borno state has threatened to kill at least 200 people if anything happens to President Buhari. According to the armed officer, Buhari was poisoned but still survived. Now they're trying to force him to resign so that corruption will continue in the govt. Inusa threatened Nigerians in his post on Facebook, saying if anything happens to the president, he will murder 200 innocent people in revenge. Hopefully the Police Force will immediately take action.

“President Barack Obama and his officials made it very clear to me by their actions that they wanted a change of government in Nigeria and we’re ready to do anything to achieve that purpose. They even brought some naval ships into the Gulf of Guinea in the days preceding the election. I got on well with Prime Minister David Cameron but at some point, I noticed that the Americans were putting pressure on him and he had to join them against me. But I didn’t realise how far President Obama was prepared to go to remove me until France caved in to the pressure from America. But weeks to the election, he had also joined the Americans in supporting the opposition against me. There was this blanket accusation that my body language was supporting corruption, a line invented by the opposition but which the media and civil society bought into and helped to project to the world. That was the same thing I kept hearing from the Americans without specific allegat...