A Ghana-based Nigerian investigative journalist, David Hundeyin, has raised the alarm, saying that Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu, should be held responsible if anything happens to him (David) or if he dies.
Sources also told SaharaReporters that apart from the posh SUV for each federal lawmaker, Akpabio and Abass also budgeted billions of naira to buy bulletproof vehicles Toyota Hilux pickup trucks to have convoys stations in Uyo, Abuja and Lagos for the former and Kaduna, Lagos and Abuja for the latter.
The three affected nominees indicted in the DSS and NSA letters were a former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, Stella Okotete and Senator Abubakar Danladi from Taraba State.
In March 2022, a West Africa Weekly investigation exposed Amnesty International's Nigeria country director as a serial collaborator with Nigeria's secret police. Finally, she has been let go.
Notorious for persecuting journalists and presiding over a state with a scandalous out-of-school-children figure, Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has been donating millions to Oxford University.
In June 2022, SaharaReporters reported how the ICPC recovered funds (including foreign currencies) from a house registered to someone fronting for Buratai, a military contractor and Managing Director of K Salam Construction Company Nigeria Limited, Mr Kabiru Sallau.
Sources at the close-door executive session on Saturday told SaharaReporters that the senators would also prevail on the Nigerian government to restore power to the neighbouring country.
The Nigerian Senate is currently holding a closed-door executive session where senators have refused to listen to Senate President, Godswill Akpabio who urged them to support President Bola Tinubu’s decisions on the Niger Republic.
The Department of State Services (DSS), Nigeria’s secret police, has detained former Zamfara State governor and serving Senator, Abdul'aziz Yari, over N45billion reelection fund released under former president, Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
A former Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, is still calling the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) shots after ensuring that his son was secretly employed and resumed at the NCC office just beside his residence, SaharaReporters has learnt.
Former Bauchi state governor, Isa Yuguda, has said that the fuel subsidy scam was so profitable to those benefiting from it so much that one of them had asked a former president to stop the fuel subsidy as they were tired of making money.
Vice Preselect Kashim Shettima, on Tuesday, decorated Mr Kayode Egbetokun, as the Acting Inspector-General of Police, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. “I feel like a lion in me, ready to devour all the internal enemies of Nigeria. That’s my feeling right now,” Egbetokun told State House Correspondents after a short ceremony at the Vice Preselect’s Conference Room.
Former Presidiot Muhammadu Buhari, his “now powerless” nephew, Mamman Daura and his private secretary and another nephew, Sabiu “Tunde” Yusuf, have all left Nigeria for London, the United Kingdom.
Dr Chris Ngige attended the 2023 International Labour Conference on the last day with a large delegation and ended up doing nothing, as he had left office as the Minister of Labour and Employment.
Yari was badly hit by the loss to Akpabio as he was confident that he would get votes from the senators to whom he gave money. Former Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari last week ended up in a hospital in London, United Kingdom shortly after losing his Senate Presidential bid to Godswill Akpabio.