Recently, majority of the electorate in Osun rained curses on Ismail Omipidan (who has been nicknamed Omiparo) because of his penchant for lies and mischief. The electorate were reacting to Omipidan’s article where he cursed them for rejecting his principal, Adegboyega Oyetola to vote for Senator Ademola Adeleke as the Governor of Osun State in 2022. Obviously, Omipidan is yet to heal himself of the wound he suffered from the avoidable defeat of his principal in the election. That is responsible for the frivolous claims, allegations and attacks on individuals, groups and organisations he perceived to be responsible for Oyetola’s…
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Following the recent outburst of the Governor of Kaduna state, Senator Uba Sani that the huge debt left behind by his predecessor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai makes it difficult for the state to pay workers’ salaries, a former National Vice Chairman, North-west of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Salihu Lukman said he was aware of the growing animosity between the duo. TheHintsNews reports that Sani at a Town Hall meeting in Kaduna, on Saturday, March 30, 2024, raised the alarm that he inherited a huge debt of $587 million, N85 billion, and 115 contractual liabilities from the administration el-Rufai. He…
The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction and sentencing of 42 fraudsters before Justices A.M Liman, M.N Yunusa, Darius Khobo, A.A Bello and A.A Isiaka. The agency in a statement issued Saturday said 32 of the convicts were jailed by Justices Liman and Yunusa of the Federal High Court, sitting in Kano while the remaining 10 were jailed by Justices Khobo, Bello and Isiaka in Kaduna. They were all jailed after pleading guilty to one-count separate charges preferred against them by the EFCC. The 32 convicts jailed in Kano are: Happy…
The Arewa Youth for Peace and Security (AYPS) has called on the Zamfara State Governor Dauda Lawal, to stop unwarranted attacks against his predecessor, Bello Mohammed Matawalle, who currently serves as the Minister of State for Defence. The organisation asked the governor to face governance and allow the minister to concentrate on his own job too. The group in a statement by its president, Abubakar Kankia, noted that Lawal has been consistently using the name of Matawalle, to deflect blame on the insecurity bedeviling the state, which was supposed to be his major focus. He stated that an online platform…
I am compelled to ask this question because of what I knew before I came in contact with my Principal, Adegboyega Oyetola in July, 2019, and even afterwards. I am aware that Oyetola reluctantly accepted to serve as the Chief of Staff to Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. I am equally aware that he served him diligently and was brutally loyal to him. Not many people would accept the change of role and never laced it with some form of arrogance. Aregbesola himself admitted publicly that when people say they struggled to plant the seed of the progressives in Osun, there were…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dared the Governor of Rivers state, Siminilayi Fubara to test his popularity by conducting the local government elections in the state. TheHintsNews reports that the conduct of the local government elections was part of the resolutions reached at the meeting summoned by the President Bola Tinubu during the political crisis in the state. Having implemented six out of eight resolutions, the APC wondered why the governor had refused conducting the election. The Chairman of APC in Rivers state, Tony Okocha, while addressing a press conference at the national secretariat of the party on Friday…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has increased the minimum capital base of banks to N500 billion. The CBN in disclosed this in a circular titled, “Review of minimum capital requirements for commercial, merchant and non-interest banks _in Nigeria”, issued to all commercial, Merchant and non-interest banks; and promoters of proposed banks on Thursday. It reads: “The prevailing macroeconomic challenges and headwinds occasioned by external and domestic shocks have underscored the need for banks to raise and maintain adequate capital to enhance their resilience, solvency and capacity to continue to support the growth of the Nigerian economy. “Consequently, in furtherance…
The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has blamed the power outage currently experienced in the nation’s capital on system failure from the national grid. It added that the system failure from the national grid was causing power outages being experienced across all its franchise areas. The Abuja disco in a statement issued Thursday appealed to its customers, while assuring that they are working hard to restore normal supply. It said: “Dear Valued Customers, Please be informed that the current power outage is due to a system failure from the National Grid. “The system collapsed at about 16:28 hours today 28…
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission, (EFCC) on Monday, March 25, 2024 arraigned Sufiyanu Yahaya and Mudassir Idris before Justice ibrahim Karaye of the Kano State High Court. The duo were arraigned on one-count separate charges bordering on misappropriation of funds to the tune of N20,500,000. The agency in a statement issued Thursday said while Yahaya allegedly misappropriated a sum of N11,500,000 belonging to a petitioner meant for the supply of rice, Idris allegedly misappropriated the sum of N9,000,000 belonging to a petitioner meant for the purchase of 360 pieces of solar panels. The charge against Yahaya reads: ‘’That you…
The Inter-Party Advisory Council of Nigeria (IPAC) has called for public funding of the nation’s registered political parties to deepen democracy and good governance. The National Chairman of IPAC, Yusuf Dantalle, made the call on Wednesday in Abuja, at the formal unveiling of the ‘IPAC Strategic Action Plan 2024-2028’ on deepening democracy in Nigeria. The event was organised by IPAC, the Westminister Foundation for Democracy (WFD) under the Nigeria Open Political Party (NOPP) project. He said that the action plan cover the goals and aspirations of political parties in Nigeria, as it contains actions to be taken to ensure public…