Reno Omokri vs Atiku's former political adviser, Bashir Yusuf

Reno Omokri is special assistant to the president on new media while Mallam Bashir Yusuf is former VP Atiku Abubakar's political adviser and chairman of the Peoples Democratic Movement, PDM. The two men went at each other on Twitter last night over President Jonathan's Jerusalem Pilgrimage. See their tweets after the cut...

Seun Kuti on Stella Oduah's car scandal

Nigeria: Coscharis Chairman in Fresh Outburst

Chairman of Coscharis Motors Cosmos Maduka again expressed outburst yesterday at the House of Representatives investigative panel on the purchase of armoured cars valued at N255 million by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA).
The chairman on Wednesday alleged that the investigation was politically motivated. The committee had asked Coscharis to present some documents providing the chassis number of one of the cars.
It said one of the chassis numbers provided by Coscharis differed from the cars they inspected, raising suspicion among the lawmakers. But when Josiah Samuel who is Coscharis MD was called by the

Akpabio Denies Collecting N26.5bn

Gov Godswill Akpabio

Akwa Ibom government yesterday denied collecting some monies from ExxonMobil meant for the payment of compensation on the recent crude oil spill in four local government areas of the state.

It would be recalled that the National Oil Spill Environmental Agency (NOSRA) had approved about N26.5 billion as compensation for the recent oil spill in the affected communities of Eket, Esit-Eket, Ibeno and Onna

Sharia Court Judge Sacked over Corruption in Borno

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A Judge of the Sharia Court in Maiduguri, Alkali Mohammed Suguli has been dismissed by the Borno State Judicial Service Commission after he was found guilty of corruption.

Suguli, a Judge of Yerwa Civil Sharia Court I, Maiduguri, who was pronounced guilty of bribery and corruption, was said to have "unlawfully sold inherited property."

The expulsion of Suguli was contained in a statement signed by the Secretary of the Borno State Judicial Service Commission, Baba Goni Adam. 

Movie marketers threaten to blacklist Mercy Johnson

There is an underground plans by the movie marketers under the aegis of Film and Video Producers and Marketers Association of Nigeria, FVPMAN, to blacklist Mercy Johnson Okojie,, in what they call, “ Withdrawing of service from her.”

A highly placed source  who disclosed this latest move against the Actress  to HVP, said, the association decided to take this action, following the ‘unbecoming attitude of the actress as it affects  her work.”
According to our source, members of the association met last Monday, in Onitsha, Anambra State,  to fine-tune plans  to blacklist the actress who recently returned to Nollywood after months of being away in the United States, where she gave birth to her first child.

Ignore ASUU’s demands, NASU, NAAT, SSANU tell FG

NON Teaching staff in tertiary institutions in Nigeria, have advised the Federal Government to ignore the Memorandum of Understanding it entered into with the striking lecturers on the aegis of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, saying its implementation would lead to another round of crisis.

The Non Teaching Staff comprising Non-Academic Staff Union of Education and Associated Institutions, NASU, National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities,SSANU rather advised government to implement the 2009 agreements it entered with the unions in tertiary institutions.