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Monthly Archives: July 2016

TCN announces one-day complete power outage in some parts of Lagos

The Management of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Lagos Region, on Sunday announced a one-day power outage in some parts of Lagos on Monday to effect repairs. TCN announced the outage in a statement by its Public Relations Officer, Mr Celestina Osin, in Lagos. The statement said the areas that would be affected include Ikoyi, Victoria Island, Alagbon, Apapa, Ijora, …

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How Presidency marred arms probe to shield Dambazzau and Buratai

Facts have emerged that high-wired politics,  power play, intrigues bordering on vendetta and factional interests within the Presidency have marred the ongoing probe into the arms procurement between 2007 and 2015. It was  gathered that not many even within the Air Vice Marshal (AVM) John Odeh-led Presidential Arms Probe panel were pleased with the eventual outcome of the report, which …

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ND Avengers warns ExxonMobil not to fix Qua Iboe 48 pipeline

The Niger Delta Avengers has warned ExxonMobil subsidiary Mobil Producing Nigeria not to embark on the repairs of the blown up Qua Iboe 48” crude oil export pipeline, threatening that  “something big and worst will happen” will happen if the oil copany does not heed the warning.

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EFCC Arraigns Contractor for N2.4bn ONSA Contract Scam

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday July 15, 2016 arraigned one Olugbenga Obadina alongside his company, Almond Projects Limited, before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on an eight-count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust, corruption and money laundering to the tune of N2.4billion.

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Is Oshiomhole, APC candidate in the September 10 Governorship election?

While it is acceptable for him to be interested in who succeeds him as governor, his conduct is beginning to reminiscence the do-or-die approach of former President Olusegun Obasanjo when he went all out to ensure that Late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua succeeded him. In his desperation, Obasanjo did everything inconceivable, resulting in the election being discredited by many credible …

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Halliburton: Fayose justifies claim of Buhari wife’s involvement

Counsel to Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, has replied the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Mrs Aisha Buhari through her counsel, Mary Ekpere & Co, saying the governor’s claim as regards her involvement in the infamous Halliburton scandal was correct and justified in law. In the letter dated July 8, 2016, Ozekhome affirmed that the …

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