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A journalist with Daily Trust newspaper, Eyo Charles, has shed more light into what transpired during a press briefing with a former Minister of Aviation in Nigeria, Femi Fani-Kayode. In a viral video , Fani-Kayode, who recently took a tour of some South-South and South-East states, described the journalist as ‘very stupid’ for asking who was bankrolling his trip. Reacting via a statement, Fani-Kayode said he had no apology to offer , insisting that the journalist’s comment was insulting. However, in a statement on Tuesday, the reporter gave a full account of what transpired during the media briefing. Charles said the former minister sent one of his security aides to further threaten him after the press conference. He said, “It took the intervention and pleas from Chief Press Secretary to Governor Ayade, Mr Christian Ita, and other journalists before the ex-minister would leave the Daily Trust reporter, saying, ‘You can go ahead and write your rubbish. I have marked you’. ...

Obadiah Mailafia A former Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr Obadiah Mailafia, has resigned his post as a directing staff at the National institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Jos, Plateau State. The news was confirmed by his lawyer, Yakubu Bawa, on Tuesday. Obadiah Mailafia Mailafia’s resignation has been linked to his comments on insecurity and killings in Southern Kaduna during a radio interview, The Nation reports. During the radio programme, Mailafia alleged that a Northern governor was commander of Boko Haram, which led to him being invited twice by the Department of State Services in Jos for questioning before the police invited him to Abuja. On Monday, the former CBN Deputy Governor approached a high court in Plateau for enforcement of his rights after declining the police invitation. See Also Boko Haram Former CBN Deputy Governor, Mailafia, Shuns Police Invitation Over Boko Haram Comments, Heads To Court 0 Comments 1 Day Ago Insurg...

Femi Fani-Kayode, former Minister of Aviation in Nigeria, has said that he owed nobody apology for verbally attacking a journalist during a press conference. SaharaReporters had reported how Fani-Kayode attacked Eyo Charles, a journalist with Daily Trust newspaper, who asked him a question during a press briefing in Calabar, Cross River State, last week. Charles had asked the former minister if his recent trips to some South-South and South-West states were sponsored when Fani-Kayode rained verbal assualt at him. The ex-minister said, “I could see from your face before you got here, how stupid you are. Don’t ever talk to me like that. Who do you think you’re talking to. Bankrol who? You think I am one of those ones you… from who, when, how? You have a small mind, very small mind. Don’t judge me by your own standards.” The development has since triggered reactions among Nigerians with most condemning Fani-Kayod’s action. But reacting via a statement on Twitter, Fani-Kayode i...

Mallam Nasir el-Rufai came into limelight in 1999 when democracy returned back to the country after a 16-year hiatus of military misrule. The then President, Olusegun Obasanjo, made el-Rufai the Director-General of the Bureau for Public Enterprises, which was saddled with the gargantuan responsibility of disposing some of the assets hitherto held by the government to private investors. It was as the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory that his name became permanently etched in the minds of many Nigerians as he had the ambition of restoring the original master plan of the city. Many houses including those owned by prominent Nigerians were bulldozed as the then diminutive minister spared no one and took no prisoners. Some of his die-hard supporters pushed his name forward as a possible successor to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in 2007 after the alleged failure of the latter’s third term bid. For some reasons best known to Baba Iyabo as the former President is fondly called, he...

former Vice Chancellor University of Lagos, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe and former Pro-Chancellor Dr. Wale Babalakin , SAN WHEN the dust of controversy in the University of Lagos finally settles, facts will become clearer as to whether or not, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, the 12th Vice-Chancellor of the institution, misappropriated the institution’s resources and violated several provisions of the laws, including paying for bogus contracts, contract splitting,  disregard of due process and abuse of approval limits. According to the report of the Council Committee on the Review of Expenditure of the University of Lagos between 2017 and 2018, the professor of Botany engaged in “financial recklessness” and “abuse office”, amounting to breach of the  Public Procurement Act 2007 ,  Financial Regulations Act 2009  and the university’s guidelines. former Vice Chancellor University of Lagos, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe and former Pro-Chancellor Dr. Wale B...

Wole Soyinka Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has asked the National Executive of the Association of Nigerian Authors to cancel the commemoration being planned to mark the 50th anniversary of his prison memoirs ‘The Man Died’. ANA had earlier announced a conference with the theme ‘Literature in the Cause of Governance – 50 Years After Wole Soyinka’s The Man Died’, to be supervised by an organising committee under the Chairmanship of Prof Gbemisola Adeoti of the Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria. Wole Soyinka But in a statement on Tuesday, Soyinka said he had told the organisers to put off the event. Soyinka said, “For the avoidance of any doubt, I wish to confirm that I initiated the request to the National Executive of the Nigerian Association of Authors to put off the commemoration that is being planned for a 50th anniversary of my prison memoirs: The Man Died. “This is only partly due to the current unsettled social conditions caused b...

The Air Task Force of Operation LAFIYA DOLE on Tuesday said several key leaders and fighters of the Islamic State of West Africa Province were killed during an air strike at Kirta Wulgo and Sabon Tumbun in the Northern part of Borno State. John Enenche, Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, made this known in a statement. The statement reads in part, “The missions were conducted on the heels of credible intelligence reports indicating that some ISWAP leaders and fighters had relocated to Sabon Tumbun due to the impact of the recent air strikes at the nearby island settlement of Tumbuma Baba. “Similarly, up to 15 high-ranking ISWAP commanders along with scores of their fighters were harboured at Kirta Wulgo, which serves as administrative headquarters and training camp for ISWAP. “Accordingly, the Air Task Force dispatched an enhanced force package of Nigerian Air Force fighter jets and helicopter gunships to attack the two locations, scoring devastating hits leading to the ...

Former Minister of Aviation in Nigeria, Femi Fani-Kayode, has attacked a journalist working with Daily Trust newspaper for asking the source of funding of his recent tours. In a video seen by SaharaReporters, Fani-Kayode, who recently took a tour of some South-South and South-East states, described the journalist as ‘very stupid’ for asking such a question. The journalist had during a press conference in Calabar, Cross Rivers State, asked him if he was being bankrolled by any politician or political group – a question that attracted verbal assault from the ex-minister. “I’m saying this live on TV, put that thing down, what kind of stupid question is that? Bankrolling who? Do you know who you are talking to? I will not take any further questions from this man. Who you do think you are talking to? Go and report yourself to your publisher. I don’t want to take questions from this man, very stupid. “I could see from your face before you got here how stupid you are. Don’t eve...

The Governing Council of the University of Lagos has approved the election of Prof Folasade Ogunsola as Acting Vice Chancellor of the institution at a virtual meeting held by members of the council with Dr John Momoh presiding as the Acting Chairman. The council has also forwarded her name to President Muhammadu Buhari, who is a Visitor at the university for approval. The meeting was conducted ahead of the inauguration of a visitation panel to probe the affairs of the university from 2017 till date by Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, scheduled for Abuja on Wednesday. Ogunsola emerged Acting VC on Monday when she was voted in by the Senate of the institution after polling 135 votes to Prof Ben Oghojafor, who polled 31 votes at an emergency meeting. Ogunsola is a professor of Medical Microbiology and is the first woman to head the 58-year-old university. See Also Breaking News BREAKING: UNILAG Names Prof Folasade Ogunsola As New Acting Vice Chancellor 0 Comment...

Nigerian Instagram celebrity, Ramon Abbas widely known as “Hushpuppi“, has been arraigned in a court in California, United States, ahead of his trial on October 13. Hushpuppi pleaded not guilty to four counts of conspiracy to commit money laundering conspiracies, wire fraud, international money laundering and engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity, a report by Premium Times, said. In June, the 37-year-old known for flaunting an extravagant lifestyle on social media, was arrested in Dubai, United Arab Emirates , by special operatives of the Emerati police and American Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI’s investigation, according to the affidavit, alleged that Abbas financed this extravagant lifestyle through crime. He is alleged to be the leader of a group that facilitates computer intrusion, business email compromise fraud and money laundering. His targeted victims, majorly in the United States, had been duped of hun...