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NRC boss Okhiria jailed for contempt EMMANUEL ASIWE     29 JUNE 2018  NEWS PREVIOUS ARTICLE Plateau Killings: Femi Adesina and other Presidential Morticians NEXT ARTICLE Buhari To Attend AU Summit in Mauritania Be first people review it. The Managing Director of Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr Fidet Okhiria has been ordered jailed for three months over contempt, a Lagos High court judge said today. Justice Mojisola Olatoregun ordered he should be imprisoned prison following his perpetual refusal to appear in court despite several summons. ” I have looked at the various affidavit placed before the court and have examined the papers filed from both sides.   The contemnor in particular continued to disobey the order of the court. Even if he did not have the notice between February, till date, he was supposed to have been guided by his lawyer. He has not given reason to disobey the court order. He treated the court order with levity. I am left with no option tha

One-on-One with Prof Kingsley Moghalu- YPP’s Presidential Hopeful EMMANUEL ASIWE     28 JUNE 2018  GUEST COLUMNISTS NEXT ARTICLE A Forex of Fraud … “I’m in this for the long haul” We eventually agreed to meet on Monday June 18, by 12 noon, at his campaign office in Maitama, Abuja. Our earlier plan to meet either on Thursday, June 14 or Friday June 15 fell through as he suddenly had to be in Kano during the period. I was already on my way for the scheduled appointment when I got another message rescheduling the venue to his home in Asokoro and extending the time of the appointment by 30 minutes. I knew that being involved in any form of elective office, especially gunning for the presidency, means literarily being peripatetic. I got to his home before him and had to wait in one of the lounges. We exchanged pleasantries as he walked into the lounge. He was famished, he said, and called for biscuits and a bottle of Diet Coke. I comforted him by telling him that being

Plateau Killings: Femi Adesina and other Presidential Morticians EMMANUEL ASIWE     29 JUNE 2018  HITS: 22 NEWS NEXT ARTICLE Be first people review it. Since the unfortunate continued killings of fellow citizens by suspected Fulani herdsmen terrorists over the weekend in Plateau State, there has been outrage by men and women of goodwill from all walks of life especially as it concerns the federal government lackadaisical attitude towards apprehending the killers who have not only owned up to the killings as usual but have also boasted of inflicting more pain and sorrow upon Nigerians. While officials of the Buhari-led administration including Buhari himself have continued to explain away these mindless and mind-boggling killings, they have also continued to make excuses for the killers for what Nigerians know is because the Fulani herdsmen terrorists suspected to be behind these mass murders are of the same kith and kin with President Muhammadu Buhari and almos

Governors’ Forum condemns Plateau killings June 29, 2018 Agency Report Plateau State on Map Related News How Amaechi Was Re-elected - Election Returning Officer, Okauru Zamafara Killings: Public officials blame each other UPDATED: Despite curfew, armed persons attack Plateau community, kill six Governors Forum Chairmanship: Governor Jang of Plateau now to battle Amaechi Nigeria Governors' Forum crisis ends; Zamfara Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, emerges new chair The Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) has condemned the recent killings in Plateau and describing it as “totally unacceptable”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that scores were on June 24, killed by gunmen in Barkin-Ladi, Riyom, Jos South Local Government Areas of plateau. Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara and Chairman of the Forum made the remark on Friday in Jos, when he led members of the Forum on a condolence visit to the Plateau governor. He said that the purpose of the visit was

Gambia’s President, in Power 22 Years, Loses Election Video A businessman has defeated the longtime president, Yahya Jammeh, in the West African country’s election. Published On Dec. 2, 2016 Credit Image by Marco Longari/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By Jaime Yaya Barry and Dionne Searcey Dec. 2, 2016 BANJUL, Gambia — Yahya Jammeh, the president of Gambia, has been defeated in his bid for re-election, according to results made public on Friday. It is a stunning turn for a nation that has lived for more than two decades under what human rights groups have described as a repressive regime. Adama Barrow, a real estate company owner, was declared the winner a day after voters cast ballots , in an upset victory that astonished observers. In a concession speech broadcast on state television on Friday night, Mr. Jammeh, one of Africa’s most eccentric leaders, calmly accepted his loss. “I told you, Gambians, tha

REVEALED: How ex-NNPC boss became major shareholder in top Ghana hotel June 29, 2018 Nicholas Ibekwe NNPC TOWERS Documents recently obtained by PREMIUM TIMES and its ICIJ partners have revealed how a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Funsho Kupolokun, acquired loads of lucrative shares between 2009 and 2014 to become a major shareholder in one of Ghana’s most expensive and lucrative hotels. In 2016, details from the leaked Mossac Fonseca’s database, known as #PanamaPapers , revealed that the Septuagenarian, who was an aide to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, was a major shareholder of Gold Coast Resorts International Limited, an entity incorporated in the British Virgins Island in 2006. Gold Coast Resort International Limited is the owner of the 269-room five-star Kempinski Accra Hotel. Mr Kupolokun, we revealed, had held his holdings in Gold Coast