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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, generated about N8.1trillion between 2012 and May 2015, but paid only N4.3trillion to the federation account. The balance of the oil money – about N3.8trillion – was withheld and spent by the Presidency and NNPC big boys unilaterally without approval or National Assembly appropriation. “This has never happened before and for us this is profound. We are talking about transparency, we are talking about change. And what we saw from those numbers I believe that Nigerians are entitled to know, is that whereas the NNPC claimed to have earned N8.1 trillion, what NNPC paid into the federation account from 2012 to May 2015 was N4.3trillion. “What it means is that NNPC withheld and spent N3.8 trillion.” Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, said who citing details from the federal economic council. Also, the governor confirmed at the meeting that from November 2014, about $2.1billion was withdrawn from the excess crude a...

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The news on appointment of Colonel Hamidu Ali as President Buhari’s chief of staff broke in the afternoon of Monday, June 29, 2015.                                                                 Col Hamidu Ali (rtd) sitting close to vice president Prof. Yemi Osibanjo recently in Aso Rock The status of the former military administrator of Kaduna state was also immediately updated by Wikipedia, where it was stated that “he is currently the Chief of Staff to president Muhammadu Buhari” , despite there was no source given as the confirmation of the appointment. Contrary to the initial reports, a BBC Hausa reporter tweeted that presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, has denied the appointment of Ali as the chief of staff to the president. READ MORE:  USA Legalises Same Sex Marriage Nationwide The pre...

President Muhammau Buhari may have lost the support of some Yoruba elders less than 100 days into his tenure. The leaders are particularly angry with Buhari over the recently concluded National Assembly elections, which they feel was a big blow to the South west. They berated the president for his silence and suggested that their region might not benefit from the Buhari administration despite voting massively for the president during the April 2015 presidential polls. “For the fact that the South-West played a key role in the emergence of Buhari as the President, it is expected that they would occupy a more strategic position than the post of vice president”, said one of the elders. They argued that the National Assembly leadership election has  given the impression that their region is weak politically. Some of the leaders who also participated in the last National Conference also say the region must re-strategise to assert itself in the politics of the nation....

The rich is the most careless class of people on the planet! Yes, they are indeed least interested in taking care of their belongings and keeping them in good quality; they have enough number of servants and caretakers in their house to take care of these small and minor things. So they often tend to invest their money in buying property on some of the poshest streets in famous cities and then forget about them. We have multiple evidences of great, large and billionaire properties all over the world that lie empty and are not taken care of. The houses are literally falling down in shambles and have no one to look after. One of the well-known streets in the northwest part of London, near Hampstead area, a large number of huge mansions lie in a complete mess and have also become filthy. Considered as the most expensive streets in the world, the Bishops Avenue has several unattended homes, large mansions and properties that belong to billionaires and were not adequately taken care of! ...

The Supreme Court of the United States of America on Friday finally legalised same sex marriage throughout the whole country.  Before the announcement, only states which had passed the legalisation allowed same-couple marriages, but under the new ruling all 50 states in the country would allow same sex marriage. The issue of same sex marriage has led to significant changes in matrimony laws including a court ruling over 50 years ago that legalised interracial marriage. This new ruling means that the ban on gay marriages in 14 US states has been cancelled. The states which forbid it are geographically situated in the “Bible Belt” areas of the Southern US. Today’s ruling means the decision from Cincinnati’s Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the right of states to maintain  “the traditional definition of marriage”   has been cancelled. A 5-4 decision with the majority opinion written by Justice Anthony Kenn...