Buhari, Sanwo-Olu, Zulum, AbdulRazaq Travel To Japan

 

     President Muhammadu Buhari departed Abuja Sunday night for Japan to participate in the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7) slated for the City of Yokohama from August 28 to 30.

Keyamo reacts to trending photo of him and fraud suspect arrested by FBI

 

   Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs, Festus Keyamo has reacted to the photo of him and Jerry Ikogho, one of the cyber-fraud suspects recently arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Ikogho is number three on the FBI list and Nigerians have been reacting to the photo he took with Keyamo, who was recently inaugurated as a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Adebayo Shittu disappointed he was not re-appointed as minister by Buhari

 

   Mr Adebayo Shittu, the former Minister of Communications, said that he was shocked when his name was not included on President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial list. Shittu who for first time spoke about his disappointment that he didn’t make the cut as second term minister, said he took the exclusion as his fate, as a muslim.. “I took it the way it came,” he said.

Buhari’s aide speaks on accusing monarchs of collecting bribes

 

  Mrs Maryam Uwais, Special Adviser to the President on Social Investments, says the Federal Government will prosecute saboteurs of its Social Investment Programmes (SIPs).

  NAN reports that she said this following reports that she accused monarchs and other traditional rulers in the country of collecting bribes from beneficiaries of the SIPs. A statement by Justice Bibiye, Communications Manager, National Social Investment Office (NSIO), on Sunday in Abuja, said efforts were being intensified to track down those bent on sabotaging the SIPs by exploiting beneficiaries for personal gains.

Federal government is working on an executive order to tackle fraud and money laundering- Garba Shehu

  Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, says the federal government is working on an executive order to tackle fraud and money laundering.

  Speaking when he appeared on Sunday Politics, a programme on Channels Television, Shehu described the 77 suspects on FBI list as an embarrassment to the country. He also said it is unfair to paint every Nigerian with the same brush,  emphasising that the US incident is damaging to Nigeria’s image.