APC, PDP senators in separate stormy sessions, as Saraki today leads debate on economy...Read It All On Tafia World

 ABUJA — Senators of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, were yesterday, locked in separate meetings to deliberate and fine-tune common positions ahead of debate on the country’s economic recession, expected this morning at plenary. The development came as the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, is expected to lead a debate on the state of the economy this morning, shortly after presenting his welcome speech at plenary. While the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, superintended over the APC caucus meeting in his Maitama residence, the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, was...read here...

INEC Chairman: I Was Never Privy to Security Report on Postponement of Edo Election...Read It All On Tafia World

Bolaji Adebiyi, Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja and Adibe Emenyonu in Benin City

Obviously due to the backlash the postponement, last Saturday, of the Edo State governorship election has generated, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday stepped up its denial of any complicity in the security report that led to the abrupt shift in the date of the poll to September 28, 2016.

The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, and the National Commissioner for Voter Education and Publicity, Prince Solomon Soyebi, said emphatically that the security agencies never took the commission into confidence about the security report.

While Yakubu spoke exclusively to THISDAY through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi, Soyebi spoke to Channels TV on its breakfast talk show, Sunrise Daily. 

THISDAY had, however, gathered at the weekend that contrary to the election ma

nagement body’s claim, its chairman might have had fore knowledge of the security report but failed to disclose it to his colleagues on the board of the commission.

Citing security concerns, the Department of State Services (DSS) and the police had, after a closed-door meeting between...read it here...

Buhari Hits PDP Again:For 16 Years,No Savings,No power,No Road,No Security...Read It All On Tafia World

 

Muhammadu Buhari

Says patriotic Nigerians have nothing to fear in war against corruption
 Promises bumper harvests this year
Tobi Soniyi in Abuja
President Muhammadu Buhari is obviously not done with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as he hit the party again monday, dismissing its 16 years in the saddle as extremely wasteful and of no moment.
‘‘I want Nigerians to realise that what this government inherited after 16 years of the PDP government was no savings, no infrastructure, no power, no rail, no road and no security,” he told...read it here...

I spent my money to save Nigeria’s Olympic team, says Mikel...Read It All On Tafia World

John Obi Mikel (R) of Nigeria celebrates his goal scored against Denmark during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games men’s quarter-final football match Nigeria vs Denmark, at the Arena Fonte Nova Stadium in Salvador, Brazil on August 13, 2016
NELSON ALMEIDA / AFP

Chelsea midfielder, John Obi MIkel, who recently...

 returned to London from a successful Rio 2016 campaign, was brutally honest about the extent of the problems he faced at the games.
In an interview with goal.com, Mikel slammed the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) after he was forced to put up his own money to help his country achieve their remarkable bronze medal at Rio 2016.
The Nigeria captain organised travel, paid for meals

John Obi Mikel (R) of Nigeria celebrates his goal scored against Denmark during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games men’s quarter-final football match Nigeria vs Denmark, at read it here...t

My husband will take entertainment industry to higher level in Edo — Mrs Obaseki...Read It All On Tafia World

                                                                                                                                                                                                   WIFE of the governorship candidate of the APC, Mrs. Betty Obaseki says if elected, her husband would partner with the Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria (PMAN) in the state to brainstorm on how to make entertainment a booming business in the state.  Mrs. Obaseki who stated this when she visited PMAN members and Elders at the Oba Akenzua Cultural Centre in Benin City, said the idea is to see how to explore the opportunities in the entertainment business to create jobs. “I am very happy and glad that...read it here...

Breaking News: Nigeria spends N596bn on fuel import in six months...Read It All On Tafia World

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Nigeria spends N596bn on fuel import in six months in spite of the declining economic fortunes, spent N595.5 billion on the importation of fuel in the first six months of 2016, rising by N34.3 billion from the amount spent in the last six months of 2015. According to data obtained from the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, the country spent N276.226 billion on petrol import in the first quarter of 2016, while N319.28 billion was spent in the second quarter. The NBS report showed that the amount spent on fuel importation appreciated by 6.1 percent, compared with N561.2 billion spent in the second half of 2015. However,...read it here...

Recession: Again, Buhari blames past govts...Read It All On Tafia World

                    

Again, the President has blamed the economic recession on the global meltdown and the failure of past administrations to plan for the rainy day.
He said: “The present recession is as a result of cumulative effects of worldwide economic downturn and failure in the past to plan and save for difficult times. It is impossible to separate the present from the past to appreciate the extent to which mistakes of the past are affecting everyday life today”. In his Sallah message, President Muhammadu Buhari commended Nigerians for their steadfastness in spite of the difficult economic times. He assured that his administration was working round the clock to remove the hardships.
He said:,,,read it here...

Patience Jonathan’s cash: Houseboy, driver’s names used to open $15m accounts...Read It All On Tafia World

 

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested four domestic servants, including a driver and a houseboy, whose names were used to open bank accounts for Mrs Dame Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Sources within the anti-graft agency said on Sunday that the companies’ accounts were opened at Skye Bank.

The companies are Pluto Property and Investment Company Limited, Seagate Property Development and Investment Company Limited, Trans Ocean Property and Investment Company Limited and Globus Integrated Service Limited.

Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja

The four companies’ accounts, which have since been frozen by the EFCC, have a balance of about $15m while another account, which bears Patience Jonathan’s name, has $5m.

Mr. Sammie Somiari, who deposed to an affidavit on behalf of the ex-President’s wife, said the former First Lady was the owner of the money in the accounts.

She had revealed that she...read it here...