Just two months ago, he threatened Putin’s reign with an unprecedented mutiny that almost tumbled Moscow. Putin’s pattern of elimination has not changed. A former KGB agent turned president would know how to eliminate his enemies easier than any leader on earth. A Legacy Embraer private jet belonging to Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of The Wagner Group, has crashed with all 7 passengers and 3 crew dying upon impact. Yevgeny Prigozhin was, per the passenger manifest, listed as being on the plane. Equally Readovka News reports a second plane of its type belonging to Prigozhin has currently turned around and is…
Author: Spade Nigeria
LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT CRITICAL TO NIGERIA’S DEMOCRACY – Speaker Tajudeen Abbas 1. The National Assembly has a duty of holding the other arms of government accountable. 2. The National Assembly would also be accountable to the public. 3. The Government must remain accountable to the utilization of public funds and implementation of policies and laws. 4. Monitoring and Evaluation as a national policy is a framework designed as a way of institutionalising standard practices and culture of good governance in public investment and accountability towards improving the lives of the citizens. 5. The National Assembly has in the past exposed high…
A former Spokesman of Atiku’s Campaign Organization, Daniel Bwala has been urged not to be unduly sentimental and judgmental on issues relating to the administration of the Federal Capital Territory. The former Spokesman of the Rivers PDP Campaign Council said in Abuja in reaction to Bwala’s comments that the protection of the masterplan of the FCT is a critical factor in measuring Nigeria’s advancement as a progressive state. “Bwala should understand the relationship between law and society. Every city on planet earth has a masterplan. “That masterplan defines where structures should be built, which areas of a city should be…
The Enugu State Police Command has neutralised two suspected kidnappers and rescued one male kidnap victim on the outskirt of the Enugu metropolis. The Command also recovered the victim’s black Lexus 350 Jeep alongside one locally made revolver gun loaded with four cartridges and another locally fabricated pistol belonging to the criminals. The command made this known in a statement signed by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, on Tuesday on its X (formerly Twitter) handle. Ndukwe said, “Following the policing thrust and renewed crime-fighting impetus of the state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr Kanayo Uzuegbu, a combined team…
Nigeria’s former Petroleum Minister in the President Goodluck Jonathan administration, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been charged with bribery in the United Kingdom. She was arrested by the UK’s National Crime Agency’s (NCA) International Corruption Unit and would appear in court on October 2, 2023 According to Reuters, the British police said they had charged her with bribery offences, saying they suspected she had accepted bribes in return for awarding multi-million-pound oil and gas contracts. She served as petroleum minister from 2010 to 2015 and also acted as president of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). “We suspect Diezani Alison-Madueke…
The federal government of Nigeria under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has been urged to include Pilot training and aeronautic engineering students in the ongoing students loan scheme, due to escalating cost in the global aviation industry. Chairman of a Lagos based aerospace and flight training agency, PPK Aviation International, Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe, in a statement on Saturday and made available to newsmen in Lagos, said the call has become necessary, because Commercial Pilot License training fees now cost as much as $95,000 for Helicopter and $85,000 for fixed wings, including Multi-Engine and Instrument Ratings, CPL/ME/IR. He noted…
By Fred Edoreh Delta State Governor, Rt Hon Elder Sheriff Oborevwori, has unfolded a series of palliative measures for the state public service staff and other segments of the society to cushion the biting economic effect of the removal of petroleum subsidy by the Federal Government. The regime includes the payment of additional N10,000 for the next three months to each of the 50,196 members of the state public service and the reduction of working days through the implementation of a weekly shift system. The Governor who unravelled the package on Tuesday in Asaba during the swearing in ceremony of…
By Max Collins Asiwaju’s ministers are helping to further Renew Hope. They are in some healthy competition to outperform their predecessors, their contemporaries! Exactly what we voted for last February; RESULTS. Nyesom Ezinwo Wike, the FCT minister, set the ball rolling yesterday immediately after his swearing in. His two point agenda are restoring the master-plan of the federal seat of power and creating an enabling safe environment needed to attract investors, to reassure residents. His Works counterpart, David Umahi, is assuring that all federal roads under construction or abandoned for whatever reasons after award of contract, would be given deserving…
Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori has called on all Deltans to be committed to making the state the investment destination of the world. Oborevwori made the call on Monday in an address read on his behalf by his deputy, Sir Monday Onyeme, at the second coronation anniversary celebration of the Olu of Warri Kingdom, His Majesty Ogiame Atuwatse III at the Olu Palace, Warri, Delta State. He said, “It gives me great pleasure, indeed, a great honour to be here to celebrate a King who is a great image maker, a great marketer of Warri Kingdom nay Delta…
The trio of Atiku Abubakar, Rabiu Kwankwaso, and Peter Obi have begun to discuss the possibility of a merger, with the ultimate goal of setting up a formidable party that can more effectively challenge the APC. The meeting of these three political leaders, which had been going on for a while, it was gathered, started with the one between Atiku, the presidential candidate of PDP and Kwankwaso. After the first leg of the meetings was adjudged successful, another one between Obi, the presidential candidate of LP and face of the OBIdient Movement, and other critical elements in PDP started to…