BREAKING NEWS! Lagos Island shopping complex on FIRE !!

A shopping complex located in Broad street, Lagos Island, has been razed by fire.
 At least three fire trucks from Onikan, Sari Iganmu and Alausa Fire Service Stations have been deployed to the scene of the incident.

Buhari Ministerial List Tears APC Apart as PARTY BIGWIGS get FRUSTRATED!.. Non Party MEMBERS get juicy APPOINTMENTS

The mood at the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday was that of disappointment, frustration and anger, following the news that President Muhammadu Buhari had sent the names of certain persons to be appointed ministers to the Department of State Services (DSS) and were already being screened.

APC denies abandoning 90yr old woman who gave N1m for Buhari's campaign

APC has denied abandoning 90 year old Hajia Fadimatu Mai Talle Tara, the old woman who donated her N1 million savings to the Buhari campaign organization. This is in reaction to a Facebook post by one Idis Kuringafa who shared photos of Hajia Tara and said she is down with partial stroke and had been abandoned by the party. In a statement released today by Lai Mohammed, APC said since Hajia Tara was diagnosed with partial stroke, she had been on admission at the Sir Yahaya General Hospital in Birnin Kebbi with all her medical bills being taking care off by the Kebbi state governor.

Why Obasanjo picked Jonathan as Yar"Adua's running mate - Alamiyeseigha

 

Former Bayelsa state governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, says former President Obasanjo picked Goodluck Jonathan as the running mate of late President YarAdua in the 2007 election because he, Obasanjo, wanted to stop former VP Atiku Abubakar from running for president. Alamiyeseigha reportedly said this while speaking to journalist at his home in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state capital.

AT LAST! DSS Releases Names of President Buhari’s Ministers

 
The Department of State Service (DSS) recently received a much awaited list of 36 ministerial nominees for security screening. While DSS carries on the screening indications appeared that three immediate past governors, Babatunde Fashola, Rotimi Amaechi and Kayode Fayemi, have supposedly failed. Three former governors worked hard for Buhari’s presidential campaign to and were seen as top candidates for positions in the government. Nigerian Pilot reports that the DSS did not clear three ministerial appointees based on claims of corruption brought against them before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offenses Commission (ICPC). The source said that the security agency supposedly denied to clear Amaechi, Fashola, Fayemi because of a series of petitions written against them over accusations bordering on money laundering, fraud and misuse.
The insider further added that when the trio appeared before the screening committee, they were opposed with the appeals and other related documents attached to the petitions. They reportedly have received orders from Buhari that any of the appointees with any harmful and fraud related issues should not be cleared by the security agency. Festus Odimegwu, a former managing director of Nigerian Breweries Limited, and a former presidential candidate, Pat Utomi, are also among the ministerial appointees that have been screened.
Those already said to have been screened as nominees for President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet also include a former Governor of Osun State, Olagunsoye Oyinlola; and a Lagos-lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN). Also on the list are a former Chief of Army, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazu (retd.); an ex-chief executive of the Federal Inland Revenue, Mrs. Ifueko Omoigui-Okaru; a former finance commissioner in Lagos State, Mr. Wale Edun; and a former National Legal Adviser to the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, Abubakar Malami (SAN). According to some sources Falana was favoured by a camp in the party to emerge as the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation. A top APC chieftain said the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and the national leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, had persuaded Buhari to appoint Falana. Tinubu and Osinbajo were said to have told Buhari that appointing Falana, who he jailed over 30 years ago, would boost his image as a ‘converted democrat.’ It was, however, learnt that Malami was being favoured by the President. The APC has three former governors in Ekiti State: Niyi Adebayo, Segun Oni and Kayode Fayemi. “Falana has already been screened by the DSS.
However, Buhari is closer to Malami who is from the North,” a source from APC said. Utomi, a famous economist and former presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, had been screened by the DSS and the police. Edun, who served under former Tinubu as Lagos state governor, had also been screened by security agencies. Odimegwu, nominated by the president, fell out with former president Goodluck Jonathan when he openly criticised the federal government. Odimegwu is also close to former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Oyinlola, a one-time secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, defected to the APC shortly before the Osun State governorship election and he is a close associate of Obasanjo. Another appointee, who asked not to be named, said: “Although I have met the director-general of the DSS twice, I don’t think such visits could be regarded as screening. “I understand the service has done its research on ministerial nominees. For now, nobody is sure of anything until the names are announced.” See full list below: