The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the street protest by Police officers on duty in troubled Borno State, over unpaid allowances as dangerous and called for immediate probe to unravel why their allowances have not been paid. The party in a statement on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan said the development
THE Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Police Force, Jimoh Moshood, has blamed the industrial action in Borno state on the delay in the passage of 2018 budget. Responding to inquiries by TheCable, Moshood said the allowances of the aggrieved officers would have been cleared if the budget had been approved earlier. On Monday morning,
The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, was on Monday summoned to the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja for a meeting with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. The meeting, it was gathered, was over the protest by mobile policemen in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, against their six-month unpaid allowances. The officers were reportedly posted to
A federal high court sitting in Abuja has granted bail to Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser (NSA). Dasuki was arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) and has been in detention despite the bail he got on five different occasions — apart from this. Describing Dasuki’s continuous detention as an aberration
French leader Emmanuel Macron will on Tuesday visit the Afrika Shrine, a nightclub in Lagos founded by Nigerian music legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Macron will become the first “real president” to enter the club synonymous with marijuana smoke, sexy backup dancers and protest music. And he is not a stranger to Nigeria. He trained as
Former governor of Kaduna state, Ahmed makarfi, says there is nothing wrong with restructuring Nigeria “as long as the foundations are not tampered with”. The PDP presidential hopeful said institutions of government — including the security agencies — must also be restructured to serve Nigerians rather than the leaders. He was speaking in Port Harcourt,
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Sunday visited former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, at the latter’s Hill-top residence in Minna, Niger State. Atiku arrived IBB’s mansion from Minna Airport around 12:35pm where he held closed-door meeting with the former military president for about four hours. Although detail of what transpired at the meeting
Chieftains of the new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) bloc in the All Progressives Congress (APC) will make their positions regarding their relationship with the ruling party known this week. The leader of the group which has Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, the Speaker House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and Sokoto state governor, Aminu Tambuwal as
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said its blueprint for economic recovery would include pursuing deliberate policies that would guarantee single-digit commercial lending rate across all productive sectors if given the mandate in 2019. The party said its economic blueprint will make a turnaround of the prevailing double digit permitted by the All Progressives Congress