Saudi Arabia announced the arrest on Saturday night of the prominent billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, plus at least 10 other princes, four ministers and tens of former ministers.
The announcement of the arrests was made over Al Arabiya, the Saudi-owned satellite network whose broadcasts are officially approved. Prince Alwaleed’s arrest is sure to send shock waves both through the kingdom and the world’s major financial centers.
The Nigerian National Assembly has launched a fresh plot for the removal of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu.
The lawmakers made the demand for Magu’s exit at a dinner with President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday night.
The 2015 governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Abia State, Anyim Nyerere, has accused Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of increasing the poverty level in the state.
Nyerere, who spoke to journalists in Owerri, Imo State, claimed that those who had stagnated the development and economy of the state for 16 years were still manipulating Ikpeazu.
The Coalition of Niger Delta Militants vowed on Saturday to resume its ‘operation show no mercy’ by attacking oil installations in the Niger Delta region.
The latest threat from the coalition is coming barely 24 hours after the Niger Delta Avengers issued a statement that it had decided to resume hostilities in the oil rich region.
A former US President, George W Bush has lambasted Donald Trump saying, “this guy doesn’t know what it means to be President.”
Bush and his father, George HW Bush, shared their thoughts on Mr Trump as part of a new book about the two former Presidents.
In an industry where the term ‘veteran’ has been bastardised, one man that truly merits that title is actor, Sadiq Daba. Sadly, he is not having the best of times and enjoying the acclaim that a true veteran deserves.
Daba has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. This is coming barely months after the actor was hospitalised for months due to leukemia.
Mike Sonko rose to national political prominence when he was elected as the Member of Parliament for Makadara Constituency, Kenya at the age of 35.
His political image was further bolstered by his trouncing of such political heavyweights as Dick Wathika and Reuben Ndolo to clinch the seat. The September 20, 2010 by-election was occasioned by a successful petition by Reuben Ndolo.
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The Senator representing Lagos West at the National Assembly, Solomon Adeola, otherwise known as Yayi, has declared that he bears no grudge with the Governor Ibikunle Amosun. Rather, he only differed with the governor in political ideology and belief.
Adeola, who insisted that he did not obstruct the $350 million loan request from the World Bank by Ogun State Government, spoke in Ilaro at a meeting with the leadership of a socio-political group, Ogun West Consultative Forum, on his plan to run for the governorship of the state in 2019.
