SHOCKING REVELATION!! Former Aide Opens Up On Why He Left Jonathan Cabinet

Nigeria’s former minister of state for finance, Remi Babalola, has explained why he left ex-president Goodluck Jonathan’s cabinet.

The ex-president’s aide, who made his revelation during a paper presentation at the 45th Annual Accountants Conference and 50th Anniversary celebration of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, described the lack of transparency in the oil sector under Jonathan as alarming.

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Graduate, four others nabbed with N57m cocaine

A 28-year-old university graduate of Economics, Nonso Akubueze, has been arrested along with four other suspects by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for alleged drug trafficking.

It was learnt that Akubueze and the other suspects – Simon Omoluonye, Obidike Onodyer,

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Fresh crisis hits PDP over chairmanship position

The Peoples Democratic Party is embroiled in a fresh crisis over who leads the former ruling party, The Chat212 learnt on Tuesday.

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Driver strips naked to resist FRSC arrest

In a display of absurd mannerism, an unidentified commercial vehicle driver on Tuesday removed his cloths and started behaving strangely when officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps stopped his car and demanded for his vehicle particulars.

The incident happened along the busy Marian Road in Calabar, the Cross River State capital.

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Delta Tribunal: INEC Staff Declared Hostile

The election petition tribunal for Delta state governorship election sitting in Asaba, yesterday, September 1, declared a management staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Felix Enabor a hostile witness.

Enabor who is the head of department general administration and procurement of INEC in Asaba appeared to give testimony on behalf of the Resident Electoral Commissioner and the head of operations of the commission, who were under subpoena to give evidence by the petitioners, The Sun reports.

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JUST IN... Why We Shut Warri Refinery - NNPC

Efforts to boost local supply of petroleum products may suffer setback as the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company Limited (WRPC) has been temporarily shut down.

Ships and Ports reports that Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) explained on Sunday that the pipelines supplying crude oil to the Warri refinery was compromised by some hoodlums.

Ohi Alegbe, group general manager, group public affairs division of the NNPC, however maintained that the Warri refinery would commence operations soon.

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