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ABUJA—Strong indications have emerged that today’s plenary session, where the Senate would unveil the ministerial list sent by President Muhammadu Buhari, may be stormy as senators are saying the President must, in line with the constitution, submit himself before the Senate for screening if he appointed himself Minister of Petroleum. petbuhariThey are also set to reject an incomplete list, saying …

THERE were indications on Monday on how a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke and a former Managing Director of a parastatal under the NNPC got themselves into trouble with the police in the United Kingdom. It was learnt that the purchase of houses each in London by the former minister and the sacked NNPC top shot had …

President Muhammadu Buhari disclosed Monday in Abuja that the 2016 national budget being prepared by his administration would include fresh policies and measures to encourage the rapid diversification of the Nigerian economy away from its current over-dependence on the oil and gas sector. Speaking at an audience with the President of the Movement of the Enterprises of France (MEDEF), Pierre …

By Oladipo Airenakho A medical outreach of the Nigerian Army is currently providing free medical service and other relief materials to internally displaced Nigerians in a camp located in Edo State. Those in the camp are people affected by Boko Haram insurgency which for several years have wreaked havoc on the nation, especially the Northern part of Nigeria. They have …

A confirmed plot to exit the Inspector General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, is on, Nigerian Tribune can reliably inform. Sources close to Arase confirmed their awareness of the plot. An Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) from the South is being packaged as his replacement. Multiple sources involved on both sides (pro and anti-Arase forces) also confirmed the thickening …

INDICATIONS emerged on Sunday that opponents of Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, who have continued to plot his removal from office, have zeroed in on the North Central zone as the area that would produce the successor if they get him out of office. There had been contention in the camp of Saraki’s traducers all along, as the camp appeared …

FORMER President Goodluck Jonathan has branded Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna State a ‘liar’ for alleging that he spent N64 billion on October 1 celebrations between 2010 and 2015. The statement, etitled: “We never spent billions on independence anniversary— Jonathan,” was issued on behalf of the former president on Sunday, by Abubakar Sulaiman, the immediate past Minister/Deputy Chairman, National Planning …

The UK National Crime Agency [NCA] on Saturday said investigation into allegations of corruption against Nigeria’s former minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, and the four other people arrested Friday had been on since 2013. In an update on its website, the NCA said, “The investigation commenced in 2013 under the Proceeds of Corruption Unit, and transferred to the NCA …

Mrs. Alison-Madueke has stayed away from Nigeria since President Buhari was sworn-in. She was first appointed into the federal cabinet in 2007. A former director at Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, she was appointed Minister of Transport by late President Umaru Yar’adua. In December 2008, she was redeployed to the Mines and Steel Development ministry. After former Vice President …

The Asokoro, Abuja residence of the immediate-past Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, on Friday, was stormed by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in what has been described as part of a multinational investigation of the former minister. This is even as reports say Diezani was arrested in London, UK, today, by the newly formed International …