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‘Buhari Is Nigeria’s Worst President, His Govt Deaf And Dumb’ – Asari Dokubo Blows Out Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration as the worst Nigeria has ever had and called it “deaf and dumb”, PUNCH reports. In his words, “This is the most hostile government. This is the most insensitive government in the life of this country. All our (bank) accounts were put on surveillance, till today, but they found that this man did not steal any money and he is not involved in any criminal activities. We just thank God. A lot of people think I must be corrupt but they have looked everywhere and they found nothing. This government wrote to us that it was going to pay what they were owing us for contracts we concluded and they certified that the contracts were excellently concluded but they refused to pay,” Dokubo said. When asked how Buhari could turn the current economic recession around, he r...

‘Buhari Is Determined To Root Out Corruption Despite Strong  Opposition’ – Presidency Despite strong resistance to the war against corruption currently championed by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, the presidency has assured that the anti-corruption fight won’t stop. “Let me say one thing. Those whose illicit ways of accumulating money have been stopped will criticize this government but all that will not derail the unfaltering commitment of the President, Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to the war against corruption,” a presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu said in a radio program Hannu Da Yawa on FRCN Kaduna at the weekend. He argued that the President declared rooting out corruption as one of the cardinal policies of his election campaign. “He is aware that this was one of the main reasons why Nigerians in their millions put their trust in him; the main reason they voted him into power in 2015. “To keep that trust of ordinary Nigerians wh...

Saraki Reacts To Reports DSS, Army Officers Stole N310m From His House Following media reports that security operatives attached to Senate President Bukola Saraki stole N310m from the Miatama home of the Kwara State Governor, his media office Sunday, March 2 dissociated itself from such reports. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Senate President, Mr. Sanni Onogu, said no military officer was attached to Saraki. The statement read in part, “The attention of the Media Office of the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has been drawn to a rehash of mischievous and concocted allegations aimed at misleading the public with spurious claims that the Senate President allegedly owned the sum of N310m said to have been stolen from a bureau de change operator in November 2015 by suspected operatives of the Department of State Services and some Nigerian Army personnel. “This office wants to reiterate that the Senate President had nothing to do with the said s...