PUO REPORTS

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday approved the appointment of Mr. Samuel Ogungbesan as the Acting Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service. Ogungbesan’s appointment was announced through a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati. Ogungbesan, a Coordinating Director at FIRS, replaces Alhaji Kabiru Mashi, who has served as acting Executive Chairman...

Abia State Government has given the former Governor of the state, Chief Orji Kalu, 72 hours to apologise to the state for statements credited to him. The former governor was quoted to have said in a published interview that “our people will burn down the state. We are ready for them.” Kalu, who was said to be responding to a question...

Information reaching us has it that the purported candidature of Chief Mao Ohuabunwa suffered a set back yesterday, as a Federal  High Court sitting in Abuja has fixed March 25,2015 for judgement to disqualify the PDP candidate from the race. Senator Uche Chukwumerije had shortly after the PDP kangoroo primaries in Abia State,  seek legal redress asking the court to...

On Monday 16th March, 2015, we exposed the ordeal going on in BCA knowing so well that we will be attacked by the deluded miscreants on facebook receiving 5,000.00 monthly to go after anybody that writes article against their shameless paymasters. We have nothing against these teenagers because they were misinformed and in due course they will understand that...

Wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, on Tuesday in Ilorin, Kwara State, said her husband was the messiah hence she told Nigerian women not to vote for Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress. “Nigerian women, if they (APC) come, tell them that your mother said you should not listen to them. They have nothing...

Many news outlets have reported former president Olusegun Obasanjo saying that Boko Haram has legitimate grievances. Really? After eight years in Aso Rock during which he took the baton of executive lawlessness to rarefied heights, while making absolutely no effort to rein in the excesses and sheer negligence of the northern governors of ALL parties? Obasanjo rather yielded to the...

One Wale Ajisebutu has written to a Federal High Court in Lagos seeking to withdraw as a surety for a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, who is facing money laundering charges. Ajisebutu was one of the two persons who stood as sureties for Fani-Kayode in the fulfilment of the bail conditions granted him by Justice Ramat Mohammed in January...

The Federal Executive Council will on Wednesday (today) receive and discuss a report of a committee set up by President Goodluck Jonathan to draw up the implementation strategy for the 2014 National Conference, The PUNCH learnt on Tuesday. A top government official, who pleaded anonymity, told our correspondent on Tuesday that discussion on the report of the Justice Idris Kutigi-led...

Fresh facts have emerged on how President Goodluck Jonathan met former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in Yola, Adamawa State, on Monday night.It was learnt in Abuja on Tuesday that the President, in company with some of his security personnel and aides, paid an unscheduled visit to Abubakar’s private residence. The PUNCH learnt that the President arrived at the former VP’s...

Thirty-one inmates of the Kuje Prison, Abuja, who sat for the 2014 NOV/DEC Senior Secondary School Examination have been presented their certificates at the facility by a representative of the Controller-General of Prisons, DCP Musa Tanko. The inmates were sponsored by a non-governmental organisation, NUGA BEST, which paid for their enrollment for the examinations. Tanko reiterated the commitment of the Nigerian...