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The Conference of Islamic Organisations (CIO) has alleged that some aides of former President Goodluck Jonathan approached the body with $3 million so as to canvass for their votes during the presidential election. According to Leadership, Coordinator of CIO, Imam Abdullahi Shuaib, made this...

Here are 5 basic facts that points Buhari's administration to that of the erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan's tenure.. They are: 1. More than six months into the Buhari led administration, Boko Haram is still wrecking havoc as freely as before in the North-east. 2. Nigerians just like in...

The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee on Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has advised former President Goodluck Jonathan to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari and confess all he knows about the $2bn arms scandal. Sagay told Punch during an interview that if Jonathan could provide...

Premium Times reported that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in 2014 disclosed that Nigeria spent an average of N800 Billion annually on the importation of rice. Unofficial import receipts through the Cotonou corridor was not captured in the CBN figure. But the business of importing rice, a...

Human rights lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo, tells PUNCH that former President Goodluck Jonathan may have questions to answer in the ongoing investigations over a $2.1bn arms procurement scam He said, although, the issue of investigating and prosecuting Jonathan is a complex one; it is not a...

The management of The Sun newspaper issued a statement on Sunday, to announce its return of the N9million it received from the office of the National Security Adviser “as compensation for the seizure of its newspapers and stoppage of circulation during the Goodluck Jonathan administration in...

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, leader of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in 2012 accused the Jonathan presidency of betraying its social contract with the people by suddenly removing fuel subsidy. In 2015, as a national leader of the All Progressives Party, APC, the government of the day...

Special Adviser to the president on Media, Femi Adesina, yesterday denied that President Muhammadu Buhari Collected the sum of $300,000 from embattled former National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki, as the latter claimed. He explained that the president got SUVs from the previous administration...

The federal government has said that the depreciation in Naira is the direct consequences of the mismanagement and looting of treasury under former President, Goodluck Jonathan. Last Friday, the naira exchanged at its worst in history for N260 to $1 in the parallel market. The parallel rate is...

Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has called on Nigerians to thank God for delivering the country from the hands of Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP because he nearly destroyed the country. The governor said Buhari inherited an ailing country from Jonathan on...

The immediate past Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, illegally approved the transfer of at least N61.4 billion ($300 million and £5.5 million) from funds recovered from late dictator, Sani Abacha, to the Office of the National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, few weeks to the 2015...

Will the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) invite ex-President Goodluck Jonathan to say all he knows about the controversial $2 billion arms deals? Will the anti-graft agency take evidence from the ex-President in camera? Will the EFCC allow its comprehensive investigations to be...

Former military president, Ibrahim Babangida, says “inexperience” rather than “incompetent” was the right word to describe former President Goodluck Jonathan who lost his re-election bid in March. Speaking with The Interview magazine in the December 2015 edition which is currently on sale...

Many factors will determine who wins today’s Bayelsa State governorship election. The contest is between the incumbent governor, Seriake Dickson who is flying the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) flag and former governor, Timipre Sylva, as candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC)...

According to International Centre for investigative reporting, the arms procurement scandal involving former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, and others, continue to make mind blowing disclosures of how billions of dollars meant for the purchase of military equipment to fight Boko Haram...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) practically emptied its vaults apparently to finance the presidential campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), sources conversant with investigations into security spending in the last administration have informed TheCable. TheCable had earlier reported...

Senate, yesterday, revealed that about N200 billion education tax collected between 2012 and 2013 were diverted to unknown and unspecified uses not recognised in or permitted under the Act setting up the Education Trust Fund. The funds were diverted during former president Goodluck Jonathan’s...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan narrowly escaped an death by some men suspected to be assailants. These are the faces of those suspected assailants... Read the story HERE

Former President Goodluck Jonathan escaped death this morning when some suspected militants working for the opposition party in Bayelsa State drove into his convey, according to Leadership newspaper. The men, who intercepted and drove into a short motorcade conveying the former President...

Former national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki received an extra-budgetary allocation of $2.1 billion from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) within nine months after approvals by former President Goodluck Jonathan, TheCable exclusively report. Dasuki is currently being...