Nigerians must question sources of wealth -Osinbajo

Vice-President-elect, Prof.Yemi Osinbajo, on Friday explained how the Muhammadu Buhari administration would prosecute the anti-graft war, saying that Nigerians must question sources of wealth of the rich.

Osinbajo, while delivering the keynote address at the Abuja edition of The Platform, said the incoming administration would ensure zero tolerance for corruption by reforming the Justice system.

He said within the last few years, what the country had experienced is a situation where people get away with corrupt practices, noting that going forward, the incoming government would make sure that corrupt people suffer the consequences of their action.

We won’t participate in politically-motivated strike – Ekiti workers

A section of workers in Ekiti State public service has vowed not to participate in any politically-motivated strike intended to drag them into the politics of impeachment currently rocking the state.
Acting under the aegis of Enlightened Workers’ Forum, they asked for the payment of outstanding salaries, bonuses and other entitlements owed them by the state government.

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BREAKING NEWS: Buruji Kashamu barred from entering UK

It could be recalled that recently, the Government of the United States government formally requested for the extradition of Kashamu, for drug related offences.

Legal Counsel to the Senator-elect, Mr. Ajibola Oluyede, made the disclosure, in a petition to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

In the same petition, Oluyede also accused former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, of being behind the plot to extradite Kashamu to the United States of America through unlawful means.

Jonathan, Shekarau shun UNILAG convocation

The University of Lagos convocation ended on Thursday with President Goodluck Jonathan and his education minister, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, shunning the three-day event.

The two also did not send representatives to the occasion.

Jonathan is the Visitor to the university.

The President during the Democracy Day broadcast on May 29, 2013, had changed the name of the university to the Moshood Abiola University, an action that attracted a barrage of criticisms.

Gbam!!! Lucky Igbinedion’s brother to pay N3m fine

A Federal High Court in Benin, Edo State on Thursday sentenced a younger brother of ex-Governor Lucky Igbinedion, Michael,   to a six-year jail term for N25bn money laundering offences.

An aide of the ex-governor,   Patrick Eboigbodin, was also jailed for 20 years for the   same of offences.

However, the governor’s brother has an option of paying N3m or N1m for each of the three counts on which he was found guilty to avoid going to jail.

FG plotting to sabotage handover, APC alleges

The All Progressives Congress on Thursday accused the Goodluck Jonathan administration of plotting to hinder a smooth handover of power on May 29.

It alleged that it was becoming apparent that the outgoing government would not fully cooperate with the incoming government of Muhammadu Buhari, despite its public posturing in that regard.

The party, in a statement   by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, described as an act of hostility, the “unnecessary vituperation against the incoming Buhari administration by the Jonathan government.”