EFCC To Release Fani-Kayode’s Passport

A Federal High Court in Lagos has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to release the travelling passport of former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, facing money laundering charges.

Femi – Fani- Kayode

Fani-Kayode’s passport had been seized by the anti-graft commission on the order of Justice Ramat Mohammed before who his trial started in December 2008.

5 Issues That Have Made Buhari More Popular This Year

Gen. Muhammadu Buhari started this year on a very bright note. He was apparently the most popular politician in the country at the time the year started.
The hashtag #FeBuhari trended on social media and a lot people got behind him strongly.
It looked like he was in the lead to win the upcoming election.

Some issues have since come up this year that could have diminished his goodwill and derailed his campaign, but these issues seem to have worked in his favour somehow, either by strengthening his popularity or by weakening his opponent’s popularity. It looks like he now has an unassailable advantage with just weeks to the big election.

Here are the five issues that have made Buhari more popular this year.

Buhari

1. The Articles

Last month, Charles Soludo wrote a story condemning the Jonathan administration and praising the Obasanjo adminstration as a better one. He didn’t directly support Buhari or APC in the story, but the story tacitly favoured Buhari because it aligned with their position concerning the government and the need for change, which their campaign is based on. The article and subsequent sequels generated some controversy in the country and it was bad publicity for the president whose rating was already awful.

Nigerian Army Have Inducted The BTR-94

The Nigerian military, which is currently gaining success in the war against the Boko Haram insurgency, received some new heavy armoured machines.
Facebook user Nazeer Justice Ibrahim has published photos of the BTR-94 armoured personnel carriers (APCs), saying that Nigeria is re-arming at an alarming rate.

Soldier is seen near the Ukrainian-made BTR-94 APC

According to him, the Ukrainian-made BTR-94 APCs are a perfect substitution for Toyota 4×4 Hilux vans, which only are suitable for “chasing area boys in Ojota, Lagos, or Yan Daba in Kofar Naisa in Kano.”

Ambode Discusses Plans For Pensioners, Elders

Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate in Lagos state has assured senior citizens and the Pensioners in the state of his constant support that will assuage their worries and pains.

Akinwunmi Ambode

He made this promise on Monday during his meeting with members of the National Union of Pensioners (Lagos state chapter) and Senior citizens at the LTV8 Blue-roof Hall in Ikeja, Lagos Daily Independent reports.

Mysterios $800,000 Blowing In The Wind In Dubai

Money is in the air, literally! Motorists driving through Dubai could not believe their eyes when it started raining money in the middle of the UAE city.

Motorists driving through Dubai could not believe their eyes when it started raining money

Thousands of 500 UAE Dirham notes – worth around 27,037N – flew through the oil-rich city on a busy afternoon earlier this month. Neither locals, no officials can explain where the cash came from. It is estimated that notes valued between two and three million Dirham ( up to 153,710,262N) were flying through the city streets.

Thirty Shia Muslims kidnapped in Afghanistan

Men from minority Hazara group were travelling by bus through central Afghanistan when masked gunmen took them away.

Hazara Muslims are often the target of sectarian violence at the hands of Sunni Muslim groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan [Reuters]

Masked gunmen have abducted 30 Shia Muslim men who were travelling by bus through central Afghanistan, according to local authorities.

Two top Mubarak-era officials acquitted in Egypt

Ex-PM Ahmed Nazif and former Interior Minister Habib el-Adly cleared of graft charges at retrial.

Nazif, left, had earlier been given a one-year suspended jail term [Reuters]

An Egyptian court has acquitted two top Hosni Mubarak-era officials of graft charges at a retrial, according to judicial sources.