National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC Bola Tinubu has said that the attack on National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, is based on 2023 ambitions of some party members.

TINUBU, who broke silence on the moves to oust Oshiomhole, in a statement on Sunday, stressed that those behind the move are suffering from a sickness he called “old Ambition-virus 2023”.

According to him, the primary symptom of their malady is the driving tendency to believe the events of 2023 will be decided before 2020 has run its course.

The APC national leader faulted the move, adding that it is recklessly undermining the party they claim to serve, and also, weaken the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

 

 

 

The federal government has told Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), that it has no record of how $5 billion recovered loot of public funds stolen by former military head of State, Sani Abacha, was spent between 1999 and 2015.

The government also said it does not have the record of the exact amount of money stolen by Abacha.

The government’s response followed SERAP’s Freedom of Information (FoI) requests, sent to Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abukabar Malami and Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, requesting “Information on the exact amount of public funds stolen by Abacha, and details of spending of about $5 billion recovered loot since the return of democracy in 1999.

According to SERAP, only Malami has sent a reply to its FOI requests, in which he said the information on the exact amount of public funds stolen by Abacha and how recovered loot was spent from 1999–2015 is not held by the Ministry.
It would be recalled that SERAP’s FOI requests expressed concerns that substantial part of the estimated $5 billion returned Abacha loot since 1999 may have been diverted, re-stolen or mismanaged, and in any case remain unaccounted for.

President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with families who lost loved ones, and all those affected by explosion.

 

The president also condoled with the Lagos State government and all residents affected by the unfortunate incident.

 

According to a statement by his spokesperson, Garba Shehu, President Buhari said a misfortune of whatever scale anywhere is a tragedy to the country.

 

 

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has revealed the cause of the pipeline explosion that killed at least 15 people and destroyed about 50 buildings after a fire broke out in Abule-Ado area of Lagos.

The corporation saidthe explosion occurred when a truck hit some gas cylinders in the area.

 

This was made known in a statement by the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the NNPC, Kennie Obateru.

 

NNPC said the incident occurred after a truck hit some gas cylinders stacked in a gas processing plant located near the corporation’s system 2B Pipeline Right of Way.

 

The corporation said it has quickly halted ongoing pumping operations on the Atlas Cove-Mosimi pipeline which was active at the time.

 

Obateru however noted that the temporary shutdown of the critical System 2B pipeline would not affect the supply of petrol across the country.

 

NNPC boss, Mele Kyari, and other top management of the corporation visited the sceneof the incident for an on-the-spot assessment.

According to zonal coordinator for the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Ibrahim Farinloye, several people were injured and taken to hospital.

Farinloye said some of the buildings collapsed while many roof-tops were blown off.