Author: TheScrutinyNG

United States President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he is dropping out of his reelection battle with Donald Trump, in a historic move that plunges the already turbulent 2024 White House race into uncharted territory. “While it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term,” Biden said in a letter posted on X. Stay tuned for more details… AFP

Mr Bayo Onanuga, a presidential aide, has accused supporters of Mr Peter Obi, Labour Party’s candidate in the 2023 presidential election, of planning protests across the country. Onanuga, Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, who was emphatic that Obi’s supporters were planning to stage nationwide protests, said that Obi would be held responsible for whatever crisis emanated from the action. “The protest planners are also the same people who were instigated by IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu to launch the destructive ENDSARS protest in Nigeria in October 2020,” Onanuga wrote on his official X account. “ENDSARS began…

Insinuations that Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu is involved in appointment racketeering as claimed by some chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is false, TheScrutinyNG has exclusively gathered. Also, reports that the president has stripped him of sole rights to make appointments and has directed that all appointments must be routed through the Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF) is untrue. Findings by our correspondent showed that at no time did the President gave Gbajabiamila the sole rights to make appointments on his behalf. Late last year, rumours were rife that Gbajabiamila might…

By Bayo Onanuga Don’t be fooled: the malcontents planning to stage nationwide protests are supporters of Peter Obi, the failed presidential candidate of the Labour Party. And he should be held responsible for whatever crisis emanates from the action. The protest planners are also the same people who were instigated by IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu to launch the destructive ENDSARS protest in Nigeria in October 2020. ENDSARS began as a genuine protest by youths against the Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad, notorious for its high-handedness. IPOB members planning to extricate the South East region from Nigeria infiltrated the protest and hijacked…

The Enugu Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Friday, July 19, 2024 arraigned one Rufus John Isip, a self-acclaimed forex broker before Justice C. S. Onah of the Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Isip was arraigned alongside his company, ITM-IT Resources Limited on an eight-count charge bordering on fraudulent conversion, money laundering and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N2,022,081,172 (Two Billion, Twenty-two Million, Eighty-One Thousand, One Hundred and Seventy-two Naira). Count one of the charge reads: “That you, Rufus John Isip while being the Director of ITM-IT Resources…

WhatsApp has said its parent body, Meta, will be appealing the $220 million fine imposed by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) regarding its violation of Nigeria’s data privacy laws. The organisation, WhatsApp, said this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Lagos. It said: “We disagree with the decision today as well as the fine and Meta will be appealing the decision. “In 2021, we went to users globally to explain how talking to businesses among other things would work and while there was a lot of confusion then, it…

US President Joe Biden pledged to stay in the White House race Friday, defying a growing Democratic party revolt that raised speculation he could bow out as soon as this weekend. “The stakes are high, and the choice is clear. Together, we will win,” the 81-year-old said in a statement from the Delaware beach home where he is in Covid isolation. “I look forward to getting back on the campaign trail next week,” Biden added, as his doctor said the president was bouncing back from the symptoms of the disease. But Biden’s political health appeared to be in far worse…

The Joint Committee of the House of Representatives investigating arbitrary rise of cement prices in the country has asked major producers in the industry to tender documents on cost production to justify the price of cement in the market. The committee resolved to visit production plants of the companies after going through their books to ascertain the cost of production with a view to determining a fair price of cement for all Nigerians. The Chairman of the Joint Committee, Rep. Jonathan Gaza (APC-Nasarawa), made the demand on Friday at a public hearing while quizzing Dangote Cement Company and Lafarge Africa…

By Olawale Olaleye Nigeria is in trouble. Take it or leave it. But many do not seem to know yet. This, evidently, is not a federal system but a monarchy, and what you have up there is King Bola Ahmed Tinubu – the supreme ruler of Nigeria. One would have thought that in a federal system, the different arms of government were independent. A lot of the people must have been wrongly taught in school. The other arms in Nigeria’s presidential democracy are totally reliant on the Almighty presidency. A principal officer of the senate, Ali Ndume, spoke not just…

Justices R.M Aikawa and Hauwa’u Buhari of the Federal High Court, sitting in Kaduna have convicted and sentenced five persons to prison for fraud. The convicts, Ibrahim Haruna, Abdullahi Yahaya, Daniel John (a.k.a Julieta), Benjamin Andrew Zagni (a.k.a Andrew Williams), Kenneth Barau (a.k.a Aisha Mohammed) were prosecuted by the Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The duo of Haruna and Yahaya faced a one-count charge of currency counterfeiting to the tune of $81,700 (Eighty-one Thousand Dollars, Seven Hundred Cents ) before Justice Justice Aikawa, while John, Zagni and Barau were prosecuted on separate one-count charges…