BLAMING OPPOSITION FOR HUNGER IS ‘DELUSION’, ATIKU TELLS TINUBU. (PHOTO).

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Blaming opposition for hunger is ‘delusion’, Atiku tells Tinubu Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused President Bola Tinubu of blaming the opposition for the country’s economic hardship. He said the President was trying to evade responsibility for his administration’s policies. Tinubu had earlier on Saturday blamed his political opponents for hunger and poverty in the country while speaking at the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign flag-off in Kaduna. “I hear my opponent talking about hunger, poverty. Who created it? They did! They created the hunger, they created the poverty. We are trying to eradicate it,” the President said. Atiku, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, said Nigerians were entitled to demand answers from the APC-led government over rising living costs, poverty, insecurity and questions surrounding public expenditure. In a statement issued on Saturday by the Director of Strategic Communication of the ADC Presidential Ca...

'I WASN'T SUSPENDED'- PRISON OFFICER SPEAKS ON BOBRISKY'S BRIBERY ALLEGATION. (PHOTO).


 ‘I wasn’t suspended’ — prison officer speaks on Bobrisky’s bribery allegation


Michael Anugwa, deputy controller of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), says he was not suspended by the service.


Anugwa is the officer in charge of Medium Security Custodial Centre (MSCC), Kirikiri, Lagos state, where Idris Okuneye, a popular crossdresser better known as Bobrisky, served his time.


Anugwa spoke on Monday while addressing members of the house of representatives joint committee on financial crimes and reformatory institutions.


The committee is investigating the bribery allegation against the anti-graft agency and the NCoS.


“It was a social media report. I wasn’t served a letter,” he said.


On Thursday, Ja’afaru Ahmed, the secretary to Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB), had said Anugwa and Sikiru Adekunle, deputy controller of corrections in the MSCC, were suspended.

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