An eight year-old primary school girl has been raped to death by unknown persons in Ikot Ekang, Etinan Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom. . The incident took place on Tuesday night when she was sent on errand by her grandfather at about 6.30 pm. . It was learnt that the grandfather, Mr Enobong Wilson, raised alarm when the girl did not return three hours after she left the house. . Her corpse was eventually found on Wednesday morning near an uncompleted building in the village. . The girl was a pupil of Christian Victory Nursery and Primary School located…
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He said this on Wednesday in Abuja when Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta led a delegation of the party`s stakeholders in the state on a courtesy call on him. . He decried a situation where some politicians claimed to be on ground because of their closeness to some persons in the party’s headquarters without getting acquainted with those at the grassroots. . “It will not work; the people are looking at you. Those of you, who will sit on the governor’s lap, or on my lap, will not succeed. . “You have to campaign, you have to tell the people…
National chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Maxi Okwu, has appealed to Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State to restrain Chief Victor Umeh from continuing his legal battle against the leadership of the party. . Okwu, who made the appeal, yesterday, when he visited Senator Offia Nwali in his country home at Ameka, Ezza South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, observed that protracted legal battle was part of the instruments destroying the stability of the party. . He stated that the party was undergoing serious re- branding and restructuring to bring back its lost glory. . He…
[divider]The nation-wide registration by members of the All Progressives Party (APC) continued on Wednesday with late arrival of materials amidst some successes in some states. . In Ogun, Gov.Ibikunle Amosun and a former governor of the state, Chief Segun Osoba, expressed satisfaction with the turnout of members to exercise their civic responsibility. . Amosun, who registered at Ajura Ward 1 in Ajura town in Obafemi Owode Local Government, said he was encouraged by the large number of people who came to register in various centres. . He commended the organisers of the exercise for the peaceful and orderly manner and…
THE Senate, yesterday, called on the managers of electricity in the country to discard what it described as ‘’estimated billing’’ in charging consumers, saying the method was not in the best interest of Nigeria and its people. . It said they should instead provide pre-paid metres to meet up with modern day challenges in electricity sector. . Chairman, Senate Committee on Power, Mines and Metallurgy, Philip Aduda, made this known, yesterday, when the management team of Electricity Management Service Limited, EMSL, paid his committee a courtesy visit in Abuja. . Speaking earlier, Managing Director of the EMSL, Mr. Peter Ewesor,…
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi yesterday described the kerosene subsidy claim by NNPC as a scam saying that claims by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, of spending money on kerosene subsidy are not credible. . Sanusi made the declaration at the resumed Senate Investigative Public Hearing on un-remitted oil revenue in Abuja stressing that the sum of $20 billion was un-remitted to the Federation Account by the NNPC, between January 2012 and July 2013. . He said the burden of proof was now on the NNPC to substantiate that the $20…
FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo and another former head of state, General Muhammadu Buhari, as well as Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State were, yesterday, conspicuously absent from the National Council of State, NCS, meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. . No reasons was given for the absence of Obasanjo but Buhari had earlier vowed that he would not attend the NCS until the injustice allegedly done to him during the 2011 presidential election was redressed. Amaechi was, however, said to be out of the country. . Those who attended, however, endorsed the proposed national conference by President Goodluck Jonathan saying…
The APC Registration Supervisory Committee for Kano State on Wednesday urged supporters of the party to come out en masse and register at polling units nearest to them. . The Chairman of the committee, Dr Mustapha Inuwa, made the call in an interview in Kano. . Inuwa said there was need for the supporters to show commitment and love for the party by coming out to register during the exercise. . “APC should have more people registered in Kano than anywhere in the country, considering the fact that Kano is the most populous state in the country. . “And with…
Property estimated at hundreds of millions of naira have been destroyed by fire at the popular Kara market in Sokoto. . Some of the items sold at the market included grains, onions, agricultural inputs, wheat offal, kola nuts, generators and spare parts, among others. . The fire started at about midnight on Tuesday. . It was said to have been ignited by an electrical spark at a shop opposite the Kofar-Kade gate. . There was, however, no loss of life or injury in the inferno. . The fire was still raging when NAN visited the scene at 6.30a.m. on Wednesday.…
Eight people were killed and 26 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a hotel in a Shiite minority neighbourhood in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar on Tuesday, officials said. . “Eight people were killed and twenty six have been injured in a suicide blast outside a local hotel yards away from an Imambargah (worship place of the Shiites),” senior police official Faisal Mukhtar told AFP. . Shafqat Malik, chief of Peshawar’s Bomb Disposal Unit, confirmed that it was a suicide blast. . Jamil Shah, a spokesman for the city’s government- run Leady Reading Hospital confirmed the casualties.…
The National Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, on Tuesday said that the party would compensate loyal members. . He made this known when the Goodluck Support Group (GSG) Elders Council, led by former Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu, visited him at the party`s national headquarters, Abuja. . Mu `azu, who was responded to complaints that loyal party members had not be adequately compensated, added that PDP would provide a level playing ground for all members. . He promised to meet President Goodluck Jonathan on how the party would adequately compensate loyal party members. . Meanwhile, Mu`azu has…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as reckless, irresponsible and totally condemnable the alleged threat by Mujahedeen Asari-Dokubo to levy war against Nigeria even if President Goodluck Jonathan is defeated even in a free and fair election in 2015. . It said the SSS must act immediately or be damned. . ”There is no better test of the fairness, non- partisanship and professionalism of the SSS than this Asari-Dokubo’s threat to levy war on his own country. . If Asari-Dokubo is not above the laws of the land, he must be hauled before the SSS, just like the service…
A RECENT post on the Facebook revealed that, apart from the office of the President and the Secretary to Government, other key appointments are held by the North. These include: The President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Office of the Head of service, the Chief Justice of the Federaltion and President of the Appeal Court, the Governor of the Central Bank, the Chairman of EFCC, the Inspector General of Police, the National Security Adviser, the Chief of Defence Staff, the Comptroller Generals of Custom Service, Immigration Service, and Prison Service. . Others are the…
THE Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Tuesday, told the Senate Committee on Finance that out of the $67 billion crude oil sale that was supposed to be remitted to the federation account only $47 billion has been reconciled between the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC and Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, leaving a balance of $20billion unaccounted for. . But Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance, Ahmed Makarfi cautioned the CBN Governor over making wild and unsubstantiated allegations without concrete and specific figures to back his claims. . Malam Sanusi came up with a new figure of about $20 billion…
Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, ordered that Dr. Mohammed Yunus, a lecturer at the Kogi State University, who allegedly sponsored a cell of the Boko Haram sect situated at Igala land in Kogi State, be transferred to Kuje Prison. . Justice Kolawole made the order shortly after the lecturer, Yunus, alongside two other alleged members of the sect, Salami Abdullahi and Umar Musa, pleaded not guilty to an eight-count terrorism charge preferred against them by the Federal Government yesterday. . The government, alleged that the trio had within May and October, 2013,…
The Kano State House of Assembly has elected a new speaker following the resignation of the former, Alhaji Gambo Sallau. . The new speaker is Alhaji Ishaku Danja, who was until Tuesday’s election, the Deputy Speaker. Alhaji Hamisu Chidari, the Majority Leader, is now the Deputy Speaker. . The House had also elected Alhaji Kabir Alhassan as the new Majority Leader to replace Chidari. . The former speaker announced his resignation in a broadcast in Kano on Tuesday. . He said his decision was based on political reasons, as he said “I, Gambo Sallau, the Speaker of the Kano State…
An Abuja Grade 1 Area Court, sitting in Kado on Tuesday sentenced a scavenger, Yakubu Jibril, 18, to eight months in prison for vandalism. . He was arraigned for joint act, criminal trespass and theft. . The Presiding Judge, Alhaji Ahmed Ado, sentenced the convict without an option to pay a fine after he pleaded guilty. . Ado, however, gave the convict an option to pay nine thousand naira. . “The punishment is to make you change your lifestyle from that of crime to being a good citizen,” he stated. . Earlier the Prosecutor, Mr Simon Ibrahim, told the court…
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday in Abuja, described the defection of former Vice President Atiku Ababukar to the All Progressive Congress (APC) on Feb. 2, as “a voyage”. . Mr Uche Secondus, Deputy National Chairman of the party, said this while declaring open a Strategic Consultative Workshop for Women in Media and Communication. . Secondus, who was chairman at the workshop organised by Mrs Kema Chikwe, the PDP National Women Leader, in collaboration with the International Republican Institute, said that PDP would be willing to receive Atiku back after the voyage. . “The good thing is that the…
The Yobe Police Command on Tuesday confirmed the killing of 18 traders by bandits in Bara village. . Alhaji Sanusi Rufai, the Commissioner of Police in the State, told newsmen that the traders were ambushed by the bandits while travelling back from Ngalda market. . “The bandits attacked and killed 18 traders; 10 from Kukuwa and eight from Dokshi villages’ and took away their money. . “The bandits were masked and wearing army uniform’’, he said. . Sanusi said that a policeman attached to a quarry in Bara village was also shot dead by the fleeing bandits. . “The Joint…
The Joint Task Force (JTF) operating in the Niger Delta region has freed two suspected vessels carrying diesel. . The task force said that one of the vessels was carrying 282,000 litres of diesel worth N46.53 million. . The JTF Commander, Maj.-Gen. Iliyasu Abba, announced the release of the vehicles on Monday during the release of the two vessels to its owners in Bonny Island, Rivers. . The two vessels, identified as MV Ebba and MT Askja Rotterdam, were arrested along the creeks in Rivers on suspicion that they were transporting petroleum products without permit. . Abba, represented by Maj.…