Former Minister of State for Education and Delta State chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, has said that he has nothing against the state deputy governor, Professor Amos Utuama, SAN, over the 2015 elections other than protecting the interest of Deltans and the Urhobos. . In a chat with reporters in Lagos, Gbagi, lamented that people were blowing out of proportion his advice that a septuagenarian should allow the youths to aspire for Delta governorship. He said it was sad and evil that people were fabricating stories that he said he had Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan in his…
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A man simply identified as Wisdom, is now on the run, for allegedly defrauding over 50 job seekers, who jumped at his offer of mouthwatering jobs at the yet to take-off Federal Government Export Processing Zone, Ogodigben in Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State. . It dawned on the job racketeering victims that they had been duped when they arrived, weekend, in Ode-Ugborodu to the bemused host community folks of the EPZ project, where the fraudster had directed them to meet a fake associate expected to accommodate and take them to the project site for jobs placement. . Narrating…
AS the former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, formally pitched tent with All Progressives Congress, APC, a group, the South-South Movement for Atiku, SSMA, has said that the Turaki Adamawa, by joining APC, would bring the desired change that is urgently needed in the South South region as well as the entire country, come 2015. . In a statement by its National Youth Coordinator, Chief Benjamin Nomuoja, the group said: “We wish to welcome Alhaji Atiku to our great party, the APC. . As a party formed on the basis of change and good governance for the entire Nigerian nation,…
SEME, the border between Nigeria and Benin Republic has a vast area, which covers a large expanse of land. The challenge in policing this particular border is the swampy nature of the environment that tends to retard movement of patrol vehicles. When the border was visited recently, security personnel were seen at strategic positions screening people crossing from Benin to Nigeria, aside from economic activities in both countries. . The border information point surrounded by Customs officers was placed at the centre of the border line. Also, numerous seizures including second hand shoes, textile materials, bags and rice, were seen…
The Federal Government on Sunday urged Nigerians to pray for the security agents partaking in the ongoing military action to end the reign of terror in parts of the country. . The Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, gave the charge at a special thanksgiving service in honour of Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade, the Defence spokesman, in Abuja. . The service was held at Redeem Christian Church of God (RCCG), Central Parish, Abuja. . “We call on the relentless prayers and support of citizens for the security agents as they battle to end the menace of insurgency in parts of the…
The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, on Sunday reassured Nigerians, especially industrialists, of steady electricity supply in a very short time. . Nebo gave the assurance at the investiture of the newly elected president and council of the Enugu Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (ECCIMA) in Enugu. . According to him, downturn in the power sector is only temporal and that government is doing everything possible to provide stable electricity. . “Lots of work is being done. Government is putting the right mechanisms to ensure adequate electricity 24/7,’’ he said. . Nebo praised industrialists for their steadfastness,…
The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) on Sunday urged the Commissioner of Police in Lagos State to track down the killers of Mr Toyin Obadina, Deputy Editor, Newswatch Newspapers. . This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Femi Adesina, the NGE President, and made available to a news company in Abuja. . Obadina died on Sunday as a result of injuries he sustained from the gunmen on Friday on his way to his Ikorodu residence in Lagos. . He was rushed to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital where doctors battled unsuccessfully to save his life. . The…
They are the moral guide to the society and they do all in their wisdom to engender peace and preserve the interests of the larger society. Unfortunately, the various elders’ groups in Nigeria–in the East, West, South-South, Middle Belt or North -are different; they observe this rule in the breach. The most typical of them is the Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF) which has been in the news in recent times, for its strident pursuit of sectional and parochial interests to the detriment of the well-being of the larger Nigerian nation. . The elders, at the end of its meeting in…
Former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has dumped the party which gave him a platform to be Nigeria’s Vice President from 1999 to 2007, stating that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has lost touch with Nigerians and can no longer be redeemed. . It will be recalled that Atiku also left the party in 2007 to contest the presidential election on the platform of the Action Congress (AC) before returning to the PDP in 2009. . He has updated his twitter handle to include the emblem of All Progressive Congress ,APC), his new political party. . Below is…
FOUR persons – a couple, their daughter and house help-yesterday, died in a miltiple accident involving the convoy of Ondo State deputy governor, Alhaji Ali Olanusi. . A traditional ruler, the Osunmakinde of Ife Tuntun, Osun State, Oba Obawure Taofeek Olaposi, who was seriously injured in the crash, is on admission in Ondo State Specialist Hospital, Akure. . The deceased are the Chairman of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, Alex Akinwale, his wife, Rebecca, and daughter, Pauline. . The Akinwales first child, Paul, who was also involved in the crash, however, survived.…
It has ben a string of attacks since Sunday, January 13 when Kawuri in Konduga LGA, Borno State was invaded by suspected Boko Haram insurgents, sacking about 37 communities with thousands of residents displaced taking refuge in Cameroon Republic and villages in Chibok, Damboa, Gwoza, Konduga council areas as well as Maiduguri, the state capital. . The sacked communities include Goskari Gana, Limanti, Mairari, Kwaljiri, Alau, Kaya, Wala, Ngawo Fate and Mude while the latest Kawuri attack has posed many unanswered questions, particularly to residents and traders who were in the town on Sunday, January, 26, a market day. .…
Security of the venue and places where officials and delegates to the forth-coming National Conference will be given top priority by the Federal Government even as it denies that there is a hidden agenda by the Jonathan administration. The Federal Government lashed out at those inputing hidden agenda on the conference came on a day the oposition All Progressives Congress (APC) dismissed it as a Jonathan dialogue given the high number of delegates to be nominated by the president. . The Special Adviser to the President on Political Affairs, Alhaji Ahmed Ali Gulak, yesterday, debunked the allegation of hidden agenda…
Friday, January 17, 2014 was two days after this year’s edition of the Armed Forces Remembrance Day. . That was the day it was made its second visit to the palace of the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III. . The visit to the Sultan was without prior notice, yet the Africa’s fourth most influential monarch and Nigeria’s topmost traditional and religious leader did not allow the extraordinariness that resides in his person to deny his unexpected visitor the audience he required. And it started with observing the Jumat Service with him. . Observing Jumat with the Sultan…
The Interim Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Nasir El-Rufai has described ex-Niger Delta militant leader, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo as a thug, during an interview with Sahara TV, over his fifteen hours interrogation at the Department of State Services, (DSS). . When asked if the name of Asari-Dokubo came up during his interrogation, the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory said no, and added that he could not have mentioned Asari-Dokubo’s name because he and Dokubo do not have anything in common. . He said: “Asari Dokubo is a thug. I don’t compare myself to him. I’ve never…
The Landlords’ Association of Jakande Estate, Oke-Afa, Isolo in Ejigbo Local Council Development Area of Lagos on Friday decried what it called permanent power outage on the estate. . The President of the association, Mr Ganiyu Taiwo, said in Lagos that the estate had been without electricity since private investors took over from the Power Holding Company of Nigeria. . According to him, in spite the power outage, residents of the estate were being given “crazy’’ bills. . “The extortion is no longer acceptable to the community. . “The residents have, on many occasions, appealed to the Ikeja Electricity Distribution…
Mrs Modupe Onitiri-Abiola, one of the wives of late Chief MKO Abiola, on Saturday declared that she would contest the 2015 governorship election in the state on the ticket of ACCORD Party. . Onitiri-Abiola, wife of the acclaimed winner of the annulled June 12, 1993, presidential election, made her intention public in a statement issued by her in Lagos. . The aspirant said that she joined the party to assist in the eradication of poverty. . “Since there is no Independent Candidacy in Nigerian Political System yet, I needed to join a political party. . “During my search for the…
Former Anambra factional Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Egwuoyibo Okoye, on Friday night escaped death following a fatal road crash. . Okoye was involved in the accident with his Personal Assistant, Mr Nelson Amechi, which occurred at the Enugu-Anambra border along the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway. . The vehicles involved in the head-on collision were a truck laden with scraps bearing registration number XA 199 DMA, heading to Onitsha and a Peugeot 406 with registration number AN 21B-AN belonging to Okoye. . The chieftain was said to be in stable condition while the second occupant (Amechi) who drove…
Nigeria on Saturday pledged 1.5 million US dollars at an international donor summit at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa to support African-led International Mission (MISCA) in the Central African Republic (CAR). . The Minister of State 2 for Foreign Affairs, Dr Nurudeen Mohammed, announced the pledge as 60 nations came together to raise money for the crisis- stricken Car. . “The situation in Car demands our collective resolve to help that sister country to win the peace and embark on national reconciliation and re-establish critical government infrastructure’’, he said. . Mohammed urged parties to the conflict in CAR to…
Minister of FCT, Sen. Bala Mohammed, on Saturday observed that the appointment of Dr. Adamu Muazu as the National Chairman of the PDP, had started yielding positive results. . Fielding questions from newsmen at a civic reception organised in honour of Muazu in Bauchi, the Minister described the new chairman as a “catalyst” for the transformation of the party. . He said Muazu’s ability was already creating the desired impact, especially in the area of re-building the party, by reconciling all aggrieved members. . “You can see the spirit of reconciliation already penetrating across every length and breadth; you can…
Raging fire on Saturday burnt students’ hostel in the Federal Government College (FGC), Kazaure, in Jigawa. . Mr Muhammad Gidado, Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Corps (NSCDC) in Jigawa, told newsmen that the inferno razed down the hostel completely. . Although he did not adduce any reason for the fire outbreak, the commandant said it took fire men more than one hour to put it out so that it did not spread to other buildings. . “It took more than one hour for the NSCDC, police, fire fighters and staff of the college to put out the fire…