A meeting between members of the House of Representatives elected on the platform of All Progressives Congress and President Buhari has been slated for Monday evening at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting, which is coming a day ahead of the resumption of the two chambers of the National Assembly, will be a last ditch effort by the president to ensure that members do not resume on a rancorous note and that the lingering leadership crisis rocking the House is resolved once and for all. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, confirmed…
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The Lagos State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has faulted Governor Akinwunmi Ambode for hurriedly obtaining a loan of 39.4 Billion Naira from the World Bank. In a statement issued by its Publicity Secretary, Taofik Gani, on Sunday, the opposition party in Lagos also advised the governor to rescind the decision pending the book check on all previously obtained loans in the state, especially by the last administration under Babatunde Fashola. This is just as the party also described the governor “as weak to fight corruption and block leakages” in the state with the alleged retention of the services of the…
Vice-Chancellor, University of Ilorin, Prof. Abdulganiyu Ambali says the school’s Ebola Research Committee is working assiduously to develop a vaccine for the Ebola virus. “What is happening is that the committee is just monitoring events; in terms of the vaccine, it will take a while because there are processes that you have to follow before you develop a vaccine,” Ambali disclosed in an interview on Sunday in Abuja. “For example, you have to isolate the virus; grow the virus; attenuate the virus; bring it out for testing; and then before the final usage. “So those are the processes that any vaccine…
The Western Marine Command of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has seized more than 1,000 cartons of smuggled poultry products across the creeks and coastline areas of the border between Nigeria and the Benin Republic. The federal government had banned the importation of frozen chicken and turkey in 2003 but with little or no enforcement since then, the products were still available in Nigerian markets. However, the NCS has resumed enforcement in recent months. Comptroller of Customs, Western Marine, Yusuf Umar, explained that the effort was geared towards the sustenance of the ban on importation of poultry. The NCS seized frozen…
Osun State is one of the states in Nigeria owing workers salaries for months. Hit by reduced allocation due to falling global oil prices which has affected federal government revenues. In order to make the state self-sufficient to avoid a fate similar to its current state, stakeholders in the state met in the university town of Ile-Ife on Saturday. Speakers at the Summit all agreed that in spite of the financial crisis of the nation, governors can create corridors of prosperity with the resources at their disposal, according to a report by Channels. The stakeholders pointed out that the economy could…
Nollywood actor Okey Jazzy proposed to his long time girl friend Annie Anaedum Ogochukwu. He traveled to her home in Akabor-village, Ojoto, Anambra state where he did the traditional rites. It was a colourful celebration which saw family and friends in attendance. More photos below: Source: LIB
It’s obvious that Meek Mill is really not sorry for attacking Drake on Twitter. Drake’s new track “Charged Up” can be viewed as his formal rebuttal to Meek Mill’s Twitter tirade against him this week; but Meek Mill is shown that he was not impressed. “Baby lotion soft,” he tweeted. And Meek Mill later tweeted “I can tell he wrote that 1 one tho…” In terms of lyrical insults, Drake did not go hard as he did On ‘6:00am In New York’ while replying Tyga’s Diss earlier this year.
In a recent chat with the Punch, Tonto Dikeh has revealed that she was ecstatic that she has found love again. Tontolet said “I have not always been lucky with love and relationships but right now, I am happy I’ve found love. I have too many thoughts on marriage and I can spend an entire day speaking about it. I will marry whoever God leads me to. The inspiration behind my hit track, Sugar Rush is the fact that love conquers all.” On her personality, she said “I would say I have a great and strong personality. I love myself…
Famous Nigerian singer, Timaya has allegedly come out to defend himself saying he neither defiled the mysterious lady nor forced her to have s*x with her. In a chat with popular blogger, Linda Ikeji, Timaya revealed that it was a consensual s*x and the lady was a blackmailer who wanted to con him off $50K. He said: – ‘So I have reached out to Timaya to hear his side of the story and he denies r*pe. Speaking exclusively with LIB, Timaya said it was consensual s*x and the girl is now blackmailing him. Timaya admitted that he hooked up with…
Controversial P0*n producer and actress, Afrocandy, has slammed preachers on Facebook. The mother based abroad said she will expose them and they should stop preaching to her. Read what she wrote below. “Before you enter my inbox telling me to repent and preaching to me how Jesus loves me and died for me, please look at me well. I am a Christian, I praise and worship my God and his son, Jesus Christ, always, and I know they love me, protect, provide for me and my children, you don’t need to tell me. “Some people even take the pain to…
3 policemen who assaulted an eight-month pregnant woman in Lagos are currently undergoing orderly room trial, the Lagos State Police Command said on Saturday. The command’s spokesman, Kenneth Nwosu, who made the disclosure, said they were arrested on Tuesday after a complaint about their alleged human rights infringement. He said the law would take its cause on any member of the police force that committed any crime, particularly human rights abuse but did not disclose the names of the policemen. The woman was said to have lost the prematurely born baby as a result of reported breathing difficulty arising from the…
We have just learnt of a story developing from Yobe State that a suspected female suicide bomber has killed 14 persons and injured at least 47 others after she detonated her Improvised Explosive Device (IED) vest at the entrance of a crowded market in Damaturu. According to PREMIUM TIMES, the suicide bomber detonated the explosive at the entrance of the popular Sunday market in the Yobe State capital at about 9:25 a.m. “She chose the most crowded part of the market, which is the entrance to detonate the bomb and so far 14 persons have been confirmed dead and 47…
A former Chairman of the Nigerian chapter of Transparency International, Maj.-Gen. Ishola Williams (retd), has thrown his weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to negotiate with genuine leaders of the violent terrorist sect, Boko Haram. The former army officer hailed the decision as the right step in the right direction in light of the state of insurgency in the country. President Buhari had in an interview with the Cable News Network during his four-day official visit to the U.S disclosed that his government was ready to dialogue with the terror group, if the talks would lead to the release of…
The umbrella body of Ijaw youths worldwide, the Ijaw Youth Council, has condemned the military siege to the Ijaw House in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, venue of a cancelled meeting called by ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo. The Ijaw (Izon) House is a symbol of the Ijaw ethnic nationality as it serves as the administrative headquarters of the Ijaw National Congress, IYC, and accommodates the Bayelsa State Ministry of Ijaw National Affairs and Culture. Following the announcement of ex-militant leaders’ meeting at the House, a combined team of military and police officers in the early hours of Friday…
Chris Brown says these are his new guards. He said they come with AKs and don’t mess around. Was he probably just messing around? Because these new guards don’t look scary at all! LOL!!
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has rubbished claims by the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APC), Dr. Alex Otti, that there was an assassination attempt on his life at his Abuja residence recently. Reacting to the claim, Ikpeazu in a release by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Godwin Adindu, said “Otti is merely trying to whip up sentiments to attract the sympathy of the security agencies and the electoral tribunal to his disastrous petition” adding that “his lamentation is the cry of a drowning man”. The APGA candidate had last Friday in Umuahia, the state capital,…
The first civilian governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Diepreye Alamieyesigha, has said no perfect system of government exists anywhere in the world. The disgraced former governor made this position known in an interactive session with newsmen in Yenagoa on Saturday. He advised, “There is no perfect government anywhere in the world. If a government programme and policies are facing challenges, it is not only the executive arm that takes the blame, the House of Assembly is empowered to check the excesses of the executive as an oversight function, so if the three arms of government are working in synergy, the…
Some prominent Bayelsa indigenes under the aegis of Assembly of Bayelsa Patriots, have vowed to mobilize the people into a mass movement to stop the second term bid of Governor Seriake Dickson. The ABP, made up of former National Assembly members, former public office holders, elders and youths, said they would frustrate the incumbent’s re-election bid through all constitutional means. In a statement on Saturday, entitled ‘Some fundamental reasons why Bayelsans must unite to stop second tenure bid of Seriake Dickson’, the ABP said the Peoples Democratic Party government in the state had allegedly “fallen short of the people’s expectations”.…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has described the Federal Government’s financial ‘bailout’ to states owing workers’ salaries as the product of President Muhammadu Buhari’s financial creativity. Osinbajo, who spoke in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on Saturday, said given the prevailing financial circumstances of the affected states and the plight of the workers, it was essential that any listening and sensitive government intervened in the way President Buhari did. He said, “As you know, the Federal Government under President Buhari directed that three things should be done regarding the situation of the states in Nigeria. We know that the states were…
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has called on all opposition parties in the country to support President Muhammadu Buhari. Dickson is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, while President Buhari belongs to the All Progressives Congress. Towards this end, the governor said he would continue to work for security, unity and progress of the country regardless of the fact that Buhari is a member of the APC. He stated this in Abuja on Saturday while receiving some Ijaw community leaders who paid him a solidarity visit and endorsed his second term ambition. Dickson said his call on the…