At least 30 people lost their lives and 67 others were injured in multiple bomb explosions that occurred at Dadin/Kowa and Dukku motor parks of Gombe State Wednesday, a Red Cross official has confirmed. The Secretary, Red Cross Society Gombe State, Abubakar Yakubu told journalists that the corpses were deposited at the Federal Teaching Hospital (FHT) Gombe and Specialist Hospital mortuary. According to him, those who sustained injuries were given treatment at the FTH and Specialist hospital. Meanwhile, Fwaje Atajiri, the Gombe Police Public Relation Officer, said that the Dadin/Kowa park blast occurred around 7:50 p.m. The Dukku motor park…
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The new Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshall Sadiq Abubakar, said on Wednesday that the Nigerian Air Force is developing a strategy in its fight against Boko Haram and other threats to national security especially in the volatile North-East and Niger Delta regions. The new Air Chief, who was on an operational visit – his first – to 97 Special Operations Group in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, as part of his tour to the units under tactical commands, stressed the need for the Nigerian Air Force to evaluate past performances and improve on areas necessary. AVM Abubakar…
There is nothing as relieving as being able to draw from a pool of funds when the need arises. Money problems are usually associated with huge emotional, psychological and physical stress. If you watch people struggle to pay their children’s school fees or house rent you will understand that the hustle is real. We all wish we had this fantastic superpower to help us predict and sort the future, but since we don’t have that ability, we have to plan for tomorrow today. It is with an inherent understanding of this that Rosabon Financial Services developed the Rosabon Earning Plan…
2face Idibia’s baby mama, Sumbo Ajaba and hubby, Tunde Adeoye are celebrating their 2nd wedding anniversary today, July 22, 2015. Tunde, who is the General Overseer of Royalty Christian Centre, got married to Sumbo in Lagos in 2013. She had a widely reported relationship with 2face before she settled in marriage with the clergy man and her romance with the Benue State-born singer produced two kids…. Source: NET The post 2face Idibia’s Baby Mama, Sumbo And Hubby Celebrate 2nd Wedding Anniversary appeared first on INFORMATION NIGERIA.
U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari (L) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington July 20, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Nigeria after four days in Washington. While in the United States, Buhari met with US President Barack Obama whom he discussed Nigeria’s security issues with. The two leaders also discussed Buhari’s economic plans and how to strengthen the relationship between Nigeria and the US. President Buhari also told US lawmakers point-blank that sodomy was against the law in Nigeria and as such the country will not legalize gay…
Mrs Toyin Saraki The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has invited the wives of the Senate President, Mrs. Toyin Saraki and that of the former Kebbi State governor and daughter of late President, Zainab Dakingari, over alleged corrupt practices. The two women were accused to have used their positions to draw huge sums of money into companies which they have interests while serving as first ladies of their respective states. While Mrs Dakingari is said to have been invited by the commission to shed light on over N2 billion said to have been misused during her tenure as the…
Dozens of people have been feared dead in the wee hours of yesterday, when a Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipeline exploded at Arepo, Ogun State when they were trying to vandalize it. According to reports, trouble started after different groups of vandals stormed the creeks in boats loaded with empty jerry cans and engaged in a verbal confrontation over ownership of a section of the pipeline. One of the group leaders, whose identity was given simply as Killer, was said to have ordered the other groups to vacate the creeks, stating that he was the owner of the section…
Immediate past National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) has refuted claims that he maltreated President Muhammadu Buhari when he was removed as military Head of State, in a 1985 coup. “I always respect and dignify my seniors and those in positions of authority whether in service or after. Though a young officer, I was reluctant to be among those that arrested him. And I was not. “I only met him afterward at Bonny Camp with Lawal Rafindadi. There is no way I could have maltreated him as being alleged in some quarters. I am glad most of the…
The crisis in the House of Representatives continues with a twist as some members of the Femi Gbajabiamila camp have disassociated themselves from a letter sent to the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chief John Odigie-Oyegun on the sharing of principal offices. Following the reply of the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara to Oyegun last Thursday, on why the letter from the national leadership that contained the names of four nominees for the remaining four principal offices was not read on the floor of the House, a letter had been sent to counter Dogara’s position by the Gbajabiamila group.…
More than 40 people have been feared dead in Gombe as a suicide bomber reportedly struck at the Dadin-Kowa motor park. Two other bombs were said to have exploded. “Two suicide bombers attacked Dadin Kowa bus station this evening. The park is one of the busiest in the town,” Fwaje Atajiri, the police public relations officer in the state reportedly confirmed the attack. “You get vehicles going to Biu, Maiduguri, Yola but activities are usually low in the evening. So, we just hope that the casualty would not be high.” “It is true that there were bomb attacks in the…
Senate President Bukola Saraki has described as malicious claims by online news platform Sahara Reporters that the former Kwara State governor was working with Goodluck Jonathan to bring down the number or amount unremitted by the Nigeria National Petroleum Cooperation to the federation account. “Attention of the Senate President’s media office has been drawn to a malicious fabrication by an on-line publication (Sahara Reporters) aimed at tarnishing the reputation of the Senate President, Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki,” a statement by Bamikole Omishore, Special Assistant (New Media to Senate President) said. “First, as a Senator in the 7th National Assembly, the…
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The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbanjo on Wednesday said that the Buhari administration would not spare anyone who went against the law as it would propagate the Rule of Law in all its programmes. “There is nobody who will be above the law in Nigeria, no matter who you are,” Osinbajo said when the officials of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) paid him a solidarity visit at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. “You cannot use party. You cannot use the association; you cannot use position in government. Nobody is above the law. That is the first move.…
The Rivers State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of being selective and insincere in his fight against corruption. The state PDP in a statement signed by Jerry Needam, Special Adviser on Media to its Chairman, Felix Obuah, said that its allegation was based on the president’s inaction over the looting of public facilities and siphoning of state funds by the immediate past administration of Rotimi Amaechi. It pointed out that President Buhari had continued to shield the former governor, citing his inclusion in the Presidential delegation to the United States of America to meet…
The two-member South East caucus of the All Progressives Congress in the House of Representatives has condemned the alleged attempt to “marginalise” them by lawmakers loyal to the leadership of the party. In a July 20 letter to the APC leadership, the party’s loyalists, who are supporting the emergence of Femi Gbajabiamila as the majority leader, argued that the two APC lawmakers from the South East are first time members in the House, thus they are “inexperienced” to clinch principal positions of the House, citing precedents and standing rules. However, in their reply signed by Austin Chukwukere, they said the…
Chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Bayelsa State, Perekeme Kpodo, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to prosecute former President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Dame Patience. The APC chair, who made the call at a news conference in Yenagoa on Wednesday, said Jonathan, his wife and known associates, should be prosecuted for the alleged looting of resources of the country and other associated crimes. Mr. Kpodo, who was the interim chairman of the New Peoples Democratic Party, said the acceptance of defectors to the APC by the Tiwei Orunimighe-led executive committee was an illegal action. He said it was…
President Muhammadu Buhari without mincing declared to United States lawmakers that Nigeria cannot condone gay marriage, according to the presidency. Buhari who spoke at the joint session of U.S. Senate and House Committees on Foreign Affairs Wednesday made Nigeria’s stand clear to the US lawmakers and the issue was not pushed further. “The issue of gay marriage came up here yesterday. PMB was point blank. Sodomy is against the law in Nigeria, and abhorrent to our culture,” the president’s special adviser on media and publicity, Femi Adesina wrote on microblogging site Twitter. “The same s*x marriage issue came up at…
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday reiterated his commitment to ending the challenges facing Nigeria. Speaking at the United States Institute for Peace in Washington DC while briefing representatives from the institute and others from Center for Strategic and International Studies, Atlantic Council, National Democratic Institute, International Republican Institute and International Foundation of Electoral System on his hopes for Nigeria and his administration’s commitment to tackling the Boko Haram terrorist group in the nation’s north-east, President Buhari said strategies had been put in place to empower the Nigerian Armed Forces to ensure that they win the war in the shortest possible…
The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps, Brig-Gen. Johnson Olawumi, on Wednesday said graduates with first class degrees would, henceforth, be deployed to tertiary institutions and universities as lecturers. He stated this in Kaduna at a two-day pre-mobilisation workshop for the 2015 Batch ‘B’ NYSC programme. Olawumi said the new posting policy was to properly mobilise the right manpower to boost the education sector. “All corps members who graduated with First Class honours, Distinction Degrees and Diplomas will be posted to tertiary institutions for effective utilisation of their manpower. “The posting policy of the scheme is being vigorously implemented for the…
The Police Command in Yobe has recovered four bombs, two improvised explosives, six mortar bombs, a machine gun and two Ak47 rifles inside a damaged Toyota Highlander, belonging to insurgents, an official said. Mr Markus Danladi, the Yobe State Commissioner of Police, made the fact known while displaying the ammunition to newsmen in Damaturu. He said the bombs and improvised explosive devices were discovered in the trunk of the jeep which occupants died on Monday in an explosion from a device. The commissioner explained that five suspected suicide bombers were stopped for search on the Maiduguri-Damaturu highway on Monday by…