MR. AKINWUNMI AMBODE (RIGHT) DISCUSSING WITH THE AMBASSADOR OF FRANCE TO NIGERIA, MR. DENYS GAUER (2ND LEFT) WHILE THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF FRANCE AND HEAD OF MISSION, MARCEL ESCURE LOOKS ONGovernor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State says his administration is finalizing plans on policies that will strengthen its economic ties with neighbouring countries, especially the French-speaking ones. According to him, the policy was a strategy to expand the state’s frontiers to accommodate investors. Ambode said this during a visit of the France Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Denys Gauer, to the Lagos House, Ikeja on Wednesday. The ambassador was accompanied by…
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The report of Police investigations into the alleged forgery of Senate rules by the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and some principal officers and management of the National Assembly would be out next week. The police said on Wednesday that after interrogating all the persons involved, they had concluded their investigations. The Police Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Ojukwu, who made this known yesterday, said that “the police had done the needful”. The Senate Unity Forum, which petitioned the police authorities on the alleged forgery of the Senate rules, on Tuesday expressed concern over the slow pace of police investigation into…
Impeached Governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, who is being prosecuted along with his son, Senator Abdul-Aziz, and others for N29bn fraud charges, has threatened to sue the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for defaming his character while opposing his application for bail on July 8. The former governor, who spoke through one of his lawyers, Mohammed Bakari, in a statement on Wednesday, said the anti-graft agency had defamed his character by trying to link him with the death of two of its witnesses. Bakari said it was untrue that the witnesses died mysteriously, describing the claim by EFCC’s prosecutor,…
The Kaduna State Security outfit, code-named Operation Yaki, on Wednesday said intelligence reports indicated a plot by terror group ‘SaraSuka’ or ‘Masu-Shara’, to attack the state on Sallah day. The Coordinator of Operation Yaki, Col. Yakubu Yusuf (retd.), who raised the alarm, said security operatives had already been placed on standby, warning residents to be vigilant during the period. He also cautioned residents against accommodating or harbouring strange fellows as the Boko Haram terror group had changed its mode of attacks. Specifically, the retired army officer urged parents to guard their children against being ready recruits for the Boko Haram…
Nigerians paid N25 more than the official pump price of petrol in June, National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, PMS Watch has shown. The report released yesterday also indicates that though there was a 5.3 percent drop against previous month’s record high of N118.4, fuel prices have been on high pitch since the turn of the year, yielding an overall year-on-year increase of 7.3 percent above 2014 average. The state with the highest price was Bayelsa, a major oil producing state, at retail price of N155 per litre, up from N115 recorded in the previous month. Some other states, which recorded…
Although ratings agency Standard & Poor’s said on Wednesday, that Nigeria will have to devalue its currency again, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said that it would not bow to pressures to further devalue the naira. A three-day straight slide in the exchange rate of Naira against US Dollar has put the currency in a grave state. Yesterday, the parallel market segment of the foreign exchange market traded one US dollar to N245 after it opened the day at N242/USD1.00. The exchange rate on Tuesday was N240 and N238 on Monday, with dealers Dealers in the market expressing fears that…
President Muhammadu Buhari has given insight into what he would discuss with his American counterpart during his four-day visit to the U.S. next week. In a statement through his spokesperson, Femi Adesina, on Wednesday, Mr. Buhari said his talks with Mr. Obama would centre on security, war against terrorism, as well as trade and economic relations. Mr. Buhari will depart Abuja Sunday for Washington DC and would during his visit “hold high-level talks with President Barack Obama and other senior officials of the United States government”. According to Mr. Adesina, “topmost on the agenda of President Buhari’s talks with President…
Dr Habeeb Yaqeen, an aspirant in the Kogi governorship elections on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) has vowed to revamp Ajaokuta Steel Company if he became governor of the state. Yaqeen, in an interview with newsmenat the APC national secretariat in Abuja said that he had outlined a three-pronged plan for the resuscitation of the company, which he hoped would provide employment for the people and contribute to the development of the state. “Like I told you, we need about N200 billion to revive Ajaokuta Steel. We can work with the Federal Government and go to the Debt…
file: Boko Haram suspects Senator representing Bayelsa East Senatorial district Ben Murray-Bruce has called on the government at all levels to invest more in education. According to him, if the country had spent billions educating all Nigerians in the 1980’s, trillions spent in fighting terrorists today would be tailored towards developing the country. “Study Nigeria’s state budgets. You’ll discover that states that weren’t spending on education are today spending on security,” he wrote on microblogging site Twitter. “The more Nigeria spends on education the less we spend on insecurity. If we build schools today, we wont build prisons tomorrow. “When…
A lecturer in the department of Agricultural Economics of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Dr. Deji Adejobi has been killed by suspected assassins at his residence located at The-Dawn area, near the Ife Toll Gate Area, Ile-Ife, Osun State. Vanguard reports, citing thee deceased’s gateman, that the incident took place as the assailants trailed the deceased to his house at exactly 10:10 on Tuesday evening and shot him twice after shooting into the air to scare the residents of the area. “As we finished our evening prayer at 10:05 pm, Daddy drove into the compound. Then I overheard an argument…
Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida today raised alarm over renewed attacks by the Boko Haram group in the last four weeks in the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, which he said has raised the level of adrenaline in everybody. In his Sallah message, Babangida stressed that the country has within this period witnessed the worst of human follies in the conduct of these avoidable carnage and bloodletting by persons that operate under the guise of religion and carrying out havoc to Nigeria and Nigerians sense of nationality. In a Sallah Message titled, “Let us be Strong and Unite…
Publisher Ovation Magazine, Otunba Dele Momodu today met President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa Abuja today. According to the former presidential candidate of the National Conscience Party (NCP), the meeting held at the instance of the president after he read the journalist’s column, Pendulum in national daily Thisday. The column titled A Desperate Memo to President Buhari where he told Buhari some bitter truth about his presidency. “Sir, let me say right away that the goodwill garnered during your campaigns and the jubilation that heralded your recent victory are fast fading and you need to, as a matter of urgency,…
D’banj looked like million bucks in a dark brown suit at wine tasting event in South Africa this morning. The star and others are in SA for the MAMAs happening this weekend. Source: LIB The post D’banj Dapper At Event In SA | Photos appeared first on INFORMATION NIGERIA.
Contrary to reports, Popular Nigerian musician, Oritsefemi is hail and healthy. The ‘Double Wahala’ crooner had been reported to have been bedridden at a Lagos hospital, Premier Specialists Medical Centre, Lekki, due to an unknown illness. However, his manager, Eniola Olofin, denied the story, saying the singer is up and well. Olofin said: “It is true he was under the weather at some point in time but he just went to the hospital to get medications. He only had a cold which didn’t affect him so much as to be hospitalized like I gathered”. “He was at a video shoot…
The petite beauty looks breathtaking in a new photoshoot… Another below Source: talkofnaija The post Chidinma Ekile Dazzles In New Photoshoot appeared first on INFORMATION NIGERIA.
Famous OAP, Freeze has granted an exclusive interview to popular blogger, Stella Dimokokorkus. In the interview, he spoke honestly about his estranged wife and what went wrong in their relationship. The father of two has called his wife names and claims that she physically assaulted him several times, and explained why he has been on a bashing campaign of his wife Ope on social media. Read excerpts below: – “I am not perfect, not even near, but I will not take blame for a crime I didn’t commit and won’t allow my name to be destroyed by this woman” Freeze said.…
A member of the House of Representatives, Igariwey Iduma Enwo, has dragged President Muhammadu Buhari before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja over the release of N700 billion grants to states to pay backlog of salaries allegedly “without following constitutional process”. President Buhari had on July 6 approved the release of the funds for the states to be able to settle several months’ salaries they owed their workers. But the Peoples Democratic Party lawmaker representing Afikpo North/South federal constituency of Ebonyi State on Wednesday approached the court to know whether Buhari had such powers under the 1999 Constitution to…
A group within the Kogi state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Concerned Group, has appealed to the national leadership of the party and the PDP Governors’ Forum to prevail on the incumbent governor of the state, Capt. Idris Wada, not to contest the forthcoming governorship election in the state. The group, in a nine-page petition to the PDP national secretariat and the party’s governors’ forum, warned that if Wada is fielded as the party’s candidate in the November 21 election, he would be defeated. Details of the petition, which was made available to PREMIUM TIMES Tuesday, showed that…
Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State, on Wednesday, threw his weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari’s plan to fight corruption, saying that is what the nation needs currently. He made his position known in an interview with State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting he had with Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Umahi, who was elected governor on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, also debunked speculations that he was planning to defect to the governing All Progressives Congress, saying he is still very happy being in the PDP. Umahi said, “That (that I may be planning to dump…
The Senate Unity Forum on Wednesday expressed concern over the seeming slow pace of investigation into the forgery allegations against some senators and management of the National Assembly, which was contained in its petition to the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, three weeks ago. The Forum, therefore, enjoined well-meaning Nigerians to, as a matter of urgency, prevail on the police to begin necessary investigation that would unravel those behind the alleged forgery scandal. The SUF is alleging that the 2015 Senate Standing Orders, which was used to elect presiding officers for the National Assembly, was amended by yet to be…