A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos has granted injunctions restraining President Goodluck Jonathan and other relevant government agencies from carrying out an order to relocate the $500 million oil project from LADOL Free Trade Zone(FTZ) in Lagos to Agga in Bayelsa State. Also restrained in the judgment given by the Presiding Justice of the Court, J.T Tsoho on Tuesday May 12, 2015 are the National Assembly, the Federal Ministers of Transport and Justice/Attorney General of the Federation. Jonathan had directed that all oil and gas related cargoes coming into Nigeria, destined for any facility or Port must instead be…
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Suspected Fulani herdsmen on Friday attacked a Benue community in Shengev district of Gwer West Local Government Area (LGA) killing eight persons and displacing hundred others. Tse-Agbulu, Tse-Atakpa and Tse-Abichi, among others were besieged by the marauders with sporadic gunshots while many were wounded and dispossessed of their belongings. A source told Thisday that those who sustained injury from the attack were currently receiving treatment at Naka, headquarters of the local council. President, Tyoshin Development Association, a socio-cultural organisation, Dr. Sylvester Ugbegili in a statement condemned the unprovoked attack and grazing of cattle on farm lands causing damage to crops.…
Maiduguri residents on Saturday appealed to the management of banks operating in the city to restock their Automated Teller Machines to allow more residents to access their money when in need. The residents’ appeal followed a 24-hour curfew imposed on the state capital by the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army after Wednesday’s foiled Boko Haram attack. They said most of the banks’ ATMs in the town were not dispensing cash to customers, a situation which they said exposed many to untold hardships. A resident who lives in Bulumkutu area, Malam Shuaibu Bala, said “it is very unfortunate that almost all…
The Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has written a letter to the Inspector General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, calling for his intervention in the rising cases of kidnappings in the state in the last few weeks. In a letter dated May, which he personally signed, Fayose requested the IG’s special intervention in removing the fear the people of the state were experiencing following numerous cases of abductions of innocent people. The letter has been copied to all the other security chiefs in the country. According to a statement in Ado-Ekiti on Friday by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr…
The Borno State border town of Marte, has again being seized by Boko Haram gunmen, security sources and government officials have confirmed. Security sources said the terrorists, most of whom had fled Sambisa forests and their other strongholds across Borno State, have now regrouped in Marte, which is 112km north of Maiduguri, the state capital. The state deputy governor, Zannah Mustapha, confirmed the development on Friday. Mr. Mustapha, on Friday also confirmed that 600 women and girls have been kitted by the insurgents as suicide bombers with the aim of causing multiple explosions in the town. The deputy governor, however,…
A Magistrate’s Court, siting at Yan-Azara, Tudun-Wada, Zaria, Kaduna State, has convicted Lukman Ibrahim, 27, of Turunku Road, Tudun-Wada, Zaria, to two years and six months for trespass and theft. The Magistrate, Mohammed Abdurrahman, who handed out the sentence when the accused pleaded guilty to the charge, also orders that he be given 12 lashes. Abdurrahman sentenced the accused person to six months imprisonment or an option of N15,000 fine for trespass and two years imprisonment with 12 lashes for theft. He, however, did not give him an option of fine for the offence of theft. The Prosecutor, Sgt Ibrahim…
A bomb blast has ripped through a crowded commercial area in Damaturu, the capital of Yobe State, leaving dozens feared dead, according to PREMIUM TIMES. The report said dozens of persons were either killed or injured as a result of the blast. Citing accounts by residents, the blast was said to have occurred at about 11a.m. A resident of Damaturu, Abdulmalik Audu, told the online news medium that the incident, which occurred behind the main Damaturu motor park where there are commercial shops and stalls, left many dismembered human parts littering the scene. Details of the casualties and cause of…
Don Jazzy has taken to his Instagram account to reveal that he is ‘gingered’ more than ever for marriage, adding that a wife must appear on his horizon soon. The Mavin boss posted a photo from the much-talked about wedding between Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole and Lara Fortes, which shows the been flanked by President-Elect, Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President-Elect, Professor Osinbajo. He captioned it: ‘I’m gingered. Wife must come. Make #Godwin’.
A leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN), Chief Abiola Ogundokun, has drummed up support for the aspiration of the Senator representing Kwara Central, Dr. Bukola Saraki, to become the next Senate President. In a statement made available to journalists on Friday, Ogundokun said Saraki, who is a two-term governor of Kwara State, has intimidating credentials that place him far ahead of other contestants for the Senate top job. He particularly referred to how Senator Saraki was able to hold the people of Kwara together and lead…
A former national organising secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Umaru Dahiru, has warned that forcing the national leadership of the party to throw in the towel will not augur well for its reconstruction. The Baraden Bauchi (traditional title) specifically said any attempt to force the National Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu, and members of the party’s National Working Committee to resign their positions would reduce the PDP to a regional party. According to Dahiru, the NWC of the party must not be blamed for the PDP’s poor outing in the last general elections, saying that there was no basis…
The Osun State Chairman of Peoples’ Democratic Party PDP, Alhaji Ganiyu Olaoluwa, has been given seven days to retract and tender unreserved apology over his claim that one of the sons of Governor Rauf Aregebsola, Abdulkabir, was arrested for money laundering at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos during the week. The solicitor to Abdulkabir, Mr. Ajibola Basiru, in a letter addressed to the PDP chairman, said that the retraction and apology must be done in at least two national dailies with wide circulation adding that failure to publish the said retraction with an apology within the said period, may leave…
A former Health Minister and member of the Ime-obi (inner caucus) of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Prof. ABC Nwosu, on Friday, faulted the comment attributed to a former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd.) that the late Biafran warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, underestimated him by thinking that he (Gowon) would not fight the Nigeria Civil War. The former head of state had while speaking at the Diamond Jubilee Lecture of the Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria, Lagos, on Thursday, said that Ojukwu, who was then the governor of Eastern Region, thought his (Gowon’s) Christian disposition would allow the South-East to…
As the May 29 handover date to the incoming administration draws nearer, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the President-elect, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), to adopt a fatherly disposition on issues brought before him, rather than try to take sides. Speaking with newsmen in Abuja, the Deputy National Chairman of the Party, Prince Uche Secondus, urged the president-elect to always adopt the statesmanly disposition of late world renowned elder statesman, Nelson Mandela of South Africa, and deal with them with passion of a father irrespective of religion, ethnic and political affiliation Secondus was reacting to comments made by Mr. Buhari…
The federal, states and local governments shared N388 billion as statutory allocation for the month of April, 2015, the Minister of State for Finance, Bashir Yuguda said on Friday. He made the announcement in Abuja during a press briefing on the outcome of the end of this month’s Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting. According to the minister, “The total revenue distributable for the month of April, including VAT of N75.1bn, is N388bn”. Giving the breakdown of revenue among the three tiers of government, Yuguda said the Federal Government received N132.1bn, representing 52.68 per cent; while the 36 states got…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday said it had concluded plans to use drama to promote its anti-corruption crusade in Nigeria. Chief Detective Superintendent with the EFCC, Mrs Nwanyinma Okeanu, made the statement on Friday in Abuja in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria. She said the idea would ensure that EFCC anti-corruption crusade was taken to the door steps of every Nigerian. Okeanu added, “It is in consideration of the fact that an average Nigerian home spends quality time to watch films that the initiative to use drama to promote anti-corruption crusade was developed. “The…
FORMER PRESIDENT, AFRICAN FIRST LADIES PEACE MISSION (AFLPM), DAME PATIENCE JONATHAN (LEFT), HANDING OVER TO JADIYA HAMDI MOHAMED, FIRST LADY OF SAHRAWI ARAB DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, WHO REPRESENTED HER SUCCESSOR, SIA KOROMA OF SIERRA LEONE AT THE EMERGENCY 8TH SUMMIT OF THE AFLPM IN ABUJA, YESTERDAY. PHOTO: NAN The African First Ladies Peace Mission on Friday in Abuja, elected Mrs Sia Koroma, the First Lady of the Republic of Sierra Leone, as its new President. The election was held at the emergency 8th summit of the organisation. Koroma, who was represented by Prof. Khadija Hamdi, the First Lady of the Saharawi…
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The massive defection of some top members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) had raised suspicions that such people worked against the party’s success in the past general elections. A committee set up to ascertain this, the post-election assessment committee, yesterday vowed to expose party members who played one role or the other to sabotage the second term ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan as well as the interest of the party in other elections irrespective of how high the persons may be. The committee headed by the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, however, promised to be fair to all.…
Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola is one of the Nigerian governors owing workers The Forum of Finance Commissioners in the country, yesterday, criticised state governors who are owing workers’ salaries. They said that no governor had any excuse for owing. The Chairman of the Forum and Commissioner for Finance in Ebonyi State, Mr. Timothy Odaah, who spoke at the end of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) in Abuja, told journalists that those owing should be held responsible by the workers and the public. He said such governors should have made payment of salaries their priority, rather than spending state…
Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday, expressed happiness at the presence of Nigerians across political divides at his wedding, saying it shows that the country remains one despite political differences. Oshiomole married his heartthrob Lara Fortes, a Cape Verdian lawyer and model, about five years after he lost his wife to cancer. “This is something that one is happy about. I am also happy that I have friends across all political divide. The occasion reminds me that across all divides, we have friends and well-wishers,” Oshiomole said. He described his wife as very “understanding, caring and a loving lady and…