The Chief of Army Staff, Lt-General Kenneth Minimah, on Wednesday said victory over Boko Haram is an achievable feat before the commencement of general elections next month. Mininah, who stated this during a surprise visit to Baga town in Kukawa Local Government Area, which has just been liberated from Boko Haram’s control, said the troops would continue the clampdown on the insurgents elsewhere in the country with the aim of putting an end to their siege. The army chief, who said he was impressed with the recent successes of the Nigerian military in the battle against Boko Haram, added that…
Author: Wale Adebayo
There is a sense of purpose that comes when one contributes to the success and growth of another individual and Elijah Omijie, a 29-year old IT engineer feels responsible for the innervation of interns who have passed through him. As Project Manager of the Graduate Internship Scheme at his former employers, Web Data Technologies, he ensured that quite a number of graduate trainees were adsorbed into the scheme. Now working with telecoms giant MTN, he recalls with a smile on his face the sense of pride he felt while training young people. Many of them have gone on to be gainfully employed with other organizations based on the experience they acquired…
Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole has alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state has perfected plans to rig the forthcoming general elections on March 28 and April 11. According to him, some PDP chieftains have allegedly made overtures to senior military officers to assist them in ensuring that PDP thugs were not stopped from carrying out their rigging plot. “Politicians are already making contact with senior military officers under the 4 Brigade, asking them to assist their thugs in buying rubbers (arm bands) of various colours to distinguish PDP thugs from All Progressives Congress, APC, officials to…
The House of Representatives, yesterday, issued a one week ultimatum to the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the economy Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to submit the report of the forensic audit on the alleged missing $20 billion. This came following a resolution passed last week by the House at plenary which directed its Committee on Public Accounts, to investigate the matter. Speaking to journalists on the matter, Chairman of the committee, Hon. Solomon Adeola Olamilekan (APC, Lagos) stated that the report “must include the Initial Draft Report, the Executive Summary and Management/Internal Control Letters.” He noted that the “condensed version”…
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mohammadu Buhari has threatened to back out of the Abuja peace accord if the political allies of president Goodluck Jonathan continue with their insults and verbal attacks on his person. He also warned that no one should regard his patriotic commitment to maintaining national peace for weakness. He stressed that neither president Jonathan nor his aides have the monopoly for the “flagrant breaches to the Abuja Peace Accord.” Buhari’s reaction followed the recent actions of Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose whom he said wished him dead in a paid advertorial. He also…
Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido and his Niger State counterpart Babangida Aliyu, yesterday, hit back at Kano State Governor Mallam Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso over his accusation that they betrayed five other governors who dumped the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) following their irreconcilable differences with the leadership of the party. Governors Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto; Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara; Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano; Babangida Aliyu of Niger; Sule Lamido of Jigawa; Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and former Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State, who were members of the G-7, within the PDP, had opted out to form what was…
An 18-year-old wife, Rahma Hussaini, Wednesday, stabbed her newly wedded husband at Darmunawa quarters of Kano after the couple had a quarrel, reports have said. Sources said Rahma was forced to marry the 24-year-old Tijjani Basiru. A neighbour, Isa Alhassan told Vanguard that the young couple got married last Friday, pointing out that “from what we heard the union was a product of forced marriage”. “We were alarmed by a frightening scream of a subdued man in need of rescue and we rushed to discovered that the man of the house was in the pool of his blood. “Neighbours mobilized…
An 18-year-old butcher, Abba Ibrahim, was Wednesday sentenced to 12 strokes of cane for stealing by an FCT Area Court in Lugbe, Abuja. Ibrahim, who hails from Kabusa Village, Abuja, was sentenced, after pleading guilty to a three-count charge of joint act, house breaking and theft. Prosecutor Paul Anigbo had told the court that Ndukire Okezuo and Etiaka Blessing caught the accused on Feb. 9 and handed him over to Lugbe Police Station. Anigbo said that the accused person conspired and broke into the complainants’ house and stole two laptops, one Nokia and one Blackberry phones valued at N265, 000.…
The Association of Resident Doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, on Tuesday staged a peaceful protest over the non-payment of their outstanding seven months salaries. The doctors, who were dressed in their medical kits, went round the hospital complex chanting various anti-management songs. They also displayed placards with various inscriptions, including “Many Doctors are still being Owed Seven Months Salary; LUTH Management, Ministry of Health, Accountant-General of the Federation and Budget Office Enough is Enough”. “No Respite yet on Poor Water and Power Supply; Inadequate Materials and Consumables; Non-payment of our December Salary, and Stagnation of Many Doctors…
The Administrative Secretary, Independent National Electoral Commission in Ogun State, Mr. Dickson Atiba, has said the commission is worried over 560,285,000 Permanent Voter Cards that have not yet been collected by the owners in the state. He said this during the courtesy visit of the new state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Valentine Ntomchukwu, to the headquarters of the commission at the Magbon area of Abeokuta on Tuesday. He said the turnout of people at different polling units to collect their PVC had not been encouraging. Atiba said, “The total number of registered voters in Ogun State is 1,795,794 and total…
source: The Nation President Goodluck Jonathan says former President Shehu Shagari is a role model to Nigerian leaders, on the occasion of his 90th birthday. “He is a role model, always very calm and always want Nigeria to grow and be united,” said Jonathan, while speaking in Sokoto today, when he led four other former Heads of state to felicitate with Shagari. “Shagari has been diligently serving Nigeria in many capacities since during his youthful age. “He has been working diligently and tirelessly too to keep Nigeria one and peaceful, and he has never stopped,” he added. The president prayed…
The Afro Beat legend Fela Anikolapo Kuti photoed wearing his signature pants while baby Seun plays around.
Elsie Okpocha, the pretty wife of Bright Okpocha AKA Basket mouth was spotted while visiting Seyi and his beautiful wife. More photos after the cut
Mary Okoye, the sister of Peter and Paul Okoye, better known as P-Square, is now a mother. Mary and her husband, Emma Mordi welcomed their first child, a baby boy on Saturday, February 21, 2015. Mary Okoye and her Nollywood actor hubby got married on Saturday, August 6, 2014 in Asaba, Delta State….
The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organization has asked the federal government and Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), to explain to Nigerians what happened to the $800 million (US Dollars) and N50 billion of the Cabotage Vessel Finance Fund (CVFF) under the agency. The fund is made up of money derived as two percent surcharge for all contracts under the cabotage regime, which came into effect in 2004 by virtue of the Coastal and Inland Shipping Act (Cabotage) 2003. The Cabotage Act, which was closely modeled after the United States of America’s Jones Act 1938, was to help…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has said President Goodluck Jonathan bears a huge moral burden that will haunt him for a long time to come for deliberately allowing the Boko Haram insurgency to fester, leading to the deaths of over 15,000 Nigerians and the displacement of over 3 million others in the past six years. In a statement issued in London on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, the opposition party also hailed the Nigerian military for the successes it has recorded in the battle against Boko Haram in recent times, saying the string of victories confirms the…
The leadership of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has warned students of tertiary institutions in the country against participating in a planned anti-Buhari rally scheduled to take place in Abuja during the week. A statement issued by its chairman, National joint Campus Committee, Yerima Abdullahi on Tuesday, said information reaching the association confirmed a secret mobilisation of touts and students, who will be paraded as students, to campaign massively for the disqualification of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on the basis of ill-health and his academic qualification. It warned students in the country…
Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State yesterday said no amount of monetary inducement could make Nigerians vote for President Goodluck Jonathan in the forthcoming general elections. Reacting to reports that the president had allegedly disbursed billions of naira to traditional, religious leaders and other stakeholders to support his re-election bid, Kwankwaso said even if Jonathan spends all the money in the country’s coffers, Nigerians would not vote for him in the March 28 presidential poll. “We have passed the issue of money, it is not the issue of how much billions you have. You know even ordinary people know…
The Adamawa South Senatorial Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Silas Zwingina, has claimed that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari, intends to send all public office holders to jail if he emerges winner of the March 28 election. Zwingina, therefore, urged his party members to work hard to ensure that Buhari fails in his bid to become president. Speaking in Yola, the Adamawa state capital yesterday, Mr. Zwingina said “we have to stop Buhari and his plan to build more prisons to jail politicians. “You know Buhari, he will send us to jail for…
It seems like the big rappers in the country have all decided to go hard this year. We have already witnessed massive collabos by rappers and more are still dropping. Hip-hop superstars Ice Prince, Phyno and Olamide have come together as the collaborate on a yet-to-be-released song called “Get Some Money“. The song is an initiative of Paradigm Initiative Nigeria – a social enterprise that connects Nigerian youth with ICT-enabled opportunities. This organization is currently working on a project called #DigitalJobs which aims to provide tens of thousands of Nigerian youths with legitimate jobs on the internet. In order to…