Former Minister of Information, Labaran Maku says his ambition to contest in the 2015 governorship election in Nasarawa State is still on course. Maku made this known while delivering his New Year message at St. Williams Cathedral, Lafia, Nasarawa State capital. Although he lost the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primaries in the state, Maku said he was still pressing on with his ambition to contest in the 2015 governorship election. According to him, the Appeal Panel had not responded to the petition he submitted to it on the outcome of the primaries. “I want to assure my supporters that…
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The Federal Government has set aside, the sum of N445 million for provision of security at the Federal Secretariat, Abuja as terror attacks continue in the country. This was contained in the 2015 budget which has now been presented before the National Assembly. According to reports, the money will be used to provide security equipment in selected Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, considered possible targets for the insurgents. As part of the new security improvement, “under-vehicle inspection system,” hand-held explosive detectors and bomb inhibitors will be installed at the MDAs in focus. The sum of N295.2 million will go for…
Seyi Shay is on fire recently. ..her outfits, performances are very sexy of late .She rocked two outfits to the Lagos Countdown last night .The one above was her red carpet look and that below was for her stage performance… Hit or miss?
The National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has after taking a careful review of infrastructure in the South-East, come to the conclusion that Igbos have not benefited from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP-led Federal Government despite their avowed loyalty to the party. He, therefore, expressed optimism that the South-East people will look at their environment very seriously and vote against PDP in the forthcoming elections, for taking them for granted. Oyegun, who said that the APC had made tremendous progress in the area due to the laudable performance of Governor Rochas Okorocha in office in Imo…
The Peoples Democratic Party has downplayed the emergence of Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) as the running mate of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), saying it cannot save the All Progressives Congress from defeat in the six states in the South West. This was the position of the Chairman of the PDP in Osun State, Alhaji Gani Olaoluwa, who spoke with journalists in Osogbo on Thursday. According to the Osun PDP chairman, the APC vice presidential candidate does not have the capability to sway voters in the South West to vote for Gen. Buhari. Olaoluwa, who predicted victory for President Goodluck Jonathan…
National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prof. Wale Oladipo, has said that President Goodluck Jonathan is the best candidate for Nigeria in the 2015 general elections. Oladipo made the statement during the celebration of his 55th birthday in Ile-Ife, Osun, on Thursday. The PDP scribe noted that Nigerians would want the continuation of the transformation agenda under President Jonathan, saying that PDP would be victorious in the February 14 polls. Oaldipo stated that former Head of State, Gen. Mohammadu Buhari (rtd.) and All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, a 72 year-old, cannot bring about any change, compared to…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday felicitated with all Nigerian Muslims as they commemorate the birth of Prophet Mohammed on Friday. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, the president called on Muslim faithful to use the opportunity provided by the Eid-el-Maulud to offer special prayers for successful and peaceful elections in the country next month. Mr. Jonathan reassured Muslims and all other Nigerians that the Federal Government would do all within its powers to ensure that the general elections in February are free, fair, credible and violence-free. The statement read, “President Jonathan believes that this is…
Vice-President Namadi Sambo on Thursday said he was in support of the creation of New Gurara State out of the present Kaduna State. Sambo, who made his position known at the annual Afan Festival, held at Kagoro, Kaduna State, said the demand for Gurara state was a positive agitation aimed at uplifting the quality of lives of the people. According to him, the Federal Government recognises the inalienable rights of the citizens to operate within the confines of the law for self-determination, promotion and harnessing the potential of its people. “Therefore, the socio-political emancipation of a people lies in their…
Rivers state governor, Chibuike Amaechi, on Thursday pledged to complete all ongoing projects being undertaken by the state government before handing over to his successor. In a broadcast to mark the New Year in Port Harcourt, Amaechi said the government was mindful of the task ahead and would remain focused to complete work in the various sectors in the remaining months. “As we noted in our New Year address on January 1, 2014, we have pursued our projects with great zeal within the financial space available”, he said. According to the governor, the administration will also properly document all the…
Some residents of Maiduguri on New Year’s Day appealed to the Federal Government to reconnect power supply to the city, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. NAN recalls that electricity supply was cut in June, 2014, after a suspected insurgents attack on a power station in Damboa, headquarters of Damboa Local Government Area. A cross section of residents interviewed by NAN in Maiduguri, expressed reservations over the delay by the government in restoring power supply to the city. Alhaji Mohammed Zarami, a businessman, said the lack of electricity in the city had caused severe damages to social and economic life…
Governor of The Kaduna State, Ramalan Yero, has announced the establishment of a state-owned University of Technology in Kafanchan, Jema’a Local Government Area of the state. The governor made this announcement as the guest of honour at the annual Kagoro Cultural Day also known as Afan Day Festival, in Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna. “In view of the challenges being faced in securing admission into universities by our students, our administration has concluded plans to upgrade the Kafanchan Campus of the Kaduna State University, KASU, into a full-fledged University of Technology”, Mr. Yero said. Meanwhile, Vice President Namadi Sambo,…
Ahead of the February 14 presidential election, President Goodluck Jonathan will inaugurate his campaign team on Monday in Abuja. A press release by the Special Adviser on Political Matters to the President, Prof. Rufai Alkali, on Thursday, said the inauguration will take place at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign office at Legacy House, in the Maitama District of Abuja by 2p.m. According to Alkali, the Chairman of the Board of trustees of the PDP, Chief Tony Anenih, has been appointed the national campaign adviser, while a former National Chairman of the PDP, Dr. Ahmadu Ali, will serve as…
President Goodluck Jonathan has urged Muslims in Nigeria to use the occasion of the celebration of Prophet Muhammad’s birth to pay for the successful conduct of the general elections in February. Jonathan said this while celebrating with Muslims across the country as they join their counterparts around the world to commemorate Eid-el-Maulud (the birth of Prophet Muhammad). “The President reassures Muslims and all other Nigerians that the Federal Government will do all within its powers to ensure that the general elections in February are credible and violence-free,” a statement by Dr Reuben Abati, the Special Adviser to the President on…
Genevieve Nnaji rang in the new year in Jamaica..She was all turned up in the club too..
A suicide bomber, on New Year’s day blew himself up outside a church in northeast Nigeria, leading to several injuries, according to a rescue worker. “There was an explosion outside the ECWA church this morning. A suicide bomber who was restrained from getting into the church blew himself up,” Vanguard quoted Abubakar Yakubu, who heads the Nigeria Red Cross in Gombe, as saying. “Luckily no one was killed but some people were mildly injured.” A witness also told the news platform that a man arrived during the church service. “He insisted on riding through the barrier,” said Dahiru Badamasi. “It…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on workers to vote out politicians who are ‘anti-workers’, during the 2015 general elections. The NLC President, Abdulwaheed Omar, made the call in his New Year message to the workers. According to him, in a bid ro ensure industrial peace in the country, politicians who were insensitive to the welfare of workers should be rejected. “We call on workers to massively reject these anti-workers politicians in the 2015 elections. “We direct our councils in the affected states to serve appropriate ultimatums on their government to pay the arrears of salaries or face disruption…
Gov. Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State on Thursday urged residents of the state to be vigilant and support security agents to enable them to curb the rate of crime and insurgency in the area. Yuguda made the call in Bauchi in his New Year message to the people of the state. He said the state was the most peaceful in the North East but had witnessed incidents of kidnappings, murder and bomb blast in the last one year. The governor, however, assured citizens of the state that government, in collaboration with security agencies was doing everything possible to bring to…
A former Peoples Democratic Party National Chairman, Chief Audu Ogbe, will on January 4 inaugurate the sale of five million tubers of yam donated by farmers to raise N5bn for All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, and his deputy, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. The Public Relations Officer of the APC Micro Finance Cooperative Society Ltd, Mrs Felicia Yakzum, said in a statement on Thursday in Jos that the sales would commence at Mararaban Demshin in Qua’an Pan Local Government Area of Plateau State. She said an APC-organised New Year wrestling tournament and the ‘Job Opportunities for Osinbajo and…
The Minister of Health, Haliru Alhassan, on Thursday said Nigeria will be certified polio-free this January. Mr. Alhassan disclosed this to journalists in Sokoto while reviewing some of the activities of his ministry in 2014. According to him, no case of polio has been recorded in Nigeria in the last six months, and this qualifies the country to be declared polio-free in line with global requirements. “This is because only six cases of the wild polio virus were recorded in the last six months in Kano and Jigawa states”, Mr. Alhassan said. “This feat is a remarkable departure from the…
Mr Labaran Maku, the immediate past Minister of Information, on Thursday, said that his ambition to contest in the 2015 governorship election in Nasarawa State is intact. The former minister said this while delivering his New Year Message at St. Williams Cathedral, Lafia. Maku said that in spite of what happened recently at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary election, he was still moving on with his ambition to contest in the 2015 governorship election. He disclosed that the Appeal Panel had yet to respond to the petition he submitted to it on the outcome of the state’s governorship primaries…