President Goodluck Jonathan will travel to Nairobi, the Kenyan capital Monday to participate in a meeting of the African Union’s Peace and Security Council scheduled to hold in the East African country on Tuesday. According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, the Nairobi meeting is a follow-up to talks by President Jonathan and other African leaders at Pretoria, South Africa in May this year, on joint action against terrorism. The meeting on Monday will receive and deliberate on the report of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission on Terrorism and Violent…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Saturday’s by-election into the Niger East Senatorial District inconclusive. The candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Shem Zagbayi Nuhu is so far leading by 89,640 votes against David Umaru of All Progressives Congress (APC), who polled 84,698 votes. Declaring the result inconclusive early Sunday, the Returning Officer for the election, Professor Wole Morenikeji, said there were problems in 7 units in 5 local government areas which rendered the results at the affected units void. The Returning Officer said fresh election will be conducted in the affected units on Saturday September…
Policemen attached to the G.R.A Police Command, Bauchi State have arrested a reverend father and one other person for allegedly defrauding one Joel Sumi of N60,000. The state police spokesperson, DSP Haruna Mohammed, disclosed this yesterday. According Mohammed, the two suspects, who posed as fortune tellers, deceived their victim, and defrauded him. “The victim decided to seek prayers from the reverend father and the other person in order to solve his problems, but fell into the wrong hands as he was asked by the suspects to bring N60,000 before conducting the prayers,” Mohammed said. The PPRO said that the victim,…
Mrs Oluwakemi Oyedeji, Director Environmental Health Services, Oluyole Local Government Area of Oyo State, said 20 residents of the area were caught on Saturday for violating sanitation laws. Oyedeji said in Ibadan during the monthly sanitation exercise that the residents were caught at Orita-Challenge, adding that 13 of them were later released after satisfactory reasons while the remaining seven persons were prosecuted. She said those that were prosecuted were told to pay fines ranging between N1, 000 and N2, 000 by a mobile court headed by Magistrate Nafisat Salaudeen. She said only one of the prosecuted was able to pay…
Yesterday, the 1st of 4 covers for Blanck Digital magazine’s 3rd issue featuring Adora Oleh and her edgy look surfaced online; now you get to see the other 3 fabulous covers with Rita Dominic, Ice Prince and Funmi Iyanda. Having added to her age, the magazine caught up with stunning silver screen actress Rita Dominic to dish on the past, present and her wonderful future. In her interview, Rita touches on topics like new projects and upcoming movies; but she also talks about a something we rarely catch her dishing on – her love life. She tells the magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Franka Asindi;…
HAJIYA RAMATU TIJJANI ALIYU As part of efforts to strengthen and deepen the participation of women in its decision making process, the All Progressives Congress, APC, has concluded plans to establish the first National Women Caucus of the party (NAWOCA). This was disclosed by the APC National Women Leader, Hajiya RamatuTijjani Aliyu, in her goodwill message at the maiden edition of the Kwara State Women Summit of the party in Ilorin last Thursday. According to Hajiya Aliyu, the caucus was conceived as a platform to address the need for women leaders of the party from the ward to the national…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has explained that allowing the Adamawa State acting governor, Ahmadu Umar Fintiri, to contest its primary next week, ahead of the state’s governorship by-election in October, would contravene the Constitution. The party announced Mr. Fintiri’s disqualification Saturday, saying the decision was taken on “moral grounds”. Speaking later to reporters, the chairman of the PDP screening committee and former Deputy Senate President, Alhaji Ibrahim Mantu, said Mr. Fintiri’s aspiration would be a violation of Section 191 (2) of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution. The section explains the circumstance under which the Speaker of a State House of…
Supporters of Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso and those of former Head of State, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, have clashed in Kano, over the presidential ticket of the All Progressive Congress (APC). The state House of Assembly, dominated by the APC, has broken into two camps, each supporting Kwankwaso and Buhari, who are leading contenders for the APC presidential ticket. Some members of the assembly, under a group called G34, had last week, endorsed Kwankwaso for the APC presidential ticket. A member of the group, Yusuf Abdullahi Atta, however dissociated himself and some of his other colleagues from the endorsement, yesterday, declaring…
Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, has said President Goodluck Jonathan would soon declare his intention to seek a second tenure as president in the 2015 elections. About 40,000 people of the South-south region were out to show their support for the present and also present 4,150,000 signatures urging Jonathan to seek a second term. The leader of the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN), Kenneth Kobani, presented 4, 150,000 signatures to Ayim, who represented Jonathan, at the South-south rally of TAN at the Liberation Stadium, Port Harcourt, urging the president to contest the 2015 presidential…
The Nigerian diplomat attached to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Olubukun Koye who took the Ebola virus to Port Harcourt may face manslaughter charges. Koye had escaped from quarantine in Lagos after testing positive to the Ebola virus and travelled to Port Harcourt for treatment, an action that resulted in the death of Iyke Enemuo, the doctor who treated him. The issue of Koye, a primary contact of the index case, late Liberian Partick Sawyer, who defied instruction not to leave Lagos after being placed in the isolation unit, was discussed at the Federal Executive Committee meeting…
A young man identified as Chukwuekezie Ofonago has shot his father dead after kidnapping him. The suspect, said to be a member of a kidnap gang operating in Enugu State has been arrested by the police and has admitted to have shot his father, Mr. George Ofonago with a double-barrel gun at a hideout where he was kept while demanding an undisclosed sum as ransom from his family. The incident occurred at Abor village, Enugu Inyi Community, Oji River Local Government Area of Enugu State. State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, said operatives of the Homicide Section of…
Controversial Nollywood actor and model — IK Ogbonna has been under a lot of scrutiny since he broke into the entertainment scene, but the committed socialite seems to be getting use to the rumors and gossip. He recently shared the above photo of himself and the world famous veteran wrestler — Hulk Hogan. I totally love this photo……………EPIC!!!!
With her very hot figure, I’d make her the ambassador to the whole world……..hehe. On a serious note, the sexy award-winning Ghanaian actress — Joselyn Dumas has been made a brand ambassador for Jobberman Ghana. Jobberman is job application/submission/inquiry website. At the launch of the job services platform in Accra on Thursday, August 28, 2014, Dumas was introduced as the right associate to build and promote the services of Jobberman. Speaking of the appointment, the Country Consultant of Jobberman Ghana, Babajide Otoki said ‘We chose Joselyn Dumas because she is young and enterprising and we believe the general public can associate with…
Some national leaders of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party met with a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Tom Ikimi at his Abuja residence on Friday night, with the sole purpose of convincing him to join the party. The PDP delegation, which was led by the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, included the Chairman, PDP Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih. It would be recalled that Ikimi resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress on Wednesday after He was not elected as the national chairman of the opposition party during its maiden national convention in June.…
Governor Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto State has said attempts to induce members of the state House of Assembly to impeach him would never work, stressing that nobody can buy the conscience of Sokoto people. “Sokoto remains the seat of the caliphate where money cannot buy people’s conscience”, he said. The governor spoke shortly after receiving a letter conveying the resolution of the house titled: “Re-Matter of Urgent Public Importance”, in which 27 out of the 30 members passed a vote of confidence on his government. In the letter, which was delivered to the governor by the speaker, Alhaji Lawali Zayyana, the state assembly…
The Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Samson Parker, says the late Dr. Samuel Enemou, who treated Olu Koye, a Nigerian diplomat with the Economic Community of West African States, was aware that the diplomat was infected with the deadly Ebola Virus Disease. The commissioner stated this during a press conference in Port Harcourt, the state capital on Friday evening. Parker said, “He had received the late Dr. Patrick Sawyer in Lagos. Upon developing the symptom, confided in a female colleague, called Lilian, who contacted the late Enemuo. It was after contact was established with Dr. Enemuo that Olu Koye…
The Federal Government has lifted the suspension of Residency Training Programme in all federal hospitals with effect from Thursday, August 28, 2014 even as the appraisal of the challenges in the health sector continues. The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja by his Special Assistant (Media and Communications), Mr. Dan Nwomeh, said the Federal Government had also reinstated all resident doctors that were disengaged as a result of the suspension with effect from the same date. Accordingly, he mandated all Chief Medical Directors and Medical Directors of the training centres to issue…
Younger presidential aspirants in the All Progressives Congress (APC) have reportedly called on former head of state, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari to step down from running for the party’s presidential ticket. Buhari, the object of the alleged gang-up, was however said to have travelled abroad for a comprehensive medical check up ahead of his declaration for the 2015 presidential contest, Vanguard reported, citing sources. Close associates of the general who had earlier chosen September 1 to announce Buhari’s intention to vie for the presidential ticket of the party, were yesterday, said to be contemplating the deferment of the launch on account…
The Federal Government and Benco Energy Limited of Brazil yesterday signed a N144 billion Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, to construct a 700 megawatts power plant in Nigeria. The President of Benco Energy Limited, Brazil, Mr. Rodrigo Badew, said at the MoU signing ceremony that the plant which will be gas and vapour fired will be built in Bayelsa State. He added that the plant will have a construction period of three years. According to him, “it is a 700MW plant although it can reduce to 688MW because this depends on location and environmental conditions. The investment is around $800 to…
Members of Okuku Progressive Youths Forum, OPYF, have asked the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in the August 9 governorship election in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore and his associates to stop claiming credits for the emergence of Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola as governor of the state in 2003. Oyinlola hails from Okuku in Odo Otin Local Government Area of the state. Oyinlola, who dumped the PDP for the All Progressives Congress some few days to the last governorship election which the APC candidate won, was elected governor in May 2003 and re-elected in 2007, but a court of appeal nullified…