As apprehension mounts over the September 30 deadline set by President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) to unveil his ministerial list, the Presidency has assured that the deadline is sacrosanct. There are only 5 days left before the end of the month of September. This apprehension is made worse by the fact that the Senate, whose responsibility is it to receive the list from the Executive and screen the ministerial nominees, is on vacation to resume on September 29, 24 hours before the September 30th deadline. But the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, has…
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Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has warned Nigerian politicians against playing politics with the death of Chief (Mrs) Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo. The governor, who gave the warning when he visited the Awolowo’s Ikenne-Remo residence in Ogun State on Friday, said the deceased should not be celebrated for political capital. Accompanied on the condolence visit by Senator Ben Murray-Bruce (PDP/Bayelsa East Senatorial District), Fayose advised politicians to instead sustain the legacies of the late HID’s and that of her late husband and former Premier of the old Western Region, Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Since the matriarch of Awolowo family died last…
Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki mourned the death of about 717 pilgrims who died as a result of stampede while stoning the devil at Jamrat in Mina on Thursday. He also called on the Saudi authorities to review the safety rules governing activities around places where the hajj rites usually take place. Dr. Saraki who was shocked by the news of the stampede where over 805 others sustained various degree of injuries said he is pained and saddened that such tragic incident could still occur despite the safety instructions the Saudi Arabian authorities issued to pilgrims. “We are pained. The…
The Nigerian Army on Friday said 200 Boko Haram terrorists have surrendered in Banki area, Borno State. Speaking to journalists, the Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, Maj. Gen. Yusha’u Abubakar said after the capture of Banki, a Nigerian border town with Cameroon, on Thursday, over 200 members of the insurgency group willingly surrendered to the military. “I have just received information from our troops about an hour ago that over 200 Boko Haram insurgents surrendered to them,” Abubakar told journalists on Friday. Banki town, an economically important and strategic town in Borno State noted for fishing was earlier liberated…
The federal government, through the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) said it discovered about N20 million excess payment in the police pension account. It has, therefore set out to clean up the civil service starting with the verification of over 100,000 civil service pensioners to identify ghost beneficiaries. Director General of PTAD, Mrs. Nellie Mayshak told journalists in Abuja that the agency would undertake the verification and had already worked out modalities to have anti-graft agencies represented at every verification centers. “What we inherited from police pension for example is in excess of N30 billion, but that is less than…
President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) today expressed sadness over the calamity which occurred on Thursday in Saudi Arabia, which claimed the lives of hundreds of pilgrims, including some Nigerians. In a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu, the president said he believed that the stampede at Mina near Mecca in which a notable Nigerian Journalist, Hajiya Bilkisu Yusuf, Prof. Tijjani El-Miskin and others lost their lives was a monumental tragedy, not only for citizens of the countries involved, but for the global Islamic community. He commiserated with the families of the over 700 pilgrims…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said only its National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, and its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, are authorised to speak on national issues on behalf of the party. In a statement personally signed by the party’s national chairman on Friday, the APC said the clarification had become necessary as those it called authorised persons had been “issuing statements” on behalf of the party. The statement said, “It has come to the attention of the leadership of the All Progressives Congress that unauthorised persons have recently been issuing statements on behalf of the party. “This…
The Chairman, National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, Alhaji Abdullahi Mukhtar Muhammad, on Friday called on the Saudi Arabian authorities to involve Nigeria and countries affected by Friday’s stampede in Mina, Saudi Arabia, in the probe of the tragedy. At least 747 Muslims from different countries lost their lives and 805 others sustained injuries during a stampede on the road leading to Jamarat (stone throwing site). Pilgrims from several nations, participating at the ongoing pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, lost their lives to the stampede. Muhammad, who made the call at a news conference in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, said it was unfair…
Imo State House of Assembly workers are getting ready to disrupt legislative activities when the lawmakers resume plenary next Tuesday, following “the apparent unwillingness or inability of the state government to clear their arrears of salaries, since it received the Federal Government’s bailout fund.” The workers’ anger it was gathered stemmed from the fact that two weeks after Governor Rochas Okorocha promised to clear the arrears of salaries owed Imo workers, he was yet to fulfill his promise. Vanguard reports that the workers would, apart from locking the main gate of the Assembly complex against the lawmakers, also take any other step open to…
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Friday organised a Sallah “get-together” for wounded soldiers in Yola as a way of motivating soldiers and give them a sense of belonging. Buratai, who was represented by Colonel Aba Popoola, Commander, 23 Armoured Brigade, Yola, the army chief said the gesture was also an expression of love to the wounded soldiers and their families, especially during this festive period. “This is not the first of its kind; if you can recall, the Chief of Army staff had organised a similar event in Damaturu for the gallant soldiers,” Popoola said. He…
The former comedian and the standard for interpreting ‘Mallam’ roles, Saeed Muhammed who succeeded in carving a niche for himself, has granted an interview that touches his marriage. Fondly called Funky Mallam, the Mass Communication graduate of Bayero University, Kano in this interview with The Sun spoke about his acting and music career, marriage as well as challenges among others. Read excerpts below: – What is funky about Funky Mallam? What is funky about me? Well, if you look at my appearance – the way I dress, the way I do things and the way I appear on stage, you…
Nigeria’s Legendary Act, 2face Idibia turns 40 on 18th September, 2015. While it’s no news the music legend is a father of 7! While he’s married to Annie Idibia. We present to you the photos of his 7 kids. 1. Isabel Idibia is Annie’s first daughter, they welcomed Annie long before they got married 2. Nino and Zion are children of Sumbo Ajaba. 9-year-old Nino is the oldest of Tuface’s seven children. 3. Justin Agaba Idibia (Right) is Tuface second son from Pero Adeniyi. Rose (Left) is also Tuface’s daughter from Pero 4. Innocent Ejeh Oluwakitan Idibia is Tuface’s last son. 5.…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) said it destroyed 10 illegal refineries in three states and seized 42 oil tankers used in diverting petroleum products to the black market. The Commandant General of the Corps, Abdulahi Gana, told journalists in Minna, Niger State, on Thursday that the operation was carried out between July and September. “On Friday we destroyed three illegal refineries in Rivers state; within the week we destroyed five in Bayelsa and another two in Abia”, he said. The commandant general expressed dismay that the Federal Government was losing much oil revenue to the operations of…
While some states still owe their workers between three to five months salary, workers in Edo state are celebrating the receipt of September salary days to the end of the month. When Vanguard visited some of the Ministries in Benin on Wednesday, workers were seen celebrating and praying for Governor Adams Oshiomhole, after receiving alerts of salaries payment. “We have never had it so good. Things are tight, it is not easy. This is a big relief to some of us who are civil servants and we were wondering how we would get money to celebrate the Ed-el- Kabir festival,” a civil…
A police constable in Yobe State has allegedly shot dead two of his colleagues, The Nation is reporting. The incident, which took place at the Nangere Police Division in the state, was reported to have occurred in the early hours of Friday. According to eyewitness accounts, the Police Constable, whose identity had not been disclosed, shot two other Inspectors at close range following a disagreement on a homicide case that was brought to the station. “He shot himself after killing the two other inspectors at the station”, the eyewitness said. The Yobe Police Commissioner, Zanna Ibrahim, when contacted, said he…
A former Governor of Kano State and immediate past Minister of Education, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, yesterday declared his unalloyed loyalty to former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. Shekarau, who stated this on Wednesday in a chat with journalists at the Abuja National Stadium, insisted that all the ministers who served under the administration of former President Jonathan are still with him. He denied reports in some quarters that Jonathan has been abandoned by his former aides, pointing out that not all meetings with the ex-president by his former ministers are reported. “No, you see, all of us who worked with Jonathan…
Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has again faulted President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) on the appointment of acting chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mrs. Amina Zakari. Fayose on Thursday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, insisted that it was wrong for President Buhari to appoint his daughter or in-law as chairman of the electoral commission, especially now that the nation was warming up for governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa States. He also urged Governor Seriake Dickson, who was ratified as the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate for the December 5 governorship poll in Bayelsa, not to entertain any fears, saying that…
Ace Comedian Bovi took to Instagram to celebrate himself and his daughter who share the same birthday today. Showing gratitude, he wrote: – “36 and no regrets! I asked God to let me survive every risk I take and let me learn from the mistakes I make. I saw stumbling blocks as stepping stones; I saw road blocks as detours. And this is only the beginning. And thank you to all those who didn’t have or see a reason to believe me but believed”. He followed it with a photo of his daughter, Elena, who is now 2, captioning it:…
According to reports, plastic surgeons are scared that Kylie Jenner may ruin her features permanently if the cosmetic work continues. This news comes after the 18-year-old starlet openly thanked her doctor in August for giving her the perfect lips and admitted to getting lip fillers after months of lying about the size of her lips. “Kylie Jenner unfortunately appears to have had way too many fillers injected into her cheeks and lips and they appear completely unnatural, as they are out of proportion to the rest of her face,” celebrity plastic surgeon, Dr. Tony Youn, tells Radar Online. “I suspect that she’s…
Nigerian comedienne, Lepacious Bose, has spoken on a serious note rather than her usual jokes. She blasted the youths in the country over their poor reading culture on her Instagram page. She spoke about everything from poor reading culture to the youth embracing ignorance. Read her pose below: – “When I was a teenager, every girl of my age read novels. In fact, we often engaged in a competition to know the fastest reader among us and how many novels that each person read. We could read anywhere we chose; in a bus, in the toilet and at mealtimes. Nowadays,…