The allegation by a national leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had concluded plans to rig the governorship poll in Ekiti State has been described as reckless talk. The PDP governorship candidate, Ayo Fayose, who argued that propaganda, name-calling and character assassination have become synonymous with APC, said that Tinubu had only revealed publicly what the APC had planned to do knowing full well that the ruling party in the state cannot win the June 21 election. Fayose, who made this known through his spokesman, Mr. Idowu Adelusi, in…
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The Presidency has denied reports that President Goodluck Jonathan was scheduled to visit Chibok, Borno State on Friday. The media was agog with news that President Jonathan was going to visit Chibok, where 276 secondary school girls were abducted by terrorists over a month ago to get a first-hand assessment of the situation. However, citing reports by Reuters, the international news agency, which first announced the president’s scheduled visit to Chibok, Information Nigeria had reported that the visit was cancelled as a result of ‘security fears’. However, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on the Federal Gvernment to immediately put an end to the discordant tunes emanating from the highest echelons of government and speak with one voice on issues concerning the ongoing efforts to find and rescue the school girls abducted by Boko Haram. APC in a statement issued in Abuja yesterday by its interim national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the conflicting statements emanating from top government officials over the conditions given by Boko Haram for releasing the girls are totally unwarranted and could send the wrong signals to the insurgents and hinder…
Electricity consumers in the country should expect a review of electricity tariff if the price of gas to power plants increases, the Federal Government has said. The FG said the price of gas to the power plants was likely to rise in the nearest future from the current $1.5 per million British thermal unit to $2/mbtu and that this might affect the electricity tariffs. The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo made this known to chief executives of power firms in Abuja on Thursday at the headquarters of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, during a facility tour. His comment…
Prominent Pentecostal preacher and Presiding Bishop of Sword of the Spirit Ministries, Francis Wale Oke, has asked the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, northern Emirs and othr Islamic leaders to stop describing the Boko Haram insurgency as a political problem, saying they know it is a religious war waged against the President Goodluck Jonathan administration. He added that the activities of the Boko Haram sect have given Islam a bad name. Oke, who stated this when he visited the headquarters of Vanguard Newspaper, said the Sultan and other Islamic leaders in the North should take the blame for the…
Now we have a chance to take a peep at the process of creation of a new movie featuring Yvonne Nelson, Chris Attoh, Tana Adelana, John Dumelo and others. The Ghanaian actress took to her Facebook page to post the behind the scene photos from shooting of the new movie titled “Single, Married, Complicated”. The movie diva Yvonne Nelson captioned the album: “Single….Married…..Complicated. Watch out guys!!!” So we are all going to watch and watch out! As for now, see more pics from the set:
Beyonce, Solange and Jay Z release the official statement to explain the conflict that occurred on May 5th in an elevator at Met Ball. On May 5th, a security footage video was released in which everyone saw how Solange supposedly attacked Jay Z. Since the video was released, there has been much speculation on what might have caused the incident and it was heated up by various rumors. In order to stop them, they have released an official statement explaining what happened to the Associated Press. According to the statement, they all were obliged to comment due to numerous speculations…
Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State berated the Federal Government last night over what he termed its slow response to the kidnap of the over 200 female students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State. According to him, the FG was busy politicizing and apportioning blames for the April 14 incident when what was required was a timely intervention. He added that if not for the global outcry over the incident, the government would not have commenced a search for the girls, who were abducted by Boko Haram insurgents from their hostels. Shettima made these views known in an…
The planned visit by President Goodluck Jonathan to Chibok, Borno State, the scene of last month’s abduction of over 200 female students of Government Girls Secondary School, on Friday, has been cancelled. Reuters had reported on Thursday that the president was billed to visit Chibok today, one month after the school girls’ abduction before jetting out to Paris, France, to participate in a summit convened by President Francois Hollande to discuss fresh strategies on Boko Haram and other terrorist groups in West and Central Africa. However, 24 hours later, Reuters would report via a tweet that “Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan…
The House of Representatives yesterday said it approved the letter forwarded by President Goodluck Jonathan requesting a six months’ extension of emergency rule in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states in order to give legal backing to the offer of assistance from France, America, the United Kingdom, Israel and other countries to come into force. The House yesterday approved the request, which was read on the floor by the speaker, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, on Tuesday and extensively debated on Wednesday in plenary, before security chiefs were summoned to brief the House in a closed door session on progress made so…
The Lagos State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu’s endorsement of Mr. Akinwumi Ambode as the next governor of the states as undemocratic. Ambode, who has been touted as the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was endorsed as a successor to Governor Babatunde Fashola on Thursday by Oba Akiolu during a book launch on the Biography of Ambode, “The Art of Selfless Service”, written by Maria Osoba, in Lagos. The foremost Oba was quoted as saying: “The APC can go ahead with their primaries but the elders of the…
A member of the six‑man armed robbery gang said to be terrorising Ajangbadi, Shibiri, a Lagos suburb and its environs, has been nabbed by security operatives. The suspect was arrested following a tip‑off by residents, when the gang operated along Imude road, Shibiri. Although five members of the gang escaped, four locally‑made shotguns and cartridges were recovered from the arrested suspect, simply identified as Kabiru. The gang, according to Vanguard findings, began operation at 9 p.m., robbing residents and shop owners in the area, including one Alhaja Musura Haziz. However, when the gang retired to share loot at an uncompleted…
Contrary to media speculation that the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar has been directed to proceed on pre-retirement leave, the Nigeria Police says he has not received any official communication to that effect. The Force Public Relations Officer, FPRO, Frank Mba made this known on Thurday in an SMS in which he said, the Mr. Abubakar was still at his desk and had continued to discharge his duty. “The Police High Command is not in receipt of any official communication from the appropriate government quarters informing the IGP of his inevitable glorious retirement from the Force. “Therefore, IGP MD…
The Defence Headquarters on Thursday announced the redeployment of Maj.- Gen. Ahmed Mohammed as the General Officer Commanding (GOC), 7 Division, Maiduguri. The announcement was made by Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade at a press briefing in Maiduguri. “The GOC has been redeployed based on the decision of the headquarters”, he said. He said a GOC had been appointed in acting capacity to take charge of the division. He, however, assured that the redeployment of Mohammed would not affect the ongoing anti-terrorism campaign in the troubled North-East region. “Let me assure that the military will sustain the current…
Delegates representing National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, at the ongoing national conference have asked Boko Haram members to forward their grievances to relevant committees of the Conference. They also condemned the abduction of some female students of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok by members of the dreaded sect. In a statement yesterday, in Abuja, signed by Comrade Clifford Abur, The NANS delegates, called on Nigerians to join hands to secure lives and property through what they called “the neighbourhood watch.” NANS also advocated the establishment of vigilante club in all universities and other schools to report issues on security…
AKINWUMI AMBODE The jostle by potential aspirants for the Lagos Oval House might have been settled if the endorsement by Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, of Mr Akinwumi Ambode, an All Progressives Congress (APC) member, is anything to go by. Oba Akiolu, who spoke on Thursday at the launch of a book on the Biography of Ambode, “The Art of Selfless Service”, written by Maria Osoba, said the APC chieftain is a suitable successor to Governor Babatunde Fashola, whose tenure ends May 29, 2015. The book captures the story of Ambode and the need to leave a legacy that…
At least eight doctors, four nurses and five health workers were, yesterday, feared to have contacted Lassa fever after they participated in operating a pregnant woman at the Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, FETHA. The disease was said to have later killed the pregnant woman and her baby days after the operation. State Chairman of Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Dr. Chidi Esike, stated at a press conference that the affected medical personnel had been moved to Specialist Hospital, Irrua, in Edo State for diagnosis and immediate medical attention. According to him, the refusal of the Federal Government to provide a virology…
The service chiefs, yesterday, endorsed the Presidential Fact Finding Committee on the abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls, vowing that the abducted Chibok schoolgirls will be rescued and the war against insurgency won. According to them, the committee, by its terms of reference, would help reveal to the world an accurate account of the mass kidnap that had roused global outrage and precipitated the offer of help from some major powers. The service chiefs spoke when members of the committee held an intensive interaction with the top brass of the military in Abuja yesterday. Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex…
Plans to procure a $6 billion nuclear plant in 2022 to ensure stable power supply in the country for a period of 60 years have been concluded, the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission (NAEC), yesterday disclosed. Director, Human Resources of the commission, Prof Simon Mallam, while making a presentation before the Committee on Energy led by Rashidi Ladoja at Nicon Luxury Hotel, Abuja, urged the Federal Government to explore and develop all sources of energy available in the country, adding that the best thing to do if we must have sustainable energy is to develop all the available energy sources including…
The Catholic Diocese of Maiduguri has said that it has so far lost more than 500 of its members as well as property worth over N400 million due to the activities of Boko Haram terrorists in the North-East, Very Rev. Father John Bakeni Bogna, Diocesan Secretary disclosed yesterday. “We have records right from 2006 and we have met with the government and we are still discussing the issue of compensation in collaboration with other Christian brethren,” said Bogna at a news conference in Maiduguri. The Diocesan Director, Rev. Fr. Gideon Obasogie, also gave details of the loss from 2009 to…