President Goodluck Jonathan and his Republic of Congo counterpart, President Denis Sassou N’guesso, Tuesday charged African leaders, the African Union and its Peace and Security Council to intensify efforts aimed at eradicating terror groups, including Islamist sect, Boko Haram, operating on the continent. In a communiqué issued at the end of President Jonathan’s visit to Oyo in Congo for consultations on regional security ahead of Wednesday’s meeting of the African Union’s Peace and Security Council in the Congolese town, both leaders reiterated their condemnation of the mass abduction of college girls from Chibok and demanded the unconditional liberation of the…
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Suspected Fulani herdsmen have struck again in Taraba, killing five persons and seriously injuring two others. The attack was said to have been launched on Kungana Village in Bali local government area of Taraba State. This is coming barely 48 hours after gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen killed four people and burnt over 30 houses at Dinya Village in Gassol local government area of the state. Joseph Kwaji, State Police Public Relations Officer confirmed the incident to newsmen in Jalingo, saying that the gunmen attacked the village at about 2.00 a.m on Tuesday and set several houses ablaze.
The Supervising Minister of Science and Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson has decried the allocation of less than one per cent of the national budget to the ministry. Johnson made her displeasure known before the National Conference Committee on Science, Technology and Development on Tuesday, saying the amount was grossly inadequate. According to her, the sector should be given topmost priority by government, if the country is to realise its aspiration of becoming one of the most industrialised countries by 2020. “Of the budgetary allocation, only N35 billion is allocated to the 17 agencies under the ministry, while N1 billion is…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday condemned the reported forced conversion to Islam, of some Chibok schoolgirls abducted by the Boko Haram sect one month ago. This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja after an emergency meeting of the party, and made available to newsmen in Lagos by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. The Boko Haram sect had abducted over 200 schoolgirls from the Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno on April 14 and international efforts are ongoing to find and rescue the girls. According to the APC, it deliberated on the Boko Haram issue…
Despite reports that some parents said they could not find their daughters in the video released by Islamist sect Boko Haram, Brono State Governor Kashim Shettima has said the female hostages shown in the video are students of the secondary school attacked by the Islamists on April 14. “All the girls in that video were identified to be students of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok,” said northeastern Borno state’s Governor Kashim Shettima. Shettima, who spoke in Abuja, had organised a viewing of the video for the Chibok community. [AFP]
Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has appealed to the Islamist sect group Boko Haram to release the Chibok schoolgirls unconditionallywithout any condition, because the girls, according to him, were innocent and should not be made to suffer unreasonably. Obasanjo made the appeal during the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Jigawa government to adopt a junior secondary school and a primary school in Kudai, Dutse. He faulted the Federal Government for its slow reaction in the rescue of the abducted girls from their captors. “A stitch in time saves nine,” he said, adding that “perhaps if there…
The United States has been flying “manned” missions over Nigeria to track down more than 200 abducted schoolgirls, the Pentagon said, as experts pored over a new video, seeking clues to where they are being held. “We have shared commercial satellite imagery with the Nigerians and are flying manned ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) assets over Nigeria with the government’s permission,” a senior administration official told AFP news agency on Monday, asking not to be named. It was not immediately clear what kinds of aircraft were being deployed, nor where they had come from. A new video released by the…
It seems the singer and soft-P0*n producer has been reported too many times and is currently having issues with the Facebook team. AfroCandy announced that she would quit Facebook in a message she posted on the 26th of April, 2014. AfroCandy says she will only be on her own personal network for now and whoever wants to join her there is free to meet her up. See her tweets and Facebook messages below: –
It seems the beauty who in my opinion has failed as an actress had things to say in a recent interview. In a new interview with YES! Magazine, Halima Abubakar says she is not a controversial actress and neither does she do runs.She also says that because bought a car didn’t mean I slept around to buy it, she said. Read excerpts below: – People see you as a very controversial person. Is that who you really are or is it just a make-believe thing? I’m not controversial. Why? People talk and the press write. Guess my name gives…
Davido is having a very great 2014 and so are the South African duo — Mafikizolo. In this year’s edition of MTV Base’s Mama awards, Davido and Mafikizolo have been named as the first performers at the Africa Music Awards, 2014. Davido and South African Afro-pop duo Mafikizolo are both tied with Uhuru as the most nominated artistes in this year’s MAMA, notching up 4 nominations each, and going directly head-to-head in Song of the Year, Artiste of the Year and Best Collaboration. Additionally, Davido is nominated for Best Male, while Mafikozolo leads the contenders in Best Group. Mama 2014…
When I first came across this report, I couldn’t help but burst into a loud laugh, even the whole of Brazil can’t use that much condoms, LMAO! This is what really happened; UNAIDS is willing to give Nigerian supporters club 2 million condoms for their stay in Brazil during the world cup, but Rafiu Ladipo the President-General of NFSSC said 2 million condoms will only be good for a day and not the purported 31 days they are booked to stay, because Nigerian supporters are quite much. He appealed to UNAIDS to take their pleas seriously because some fans…
In what appears like a volte face, the Federal Government has declared its readiness to open talks with Boko Haram for the release of more than 200 abducted schoolgirls, the BBC reports. The change of heart on the part of government is coming less than 24 hours after the Interior Minister, Abba Moro, ruled out any form of negotiation with the sect. Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau said on Monday that captured girls, who have not converted to Islam can be swapped for his incarcerated ‘brethren’. Speaking with BBC on Tuesday, Minister for Special Duties, Alhaji Tanimu Turaki said that…
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed an appeal brought by Steve Ugbah, the 2011 Benue gubernatorial candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN (now APC) for abuse of process. The court also ordered the plaintiff to pay N1 million each to the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, its candidate, Gabriel Suswam, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as punitive costs. Delivering judgment in the consolidated appeal, Justice Clara Ogunbiyi held that Mr. Ugbah’s application was an abuse of court process, a futile academic exercise, which was ‘frivolous and vexatious’. “The application is, hereby, dismissed with N1 million as cost…
The National Conference Committee on Political Restructuring and Forms of Government yesterday recommended that membership of the proposed unicameral legislature be based on equality of state and population. The committee said all states are equal but have different population figures. On April 30, the committee voted for a unicameral legislature in a modified Presidential system of government as opposed to the current bi-camera legislature of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Yesterday, the delegates weighed options between population and the equality of states, with arguments following the North-South divide. Most northern delegates argued in favour of 60 per cent representation…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, flag bearer in the August 9 Osun governorship elections, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has said that no amount of threat from ex-Lagos State governor and a National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, will save the incumbent, Governor Rauf Aregbesola from suffering defeat at the polls. Tinubu had restated in Lagos on Friday, without remorse, that anybody caught attempting to rig the forthcoming elections in Ekiti and Osun States would be roasted alive. But Omisore in a statement issued by his Director of Media and Strategy, Mr. Diran Odeyemi, on Monday alleged that Tinubu…
President Goodluck Jonathan is seeking for the extension of the state of emergency in three North-Eastern states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe as terror attacks remain unabated in the area. Jonathan made this known in a letter sent to the Senate, saying despite the state of emergency declared in those three states, the security situation in those states is yet to be stabilised as the attacks by Boko Haram has not abated. The most recent and probably most audacious of such attacks, which has drawn global condemnation was the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls from the Government Girls Secondary…
Nigeria Union Journalists (NUJ), Plateau State chapter, members of the Civil Society Organisations (CSO) and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) today staged a peaceful protest in Jos, capital city of Plateau State, demanding the release of the schoolgirls abducted by Islamist sect Boko Haram. Christian and Muslim women in the state had last Thursday staged a peaceful protest where they walked from the Old Airport junction in the city to the Deputy Governors House, Rayfield also demanding for the release of the girls. Tuesday’s procession which commenced at about 9am also had members of the Federation of Muslim Women Association of Nigeria (FOMWAN) and…
Senate President David Mark, on Tuesday insisted that the Federal Government would not enter into talks with the Boko Haram insurgents for release of the over 200 school girls abducted in Chibok, Borno State last month. The sect’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, had in a video message released on Monday purportedly showing the abducted girls for the first time since their abduction, vowed that the girls would only be released if government agrees to a swap arrangement. He was quoted to have said: “These are the girls abducted by our fighters and whose release the Nigerian government has been calling for.…
Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero of Kaduna State, on Monday threatened to personally deal with anyone, no mattr how highly placed, who foments trouble in the state. He spoke at a ceremony at Dankande Town where he distributed various foodstuff to the people of the state. “Let me tell you here and you better open your ears and listen attentively. Anybody, no matter his status, who tries to cause any trouble in this state, I shall deal with him severely. And if anyone thinks I’m joking he should try Ramalan Yero”, he said. Yero appealed to the people to preach peace…
THE Controversial PHOTO SHOWING THE Naira SIGN Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has decried the twist introduced to a photograph of himself holding a placard lending support to the hash tagged word “Bring Back Our Girls”, as a new version of the same photo was edited with the hash tag (#) replaced by the Naira sign. In a brief statement he sent out to correct the false impression, Atiku said it was rather unfortunate that what was supposed to be a serious issue was being trivialized by ‘someone without human feelings’. “These girls could have been my daughters….Or your sisters”,…