Flight operations have again resumed at the Kaduna International Airport, Kaduna State even as aviation authorities have commenced investigations into the cause of fire outbreak at the airport. Flight operations was suspended on Sunday following a fire incident that gutted the airport’s control tower. It was learnt that aviation officials were seen at the airport yesterday examining the rubble left behind in the wake of the incident. Although the officials refused to divulge any information on the level of damage because a report to that effect would be made public in due course, an airport source, who preferred anonymity, said the…
Author: Wale Adebayo
Gov. JANG WITH Members OF THE State HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY The Plateau Government realised N2.18 billion internally generated revenue in the first quarter of the year, the Chairman, Plateau State Internal Revenue Service, Mr Samuel Pam, has said. Pam stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Jos. Pam, who said the amount was “not so encouraging”, added that the staff of the agency would be encouraged to show more commitment to duty. A breakdown of the amount showed that the highest amount, N801.99 million, was realised in January, while the lowest amounted collected,…
Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State said on Tuesday that the Boko Haram insurgents would not emerge victorious in their continued killing and maiming of innocent Nigerians. Shettima stated this while speaking with journalists in Maiduguri following the recent attack and abduction of some female students of the Government Girls Secondary School (GGSC), Chibok. “They can burn our physical infrastructure, but they cannot destroy our souls. “We are going to survive and rebuild our lives because truth will always triumph over falsehood”, the News Agency of Nigeria quoted the governor as saying to journalists. He said that Boko Haram was…
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has announced the suspension of its on-street Park and Pay scheme within the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, with immediate effect. A statement by the Special Assistant on Media to the FCT Minister, Nosike Ogbuenyi, said the suspension was in obedience to the judgment of an FCT High Court last Thursday declaring the policy illegal. Justice Peter Affen of the FCT High Court also ordered the immediate stoppage of the scheme. The judgment was sequel to a suit filed by an Abuja-based private savings and loan firm, following complaints of extortion and fraud by officials of the…
National Chairman of Jama’atul Izalatil Bid’ah Wa’iqamatus Sunnah (JIBWIS) Sheik Abdullahi Bala Lau has raised the alarm that most of the killings in the northern part of the country was aimed at destroying Muslims in the region. He made this known at a press briefing organized by JIBWIS in Katsina on Monday. According to him, the Boko Haram insurgency was a thing of the past and that the present situation was part of a malicious conspiracy to eradicate Muslims across the country. Sheik Lau alleged that Nigeria was moving in an abnormal direction due to the open display of bias against…
The National Conference Chairman, Justice Idris Kutigi (rtd), has announced a change of venue for some of the confab’s standing committees, as deliberations at the committee level begin on Tuesday. This is contained in a statement by the conference’s Assistant Secretary on Media and Communications, Mr. Akpandem James, on Monday in Abuja. It said committees 11 to 20, hitherto scheduled to sit at the Sheraton Hotels and Towers, would now hold their sessions at the NICON Luxury Hotel. “The change in venue for the second set of committees became necessary because Sheraton will not be available for the number of…
Mavin Records first lady — Tiwa Savage is billed to wed her lover and manager in Dubai very soon and has made the trip across oceans for the big ceremony. Tiwa has lodged into her executive suite at the Armani Hotel, Dubai in preparation for her white wedding to hubby and manager Tunji “Tee Billz” Balogun taking place on Saturday 26th April 2014. The all smiley Tiwa was spotted rocking a stri*ped track suit and black pants and was glowing as she was welcomed with a bouquet of red roses. Saturday is the big day!!!
Ex-militant and leader of the defunct Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, Mujahid Asari Dokubo, said in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, that the Boko Haram sect is a political movement “set up to intimidate Christians in the North against voting for President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 general election”. Dokubo, who made this known at the fourth edition of the South-South Youth Leaders and Elders Interactive Forum, said “the key task of Boko Haram is to instil fear in Christian communities in the northern part of the country not to participate in the next general election”. He, therefore, called on Jonathan…
The First Lady of Ekiti State, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, has said the rural areas and farmsteads will soon experience more government attention. Erelu Fayemi spoke during her visit to Ejiko and Aba Igbira in Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government Area, as well as Asaride Farm, in Ido/Osi Local Government Area of the state in continuation of her empowerment visits to the farm settlements, weekend. The governor’s wife has since visited 15 farmsteads located in Ekiti Southwest, Ijero, Oye, Ilejemeje, Moba, Irepodun/Ifelodun and Ido/Osi local government areas. At each stop, Mrs. Fayemi presented gallons of kerosene, treated mosquito nets, cooking stoves, garri and…
A political group under the platform of North West Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Youths, yesterday said that the defection of ex-governor of Kano State, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the ruling PDP, will ensure the party wins back its lost glory. Chairman of the group in a chat with newsmen in Kano said “Before Shekaru’s arrival, PDP in Kano seemed to be in a dilemma, but when he finally joined, the party witnessed such a speedy recovery and it became obvious that the future for PDP in Kano state is bright”. The group’s chairman hailed…
A Yoruba socio-political group, the Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG, has issued a warning to insurgents against carrying out any attack on Yoruba soil, saying any such attempt would be considered as an act of war. In a statement signed by its National Chairman, Olawale Oshun, on Monday, the group said that although they are a peace-loving people, the Yoruba would not sit back and watch if they were attacked. Reacting to the recent video the Boko Haram group released to the AFP wherein they claimed to be “in your city and you don’t know where we are”, Oshun enjoined residents…
Naija Baddest Girl Maheeda is in Paris right now where she and her friends are having fun. Controversial singer posted a lot of photos on her Instagram page showing off stunning outfits. Maheeda poses in white dresses and in short jeans shorts. Finally, she looks like mature woman without exposing any unclad parts of her body. According to the photos, Maheeda is having a great time in Paris. She and her friends visit shops and beauty salon. With her red coloured short haircut and neck tattoo Maheeda looks like Rihanna. Recently, the singer congratulated her long-time fan with birthday and…
The Federal Government of has set up a National Joint Task Force for the Prevention of Child s*xual Abuse and Violence against Children in Nigeria, as it seeks to stem the tide of violence against children in Nigeria. Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Zainab Maina, who inaugurated the Committee in Abuja, said this is coming on the heels of the recent terror attacks and abduction of about two hundred girls from a Government Secondary School in Maiduguri, the North East of the country . According to her, whenever there are insurgencies or natural disasters such as flood,…
An angry mob, yesterday, threatened to burn down a building rumoured to be a suspected ritualists’ den in Ijaiye area of Abeokuta South Local Government Area of Ogun State, but for the intervention of security agents from the Nigeria Police, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and the Ogun State Vigilance Service Organisation, VSO. The house, a two-storey building, is located inside Agbole Ogun in the heart of Ijaiye community. Vanguard gathered that the rumour drew people from the nooks and crannies of the state capital, causing traffic gridlock along the Ijaiye-Oke Ejigbo-Ake road. According to reports, the police…
Information Minister Mr. Labaran Maku has called on Christians and Muslims in the country to unite in order to defeat insurgents who seek to divide and set the people against each other. Maku said this at a Church Service to commemorate the Easter celebrations. Mr Maku observed that the reason for the killings of innocent lives by terrorists was to cause confusion and cast the government in bad light, hence the need for the people to unite against divisive and satanic forces. “These killings that are taking place in our country are satanic and I have told them the effort…
Men of the Benue State Police Command yesterday confirmed that a three-month old baby belonging to one Mr Ikyavngi Imande had been stolen in Makurdi. The baby was stolen on 19 April at about 8.00 pm on Inikpi street, High Level, Makurdi. According to Daniel Ezeala, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), the command had opened full investigation into the matter. He however said that the police has arrested one suspect, while others were at large. The prime suspect, according to the police was identified as Chichi, who was in Makurdi to adopt a baby, but was turned down by the…
Islamist sect Boko Haram seems to have found another way of hurting innocent Nigerians as the number of secondary school girls now held by the terror group is estimated to be 234, more than double the 85 reported by education officials. Parents of the girls yesterday gave the revised figure to Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State when he came on a visit to Chibok, along with a military escort, to sympathise with them. The aggrieved parents told the governor that officials would not listen to them when they drew up their list of names of missing children and the…
Dr Sam Amadi, Chairman, Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Monday said electricity generation nationwide would hit 12,000 mega watts before the end of 2016, Speaking at a town hall meeting in Minna, Niger State, Amadi said that this would be made possible as the commission had issued licence to private power plant operators for generation of over 20,000 megawatts of power within the next three years. “Life has thought us that nothing is impossible, we can make 30,000 mega watts within the next one year if we want. Already we have issued licence to investors to generate over 20,000 mega…
Easter is a family holiday but not everyone spends it with relatives. Some of Nigerian celebrities have to work during this day but others still support the tradition of spending Easter with friends and family. See how Waje, Mercy Aigbe, Stella Damasus, Tonto Dikeh and Yvonne Nelson spent Easter: Waje spends Easter with her band working but according to her post on Instagram she is happy to do it. “Another day to do wat I do best. #happyeaster,” she wrote. Actress Mercy Aigbe spends Easter with her kids and her Besto. “Happy Easter peeps from mummy J and J! We…
Nollywood actress, Uche Nnanna is now a married woman. She got married to her Spain-based heartrob, Richard Maduka, today, Monday April 21st in Port Harcourt.