Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has told the Federal Government to recover the purportedly missing $20bn and use the money to fund projects that would generate 20,000 megawatts of electricity. He made this known on Thursday during the inauguration of Addo – Kekere, Lagbasa and Ajah Badore roads in the Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lagos. The governor wondered why it was taking the Federal Government a long time to recover the money that could solve the perennial problem of electricity permanently in the country. He said, “If the Federal Government finds the missing $20bn, we will have constant…
Author: Wale Adebayo
The membership of Kano State Executive Council was depleted on Thursday following the resignation of the Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr Baraka Sani from the cabinet. Sani, however, did not give reasons for resigning from her position. It was learnt through a reliable source that Sani threw in the towel on Wednesday following disagreement with the state Governor, Engr. Rabi’u Kwankwaso over selection of some candidates for the forthcoming local government election. “The commissioner was not happy because the governor had refused to consider one of her candidates for the election in the state”, the source said. It would be recalled…
SEN. EMMANUEL BWACHA The senator representing Taraba South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha, on Thursday traced the violent clashes between the ethnic groups in Taraba State to “the ambition of some powerful cabal to prevent power shift to the southern part of the state”. Bwacha, who stated this at a press briefing in Abuja, also fingered the current leadership of the state in a plot to run the state ‘aground’ through indiscriminate borrowings and bond issues. He noted that the plan for a power shift to the south, which was being championed by the recuperating Governor…
The winner of Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria (MBGN) 2013, Anna Banner, has reportedly made her acting debut into the Nigerian film industry. The beautiful Miss Banner, who represented Bayelsa state in the contest last year, beat a long line of contestants to cup the crown and emerge winner of the night in a glamorous event held in Bayelsa. Breaking her way through the movie industry during her reign, Anna is starring in a new season of ‘Super Story’ captioned ‘Too Blind To See’, directed and produced by Wale Adenuga Productions, and set to hit our tv screens by the…
It’s all smiles, cuteness and love in the life of Nollywood actress Uchenna Nnanna and her significant other this Easter period. The actress is getting ready to tie the knot with her fiance, Richard Uchechukwu Maduka, on Easter Monday, April 21, 2014. The wedding of the two love birds is reportedly holding in Port Harcourt. In preparation of her big day, Uchenna has decided to share a sneak preview of the union by releasing prewedding shots of herself and her husband to be. We wish them a happy married life. Check out more photos below;
Popular singer, Chris Brown, is no doubt having one of the toughest years of his life since his arrival to stardom. Ranging from rehab, to court appearances for assault, having to do jail time and suffering heartbreaks, life is really not taking it easy on the hollywood star. With his trial for assault just day away, the mugshots taken from his arrest in October has been leaked online, showing the star looking way different from what his fans are used to. The jail photograph, which has come out four days before Chris’ trial in Washington D.C. begins, shows the R&B…
Delegates representing Civil Society Organisations at the ongoing National Conference in Abuja on Thursday protested the composition of the 20 standing committees, saying that it did not reflect the wishes of delegates. The group, in a protest letter to the secretariat, said the leadership composed the committees “arbitrarily and in total disregard to the choice and preferences of most delegates”. The letter signed by the 24 CSOs delegates, said they were included in committees where they did not have the required expertise and consequently, would not be relevant. “Before the composition of the committees, the leadership circulated papers wherein delegates…
The leadership of the 20 standing committees of the National Conference has been released with Ibrahim Coomasie, Florence Ita-Giwa, Bola Shagaya, Olu Falae and Rasheed Ladoja heading various committees. A document released by the conference secretariat on Thursday in Abuja shows that five committees are headed by co-chairmen, while each of the remaining 15 has a chairman and a deputy. The Committee on Devolution of Power has a former Akwa Ibom governor, Obong Victor Attah, and a former Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Coomasie, is co-Chairmen. The committee on Political Restructuring and Forms of Government has Mr Mohammed Kumalia and Gen.…
Sequel to media reports that its governors shunned a security meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa on Thursday, the All Progressives Congress, APC, has released a statement denying the reports. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, had in a State House press release on Wednesday, said Jonathan had summoned state governors to an enlarged National Security Council meeting on security developments in the country. Abati had said members of the council and the state governors would review the security situation as well as the ongoing measures and operations with a view…
The Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has lambasted politicians, who introduced the no-go area clause in the on-going National Conference in Abuja, saying they did so out of selfish reasons and against the wishes of the people who wanted everything about Nigeria discussed. In a press statement signed by MASSOB’s zonal leader for Anambra North, Mazi Chris Mocha, after its zonal meeting yesterday, the group insisted that nobody, not even President Goodluck Jonathan, could stop God’s plan for Nigeria, adding that the country had been destined by God to break up into natural units, of…
Governor of Edo State during the aborted Third Republic, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, yesterday, described the allegation of embezzlement of campaign funds levelled against Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State by President Goodluck Jonathan as ridiculous. Information Nigeria reports that the president had at a rally organized by the Peoples Democratic Party to officially receive ex-Kano Governor, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau to the ruling party on Tuesday, accused Kwankwaso of attempting to scuttle his presidential bid in 2011 by pocketing the money provided by his presidential campaign team for delegates from Kano State, during the party’s primaries in Abuja. This, Jonathan alleged,…
The National Emergency Management Agency on Thursday released a list of 126 victims admitted in various hospitals in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, after the bomb explosion in Nyanya, Abuja, on Monday morning. No fewer than 75 people were killed in an explosion, suspected to have been carried out by the Boko Haram sect, on a busy motor park in Nyanya, a suburb of Abuja. Official statements put the number of injured at about 124; some of who are receiving treatment in various hospitals within and around the nation’s capital. The FCT Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, who had to return…
FILE PHOTO For the third time in a week, a mob in Ilorin, Kwara State lynched a suspected female kidnapper on Wednesday night. While the first incident occurred last Friday near the Emir’s Palace Road in Ilorin, the second and the latest one occurred near Oyun Bridge along the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital. Sources, who witnessed Wednesday’s incident, said deceased was dragged to a spot on the bridge where she was lynched by the mob on the suspicion that was a kidnapper. The rate at which jungle justice is being carried out by members of society in Ilorin has…
Alhaji Ibrahim Jega, the Executive Secretary, National Mosque Management Board, Abuja, said on Thursday that the National Mosque was highly protected by security agencies. Jega told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that the security organs had been giving adequate cover to the mosque, within and outside. “I can tell you that security measures are reasonably and adequately in place, and taken care of by the security agencies responsible for it. “In short, all the staff, people coming to worship in the mosque are giving the security operatives the necessary support to make their work much easier. “Sincerely…
The Rivers State Police Command has doused tension over a suspected bomb that sent traders and commuters in Port Harcourt, the state capital scampering for safety on Tuesday, saying it was an “engine mechanical part”. The Police Commissioner, Tunde Ogunshakin, in a statement on Thursday, said that after the requisite technical examination and analysis was carried out on the object, it was discovered that it had no connection whatsoever with an explosive device. The presence of the leather bag, dropped by an unidentified man along the ever busy Ikwerre Road, on Tuesday afternoon, caused a stampede in the area as…
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a Nigerien, Mamodu Bashir Ibrahim, for having carnal knowledge of a woman and beheading her two-year old infant male child in Owode Egba, Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of the state. It was learnt that the suspect trailed the woman, who was carrying her son on her back, into the bush, where she went to relieve herself, forced her into an uncompleted building, defiled her, then stabbed her and killed the boy before he severed his head from the rest of his body. Narrating the events leading to Ibrahim’s eventual arrest, an eye-witness said:…
Militants have launched a brazen attack on a military base in a restive area in northern Iraq, killing at least 10 soldiers and wounding 12. The morning attack at the base outside the city of Mosul, about 360 kilometres northwest of Baghdad, started with a suicide bomber who detonated his truck packed with explosives at the gates of the facility, an army officer and a police officer said. A group of gunmen then opened fire from apparently commandeered military Humvees and a shootout ensued. At least 10 troops were killed and 12 were wounded, the officials said. Eight militants were…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo Chapter, on Thursday threatened to go on strike at the expiration of another 14-day ultimatum it declared on April 15. NANS-LASU1The union made the declaration at its South-West zonal congress, held at the institution. Dr Adesola Nasir, ASUU South-West Zonal Coordinator, said the ultimatum was effective from April 15. “The 14-day ultimatum trade dispute had been issued to accord the management an opportunity to address the demands of the union. “ASUU would be holding its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting at the expiration of the ultimatum and ASUU-LASU…
The Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has described as untrue the rumours making the rounds that he owns a university in Ghana and that he has increased tuition at the Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti. The governor made this known at an interview with journalists. Fayemi attributed the false report to the handiwork of the opposition. “I don’t have a university anywhere in the world and I don’t even intend to have one. Instead I am picking up a lecturing job at EKSU come next session. “My name is important to me. I am a Catholic and as someone who…
Some of the abducted students of Girls Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State yesterday narrated how they escaped from the terrorists. The terrorists suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect, numbering more than 100 stormed the school wearing army uniforms and deceived the schoolgirls into thinking they were soldiers who had come to evacuated them from an impending attack, unknown to them that they were being abducted. The students, who had returned to sit for the on-going West African School Certificate (WASC) exams at their school despite a state-wide closure of educational centres in Borno because of…