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Tuesday, 02 May 2017 16:26

OBJ, IBB, Abdulsalami meet over Buhari’s ill health

The generals were said to have considered all constitutional options available for the country in the face of the inability of President Buhari “to effectively function” as president. President Muhammadu Buhari has been indisposed in the last couple of weeks and unable to attend two jumat services at the mosque within Aso Rock. He had also been unable to preside over two Federal Executive Council meetings. Those in attendance at the meeting were the host, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar and Gen. Olusegun Obsanjo. According to a source privy to the closed door meeting, the trio agreed to “continue…

Tuesday, 02 May 2017 16:20

Vice Chancellor orders herdsmen to vacate Unilorin land

Vice–Chancellor, University of Ilorin, Professor Abdulganiyu Ambali, on Tuesday gave herdsmen encroaching on the institution’s land a seven-day ultimatum to quit. The vice-chancellor gave the ultimatum at a meeting he held with representatives of the herdsmen and other interest groups on the campus. He said their presence was a violation of the laws governing the university. “Your activities are affecting our research works. Plants grown for research works are being destroyed, slowing down the pace of research work. “We must ensure we do not hinder and frustrate each other, as we are members of the same society", Ambali said. Ambali…

Tuesday, 02 May 2017 03:53

Buhari’s illness taking toll on Nigeria’s health – Bisi Akande

Former interim National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, has appealed to Nigerians to start praying for the restoration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s health in order to avert a looming crisis which the development could throw the nation into. Akande, who made the appeal in a statement he issued on Monday, said he knew the President was seriously ill when he did not show up in Kaduna last Saturday for the wedding ceremony of his grandson. He stated that Nigerians needed to pray for the recovery of the President, whom he said had been fighting corruption seriously since…

Tuesday, 02 May 2017 03:52

Take medical leave immediately, Falana, others tell Buhari

Civil society leaders have urged ailing President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately take medical leave to attend to his health. Several activists, including notable lawyer, Femi Falana, and Jibrin Ibrahim, said the president should heed the advice of his personal physicians without further delay. “As we join the Nigerian people of goodwill to pray for a speedy recovery of President Buhari, we are compelled to advise him to heed the advice of his personal physicians by taking a rest to attend to his health without any further delay", they said in a statement Monday. Others who signed the statement are Debo…

Tuesday, 02 May 2017 03:51

On May Day, workers of the world unite - and protest

Europeans took to the streets on Monday, celebrating the international workers' holiday of May Day with an assortment of rallies and demonstrations, which in France turned violent as protesters threw petrol bombs at police. One Paris police officer was seriously burnt and two others injured in confrontations with protesters. In Turkey, police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to break up demonstrations and arrested hundreds. A small group of Italian demonstrators clashed with police as they tried to break through a police barrier in the northern city of Turin. The spokesman for Belgium's Workers Party was knifed in the leg…

Tuesday, 02 May 2017 03:49

Saraki, Dogara, others harassed out of May Day rally

There was pandemonium, yesterday, at the Eagle Square, Abuja venue of National May Day celebration, organised by leaders of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and their Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, counterpart, as aggrieved workers disrupted proceedings over absence of President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo. The workers were infuriated that President Buhari had not attended a Workers’ Day celebration since he took over power in 2015 and had not deemed it necessary to send the Vice President to represent him. They expressed angst that the President kept sending the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, to…

Tuesday, 02 May 2017 03:48

South African president jeered at May Day rally

South African President Jacob Zuma was jeered by labor unionists and his speech was cancelled after scuffles broke out between his supporters and workers chanting for him to step down at a May Day rally on Monday. Zuma, who is facing calls to resign after a string of scandals, was expected to call for unity between his ruling party, the African National Congress, and labor unions at the event in Bloemfontein but groups in the crowd booed him and clashed with his supporters, preventing him from speaking. All speeches were cancelled by the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the…

Tuesday, 02 May 2017 03:46

Trump says would meet North Korean leader

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he was open to meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong un "under the right circumstances," according to Bloomberg News. “If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would absolutely, I would be honoured to do it,” Trump told Bloomberg in an interview, adding, "under the right circumstances I would meet with him." Reuters

Tuesday, 02 May 2017 03:42

Contradicting Lai Mohammed, Osinbajo says Nigerian Jollof rice best worldwide

Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria’s Vice-President on Monday described Nigerian jollof rice as “the best in the world”, ending decisively the controversy started by minister of information, Mr Lai Mohammed. While responding to a question by Richard Quest, CNN International business editor, Mohammed was quoted to have said that the Senegalese make the best jollof rice on the continent. Although Quest defended the minister, saying the minister did not hear his question correctly, the incident sparked off unpleasant reactions on social media among a cross-section of Nigerians. According to Quest, the minister thought he was asked to name the origin of…

Monday, 01 May 2017 02:40

Constitutional crisis looms over 2017 budget

Strong indications emerged, yesterday, that there may be constitutional crisis over 2017 budget, if National Assembly failed to pass it this week. The 2017 budget process, which has already stretched thin the constitutionally allowed window, may run the government into a shutdown this month. 2016 budget, which has its life (especially the capital expenditure) extended to May 5, 2017, will expire this week, thus placing a huge encumbrance on government spending. The government has never experienced a shut down since the beginning of the Fourth Republic as it had always come out of budget crisis before the constitutionally approved period.…

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Monday, 01 May 2017 02:38

Doctors reject salary harmonisation with nurses, others

Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has called on the Federal Government to shelve its planned harmonisation of salaries of health workers in the country. The association’s position is contained in a communiqué issued by Dr Mike Ogirima, President of NMA, on Sunday at the end of the 57th Annual General Meeting and Delegate Conference of the association, held in Calabar, from April 24 to 29. It noted although health workers faced many hazards in the discharge of their duties, their output could not be compared to doctors who performed the bulk of the medical services. “There is an attempt to harmonise…

Sunday, 30 April 2017 17:19

Police arrest ex-Governor Sule Lamido

Police in Kano have arrested immediate past governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido. Mr. Lamido was arrested for allegedly inciting his supporters to stop the conduct of local government elections organised by the current administration of Governor Muhammad Badaru. The council elections are fixed for July 1. Mr. Lamido, who was arrested at his Sharada Kano home on Sunday morning, was whisked away to the Zone One Command of the Nigeria Police in Kano. As at 2.30 p.m. on Sunday, the former governor was still being held by the police who are yet to make any official statement on the…

Sunday, 30 April 2017 17:18

Osun sets up inquisition into Adeleke's death

PRESS RELEASE We are still in shock and great pain over the transition of our friend, associate and brother, Senator Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke. He was a prominent son of our state and its first democratically elected Governor. Until his death, he was the senator representing Osun West in the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He was an astute and colourful politician and a generous personality. He was gregarious, enthusiastic and full of life and zest. His death is therefore shocking and totally unexpected. The State Government of Osun had intended to give him a befitting state burial which…

Sunday, 30 April 2017 04:29

Jonathan speaks on Olusegun Adeniyi’s book, says it contains distorted claims

Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, Saturday said he would give a personal account of the events leading to his defeat in the 2015 presidential election soon. Mr. Jonathan said this in a series of tweets posted on his verified Twitter handle, @GEJonathan, as well as his Facebook page. The former president was reacting to claims in ‘Against the Run of Play’, a book which chronicles events leading to result of the 2015 presidential election, written by Olusegun Adeniyi, media aide to late president Umaru Yar’adua. Mr. Jonathan said the accounts of what transpired in the election, as rendered by some respondents…

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