News

Friday, 28 April 2017 14:53

Buhari absent as three governors observe jumat in Aso Rock mosque

President Muhammadu Buhari was on Friday absent at the Juma’at service held inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The President has been joining Muslim faithful for the prayers inside a mosque near his office since he stopped attending the service at the National Mosque, Abuja. Three state governors who apparently planned to join Buhari for the prayers were however present. The governors who attended the prayer session included Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun); Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara); and Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano). The governors had on Thursday joined their colleagues for a meeting of the National Economic Council at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. No official…

Friday, 28 April 2017 14:52

Buhari should make his state of health public – Soyinka

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to make his state of health public to Nigerians. Speaking to journalists in Lagos, Friday, Mr. Soyinka said the current speculations about the president’s health is “unnecessary.” “Why is the president hiding his state of health? He’s supposed to understand he’s public property, me I’m still private property, that’s why I’m not in Aso Rock,” said Mr. Soyinka, a professor of Comparative Literature. “Once you are in Aso Rock, or you occupy a similar position, you have a responsibility to come out frankly to your citizens. “Guarding your state of…

Friday, 28 April 2017 14:49

SSS in recruitment scandal – Katsina 51, Akwa Ibom 5; Kano 25, Lagos 7 — SEE FULL LIST

Nigeria’s internal secret service, the State Security Service (SSS), is enmeshed in a recruitment scandal following the exposure of a shocking lopsidedness in the composition of the new officers recently absorbed into the agency. The agency commissioned 479 cadet officers after their passing-out parade in Lagos on March 5, at a ceremony attended by Director-General of the Agency, Lawal Daura, and Chief of Air Staff, Abubakar Sadique, air marshall. The parade followed a nine-month training programme under the agency’s Basic Course 29/2016/17, which encompassed academic activities, insurgency/counter insurgency, intelligence operations and gathering, firearms drills and physical training exercises. But the…

Friday, 28 April 2017 14:48

Nnamdi Kanu fulfils bail conditions

Leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Friday, fulfilled the bail conditions granted by the Federal High Court, Abuja. The bail condition was perfected through the presence of Chairman, South East Senate caucus and former Deputy Governor of Abia State, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, a Jewish High Priest, Immanuu-El Shalom, and a Chartered Accountant residing in Abuja, Tochukwu Uchendu. Vanguard

Friday, 28 April 2017 03:43

No need to worry about Buhari's health - Presidency

President Muhammadu Buhari's doctors have advised him to take things slowly as he recovers from an undisclosed illness, and there is no need to worry about his health, his spokesman said on Thursday. Buhari did not attend a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, choosing to rest and work from home. That triggered speculation about his health and his ability to run Africa's biggest economy and most populous nation. Wednesday's was Buhari's third consecutive absence from the weekly meeting chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Garba Shehu said Buhari's decision not to attend the meeting was last minute, otherwise he would have…

Friday, 28 April 2017 03:40

Governors to FG: Paris Club refund not favour

Governors of the 36 States of the federation have told the Federal Government to desist from presenting the refunds being made to them from the Paris Club as a favour. The governors, who rose from the meeting of the National Economic Council (NEC) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja expressed concern over the continued delay in the release of the second tranche of Paris Club refund. Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State, who briefed State House Correspondents after the meeting, alongside governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, said the refunds belonged to the states. “Let it not be seen as if…

Friday, 28 April 2017 03:38

Police bow to pressure, return all items seized from Senator Goje’s home

Nigeria Police have succumbed to pressure by the National Assembly and returned all items, including budget documents taken from the residence of the chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senator Danjuma Goje a raid last week. A statement signed by Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, Ita Enang, reads, “Further to the visit of the Nigerian Police Force to the residence of His Excellency, Senator Danjuma Goje, CON in the course of routine duties wherefrom certain items were taken by the police, and issues subsequently arising. “I am to inform all that all the items…

Friday, 28 April 2017 03:37

Grass-cutting: Suspended SGF Babachir shuns Senate panel again

Suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Babachir David Lawal yesterday shunned Senate ad-hoc Committee probing alleged contract scandal at the Presidential Initiative on North East (PINE). Lawal was billed to appear before the panel chaired by Senator Shehu Sani (APC, Kaduna) by 10.am yesterday but he was absent during the sitting that lasted about two hours. Yesterday’s invitation was the third the panel extended to the suspended SGF. He was to respond to queries on the involvement of a company in grass cutting contract scandal worth N200 million involving PINE. Senator Sani said, “We thought that now…

Friday, 28 April 2017 03:35

Why Oba of Lagos 'snubbing' Ooni of Ife shocked Nigeria

Video footage showing a traditional leader, the Oba of Lagos, seemingly snubbing the Yoruba "king of kings", the Ooni of Ife, at a public event has shocked many Nigerians. Journalist Ugochukwu Ikeakor explains why it is such a big deal. Deep respect for leaders is a pillar of the culture of the Yoruba people, one of Nigeria's biggest ethnic groups. But at a recent public event a Yoruba leader, known as the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu ,74, refused to properly greet the Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Ogunwusi 42. As the Ooni leaned over to greet the Oba by shaking…

Thursday, 27 April 2017 16:28

Buhari re-nominates ‘frail, tired’ Octogenarian as ambassador

President Muhammadu Buhari has re-nominated an 82-year old retired justice, Sylvanus Nsofor, over a month after his nomination as a non-career ambassador was rejected by the Senate. Mr. Nsofor, from Imo State, was one of the 46 non-career ambassadorial nominees named by Buhari in January; but his nomination alongside that of Jacob Daodu, Ondo State, was rejected by the Senate in March following adoption of the report of its committee on foreign affairs which had screened the nominees. “Although he was calm at the screening, he looked frail and tired. His responses to the issues raised were either not answered…

More...

Thursday, 27 April 2017 16:26

Reps give police 24 hours to return budget documents allegedly carted from Goje’s residence

House of Representatives has given the police 24 hours to return all documents relating to the 2017 appropriation bill allegedly carted away from the residence of a senator, Danjuma Goje, who heads the Senate committee on appropriations. The House also condemned in strong terms, the invasion of Senator Goje’s residence by security operatives on April 20. This was due to a motion raised at the plenary by Abubakar Ahmad (Gombe-APC). A special team of officers from the Force Headquarters, Abuja had on April 20 carried out a raid on the Asokoro residence of Goje, a former governor of Gombe State.…

Thursday, 27 April 2017 16:25

Goje lied, no budget document was recovered from his house – Police

Nigeria Police have debunked claims by Chairman of Senate committee on appropriations, Senator Danjuma Goje, that files containing work on 2017 budget were carted away during a raid on his Abuja residence last week. Goje, a former governor of Gombe State, had told the Senate on Wednesday that police officers carted away cash, a laptop and 18 documents on the budget proposal, being worked on by his committee, during the raid on his residence at Asokoro, Abuja. Based on Goje’s claim, House of Representatives gave the Inspector General of Police 24 hours to return the budget documents purportedly taken away…

Thursday, 27 April 2017 03:03

Again, Buhari, over 20 ministers absent at FEC meeting

Again, President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday stayed away from the meeting of Federal Executive Council, FEC, held at Presidential Villa, Abuja. Similarly, the Council Chamber, venue of the meeting was also scanty with about 20 out of 36 Ministers absent. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo chaired the meeting. Reasons for the President’s absence has not been officially ascertained as at press time. Reason for the absence of the Ministers is yet to ascertained. Meanwhile, preliminaries of Wednesday’s meeting were not short of what played out penultimate Wednesday when the already seated Osinbajo and the Ministers who were expectant of the President,…

Thursday, 27 April 2017 03:02

Lai Mohammed explains why Buhari was absent at FEC meeting

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari was absent at Wednesday’s meeting of Federal Executive Council, FEC, because he was still resting. The president failed to preside over the weekly cabinet meeting for the second time in a row. The Last FEC meeting was held on April 13 and Mr. Mohammed had said that Buhari asked his deputy, Yemi Osinbajo, to preside over the meeting because he was attending to other issues. The meeting was cancelled last week with presidential spokespersons saying the cancellation was as a result of the Easter holidays which did…

Page 746 of 826

News

More...

Search

Most Read

Editorial

News

Business

Politics

Opinion

Features

Strangely

Crime

Wars

SCIENCE & TECH

SPECIAL REPORTS

Sports

VIDEOS