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Sunday, 26 March 2017 03:02

Magu: Buhari dumps security report, to lobby Senate

There are indications that President Muhammadu Buhari is set to commence lobbying of the Senate for the screening and final confirmation of Ibrahim Magu as substantive Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). A top presidency official, who pleaded anonymity, told to our correspondent that the President had not given up on the nomination of Magu and will do everything possible to ensure that he is cleared by the Senate. According to the presidential aide, President Buhari has high confidence in the job that Magu is doing in the anti-graft agency and is not ready to substitute him with…

Sunday, 26 March 2017 03:00

Dino Melaye’s name missing from ABU alumni website

The certificate scandal involving the senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye, may be far from over, as his name was not found on the Ahmadu Bello University alumni website. Melaye’s trouble began on Monday, March 20, when an online news medium, SaharaReporters, reported that the senator did not graduate from ABU for his first degree. The senator had claimed that he obtained B.A in Geography from the institution. Melaye had boasted that he was currently a student in ABU pursuing his seventh degree, adding, "Go round all the UNIS (universities) I attended in digging more." A day after…

Sunday, 26 March 2017 02:57

Ife crisis: Yoruba, Hausa used guns, shot arrows at each other - 'Dead' vulcaniser

One of the victims of the clash between Yoruba and Hausa in Ile Ife, Mojeed Owoyomi, who was rumoured to have been beheaded during the clash, tells FEMI MAKINDE his experience in this interview: What do you do for a living? I am a ‘vulcaniser’ (tyre repairer) at Sabo area in Ile Ife. That was the place the crisis between Hausa and Yoruba people occurred on March 8. It was rumoured that you were beheaded and your head was hung on a pole and paraded round the area. What really happened? It is a lie! I was not beheaded. That…

Saturday, 25 March 2017 16:10

Senate summons AGF, minister, others over e-passport deals

A Senate ad hoc committee on Saturday summoned Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, Minister of Interior, Retired Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau and others to appear before it on April 6. The Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Alleged Misuse, Under Remittance, and other Fraudulent Activities in Collection, Remittance and Expenditure of Internally Generated Revenue by MDAs invited the duo for briefing over their involvement in alleged e-passport deals. Chairman of the committee, Sen. Solomon Adeola, made this known in a statement through his Media Adviser, Mr Kayode Odunaro. Odunaro quoted Adeola as saying “the AGF, Mr Ahmed Idris, and four…

Saturday, 25 March 2017 16:05

US and UK laptop bans on some flights come into effect

A ban on laptops and tablets in cabin baggage on flights from Turkey and some countries in the Middle East and North Africa to the US and UK has come into effect. Officials say devices "larger than a smartphone" must travel in the hold because of an increased risk that they could contain explosives. At least one airline is allowing devices to be used up until boarding. The US ban covers eight countries, while the UK restrictions apply to six. Nine airlines from eight countries - Turkey, Morocco, Jordan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait -…

Saturday, 25 March 2017 03:04

Lady Momoh: Why I wanted to commit suicide

Taiwo Momoh, the woman police in Lagos stopped from committing suicide yesterday said a debt burden of N18.7million was the main reason she wanted to do it. Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni, told newsmen in Lagos that Momoh was in a taxi heading toward Oworonshoki on Third Mainland Bridge when she told the taxi driver to stop on the bridge. Owoseni said the woman was about to jump into the lagoon when a police patrol team on a routine patrol sighted her and held her before she could do so. “She attempted suicide by trying to jump…

Saturday, 25 March 2017 03:01

Nigeria’s economic reform plan not good enough – IMF

International Monetary Fund, IMF, is not satisfied with the Nigerian government’s economic reform efforts, a new report has shown. Reuters news agency reports that the development could delay talks over $1.4 billion in international loans. According to a 68-page IMF report obtained by Reuters, the Washington-based fund will urge Nigeria, a major oil producer, to introduce immediate changes to its exchange rate policy. It would also say its recent reform plan is not enough to drag Africa’s biggest economy out of recession. “Much more needs to be done", IMF said in the document, written after a final meeting between its…

Saturday, 25 March 2017 02:56

Stephanie Otobo’s mother breaks silence, says ‘I’ve never met Apostle Suleman’

Mother of Canada-based stripper and musician, Stephanie Otobo, in Sapele, Delta State, opened a fresh controversy and revealed that she has not seen her daughter in the last three years. She was reacting to allegations by her daughter that the general overseer of Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide, Apostle Johnson Suleman, promised to marry her but failed even after the introduction. According to her, she has not met the cleric before. Speaking in an interview with journalists, the woman popularly called Mama Tope, described as untrue claims that she accompanied her daughter to the Headquarters of Omega Fire Ministries in Auchi,…

Friday, 24 March 2017 17:37

Buhari to visit Sambisa Forest

President Muhammadu Buhari will visit Sambisa Forest, former enclave of Boko Haram on Monday to declare open the Nigerian Army Small Arms Championship, NASAC 2017. The insurgency group, Boko Haram, who at the peak of its siege on the nation occupied towns in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, made the Sambisa Forest their stronghold and strategic headquarters until they were pushed out by the military on Christmas eve, last year. The military had subsequently declared the former game reserve as a proposed site for military institution, building roads into it and kick-starting the new status of Sambisa Forest with the…

Friday, 24 March 2017 17:34

Ife clash: IGP justifies arrest of only Yoruba suspects

Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, on Friday justified the arrest of only suspects of Yoruba extraction over the recent clash in Ile-Ife, Osun State, which resulted in the death of about 46 persons. He said crime neither has tribe nor identity. Idris spoke with State House correspondents shortly after briefing President Muhammadu Buhari of security situations in parts of the country inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The police had been in the eye of the storm for arresting and parading 20 Yoruba persons, including a monarch, over the clash while not a single Hausa/Fulani person was detained. Pan-Yoruba group,…

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Friday, 24 March 2017 17:32

Ahmadu Bello University reacts to Dino Melaye certificate controversy

Ahmadu Bełlo University, ABU, Zaria has said it would not release information on the controversy surrounding the academic certificate of Dino Melaye, All Progressives Congress senator representing Kogi West District, until formally approached by the Senate. Melaye, who says he graduated from the university with a degree in Geography, was last week accused of making false claim. The online newspaper, Sahara Reporters, said Mr. Melaye did not graduate from ABU. Melaye has denied the allegation. “To say that I did not graduate from ABU is to say that I am not a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria", Mr.…

Friday, 24 March 2017 17:27

Geologist for Shell says company hid Nigeria spill dangers

Royal Dutch Shell's Nigeria subsidiary "fiercely opposed" environmental testing and is concealing data showing thousands of Nigerians are exposed to health hazards from a stalled cleanup of the worst oil spills in the West African nation's history, according to a German geologist contracted by the Dutch-British multinational. An environmental study found "astonishingly high" pollution levels with soil "literally soaked with hydrocarbons," geologist Kay Holtzmann wrote in a letter to the Bodo Mediation Initiative. The people of Bodo in the oil-producing southern Niger Delta should get urgent medical tests, Holtzmann wrote in the letter dated Jan. 26 and seen by The…

Friday, 24 March 2017 17:24

U.S. sanctions 30 firms, individuals for aiding Iran, North Korea arms programs

United States has imposed sanctions on 30 foreign companies or individuals for transferring sensitive technology to Iran for its missile program or for violating export controls on Iran, North Korea and Syria, the State Department said on Friday. Eleven companies or individuals from China, North Korea or the United Arab Emirates were sanctioned for technology transfers that could boost Tehran's ballistic missile program, the State Department said in a statement. Nineteen entities or individuals were sanctioned for other violations under the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nonproliferation Act, it said. They are believed to have transferred or acquired sensitive technology…

Friday, 24 March 2017 04:07

Grass-cutting probe: Contracts awarded to 20 ‘ghost’ firms – Senate panel

The Senate on Thursday said it had not been able to trace the addresses of about 20 contractors engaged for the execution of various projects in the rehabilitation of the North-East. An investigative hearing by the Senate on the alleged management of funds meant for the rehabilitation of the North-East, billed to hold on Thursday, had been botched by the non-appearance of Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir Lawal. Chairman, Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Mounting Humanitarian Crisis in the North-East, Senator Shehu Sani, said the probe was not a witch-hunt against the SGF, whose office oversees…

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