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Monday, 13 March 2017 02:57

NLC to Customs CG: New policy on vehicle import duty callous

Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has expressed opposition to the new policy rolled out by the Nigeria Customs Service (NLC), which requires vehicle owners to revalidate import duties paid on their vehicles. The central labour union described the policy as “logistically callous" and cautioned the Comptroller General of the Services, Col. Hameed Ali (rtd) over the planned introduction of the new policy, which, it said, will create unimaginable chaos and hardship for vehicle owners in the country. The Customs Services had, on Tuesday, March 2 directed “all motor dealers and private owners” of vehicles “whose customs duty has not been paid,…

Monday, 13 March 2017 02:55

Controversy as Buhari extends perm sec’s tenure twice

President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the tenure of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Dr. Jamila Shu’ara, for another one year, the Minister of Education, Mr. Adamu Adamu, has stated. This will make it the second of such an extension for Shu’ara, whose tenure expired in February 2016, when she turned 60 years. She got a presidential extension to remain in service up to February 2017. At the expiration of the extension of service, which has been causing ripples in the Federal Civil Service, Shu’ara got a second extension, according to the minister. This came while House of Representatives Committee…

Sunday, 12 March 2017 17:05

Biafra has no future – France

France, a former friend of Biafra in the 1967 secession bid, has ruled out any support for the secession of any part of the country, particularly Biafra. France’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Denys Gauer, told The Guardian, that his country would not in anyway work with any group agitating for the dismemberment of the nation. He said France was working with Nigeria and supporting it as a country. Speaking against the backdrop of France’s previous support for Biafra during Nigeria’s civil war, Gauer pointed out that Nigeria has evolved since the civil war. France has been cooperating with the country to…

Sunday, 12 March 2017 17:03

Oyo govt to prosecute herdsmen with guns

Oyo State Government has stated that herdsman caught with guns will be treated as criminals and prosecuted accordingly. This was stated in a communiqué issued at the end of the Oyo State Inter-Religious/Ethnic Committee (OYSIREC) held on Thursday in Ibadan at the Executive Chamber of the Governor’s office. The meeting was attended by religious, tribal, ethnic and community leaders including security agents across the state with the state governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi in attendance with the main objective of proffering solutions to and preventing ethnic and religious conflicts in the state. OYSIREC appealed to preachers of different religions to stop…

Sunday, 12 March 2017 03:38

Buhari’s return: Major cabinet shake-up likely this week

President Muhammadu Buhari has concluded plans for a major overhaul of his administration, reliable sources in government told SUNDAY PUNCH over the weekend. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the subject, said the changes were going to be ‘earth-shattering’ because a few of the President’s powerful aides and prominent members of the administration would be affected. SUNDAY PUNCH’s findings also revealed that Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, is likely to be affected by the changes. A senior government official, who preferred anonymity said, “In the next few weeks,…

Sunday, 12 March 2017 03:35

Buhari has anaemia, says professor of medicine

A medical expert, Professor Femi Williams, categorically said yesterday that President Muhammadu Buhari, was anaemic. This, the certified physician in Anatomic Pathology from London and Ireland, told The Nation in an interview, could only have been responsible for the blood transfusion which the president got during his medical vacation in the United Kingdom. Buhari admitted on his return home on Friday that he had transfusion in London. “We now have a pretty good idea of diagnosis, which is now comprehensive or good enough to say that the diagnosis of President Buhari’s illness is anaemia", Williams said. “You cannot be transfused…

Sunday, 12 March 2017 03:28

Disquiet in Nigerian Army over proposed multi-billion naira golf course

A recent decision by the Nigerian Army to establish a multi-billion naira exclusive golf course for officers is generating disquiet among its rank and file, PREMIUM TIMES can report. This newspaper learnt that Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, recently informed officers of the Army chief’s intention to construct a golf club for Nigerian Army personnel in Abuja. The Army described the undertaking as a “noble project”, and said personnel were encouraged to engage in sporting and recreational endeavours to enhance their professionalism. But in order to realise that ambition, a January 10, 2017 memo signed by M. Mohammed, a…

Sunday, 12 March 2017 03:20

Southwest governors to give Gen. Adebayo state burial – Fayose

Gov. Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti says governors of Southwest states will ensure that late Gen. Adeyinka Adebayo, is given a state burial. Fayose, who is also Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum, stated this on Saturday when he paid a condolence visit to Adebayo’s family at his Lagos residence, Ikeja. Fayose said he had sent a letter to his colleagues in the Southwest geopolitical zone on the need to give the departed general, who hailed from Ekiti, a state burial. “I have written letters to my colleague governors. I don’t think his burial should be a business…

Saturday, 11 March 2017 16:42

Apostle Suleiman, Keyamo in war of words over Stephanie Otobo

General Overseer of the Omega Fire Ministries, Johnson Suleman, on Friday traded words with Festus Keyamo, a human rights lawyer, over the latter’s client who accused the preacher of forceful abortion of pregnancy. Stephanie Otobo, a Canadian-based singer, had also accused Mr. Suleman, through her lawyer, of failing to keep a marriage promise made to her last year. But in a statement by Phrank Shaibu, Mr. Suleman’s spokesperson, the cleric accused Mr. Keyamo of plotting to clone his (the pastor’s) voice in a forthcoming video on the marriage scandal. The preacher also accused Mr. Keyamo “and his paymasters” of plotting…

Saturday, 11 March 2017 16:40

Xenophobia: S’African politicians tell citizens Nigerians are taking their women, says Dabiri

Abike Dabiri-Erewa, senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on foreign relations and diaspora, says South African politicians fuel xenophobic attacks by telling citizens that foreigners, including Nigerians, are taking their jobs. Dabiri-Erewa admitted that there were foreigners who commit crime in South Africa, and they can be dealt with, but not by discriminating against Nigerians or any other race or country on or off the continent. Speaking on The Osasu Show, Dabiri-Erewa said the xenophobic attacks in South Africa is driven by hate speech and misinformation. “There are people who commit crime in South Africa, such people are in…

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Saturday, 11 March 2017 03:17

Buhari to write National Assembly on his return

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday transmit a letter to the National Assembly indicating his resumption of work after his medical vacation in London, Mr Femi Adesina, media adviser said on his Twitter handle. He said that the letter would formalise the president’s return. He said: “PMB (President Muhammadu Buhari) will on Monday transmit letter to National Assembly on his return to the country. That makes his return to work formal and constitutional.’’ Adesina’s post debunks some reports indicating that the President has asked Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to continue to act on his behalf. The president left the country…

Saturday, 11 March 2017 03:15

Why Osinbajo is performing well - Buhari

A grateful President Muhammadu Buhari said on Friday that the performance of Acting President Yemi Osinbajo while he was away was buoyed by his youthfulness and intellectual capacity. The president, however, said of himself that he has age and military background going for him. Buhari made these observations when he received political leaders in the State House shortly after he returned to Nigeria from medical vacation on Friday. The president departed for London on January 19, in a trip that was initially announced as annual vacation but which later turned out to be an extended medical vacation. The president handed…

Saturday, 11 March 2017 03:14

Aisha renews love for President, presents hubby with Gardenias flowers

Unknown to many Nigerians, First Lady Aisha Buhari yesterday presented Gardenias flowers to her hubby, President Muhammadu Buhari to welcome him back. The flowers were handed over to the President at the private lounge of their residence at the Presidential Villa by the First Lady who spotted a Navy blue dress which was laced with stones. Those who witnessed the symbolic ceremony were the wife of the Vice President, Mrs. Dolapo Osinbajo, Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs.Winifred Oyo-Ita, Senior Special Assistant to the First Lady, Mrs. Hajo Sani; one of the daughters of the President; and Chairman…

Saturday, 11 March 2017 03:11

“I wasn't appointed Comptroller General to wear uniform", Customs’ Hameed Ali replies senators

Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Hameed Ali, has replied the Senate after lawmakers ordered him to appear in “appropriate” uniform next week over the service’s planned action against owners of vehicles without duty payment. Mr. Ali in an interview granted Television Continental (TVC) said the Senate should be more concerned about his performance, and not his uniform. Mr. Ali, a retired colonel, was appointed Customs chief in 2015 by President Muhammadu Buhari, becoming the second to be so appointed from outside the service. Under former military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, Bello Haliru became the first head of Customs to be…

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