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Wednesday, 01 March 2017 18:02

Service chiefs brief Osinbajo

Service chiefs on Wednesday briefed Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on the security situation across the country. The briefing was attended by Defence Minister Mansur Dan-Ali, National Security Adviser, General Babagana Muguno, Information Minister Lai Mohammed, Inspector-General of Police Idris Ibrahim, Director-General Department of State Security, Lawal Daura, and other top government officials. Dan-Ali, at the opening of the briefing session, acknowledged that the Federal Government's support had impacted positively on the capacity of the Armed Forces in the fight againt Boko Haram terrorists in the northeast and other security threats across the nation. "On behalf of the armed forces and…

Wednesday, 01 March 2017 17:53

Obasanjo blames Zuma, others for xenophobic attacks on Nigerians

Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obsanjo, on Wednesday blamed President of South Africa (SA), Jacob Zuma, and other SA’s leaders for the spate of attacks on Nigerians and other nationals living in their country. Obasanjo said if the South African youths are violently striking at Nigerians and other African nationals out of immaturity and ignorance of what Africa and its continental organisations stood for, are the leadership and elders of the country also ignorant? The ex – President who apparently expected Zuma and the country’s elders to educate their youths to see Nigerians and other blacks as their brothers…

Wednesday, 01 March 2017 03:15

'He's sick'; no, 'he's on medical vacation', Reps clash over Buhari’s health status

Members of the House of Representatives exchanged words on Tuesday over the health status of President Muhammadu Buhari. Lawmakers quarrelled over the use of the word “sickness” in referring to Buhari or explaining his reason for being away from the country to the United Kingdom since January 19. The disagreement was more pronounced among members of the ruling All Progressives Congress, the President’s party. While some members said Buhari was sick and was away to treat himself, others claimed that he was on “medical vacation.” It was House Majority Leader, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, who started the argument when he tried…

Wednesday, 01 March 2017 03:10

Senate: NNPC failed to account for N5.1tr subsidy

The Senate has said Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has collected N5.1 trillion as fuel subsidy without giving any account. The Senate heard that during the subsidy regime, the country paid a total of N9.93 trillion as subsidy. Of this amount, the NNPC got N5.1 trillion and Independent marketers were paid N3.83 trillion. The upper chamber has therefore decided to launch an investigation to find out how the corporation used this huge amount of money. The decision was sequel to a point of order raised by Senator Dino Melaye (APC, Kogi on the subsidy payment. “While we are prosecuting the…

Wednesday, 01 March 2017 03:08

South Africa deports 97 Nigerians

While the federal government criticises South Africa’s handling of recent xenophobic attacks on Nigerians, South African Government has deported 97 Nigerians for committing various offences in the country. Property of several Nigerians and other sub-Saharan Africans have been destroyed across South Africa in xenophobic attacks that have been condemned by various governments. While asking its citizens to stop the attacks, South African government has also blamed illegal immigrants from Nigeria and other countries, as well immigrants who commit crime for the attacks. The government has thus decided to clamp down on such immigrants. The 97 deported Nigerians landed at the…

Wednesday, 01 March 2017 03:02

$5m African leadership prize fails to find a winner - again

Sudanese telecoms magnate Mo Ibrahim failed to award a $5 million African political leadership prize on Tuesday, the second year running the gong designed to foster regional democracy has gone begging due to a lack of suitable candidates. Since its launch in 2006, the Ibrahim Prize has only been awarded four times - to Mozambique's Joaquim Chissano, Botswana's Festus Mogae, Cape Verde's Pedro De Verona Rodrigues Pires and Namibia's Hifikepunye Pohamba in 2014. Candidates have to be democratically elected African heads of state or government who have left office in the previous three years at the end of their constitutional…

Wednesday, 01 March 2017 03:01

Pentagon send Trump a plan to defeat ISIS within a YEAR

Defense secretary Jim 'Mad Dog' Mattis went to White House to present new plan to defeat ISIS President had told generals he wanted to 'totally obliterate' the Islamic fanatics in Iraq and Syria Document handed to top echelons of National Security Council is 'classified' and 'preliminary' Pentagon say The Pentagon presented the White House with possible new battle plans Monday to defeat the Islamic State group, after President Donald Trump demanded top brass find additional ways to destroy the jihadists. A pillar of Trump's campaign was to quicken the fight against IS, which despite losing thousands of fighters still controls…

Wednesday, 01 March 2017 02:59

Russia and China veto new UN sanctions on Syria

Russia and China vetoed new U.N. sanctions on Syria Tuesday and the U.S. ambassador accused both countries of refusing to hold President Bashar Assad's regime accountable for the use of chemical weapons. "They put their friends in the Assad regime ahead of our global security," new American envoy Nikki Haley told the U.N. Security Council after the vote. "They turned away from defenseless men, women and children who died gasping for breath when Assad's forces dropped their poisonous gas." The Trump administration recently joined France and Britain in sponsoring the resolution, and Haley minced no words in denouncing the "outrageous…

Tuesday, 28 February 2017 17:35

Nigeria’s GDP contracted further 1.30 percent in Q4 2016

Nigeria’s real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted by 1.30 per cent in the fourth quarter of last year (Q4 2016) compared to -2.26 per cent growth in the previous quarter, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) stated on Tuesday. Though the decline was less severe than the contraction in the previous quarter, it was nevertheless lower than the 2.11 per cent growth rate recorded in Q4 2015. Thisday

Tuesday, 28 February 2017 17:33

FG officials give conflicting figures on oil production

Nigeria's oil production has risen to 2.1 million barrels a day, managing director of state oil firm NNPC said on Tuesday, without giving an explanation for the increase. "We are hoping that by the end of 2017 we should ramp up production to above 2.2 million barrels (per day)," Maikanti Baru told an oil conference in Abuja. OPEC member Nigeria has given differing figures for its oil output in recent weeks. Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun said on Thursday production was 2.2 million bpd, without giving an explanation. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had put output at between 1.7 million bpd and…

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Tuesday, 28 February 2017 17:28

Soludo, Utomi, other Igbo leaders demand release of Nnamdi Kanu

A former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Chukwuma Soludo, and Igbo leaders have asked the Federal Government to release the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. They made the call under the aegis of an Igbo group, Nzuko Umunna. Soludo, who delivered the group’s statement in Abuja, said, ‎”We visited Nnamdi Kanu to hear his own point of view as well as share our own point of view with him. “We believe that Nigeria has the potential to be great, and like most countries has its own challenges. “Nigeria has never been more divided than…

Tuesday, 28 February 2017 17:25

JAMB scraps awaiting result registration

With effect from this year (2017), candidates awaiting results would no longer be eligible to apply for the Universities Tertiary Matriculation Examination, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, said in Abuja on Tuesday. The organisation also said it had concluded all restructuring and reforms and is now set to commence the sale of its application document in March. The restructuring exercise will now allow for only one choice of public university in which new registration platform will now be first choice, second choice, third choice and fourth choice and not most preferred, preferred choice. A statement by the spokesperson of…

Tuesday, 28 February 2017 17:19

LASG has no plan to ban 'Danfo’ buses

Lagos State Ministry of Transport has no plan to ban yellow buses known as “Danfo” but to upgrade them to international standard, the acting Commissioner for Transport, Mr Lanrewaju Elegushi, has disclosed. Elegushi made the disclosure in Lagos on Tuesday during a stakeholder’s forum to deliberate on how to improve the transport system in the state. He said that the plan of the government was to restructure the transportation system in the state to international standard. “What we are planning is to restructure the transportation system in the state to meet international standard. “That is why we organised this forum…

Tuesday, 28 February 2017 03:27

Opposition scheming to cause division between Buhari, Osinbajo, Presidency alleges

The Presidency on Monday said it was wrong for anybody to claim that acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, had been performing better than President Muhammadu Buhari since the President started his extended medical vacation. It said Osinbajo “still consults with Buhari on major national issues” on a regular basis. Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Babafemi Ojudu, said this in an interview with State House correspondents. While describing those behind the argument as thoughtless, Ojudu described it as a ploy by the opposition to cause an unnecessary division in the Presidency. He said the President and Osinbajo had a…

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