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Friday, 06 January 2017 02:22

Abati was right, there are demonic forces in Aso Rock - Archbishop Atilade

Chairman Christian Association of Nigeria, (CAN), Southwest Zone, Archbishop Magnus Atilade has shared some of his thoughts on the demonic forces in Aso Rock. In this interview with Sun News, he also begged President Buhari to take urgent action concerning the delivery of dividends of democracy to millions of Nigerians who he noted are presently going through hard times. When asked about the declaration by Dr Reuben Abati, the spokesman of former President Goodluck Jonathan when he was in office, where he said that some demonic forces occupied Aso Rock and that they were responsible for some unpopular decisions, anti-masses’…

Thursday, 05 January 2017 18:03

Osinbajo, Obasanjo mocked for New Year song

It’s the country of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti and pop stars Davido and Wizkid. But a more unusual set of singers grabbed the spotlight in Nigeria this week with their New Year message. Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo led a choir including former president Olusegun Obasanjo and military ruler Yakubu Gowon in a rendition of the 18th century hymn “O God Our Help in Ages Past”. Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” it wasn’t. Yet it was hard not to see parallels in the video, with the political heavyweights singing earnestly into microphones, headphones over their ears. There were cutaway shots…

Thursday, 05 January 2017 17:59

NUPENG shuts down Total over sacked workers

Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) on Thursday ordered stoppage of loading activities at all Total Nigeria Limited, depots nationwide over termination of workers appointment. This is according to a statement signed by Alhaji Tokunbo Korodo, the South-West Chairman of the union and made available to newsmen in Lagos. According to Korodo, the management of Total has been resisting the unionisation of workers under its contract programme in Lagos, Kaduna and Koko in Delta blending plants. The chairman said that the management of Total had moved further to terminate those workers who had joined the union in…

Thursday, 05 January 2017 03:00

FG approves arms for airport security

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved that airport security operatives bear arms, the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika has said. Sirika, while addressing State House correspondents yesterday after the first meeting of the Federal Executive Council in the New Year, said the government was very serious about aviation security. He said: “Just last week, the president approved that aviation security should bear arms. So, we’re trying to make them take the form and shape of TSA of the US with K-9 dogs, handcuffs, the guards, the batons, light weapons, etc. “The minister of interior is helping us in that…

Thursday, 05 January 2017 02:59

Accidental gunshot injures two in Aso Rock

An accidental discharge from a gun of one of the security agents attached to the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday, injured a female worker. The incident occurred at about 2.30pm at a security checkpoint at the Administrative Reception near a clinic, located on the premises. The operative was said to be trying to empty the weapon before submitting it at the security point when the bullet went off. The operative and the female worker, who was also making her way into the premises at the time, were injured in the process. The woman, who sustained injuries on her abdomen, back…

Thursday, 05 January 2017 02:58

Security operatives raid Jonathan’s brother’s house

Security operatives yesterday raided the Abuja residence of former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan. Another source said the house belonged to the brother of Mrs. Jonathan. The source added that Mrs. Jonathan bought the property for her younger brother. New Telegraph gathered that heavily armed policemen stormed the Maitama residence of the Jonathans in the evening. The house is located along Igbeti Rock Street, Maitama. The operatives, who were said to have numbered about 20, came in Hilux vans, as well as a Toyota Hiace Bus. A source close to the Jonathan’s family who spoke on the condition of anonymity…

Wednesday, 04 January 2017 14:21

Obasanjo to Awujale: You are a rumour monger, a liar

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has written to the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, describing the monarch as a serial liar and a manipulative rumour monger. In the letter dated December 30, 2016 but obtained by PREMIUM TIMES on Wednesday, President Obasanjo described the claims made about him by the Awujale in his autobiography as a tissue of lies and untruths. In the book, entitled “Awujale: The Autobiography of Alaiyeluwa Oba S. K. Adetona, Ogbagba II”, the Ijebu monarch had accused Obasanjo of having used the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to blackmail and extort during his tenure as president.…

Wednesday, 04 January 2017 14:20

For being fed on '2 Indomie' daily, lack of water, soldiers revolt in Sambisa forest

Nigerian soldiers who revolted against their superior officers inside the dreaded Sambisa forest in December were protesting the poor treatment meted out on them by military authorities, PREMIUM TIMES can reliably reveal. PREMIUM TIMES had exclusively reported the breakdown of discipline among soldiers of the 21 Brigade of the army deployed to fight Boko Haram in Sambisa, Borno State. The soldiers had turned against their superior officers, shooting indiscriminately. But soon after we published the report, the army denied that the soldiers revolted against their superior officers. “I want to assure that nothing like mutiny happened in Bama. Nothing happened,”…

Wednesday, 04 January 2017 14:14

136 Nigeria Police officers honoured in Somalia

A total of 136 policemen from Nigeria were awarded medals to mark the end of their duty tour in Somalia, a statement by the African Union Mission in Somali said on Wednesday. The 136 policemen participated in a medal parade on Tuesday to mark the end of their one year duty term in Somalia. “The officers were awarded medals at a ceremony presided over by the Deputy Special Police Commissioner of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). “Somali Police Commissioner Gen Mohamed Sheikh Hassan Hamud was also present, with a delegation of Somali officials.” It said that the Chairperson…

Wednesday, 04 January 2017 02:46

Akpabio under fire for ‘disrespecting’ Akwa Ibom governor

Immediate past governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, is facing severe criticisms from people in the state for sauntering into a state function in Uyo with his aides and a crowd of followers, while his successor, Udom Emmanuel, was taking a Bible reading. The incident, seen as a breach of protocol, happened at the Ibom Hall grounds, IBB Avenue, Uyo, on Monday during a state-sponsored religious ceremony – the Akwa Ibom State Annual Solemn Assembly. There was a temporary disruption of proceedings as the crowd kept on hailing Mr. Akpabio. Governor Emmanuel paused for some minutes until Mr. Akpabio,…

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Wednesday, 04 January 2017 02:43

Oshiomhole meets Buhari amid rumoured cabinet shakeup

A former Governor of Edo State, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, on Tuesday, met behind closed doors with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting came at a time there were speculations that Buhari may be considering some former governors for appointment in an imminent cabinet shakeup. Oshiomhole came out from the meeting that lasted about an hour at about 4.40pm. Although he did not grant interview, the ex-governor chatted informally with State House correspondents during which he said he decided to pay a thank you visit to the President after returning to the country from a foreign trip.…

Wednesday, 04 January 2017 02:42

FG to close Abuja airport for six weeks from 8 March

The federal government plans to close the airport in the capital Abuja for six weeks from 8 March to repair its runway, the aviation ministry said on Tuesday, pushing the move back later than previously scheduled. The decision to shut the airport and divert Abuja-bound flights to Kaduna, an airport used primarily for domestic flights about 160 km (100 miles) to the north, was taken after airlines threatened to stop flying to the capital. The government had said the six week closure would begin in February. But a statement issued on Tuesday, which said the aviation minister would discuss the…

Wednesday, 04 January 2017 02:40

Seyi Makinde faults Oyo 2017 budget, says revenue target gives room for 'high-handedness'

A chieftain of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, has said that the state’s 2017 budget lacks developmental propositions. According to a statement released Tuesday, Mr. Makinde said that the budget could be more ambitious and realistic with the needs of citizens of the state right at its heart. He also berated the revenue target set by the government, describing it as ‘unrealistic’. Commenting on the N126.8 billion budgeted for recurrent expenditure, Mr. Makinde said that only investment in education and health should have warranted such proposition. He added that the implication of budgeting such fund…

Wednesday, 04 January 2017 02:36

Osun spends N14.2 billion to offset 4 months salary arrears

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun says the state government spent N14.2 billion to offset four months salary arrears of workers in December 2016. Mr. Aregbesola made the remarks at an interdenominational thanksgiving service in Osogbo on Tuesday. According to him, the ability of the state government to pay workers salaries for September, October, November and December, 2016 in a record of less than two weeks period is a huge relief. He said that the disbursement of the Paris Club deductions refunds which made N11.7 billion available for the state had brought some relief to the state. The governor, however, said…

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