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Tuesday, 17 March 2020 05:49

Boko Haram ambushes soldiers on rescue mission, kills 6

Six soldiers lost their lives in an ambush by suspected Boko Haram insurgents around Banki Junction in Borno state, military sources revealed. Two sergeants, two lance corporals and two privates were confirmed to be victims of the attack. The incident happened Sunday morning when about two companies of soldiers from the army’s 151 task force battalion in the area were on a ”rescue patrol”. “There were about 70 soldiers who were sent on that mission,” a source said. “We had information that some people were being held captives by the insurgents, and that was why the soldiers were mobilised to…

Monday, 16 March 2020 05:10

15 die in Lagos gas explosion, several buildings destroyed

An explosion at a gas processing plant on Sunday killed at least 15 people and destroyed about 50 buildings after a fire broke out in a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, emergency services said. Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said the explosion was triggered after a truck hit some gas cylinders stacked in a gas processing plant near the corporation’s pipeline in Abule Ado area of Lagos state. The impact of the explosion led to the collapse of nearby houses, damaged NNPC’s pipeline and caused the corporation to halt pumping operations on the Atlas Cove-Mosimi pipeline, the state-owned oil…

Sunday, 15 March 2020 05:28

US govt gives damning verdict on 2019 elections, says security agencies worked for APC, Buhari

United States Government says there is evidence that Nigerian security agents, including Department of State Services and Nigerian Army intimidated voters, officials of Independent National Electoral Commission and even election observers during the 2019 general elections. According to the US, this fuelled the impression that the Nigerian Army worked for the success of ruling All Progressives Congress. The US further stated that the Nigerian judiciary was still susceptible to intimidation by the executive and the legislative arms of government, adding that there was corruption in the judiciary, which made it not to be able to function independently. These observations are…

Sunday, 15 March 2020 05:26

Trump tests negative for Coronavirus

After days of resisting screening for the coronavirus, President Donald Trump tested negative for the virus, officials said Saturday night. Meanwhile, the White House began checking the temperature of anyone coming into close contact with the president and other officials. Prior to his testing, Trump said his personal physician told him he didn’t show symptoms and didn’t need to take the test. But Trump decided to do it anyway after repeated questions from reporters about why he was hesitating to undergo screening when he had been exposed to at least three people who have tested positive for the virus. The…

Saturday, 14 March 2020 05:07

Nigeria’s External Reserves fall on crashing oil price

Nigeria’s external reserves recorded a decline of $2.3bn from $38.59bn to $36.22bn within a two-month period, covering January 1 and March 5 this year. An analysis of figures obtained from Central Bank of Nigeria on Friday indicated that this represented a decline of 5.9 per cent. Foreign exchange reserves are assets held on reserve by CBN in foreign currencies. They are used to back liabilities and influence monetary policy, which comprise foreign banknotes, deposits, bonds, treasury bills and other foreign government securities. These assets serve many purposes but are most significantly held to ensure that a government or its agency…

Saturday, 14 March 2020 05:06

From visit by El-Rufai and Sanusi’s mother, through ex-emir leading Jumat service in Awe, to his eventual arrival in Lagos - these are the fast-paced events Friday with deposed emir

Deposed Emir of Kano, Mr Muhammdu Sanusi, removed on Monday March 9 by Kano State Government and banished to Nasarawa state regained his freedom yesterday following an order of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court. Mr Anwuli Chikere, while delivering a ruling in an ex-parte application the dethroned Emir filed through his team of lawyers led by Mr Lateef Fagbemi, held that Sanusi was entitled to his constitutionally guaranteed rights to personal liberty and movement. Governor of Kaduna State, Mr Nasir El-Rufa’i had visited him earlier yesterday as a mark of solidarity. He had honoured Sanusi with two…

Saturday, 14 March 2020 05:05

Osinbajo loses security aide in road accident

One of the Vice President Osinbajo’s escort riders, Mr Ali Gomina, a police inspector, lost his life Friday in a fatal accident while leading the vice president’s convoy to Abuja airport. Following the death of the rider, Mr Osinbajo cancelled the flight and returned to Abuja to mourn his security aide. A statement by the vice president’s spokesman, Mr Laolu Akande, said Osinbajo described Gomina as a diligent, hardworking and serious-minded officer who would be greatly missed. The statement read: “With grief in our hearts, we announce the death of one of the police escort riders on the Vice President’s…

Friday, 13 March 2020 05:08

Canadian PM Trudeau’s wife tests positive for Coronavirus

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be in isolation for two weeks after his wife, Sophie, tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday, and the outbreak prompted the province of Ontario to shutter schools to limit the spread. Sophie Gregoire Trudeau recently returned from London and experienced flu-like symptoms, so she was tested for the coronavirus, the prime minister’s office said earlier on Thursday. The test came back positive, it said in the evening. “The Prime Minister is in good health with no symptoms. As a precautionary measure and following the advice of doctors, he will be in isolation for a…

Friday, 13 March 2020 04:53

ASUU strike: FG backing down on IPPIS, others

Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, last night agreed to harmonise University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) and FG’s Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). Minister of Labour and Employment, Mr Chris Ngige, disclosed this after about four hours of technical engagement between both parties. He said the two parties will reconvene on Monday after the union deliberates with its National Executive Council, NEC. President of ASUU, Mr Biodun Ogunyemi, who concurred with the Minister, said National Executive Committee of the union will review conditions for the harmonisation of UTAS and IPPIS. Ngige said: “I am…

Friday, 13 March 2020 04:51

30 senior lawyers line up for Sanusi in suit against his banishment and detention

Dethroned Emir of Kano, Mr Muhammad Sanusi, has approached Abuja division of the Federal High Court seeking an order for his release from detention and confinement. In a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/357/2020, the former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, who is in Awe, Nassarawa State, where he had been banished by the Kano Government, is seeking for an interim order releasing him from detention and or confinement. Specifically, in the suit filed by Mr Lateef Fagbemi, yesterday, Sanusi is seeking for an interim order releasing him “from the detention and or confinement of the respondents and restoring the applicant’s rights…

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Thursday, 12 March 2020 05:55

FG takes steps to counter economic fallout of Coronavirus - Bloomberg

Nigeria’s fiscal and monetary authorities will announce measures in coming days to deal with the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak. “We will not hesitate to deploy additional measures to shield the Nigerian economy from headwinds,” central bank Governor Godwin Emefiele said at a conference in the capital, Abuja, on Wednesday. The International Monetary Fund has cut its projection for Nigeria’s 2020 economic growth to 2% from 2.5% due to plunging oil prices stemming from the coronavirus outbreak. The West African nation is the continent’s biggest producer and depends on crude for 90% of its exports. Nigeria will need at…

Thursday, 12 March 2020 05:54

I have no hand in Sanusi’s dethronement - Buhari

PRESS RELEASE President Muhammadu Buhari has no involvement whatsoever in the dethronement of HRH Muhammadu Sanusi II from the position of Emir of Kano. All such insinuations are untrue, malicious and politically motivated. The President does not have a history of intervening in the affairs of any state in the country, unless the issue at hand is of national consequence. On such matters which impinge on national security, he has a duty of involvement as the law stipulates. As outlined in the Constitution, the appointment or removal of emirs and other traditional leaders is strictly within the jurisdiction of state…

Thursday, 12 March 2020 05:53

Deposed Emir Sanusi gets top UN appointment

United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, has named Sanusi II, among 16 other influential figures around the globe as members of Sustainable Development Goals Advocates. They are to push the agenda of the global development drive to a new height. The appointments, released today, 11 March 2020 have Mr. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana Ms. Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway as co-chairmen of the committee. The announcement was contained in a statement released to Vanguard by the Special Assistant to the UN Resident Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr Fred Eno. The statement said: “These 17 influential public figures…

Thursday, 12 March 2020 05:52

Sanusi’s wife, children visit ex-Emir in tiny banishment home in Nassarawa town

One of the wives of deposed Emir of Kano, Mr Muhammadu Sanusi II, visited him yesterday at his new abode in Awe town, Nasarawa State. The wife of the dethroned emir arrived Awe at about 11.15 am along with three of the deposed emir’s children. She arrived in a white SUV with tinted glasses and was escorted by mobile policemen and officers of Department of State Security (DSS) who were conveyed in two Toyota Hilux vans with Kaduna State Government number plates. Emir of Awe, Mr Umar Isa Abubakar; Chief of Azara, Mr Kabir Musa Ibrahim and Chairman of Awe …

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