News

Friday, 18 October 2019 05:59

Boris Johnson gets EU Brexit deal; next hurdle is Parliament

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s career of disdain for the European Union was a thing of the past on Thursday as he and the bloc’s leaders celebrated their long-sought Brexit deal. He now faces an opponent closer to home: his own Parliament. With the ink barely dry on the proposal and Johnson still happily backslapping EU leaders at a summit in Brussels, a chorus of British party leaders said they would vote against the deal. Crucially, the Northern Irish party that supports Johnson’s minority government also stood opposed, leaving it uncertain if the prime minister would get the votes he…

Friday, 18 October 2019 05:58

Turkey to suspend Syria offensive 'to allow Kurdish withdrawal'

Turkey has agreed to a ceasefire in northern Syria to let Kurdish-led forces withdraw. The deal came after US Vice-President Mike Pence and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met for talks in Ankara. All fighting will be paused for five days, and the US will help facilitate the withdrawal of Kurdish-led troops from what Turkey terms a "safe zone" on the border, Mr Pence said. It is unclear if the Kurdish YPG will fully comply, however. Commander Mazloum Kobani said Kurdish-led forces would observe the agreement in the area between the border towns of Ras al-Ayin and Tal Abyad, where…

Thursday, 17 October 2019 06:36

Buhari reduces overseas travel, estacodes for ministers, others

In a bid to curb leakages and ensure efficiency in the management of resources of government, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved for immediate implementation, additional cost saving measures aimed at instilling financial discipline and prudence, particularly, in the area of official travels. According to a statement issued by Office of Secretary to the Government of the Federation Wednesday, all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) are now required to submit their Yearly Travel Plans for statutory meetings and engagements to the Office of Secretary to the Government of the Federation and/or the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the…

Thursday, 17 October 2019 06:34

Buhari signs five bills passed by eighth National Assembly

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed five bills passed by the 8th National Assembly into law, Mr Umar Yakubu, his Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives) has said. Yakubu who made the announcement at a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja said that the Acts were to ensure good governance in the country. The bills include Obafemi Awolowo University Transitional Amendment Act, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi Amendment Act, University of Maiduguri Amendment Act, National Fertiliser Quality Control Act and the Nigerian Council of Food Science and Technology Establishment Act. He said that the University Acts specified…

Thursday, 17 October 2019 06:30

Protest against separatists' sentencing sets Barcelona streets ablaze

Protesters set cars on fire and threw petrol bombs at police in the Spanish city of Barcelona on Wednesday, intensifying unrest sparked by the sentencing of Catalan separatist leaders who had sought to declare an independent state. Divisions over a drive to split the northeastern region of Catalonia from Spain roiled the country in 2017, and re-surfaced on Monday when the Supreme Court sentenced nine politicians and activists to up to 13 years in jail. Peaceful demonstration throughout Wednesday deteriorated after nightfall into clashes between police and protesters, prompting regional government leader Quim Torra to demand an immediate return to…

Wednesday, 16 October 2019 05:54

Buhari orders crackdown on abusive Islamic schools after second raid

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday ordered a crackdown on abuse at Islamic schools, after a second police raid in less than a month revealed men and boys subjected to beatings, abuse and squalid conditions. Nearly 300 had been held captive at a school in the Daura area of Katsina, the hometown of President Muhammadu Buhari, where police said they discovered “inhuman and degrading treatment” following a raid on Monday to free the remaining students. Late last month, police freed hundreds from similarly degrading conditions in neighbouring Kaduna state. “Mr. President has directed the police to disband all such centres and…

Wednesday, 16 October 2019 05:50

Rumbling as Lawan, other principal officers allegedly corner 100 job slots ‘allocated’ to Senate

Barely four months after inauguration of the ninth National Assembly, leadership of the Senate is allegedly enmeshed in job recruitment scandal totally 100 slots. The job recruitment, allegedly given to some key leaders in the National Assembly is not going down well with some senators. A source familiar with the development said a top revenue-generating agency approved the allotment of 100 recruitment slots for senators. He said rather than spread the recruitment as it was always done in the past, the leadership allegedly shared the plum slots. He claimed some presiding officers got over 20 slots each while over 100…

Wednesday, 16 October 2019 05:48

Gov enrolls for a degree course while in office. Opposition party in the state carpets him for ‘idleness’

All Progressives Congress in Cross River State has slammed Governor Ben Ayade of Peoples Democratic Party for returning to school to study law, describing it as a sign of idleness. The state Chairman of APC, Mr John Ochala, in Calabar on Tuesday said any serious-minded governor would not abandon governance for any academic pursuit. Ochala lamented that the state had been handed over to an unserious person who continued to drag it backwards, adding that APC had always known that the governor was “never a serious person.” He said, “We are talking about dilapidated roads all over the state. Look…

Wednesday, 16 October 2019 05:46

Youths in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Egypt, others face poor job prospects as education deteriorates - Report

Quality of education and training provided by African countries has deteriorated since 2014, leaving many of the continent’s growing population of young people ill-prepared to enter the job market, an influential report said on Tuesday. The African Governance Report 2019, which uses data from the Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), the most comprehensive survey of its kind on the continent, found that enrolment and access to education was particularly low in the tertiary sector. “This has resulted in the burgeoning youth population being faced with increasing struggles when entering the job market,” researchers at Mo Ibrahim Foundation wrote ahead…

Tuesday, 15 October 2019 05:46

Aisha Buhari attacked us inside Aso Rock Villa - Mamman Daura’s daughter

Fatima, daughter of Mr Mamman Daura, President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew, has accused wife of the president of attacking her inside the presidential villa in Abuja. Commenting on a video where the first lady was seen complaining about being denied access to her apartment, Fatima said she least expected Buhari’s wife to act in a violent manner. In the video which trended on Friday while the rumour mill was agog that the president was getting married to Ms Sadiya Farouq, minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, the president’s wife was seen speaking in anger. In a BBC Hausa…

More...

Tuesday, 15 October 2019 05:43

Mamman Daura’s family locked me out of Aso Rock apartment - Aisha Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha, has given a rare insight into the power struggles at the State House, with details of how husband’s relatives physically confronted her. In an interview with BBC Hausa, Mrs Buhari confirmed the authenticity of a video that circulated online last week, saying she was the woman seen speaking angrily in the footage. The incident, however, did not happen now, she said. Mrs Buhari has spoken of a “cabal” that has controlled her husband, a description understood to mean a shadowy but powerful kitchen cabinet led by Mr Buhari’s nephew, Mr Mamman Daura. A new video…

Tuesday, 15 October 2019 05:42

FG to spend N450bn on fuel subsidy in 2020

Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, says under-recovery of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly referred to as fuel subsidy, will gulp N450bn in 2020. She said this on Monday in Abuja at the public presentation of the 2020 budget proposals. Ahmed said it was called ‘under-recovery’ because it was the cost of operation of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation. “We have a provision for under-recovery of PMS in the sum of N450bn. If you look at the Budget office’s website, it is in the fiscal framework, which is an annexure to the budget.” President Muhammadu Buhari had last…

Tuesday, 15 October 2019 05:41

Over 15m Nigerians need jobs - FG

Federal Government has expressed serious concerns over the rising unemployment rate in the country, saying that over 15 million Nigerians are looking for white collar jobs. Minister of Labour and Employment, Mr Chris Ngige, who expressed this concern in an interview with journalists in Enugu on Monday, said government was worried by the increasing rate of unemployment in the country. “Unemployment is growing into a very vicious disease condition that has given rise to a lot of anti-social behaviour. And government is seriously worried because if we don’t confront unemployment head on with many measures which we are fashioning now,…

Tuesday, 15 October 2019 05:39

There is no hunger in Nigeria – FG

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Sabo Nanono, on Monday, said Nigeria was producing enough food to feed itself and send to neighbouring countries. He described the cry by some Nigerians of hunger in the land as laughable, insisting that there was no hunger in Nigeria. The minister, who spoke at a press briefing to mark 2019 World Food Day in Abuja, said, “I think we are producing enough to feed ourselves. I think there is no hunger in Nigeria; there could be inconveniences. When people talk about hunger in this government, I just laugh.” According to Nanono, food…

Page 481 of 826

News

More...

Search

Most Read

Editorial

News

Business

Politics

Opinion

Features

Strangely

Crime

Wars

SCIENCE & TECH

SPECIAL REPORTS

Sports

VIDEOS