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Tuesday, 22 May 2018 04:27

My administration to leave culture as legacy pillar - Ajimobi

Funmi Olaitan, Ibadan Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, on Monday, said his administration would leave the culture sector with tangible projects towards ensuring the revitalization of cultural tourism sector in the state. He said this at the Government House Ibadan during activities marking 2018 World Culture Day and the official launch of the state’s quarterly cultural magazine tagged Dundun produced by Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism to promote and document culture, values and historical places among others. The governor said Ibadan is the melting point of Yoruba Culture, saying that the promotion and preservation of our culture and…

Monday, 21 May 2018 04:14

FG plans to assassinate me, says Wike

Rivers State Governor, Mr Nyesom Wike, raised the alarm on Sunday that the Federal Government was plotting to assassinate him in a crowd and claim accidental discharge. Wike disclosed this during the third year anniversary thanksgiving service of his administration at Living Faith Church, D-Line in Port Harcourt. The governor said, “Intelligence report available to us as of this morning indicated that they are plotting to assassinate me in a crowd and claim it was an accidental discharge.” Explaining that the plot of All Progressives Congress Federal Government and its associates would not intimidate him, Wike stated that he remained…

Monday, 21 May 2018 04:09

JAMB sets date for rescheduled examinations for over 12,000 candidates

Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Sunday said it had set May 26 for rescheduled Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) for more than 12,000 candidates across the country. The Board’s Head of Media, Mr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with journalists in Abuja. According to Benjamin, more than 12,000 candidates are expected to sit for the mop up examinations in few of its centres across the country. This category of candidates, he explained, are those whose biometrics were not captured during the initial period of the UTME in March. He said: “It would also include those, who…

Sunday, 20 May 2018 04:55

A royal wedding bridges the Atlantic and breaks old molds

The son of British royalty and the daughter of middle-class Americans wed Saturday in a service that reflected Prince Harry's royal heritage, Meghan Markle's biracial roots and the pair's shared commitment to putting a more diverse, modern face on the monarchy. British reserve crisscrossed with American verve in a service that broke molds and created new ones. Choirboys and a gospel choir; the archbishop of Canterbury and the African-American leader of the Episcopal church; a horse-drawn carriage and flowers hand-picked by the groom. The wedding was a global event, thanks to Harry's status as a senior British royal and Markle's…

Sunday, 20 May 2018 04:54

'The Power of Love' - address by U.S. bishop at Harry and Meghan's wedding

Following is the text of the address by U.S. Episcopalian bishop, Michael Bruce Curry, at the wedding of Britain's Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle, as released by Kensington Palace on Saturday. Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, passion fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a raging flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. (Song of Songs 8:6-7)iDr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said: "We must discover the power of love, the redemptive power of love. And…

Sunday, 20 May 2018 04:46

Abuja triplets stranded after mum’s death during birth as dad flees

A new set of triplets have been left stranded after their mum died shortly after their birth in an Abuja hospital, with their unemployed father dumping the family. Distant relatives and friends are now struggling to give some attention to the three boys and their older siblings — a boy and a girl — and are calling for help from the government and Nigerians. Before her death, Nkechi Okonya, 32, was the family’s bread-winner, raising her two children and supporting her husband from the proceeds of her petty trade, neighbours said. Jersey and Kimberly — seven and five years old…

Saturday, 19 May 2018 04:06

Journalist goes into hiding over IGP trending video

A Liberty Television journalist, Mr Aminu Nurudeen, suspected to have posted the viral video showing Inspector General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, struggling to read a speech at a public event in Kano, has gone into hiding. Impeccable sources told our correspondent that Kano State Police Command invited the reporter to its office immediately the video went viral. The video, shows the IG struggling to read his speech at the inauguration of Police Technical Intelligence Unit in Kano, Kano State on Monday. It was learnt that Nurudeen’s whereabouts had been unknown since the Kano State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr…

Saturday, 19 May 2018 04:05

Miyetti Allah issues fresh threats over Benue anti-open grazing law

Leaders of Fulani pastoralist groups yesterday rose from an emergency meeting in Kaduna, asking President Muhammadu Buhari to call Governor Samuel Orthom of Benue State to order over the anti-open grazing law in that state. They vowed to do everything legally possible to resist any law that is against their culture, movement and economic interests. Their position was contained in a communiqué jointly signed by National President, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore Fulani Socio-cultural Association, Mr Abdullahi Bello Bodejor, Secretary, Mr Saleh Alhassan, and Chairman Communiqué Drafting Committee, Mr Garus Gololo. They condemned the call by “some desperate and jobless groups…

Saturday, 19 May 2018 04:02

Airliner with 110 aboard crashes in Cuba, 3 said to survive

A 39-year-old airliner with 110 people aboard crashed and burned in a cassava field just after taking off from the Havana airport Friday, leaving three survivors in Cuba's worst aviation disaster in three decades, officials said. The Boeing 737 went down just after noon a short distance from the end of the runway at Jose Marti International Airport while on a short-hop flight to the eastern city of Holguin. Firefighters rushed to extinguish the flames that engulfed the field of debris left where Cubana Flight 972 hit the ground. "There is a high number of people who appear to have…

Saturday, 19 May 2018 03:57

Ramadan: Ex-Oyo Commissioner charges Muslims to pray for peaceful 2019 elections

Funmi Olaitan, Ibadan Former Commissioner for Commerce and Cooperatives in Oyo State, Mr Kola Balogun, on Friday, enjoined Muslims in the state and across the country to use the period of one month Ramadan fasting to pray for the successful conduct of next year's general elections. Balogun, a governorship aspirant on the platform of ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, gave the charge in a statement made available to journalists in Ibadan, the state capital. He said the need for Muslims to pray for the peaceful conduct of the elections is necessary in view of the current political…

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Friday, 18 May 2018 04:58

NNPC, NPA, FIRS, others failed to remit N526bn, $21bn – NEC

Eighteen Federal Government’s revenue generating agencies failed to remit N526bn and $21bn into the Federation Account between 2010 and June 2015, an audit commissioned by National Economic Council has revealed. Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, has therefore recommended that the affected agencies be made to refund the money. Gombe State Governor, Mr Ibrahim Dankwambo, disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of a meeting of NEC presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday. The council chaired by the Vice-President has all state governors, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and relevant ministers…

Friday, 18 May 2018 04:54

IBB, Dangote in closed-doors meeting in Minna

Business Mogul and President of Dangote Group, Mr Aliko Dangote, on Thursday visited former military president, Mr Ibrahim Babangida, at his Hilltop Mansion in Minna, the state capital. Dangote was accompanied by his daughter, Halima Dangote and her husband, Suleiman Bello and some members of Dangote group. He was in Minna to attend the launching and disbursement of Aliko Dangote Foundation N250 million micro grant to 25,000 vulnerable women in Minna. Dangote, after attending the event at Justice Legbo Idris Conference Hall, Minna, was accompanied by Governor Abubakar Bello of Niger State, Senator Bala Ibn Na’Allah, Deputy Majority Leader and…

Thursday, 17 May 2018 04:53

Senate’s team to meet Buhari over alleged IG’s plot to frame Saraki

The crisis between the Senate and Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, worsened on Wednesday with the lawmakers resolving to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari to report the activities of the police boss to him. President of the Senate, Mr Bukola Saraki, had at the plenary on Wednesday told the chamber that IG was plotting to implicate him in the trial of some suspects arrested in Kwara State. Also on Wednesday, some senators alleged that the IG had withdrawn policemen guarding them. On his part, Saraki said he was informed by Kwara State Governor, Mr Abdulfatah Ahmed, that the suspects…

Thursday, 17 May 2018 04:51

Police reply Saraki, warn him against jeopardising murder investigations

Police have confirmed the transfer of suspects linked to a string of killings in Kwara State to Abuja. But police spokesperson, Mr Jimoh Moshood, said the transfer was not because of Senate President Bukola Saraki. He, however, warned that an alarm raised by Mr Saraki over the development could compromise investigation and demoralise families of those killed by the criminal gang. The suspects were arrested in Kwara State and paraded before the press in Ilorin, the state capital, last week Friday, Mr Moshood, an assistant police commissioner, said in a statement. “The Force therefore wishes to categorically state that, there…

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