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Thursday, 17 May 2018 04:49

Sultan proclaims today beginning of Ramadan fasting

Sa’ad Abubakar III, Sultan of Sokoto has declared today Thursday as the first day for the beginning of the Ramadan fasting in Nigeria. Mr Abubakar announced the sighting of the new crescent in Sokoto on Wednesday in a broadcast. He said the new moon was sighted in various places across the country that includeed Sokoto, Niger, Yobe, Port Harcourt, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa and other areas. The Sultan said reports of the moon sighting were received from Muslim leaders and organizations across the country. “Upon due verification and authentication by the national moon sighting committee and states committees’ confirmation, as well…

Thursday, 17 May 2018 04:48

Senate, House pass 2018 budget, raise spending to N9.1 trillion

Senate and House of Representatives have passed the 2018 budget, raising it by N500 billion. Both Houses on Wednesday approved a budget that rose from N8.6 trillion to N9.1 trillion, six months after it was presented by the executive. President Muhammadu Buhari presented the budget to a joint session of the National Assembly on November 7, 2017. Both houses of the National Assembly on Tuesday received the budget report of their appropriation committees. At the Senate, chairman of senate committee on appropriation, Mr Danjuma Goje, said the increase of N500 billion was done in consultation with the executive. He said…

Thursday, 17 May 2018 04:39

Oyo residents to wear traditional attires on Monday to mark World Culture day

Funmi Olaitan, Ibadan To mark 2018 World Culture Day, Governor Abiola Ajimobi has approved that residents in the state, especially students in private and public schools as well as workers, turn out in their traditional attire on Monday, May 21. The state Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Mr. Toye Arulogun, who made the disclosure in a statement issued on Wednesday in Ibadan, said it is the collective responsibility of all and sundry to promote the country’s cultural norms, heritage and values in order to change the paradigm of culture being seen as inferior, primitive, irrelevant and something to be…

Wednesday, 16 May 2018 05:31

You’re not the only corrupt-free Nigerian, Dogara tells Buhari

Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara Tuesday said that there were millions of Nigerians spread across the globe who are corrupt-free apart from President Muhammadu Buhari. The speaker stated this at the commissioning of the new corporate headquarters of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , EFCC, in Abuja. Speaking at the commissioning ceremony attended by former President of South Africa, Mr Tabo Mbeki; Secretary General of Commonwealth, Mrs Patricia Scotland, and heads of anti-corruption agencies of member countries, Dogara acknowledged that President Buhari has won global acclaim for his hard stance against corruption. He said: “The fact that we…

Wednesday, 16 May 2018 05:28

FG writes UK, USA over alleged hacking of Buhari’s medical records

A committee set up by the Federal Government to investigate the recent revelation that ahead of 2015 general election a Nigerian billionaire and supporter of former President Goodluck Jonathan, paid £2m to Cambridge Analytica, to hack into the medical records of President Muhammadu Buhari, then candidate of All Progressives Congress, had demanded more information from some countries. Our correspondent learnt on Monday that the committee had written to United Kingdom and United States of America over the matter. The committee was set up to probe the report that suggested that the consulting firm that combined data mining, brokerage and analysis…

Wednesday, 16 May 2018 05:25

N’Assembly increases 2018 Budget by over N500bn

Almost six months after it was laid before a joint session of National Assembly, both Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Appropriations Tuesday laid the report of the 2018 N8.612 trillion budget at plenary, increasing the expenditure by over N500 billion to N9.120 trillion. In the upper chamber, the document was laid by the Committee Chairman, Mr Danjuma Goje. Senate spokesman, Mr Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, had last week said the budget report would be laid Tuesday, while it would be considered and debated on Wednesday and passed on Thursday. Similarly, the report was laid in the lower chamber by…

Wednesday, 16 May 2018 05:23

North Korea threatens to cancel US summit over drills

North Korea on Wednesday canceled a high-level meeting with South Korea and threatened to scrap a historic summit next month between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over military exercises between Seoul and Washington that Pyongyang has long claimed are invasion rehearsals. The surprise declaration, which came in a pre-dawn dispatch in North Korea's state media, appears to cool what had been an unusual flurry of outreach from a country that last year conducted a provocative series of weapons tests that had many fearing the region was on the edge of war. It's still unclear, however,…

Wednesday, 16 May 2018 05:21

FG approves N10bn for communities affected by violence

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved N10 billion for rehabilitation of communities affected by violent attacks in parts of the country. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo made the disclosure Tuesday during a visit to two internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps in Benue State. Several communities in Benue, Taraba, Zamfara and Kaduna have suffered violent attacks as a result of conflicts between farmers and herders; as well as attacks by bandits. Mr Osinbajo arrived Benue Tuesday afternoon where he visited the IDP camps and met with various groups in the state. According to his spokesperson, Mr Laolu Akande, in a series of tweets,…

Wednesday, 16 May 2018 05:12

Support your alma mata, UI DVC charges alumni members

Funmi Olaitan, Ibadan Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic), University of Ibadan, Mr Adeyinka Aderinto, has called on alumni of public varsities in the country to assist and support in meeting infrastructure and funding needs of their alma mata. He said world class universities attained their present statuses owing largely to the contributions of their alumni in infrastructural development, endowments and funding, stating that if alumni wakes up to their responsibilities, Nigerian varsities will be better. The DVC made the call when the 1988 set of the Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, presented N500,000 to the 54-year old department for upgrading…

Tuesday, 15 May 2018 05:05

We’ve done more with less resources in three years - Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari said yesterday his administration is delivering on promises made with clear-cut targets. He added it was also prudently managing resources through a deliberate policy to plug wastages. Speaking at the palace of Emir of Dutse, Jigawa State, Mr Nuhu Muhammadu Sanusi, during a two-day visit, Buhari said the odds of initial dwindling oil prices did not discourage the government from setting targets for projects and achieving more in three years than the 16 years of Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) misrule. He said the growing support the administration enjoys could be attributed to the understanding of Nigerians of…

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Tuesday, 15 May 2018 05:04

Attack on P’Harcourt High Court, danger to democracy - CJN

Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Mr Walter Onnoghen, has condemned the recent attack by armed hoodlums on a High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, warning that the act, if not checked, could endanger the nation’s democracy. Onnoghen also called on the public to condemn the act and preserve the judiciary, which he said remains the last hope of the citizens. His condemnation came just as the River State House of Assembly resolved to write to the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU) and the Commonwealth of Nations to save the people of the state from the hands of…

Tuesday, 15 May 2018 05:02

In obedience of court, Omo-Agege will be allowed to resume – Senate

Delta Central senator, Mr Ovie Omo-Agege, previously suspended for 90 days, will be allowed to resume office in accordance with a court ruling, the Senate said late Monday. In a statement by its spokesperson, Mr Sabi Abdullahi, the Senate said it has been briefed by lawyers on the court judgement nullifying Omo-Agege’s suspension. Mr Nnamdi Dimgba of Abuja Division of the Federal High Court nullified the suspension of Omo-Agege last week Thursday. Dimgba said the Senate’s decision regarding the suspension, as well as the pattern adopted by the National Assembly, was constitutionally defective. Following the judgement, an aide to Senate…

Tuesday, 15 May 2018 05:01

55 dead in Gaza protests as Israel fetes US Embassy move

In a jarring contrast, Israeli forces shot and killed at least 55 Palestinians and wounded more than 1,200 during mass protests Monday along the Gaza border, while just a few miles away Israel and the U.S. held a festive inauguration ceremony for the new American Embassy in contested Jerusalem. It was by far the deadliest day of cross-border violence since a devastating 2014 war between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers, and further dimmed the already bleak prospects for President Donald Trump's hoped-for peace plan. Throughout the day, Gaza protesters set tires ablaze, sending thick plumes of black smoke into the…

Tuesday, 15 May 2018 04:59

Look for Ramadan moon Wednesday – Sultan

Sultan of Sokoto and President General of Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Mr Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar has urged Muslims across the country to look for the new moon of Ramadan Wednesday. Deputy Secretary-General of NSCIA, Mr Salisu Shehu in a statement yesterday quoted the Sultan as felicitating with Muslims on the occasion of this year’s Ramadan fasting and prayed that Allah grant the Ummah the opportunity to maximize the benefits and blessings of the Holy Month. “Following the advice of National Moon Sighting Committee (NMSC), the President-General enjoins Nigerian Muslim Ummah to search for the crescent of Ramadan…

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