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Friday, 12 January 2018 05:38

Chinese authorities demolish well-known evangelical church

Authorities in northern China's coal country have demolished a well-known Christian mega-church, underscoring long-standing tensions between religious groups and the officially atheistic Communist Party. Witnesses and overseas activists say paramilitary People's Armed Police forces used excavators and dynamite on Tuesday to destroy the Golden Lampstand Church in the city of Linfen in Shanxi province. ChinaAid, a U.S.-based Christian advocacy group, said local authorities planted explosives in an underground worship hall to demolish the building, which was built with nearly $3 million in contributions from local worshippers in one of China's poorest regions. The church, with a congregation of more than…

Thursday, 11 January 2018 03:28

Buhari appoints substantive NIA DG, CMDs for federal hospitals

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of a substantive Director General for National Intelligence Agency, NIA. The new Director General is Mr Ahmed Abubakar, a retired career Foreign Service officer, who till his appointment served as Senior Special Assistant to the President (SSAP) on Foreign Affairs/International Relations. Abubakar had extensive experience working with the United Nations in peace support operations, mediation process, preventive diplomacy and good offices, as well as the promotion of good governance and respect for the rule of law and human rights. He also briefly served as Senior Adviser at the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF),…

Thursday, 11 January 2018 03:27

Herdsmen have declared war against the nation - Soyinka

Mr Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel laureate in literature, says herdsmen have declared a war against Nigeria. In a piece he released on Wednesday, the professor warned President Muhammadu Buhari against treating the situation in a way former President Goodluck Jonathan did at the early stage of the Boko Haram crisis. He wondered why the federal government had not considered some of the suggestions which stakeholders recommended. He recalled that after “a hideous massacre” perpetrated by the herdsmen in 2016, a security meeting was called and the cattle rearers “attended the meeting — according to reports — with AK47s and…

Thursday, 11 January 2018 03:26

Buhari not a killer - Presidency

In the wake of outrage forced by the killings in Benue, Taraba and Adamawa States by herdsmen, a Presidential spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, has frowned at those accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of condoning the massacres occasioned by farmers/herdsmen conflicts across the country. Adesina, who is the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, in a video message he posted on Facebook Wednesday, dismissed insinuations that the President was condoning the killing because he is a Fulani man. According to him, such killings by herdsmen predated the Buhari administration. He said: “Something that is disturbing that I have heard…

Thursday, 11 January 2018 03:21

Fayose mobilises hunters, others to resist killer herdsmen

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has raised security teams to defend the people against herdsmen attacks. The security teams, which will work in conjunction with local hunters, are to respond to attacks upon receiving distress calls. The governor raised the alarm that some persons identified as Bororo herdsmen had started making surreptitious moves into Ekiti with plans to kill and maim people in order to rubbish his anti-grazing law. He also raised the alarm that Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had hatched plans to invade the state and arrest government officials in his administration. Fayose spoke at a meeting…

Thursday, 11 January 2018 03:19

NLC, Kaduna govt, police in epic showdown today in Kaduna

Kaduna State Government and the police have warned against the mass protest scheduled for the state capital on Thursday. However, Nigeria Labour Congress has vowed to proceed with the rally called over the sack of workers by the state government. President of the NLC, Mr Ayuba Wabba, on Tuesday said the union would begin a series of actions with the first phase of protests in Kaduna on Thursday to defend rights of affected workers. NLC condemned the sack of teachers and thousands of other workers by the state government. “Having exhausted all processes aimed at constructive engagement with the state…

Thursday, 11 January 2018 03:18

Soldiers loot arms, burn military base in Ivory Coast's second city

Thursday, 11 January 2018 03:13

UI recommends 3,783 out of 56,000 candidates for admission

Funmi Olaitan, Ibadan Three thousand, seven hundred and eighty three candidates have been recommended by authorities of University of Ibadan to Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) for admission for 2017/2018 academic session. This is out of the total 56,172 who chose the premier university for admission through Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE). Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) of the university, Mr Adeyinka Aderinto, who made the disclosure while speaking with journalists in Ibadan, said the admission for 2017/2018 will end in January 2018 while screening of those already issued admission letters will soon commence. He noted…

Wednesday, 10 January 2018 03:03

Buhari blames herdsmen killings on population growth

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday blamed clashes between Muslim cattle herders and Christian farmers on the clamour for land in the face of a population rapidly approaching 200 million people. At least 83 people have been killed in the communal violence since Dec. 31. Muhammadu Buhari, who called for calm, has already ordered a heightened police presence in the central state of Benue, where most of the killings took place in the last few weeks, including the relocation of the country's police chief. Muslim herdsmen, mainly of the Fulani ethnic group, and Christian farmers often clash over the use of…

Wednesday, 10 January 2018 02:58

FG votes N280m as car allowances for Obasanjo, Gowon, IBB, Jonathan, others

Former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Shehu Shagari, Goodluck Jonathan, Yakubu Gowon, Ibrahim Babangida, Abubakar Abdulsalam and Ernest Shonekan have been paid N40 million each as monetisation. The money is part of a proposed N280 million for vehicle procurement, documents from Secretary to the Government of the Federation have shown. The allocation, meant for 2017 fiscal year, was in the documents showing procurements totaling N2.492 billion in the 2017 capital expenditure and earmarked for seven former Presidents and Heads of State. For this year, N2.492 billion capital expenditure is proposed, according to the report submitted by SGF during the 2017/2018 budget defence…

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Wednesday, 10 January 2018 02:55

Oyo set to sign MOU with Chinese govt on healthcare

Funmi Olaitan, Ibadan Oyo State Commissioner for Health, Mr Azeez Adeduntan, on Tuesday, said the state government is already finalizing a plan to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Chinese government on improving the healthcare service delivery in the state. Adeduntan during a ministerial press briefing held at Film Theatre of Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism, said the agreement is to include provision of equipment, facilities and personnel to enhance and improve the efforts of the state government in transforming and repositioning the healthcare service delivery of the people of the state. Present at the briefing are…

Tuesday, 09 January 2018 05:00

FG confirms nine deaths due to yellow fever

A yellow fever outbreak is currently ongoing in Nigeria with nine people confirmed dead from the disease, a report has said. Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, in its situation report on yellow fever in the country released for the first epidemiological week in 2018 said the ailment has so far been confirmed in 12 local government areas across seven states. The states are: Kwara, Kano, Niger, Nasarawa, Kebbi, Kogi and Zamfara. The current outbreak started in Ifelodun Local Government Area in Kwara State with the first case detected in a seven-year-old girl in in September, 2017. The girl had…

Monday, 08 January 2018 04:19

Buhari orders background checks on judge-designates

President Muhammadu Buhari is currently conducting background checks on Federal High Court and Court of Appeal judges nominated and forwarded to him by National Judicial Council last year. It was further learnt that the President might have approved the compulsory retirement of Justices Adeniyi Ademola and Segun Tokode, both of the Federal High Court as recommended by the council. A source in the Presidency, who spoke to our correspondent on Sunday on condition of anonymity, said the two steps were in line with the present administration’s anti-corruption stance. He said although the President believed that NJC would have done due…

Monday, 08 January 2018 04:15

Kogi retires 8 permanent secretaries, sacks 1,774 other workers

Kogi State Government on Sunday confirmed the compulsory retirement of eight permanent secretaries, some directors and dismissal of 1, 774 others from the state civil service. Affected staff were served their letters last December. The letters were signed by the state Head of Service, Mrs Deborah Ogunmola, and Chairman of the state Civil Service Commission, Mr Ado Shaibu. A copy of the retirement letter addressed to one of the affected permanent secretaries indicated that the retirement was “in the interest of the public.” Some of the affected permanent secretaries ssid they were contemplating legal action. However, Mrs Petra Akinti-Onyegbule, Chief…

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