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Wednesday, 02 August 2017 04:03

Service chiefs comply with Osinbajo's directive, arrive Maiduguri

Service chiefs and director of Defense Intelligence, with the exception of Chief of Naval Staff, arrived Maiduguri yesterday in compliance with the presidential directive for them to relocate to the Northeast to restrategize towards successfully checking the upswing in Boko Haram insurgency. After a 4-hour closed-door meeting by the Defense, Army and Air Force chiefs with Commander and officers of Operation Lafiya Dole, Director of Defense Information, Maj. Gen. John Enenche, said the service chiefs’ arrival in Maiduguri was the decisive launch pad for the renewed war against Boko Haram terrorism by Nigerian military. The Defense spokesman said during their…

Wednesday, 02 August 2017 04:01

Animosity among Nigeria’s security agencies hampering fight against Boko Haram – U.S.

Animosity between Nigeria’s security agencies and their unwillingness to share intelligence are hampering efforts at effectively combating Boko Haram insurgency in the country’s North-east, United States government has stated. It stated this in the Country Report on Terrorism 2016 published by the US Department of State’s Bureau for Counterterrorism and Countering Violent Extremism. For instance, the report said the failure of State Security Services, SSS, which is primarily saddled with investigating cases of terrorism, to share information with Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, makes it hard to investigate terrorist financing. “While Nigerian military had primary responsibility for combating terrorism…

Wednesday, 02 August 2017 03:56

No National ID number, no passport from 2018 — NIS

Nigeria Immigration Service says from January 1, 2018, anybody without the National Identification Number, issued by the National Identity Management Commission, will not be able to procure Nigerian passport. It added that the condition applied to both first-time applicants and those renewing their expired document. Comptroller-General of the NIS, Mr. Mohammed Babandede, disclosed this to State House correspondents after a meeting of database harmonisation committee at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday. Babandede said the decision was taken as part of the Federal Government’s efforts to ease the process of doing business in the country. He said thenceforth, there would…

Wednesday, 02 August 2017 03:51

Akeredolu nominates 18 as commissioners

After several weeks of anxiety, Ondo State Governor, Mr Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, Tuesday forwarded a list comprising names of 18 nominees as commissioners to the speaker of the state House of Assembly for confirmation. Explaining the governor’s action in a statement, his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Segun Ajiboye, in Akure, the state capital, it said each of the commissioners would represent his or her local government of origin in the cabinet to be constituted by the governor. The appointment of the commissioner-nominees, according to the statement, is in accordance with section 192 of the 1999 constitution (as amended). The nominees are…

Wednesday, 02 August 2017 03:50

UNIPORT expels six students, suspends seven workers

Senate of University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT, on Tuesday announced expulsion of six students of the institution for various offences. An official bulletin of the university stated that the offences included examination malpractice and incitement. According to the bulletin, the decision to expel the students was taken at the 432nd Senate Meeting of the university held last Thursday. It further disclosed that a male postgraduate student of the Department of Educational Management was rusticated for allegedly damaging the image of the university. “The student was also rusticated for incitement against a staff for enforcing the no-hawking policy of the institution.…

Tuesday, 01 August 2017 04:46

Aso Rock Villa staff put on standby for Buhari’s return

All is now set for President Muhammadu Buhari’s return from United Kingdom as State House staff have been put on standby. Some family members of the president and his wife’s security aides arrived Abuja yesterday. An aide to the wife of the president hinted that Mrs Aisha Buhari might also return to Nigeria Wednesday. President Buhari has been in the United Kingdom since May 7 undergoing treatment for an undisclosed ailment. Mrs Buhari’s aide said: “The information just reached me now from the wife of the president, that everything is set for the return of Mr President to Nigeria. Already,…

Tuesday, 01 August 2017 04:44

CAN’s message to Buhari "touching and thoughtful" - Presidency

The Presidency has described as “touching and thoughtful,” a message received from Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, expressing joy at the news of President Muhammadu Buhari’s recovery from illness. In a statement in Abuja on Monday, Mr Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, confirmed that the president received the goodwill message from CAN President, Samson Ayokunle. “CAN President referred to the news of President Buhari’s recovery from sickness as a ‘rejuvenation of hope’, and congratulated Nigerians on the joy of having their President back soon,” he said. Shehu added that such messages of…

Tuesday, 01 August 2017 04:40

Trouble looms as N’Delta leaders give ultimatum on 16-point agenda

Resurgence of hostilities in Niger Delta became palpable Monday as Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), a coalition of elders and leaders of the region, asked the federal government to meet its 16-point agenda by November 1, 2017, or risk its withdrawal from ongoing negotiations that had calmed nerves in the oil-rich zone in the last one year. The forum also expressed regrets over National Assembly’s rejection of the constitution amendment bill on the devolution of powers from the federal government to the states, saying it was antagonistic to the interest of Niger Delta. Niger Delta leaders spoke at a press…

Tuesday, 01 August 2017 04:38

Lagos-Ibadan road: Falae, Afenifere, YCE, others slam FG, National Assembly

Yoruba Council of Elders, pan Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, and a youth organisation, Yoruba Socio-Cultural Association have blamed the executive arm of government and the National Assembly for the suspension of work on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Reynolds Construction Company Nigeria Limited, which handles the expansion of Section II of the Lagos-Ibadan highway, in a letter dated June 2, 2017, called the attention of Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, to the worsening financial obligations to the project. It stated that the letter was a notice of its intention to suspend work on the project over an N8.9bn…

Tuesday, 01 August 2017 04:32

Trump fires communications director Scaramucci in new White House upheaval

U.S. President Donald Trump ousted recently hired White House communications chief Anthony Scaramucci on Monday over an obscene tirade, sources familiar with the decision said, in the latest staff upheaval for the six-month-old administration. The move, coming just 10 days after the Republican president named Scaramucci to the post, took place on the first day of work for Trump's new chief of staff, retired Marine Corps General John Kelly, who sources said was seeking to impose order on a White House riven with factions and backbiting. "There's a new sheriff in town," said Barry Bennett, a former Trump campaign adviser.…

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Tuesday, 01 August 2017 04:31

Venezuelan leader defiant as US imposes sanctions on him

President Nicolas Maduro claimed a popular mandate Monday to dramatically recast Venezuela's political system, dismissing U.S. sanctions imposed on him and condemnations by his domestic opponents and governments around the world. Washington added Maduro to a steadily growing list of high-ranking Venezuelan officials targeted by financial sanctions, escalating a tactic that has so far failed to alter his socialist government's behavior. For the moment Trump administration did not deliver on threats to sanction Venezuela's oil industry, which could undermine Maduro's government but raise U.S. gas prices and deepen the humanitarian crisis here. The sanctions came after electoral authorities said more…

Tuesday, 01 August 2017 04:21

Immigration Service to recruit 1,112 officers

Nigeria Immigration Service is in the process of hiring 1,112 officers in its ongoing recruitment drive, Comptroller General of the service, Muhammad Babandede has said. The recruitment exercise is the first since 2014 when a similar exercise was mired by controversy following a stampede that killed many applicants. Speaking in an interview on Monday, the comptroller general said the current recruitment drive is meant to fill the shortfall of slots left after the service had absorbed 888 of 2,000 officers engaged in May 2015 that were later disengaged in August of the same year. The current recruitment exercise, announced in…

Monday, 31 July 2017 03:47

Boko Haram: ASUU threatens strike, PDP, NLC, others knock FG

Peoples Democratic Party, Nigeria Labour Congress and civil rights groups, on Sunday, lashed out at the Federal Government for the killing of lecturers and oil workers on their way to the Lake Chad Basin by the Boko Haram sect. Also, Academic Staff Union of Universities has threatened to “call out” its members if its abducted members in University of Maiduguri are not freed. At least 48 people, including five lecturers of UNIMAID, about 15 soldiers, 11 members of Civilian Joint Task Force and workers of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, were killed on Thursday on their way to prospect for crude…

Monday, 31 July 2017 03:45

FG scaling up Boko Haram fight, seeking abducted oil workers

The federal government has scaled up its military response to the Boko Haram insurgency and will secure the northeast, acting president's spokesman said on Sunday, adding that the search for oil workers abducted by suspected members of the jihadist group will go on. Members of an oil prospecting team were kidnapped in the northeast's restive Lake Chad Basin region on Tuesday, prompting a rescue bid that left at least 37 dead including members of the team, rescuers from the military and vigilantes, officials say. Three kidnapped members of the oil team later appeared in a video on Saturday. The insurgency…

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