President Muhammadu Buhari in his new year message said that living in Aso Rock Villa has not insulated him from the sufferings of Nigerians.
Read the President's new year message below.
“Welcome to the beginning of a New Year of the continuation of change in our beloved nation. I am aware that Nigerians have experienced a number of significant hardships over the past months. Living in the State House has not alienated me from your daily sufferings....
Thursday, 31 December 2015
After consultations with security agencies, the government of Borno State has imposed immediate restrictions on vehicular movements in Maiduguri and its environs.
The commissioner for Home Affairs, Information and Culture, Dr. Mohammed Bulama said the restriction will take effect from 5:00pm on December 31 and ends at 6:00am Saturday, January 2, 2016.
According to a statement issued by Dr Bulama on Thursday,
“The measure becomes necessary in order to further safeguard lives and property of law abiding citizens...
After days of altercation in which abusive words were used, pop star Davido has apologized to Ovation publisher and uncle of his baby mama, Dele Momodu.
Here's what he tweeted.
“MR . DELE MOMODU I APOLOGIZE BUT …U DIDN'T HAVE TO”
“ALL THESE LIES BEING PUT ON ME … NO BE TODAY … I HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY BUT IN RESPECT FOR MY DAUGHTER I WILL KEEP QUIET … I APOLOGIZ .”
“THE TRUTH WILL COME OUT! EVEN IF I DON’T KEEP HER , SHE WILL GROW UP TO KNOW...
Following the alleged unsuccessful attempt by the Adeleke family to smuggle baby
Aurora Imade Adeleke out of the country without her mother's consent, the Momodu family has petitioned the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP seeking the agency's protection for the infant girl.
Given this new twist, the battle of the Adelekes and the Momodus could be taking place on two fronts, Lagos and Abuja.
See the full text...
Former National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki is ill and could die in detention if not given the needed medical attention.
A desperate Mrs Dasuki is reported to have created a scene at the Abuja headquarters of the DSS on Tuesday as she begged the security agency not to let her husband die in their custody.
She was said to have waited with family members to perfect the last part of his bail conditions, a surety with a N250 million property...
The government of the United States of America has reaffirmed its commitment to help Nigeria and her neighbors affected by Boko Haram terrorism to counter the menace.
The US embassy said in a statement issued in Abuja yesterday that a lot needed to be done for Nigeria and her neighbors to enjoy peace.
“The United States remains committed to helping Nigeria and its neighbours counter Boko Haram’s senseless acts of terror.
“Despite much progress...
Wednesday, 30 December 2015
The Body of People's Democratic Party, PDP National Vice Chairmen rose from a meeting in Abuja on Tuesday, December 29 to declare that any member of the party convicted in the ongoing war against corruption will face disciplinary action.
In a communique signed by the
Secretary Body of PDP Vice Chairmen, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, after the meeting, the party dissociated itself from corrupt practices while it was in power.
The PDP also called on Buhari...
Those who committed serious crimes against the state cannot be allowed to enjoy freedom, says President Muhammadu Buhari.
This according to him justifies the continued detention of the former National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki and founder of Radio Biafra, Mr Nnamdi Kanu despite the bail granted them by courts of competent jurisdiction.
Speaking at his maiden Presidential Media Chat on Wednesday, Buhari said that given the seriousness...
President Muhammadu Buhari has defended the integrity of his 36 ministers.
At his maiden Presidential media chat in Abuja on Wednesday, Buhari said that none of his ministers has a corruption case in any court.
“I don’t think I tolerate corruption, I don’t think I picked anybody that I know will embarrass my government. But if you have any evidence about any of my ministers, I accept responsibility for the 36 ministers that I have.
“I don’t think...
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that if Boko Haram continues to use women for suicide bombings, he would be forced to ban the use of hijab by Muslim women in the country.
Buhari made the declaration in Abuja during his maiden Presidential Media Chat.
"Hijab would have to be banned if suicide bombing continues, " he said.
...
Following the outrage that greeted his alleged hate speech against the Yola Fulani tribe, the Secretary to the Government of Adamawa State, Dr Umar Bindir has tendered his apologies.
Bindir told newsmen in Yola on Wednesday that the audio of the supposed hate speech which has gone viral on YouTube was doctored to discredit him.
He said that the alleged audio speech was made during a courtesy call on him by the Adamawa State branch of Nigeria Society of Engineers where he attributed the lack of development in Yola to the pettiness of the...
The People's Democratic Party, PDP has denounced the new prices of petrol announced by the Federal Government as a continuation of the ruling APC's government by deception.
A statement released by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh on Wednesday said that apart from being deceptive, the new pump prices of N86 and N86.5 for NNPC retail outlets and private retail outlets respectively offer no significant difference from...
The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB has dismissed as false, the reported apology by the founder of Radio Biafra and leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu to President Buhari and some other Nigerian leaders.
Leader of MASSOB, Mr Uchenna Madu said in a statement he issued on Wednesday that the story of Kanu's apology is totally false and a calculated attempt by agents of the Federal Government to discredit, disorganize...
Governor Jibrilla Bindow of Adamawa State has thrown more light on the N500 million allegedly given to him by ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar during the campaigns for the 2015 general elections.
It wasn't me
In a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Press and Media Affairs , Martins Dickson, on Tuesday, December 29, 2015, Bindow noted that Atiku did not give the money to him but to the APC in Adamawa state.
See the statement below.
“It...
Radio Biafra Director and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu has reportedly apologized to President Muhammadu Buhari, former President Goodluck Jonathan and some Igbo elders for uncomplimentary remarks he made about them.
Kanu reportedly tendered the apology in a statement he made to the Department of State Services, DSS on 23 October 2015, with a promise to write a formal letter to the President.
See Kanu's unreserved...
The captain of Nasarawa United Football Club, Baba Idris passed away on Monday after a brief illness.
Club officials said that the central defender died of typhoid fever.
Idris who helped Nasarawa United finish third in the Nigerian Premier League last season will be sorely missed, especially as the club will be campaigning in the 2016 CAF Confederation Cup competition.
...
The People's Democratic Party, PDP has described the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC's plan to borrow N1.84 trillion in the 2016 fiscal year as a ploy to pay off its huge campaign debt and fund its political war chest.
According to the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh who spoke with pressmen in Abuja on Tuesday, the planned N1.84 trillion naira loan translates to borrowing N5b daily, beginning from January 1 to December...
“I cannot imagine someone being responsible for monumental deaths of our citizens and then going scot-free arising from plea-bargain as a policy.
“It has never been the policy of the government to make compromises on terrorism and financial crimes. It will never be tolerated by the office of the AGF.
“It is tragic for a nation to have a budget meant for arms procurement for the protection of lives and property of the citizens, and end up not having...
Tuesday, 29 December 2015
Following the threat by the Chris Giwa faction of Nigeria football stakeholders to forcefully take over the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF Secretariat on 16 January 2016 and sack the Amaju Pinnick faction, Minister of Youths and Sports, Mr Solomon Dalung has warned them not to go anywhere near the Abuja Glass House.
In a statement issued yesterday by his SA (Media), Nneka Ikem Anibeze, the minister warned ;
“It has come to my knowledge once again,...
The Kaduna State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC has upheld the suspension of Senator Shehu Sani who represents Kaduna Central constituency.
According to the State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Salisu Tanko-Wusono, the Senator is to remain suspended from the party's activities for 11 months for offences against the party.
His words :
“We hereby uphold the suspension of Comrade (Senator) Shehu Sani as a member of the party...
Leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Ayatollah Ibraheem El-Zakzaky was on Wednesday remanded in prison custody by a Kaduna Chief Magistrate Court.
He was arraigned with some of his followers on charges bordering on criminal conspiracy and inciting public disturbances.
Confirming Zakzaky’s arraignment and subsequent remand, Police spokesman, Olabisi Kolawole said;
“The Shi’ite leader has been arraigned at a magistrates’ court and charged with...
The presidency is to acquire a fleet of exotic BMW cars in 2016, according to the budget proposal now before the National Assembly.
The BMW saloon cars for principal officers are estimated at N3,630,000,000, going by the 2016 budget for the Presidency. The number of the cars is not specified.
N189.1m is voted for tyres for various vehicles, including the bulletproof and plain Mercedes Benz cars being used in the Presidency.
The expenditure on tyres is to cover other types of vehicles, including Toyota cars, trucks, Land Cruiser Sport Utility Vehicles...
Senator Shehu Sani representing Kaduna Central was recently suspended for 11 months by his Tudun Wada North, Ward 6 of APC for anti party activities.
Read his reaction in this statement by his Special Assistant on Politics and ideology, Mallam Suleiman Ahmed.
“The senator will continuously criticise any (government) policy that is anti-people up to the end of (his tenure in) the Senate and beyond.
“So if you feel that the senator should not criticise...
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC is threatening the Federal Government with fire and brimstone over what it perceives as plans to remove fuel subsidy through the backdoor.
Read the statement signed by the General Secretary of the NLC, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson.
“In the past few weeks, we have heard discordant tunes from government officials and chieftains of the ruling APC on what the future portends for the prices of petroleum products and the management...
Prominent Islamic scholar, Sheikh (Dr.) Ahmad Abubakar Gumi has accused the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, aka, Shi’ites , Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky of running a parallel government in parts of the North in the last 40 years.
Sheikh Gumi told newsmen in Kaduna on Tuesday that the Shi’ites have been ‘’operating a state within a state’’ by conducting military trainings and producing cadets and soldiers.
‘’The Islamic Movement of Nigeria...
The government of President Muhammadu Buhari is doing everything possible to ensure the safe return of the missing Chibok girls.
Boko Haram terrorists abducted over 200 girls from Government Secondary School, Chibok in April 2014.
Speaking to members of the #BringBackOurGirls group in his office in Abuja on Tuesday, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami described the abduction of the girls as “tormenting...
President Muhammadu Buhari will hold his first Presidential Media Chat on Wednesday, December 30, 2015.
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adeshina said in a statement that the media chat will be live on the network services of the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA and the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN.
President Buhari is expected to answer questions from a panel of journalists on a broad range of burning...
Vigilant youths in Mubi, Adamawa State on Tuesday arrested a truck driver as he tried to divert 600 bags of fertilizer loaded from a government-owned warehouse.
An eyewitness, Mallam Yusuf Mohammed told News Agency of Nigeria, NAN that the fertilizer was loaded from a warehouse along Maiha road.
“When we accosted the driver, he said he was directed to take the commodity to Gombe. There and then, we realised that something was wrong.
“We held the vehicle and invited the police who took the suspects and the loaded trailer to the Mubi South Police...
The King of Yorubas in Abuja, Oba Olusegun Salau has cautioned his kinsmen against expelling the Fulanis from the South West, despite the insecurity associated with their activities in the region..
Oba Salau told journalists in Abuja that all the Yoruba Obas in the 19 northern states have taken a position that the Fulanis should not be ejected because, “they have nowhere else to go other than where they find themselves today.”
His words:
“All the...
The Senator representing Nasarawa West, Mr Abdullahi Adamu has reaffirmed the determination of President Muhammadu Buhari to diversify the economy.
The APC Senator told News Agency of Nigeria, NAN in Abuja on Monday that the Buhari administration has said it severally that the country could no longer depend solely on oil and gas for sustenance. .
His words:
“Oil and gas have tended, over time, to spoil us. People have got used to easy money but...
Senator Shehu Sani of the All Progressives Congress, APC has adopted 60 orphans from the Adonai Orphanage home in Kaduna.
Sani who represents Kaduna Central in the Senate will also pay the bills of two students from the orphanage to pursue tertiary education in China.
His words ;
“We owe it to them; to support them and make their lives useful and beneficial to the society.
“And what we can do is to give their lives hope, and to make it possible...
Monday, 28 December 2015
A major disaster was averted on Sunday when soldiers on counter-insurgency operation gunned down 14 female suicide bombers intent on entering Maiduguri to wreak havoc.
Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, Major General Yushau Abubakar yesterday told reporters that the suicide bombers aged between 12 and 18 years wanted to make their way to the heart of the city to detonate their devices.
“The female suicide bombers of ages between 12 and 18...
The Nigerian Army has confirmed that two female suicide bombers detonated their Improvised Explosive Devices in Madagali village, Adamawa State on Monday.
According to Brig.-Gen Victor Ezugwu, Brigade Commander, 28 Task Force Brigade, Mubi,
“Two female suicide bombers struck at a motor park in Madagali and detonated their devices and we lost some beloved country men."
He did not disclose the casualty figures.
However, eyewitnesses told News...
Those who conspired to steal and share funds meant for the procurement of arms for the military will be duly prosecuted and jailed in accordance with the enabling laws.
Speaking with the BBC Hausa Service on Monday, Buhari said that recovery of stolen funds is one of the ways he intends to finance the 2016 budget.
“That is why those who stole monies meant for arms procurement and shared it among themselves are being arrested and are being shown...
Comedian Basketmouth hasn't been cool with his old friend Freeze this year. Here's what he said about him at a show recently.
“ There’s this former Cool FM presenter here, Freeze. I see am for red carpet, where him dey
“ Make una nor dey deceived by this guy’s fair skin o. Nor be oyinbo o, na eczema cause am o. Freeze my guy, your wife nor beat you today? ”
Here's how Freeze responded to Basketmouth's jibe on Instagram.
“ #PutAJokeInTheBasket...
Contrary to stories in the media that insurgents attacked the outskirts of Maiduguri on Sunday, the Nigerian Army says that its men intercepted ten Boko Haram fighters on a suicide mission as they attempted to enter the city.
Media Coordinator of Operation Lafiya Dole, Col. Mustapha Anka said this in a statement he issued on Monday.
“This evening – 27-12-2015 – troops of Operation Lafiya Dole, intercepted and destroyed 10 suspected Boko Haram suicide...
Here is what former President Shehu Shagari's Special Adviser on National Assembly Matters, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai told Vanguard over the weekend when he was asked if Buhari could take Nigeria to the promised land.
"Everybody in Nigeria now is crying that life is very difficult. By this time last year, life was not as it is today and from my prediction, we would continue to suffer through the coming year, 2016, 2017 and probably...
Sunday, 27 December 2015
Contrary to speculations that he has been having conspiratorial meetings in Dubai against President Muhammadu Buhari, former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has declared that he is in that city only to massage his injured knee and relax with his family.
He described stories linking him with conspiracy against Buhari as the handiwork of “political mischief makers and enemies of unity.”
In a statement by his media office in Abuja on Sunday and signed by his Media Adviser, Mr Paul Ibe, Atiku said he was embarrassed by the deliberate falsehoods...
In 2016, Nigeria will rely on 75% of imported fuel while 25‰ will be produced locally.
The Group Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC and Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, disclosed this on Sunday during his tour of Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company, KRPC.
His words :
“The future is that, Nigeria is still going to import fuel in 2016 and beyond. Best case situation is 25 per cent local and 75...
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