A former Secretary of the Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Temitope Aluko has narrated how former President Goodluck Jonathan gave Governor Ayo Fayose $37m in cash to prosecute the June 21, 2014 governorship election in the state.
Aluko who was a member of Fayose's campaign team alleged that Jonathan gave Fayose $2m in March 2014 for the PDP primary election.
He said that the money was delivered at the NNPC towers,...
Sunday, 31 January 2016
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, Nigeria spent N20.2 trillion to import petrol, diesel and kerosene between January 2010 and September 2015.
Figures jointly compiled by both the NBS and the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA and made available to newsmen show that N12, 529, 746, 397, 978. 48 was spent on the importation of 102,374,588,480.91 litres of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS.
The figures also show that ...
The Central Bank of Nigeria says it wants to provide basic infrastructural needs at Internally Displaced Persons camps
To this end, the CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele has requested the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA to furnish him with details of what the IDP camps need.
CBN Director of Projects and Planning, Mr Kabiru Nuhu Koko disclosed this while receiving a meritorious award from the Northern Youth Network, NYN in Abuja.
Koko...
The government of Borno State, northeast Nigeria has declared that it has concluded plans to resettle 50,000 Internally Displaced Persons in their communities this February.
The state has 200,000 IDPs from 23 of its 27 local governments living in 22 camps in Maiduguri.
News Agency of Nigeria, NAN reports the Executive Chairman of the State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, Malam Satomi Ahmad as saying that; “we are returning IDPs from communities...
The Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees, AUPCTRE is threatening a showdown with the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NiMet over the non implementation of agreement reached between the two parties.
The union issued the ultimatum in Abuja on Friday through a letter it submitted to the Director General of NiMet.
President of the union, Solomon Adelegan, said the ultimatum became...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday called for vigilance among Nigerians, especially in the Northeast so as to help check the activities of insurgents.
He said that Boko Haram terrorists have been sourcing the materials for their Improvised Explosive Devices locally.
The president expressed his embarrassment over the renewed spate of suicide bombings in the Northeast.
He said that recent suicide attacks in Chibok market, Dolari Internally Displaced...
The Federal Government has declared the French language compulsory for students across all levels of education in the country, following its decision to make French the second official language of Nigeria.
To this end, government is embarking on intensive training of French teachers at all levels.
The Minister of State for Education, Prof Anthony Anwukah, announced the policy decision in Abuja on Saturday during a courtesy visit by the French Ambassador...
A survivor of Saturday's Boko Haram attack on Dalori village, near Maiduguri, Borno State has described how the insurgents burnt children alive.
The eyewitness who said he survived the attack by hiding on a tree recounted the heart-rending cries of children burning to their death.
He told the Associated Press that the children could not be rescued because it was only on Sunday morning that soldiers arrived the village.
Other witnesses told stories...
Former Minister of State for Defense, Musiliu Obanikoro is crying blue murder over the mention of his two sons by the EFCC and Sahara Reporters as signatories to the infamous Sylvan McNamara account which was allegedly used to siphon N4.7b from the Office of the National Security Adviser.
Obanikoro has challenged the anti graft agency and the online publication to publish the details of the alleged transaction and the signatories to the said account...
As part of the its $5 billion joint venture agreement with Black Rhino Group, a subsidiary of the Black Stone Group to develop power infrastructure in Africa, Dangote Group plans to establish power plants in Abuja and Kano.
Chairman of the group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote disclosed the plan on Friday at the 38th Convocation lecture of the Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, Zaria.
He said that the plan is intended to boost power generation in the country....
Following the outbreak of lassa fever in Nasarawa State, two people have been confirmed dead at the Dalhatu Specialist Hospital, DASH, in Lafia, the state capital while one person is under observation at the same institution.
The state commissioner for health, Dr Daniel Iya made the disclosure in Lafia at a public hearing organised by the Nasarawa State House of Assembly committee on health.
Dr Iya told the committee that the state had no isolation...
It has been revealed that some of the serving military officers being investigated for their roles in the arms procurement scandal have been allowed to continue to perform their official duties for strategic reasons.
Abujacitynews learnt that the affected officers have been kept in charge of their respective formations in the interest of their rights to fair hearing and innocence until proven guilty.
A military source also said that the decision...
The military has handed over liberated communities in the Northeast of Nigeria, including the 130 kilometers Damaturu /Biu road which it says are now safe for commercial activities and civilian use.
The General Officer Commanding, GOC of 3 Division of Nigeria Army, Brig-Gen. Mohammed Aliyu said that the
liberated communities have been handed over to the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC and other security agencies for their routine...
Saturday, 30 January 2016
Emotions flowed freely on Saturday as thousands of Catholic faithful converged at the Christ the King Church, Enugu to watch fiery priest Rev Fr. Ejike Mbaka move to his new parish at Emene, a satellite town of Enugu.
Thousands of followers of the Adoration Ministries watched in tears as trucks, cars and buses lined up to evacuate the belongings of their beloved priest and ministry out of the premises of the Christ the King Church at Enugu GRA....
The army has issued an alert to the general public that Boko Haram has now resorted to dressing their suicide bombers like lunatics in order to gain easy access to unsuspecting public areas.
Acting director of defence information, Brig. Gen. Rabe Abubakar, issued the warning on Saturday in the aftermath of Friday’s twin bomb blasts at Gombi market, Adamawa state, in which about 15 persons lost their lives.
He said that investigation revealed that...
The year 2016 seems to have become the beginning of a new dawn in the life of Miss Rahma Haruna, born without limbs to the family of Haruna Mohammed of Lahadin Makole community in Dawakin Kudu local government area of Kano State 19 years ago.
For most of her life, Rahma has been carried around the streets of Kano by her brother in a plastic basin to beg for alms for the poor family's sustenance.
Both Rahma and her brother have no education.
Then...
The search for the abducted Chibok girls has assumed a renewed intensity with the Nigerian Air Force more strike sorties on Boko Haram targets.
The Deputy Theatre Commander (Air), Operation Lafiya Dole, Air Vice Marshal Isiaka Oladayo Amao, disclosed this to newsmen at the military's media centre in Maiduguri, Borno State.
His words:
“In continuation of the counter insurgency, the Air Component in the last one month conducted 286 operational sorties...
The prime suspect in the 2010 Independence Day bombings in Abuja, Mr Charles Okah has embarked on a hunger strike to protest his maltreatment by officials of Kuje Prison.
Mr Okah who has been in detention since his arrest in 2010 is threatening to slam a N5b suit for damages against the Federal Government.
In a petition to the Minister of Interior, Abdulraman Dambazau, dated January 21, Okah's counsel, Mr Timi Okponipere alleged that his client...
Brigadier General Atom Kpera, Chairman of the Central Planning Committee for the burial of the late paramount ruler of the Tiv nation, Orchivirigh Alfred Akawe Torkula has assured that no human head will be used in the burial.
Kpera said at a press conference to kick off activities for the late Tor Tiv's burial on Friday that Tiv culture does not prescribe the use of human heads for the burial of its kings.
“The Tiv tradition does not involve burying...
Former governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa has declared that most Nigerians are corrupt, even down to the grassroots.
In fact, his score card says that ninety per cent of Nigerians are corrupt.
In an interview with Vanguard Newspapers, Bafarawa said that Nigerians are lucky that President Buhari is fighting corruption head on and should therefore give him all their support.
Here is an excerpt from ex-Governor Bafarawa's interview...
Friday, 29 January 2016
#PreventLassa: How To Prevent Lassa Fever
By Umar Zubairu Mohammad
Primary transmission of the Lassa virus from its host to humans can be prevented by avoiding contact with Mastomys rodents, especially in the geographic regions where outbreaks occur. Putting food away in rodent- proof containers and keeping the home clean help to discourage rodents from entering homes. Using rodents as a food source is not recommended.
Trapping in and around homes...
An operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has been arrested by the anti graft agency.
The operative, Abdulrahman Mohammed Biu, a Deputy Detective Superintendent was arrested for collecting $150,000 (N45 million) from some military officers under investigation in the infamous arms procurement scam, ostensibly to secure soft landing for them.
According to a statement issued by Wilson Uwujaren, Head of Media and...
Babajide and Gbolahan, sons of former Minister of Defense in the Goodluck Jonathan administration, Mr Musiliu Obanikoro should by now be preparing to explain to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC all they know about the N4.7b transferred into the account of a company in which they are directors from the Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA
It is strongly suspected that the money was used to prosecute the governorship elections...
The tribunal set up to hear complaints from parties to the recently concluded governorship election in Kogi State has been moved to Abuja.
The relocation was on the orders of the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachua.
The three man tribunal comprising Justice Halima Mohammed (Chairperson), Justice Patricia Ajoku and Justice Ogbogo Ejembi, commenced had been sitting in Lokoja before the relocation order which was announced by...
President Muhammadu Buhari has called for the acceleration of economic integration of African countries and the intensification of intra-African trade.
Buhari made the call on Thursday in Kenya at a dinner organized to mark the end of his state visit to that country.
According to a statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, Buhari said that the expansion of trade in the past few...
Three armed robbers on Friday met their Waterloo at Orunu junction in Ofu Local Government Area of Kogi State in the hands of the youth of the community.
A gang of five armed robbers was said to have in recent times been terrorizing commuters along the motorway passing through the community.
An eyewitness to the lynching said that the robbers had as usual mounted their nefarious operation, oblivious that the youth of the area had decided to end...
No fewer than 15 persons were killed this Friday when twin bomb blasts rocked the popular Gombi grains market in Adamawa State.
The blasts reportedly happened in the afternoon when activities at the market were in full swing.
An eyewitness said that two male suicide bombers carried out the attack.
He disclosed that a third suicide bomber was apprehended by the youth of the community before he could detonate his device. The suspect then disclosed...
The Supreme Court of Nigeria sitting in Abuja this Friday, unanimously sacked two Senators and a member of the Federal House of Representatives from Anambra State.
The decision affected Stella Odua representing Anambra North Senatorial Zone and Andy Uba representing Anambra South.
With the apex court's ruling, Chris Uba is expected to take over the seat vacated by his elder brother Andy Uba in the Senate while Prince Emeka takes over from Stella...
Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan nathan has said that the progress being recorded by the present administration in the war against Boko Haram is on built on the solid foundation that he left behind.
He said that the Buhari administration has not procurement any weapons but has been relying on the equipment he bought to prosecute its counter-insurgency operations.
Jonathan told Paris based France 24 on Wednesday that he laid the groundwork for the...
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State yesterday announced the immediate suspension of Alhaji Ibrahim Danladi, the traditional ruler of
Goma village in Gimi District of Danga Local Government Area of the state.
The village head was allegedly found in possession of 1.5kg of cannabis otherwise known as Indian hemp by men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA on January 20, 2016.
The suspension was announced through a statement issued...
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