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Saturday, 01 July 2017 02:59

Nigeria will only move forward with Godly leaders - Cleric

Funmi Olaitan, Ibadan A cleric, Rev. Fr. Vincent Anadi, has warned that the country can only move forward when it has Godly leaders that will inculcate and leave good legacies for the youths to emulate. Anadi who is of the Catholic Diocese of Ondo, gave the charge in Ibadan, while delivering a lecture titled, "Leadership and nation building: The Nehemiah's approach", at the 2017 Zonal Annual Development Conference of the Christian Rural and Urban Development Association of Nigeria (CRUDAN). According to him, the country presently is lacking the type of the much needed patriotic leaders that are determined to put…

Friday, 30 June 2017 04:24

Osinbajo appoints 14 INEC RECs

Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has approved the appointment of 14 new Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) for Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Director of Press, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF), Mr Bolaji Adebiyi, made this known in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. While 13 of the new appointees were on their first term, Hussaini Halilu Pai of the FCT was re-appointed. The new appointees are: Godwill Obioma (Abia), James Lorliam Apam (Benue), Nwachukwu Orji (Ebonyi), Iloh Joseph Valentine Chuks (Enugu), Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda (Plateau), Umar Ibrahim (Taraba) and Emeka Ononamadu Joseph (Imo). Others…

Friday, 30 June 2017 04:15

Trump travel ban takes effect but less chaos expected

A scaled-back version of President Donald Trump's travel ban took effect Thursday evening, stripped of provisions that brought protests and chaos at airports worldwide in January yet still likely to generate a new round of court fights. The new rules, the product of months of legal wrangling, aren't so much an outright ban as a tightening of already-tough visa policies affecting citizens from six Muslim-majority countries. Refugees are covered, too. Administration officials promised that implementation this time, which started at 8 p.m. EDT (0000 GMT), would be orderly. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Dan Hetlage said his agency expected "business…

Friday, 30 June 2017 04:14

Donald Trump hosts two Chibok girls

U.S. President, Donald Trump, and his daughter, Ivanka, met with two Chibok girls, Joy Bishara and Lydia Pogu on June 27 at the White House. Bishara, 20, and Pogu, 19 were among 57 girls who escaped from Boko Haram in Borno by jumping off the back of a truck in 2014. The 57 were among over 270 kidnapped from their secondarily school in Chibok, Borno State on April 14, 2014. The incident sparked global outrage with a campaign hashtag of #bringbackourgirls calling for rescue of the girls. Majority of the girls have since been freed by the terror group in…

Friday, 30 June 2017 04:11

UK deports another batch of Nigerians

United Kingdom on Thursday deported 28 Nigerians for committing immigration-related offences in the country. The Nigerians were sent back home barely 48 hours after 23 Nigerians were deported from Spain and five days after another batch of 34 were jointly deported by the governments of Switzerland, Germany, Iceland, Austria, Belgium and Hungary. The latest batch of deportees arrived Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos at about 12.13 p.m. Mr Joseph Alabi, spokesperson of Lagos Airport Police Command, confirmed the development. Alabi said the deportees, comprising 21 males and seven females, were brought back aboard a chartered Titanic Airways aircraft with…

Friday, 30 June 2017 04:07

Mimiko charges govt over medical tourism

Funmi Olaitan, Ibadan Former Ondo State governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, has charged leaders in the country to develop the political will to stop people from travelling abroad for medical treatment. Mimiko who spoke on Thursday at the 51st Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference of the International College of Surgeons, Nigeria National Section, held at University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, said medical tourism is a clear message to the government at all levels that there is a need to develop every sector of the economy. According to him, despite the fact that Nigeria had celebrated medical doctors all over the…

Thursday, 29 June 2017 18:08

Parked presidential aircraft in London waiting on Buhari - Presidency

Nigeria’s Presidency has responded to criticisms that NAF 001, the plane that took President Muhammadu Buhari to London on 7 May is piling up parking bills at the rate of £4,000 per day. Spokesman, Mr Garba Shehu said the critics have demonstrated ignorance of protocol that surrounds a president’s visit abroad and that contrary to computations by the critics, the plane enjoys some waivers from the British aviation authorities. Where waivers are not granted, payment for parking is not more than £1,000, “which is a quarter of the amount being peddled.” Here is the Full statement: The Presidency is constrained…

Thursday, 29 June 2017 18:03

NASS to seek special dollar exchange rate for pilgrims – Rep

The National Assembly will seek special dollar exchange rate for both Christian and Muslim pilgrims, a member of the House of Representatives (APC-Sokoto), Mr Balarabe Salame, has said. Salame, who is also Chairman, House of Representatives Special Committee on Nigerian-Saudi Arabian on Hajj, made the disclosure on Thursday in Sokoto. He spoke at the maiden edition of the Stewardship Forum organised for both the state and national lawmakers by the state Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in collaboration with All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. The lawmaker said: “The gesture is to lessen the sufferings of prospective…

Thursday, 29 June 2017 04:40

Osinbajo appoints 14 heads of tertiary health institutions

Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, has approved the appointment of 14 Chief Medical Directors and Medical Directors in Federal Teaching Hospitals, Federal Medical Centres and Specialty Hospitals in Nigeria. This was disclosed in an approval letter signed by Deputy Chief of Staff to the Acting President and addressed to the Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole. According to a press statement by the ministry, the appointments take immediate effect for a four-year tenure and are in two categories. Five of the appointees will be serving their second and final term. It was reported earlier this year that about 20 of the 52…

Thursday, 29 June 2017 04:32

Security agencies search ex-VP Namadi Sambo’s house

Heavily armed security operatives on Wednesday raided the residence of a former vice president, Namadi Sambo, in Kaduna. The operatives are believed to have come from State Security Service, SSS, and Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC. An ICPC operative in the North-West zonal office of the agency in Kaduna, confirmed the raid to our reporter. “Yes, we carried out a raid of the former Vice President Sambo’s house around 3:00pm today (Wednesday) with other agencies,” the operative said but declined to give further details because he has no official permission to speak to journalists. “You can…

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Thursday, 29 June 2017 04:29

New AIDS drug set for roll out in Nigeria

Unitaid is to roll out a generic version of the latest AIDS drug that can improve and prolong the lives of tens of thousands of people who suffer severe side effects and resistance to other treatments in Nigeria. Unitaid, a global health initiative, said a generic of Dolutegravir (DTG), first approved in the U.S. in 2013, is being given to 20,000 patients in Kenya before being rolled out in Nigeria and Uganda later in the year. DTG is the drug of choice for people with HIV in high-income countries who have never taken antiretroviral therapy before and for those who…

Thursday, 29 June 2017 04:27

Ekweremadu mourns Taraba ex-gov, Suntai

Deputy President of the Senate, Mr Ike Ekweremadu, has described the death of the former Governor of Taraba, Mr Danbaba Suntai, as a great loss to the nation. Ekweremadu made this known in a statement by his Special Adviser, Mr Uche Anichukwu, on Wednesday in Abuja. He said that Suntai gave a good account of himself as a politician, public administrator and party man. He said: ”This is an incalculable loss not only to the people of Taraba, but to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) family, and the nation. ”We had all prayed for his full recovery following the air…

Thursday, 29 June 2017 04:23

Pope gives prestigious red hats to 5 new cardinals

Pope Francis gave the Catholic church five new cardinals Wednesday, somberly instructing them to act as servants and not "princes" in a world where innocents are dying from wars and terrorism, slavery persists and refugee camps often are living hells. Reflecting Francis' attention to the poor, three of the five cardinals hail from developing nations and regions: Bishop Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun of Laos; Bamako Archbishop Jean Zerbo of Mali; and Monsignor Gregorio Rosa Chavez, who continued working as a parish priest while serving as San Salvador's auxiliary bishop. The other two elevated churchmen are Barcelona, Spain, Archbishop Juan Jose Omella,…

Thursday, 29 June 2017 04:19

Widows of executed Ogoni activists seek Shell apology, compensation

Widows of four of nine men executed by Nigeria's military regime in 1995 have filed a civil lawsuit seeking compensation and an apology from Royal Dutch Shell for alleged complicity in a military crackdown, according to a writ filed in a court in The Hague. The Nigerian military cracked down heavily on local opposition to oil production by a Shell joint venture in the Niger Delta in the early 1990s. The four widows allege that Shell provided support to the military in the crackdown that ultimately led to the executions of the men, known as the Ogoni 9. Shell, the…

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