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Friday, 24 February 2017 02:30

Herdsmen, hunters in shootout in Ekiti

Tension raged in Ipao Ekiti in Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State on Wednesday night, as some local hunters engaged Fulani herdsmen in a shootout over attempts to dislodge the cattle rearers from their land. Two persons were last year May 20 killed and several wounded by suspected gun-wielding herdsmen over alleged plan to take over a portion of the land in Oke Ako, a neighbouring town to Ipao. The development culminated in the enactment of the anti-grazing law by Governor Ayodele Fayose-led government, which pegged grazing time to between 6a.m. and 6p.m. A source from the community confirmed…

Friday, 24 February 2017 02:27

Brazil's sexy Carnival puts Pentecostal mayor in tight spot

While campaigning last year to become Rio de Janeiro's mayor, Marcelo Crivella, a retired Pentecostal bishop, insisted his faith would not get in the way of governing the nation's most famous city. The former gospel singer and missionary, a high-profile member of one of Brazil's most powerful evangelical churches, captured 59 percent of the vote and took office Jan. 1. But less than two months into his four-year term, Crivella's promises are about to be tested by Carnival, Rio's annual weeklong party often marked by heavy drinking and drug use, wild sex and round-the-clock dancing. The mayor's office signaled this…

Friday, 24 February 2017 02:22

Mother, four children die as fire consumes home

A woman and her four children were killed by a midnight fire at Malam Inna quarters in Gombe, the Gombe State capital. The victims – a housewife, her infant child, and three stepchildren – were asleep when the fire started, witnesses said. The fire is believed to have started at about 3 a.m. when electricity supply was restored to the area. Witnesses said the family was trapped in the house, which has only one entrance and whose windows have metal bars attached to prevent a break in. A PREMIUM TIMES reporter who visited the area on Thursday, reports that officials…

Thursday, 23 February 2017 18:02

What did Buhari actually say in phone call with Ganduje?

Our BBC Hausa colleague Halima Umar has sent through a translation of the phone conversation between Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and the governor of Kano state, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. It was the first time the president's voice has been heard in public since he left for the UK more than a month ago on extended medical leave. Here's how their conversation, which was put on speakerphone and played live to the audience at a prayer meeting in the northern city of Kano, went: Kano Governor: How is your health, sir? Pres Buhari: Glory be to God, I am feeling better.…

Thursday, 23 February 2017 17:53

Nigerian student protesters demand South Africans leave the country

Nigerian protesters on Thursday demanded that South African citizens and businesses leave the country and vandalised the head office of mobile phone giant MTN in Abuja in retaliation for anti-Nigerian violence in South Africa. National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS) said it had given South Africans 48 hours to get out otherwise the attacks would continue and the vandalisation of MTN's offices would be just the beginning. Nigeria and South Africa, the continent's two largest economies and pre-eminent diplomatic and military powers, have a volatile relationship. The students' threats follow the looting this week of at least 20 small businesses…

Thursday, 23 February 2017 17:50

Senate to police: Evacuate beggars, prostitutes from FCT

The Senate on Thursday said it has mandated the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Commissioner and Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to evacuate beggars, hoodlums and commercial sex workers from the streets of the FCT. Chairman, Senate Committee on FCT, Senator Dino Melaye, stated this at a media briefing in Abuja. Melaye said his committee invited the police commissioner and NSCDC commandant to brief them about the growing insecurity in the FCT and the need to take steps to curb the trend. He noted that the Senate as an institution is unhappy with the security…

Thursday, 23 February 2017 17:46

MMM issues notice to investors

Ponzi scheme, Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox (MMM) is at again, announcing it will freeze some Mavros of its participants. It said it has also introduced new measures to ‘serve them better’. The information was forwarded on Wednesday to members of the ponzi scheme. MMM said it planned to launch the new rules which will “stop the growth of confirmed Mavros acquired before the 1st of January 2017’’. It will also freeze the bonuses received before the 1st of January 2017 so that limited withdrawal of Mavro-2016 will include only contributions, not bonuses. The message is posted on the Personal Office (PO),…

Thursday, 23 February 2017 03:05

Osinbajo seeks N’Assembly's approval for $500m Eurobond to fund 2016 Budget

Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo has sought the approval of the National Assembly for the issuance of $500 million Eurobond to address the deficit in the 2016 budget. The request follows the recent issuance of $1billion Eurobond, which was eight times oversubscribed, in the international market. Osinbajo, in a letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, read at plenary yesterday, said the government wished to take advantage of favourable market conditions, to issue the fresh debt instrument to fund the 2016 budget. The proceeds are to be used as funding sources to finance the budget deficit,…

Thursday, 23 February 2017 03:04

Buhari speaks with Kano Gov, Ganduje during prayer session

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday spoke with Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, saying he was feeling better. The president who spoke with the governor in a telephone conversation that lasted for three minutes, thanked Nigerians for their concerns and prayers for him. The conversation took place at the Kano Government House while a special prayer session organized by the Kano state government was in progress. Ganduje was addressing the Ulamas when suddenly Alhaji Sha’aban Ibrahim Sharada, Buhari’s personal assistant on broadcast media, connected him with Buhari on phone for the conversation. “Hello Sir, how are you, sir?” Ganduje said on…

Thursday, 23 February 2017 03:02

Tears as FEC bids environment minister farewell

Emotion ran high on Wednesday as the Federal Executive Council held a valedictory session in honour of the Minister of Environment, Mrs. Amina Mohammed, who is leaving the cabinet to take up an appointment at the United Nations. She has been appointed as the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations. Mohammed, who is billed to assume duties at the UN headquarters in New York, in March, attended her last council meeting on Wednesday. The session, which was presided over by the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, saw the minister as well as the Minister of State for Environment, Ibrahim…

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Wednesday, 22 February 2017 16:30

Osinbajo flexes muscle with NASS, withholds assent to 4 bills

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has withheld assent to four Bills including the National Lottery Amendment Bill 2016. His action promptly triggered reactions in the senate. Osinbajo, who last week signed seven bills, conveyed his position in a letter to the Senate, read on the floor Wednesday by President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki. According to the Acting President, he declined to sign the Lottery Bill because of the existence of a pending legal challenge to the competence of the National Assembly to legislate on the subject matter. The letter reads: “Pursuant to section 58(4) of the constitution, I hereby…

Wednesday, 22 February 2017 16:28

Awodein, Buhari’s lawyer denies bribing Justice Ademola

Kola Awodein, lawyer to President Muhammadu Buhari, has denied bribing Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, with N500,000.00 at the behest of the president. Justice Ademola is standing trial for alleged corruption and he was the judge that presided over the suit by a lawyer during the certificate issue affecting the then presidential candidate Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC). A witness at the trial of Ademola made the allegation on Tuesday. Mr Awodein, a senior advocate of Nigeria described the allegation as “malicious, utterly ridiculous, and revolting", in a statement released today. “Nigerians know that President…

Wednesday, 22 February 2017 16:26

Amnesty International accuses FG of media crackdown, right abuses

Amnesty International has accused the Federal Government of embarking on a media crackdown. The organization said 2016 witnessed a disturbing rise in arrests and intimidation of media professionals and activists in Nigeria, with at least 10 journalists and bloggers arrested. Media Manager of Amnesty International in Nigeria, Isa Sanusi, said Nigeria specifically witnessed government responding to legitimate dissent with extreme measures that had devastating impacts on the civic space. Amnesty in its annual report, titled: The State of the World’s Human Rights, highlights how the Nigerian government responded to legitimate security fears with gross human rights violations including torture, enforced…

Wednesday, 22 February 2017 16:23

Massive traffic gridlock in Sango-Ota as youths, traders barricade major roads

The entire Sango-Ota axis in Ado Ota local Government Area of Ogun is engulfed in protest. Vehicular and human traffic along Abeokuta-Lagos Expressway in that axis has been paralysed, as rioting youths and rice sellers in Sango-Ota market are said to have blocked both sides of the road at Ota, just before the bridge. Unconfirmed reports say that these youths and traders are said to bé protesting over what they called ‘invasion’ of the market by men of Nigeria Customs Service. They claimed that Customs men went to some stalls early Wednesday morning, forced them opened and evacuated bags of…

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