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Tuesday, 17 January 2017 14:46

Apostle Suleiman's church sacks pastor for participating in MMM with church's account

The leadership of Omega Fire Ministries, OFM, Worldwide, led by Apostle Johnson Suleiman, has sacked one of its pastors, Joseph Aiyedun. The cleric was relieved of his duties after it was revealed that he used the ministry’s name and bank account to register for money doubling scheme, Mavrodi Mundial Movement, MMM. The church’s head of administration, Pastor David Apelorioye, made this known in a statement. A controversial cleric, Apostle Suleiman is best remembered for the infamous ‘death sentence’ he pronounced on the Kaduna State Governor last year. Speaking during a service in 2016, Suleiman condemned the MMM scheme, and described…

Tuesday, 17 January 2017 02:41

Osinbajo in N’Delta, says region long neglected

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo led a Federal Government delegation to the Niger Delta on Monday and lamented that the geopolitical zone had long been neglected. He said most of the developmental initiatives embarked on in the past by successive regimes had not been able to achieve their developmental objectives for the geopolitical zone. Osinbajo, however, assured the people that with the needed cooperation, unity and collaboration with all the stakeholders, the present administration would bring about the much-expected infrastructural development to the Niger Delta. Osinbajo and his delegation comprising the Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa and the Minister of State…

Tuesday, 17 January 2017 02:22

FG, BBOG team visit Sambisa forest

Ministers of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali and convener of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group, Mrs Obiageli Ezekwesili yesterday participated in a search sorties for missing Chibok girls in Sambisa. Another member of BBOG, Hajia Aisha Yusuf, some Air Force Commanding Officers in the North East operation and selected reporters from local and foreign media participated in the exercise. The team, who were carried in two Beechcraft 350 surveillance aircraft, departed the Yola Air Force Base at about 2.30 p.m. The aircraft flying at about15,000 feet altitude entered the Sambisa general area, 35 minutes…

Tuesday, 17 January 2017 02:15

College of Education sacks 6 lecturers

Isa Kaita College of Education, Dustinma in Katsina State said it dismissed six of its academic staff for gross misconduct. The College said it had also demoted two academic staff and cautioned one person for misconduct against the rules of the institution. The Provost of the College, Maigari Abu, disclosed these on Monday in Dustinma, Katsina State at a news conference. Mr. Abu said that the dismissal was part of recommendations of a disciplinary committee set up to investigate alleged offences committed by the affected staff. The provost added that the demoted staff and those issued warning letters contravened the…

Monday, 16 January 2017 17:27

Nigerians march against Buhari in Lagos

Nigerians turned out in their numbers Monday morning, heeding the call of frontline rights group, the United Action for Democracy (UAD), to support a protest against the increasing hardship inflicted on the populace by the policies of the Muhammadu Buhari administration. They joined labour and rights crusaders who gathered as early as 8am at the Lagos State Headquarters of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), in Yaba. From there they marched through the expansive Ikorodu Road, down to the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park in Ojota, venue of the January 2011 Occupy Nigeria anti-fuel price increase rallies that shook the foundation of…

Monday, 16 January 2017 17:26

Bombers at University of Maiduguri kill professor, 3 others

Three suicide bombers, including a child, exploded at dawn Monday at Nigeria's northeastern University of Maiduguri, killing a university professor and another child, witnesses and police said. The bombers also died. One blast ripped through the mosque where professors were saying dawn prayers and at least one is among victims, police and rescue officials said. The second explosion occurred when police patrolling the back of the university shot a 12-year-old girl strapped with a suicide vest, setting off the explosives, according to police spokesman Victor Isuku. He said 15 wounded people were evacuated to hospitals. The National Emergency Management Agency…

Monday, 16 January 2017 17:19

Enveloping darkness as 1,062mw of electricity is lost in one week

The country’s electricity grid has lost 1,062 megawatts (mw) to various constraints of gas supply shortage and turbine faults, checks on the power sector reveals. The grid which had peak power generation of 4,160mw on January 1, 2017 dropped to 3,432mw last week, and further declined to 3,098mw on Sunday, causing a total loss of 1,062mw. Information obtained from the Nigeria System Operator (NSO) said the lowest generation was around 2,700mw. Some customers in Abuja said power supply has declined as those who use to have about 18 hours supply are now having less than 11 hours supply daily. Sources…

Monday, 16 January 2017 03:19

Stop illegal collection of fees for N-Power, welfare programmes, FG warns states, others

Collection of fees and charges by some state governments and local officials for the federal government’s social investment programmes is illegal and should be stopped forthwith, the presidency has said. PREMIUM TIMES reported how some state governments charged applicants various fees, particularly for the N-Power programme. About 200,000 jobless Nigerians across the country have started benefitting from the first phase of the N-Power programme and are to receive N30,000 stipend monthly to teach in schools or work in the agricultural sector. In Abia, hundreds of applicants on December 6 protested exploitation by state officials who made them pay N500 each…

Monday, 16 January 2017 03:17

NLC to FG: Another fuel price hike? Don't think about it

Nigeria Labour Congress has said Nigerians will not be able to take another fuel price increase in view of the harsh economic situation in the country. General Secretary of NLC, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, told one of our correspondents on the telephone on Sunday that the government should review its policy on subsidy that led to the increase in the fuel pump price from N97 to N145 per litre last year. Sunday PUNCH had reported that the Federal Government had started paying subsidy on fuel as a result of the increase in the landing cost and total cost of fuel from…

Monday, 16 January 2017 03:05

Obey the court, release El-Zakzaky, wife, Amnesty International tells Buhari

Nigerian authorities must immediately comply with a High Court order and release the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife from detention, said Amnesty International. Mr. El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenah Ibraheem, have been in detention without charge for more than a year following a clash between his supporters and the Nigerian military in which soldiers slaughtered hundreds of men, women and children. The authorities claim he is being held in “protective custody”. “The 45 day deadline given for their release expires today. If the government deliberately disregards the orders of its own courts,…

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Monday, 16 January 2017 03:04

Buhari’s economic policies lack human face – CAN

Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), on Sunday, condemned the economic policies of President Muhammadu Buhari, including the ban on foreign goods and devaluation of the currency, saying the policies lacked human face. The ban on foreign goods by the Federal Government, CAN said, would lead to smuggling and huge revenue losses, adding that the devaluation of the currency “led to galloping inflation to the extent that the cost of living has risen and makes life unbearable for people.” President of CAN, Dr. Samson Ayokunle, in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media and Communications, Adebayo Oladeji, said this in…

Monday, 16 January 2017 03:02

Power supply to households drops to 37% in Q4 2016

Aggregated power poll results released by NOIPolls for the second half of 2016 (July to December 2016), revealed a decline in power supply to Nigerian households in the fourth quarter (Q4) as only an average of 37 per cent reported improvement in power supply. This represented a significant 9-point decline when compared to the third quarter (Q3) of 2016 at 46 per cent. Moreover, the survey showed that Nigerians experienced the highest improvement in power supply in Q3 (46 percent). This, it said was possibly as a result of the adequate water reserves in the nation’s water dams within this…

Monday, 16 January 2017 03:01

Alfred Ilenre, journalist, minority rights activist, dies at 78

It was a packed hall in New York in 2002 when Alfred Ilenre addressed the First Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum For Indigenous Peoples. He spoke as the Secretary-General of the Ethnic Minority and Indigenous Rights Organisation of Africa, a Pan-African organisation dedicated to the prevention of discrimination and protection of the rights of ethnic minorities, indigenous and local communities all over Africa. “It has always been stated that one of the problems Africa faces is that of ethnic and indigenous community pluralism,” Mr. Ilenre told the audience. “Africa nation states are creations of colonial intervention. Different ethnic…

Sunday, 15 January 2017 17:09

Buhari remembers fallen heroes, commends troops for their sacrifice

President Muhammadu Buhari has commended troops for their sacrifice to the nation. He also said those who died in the line of duty would not be forgotten. He spoke at the national arcade in Abuja on Sunday, while performing the wreath laying ceremony for the 2017 Armed Forces Remembrance Day. Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of representatives; and Walter Onnoghen, acting chief justice of Nigeria, were among dignitaries at the event. Buhari spoke via video-conference to troops in Sambisa forest, and United Nations Mission In Liberia (UNMIL), and the air force base In Yola, Adamawa state…

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