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Friday, 06 January 2017 02:45

Fuel scarcity looms as higher oil price forces marketers off import

Foreign exchange scarcity and recent appreciation of the price of crude oil in the international market are threatening smooth supply of petrol in the country. Daily Trust gathered that for over three months now marketers have not been importing the product into the country due to the tricky nature of the situation. “Right now government is not paying subsidy, even with the lower exchange rate of 285/$1, the increase in the price of crude oil has shot the landing cost of the refined product by about 40 percent,”, a marketer who asked for anonymity said yesterday. “When the partial deregulation…

Friday, 06 January 2017 02:43

Army find another Chibok girl kidnapped by Boko Haram, with baby

Soldiers interrogating captured Boko Haram suspects have found one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by the extremist group nearly three years ago, along with her baby, Nigeria's military said Thursday. Nearly 300 girls were kidnapped by the insurgents from a government boarding school in the remote northeastern town of Chibok in April 2014, a mass abduction that shocked the world and brought Boko Haram international attention. Most of the girls remain in captivity. In May, one girl escaped. In October, the government negotiated the release of 21 more. Another girl was freed in November in an army raid on an…

Friday, 06 January 2017 02:41

N'Delta leaders condemn FG's 'orchestrated assault' on Jonathan's family

Prominent leaders of the Niger Delta region including Chief Edwin Clark, on Thursday faulted President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration for what they described as the attempt to humiliate the family of former President Goodluck Jonathan. They also described as worrisome the seeming silence of Buhari on the frequent “harassment” of the former President’s family members by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The leaders’ position was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of a meeting organised by the Pan Niger Delta Forum at the residence of Clark in Kiagbodo, Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State. The communiqué was…

Friday, 06 January 2017 02:40

FG resumes payments to former Niger Delta militants

The Federal Government has resumed payments of cash stipends to former militants agreed under a 2009 amnesty in the country's Niger Delta oil hub, a government official said on Thursday. The government has been holding talks with militants to end attacks on crude pipelines which reduced Nigeria's output by 700,000 barrels a day for several months last year. Authorities had originally cut the budget for cash payments to militants to end corruption but later resumed payments to stop pipeline attacks crippling vital oil revenues. "Two months of the ex-militants' stipends were paid yesterday ... The rest of their stipends will…

Friday, 06 January 2017 02:39

Customs may lose 50% revenue to ban on vehicle importation

Following the federal government ban on the importation of vehicles through the land borders, the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Seme Command, is set to lose 50 per cent of its monthly revenue valued at about N13 billion. The Seme command of the NCS rakes in between N25 billion to N28 billion monthly with 50 per cent of that amount coming from vehicle importation. The federal government had last year prohibited the importation of vehicles, new and old, through land borders, restricting all vehicle imports to Nigeria Sea Ports only. However, Customs Area Controller of Seme Border, Victor Dimka said: “You…

Friday, 06 January 2017 02:26

Osun magistrates threaten strike if Iwo king is not arrested

Magistrates in Osun State have unanimously resolved to embark on an indefinite strike should the Commissioner of Police, Fimihan Adeoye, fail to arrest the Oluwo of Iwo, Abdulrasheed Akanbi, and make him available in court on Friday, January 6. They hinged their decision on the contemptuous posture of the monarch and the refusal of Mr. Adeoye to arrest him and make him available in court as ordered by the magistrate court in Osogbo. The last order of the magistrate, Olusola Aluko, for the arrest of the monarch was given on December 30, 2016, after the monarch had turned down previous…

Friday, 06 January 2017 02:24

FUT Minna expels 700 students for low academic performance, vices

Professor Musbau Akani, Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna, says 700 students have been expelled for poor academic performance and bad behaviour in the 2015/2016 academic session. He made the disclosure on Thursday during the 30th Matriculation ceremony of the university in Minna. The institution matriculated 5,141 students for the 2016/ 2017 academic session Akanji said majority of the students were expelled due to low academic performance and anti social behaviour. According to him, the institution has cancelled awarding pass mark for first degree courses. “The score has been raised, most of those expelled cannot score…

Friday, 06 January 2017 02:22

Abati was right, there are demonic forces in Aso Rock - Archbishop Atilade

Chairman Christian Association of Nigeria, (CAN), Southwest Zone, Archbishop Magnus Atilade has shared some of his thoughts on the demonic forces in Aso Rock. In this interview with Sun News, he also begged President Buhari to take urgent action concerning the delivery of dividends of democracy to millions of Nigerians who he noted are presently going through hard times. When asked about the declaration by Dr Reuben Abati, the spokesman of former President Goodluck Jonathan when he was in office, where he said that some demonic forces occupied Aso Rock and that they were responsible for some unpopular decisions, anti-masses’…

Thursday, 05 January 2017 18:03

Osinbajo, Obasanjo mocked for New Year song

It’s the country of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti and pop stars Davido and Wizkid. But a more unusual set of singers grabbed the spotlight in Nigeria this week with their New Year message. Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo led a choir including former president Olusegun Obasanjo and military ruler Yakubu Gowon in a rendition of the 18th century hymn “O God Our Help in Ages Past”. Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” it wasn’t. Yet it was hard not to see parallels in the video, with the political heavyweights singing earnestly into microphones, headphones over their ears. There were cutaway shots…

Thursday, 05 January 2017 17:59

NUPENG shuts down Total over sacked workers

Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) on Thursday ordered stoppage of loading activities at all Total Nigeria Limited, depots nationwide over termination of workers appointment. This is according to a statement signed by Alhaji Tokunbo Korodo, the South-West Chairman of the union and made available to newsmen in Lagos. According to Korodo, the management of Total has been resisting the unionisation of workers under its contract programme in Lagos, Kaduna and Koko in Delta blending plants. The chairman said that the management of Total had moved further to terminate those workers who had joined the union in…

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Thursday, 05 January 2017 03:00

FG approves arms for airport security

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved that airport security operatives bear arms, the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika has said. Sirika, while addressing State House correspondents yesterday after the first meeting of the Federal Executive Council in the New Year, said the government was very serious about aviation security. He said: “Just last week, the president approved that aviation security should bear arms. So, we’re trying to make them take the form and shape of TSA of the US with K-9 dogs, handcuffs, the guards, the batons, light weapons, etc. “The minister of interior is helping us in that…

Thursday, 05 January 2017 02:59

Accidental gunshot injures two in Aso Rock

An accidental discharge from a gun of one of the security agents attached to the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday, injured a female worker. The incident occurred at about 2.30pm at a security checkpoint at the Administrative Reception near a clinic, located on the premises. The operative was said to be trying to empty the weapon before submitting it at the security point when the bullet went off. The operative and the female worker, who was also making her way into the premises at the time, were injured in the process. The woman, who sustained injuries on her abdomen, back…

Thursday, 05 January 2017 02:58

Security operatives raid Jonathan’s brother’s house

Security operatives yesterday raided the Abuja residence of former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan. Another source said the house belonged to the brother of Mrs. Jonathan. The source added that Mrs. Jonathan bought the property for her younger brother. New Telegraph gathered that heavily armed policemen stormed the Maitama residence of the Jonathans in the evening. The house is located along Igbeti Rock Street, Maitama. The operatives, who were said to have numbered about 20, came in Hilux vans, as well as a Toyota Hiace Bus. A source close to the Jonathan’s family who spoke on the condition of anonymity…

Wednesday, 04 January 2017 14:21

Obasanjo to Awujale: You are a rumour monger, a liar

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has written to the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, describing the monarch as a serial liar and a manipulative rumour monger. In the letter dated December 30, 2016 but obtained by PREMIUM TIMES on Wednesday, President Obasanjo described the claims made about him by the Awujale in his autobiography as a tissue of lies and untruths. In the book, entitled “Awujale: The Autobiography of Alaiyeluwa Oba S. K. Adetona, Ogbagba II”, the Ijebu monarch had accused Obasanjo of having used the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to blackmail and extort during his tenure as president.…

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