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Wednesday, 06 March 2019 04:21

Buhari may have been your boss, but I’m the president’s boss, Obasanjo tells monarch

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday said he would continue to criticise President Muhammadu Buhari until he improves his style of governance. He also said he is qualified to criticise any government policy and leader found wanting in the discharge of his or her duties. Mr Obasanjo stated this while speaking at his 82nd birthday lecture held in Abeokuta. He said this shortly after Alake of Egbaland, Mr Adedotun Gbadebo, urged him to stop criticising Mr Buhari. Obasanjo has been an unrelenting critic of Buhari and opposed his reelection bid. He had thrown his support behind Mr Atiku Abubakar, presidential…

Wednesday, 06 March 2019 04:14

WAEC records mass failure in January exam

West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has recorded mass failure in its 2019 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidates held in January. This is the second time the examination body will record mass failure in its January examination since its introduction in 2018. Announcing the results in Lagos on Tuesday, Head of Nigeria National Office (HNO) of WAEC, Mr Isaac Adenipekun, said out of 12,202 candidates that registered for the examination, 11,892 took part in the examination. Of this number, only 3,102 candidates representing 26.08 per cent obtained credit and above in a minimum of five subjects…

Monday, 04 March 2019 04:27

UCH celebrates ex-CMD Alonge

University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan recently rolled out the drums to celebrate its immediate past Chief Medical Director (CMD), Mr Temitope Alonge, for meritorious service to the hospital, in a series of activities capped by a send forth dinner on Thursday, 28 February. Alonge, a professor of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, had been credited with wide ranging reforms and other initiatives which have enabled the institution to maintain its position as the leading tertiary hospital in the West African sub-region while also attaining global recognition as a centre of excellence in the training of medical personnel, research, and the delivery…

Saturday, 02 March 2019 05:02

US, North Korea offer dueling accounts of talks breakdown

The U.S. and North Korea offered contradictory accounts Thursday of why the summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un broke down, though both pointed to punishing American sanctions as a sticking point in the high-stakes nuclear negotiation. President Trump, who returned to the White House Thursday night, said before leaving Hanoi that the talks collapsed because North Korea’s leader insisted that all the sanctions the U.S. has imposed on Pyongyang be lifted without the North firmly committing to eliminate its nuclear arsenal. But North Korea challenged that account, insisting it had asked only for partial sanctions relief in exchange…

Thursday, 28 February 2019 03:45

Q&A: What’s at stake as India-Pakistan tensions rise?

Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan face their worst tension in years over the disputed region of Kashmir, with Islamabad saying they shot down two Indian warplanes Wednesday and captured two pilots. Pakistan immediately shut down its civilian airspace in response. But how did the relations between these two Asian nations become so bad and what’s at stake in this rapidly worsening conflict that both sides say they want to de-escalate? ___ WHAT STARTED THIS LATEST TENSION? On Feb. 14, a suicide car bomber attacked a paramilitary convoy on the Indian-controlled side of Kashmir in the Himalayas, killing more than 40…

Wednesday, 27 February 2019 04:11

May's Brexit deal, no-deal or delay? PM offers MPs a choice

Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday offered members of parliament the chance to vote in two weeks for a potentially disorderly no-deal Brexit or to delay Britain’s exit from the European Union if her attempt to ratify a divorce agreement fails. Opening up the possibility of a delay and removing the immediate threat of a no-deal exit on March 29 marks one of the biggest turning points in the United Kingdom’s labyrinthine Brexit crisis since the 2016 referendum vote to leave the EU. In a move which pushes back the Brexit cliff edge by three months to the end of…

Monday, 25 February 2019 05:00

What's on the table at the second Trump-Kim summit?

Vietnam hosts second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un later this week, with denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula and ending sanctions against Pyongyang the main items on the table. Here are the key things that each side will be looking for at the Feb 27-28 summit in Hanoi. WHAT THE U.S. WANTS Denuclearisation of North Korea is the over-riding goal that Washington is seeking to achieve. That means elimination of all weapons of mass destruction programmes in North Korea - the production of those weapons, as well as the intercontinental ballistic missiles that…

Saturday, 23 February 2019 02:39

Six people fall into extreme poverty in this nation every minute - Bloomberg

“I eat anything I see,” says Abdul Edosa, 30, as he sits under the bridge in the sprawling Nigerian commercial metropolis of Lagos, where he sleeps. “I beg money from people -- anything they give me, I eat.” Edosa’s is a familiar voice in the country with the world’s largest number of extremely poor, which the United Nations defines as living on less than $1.90 a day. The estimated figure now is 87 million people, or almost half the population of Africa’s biggest oil producer, and unless something dramatic happens, it’s going to get much bigger. While poverty in India,…

Thursday, 21 February 2019 04:01

FG declares Friday public holiday, excludes bankers, others

Federal Government has declared Friday, February 22, 2019, as a public holiday, in preparation for February 23 presidential and parliamentary elections. Ministry of Interior in a statement, Wednesday, however, excluded bankers and those offering essential services across the nation. “Federal Government declares Friday, February 22, 2019 as work-free day. Those providing essential duties and bankers are excluded. “The work-free day is to enable citizens return to their poling units for the reschedule Presidential & National Assembly elections. “Security agencies have been directed to ensure safety of lives and property before, during and after the general election,” the statement added. Vanguard

Wednesday, 20 February 2019 03:51

SSS issues disclaimer on former boss, Lawal Daura

State Security Service on Tuesday warned the public to desist from engaging its disgraced former director-general, Mr Lawal Daura, on its behalf. The secret police says it has been inundated with insinuations that Daura still wields influence in its internal affairs, months after he was fired from office. Daura, appointed in 2015 by President Muhammadu Buhari, was fired on August 7, 2018, by then-Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, after ordering a controversial siege to the National Assembly in an alleged bid to force a leadership change. Daura was initially placed in a police detention, but was released a few days later…

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Wednesday, 20 February 2019 03:50

FG protests as Ghana deports 723 Nigerians

Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr Michael Abikoye, has protested the inhuman treatment of Nigerians by Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) with the deportation of 723 Nigerians between 2018 and 2019. Abikoye said this at a meeting between him and the Comptroller-General of GIS, Mr Kwame Takyi, in Ghana. The High Commissioner said 723 Nigerians were deported on alleged illegal stay, cybercrime and prostitution between January 2018 and January 2019. According to him, 81 Nigerians are deported on alleged cybercrime and illegal stay in January, while 115 have so far been deported in February on allegation of overstay and prostitution. The…

Wednesday, 20 February 2019 03:47

Leah Sharibu remains in captivity one year after

Abducted Nigerian school girl, Leah Sharibu, on Tuesday marked one year in her kidnappers’ custody. Sharibu was abducted alongside 109 other girls from their secondary school in Dapchi, Yobe State, on February 19, 2018. While most of the girls were released, Sharibu was denied freedom after refusing to renounce her Christian faith for Islam. She has been in the custody of the terror group despite repeated pledges by President Muhammadu Buhari and the federal government to ensure her freedom. Taking to its Twitter handle on Tuesday, Bring Back our Girls (BBOG) movement wrote that Miss Sharibu is 365 days in…

Monday, 18 February 2019 04:13

National Assembly postpones resumption

National Assembly has announced postponement of its resumption scheduled for Tuesday, February 19 to Tuesday, February 26. Clerk of National Assembly, Mr Mohammed Sani-Omolori, made this known in a statement on Sunday. He said the postponement became necessary following postponement of presidential and National Assembly election rescheduled for Saturday, February 23. “This is to inform all distinguished senators and honourable members that resumption of plenary session earlier scheduled for Tuesday February 19 has been postponed to Tuesday, February 26 due to postponement of national elections. “All distinguished senators and honourable members are expected to resume plenary session by 10 a.m.…

Saturday, 16 February 2019 02:16

INEC postpones today’s elections

Independent National Electoral Commission has decided to shift Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections till next week 23 February. It was one of the decisions reached early today in a crunch talk between INEC chairman, Mr Mahmood Yakubu and 12 national commissioners in Abuja, according to sources close to the meeting. Yakubu will be briefing the media later today on the decision, amidst reports of logistics problems faced by the commission. The meeting, which began Friday evening, was still in progress up till 1.30 a.m. Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, chief press secretary to INEC chairman told newsmen that the decision of…

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