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Saturday, 27 January 2018 04:19

Buhari states how FG’ll spend extra income from rising oil price

PRESS RELEASE Income accruing to the country from rising oil prices in the international market will be spent on infrastructural development, President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged. Receiving a delegation from Eni, led by the Chief Upstream Officer, Mr Antonio Vella, the President said extra funds outside the provision of year 2018 budget "will be deployed to infrastructure projects like roads, rail, and power, for the good of our people, and for the development of the country." Budget 2018 provisions had been predicated on $45 per barrel by the Executive, and the Senate had adjusted it to $47 per barrel. Oil…

Saturday, 27 January 2018 04:17

Buhari signs bill granting immunity to legislators, seven others

President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to eight bills passed by the National Assembly into law. One of the signed bills is the National Senior Citizens Center Act, 2018. The Act seeks to establish a National Senior Citizens Center in the country to cater for the needs of the elderly. Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly matters (Senate) Mr Ita Enang, briefed State House Correspondents after the president signed the bills into law on Friday. Enang said other bills signed include Legislative Houses (Powers and Privileges), 2018, National Institute of Legislative Studies (Amendment) Act, 2018, and Avoidance of…

Saturday, 27 January 2018 04:12

Benue gov attacks defence minister over statement on killer herdsmen

Benue State Governor, Mr Samuel Ortom on Friday berated Minister of Defence, Mr Mansur Dan-Ali, over his statement on killings by suspected herdsmen in the country. He said that the statement showed that the minister was insensitive to the plight of victims of the violence carried out by suspected herdsmen. For instance, Ortom took a swipe at the minister, describing him as one of the people misinforming President Muhammadu Buhari. Dan-Ali, in an interview with State House correspondents, had identified the blockage of cattle routes across the country as the remote cause of the killings by herdsmen. He also cited…

Saturday, 27 January 2018 04:07

Dana Air plane hits fence at Abuja airport

Less than 24 hours after a chartered aircraft lost its tyres and landing gear at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, another plane, a commercial aircraft belonging to Dana Air, hit a fence at the facility with its left wing on Friday. It was gathered that Dana flight, with registration number 5N-DEV from Port Harcourt, brushed the fence while trying to park after it landed at the NAIA. Sources at the airport and passengers onboard the flight told our correspondent that no injury was recorded, but blamed the aircraft’s pilot for the incident. Narrating what happened, a source said, “The Dana…

Friday, 26 January 2018 03:29

Buhari meets security chiefs over nationwide insecurity

President Muhamamdu Buhari on Thursday met behind closed doors with the nation’s security chiefs as part of efforts aimed at ending the spate of insecurity across the country. The meeting was held inside the President’s office at Presidential Villa, Abuja. Minister of Defence, Mr Mansur Dan-Ali; and National Security Adviser, Mr Babagana Monguno, led the security chiefs to the meeting. The new Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Mr Ahmed Abubakar, attended the security meeting for the first time since his recent appointment. Apart from service chiefs, Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, also attended the meeting. In a message posted…

Friday, 26 January 2018 03:27

FG blames laws enacted by Ekiti, Benue, Taraba for killings by herdsmen

In a defiant tone Thursday, the Federal Government blamed the passage of anti-open grazing law in some states as the cause of recent killings by herdsmen in some of the states. The federal government has been accused of bias in its handling of the crisis, with critics asking why perpetrators of the violence have not been arrested. Benue governor, Mr Samuel Ortom, whose state has suffered the latest bout of bloodletting, said two weeks ago that he informed the federal government of planned attacks by herdsmen, yet the state received no protection. In its latest reaction Thursday, the government did…

Friday, 26 January 2018 03:22

FG to protest U.S. conditions on $494 million purchase of fighter planes

Nigeria will protest to the United States over conditions imposed on its planned $494 million (£345.6 million) purchase of 12 A-29 Super Tucano fighter planes, Defence Minister Mansur Dan Ali said on Thursday. Those conditions include the 2020 transfer date for the aircraft and that Nigerian technicians will not be trained by U.S. staff, be part of maintenance crews, nor can they study the production of the planes, he told reporters at a briefing in Abuja. The sale of the planes has been dogged by controversy. Under Barack Obama, the former U.S. president, the aircraft deal had been held off…

Friday, 26 January 2018 03:21

Minister orders clampdown on authors of hate speech on social media

Minister of Defence, Mr Mansur Dan-Ali, has directed the nation’s security agencies to tackle those propagating hate speeches, especially through social media. He said special attention should be given to notable Nigerians while tackling the menace. According to a statement made available to journalists, Dan-Ali gave the directive at a meeting of National Security Council presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at Presidential Villa, Abuja on Thursday. “The Minister expressed the need by the relevant security agencies to as a matter of urgency tackle the propagation of hate speeches especially through the social media particularly by some notable Nigerians,” the…

Friday, 26 January 2018 03:19

Governors' Forum accuses NNPC of short-changing Nigerians

Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGC) on Thursday accused Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) of short-changing the country in revenue remittances to the federation account. Chairman of NGF and Zamfara governor, Mr Abdulaziz Yari, made the accusation after presenting the forum’s grievances to President Muhammadu Buhari. Yari was accompanied by governors Aminu Masari (Katsina), Simon Lalong (Plateau), Udom Emmanuel (Akwa Ibom) and Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna) to visit the President on behalf of National Economic Council (NEC). The governor said that a seven-man committee set up by NEC to interface with NNPC on the low revenue remittances to the federation account had met…

Friday, 26 January 2018 03:17

Seven police officers, two soldiers die in Adamawa crisis

Brigade Commander, 23rd Armoured Brigade, Yola, Mr Bello Mohammed, said seven policemen and two soldiers lost their lives within the past two months as a result of Numan sectarian crisis involving herdsmen and farmers. Mohammed, a brigadier general, made this known Thursday in Yola, Adamawa State capital, while addressing a town hall meeting of stakeholders on the crisis. Mohammed said the military organized the meeting to sound a final warning to those involved that it would henceforth be hard on those who failed to embrace peace and dialogue in resolving differences. “The crisis that initially started in Numan and environs…

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Friday, 26 January 2018 03:16

Why I met Maina and what Buhari knew - AGF Malami

Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, has said he had no regrets meeting with fugitive former Chairman of Presidential Task Force on Pensions, Mr Abdulrasheed Maina, in Dubai. “If hundreds of Mainas believe that they have information to offer as far at the protection of the national interest is concerned, I will meet them and will do so again,” Malami said in his first public interview in the current edition of The Interview magazine. After a spell in exile, Maina, accused of stealing N2billion public pension, returned to Nigeria and was re-absorbed into service.…

Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:22

Senate’s embargo on Buhari appointees remains - Saraki

Senate President, Mr Bukola Saraki, has stated that the upper chamber of the National Assembly had not lifted the embargo on the confirmation of appointments made by President Muhammadu Buhari. Saraki had read a letter from the President seeking the Senate’s approval for the 2017 budget estimates of the Niger Delta Development Commission. Lawmaker representing Imo North Senatorial District, Mr Mao Ohuabunwa, however, raised a point of order to remind the lawmakers that three states had no representation on the board of NDDC, which he blamed on the suspension of confirmation of nominees. Ohuabunwa pointed out that NDDC Act clearly…

Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:14

North Korea sends rare announcement to all Koreans, calls for unification

North Korea sent a rare announcement addressed to "all Koreans at home and abroad" on Thursday, saying they should make a "breakthrough" for unification without the help of other countries, its state media said. It said all Koreans should "promote contact, travel, cooperation between North and South Korea" while adding Pyongyang will "smash" all challenges against reunification of the Korean peninsula. The announcement, issued after a joint meeting of government and political parties, added Koreans should wage an energetic drive to defuse the acute military tension and create a peaceful climate on the Korean peninsula. Military tension on the Korean…

Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:12

Brexit's turned out 'less badly than first thought' - David Cameron

Brexit has "turned out less badly than we first thought", David Cameron has said.The former prime minister was recorded at the World Economic Forum in Davos saying the Leave vote was "a mistake not a disaster". Mr Cameron called the 2016 referendum on the UK's membership of the EU, campaigned to stay in and resigned after the Leave side won. His apparently unguarded comments were highlighted by Channel 5 News. "As I keep saying, it's a mistake not a disaster," he was heard saying in a conversation with steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal. "It's turned out less badly than we first…

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