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Wednesday, 24 January 2018 03:29

Ex-CJN, Dahiru Musdapher, dies at 75

A former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Mr Dahiru Musdapher, has died. Musdapher died in the early hours of Tuesday at the age of 75. The cause of his death was not immediately clear but family members took to social media to break the news. “My elder brother Justice Dahiru Musdapher former CJN passed on tonight,” Muneer Musdapher, a younger brother of the former CJN wrote on Facebook. The jurist retired from the bench five years ago on attaining the mandatory retirement age of 75. Almost a year to his retirement, he was appointed CJN by then President Goodluck Jonathan, upon…

Wednesday, 24 January 2018 03:28

Hugh Masekela, jazz maestro, dies at 78

Hugh Masekela, legendary South African jazz musician and anti-apartheid activist, has died after a decade-long fight with cancer. He was 78. Often called the "Father of South African jazz," Masekela died in Johannesburg after what his family said Tuesday was a "protracted and courageous battle with prostate cancer." Masekela was a rare artist who succeeded in fusing politics with his music, making his songs and performances compelling and timeless. Trumpeter, singer and composer Masekela, affectionately known locally as "Bra Hugh," started playing the horn at 14. He quickly became an integral part of the 1950s jazz scene in Johannesburg as…

Tuesday, 23 January 2018 04:41

Herdsmen attacks will be brought under control - Buhari

With the growing outcry over the attacks and gruesome killings carried out by herdsmen in several parts of the country, President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that the rising attacks on communities would soon be brought under control by security forces deployed in vulnerable areas across the country. Receiving board of directors of Nigerian Economic Summit Group in the State House, Abuja Monday, the president expressed concern that the unfortunate attacks had brought sorrow and hardship to many Nigerians, with the government also affected. The president’s media aide, Mr. Femi Adesina, in a statement, said the president promised that the…

Tuesday, 23 January 2018 04:40

Killer herdsmen: ‘Buhari must go, enough is enough’, protesters chant in London

A group of Nigerians on Monday in London staged a protest at Nigeria House (Nigerian High Commission) against herdsmen killings in Nigeria. The protest was shown live on the hope for Nigeria Facebook page on Monday. Attacks by suspected Fulani herdsmen have been on the increase, with the most recent leading to the death of over 70 persons in Benue State. The victims were given a mass burial in a village near Makurdi, the state capital last week. The protesters marched to the gate of the high commission, calling on the High Commissioner to address them and also take their…

Tuesday, 23 January 2018 04:38

Southern states turn down FG’s request for cattle colony

No state in southern Nigeria has volunteered to provide land to the Federal Government to set up cattle colonies in order to address the incessant clashes between herdsmen and farmers. It was also learnt that the 16 states that had volunteered to provide land for the establishment of the cattle colonies are from northern Nigeria. They include Adamawa, Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Zamfara, Kebbi, Nasarawa and Plateau.Others are Bauchi, Gombe, Borno, Jigawa, Yobe, Niger, Kogi and Kwara states. Further findings from headquarters of Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Monday in Abuja showed that while there were dissenting voices…

Tuesday, 23 January 2018 04:34

Herdsmen attacks: Afenifere calls emergency meeting

Afenifere, pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Monday said leaders of the Yoruba nation would soon meet in Ibadan and review the state of the nation. The group also rejected suggestions by the federal government on the proposed cattle colonies, saying the proposal was in contravention of 1999 Constitution. The group’s national publicity secretary, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, disclosed the plan of the Yoruba leaders to meet in Ibadan and take a position on therdsmen attacks, which he described as a grave source of concern. Apart from the New Year attacks that claimed 73 in Benue State, some herdsmen allegedly killed a pregnant woman…

Tuesday, 23 January 2018 04:29

FIRS rakes in N4 trillion tax revenue in 2017- Fowler

Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr Babatunde Fowler, on Monday said that the agency achieved N4 trillion as tax revenue collection in 2017. Fowler said this at FIRS 2018 Management and Stakeholders meeting in Lagos with theme, “Optimizing Tax Administration with Parliamentary Synergy”. The agency recorded N3.3 trillion as revenue collection in 2016. The chairman said he was hopeful that the country would be further moved forward through taxation. “By putting our hands together in contribution on to our set goal, I am confident that we will surpass our past result and we will be on our way…

Tuesday, 23 January 2018 04:22

Liberia swears in ex-soccer star George Weah as new leader

Former international soccer star George Weah was sworn in as Liberia's new president Monday, taking over the impoverished West African nation from Africa's first female leader. The 51-year-old, who was FIFA's 1995 player of the year, took the oath of office dressed in all white at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex to cheers from tens of thousands Liberians. "I fully believe that the overwhelming mandate that I received from the Liberian people is a mandate to end corruption in public service; I promise to deliver on this mandate," he said. "As officials of government it is time to put…

Monday, 22 January 2018 03:36

Islamic state terrorists behind Benue killings - DSS

Security agencies, including Department of State Service (DSS) have revealed that Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA) network operating within North-central and South-south zones of Nigeria were behind recent killings in Benue State. The agencies, in a report submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari, said they discovered this following arrest of several suspected attackers comprising Fulani herdsmen, government-sponsored militias, militants and other miscreants in the state. According to the report, ISWA is using foreign terrorists and recruiting young men to fight and kill innocent persons to exacerbate tensions along the county’s ethnic, religious and regional fault lines. A Presidency source, who…

Monday, 22 January 2018 03:27

‘World's richest 1% get 82% of the wealth' - Oxfam

The gap between the super rich and the rest of the world widened last year as wealth continued to be owned by a small minority, Oxfam has claimed. Some 82% of money generated last year went to the richest 1% of the global population while the poorest half saw no increase at all, the charity said. Oxfam said its figures - which critics have queried - showed a failing system. It blamed tax evasion, firms' influence on policy, erosion of workers' rights, and cost cutting for the widening gap. Oxfam has produced similar reports for the past five years. In…

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Sunday, 21 January 2018 03:23

Under Buhari, lives of cows more important than humans - Wike

Rivers State Governor, Mr Nyesom Wike, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari was under pressure at ‘some point in the past’ to declare a state of emergency in the state. The governor, a member of opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, also said the lives of animals are treated better under the present administration. “When I went to see the President, he told me that he was under pressure to declare a state of emergency in Rivers State,” a Government House statement quoted Wike to have said on Friday when he received Anglican Bishops of Niger Delta Province who visited him…

Sunday, 21 January 2018 03:20

US visa appointments to hold despite govt shutdown

United States visa processes across the world may not be disrupted following government shut down at the stroke of midnight Friday. All but the most essential operations of the US government are affected including the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration. There were fears that all US offices overseas handling visa issuance and federal regulatory agencies, including those overseeing grants and contracts will remain closed while the shutdown lasts. However, spokesman of US Embassy in Abuja, Mr Russell Brooks, said last night scheduled visa appointments would hold. He said: The State Department has informed the public on travel.state.gov that…

Saturday, 20 January 2018 03:31

Aisha Buhari shares videos of senators criticising president’s performance

Wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, on Friday shared videos of senators criticising her husband’s government. Mrs. Buhari, on her verified Instagram page, reposted videos by two senators, Mr Isah Misau and Mr Ben Bruce, accusing her husband of appointing incompetent persons because they “belong to the cabal.” The first video from OakTV that Mrs. Buhari reposted showed Misau on the floor of the Senate Thursday condemning Mr. Buhari for appointing “an incompetent person” as the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA. Misau accused the president of “doing nothing” since he was elected, adding “the president has not…

Saturday, 20 January 2018 03:25

Court nullifies installation of 21 Ibadan Obas

An Ibadan High Court presided over by Justice Olajumoke Aiki, on Friday ruled that the review of the 1957 Olubadan Chieftaincy Declaration and other Related Chieftaincies Laws in Ibadanland by Oyo State government as unconstitutional, illegal, null, void and of no effect. The judgment was in a case filed by a former governor, who is also the Osi Olubadan of Ibadanland, Mr Rasheed Ladoja against Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo state and Justice Akintunde Boade, chairman of the judicial commission of enquiry that reviewed the declaration. It would be recalled that, Governor Ajimobi had on Friday May 19, 2017 set…

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