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Tuesday, 09 January 2018 05:00

FG confirms nine deaths due to yellow fever

A yellow fever outbreak is currently ongoing in Nigeria with nine people confirmed dead from the disease, a report has said. Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, in its situation report on yellow fever in the country released for the first epidemiological week in 2018 said the ailment has so far been confirmed in 12 local government areas across seven states. The states are: Kwara, Kano, Niger, Nasarawa, Kebbi, Kogi and Zamfara. The current outbreak started in Ifelodun Local Government Area in Kwara State with the first case detected in a seven-year-old girl in in September, 2017. The girl had…

Monday, 08 January 2018 04:19

Buhari orders background checks on judge-designates

President Muhammadu Buhari is currently conducting background checks on Federal High Court and Court of Appeal judges nominated and forwarded to him by National Judicial Council last year. It was further learnt that the President might have approved the compulsory retirement of Justices Adeniyi Ademola and Segun Tokode, both of the Federal High Court as recommended by the council. A source in the Presidency, who spoke to our correspondent on Sunday on condition of anonymity, said the two steps were in line with the present administration’s anti-corruption stance. He said although the President believed that NJC would have done due…

Monday, 08 January 2018 04:15

Kogi retires 8 permanent secretaries, sacks 1,774 other workers

Kogi State Government on Sunday confirmed the compulsory retirement of eight permanent secretaries, some directors and dismissal of 1, 774 others from the state civil service. Affected staff were served their letters last December. The letters were signed by the state Head of Service, Mrs Deborah Ogunmola, and Chairman of the state Civil Service Commission, Mr Ado Shaibu. A copy of the retirement letter addressed to one of the affected permanent secretaries indicated that the retirement was “in the interest of the public.” Some of the affected permanent secretaries ssid they were contemplating legal action. However, Mrs Petra Akinti-Onyegbule, Chief…

Sunday, 07 January 2018 03:33

Health minister leads medical team treating Buhari’s son

Minister of Health, Mr Isaac Adewole, is the leader of a medical team currently providing treatment for President Muhammadu Buhari’s son, Yusuf, involved in a motorbike accident in Abuja recently. Wife of the President, Aisha, disclosed this in a “thank you” message she posted on her verified Instagram page, aishambuhari. She thanked Nigerians for their prayers and the medical team who she said ensured that Yusuf remained stable while receiving treatment. The message read, “On behalf of my family, I will like to thank well-meaning Nigerians for their prayers in the past week. “Special thanks to the team of doctors…

Sunday, 07 January 2018 03:32

FG starts large scale evacuation of Nigerians from Libya

The federal government is starting flights to evacuate thousands of Nigerians from Libya which will continue until all those wanting to return home have done so, foreign minister, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, said on Saturday. Nigerians have recently been the largest national group among African migrants travelling to Libya and trying to cross from there to Italy by sea. Since local armed factions and Libya's coastguard began blocking more migrants from leaving in July last year, large numbers have been trapped in Libya, where they often face dire conditions and abuse, including forced labour. International Organization for Migration (IOM) has in…

Sunday, 07 January 2018 03:25

Cameroon separatist leader taken into custody in Nigeria - Sources

A leading member of a separatist movement in Cameroon has been taken into custody in the capital of neighbouring Nigeria with his aides, sources and secessionists said on Saturday. The once-fringe Anglophone movement in majority Francophone Cameroon has gathered pace in the last few months following a military crackdown on protests. It represents the gravest challenge yet to the 35-year rule of President Paul Biya who will seek re-election this year.Julius Ayuk Tabe, the Nigeria-based chairman of the Governing Council of Ambazonia separatist movement, was taken into custody alongside six others at a hotel in Abuja on Friday, said an…

Saturday, 06 January 2018 04:58

IGP meets Buhari, says Benue killings are ‘communal misunderstanding’

Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, has described recent killings in Logo and Guma Local Government Areas of Benue State as a communal crisis. The police helmsman said this in an interview with State House correspondents on Friday after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. Idris noted that he was at Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja to discuss with President Buhari on how to effectively secure the country. Reacting to an accusation that the Police Force was being reactionary instead of being proactive in stopping the killings, Idris said: "Let’s use the example of Benue. You know most…

Saturday, 06 January 2018 04:57

Governor cries out over alleged threat to his life

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State yesterday alleged threats to his life by those opposed to the implementation of the Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law in the state. But he declared that he was unperturbed by such threats. Mr Ortom told a delegation of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Makurdi branch at Government House that the law has come to stay and no amount of intimidation would stop its implementation. He asked people of the state to remain steadfast until impunity is defeated in Nigeria. He also stressed that no sacrifice is too big in the struggle to end…

Saturday, 06 January 2018 04:56

CAN speaks on Benue killings

Christian association of Nigeria (CAN) has demanded an urgent action from the government to curb the menace of herdsmen attacks in the country. In a statement signed by the CAN president, Mr Samson Ayokunle, the association said the trend has reached what it describes as the ‘breaking point of its tolerance level’ and urged immediate action to stop the killings. “We in Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) are forced to make this press release on the continuous inhuman and wicked activities of the Fulani Herdsmen all over the Federation who are going from community to community killing innocent farmers with…

Saturday, 06 January 2018 04:53

El-Rufai appoints two new commissioners, reshuffles cabinet

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has reshuffled Kaduna State Executive Council and appointed additional two new commissioners. The information is in a statement by Mr Samuel Aruwan, Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to the governor on Friday in Kaduna. Aruwan gave the names of the new commissioners as Ruth Alkali for Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism and Ibrahim Hamza, pioneer Director-General of Kaduna Facility Management Agency, KADFAMA, for Ministry of Water Resources. The rearrangement was as a result of vacancy created following the death of Commissioner for Education, Mr Jonathan Nok. The rejigged commissioners are Manzo Maigari…

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Friday, 05 January 2018 05:25

Buhari inaugurates dry port, rail coaches in Kaduna

President Muhammadu Buhari thursday inaugurated Inland Dry Port in Kaduna. The president also inaugurated new train coaches and locomotives at Rigassa train station also in Kaduna. Speaking at the inauguration of the dry port, Mr Buhari warned Nigerian customs service and Port officials against frustrating business activities at Inland dry ports in the country. He said customs and port officials must make the facilities work and not to frustrate business, commercial and industrial enterprises with unnecessary bureaucracy and delays, thereby defeating the objective of the whole exercise as it was in in the past. He said apart from Kaduna Inland…

Friday, 05 January 2018 05:19

Osinbajo on vacation in Dubai

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is currently in United Arab Emirates where he is observing his vacation. According to his spokesperson, Mr Laolu Akande, in a tweet Wednesday, Mr. Osinbajo left the country alongside his wife and children. “VP Osinbajo, his wife & children have been resting abroad on his annual leave. He is expected back in the country this weekend from the UAE,” Akande said. This is probably the first time since the coming of the Buhari Administration that Osinbajo is enjoying his annual leave. He has been a very busy official as well as acting president when Mr. Buhari…

Friday, 05 January 2018 05:17

The country is shutting down, Don says in damning verdict on Nigeria

Funmi Olaitan, Ibadan From a renowned professor of virology and former President, Nigerian Academy of Science, Mr Oyewale Tomori, on Thursday, came a damning verdict on situations in the country, declaring that Nigeria is fast drifting into a state of total collapse. He warned that unless urgent step is taken to reinvent the country in a new process of creative thinking, the entire system will shut down. Tomori, a former Vice Chancellor, Redeemer University, who delivered the 19th Benjamin Oluwakayode Osuntokun memorial lecture titled, "Rescuing Nigeria: Restoring her health and her sanity", at the College of Medicine auditorium, University College…

Friday, 05 January 2018 05:16

Disarm Fulani herdsmen now to prevent war - G9

PRESS RELEASE G9, umbrella body for all self-determination groups in Nigeria has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to order immediate disarmament of all Fulani herdsmen throughout the country to stem the tide of imminent civil war. In a release signed by convener of G9, Mr Tola Adeniyi, the Group challenged the Commander-in-Chief of Nigerian Armed Forces, retired General Buhari, Chief of Army Staff General Buratai, and Inspector General of the Nigeria Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris to live up to their constitutional responsibilities and convince Nigerians that they are not partisan. The continued and condoned brutal and brutish barbarism of Fulani…

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