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ABUJA – Two months after she left for the United Kingdom, Nigeria’s First Lady Mrs. Aisha Buhari returned to the country in the early hours of Sunday. On ground to receive her at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, were wives of present and former governors, aides and friends. She came aboard a British Airways flight that landed in Abuja at about 4:30 a.m. Prompt News Online had reported late Saturday night that Mrs Buhari had left London, and was seeing off by Wife of the Nigerian High Commissioner to UK, Mrs Modupe Oguntade. First Lady Aisha Buhari, fielding questions from reporters…
Some officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) have been caught on camera assaulting a man said to be a lawyer in Onitsha, Anambra. The video posted on the Facebook page of one Ben Chuks Udoh captured the policemen assaulting the lawyer and wrestling him to the ground. The policemen could be seen pummeling the lawyer and asking him “what was his concern” in a matter that they were handling.
By Adeyemi Okediran, IBADAN Nigeria’s First Lady, Mrs Aisha Buhari has departed London, the United Kingdom for home. Mrs Modupe Oguntade, Wife of the Nigerian High Commissioner to the UK, saw her off Saturday night at the airport in London. Mrs Buhari confirmed her departure via her verified Twitter handle with a picture showing her and the Wife of the High Commissioner. “Wife of the Nigerian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Mrs Modupe Oguntade seeing me off. Thank you so much madam,” Mrs Buhari tweeted the picture. First Lady, Aisha Buhari and Wife of Nigerian High Commissioner to UK, Mrs…
Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege has expressed deep loss over the passing of Prof. Emmanuel Edozien (OFR), a renowned economist and Economic Adviser to former President Shehu Shagari. Prof. Emmanuel Edozien, a sibling of the Asagba of Asaba, Obi Professor John Chike Edozien passed away aged 82, in his Ikoyi residence following a brief ailment. In a statement issued by Omo-Agege’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Yomi Odunuga, the Senator noted the accomplishments of the late Professor in academics and business, adding that Delta State and the entire nation has lost one of its leading lights.…
By Emmanuel Afonne Sen. Dino Melaye has assured his supporters that he will continue to defeat his political rival Sen. Smart Adeyemi, in any senatorial election organised in Kogi West. Melaye was reacting to Appeal’s Court judgement that upheld the Election Tribunal’s ruling which annulled his election as the senator representing Kogi West. The Appeal Court had on Friday ordered that a fresh election be conducted but Melaye insisted that the fresh election would still go in his favour having beaten Adeyemi in two previous elections. The results of February election declared by INEC showed that Melaye, who contested on…
ABUJA – The Speaker of the House of Representatives Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila has said that with with the right candidates with good ideas, funding and organization, more Nigerian women would get elected into political offices. Gbajabiamila said, as a politician, he believes that Nigerian women could also engage in more advocacy, lobby, peaceful protests, among others to drive home their point to get into more elective positions. As a keynote speaker at a WIMPOL Dialogue organized by the Women in Management, Business and Public Service (WimBiz) on Saturday in Abuja, Gbajabiamila said he believes Nigerian women have a lot to…
Ekiti state government has said the state’s social economic growth is hinged on a diversified economy driven by skilled and healthy workforce. This plan, the government says has begun to yield result as evident in the partnership it has forged with development partners and the private sector. The State commissioner for Information, Tourism and Values Orientation, Aare Olumuyiwa Olumilua made this known while addressing a press conference to kick start the activities marking first year anniversary of Governor Kayode Fayemi with the theme, “Walking the talk…Restoring values, Enhancing Impact.” Part of the activities lined up for the one year celebration…
ABUJA – Senator Ken Nnamani, a past President of the Senate, will chair the 2019 National Dinner of Government College Ughelli Old Boys Association holding at the Executive Hall, International Conference Centre, Garki Abuja, on Saturday, October 19th 2019. This was revealed in a press statement signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the 2019 GCUOBA National Dinner Committee, Engrr Alfred Okoigun and Mr Obed Awowede, respectively. According to the press statement, other expected guests at the event are the Ministers of the FCT and Education, Alhaji Muhammed Musa Bello and Mallam Adamu Adamu, respectively; the Governor of Delta State,…
The committee on finding solutions to banditry in Zamfara, on Friday said it has concrete evidence that five Emirs in the state were complicit in the spate of banditry in which more than 6,319 men and women were killed. The Chairman of the committee and former Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar also said 33 district and several village heads were also working with the bandits. Abubakar, who made the disclosure while submitting the committee’s report to Gov. Bello Matawalle in Gusau on Friday, did not publicly named the traditional rulers. Zamfara State Governor Matawalle He added that 10 soldiers,…
LAGOS – Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka will be a special guest to review Chief Keith Richards’ latest book, “Never Quite the Insider: a Nigerian Memoir” in Lagos on Thursday, 17 October, 2019. The event, set to draw the business, media and literary/arts community, is billed to hold at Terra Kulture, on Kofo Abayomi street, Victoria Island, Lagos, by 10am. The book, described by the author as ‘his love affairs with Nigeria”, is partly a memoir, a travelogue and his management practice in corporate Nigeria. The book touches on difficult and sensitive issues including “corruption, ethnicity, multi-nationals’ complacency, and whether…