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A former Politics Editor at Daily Trust newspaper, Ibrahim Dan-Halilu, has been arrested by the Department for Security Service (DSS) in Kaduna for allegedly supporting the activities of RevolutionNow in a Facebook post. The group, which is agitating for revolution movement in Nigeria, was convened by Omoyele Sowore, Publisher of Sahara Reporters and Presidential Candidate of African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2019 election. According to PRNigeria, Mr. Dan-Halilu a former staunch supporter of President Muhammadu before the 2015 elections was once a communication specialist with USAID, Information Assistant at the US Embassy and a Regional Communication Specialist for Family…
Abba Kyari, Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buahri on Tuesday told the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal that the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar in the Feb.23 general election was a Cameroonian “flesh and blood’’. Kyari, who was led through his deposition by Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, Counsel for the president, insisted that Jada, hometown of the former vice president was in Adamawa Province, an enclave that belonged to Northern Cameroon in 1946 when he (Atiku) was born. He explained that Atiku was already born in 1946 before the plebiscite was conducted in 1961 to balkernize Nigeria and…
President Muhammadu Buhari says he has no plan whatsoever to groom a successor for the 2023 presidential election. The president stated this while reacting to one of the requests made by the members of progressives in academics, who visited him at the State House, Abuja on Tuesday. The spokesperson of the group, Dr Bolariwa Bolajim had earlier enjoined the president to commence the proceed of grooming his successor, who would take over the mantle of leadership from him in 2023 Bolaji said: “We are delighted having you and in another four-year time you would want to go and rest –…
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that the production and personalisation of all Nigerian E-passports and related documentation shall be the sole responsibility of the Nigerian Security Printing & Minting Company (NSPMC). Popularly known as The Mint, the company was established in 1963 with the objective of producing the nation’s currency notes and coins for the Central Bank of Nigeria as well as security documents for Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government, banks and other blue chip companies. However, the President’s spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, who confirmed the development in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, revealed that with the new…
President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to calls for him to form his cabinet.Addressing the leadership of the National Assembly during a dinner on Thursday night in Abuja, the President said he is under pressure to unveil his ministerial nominees.“I am very much aware about it and I am under tremendous pressure on it,” he said.President Buhari added, “The last cabinet which I had, most of them, a majority of them I didn’t know.“I had to accept their names and recommendation from the party. I worked with them for three and a half years.”The President, however, explained that the delay was…
Photo: Senator Elisha Ishaku Abbo By Ayo Balogun, Abuja Senator Elisha Ishaku Abbo (Adamawa) has apologized for his bad behaviour at a sex toy shop in Abuja in whose a CCTV footage of the incident has gone viral on the social media as well as online news platforms. At a press conference in Abuja, the embattled senator begged for forgiveness over his anger regardless of what transpired before his action. In tears, he said: “It is with a deep sense of remorse and responsibility that I, Senator Ishaku Abbo (SIA) profoundly apologize to all Nigerians, the Senate, the People’s Democratic…
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja urged State Governors to “enforce very vigorously” free and compulsory basic education for every child of primary and junior secondary school age. The President also urged the Governors to pay special attention to security, health and agriculture in the next four years of this administration. Inaugurating the National Economic Council (NEC) at the Presidential Villa, President Buhari reminded the Governors that providing free and compulsory education is a constitutional provision. ‘‘Section 18(3) of the 1999 Constitution as amended places on all of us here an obligation to eradicate illiteracy and provide free and compulsory…
Dr Festus Adedayo, who was appointed Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President of the Senate on Tuesday, has been dropped. A statement from Office of President of the Senate on Thursday in Abuja, said that it reviewed the appointment of Adedayo and rescinded its earlier decision on it. The statement was signed by Mohammed Isa, Special Assistant to the Senate President on Media and Publicity. It said “the Office of the President of the Senate has reviewed the appointment of Mr Festus Adedayo as Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the President of the Senate and decided to…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, UNILAG branch says it received with anguish, the reports of harassment, intimidation and detention of a Nigerian Professor, Austin Nwagbara who is currently on sabbatical at the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana.Prof Nwagbara was dismissed based on a leaked video of a meeting addressed by him.In a letter dated 19th June, 2019 and signed by the Vice Chancellor, Prof Anthony Afful-Broni, states that the Special Committee set up to investigate a video circulating on the social media established the following:1. Your uncomplimentary comments were not expected from a University Professor.2. By your comments, you…
The 32-year-old Nigerian citizen who destroyed 5 diplomatic cars in front of the Nigeria High Commission in London on Monday, June 17th, 2019, Jeffrey Ewohime, was once convicted of common assault after throwing food in a staff member’s face at McDonalds, Dalston after an argument in 2017 according to Hackney Police in east London. He also hit the staff member. Sentenced to a community order, required to pay £80 compensation, given a curfew & banned from the McDonalds. Details later.