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The political temperature in Abia State rose sharply monday as news filtered that the governorship election petition tribunal sitting in Umuahia would deliver its verdict today. The petition filed by the governorship flag bearer of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Mr. Alex Otti, challenging the election of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is the only case for determination. The high level anxiety being generated by the petition was due to the stiff opposition that APGA gave PDP, which had held sway in the state for most of the period, except for the three year brief period that the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) was in government before the then governor defected to the PDP. The governorship election held on April 11, 2015 in the state ended inconclusively thereby necessitating a supplementary poll of April 25, 2015. Consequently the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) after collating the final tally, declared Ikpeazu wi...

The governor equally knows full well that his party, while in government, ruined the economy to the extent that workers in 27 states went for several months without salary. This crisis situation has now been reversed in nearly all the states. Governor Fayose is himself in line for the collection of his state’s bailout. “Under the PDP federal government, ministries were not given overhead costs for five months while the capital budget was unpaid for six months in the run-up to the exit of the PDP administration. Is there anyone in that party with a moral justification to criticise the Buhari administration which is working hard to clean up the mess they (PDP) left behind?” Specifically, the presidency said Fayose’s comment on the September federal allocation of N389 billion was reckless and typical of his past unguarded outbursts. The senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, who sounded the presidency’s warning, was reacting to remarks ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), wanted for alleged fraud. Wilson Uwujaren, spokesman of the EFCC, confirmed the development to TheCable in a text message. “EFCC has declared Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of Pension Reform Task Team, wanted,” he said tersely.

The senator representing Kaduna North Senatorial zone, Kaduna state, Senator Shehu Sani, at the weekend alleged that the new agitation for the sovereign state of Biafra was being sponsored by pro-Jonathan forces who lost the 2015 general elections. According to him, their aim is to destroy the administration of President Mohammadu Buhari by igniting a national conflict , chaos and confusion in the country. Sani, who spoke on Sunday when a youth group from southern Kaduna paid him a courtesy call in his office in Kaduna, described the renewed agitation for Biafra as misguided and ill conceived. "The Biafra agitation is a new attempt to destroy the Mohammadu Buhari administration and to ignite a national conflict and cause chaos, pandemonium , confusion in the country. "I see it as a plan B action of the pro-Jonathan forces who lost election in the 2015 national elections. I will also say that the agitation is not reflective of the generality of the interest of the...

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, today appointed retired Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Chris Olakpe as the new Chief Executive Officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA). His wealth of experience reportedly recommended him for the job. His appointment, according to a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Habib Aruna, ‘is in response to the consistent complaints by the public on the situation of traffic on the streets of Lagos.’

Yesterday i posted an article on how University of Lagos Nigeria (Unilag) Honoured VP Osinbajo, Gov Obiano And Others In A Special Award Ceremony , here is more from the event As Governor Akin Ambode of Lagos state receives Special Award and Recognition dinner in honour of eminent alumni of University of Lagos, Unilag on Sunday, that’s indeed a great recognition and a special award see photos below.

The Bank Verification Number (BVN) registration will still go on despite the expiration of the deadline on Saturday, October, 31, the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigerian Inter-bank Settlement System (NIBSS) have said. The spokesman of the CBN, Ibrahim Muazu said yesterday that the process will still go-on and the deadline means that any customer that fails to do the registration will have some restriction to operate his accounts. Mu’azu who spoke to our reporter on phone yesterday said from today Monday, November 2, 2015, regarded the exercise as successful, saying that majority of the banks have captured the BVN of their active accounts except for those customers that choose not to participate in the process. He said: “Deadline was successful because the awareness has been created to millions of customers and the banking hall were empty unlike the June deadline where there were chaos everywhere in the banking halls” The Managing Director of the Nigerian Inter-Bank Settlement...

The Secretary To The Government of Federation (SGF) Engr. Babachir David Lawal Invited the governor of Kaduna state -Malam Nasir el-Rufai in his office at the villa on Friday Oct 16, for quite a Discussion and a one on one meeting with Great friends , thats a lovely photo from the meeting of "Gov Nasir El-Rufai with Engr. Babachir David Lawal (SGF) Secretary To The Government of Federation."

Many business moguls and celebs attended the final day of the 2015 edition of the Lagos Fashion & Design Week Billionaires, Aliko Dangote and Femi Otedola, actress, Rita Dominic, were just a few of the well-known faces in attendance, to watch the final show of the fashion week

Chile midfielder Arturo Vidal says Bayern Munich can prove a point by beating Arsenal in the Champions League on Wednesday. Pep Guardiola’s Bavarian giants suffered their only defeat of the season at the Emirates Stadium when they lost 2-0 to Arsenal a fortnight ago in Europe. The Germans failed to convert a string of chances in London as Oliver Giroud and Mesut Ozil scored second-half goals for Arsenal. Having won their first 10 league games, Bayern then dropped their first Bundesliga points on Friday with a goalless draw at Eintracht Frankfurt. Guardiola’s Bayern are becoming frustrated by their German opponents’ defensive tactics, but midfielder Vidal is backing his team to shoot the Gunners down in the return at Munich’s Allianz Arena. “We’ll show Arsenal the real Bayern on Wednesday,” the Chile international told German daily Bild. “This time we’ll use our chances and take the three points.” Despite the defeat at Arsenal, Bayern remain top of Group F while ...

A major Syrian rebel group is using dozens of captives in metal cages as “human shields” in the largest opposition stronghold on the outskirts of Damascus, a monitor said Sunday. Jaish al-Islam, regarded as the most powerful rebel group near the capital, has put regime soldiers and Alawite civilians it was holding in metal cages, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP. The group then placed these cages in public squares in the Eastern Ghouta region in an attempt to “prevent regime bombardment”, Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said. “Jaish al-Islam is using these captives and kidnapped people — including whole families — as human shields,” he said. Government forces regularly bombard the Eastern Ghouta area, from where rebel groups fire rockets into the capital. On Friday, at least 70 people were killed and 550 wounded in regime bombardment of Douma, a large town in the area. A video published by opposition news outlet Shaam Network showed cages of me...

The national junior tennis team coach, Ubale Mohammed, on Sunday said he was hopeful of a very good performance by the Nigeria at the African Junior Masters in Morocco. Mohammed told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna that the Nigerian duo of Michael Osewa and Barakat Quadri were in top shape and were ready to distinguish themselves. NAN reports that Mohammed and the players were scheduled to leave Abuja on Sunday for Casablanca in Morocco for the Masters for 14 and Under. The event is for the top eight players in that category, after Osewa was ranked eighth in the male category and Quadri sixth in the female category. “They both qualified based on performances in tournaments sanctioned by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), which were played during the year. “Based on this, I expect a good performance from both players, especially as they are both number one in West and Central Africa and are by this among the best on the continent,’’ Mohammed sa...

Miss Debbie Douglas, 19-year-old Political Science student of Nasarawa State University, has won the 2015 edition of the Most Beautiful Girl in Abuja (MBGA) beauty pageant. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Cross River State born beauty queen beat 31 other contestants on Sunday to emerge the new FCT Queen. This year’s edition of the MBGA pageant, which started in 2001 and organised by Dolce Entertainment Ltd, marked the 15th anniversary of the annual event. NAN report that the contest is organised annually to discover and develop beauty queens in the FCT. Mr Ejiro Okpihwo, Chief Executive, Dolce Entertainment, said that the MBGA pageant serve as platform to empower young Nigerian ladies from different background. He added that it also helped to create employment opportunities for many people in the entertainment industry. Okpihwo said that the MBGA was now a popular brand in pageantry business in Nigeria and beyond, adding that it had created seve...

It looks like this husband and wife were told to pray on their “special places” on their wedding day so that the things will perform well and won’t be distributed outside marriage. See the full photo…

The wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, has commended Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos for donating N150 million to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe. The commendation is contained in a statement signed by Buhari’s Special Assistant on Media, Adebisi Ajayi, on Friday in Abuja. Buhari said the gesture would help to ameliorate the sufferings of IDPs in various camps in the affected states as well as in their rehabilitation, and urged other states and individuals to emulate the governor. She said that insurgency had remained a major challenge in the country but expressed optimism that it would soon be a thing of the past. She appealed to governors of the affected states to take measures at ensuring that children in the IDPs’ camps were properly catered for. “I am grieved as a mother that children can go through such appalling conditions in their country,’’ Buhari said, noting that malnutrition rate of children in the camps ha...

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Islamic State group jihadists seized a small town in Syria’s central Homs province Sunday with help from local rebels and advanced on a majority Christian village, a monitoring group said. “The Islamic State group easily took control of the village of Maheen, southeast of Homs, after two suicide attacks,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Maheen lies 70 kilometres (43 miles) southeast of the government-controlled provincial capital Homs city, and 35 kilometres east of the Syrian-Lebanese border. For the past two years, a ceasefire between rebel factions in the town and regime troops at surrounding checkpoints had governed Maheen. But on Sunday the rebel factions turned against the government fighters and joined ranks with IS jihadists, Abdel Rahman said. IS launched its assault from the nearby Christian village of Al-Qaryatain, which it seized in August, he added. From Maheen, the jihadists pushed northeast toward the Ch...