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She alleged that poverty has killed more people in the northeast than Boko Haram. Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, with his wife Amina Titi Titi Abubakar, the wife of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has condemned President Muhammadu Buhari's administration for dragging Nigerians through untold hardship. While addressing national women leaders of coalition of political parties in Abuja on Sunday, December 23, 2018, Titi said Nigeria has worsened in the past three years of President Buhari's administration. She said Nigerians have been exposed to dangerous levels of poverty which has ravaged through the country and killed a lot of people. She said,  "We are in vulnerable situations. Forget about the stories and pictures of roads you are fed with in the media. They are mere fabrications or photo-tricks. "Go to the south east and see how erosion has assumed destructive proportion. Some sights are n...

A fire incident  gutted the residents of Vattern Crescent, off Amazon Street Maitama, Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), on Tuesday 18th December, 2018. This incident was confirmed according to our reliable source who plead anonymous. "I was at home, seeing a smoke coming out of a roof from the next house, I rush out to check what is happening, to my dismay, the building was gutted with fire. In a bit moment there arrives the Federal Fire Service (FFS)". According to him, the  men of the Federal Fire Service, FFS, Wuse successfully subdued the inferno that almost razed down the Maitama residents house. Wife of the affected person was crying profusely about the sum of money that got burned in the process of this inferno, while some neighbors came to their condolences. As of the night of  Wednesday our reliable agent went to the scene to checkout the validity of the new, he came to see more people sympathizing with the occupants of the building. ...

Olamide and Lil Kesh get dragged on Twitter over the content of their latest collabo 'Logo Benz'  It’s become a Nigerian mainstay that artistes now put out whatever they want without fear of repercussion. A dearth of quality lyrics has always been a major problem of Nigerian music, but since the advent of Olu Maintain’s 2007 smash hit, "Yahooze," the mainstream appreciation of wealth in Nigerian pop music has heightened Over the 10 years immediately following that song, quality content has gotten worse by the changing tides that listening to music voiced in languages we don’t understand seems better for our  children. Before Yahooze though, there was the  D’banj  smash hit, “ Mobolowon ” which touched on credit card scam. The following era saw the most hideous celebration of vulgarity by the mad merry band,   Zee World, Damoche  and   Skally Mental.  In some ways, those songs probably created the infamy of  entitlement...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has vowed not to tolerate the complicity of its staff with political actors or their agents to subvert the electoral process in the forthcoming elections. The commission declared that its officials must remain neutral in the discharge of their duties and must be committed to protecting the sanctity of the process. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this yesterday at the swearing-in of the new Secretary of the commission, Mrs. Rose Oriaran-Anthony, where he also described the application by support groups of candidates contesting the 2019 general elections as election observers as unacceptable. According to him, “As we approach the 2019 general elections, the commission will pay attention to the conduct of our own officials from the headquarters to the state and local government areas, including adhoc staff engaged in or their agents to subvert the electoral process.” Yakubu asserted: “We will not tolerate t...

FG determined to do more, minister declares in special Christmas message The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, yesterday in Abuja claimed that the government of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had fulfilled all the promises it made to Nigerians. The minister who made this claim while answering questions from journalists in the State House, further argued that the government had met all its obligations to Nigerians. Promising that the government is determined to do more in the New Year, Mohammed who said he had made the portrait of President Muhammadu Buhari in five different Nigerian cultures, wished everyone a Merry Christmas. “I wish everybody Merry Christmas and as a government, we are happy that we have been able to meet all our promises, all our obligations to Nigerians. And as the year rolls out, we are more determined to even deliver more to Nigerians. “I made a portrait of Mr. President in five major Nigeria attires. One is in Yoruba, Hau...

Report outdated, inaccurate, Lai Mohammed insists Berates Atiku for playing politics with the crisis Omololu Ogunmade and Olawale Ajimotokan in Abuja The presidency Thursday described the report of the Amnesty International (AI), which accused the military of human rights abuses and equally knocked the presidency for allegedly showing no will to curb violence by herdsmen, as careless and mischievous. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has also described the report as largely outdated and inaccurate, and berated the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, for allegedly playing politics with the clashes between herdsmen and farmers. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in a statement, acknowledged the submission of the rights group that the violence by herdsmen was not caused by religion. Shehu, however, argued that the report, with the title, “Harvest ...

Opposition party jealous of farmers’ support for Buhari, says APC The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) of plotting to fleece poor beneficiaries of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN)’s Anchor Borrowers’ Programme, to fund the president’s 2019 re-election bid. The main opposition party, which also accused the ruling party of sundry corrupt activities, alleged that the Buhari Presidency has been secretly diverting huge part of various social intervention funds to fund his campaign, while handing paltry sums to Nigerians. But in a swift reaction, the ruling party said the main opposition party was only being jealous of the support President Buhari is getting from the farmers. No fewer than 12 million farmers across the country are reportedly contributing N100 each to aid Buhari’s re-election bid. The PDP, in a statement issued Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, s...

Hope that strike embarked upon by polytechnic lecturers would be called off before the end of the year was thursday dashed when the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) said it would meet with the federal government negotiation team on January 10, 2019. National President of ASUP, Mr. Usman Dutse, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the new date was communicated to the union. Dutse said the meeting became necessary because the last meeting held on December 17 in Abuja was inconclusive. He said the union would continue with its strike until they were satisfied with the offer from the government. The ASUP president said the report presented by the government during the last meeting was not acceptable to the union. “We are meeting with the federal government representatives on January 10, to continue with our discussion. “The last meeting we had with the government was inconclusive. “We met with the government representatives and we discussed ...