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Stefflon Don has put to rest the rumours of her split from lover, Burna Boy. Stefflon Don has come out to deny the rumours spreading around that her relationship with Burna Boy had crashed. [BukiHQ] Stefflon Don has come out to deny the rumours spreading around that her relationship with Burna Boy has crashed. ...

The presidency has urged Nigerians at home and abroad to disregard concocted stories, backed with spurious visuals, of any protest or harassment of the President & his team. President Buhari in Japan (Twitter @ObiKingzley) This was contained in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina via the presidency's twitter handle on Monday, August 26 2019. ...

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on Monday said that donations to institutions for promoting peace in Nigeria and Africa ought not to be criminalised. Atiku Abubakar  Abubakar, in a statement issued by his Media Office in Abuja, said that presidential libraries in America and other parts of the world were funded by donations from civic-minded individuals. ...

Ministers, permanent secretaries to sign performance bond The presidency at the weekend defended the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari during the recent ministerial retreat that all requests by ministers for his attention should be routed through the Chief of Staff, Mallam Abba Kyari. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said in a statement that contrary to reactions trailing the president’s remark, the roles of the chief of staff hitherto, which included arranging the schedule of the president’s appointments, remained the same as nothing has been added to or taken away from them. According to the statement, the roles of the chief of staff in the administration of Buhari are not different from what is obtainable in the United States where Nigeria copied its presidential system from. The statement said it was the responsibility of the chief of staff to maintain pre...

Caroline Danjuma Nollywood superstar Caroline Danjuma is in the news again. This time, she hasn’t been accused of doing some unprintable things in her marriage. Nor is she at the centre of a tug-of-war between men with delusions of seizing her heart. Contrary to how she was the centre of attention for all the wrong reasons a few years back, the svelte actress is actually trending for a good reason. The rumour mill has it that the former love of billionaire business man, Musa Danjuma’s life has commenced a ehiteindnromancd with another handsome hunk. It has been a few years since she and Musa parted ways in less than amicable circumstances amidst allegations infidelity. Musa has since moved on with his life, being linked with one popular lady here and there. Caroline, who was born to a Scottish father and Nigerian mother, has decided to also put her legs on the brakes and speed elsewhere in search of permanent solace. If news making the rounds is to be belie...

Musa Bello Preparatory to the planned land revocation in the serviced areas of the Phases I, II & III of the Federal Capital City, Abuja, the FCT Administration has taken inventory of the affected plots of land. The FCT Director of Land Administration, Adamu Jibrin Hussaini made this disclosure recently in his office, while hosting post graduate students in Sustainable Urban Development from the Centre for Human Settlements and Urban Development of the Federal University of Technology, Minna that were in Abuja on study tour. The group, led by the Director of the Centre, Professor Mohammed Bashir Nuhu, was received by Hussaini, accompanied by the Director of the Abuja Geographic Information Systems, Dr. Isa Ibrahim Jalo. The Director recalled that advertisement was placed in three national dailies in line with the Federal Capital Territory Executive Committee’s approval that the Department of Land Administration commence the process of revocation o...

Musa Bell Nothing more demonstrates the phrase that “hard work pays” than the recent reappointment of Malam Muhammad Musa Bello as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory for another four years tenure. Muhammad Bello’s reappointment is a confirmation that there is indeed a shift in the trajectory and reward system of the present administration headed by President Muhammadu Buhari, from cronyism which used to be the major consideration for who occupies what political office, to the morally and universally acceptable concept of competence and performance. There is a generally agreed concept that any system that does not reward hard work is setting itself up for failure. Also, a system that prioritizes “who you know” over and above competence and capability will simply find itself running round in unending vicious circles. It is therefore gladdening to see that President Buhari in his wisdom is gradually reversing this trend with the reappointment o...

Deputy Governor John Jonah has what it takes to take Bayelsa to the Promised Land. Obiora Chukwumba A sketch of today’s Nigeria reveals signs of a failing state. Her life’s journey has been mapped in deplorable milestones. And the signs of the invidious history repeating itself loom large. The absurdity index in Nigeria is deepening. For instance, insecurity is not merely recurring, it is multiplying. Corruption is escalating. The divisions across the hems of differences among the people are aggravating irretrievably. It is for this reason that those who are familiar with the tragic sequence of events that lead to state failure are fearful that the case of Nigeria is, ominously, a matter of time. Standing from where Karl Maier, author of the searing prophetic political portrait of Nigeria, you will not fail to see that indeed, this house has fallen. Public trust on the leadership ebbs exponentially. The discerning amon...

Yemi Osinbajo Electricity supply to Nigeria’s national grid has remained abysmally low at an average of 3,876MW in 2019 due largely to poor distribution infrastructure, a report from the Advisory Power Team in the Office of the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday showed. The report, which was obtained by THISDAY, indicated that power supply from the national grid to homes and offices in Nigeria has remained at an average low of 3,876 MW from January to August, and four months into the second term of President Muhammadu Buhari. Osinbajo’s office stated that between January and August, the country’s average power supply levels remained at 3,876MW. The records indicated that the average volume of power constrained daily from getting to the grid on account of poor transmission and distribution infrastructure as well as shortage in gas supply among other issues was 3,288MW. The development also ensured that up to N383.528 billion has been lost b...

The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has dismissed the suit challenging the planned adoption of indirect system of electing candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC ) for the November 16, 2019 governorship election in Kogi State. Justice Taiwo Taiwo, in a judgment delivered yesterday, dismissed the suit on the grounds that it was affected by the 4th alteration to the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The plaintiffs, Destiny Aromeh, Isah Abubakar, Noah Aku and Joy Onu, are said to be of the Haddy Ametuo-led executive committee of the APC in the state. They had in an exparte application marked: CS/833/19, asked the court to restrain the party from adopting the indirect voting mode of selecting its candidate for the November 16, governorship election. The plaintiffs, who also claimed to be delegates in the primary election slated for August 29, predicated their actions on the grounds that the indirect sy...

Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has congratulated Deltans on the occasion of the 28th anniversary of the creation of the state today (Tuesday). Okowa, in a message in Asaba by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Olisa Ifeajika, thanked the people of the state for their resilience, patience, cooperation and support to all administrations that had governed the state in the last 28 years. He assured that his administration would continue to build on the gains recorded by his predecessors in order to create a stronger Delta. Felicitating with citizens of the state on the anniversary, the governor said “our beloved state has continued to blossom in spite of challenges confronting us as a people,” adding that ‘’my administration appreciates Deltans for their resilience and peaceful co-existence among us.” “In the last four years that we have been on the saddle, we have continued to build on the gains recorded by our predecessors and I ass...

President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari Monday arrived Yokohama, Japan where he is billed to participate in the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7) taking place in the city from August 28-30, 2019. The president who arrived at 8pm Japanese time (12 noon Nigerian time), was ceived at the Tokyo Airport by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, and the Nigerian Ambassador to Japan, Prof. Mohammed Yisa. He arrived in company of Lagos and Kwara State governors, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Abdulrazak Abdulrahman. The president will be participating in the conference for the second time, having graced TICAD6 which held in Nairobi, Kenya, in August 2016. This year’s theme of the conference is titled, “Africa and Yokohama, Sharing Passion for the Future,” and will be declared open by the Japanese Prime Minister and host, Shinzo Abe. A statement issued on Friday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity...

President Muhammadu Buhari arrived Tokyo on Monday ahead of the 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development billed to hold on August 28, 29 and 30. The first set of photographs released by the president’s media team showed President Buhari with Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama and Nigerian Ambassador to Japan Amb. Mohammed Gana Yisa.

The federal governmemt Monday declosed that 9,658 of the 65,000 pilgrims that performed the Hajj in Saudi Arabia this year have been airlifted to the country since the in bound airlifting of Nigerian pilgrims that performed the Islamic religious rites began on August 17. The fast tracking of the airlifting process is in the light of the deadline of September 14 by the Saudi Arabian authority that all pilgrims that performed the hajj must return to their countries as King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah will cease attending to hajj pilgrims after the expiration of the deadline. The Head, Public Affairs National Hajj Commission of Nigera (NAHCON), Fatima Sanda Usara, in a statement on Monday, said that two airline operators, Max Air and FlyNas had operated a total of 21 flights from Jeddah that conveyed the pilgrims back to Nigeria. Distribution of the flights so far shows Max Air has conveyed 5,428 pilgrims in 11 trips, while FlyN...

Following the indictment of 77 Nigerians by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in the United States, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has placed all its offices in the country on red alert in a bid to track down collaborators of the Internet scam in Nigeria. The anti-graft agency had said weekend that it had commenced investigations into the matter and would storm hideouts of cyber criminals in the country. EREPORTER checks showed that the EFCC had spread out its dragnet across the country with a view to tracking down the collaborators of the Internet scammers indicted in the United States. US authorities while filling court papers on the matter, announced an indictment charging 80 people, mostly Nigerians, with stealing at least $46 million through various schemes that targeted businesses, the elderly and anyone susceptible to a romance scam. “We believe this is one of the largest cases of its kind in US his...