Gunmen, in the early hours of Friday, reportedly abducted family members and two others in Barakallahu, a town in Kaduna metropolis, The Cable reports. Abdulsalam Haruna, a resident of the community, said the gunmen attacked his home and took away his wife and four children. He added that his neighbour’s two children were taken away during the attack. “The incident happened at about 1:30am (on Friday). They broke my gate and came into my compound. They broke the door to my house and ordered everybody to follow them. They went away with my wife and four of my children, two…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has explained the reason his administration took the decision to halt the importation of food into Nigeria. Speaking at a virtual meeting with members of the Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC) at the State House, in Abuja, on Tuesday, President Buhari said the decision was taken to save jobs and foreign exchange. He stressed that if his administration had not encourage the people to massively invest in agriculture, Nigeria would have been in trouble given the twin impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and the current flooding disaster. “For us to bounce back to productivity, especially in agriculture,…
Nothing puts greater timbre on the parlous state of security in the country than the denudation of the virtual hedges and moats around the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and the disarray of the phalanx of boots in the city. Abuja was once assumed to be impregnable and residents lived with a false sense of security. But the terrorist blitzes in the national’s capital in 2013 and 2014 jolted many out of the reverie. With the dawning of the Buhari administration, the bombing in the city petered out. The security forces also appeared to have nicked the insecurity in the north-east…
As an opposition political party the All Progressive Congress (APC) had claimed that fuel subsidy was a fraud perpetrated by the Peoples Democratic Party-led administration. Its presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) had promised to stop such fraudulent subsidy. He also promised to make the comatose refineries work and build new ones if elected by Nigerians. Being a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Nigerians believed the APC flag bearer as he spoke so authoritatively while flaunting his record of performance in the management of the petroleum industry in the 1970s. But as soon as the APC won the 2015 general…
There has been another massive fire outbreak in the Port of Beirut, Lebanon, month after an huge explosion rocked the Middle East country claiming over 200 people. Lebanese Army said the blaze which occurred on Thursday erupted at a warehouse storing oils and tyres in the port’s Duty Free area. A security source told Al Jazeera that the fire broke out in a storage area used by BCC Logistics. The source added that the fire was outside the “red zone” central to the blast investigation, in an area of the port that has since resumed operations. It is still unclear…
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has mocked Agboola Ajayi, his Deputy and rival in the governorship election contest in the state. In an interview with Arise TV on Monday, Governor Akeredolu described Ajayi who is the candidate of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) as unfit to run for the office of the governor, wondering what he can offer the people of the state if elected. The Governor, however, hailed Eyitayo jegede of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), describing him as a worthy contender. “Eyitayo Jegede is my colleague; he is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria; he is worthy of…
“So this is how we will just adjust to the new fuel price at the petrol stations, and government will get away with the imposition of greater hardship on the people?” “No. Government is very clear. The fuel subsidy regime is not sustainable. The PPMC, NNPC and the PPPRA made that clear in April. What they said was that the Federal Government can no longer pay subsidies on petrol and that prices will be determined by market forces. In any case, there is no provision for subsidy payments in the 2020 budget” “How about the billions that were paid in…
Sada Soli, lawmaker representing Kaita/Jibia Federal Constituency, Katsina State, has declared support for the Water Resources Bill which seeks to bring all water resources; both surface and underground, and the banks of the water sources under the control of the Federal Government. Reacting to concerns by many that the bill was illegally introduced to the Lower Chamber, Soli clarified, in an interview with Thisday, that it was not true, noting that perhaps they were absent when it was introduced. “The bill can’t be stepped down because the House has passed it already; the lawmakers that are saying that they will…
Just yesterday — March 10, 2010 – Nigerians bent the capricious hand of kismet; they rose against the pirating of the presidency. Nigerian libertarians, in their hundreds, converged on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and marched to the residence of authority, demanding the actuation of the ‘’doctrine of necessity’’. The ailing Umaru Musa Yar’Adua had just been snaked into the country from Saudi Arabia while a coterie of scavengers held power by the jugular and were unwilling to relax their grip. Nigerians of all religion, tongues and tribes rose and defied impunity. It did not matter that the beneficiary (Goodluck…
Nigeria has secured a landmark victory in its pursuit to overturn a $10 billion judgement awarded against it in a case against Process and Industrial Developments (P&ID), The Cable reports. Delivering his judgement on Thursday, Ross Cranston, a judge of the Business and Property Courts of England and Wales, granted Nigeria’s application for an extension of time and relief from sanctions. On January 31, 2017, a tribunal had ruled that Nigeria should pay P&ID $6.6 billion as damages, as well as pre- and post-judgment interest at 7 percent. The current outstanding amount is estimated at $10 billion. The federal government…
Wathoni, evicted Big Brother Naija season 5 housemate, has confirmed the raunchy acts of fellow housemates, Kiddwaya and Erica in the house. Erica had on Wednesday night told Neo that she did everything intimate with Kiddwaya at the Head of House (HoH) room. Confirming in an interview, Wathoni said she has seen the lovers do ‘bad stuff’ because her bed is adjacent to Kiddwaya’s. The evicted housemate of the reality TV show added that she feels it was the reason she and Erica usually had issues in the house. “The attraction was because he is a cute guy, he speaks…
The Federal Government has brand as fake the Bilateral Education Agreement (BEA) viral scholarship list on various social media platforms and urged Nigerians to disregard such information. The viral scholarship titled “JUSTICE TO ONE IS JUSTICE TO ALL”, was attached to a letter purportedly written by a Nigerian abroad and addressed to Adamu Adamu, Minister of Education, over an alleged skewness of the scholarships awarded. The list was labelled “anti north” as 19 northern states had only 21 candidates, while 17 southern states had 70. But Ben Bem Goong, Ministry of Education’s Director of Press and Public Relations, reacting to the letter,…