Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Monday, again described the present regime led by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), as worse than a military government. Ortom who spoke to journalists in Makurdi after his return from Abuja said that the nation had not been so divided as it is under the present regime, stressing that the worst military goverment is better than it. He, however, said that the success of the Peoples Democratic Party convention last Saturday has rekindled the hope of Nigerians and assured them that the party is poised to take over power. “We (PDP) are…
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Residents of Ado Ekiti, on Sunday, experienced scarcity of premium motor spirit, known as petrol. Many filling stations within the city were not open for business. The few ones operating, including the NNPC, were jam-packed by motorists and motorcyclists. Traders and artisans were also seen moving around the city in search for stations operating so as to procure the commodity. As of the time of this report, no one could ascertain the cause of the scarcity as authorities of filling stations approached declined comment. Meanwhile, the development has led to increase in prices of transportation as motorists and motorcyclists now…
Veteran comedian Francis Agoda, also known as I Go Dye, has spoken on the sex tape scandals that recently hit the Nigerian entertainment industry. According to him, leaked sex tapes especially by African entertainers are likely to be intentional. I Go Dye said Africans are generally more reserved in matters of sex, and many kids have had to live with their parents in a room. The comedian said, despite this, African children hardly see their parents during their intimate moments. The funnyman, via Instagram, wrote: “The way we are expressly showing our nakedness and sex tapes as a mistake, is…
Presidential spokesman Femi Adesina has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s threat, and subsequent implementation, of a divisive allocation of position and federal resources on the basis of 2015 election results was politically expedient. “It is natural in politics,” Mr Adesina told Vanguard when asked about the controversial approach in an interview published on Sunday. Mr Buhari faced criticism in July 2015 when he said he would be more attuned to favouring regions that gave him electoral victory during the March 28, 2015, presidential poll than those who voted for his opponent. “The constituents, for example, that gave me 97 per cent [of the vote]…
Voting for offices into the National Working Committee of the PDP ended at 12:36am. Counting of votes began and Ahmadu Fintiri, Governor of Adamawa state and Chairman National Convention Organizing Committee, announced the results of the election as follows: Adamu Kamale, Deputy National Financial Secretary – Unopposed Timothy Osadolor, Deputy National Youth Leader – Unopposed Hajara Yakubu Wanka, Deputy National Women Leader – Unopposed Adbulrahaman Mohammed,Deputy National Auditor – Unopposed Okechukwu Osuoha, Deputy National Legal Adviser – Unopposed Ndubuisi David, Deputy National Treasurer – Unopposed Ibrahim Abdullahi, Deputy National Publicity Secretary – Unopposed Sen. Ighoyota Amori – Deputy National Organising…
Long arms of the law have caught up with some government officials who were alleged to have stolen the child of a mentally challenged woman that was in their care. The defendants; Sarumi Adeyemi and Orisamehin Florence Bosede are senior officials of the Ondo State ministry of Women affairs with the former being on a director’s cadre. After facing disciplinary action from the ministry, the duo are currently appearing before an Akure high court judge and were charged with the offences of conspiracy and child stealing. According to an information filed by the prosecution led by Bunmi Koyenikan of the…
Ed Sheeran has expanded his ‘mini-village’, buying a fourth neighbour’s house after she objected to his extensive building work. Most of us with nagging neighbours have to put up with it and hope for the best but if you’re Ed Sheeran, you can just buy their house off them to make the problems go away. Ed’s been working on building himself a mini village after buying up a fourth house next to his farmhouse – which also gets rid of the problem of his neighbour complaining about his building works. The Cross Me star, whose new album No. 6 Collaborations…
More women are going to school more than ever before. Education is now the cornerstone of equality. However, the story is different in Nigeria, where 43 per cent of girls are married off before their 18th birthday. In this piece, VICTOR OKEKE writes on how this constitutes a cog in the wheel of girl-child education. A UNESCO report released on the occasion of the International Day of the Girl Child (11 October) shows that 180 million more girls have enrolled in primary and secondary education since 1995. Three times more women are also now enrolled in universities than two decades…
The eNaira Speed Wallet app is back on Google Store 24 hours after a technical outage. The app had garnered more than 100,000 downloads before the sudden disappearance on Wednesday. However, the app had met with criticism as users struggled to link their emails and BVNs. The spokesperson for the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Osita Nwanisobi, had disclosed that the removal was to help the apex bank upgrade the app’s
The University of Aberdeen, Scotland has returned a Benin Bronze head, one of thousands of religious and cultural artifacts looted in ancient Benin kingdom by British forces in 1897. The sculpture, which depicts the head of an Oba (king) and stolen during the destruction of Benin City by the British military expedition, was handed over at a ceremony on Thursday in Aberdeen. According to a statement made available to newsmen on the handing, the artifact was purchased by the University of Aberdeen at an auction in 1957. Mr Babatunde Adebiyi, the Legal Adviser of the National Commission for Museums and…