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Jonathan Goodluck

More UMTE Candidates To Be Admitted – President Jonathan.

It has not been a good news to Nigeria UMTE candidates that sat for JAMB examination last Saturday, as the Minister for Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufai announced that only 520,000 of the 1,720,000 candidates will get admission into our Universities [...]

August 23, 2016 Education

BREAKING: Boko Haram Commanders Killed, Shekau Fatally Injured In Major Army Airstrike On Boko Haram

The Nigerian army has claimed that Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau has been “fatally wounded” in an unprecedented air raid that also killed several top commanders of the Islamist group. The claim is yet to be independently verified but the [...]

August 23, 2016 What the papers say

[PHOTO] Man Who Named Dog ‘Buhari’ Reportedly Sent To Prison

Joachim Iroko, The man who named his dog Buhari, was remanded on Monday at the Ibara Prison following his arraignment at the Ota Magistrate Court 2, Ogun State, Punch reports. He was charged to court by the police with conduct [...]

August 23, 2016 What the papers say

‘This Is Barbaric’ – President Buhari Condemns Zamfara Religious Killings

Zamfara Religious Killings – President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned, in strong terms, the killing of eight people in Zamfara state for allegedly blaspheming against Islam and Prophet Muhammad. No fewer than eight persons were killed in Talata-Mafara community following violence [...]

August 23, 2016 Government and politics
Senators Reject Buhari’s Emergency Powers Bill

Senators Reject Buhari’s Emergency Powers Bill, Say It’ll Turn Him into a Tyrant

Senators Reject Buhari’s Emergency Powers Bill – The move by President Muhammadu Buhari to secure emergency powers aimed at addressing the nation’s economic crisis may not see the light of the day, as senators yesterday rejected the proposed bill, saying [...]

August 23, 2016 Government and politics
Chibok Parents

We Voted For Buhari Because We Thought He’d Rescue Our Girls, Chibok Parents Lament

Chibok Parents: Tsambido Hosea, leader of Kibaku area development association, says the Chibok community voted for President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 general election because he promised to rescue the abducted girls, but he has disappointed them.     Speaking [...]

August 23, 2016 General
Abubakar Shekau

‘Spectacular’ Air Strike Inflicts ‘Fatal Shoulder Injury’ On Shekau

The Nigerian military says its “most unprecedented and spectacular air raid” has “fatally wounded” Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram leader, in his shoulders.     Sani Kukasheka Usman, a colonel and acting director of army public relations, made the claim in [...]

August 23, 2016 General
Buhari To Receive 18-Seater Bus Built By N-Delta Youths At Innoson Motors

Buhari To Receive 18-Seater Bus Built By N-Delta Youths At Innoson Motors

18-Seater Bus Built By N-Delta Youths – AN 18 –seater bus built from scratch by former Niger Delta militants trained at Innoson Kiara Academy, an arm of Innoson Motor Manufacturing Company, Nnewi, is to be delivered to President Muhammadu Buhari [...]

August 23, 2016 Technology
8 Died In Zamfara Over Alleged Blasphemy Against Islam

8 Died In Zamfara Over Alleged Blasphemy Against Islam

No fewer than eight persons were terminated on Monday in Talata-Mafara community in Zamfara following the event that erupted over alleged blasphemy against Islam by a student of Abdu Gusau Polytechnic, Talata-Mafara.   The state governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, joined [...]

August 23, 2016 Military
PDP crisis: CJ moves to reconcile contradictory court orders

PDP crisis: CJ moves to reconcile contradictory court orders

The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Ndahi Auta, may have taken steps to correct inconsistencies in court pronouncements, especially over the leadership tussle in the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, over which the integrity of the judiciary [...]

August 23, 2016 What the papers say
Transparency Initiative petitions Buhari over ‘illegalities’ in Aviation College

Transparency Initiative petitions Buhari over ‘illegalities’ in Aviation College

An advocacy group, Transparency Initiative, has petitioned President Muhammadu Bbuhari over alleged rot in the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, NCAT, Zaria.       The group, in a petition by three legal practitioners, Nnaemeka Amaechina, George Nwahajioke and Taiwo [...]

August 23, 2016 What the papers say

Group vows to uphold Nigeria’s unity, tackle corruption

ASABA—THE Society for Peace Studies and Practice, SPSP, has vowed to uphold the unity of Nigeria and continue to fight corruption in the country. By Festus Ahon Rising from its 10th annual convention with theme ‘Curbing Corruption and Building Sustainable [...]

August 23, 2016 What the papers say

Customs, importers bicker over exchange rate differentials

By Godfrey Bivbere & Blessing OyakhireLAGOS — The Nigeria Customs Service, NSC, and importers are currently at loggerheads over foreign exchange differentials, Vanguard investigation has revealed. Customs is insisting that importers pay duties for their goods, which Form “M” was [...]

August 23, 2016 What the papers say
Abakaliki jail break: Human rights group accuses prisons officials of extra-judicial killings

Abakaliki jail break: Human rights group accuses prisons officials of extra-judicial killings

By Peter OkutuABAKALIKI—THE Ebonyi State chapter of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, yesterday, accused officials of Abakaliki federal prisons of extra-judicial killings in the attempted jail-break which occurred at the prisons last week. The accusation became [...]

August 23, 2016 What the papers say

Stripping of girl, 15, in ebonyi: Umahi calls for return of victim

By Peter OkutuABAKALIKI—GOVERNOR David Umahi of Ebonyi State yesterday ordered the return of the 15-year-old girl, Uzoamaka Chukwu, who was stripped and tortured on July 13  by some people in Uburu, Ohaozara Local Government Area of the State. Uzoamaka This is barely [...]

August 23, 2016 What the papers say
Wither Rivers election rerun?

Wither Rivers election rerun?

The decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to, again, postpone the re-run legislative elections in Rivers State is a serious setback to the consolidation of democracy in the state. It is also a bad omen for the rest [...]

August 23, 2016 What the papers say
Police, NSCDC, DSS bar #BBOG from entering Aso Villa

Video: Watch as ‎Police, NSCDC, DSS bar #BBOG from entering Aso Villa

      Vanguard News [...]

August 23, 2016 Video