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HEADLINE NEWS. 01/12/2017. I advised AGF Malami to meet with Maina abroad - DG SSS. Interior Ministry reinstated Maina without my approval – HoS. 2,800 delegates for PDP convention. Fulani herders seek FG’s assistance to set up ranches. INEC creates 10 new voters registration centres in each state, FCT. Oil rises as OPEC extends cuts to end of 2018. Saudi Arabia’s revolution from above - Shiomo Ben-Ami. Steve Jobs built Apple into a powerhouse by saying 'no' instead of 'yes'. WhatsApp service resumes after worldwide outage. Snapchat is rolling out a huge update. Woods returns with solid round and good start in Bahamas. Everton name Allardyce as manager.

I advised AGF Malami to meet with Maina abroad - DG DSS . Director General of State Security Services, Mr Lawal Daura, said on Thursday that he advised Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami, to meet with Mr Abdulrasheed Maina abroad. Maina is wanted for alleged pension fraud and is currently on the run from the anti-graft agency, EFCC. Daura, while giving his submission on Thursday to House of Representatives ad-hoc committee investigating Maina’s controversial reinstatement and promotion in the civil service, however said he advised him to do so in presence of a third party. “The attorney general of the federation sometime in 2016 or 2015 (can’t remember the exact day) because it was not through a formal document, placed a call to me when he was outside the country and requested me on a request he got through a source that Maina wanted to meet him.” “He wanted me to advise him whether to agree to see Maina or not in that foreign country.” “I responded t

EXCLUSIVE: Real reasons SEC DG, Gwarzo, was suspended. Just before 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday evening, selected journalists got mails from the finance ministry of an impending ‘news break.’ “Kindly await a major news break from the Federal Ministry of Finance today at 6.30 p.m.,” Oluyinka Akintunde, the spokesperson of the Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun, said; an indication that a decision to be announced to the public about 90 minutes later had already been made. Less than an hour after Mr. Akintunde’s mail, the news was announced. Munir Gwarzo, the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, had been suspended. Suspended alongside Mr. Gwarzo were two officials of the regulatory commission, Abdulsalam Habu, Head of Media Division, and Anastasia Braimoh, Head of Legal Department. The finance ministry in the statement signed by Patricia Deworitshe, Deputy Director, Press, announced that the officials were suspended based on corruption allegations against them.

Modern Day Slavery: Shame on our collective humanity; our complicity in silence makes us all guilty. Graphic Images, viewers discretion is advised:

#IkoyiGate: A Federal  High Court in Lagos has  fixed Jan 12, 2018 for hearing of an application filed by Union Bank claiming ownership of Flat 7b, No 16, Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos, where sums of $43,449,947, £27,800 and N23,218,000 were recovered by the EFCC.

Nigerian roads are not bad, says Fashola. The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Tuesday said Nigerian roads were not as bad as many people were claiming; rather, he stated that the roads needed to be adequately maintained. He, however, noted that some of the roads had outlived their design life, some still within their design life, while others were being built. Fashola stated these in his keynote address at the United Nations-sponsored capacity building programme for the Federal Road Safety Corps, which was made available to our correspondent in Abuja by his ministry. He said roads that had outlived their design life should have been replaced and rebuilt, but they had not, and named the Calabar-Itu-Odukpani road as falling within this category. The minister stated, “They were built in the 1970s, and not only have they outlived their design life, they have had to deal with tonnage and capacities well beyond what their design intended. Can such a