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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...

PMB and his league of hypocritic patriots.

Lionel Messi signs new Barcelona contract until 2021 *Buyout clause: €700m. Lionel Messi has ended speculation about his future by signing a new contract with Barcelona until 2021. Messi's previous deal had been due to expire at the end of the season, but this is the ninth professional contract the Argentina international has signed since he moved to the Camp Nou and commits him to the club until he is 34. Barca announced the news in an an official club statement, which read: "FC Barcelona and Lionel Messi signed on Saturday morning a new contract that will keep the Argentinian superstar at the Club through the 2020/21 season. "The buyout clause was set at €700m. Thus, by the time the new deal expires, the 30-year-old striker will have spent 17 years with the first team." On his official Twitter account, Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu said: "We are in luck with the Barça players. We continue to enjoy the best player in the history of footba...

PMB's cesspool of corruption.

Tiwa Savage explains why she was without an underwear at AFRIMA. It appears stepping out without underwear has become part of Mavin Records first lady, Tiwa Savage style sense and she has gradually come to accept it that way. The Kele Kele Love singer stepped out for the just held Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) at the Eko Hotel & Suites Victoria Island, Lagos in an exquisite outfit that left the cameras clicking at her every move. Hours after the show, the All Over singer took to the Instagram to announce that the dress took her designer two months to make and she was told not to wear anything underneath, because everything has been put in place to cover the vital parts of her body. “Where do I start with this dress…so this custom piece took over two months to make because it was hand made from scratch; each crystal, each tassel…Gertz told me to be bold and wear absolutely nothing under because he has placed everything in the right place to cover my ‘bits’ in his own words and...

Sat 25th Nov 2017 News update compiled from Punch, Channels, Reuters and other News sites https://www.channelstv.com/2017/11/24/breaking-former-vice-president-atiku-abubaka-dumps-apc/ https://www.channelstv.com/2017/11/24/apc-not-worried-about-atikus-resignation/ Atiku’s exit: Panic in APC as mass defection looms We’re yet to receive Atiku’s resignation letter – APC I left APC because it has failed Nigerian youths –Atiku https://www.channelstv.com/2017/11/24/breaking-wife-remanded-prison-allegedly-killing-husband-bilyamin-bello/ Ex-PDP chair’s son: Command obtains CCTV footage, arrests guards 2019: No automatic ticket for Atiku, says PDP Fear of parallel convention grips PDP As a war correspondent, we were told to eat dead people as suya –Sobowale Undergraduate commits suicide in Bauchi IPOB: Kanu should opt for dialogue, not secession, says Gowon Ogun DPO locks up rape victim •Alleged rapist accuses victim of stealing meat, flees Former aide of pastor arres...

Robinho sentenced to nine years in prison for 2013 sexual assault. Former Brazil forward Robinho has been found guilty of sexual assault and was sentenced to nine years in prison by an Italian court on Thursday. According to La Stampa, Robinho, who now plays for Brazilian side Atletico Mineiro, and a friend have also been ordered to pay the victim €60,000 ($71,097). The outlet reports that the two men, along with a group of four other people who have not been identified and therefore have not been sentenced, got a woman drunk and assaulted her at a Milan nightclub in January 2013. The Italian justice system permits several levels of appeal. According to reports, the verdict is placed on hold until all have been exhausted. Robinho, who then played for AC Milan, denied any wrongdoing at the time of the allegations, and his lawyer, Marisa Alija, reiterated on Thursday that the player had no involvement in the incident and has already made legal arrangements to fight the decision...

Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar A former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has dumped Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Mr. Abubakar in a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES narrated his reasons for leaving the party. The former vice president who challenged President Muhammadu Buhari for the APC ticket in the build up to the 2015 elections did not indicate the new party he would join. Many members of the main opposition PDP, a party Mr. Abubakar helped form, have, however been asking him to rejoin the party. Read Mr. Abubakar’s full statement below. On the 19th of December, 2013, I received members of the All Progressives Congress at my house in Abuja. They had come to appeal to me to join their party after my party, the Peoples Democratic Party, had become factionalized as a result of the special convention of August 31, 2013. The fractionalization of the Peoples Democratic Party on August 31, 2013 had left me in a situation where I was, with several other...

Former Nigeria striker Yakubu calls it a day. Former Nigeria international Yakubu Aiyegbeni has announced his retirement from football. The 35-year-old, who spent a decade playing in England for the likes of Portsmouth, Middlesbrough, Everton, Leicester City, Blackburn Rovers and Reading, has been without a club since leaving Coventry City after just three games in April. "I would like to officially announce my retirement from professional football today," he told SkySports. "Firstly, I would like to thank God for the career I have had. I would like to thank the entire Nigerian Football Federation and my Nigerian national team-mates for all the memorable years I had playing for the Super Eagles. "I would also like to thank all the football clubs I played for. The managers, all club staff, owners, fellow players and my dearest family and friends who immensely supported me throughout my career. "When I started my career at Julius Berger in Nigeria all...

Robert Mugabe resigns after 37 years as Zimbabwe's leader. (CNN)Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has resigned after 37 years of autocratic rule, finally succumbing to the pressure of a military takeover and the humiliation of impeachment. The announcement came minutes into a joint session of the Zimbabwean Parliament in Harare, convened to prise the 93-year-old from power. As the Speaker read out a letter from Mugabe, lawmakers broke out in thunderous applause. In the streets outside, crowds erupted in rapturous celebrations, dancing and cheering in joy, some raising their fists and waving Zimbabwean flags. "We think that this is the work of God," one young man told CNN in Harare. "We were in crisis for a long time, and this is a new day for Zimbabweans." In his letter, Mugabe insisted that his resignation was voluntary. "I have resigned to allow smooth transfer of power," he wrote. "Kindly give public notice of my decision as so...

Man jailed for stealing Mosquito net in Ibadan A Mapo Senior Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Monday jailed a 20-year-old man, Olalekan Adebisi, for six months for stealing 50 pieces of mosquito nets. The Senior Magistrate, Mrs Mercy Aderounmu noted that the convict had already spent five months in Agodi Prison due to his inability to perfect the bail conditions of N50, 000 earlier granted him. The magistrate said that the convict would now do a community service for four weeks within the court premises. Adebisi of no fixed address was first arraigned on June 7 on a count charge of stealing. He then pleaded not guilty and was admitted to bail with two sureties in like sum, but could not perfect the bail conditions. Adebisi later changed his plea to guilty on Nov. 13, after spending five months in prison custody, and the case was adjourned until Nov. 20 for facts and sentences. Presenting the facts before the court on Monday, the prosecutor, Cpl. Philip Amusan, ...

2019 election: Why Buhari should go home and rest – Senator El-Jibrin Dogowa. First elected Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kano State, Senator Mas’ud El-Jibrin Dogowa has given reasons President Muhammadu Buhari should not bother to seek reelection come 2019. Dogowa, who represented Kano North Senatorial Zone in the national assembly highlighted security and economic issues facing the country, and lamented Buhari’s inability to tackle them squarely due to his frail health. Speaking with Sun, the ex-lawmaker advised President Buhari “to go home and rest.” According to him, “You see I don’t want to talk for APC. I am not an APC man. “But I want you to talk as a Nigerian affected by governance. “Okay…when you look at the level of insecurity in the country, when you look at the level of disunity among different sections of this country. “When you look at the rate of inflation and the attendant hardship in the polity and when you look at the rate of unemployment s...

"President Buhari is a very good leader, honest and reliable." "He supervised a credible election in Anambra and a Winner had emerged." "I will not go to court. I will only congratulate Governor Obiano."    — Tony Nwoye, APC Flag-bearer.

BREAKING: Ex-VP, Alex Ekwueme dies. — 20th November 2017. Former Vice President of Nigeria, Dr Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme is dead. A statement from his family signed by his brother and the traditional ruler of Oko in Anambra State, Igwe Laz Ekwueme said that he died by 10:00pm in a London clinic, Sunday. The statement read: “Ekwueme family regrets to announce the peaceful passing away of their patriarch, the former Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Dr Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme GCON. “The sad event occurred at the London Clinic at 10:00 pm on Sunday 19th November 2017.” Ekwueme had slumped in his Enugu residence, and immediately taken to the Memfys Neurosurgery Hospital Enugu, where he relapsed and went into coma. As soon as he was stabilised in the hospital he was flown to London in an air ambulance last week. - [SunNewsOnline]

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