News, Events, Entertainment, Sports and Lifestyle

Kogi State Governor, Alh. Yahaya Bello has reiterated the determination of the people of the state and Nigerians in general to ensure President Muhammadu Buhari continues his “good work for the nation beyond 2015”. Addressing a cross section of the media in Abuja, Sunday, Bello said President Muhammadu Buhari remains the “unbeatable candidate for the APC”. “We are a Democratic Party who will do everything within the ambience of the rule of law. But we cannot forget that our party has the most respected, the most popular and the most incorrigible material in the person of President Muhammadu Buhari. All over the world, his name represents anti-corruption, transparency and good governance.

President Muhammadu Buhari has hosted three of his young admirers in his office at the presidential villa, Abuja. Nicole Benson, from Lagos, Maya Jamal from Abuja and Aisha Gebbi from Bauchi have all professed their support for the president in different ways. See photos: Attached Files: child1.jpg

The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Caretaker Committee, Senator Ahmed Makarfi has reveled why the party under Former President Goodluck Jonathan lost the 2015 presidential electio. He listed the reasons as follows: 1. The party was not communicating well with the electorates. 2. He said other factors that led to the party losing the Presidential seat was because it forwarded Jonathan for a second term instead of fielding a northern candidate. 3. There was a lot of propaganda against the party then and that the party failed to dilute the propaganda, the consequences which saw them packing from the Aso Villa. 4. He said the then opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, party poisoned the minds of Nigerians in the north with untrue stories of insecurity, especially tagging it with the terrorist Boko Haram insurgents. Senator Makarfi gave the statement when he appeared on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics also however said that PDP is better positioned now ...

Former militants are currently protesting in Benin, Edo state over their unpaid monthly allowance, New Telegraph reports. The ex-militants who are under the First Phase in Niger Delta, in Edo State, appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to prevail on Gen. Paul Boroh, to pay them their three months stipend of N65,000, which they claimed have been stopped. They stated that the non-payment of their monthly stipends is likely to disrupt the relative peace been experienced in the Nigerian Delta if urgent steps are not taken to immediately address the issue.  See photos:

Federal government may soon outlaw sending of vital bank details via short message services (SMS) in Nigeria because of its associated risks. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said it was already engaging with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to find better ways of doing it. Executive Vice Chairman, NCC, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, made this known at the consumer conversation held in Minna, Niger State capital, adding that the commission was already engaging with the CBN to find ways to ensure that mobile phone users’ vital information relating to their bank accounts and financial transactions were not jeopardised should their phones get lost or stolen. Director and the Head of Zonal Operations Department, Helen Obi, who represented Danbatta at the event, said NCC would shield phone users in the country against any harm that could get to them or to their property through the use of telecom services.   Obi advised phone users to adequately protect their PINs and not c...

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has said that there was no policy for issuance of visa on arrival Africans visiting the country. A statement by the Service’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Sunday James, an Assistant Comptroller of Immigration (ACI), said the clarification had become necessary, in view of a “recently circulated visa policy”. James said: “As the Federal Government of Nigeria’s lead and foremost agency saddled with the responsibility for the regulation and enforcement of migration laws of the country, the Nigeria Immigration Service states clearly that; no such decision was in place, it is an unconfirmed and yet to be considered policy of the government of Nigeria. “Though the AU has advocated for a “Single African Passport” aimed at improving Intra-African trade and relations and has called for the abolition of Visa requirements for all African Citizens in the years to come “as a follow-up to the 2016 electronic African Union Passport launched and issued to heads o...