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Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Wednesday released breakdown of registered Voters by Local government areas for the 18th November Governorship election.  See photo: Attached Files:

At least three local government areas in Nigeria are still cut off due to the presence of Boko Haram insurgents, the United Nations has said. The claim is coming weeks after the military command in northeast Nigeria announced that no part of Borno state was under the control of the deadly group. READ MORE HERE Attached Files:

The All Progressives Congress (APC), Elele Leadership Caucus, in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State, has threatened to recall the member representing Ikwerre/Emohua Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Chidi Wihioka, over alleged misrepresentation. It has also said that Hon. Wihioka risked expulsion from the party in his constituency for anti-party activities. The APC Elele Leadership Caucus’ resolution was contained in a statement signed by 20 prominent members of the party, after a crucial meeting in the Local Government Area. The local council’s party leadership said Hon. Wihioka had since been removed as their caucus leader and advised him to stop speaking for them at all levels. The party caucus reaffirmed their loyalty to President Muhammadu Buhari, Rotimi Amaechi and Chibuike Ikenga at all the levels of the party. They called on party members to focus on uniting and building the party, rather than waste their energy on who would be the party’s flag-...

The House of Representatives has mandated its Ad Hoc Committee on Bailout Funds to investigate non-payment of salaries of Kogi workers and report back within one week. The House also mandated the Central Bank Of Nigeria (CBN) to within one week report and explain the utilization of Salary Bail-out Fund given to states. The directives followed a unanimous adoption of a Motion of Urgent National Importance moved by Rep. Sunday Karimi (Kogi-PDP) at the plenary presided by the Speaker, Mr Yakubu Dogara on Tuesday. Moving the motion, Karim said in spite the federal statutory allocation, salary bail-out funds and Paris Club refund received by Kogi Government, non-payment of state and local government workers salaries lingered. He said Mr Edward Soje, a Director in the Kogi Civil Service Commission committed suicide for not being able to meet his obligations as a father and a husband. The legislator said the deceased took his life after his wife was delivered of a set of triplet at an Abuja h...

The Family members of former chairman of Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration begged the former pension boss to join the change agenda, with the assurance of security protection. The family disclosed this during a press conference in Kaduna on Wednesday. They added that their son is not a fraudster but a messiah who brought reforms into the pension scheme. The spokesman of the family, Aliyu Maina said based on his “sterling record” at the scheme, the government of President Muhammadu Buhari appealed to Maina to key into the “change agenda”. Aliyu wondered why government officials were denying his brother, especially when the Department of State Services (DSS) provided security for him. “It is on record that Abdulrasheed Maina’s reform put to a stop the fraudulent withdrawal of huge sums from both the Nigerian Pension Board, the Nigerian Police Pension Board, etc. Perhaps it is his noble efforts that ...

Former Military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd) has disclosed how lies by late warlord, Odumegu Ojukwu after the Aburi accord led to Biafra civil war, between 1967 and 1970. Gowon made the claim while giving insight into what happened at the Aburi Conference, in Ghana, convened to resolve Nigeria’s political logjam. READ MORE HERE Attached Files:

Mohammed VI, Morocco’s King recently fired four ministers for delaying development programs set up to benefit the northern region of the country. The development project which accounts for about $700 million is said to cover programs to help improve Education, Health, Housing and training. According to the statement released by the royal palace on Tuesday, the ministers of education, health and housing, and a junior minister of professional training were expelled following the report on the mountainous Rif region by the kingdom’s accounting office. The auditors’ report found that “several sectors of government and public institutions” haven’t fulfilled their commitments in implementing the development projects. AP reported. The one year protest the death of a local vendor who was crushed in a garbage truck while trying to retrieve fish seized by police prompted a protest movement that exposed the delayed implementation of the projects. Attached Files:

President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to immediately reshuffle his kitchen cabinet, following the scandal surrounding the reinstatement of the dismissed former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, into the Federal Civil Service. The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), in a statement issued on Wednesday, by its Secretary-General, Comrade Alade Bashir Lawal, expressed sadness that Maina, sacked in 2013 for sharp practices in respect of about N2 billion pension funds, was smuggled back into the Federal Civil Service by key Government Officials close to Mr President. He said: ‘’If the President does not act to replace some of his personal aides that are besmearing the image of his government, the impression will continue to be created that he may be privy to their ignoble acts. ‘’Besides, apart from dismissing Abdulrasheed Maina from Service, relevant Government Agencies should take necessary steps to bring him to ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday mandated its bailiff to serve former President Goodluck Jonathan with summons within five days. Justice Abang Okon held that the order will enable Jonathan to appear in court to testify in the trial of former National Publicity Secretary of the People Democratic Party, PDP, Olisah Metuh. The judge also ordered the prosecution to persuade the Department of State Security (DSS) to produce the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki in court at the next trial date. Attached Files:

Family of embattled former chairman of the Presidential Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, has vowed to expose the 'cabal' in Aso rock behind their son's ordeal on his reinstatement to the federal civil service. The Family also said it would drgag the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to court for sealing six houses allegedly belonging to Maina. The EFCC had, on Tuesday, in Kaduna, sealed and marked the said six houses for investigation. To this end, the family said a lawyer has been contacted to seek redress in court to redeem the battered image of the family. The family also said ‘those cabals in Aso Rock, implicating their son will soon be exposed’. “You must have noticed the recent attempt by some cabal to ridicule and tarnish the image of the Maina family in both the social and electronic and print media. “Where our brother,father, and uncle have been blackmailed as a fraudster. The cabals have gone to the extent of marking our house red pain...

The family of Abdulraaheed Maina have come out and firmly put Nigeria's president Buhari in the middle of the whole saga.  In a report which has appeared on Daily Trust newspaper, the family stated that Abdulrasheed Maina went on self-exile over threats to his life and only came back after being invited by the president. They also claim that the current issues are not really targeted at Maina but at President Buhari. To defend the family name, they have pledged to expose those behind the current campaign against their son.

Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi west Senatorial district has likened civil servants in the state to Internally Displaced Persons (IPDs). The House of Representatives also on Wednesday mandated its Ad Hoc Committee on Bailout Funds to investigate non-payment of salaries of Kogi workers and report back within one week. Melayem who is coordinating about 40 of his colleagues to donate no fewer than 1, 260 bags of rice to civil servants in the state said the move was borne out of the pitiable condition of workers in the state.   Melaye, who raised the issue on the floor of the Senate and later briefed newsmen, said many civil servants in the state could no longer feed their families, following the alleged refusal of the state government to pay months of outstanding salaries. He said the food items, when collated, would be shared equally among civil servants in the 21 local government areas of the state.

American actress Heather Lind, 34, has accused the former President of America, Goerge W Bush Senior, 94, of sexually assaulting her in 2014 during a photo shoot to promote her television series 'Turn: Washington's Spies'. The actress made the claim in a since-deleted Instagram post. She also alleged that it was obvious to all around what he was doing, with the former first lady, Babara Bush, obviously unhappy with her husband's action but unable to do anything about it. George W Bush Senior has since released a statement apologising for the hurt his action might have caused. Allegation 'When I got the chance to meet George H. W. Bush four years ago to promote a historical television show I was working on, he sexually assaulted me while I was posing for a similar photo. He didn't shake my hand. He touched me from behind from his wheelchair with his wife Barbara Bush by his side. He told me a dirty joke,' 'And then, all the while being photographed, touc...

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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has admitted that he made a mistake in saying $2bn was released from the Sovereign Wealth Fund instead of N2bn for the construction of the Second Niger bridge READ MORE HERE Attached Files:

Watch a female Israeli soldier TAKE ON up to 30 ULTRA-ORTHODOX Jews during their protests against mandatory military service. Attached Files:

The wanted former Pension reform chairman, Abdulrasheed Maina has reportedly escaped to Niamey in the Niger Republic. Sahara Reporters in a flash tweet on Wednesday said the fugitive was escorted out Nigeria by DSS officials. Attached Files:

The wife of Abubakar Shekau, leader of the Boko Haram terrorist organisation appeared to be one of those killed by Nigerian Air Force air strikes on Durwawa settlement in Urga, near Konduga, Borno state, the Nigerian Air Force has announced. Her name is Mallama Fitdasi. A statement signed by the Director of Public Relations and Information of the NAF, Air Commodore Olatokunbo Adesanya said intelligence reports indicated that she appeared to have been killed in the air strikes. The statement reads: “Human Intelligence indicates that the wife of the Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT) Organization, Mallama Fitdasi, appeared to have been killed in recent successful airstrikes on DURWAWA settlement on the outskirts of URGA, near KONDUGA.   “Mallama Fitdasi was reported to have been representing her husband in a coordinating meeting with other terrorists at the location of the airstrikes. “It is recalled that the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) had reported the successful aerial attack of a large num...

A Facebook user posted these pictures of a classroom allegedly in Oke-Odo Junior college in Abule Egba Agbado-Oke Odo LGA of Lagos state. It appears the children in this school are part of the forgotten in the new Lagos.   This certainly will not be the only school this condition across Nigeria. Some might say they are lucky not to be sitting on the floor.