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Former vice president Atiku Abubakar has denied declaring his intention to run for President in 2019 as circulated in a video making the rounds on social media. Mr Atiku, in a statement released on his social media handle, said the video is a bad job of bad people with bad intentions. According to Atiku, some mischief makers are using a video clip extracted from his 2011 presidential declaration to create a false impression that he formally declared for the 2019 presidential election. He said such propaganda is being deliberately promoted by political opponents in order to create acrimony. Atiku advised those involved in such “laughable and unintelligent propaganda of lies and intentional mischief to find something useful to do with their time instead of using his name to achieve their malicious political objectives.” Describing those behind the fake video clip “as a group of incompetent and bumbling political novices who cannot see the loopholes in their own stories”, the former Vic...

National leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has said he wished he could bring back his deceased son, Jide Tinubu. Tinubu said this in a statement issued on his behalf by Tunde Rahman, his media aide. Tinubu said: “I wish I could bring back my son but I can’t”. He expressed gratitude to all those who have reached out to him during the trying period “We must seek a lesson in every loss. Your reaction to my son’s passing has taught me that we can be a people of profound love and humanity when we want to be,” he said. “People of every tribe, region, faith and every political affiliation have expressed their sympathy and extended to me the embrace of a brother or sister. “Even those who don’t agree with me politically have shown strong support and care indistinguishable from that of my associates. This says so much about the innate goodness in all of us. For no matter what, we are not foes or enemies. We are all of one human stock, a single nation, one family.” H...

President Muhammadu Buhari is to embark on tour of South-east states beginning with Ebonyi to improve the relationship between the region and the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government. Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo disclosed this on Thursday after a closed door meeting with Mr. Buhari in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. “The South-east before now was not measuring in APC. But we have worked out strategies and modalities on how to improve relationship between the people of South-east and APC government. “That was top on the agenda and the need for Mr. President to come to South-east as quickly as possible, to begin to show his presence. “Luckily, the President will be coming to Ebonyi State very soon and he will pass through Imo State to Anambra State. So, covering three states within this short time will be right step in the right direction. “We have come to realise in the South-east that we are better off in APC than any other party in the federal republic of Nigeria.’’ ...

With few months left before political activities to gather steam towards the 2019 elections, members of the Atiku Support Group (ASG) nationwide have decamped from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The Director-General Atiku Support Group (ASG), Honorable Mark Wosi, disclosed that the change was inevitable as a result of the irregularities going on in the APC from the state to the national level. According to him, “APC is not focused; they promised change and an all-inclusive government but what is being obtainable is different; as a group, we felt we are not being carried along.” Wosi maintained that the group has decided to go back to the PDP in order to “change the change. I am highly disappointed in the APC. I expected mature, coordinated politics from the ruling party, but I am disappointed,” he said. He noted that President Muhammadu Buhari is not a good leader. “Buhari is telling people he is fighting corruption, while he is sur...

Mild drama on Friday as senior official of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, said plans have been put in place for officials to "sleep with" corps members on the eve of the Anambra gubernatorial election. While addressing civil society at a dialogue in Abuja, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of Anambra, Dr Nkwachukwu Orji said INEC is ready for the election to the last detail. However, his choice of "sleep with" caused a little drama in the hall, but he was quick to clarify that he meant the officials and corpers to be deployed for the election, would "sleep in the same place" on the eve of the election. Participants laughed at this even as the convener of the dialogue, the Executive Director of Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC), Clement Nwankwo joked that only those with dirty minds would interpret Orji's words with cynical interests. Source: Dailytrust

Spokesman to President Buhari, Femi Adesina has blamed the past administrations of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the poor state of healthcare in the country, revealing that it was a major reason why Buhari chose to travel abroad for medical treatment READ MORE HERE Attached Files:

The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) has announced a suspension of its ceasefire with the federal government, threatening to resume attacks on oil assets. In a statement on Friday, Murdoch Agbinibo, the group’s spokesman, said unlike the 2016 attacks, this would be “brutish, brutal and bloody”. He warned oil companies to stay away from the region.   “The intelligence unit of the NDA has gathered from our sources in the Nigerian government that the operatives of the said Reformed Niger Delta Avengers are some fraudsters from the Niger Delta region working with government functionaries like the office of the director general of DSS, office of national security adviser and office of the minister of transport,” the statement read. “To the elders of the Niger Delta, PANDEF, we warned you against the antics of the Nigerian government yet you requested a chance to broker a new vision for our people; we told you and the rest of the world that the Nigerian government is only interested in our oil...

A former governor of Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido, has declared that the President Muhammadu Buhari APC led government is owned by his party, the PDP. The PDP presidential aspirant, who recently declared his intention, stated this in a chat with Premium Times. Reacting to moves by some APC members to return to the PDP, Lamido said: “At the time they left the party, there were indeed some worries within the party. That kind of worries and concern were raised by the seven governors who formed the nucleus of, not opposition really, but maybe raising the alarm that there is problem in PDP. “In so doing, we went and toured the whole country if you can remember. We told all our political leaders like Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Alex Ekweme, TY Danjuma, Shehu Shagari, Babangida and many others. We told them look, what we are facing in PDP may likely endanger Nigeria’s stability and security in future. It is beyond PDP. ”Now, having gone where they went, have they got comfort? Have they bee...

A former National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki, on Friday told the Federal High Court in Abuja that he would not be able to remember if the sum of N400m paid to a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, in 2014, was for the provision of security services. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had alleged that Metuh and his company, Destra Investments Limited fraudulently received the sum of N400m from ONSA without any justification and spent same on the party and personal affairs. Dasuki is Metuh’s eighth defence witness in the matter. The ex-NSA was questioned under cross-examination by the counsel prosecuting Metuh on behalf of the EFCC, Sylvanus Tahir. The ex-NSA said he would not be able to confirm the payment of N400m to Metuh or the purpose it was meant for. He further told the court that he could not remember if the ONSA under his watch had relations with Destra Investments Limited, the company, through which Metuh...

Pope Francis has requested a debate into the possibility of married men being priests in the Amazon region of Brazil as scarcity of married men bites hard in remote areas of the world READ MORE HERE Attached Files:

The management of National Youth Service Scheme, NYSC, has apologized to corps members over delayed in payment of October allowance for corpers most especially those that passed out on Thursday.  The scheme said the delay was a result of technical issues in the payment system which will be resolved in couple of days. See press statement below: PAYMENT OF PERSONAL ALLOWANCE TO CORPS MEMBERS The Management of the National Youth Service Corps regrets the delay being experienced in the payment of personal allowance to Corps members. Management wishes to inform Corps members and the rest of the public that funds have since been released by the Federal Government, but the delay is as a result of technical problems with the payment platform. We wish to further inform that the service providers are working round the clock to restore connectivity so as to allow seamless crediting of Corps members' accounts. We are confident that this will be achieved in a couple of days. Management apprec...

Doaa Salah, a presenter on Al-Nahar TV, has been sentenced to 3 years in jail in Egypt after she discussed ways of becoming pregnant outside marriage. She had asked if her viewers had considered having sex before marriage and also suggested a woman could marry briefly to have children before divorcing READ MORE HERE Attached Files:

Gov Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has revealed that President Buhari is set to go on a tour of South East states, starting with Ebonyi, in order to improve the relationship between the region and the APC READ MORE HERE Attached Files:

You can now check your 2017 admission on Jamb website as it has been enable via JAMB CAPS. To check: Login to  JAMB CAPS Website - Input your UTME number - Submit All the best! Attached Files:

The Zambian Government has given Omega Fire Ministries pastor, Oso Ebosele two days to leave the country after what it described as troublesome and divisive conduct of the pastor which has split the church into two parties. Chief Government Spokesperson, Kampamba Mulenga, announced this in Lusaka. Ms Mulenga says it is feared that with the Pastor’s continued stay in the country, the acrimony in Omega Fire Ministries could result into the breakdown and law and order. She says Pastor Obesele was given 48 hours to leave the country, in accordance with the Immigration and Deportation Act number 18 of 2010. Ms Mulenga also said contrary to speculations, the Government has not closed Omega Fire Ministries and is not against Nigerian Pastors. She said Omega Fire Ministries Headquarters in Nigeria is free to send a senior pastor to come and help reconcile the membership in Lusaka.

The United States based oil tycoon, Dr. SKC Ogbonnia has declared his intention to vie for the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential ticket in 2019. Ogbonnia, a rabid supporter of Buhari’s 2015 election is the chairman of First Texas Energy Corporation and also the Secretary-General of Nigeria Union Diaspora, NUD a group that projects the interests of the Nigeria community in the United States. The Awgu, Enugu State, born businessman stated this in a statemeent sent to Vanguard, “after consultations among Nigerians and the resolve not to allow what he described as a visionless clique to continue to hold the nation in bondage”. Ogbonnia, a regular contributor to Nigeria issues in national and United States media in the statement said: “After wide consultations within Nigeria and around the world, I have decided to seek the office of the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under All Progressive Congress (APC). “This decision did not come easy. But there comes a time to sa...

The death of Bana-Losoraye has thrown the Dalori-II Internally Displaced Persons, IDP, camp in Maiduguri, into a grieving mood. Bana died and was buried last week Wednesday, after she was diagnosed of HIV, the same ailment that killed her parents. READ MORE HERE Attached Files:

Alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans, has filed an application seeking to be released on bail and for his case to be given an accelerated hearing. While reacting to the application, the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions, Ms. Titilayo Shitta-Bay, described the bail application, seeking accelerated hearing filed alongside an application seeking to quash the charges as conflicting, confusing and an abuse of court processes. Shitta-Bay said it is a ploy to frustrate the trial. Court proceedings are underway.

Cool FM OAP, Daddy Freeze has spoken to Sahara TV on his obsession with prosperity pastors and preachers. He revealed that such pastors have used the idea of tithing to fleece their members Watch interview below Attached Files:

President Buhari received former Ghanaian President John Mahama to a private dinner at the Aso Rock Villa. The Chairman, Ovation international accompanied the former Ghanaian president to see Mr. Buhari. According to Chief Dele Momodau, the president jokingly asked him if he has added weight. See photos: