Year: 2017

Nigerians Are Tired of Your Failed New Year Promises – PDP Tells APC, FG …Says Enough Of Lies And False Hope

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The Nigeria main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday advised the Federal Government and the All Progressives Congress (APC) not to issue any New Year message to Nigerians since they have not fulfilled any of the promises contained in their previous messages since assumption of office. The party in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary,Kola Ologbondiyan, said Nigerians have become overstretched by the litany of woes visited on them in the last two years by the incompetent and pretentious APC Government, stressing that it would be…

Boko Haram boys will surrender and come back home but… —Aisha Wakil

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Barrister Aisha Wakil is an Igbo woman married to a Kanuri man. She is reputed to be extremely close to some leaders of the Boko Haram, a feat she achieved while undergoing her conversion to Islam. As a matter of fact, Boko Haram leaders reportedly call her “Mama” because she knew them way back while studying the Qur’an to become a Muslim. She is also the only lady on the Kabiru Saminu Turaki committee set up by the Goodluck Jonathan government to make peace with the Boko Haram insurgents. In…

Kano Suspends Monthly Environmental Sanitation Exercise

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The Kano State government has suspended the monthly environmental sanitation exercise, which is expected to hold on Saturday, due to a religious function that will take place on that date. This government made this known via a statement signed by the state Commissioner for Environment, Dr. Ali Makoda, in Kano on Friday. The statement said that the religious function, known as Maukibi, was an annual religious rite of the Kadiriyya sect. “The Maukibi usually starts very early in the day and that ought to be considered; thus leading to the…

Mumbai Restaurant Fire Kills at Least 14

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fire tore through an upscale commercial building on Friday in Mumbai, India’s financial capital, killing at least 14 people, including women attending a birthday party at a rooftop restaurant, a hospital official said. At least 19 other people were injured. The blaze broke out around 12:30 a.m. at the Kamala Mills Compound, a multistory building in Mumbai’s trendy Lower Parel neighborhood. The refurbished industrial building housed the offices of several news media companies and swanky restaurants. The police said the fire started on an upper floor before quickly engulfing the…

WE’LL ENSURE NIGERIA BECOMES A FOOD EXPORTING COUNTRY AGAIN, SAYS PRESIDENT BUHARI

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja declared that his administration will not rest in continually reviewing and strengthening ongoing reforms in the agricultural sector until Nigeria regains its pride of place as a food exporting country. President Buhari stated this when he received the All Progressives Congress (APC) family from Kebbi State in the Presidential Villa, the President said that the country’s huge rice import bill had dropped significantly by more than 90 per cent, adding that it wasn’t good enough by his expectation. “Beyond self-sufficiency, we must strive…

Yusuf Buhari: Time for Compassion By Farooq Kperogi

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There is a time for everything. There is a time for politics, and there is a time to subordinate partisanship and let our humanity shine through. Yusuf Buhari’s heartrending motorbike accident a few days ago is no moment to gloat and taunt his dad. I read a couple of people on my timeline reveling in the tragedy of Yusuf’s motorbike accident. That’s cruel beyond measure. I’ve unfriended all such unfeeling wretches. I want to have no truck with anyone who derives delight from people’s personal catastrophes. If you’re such a…

Russia Warns U.S over Upcoming Presidential Election

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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government has issued a warning to the U.S.: Don’t “meddle” in the country’s upcoming election. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused the U.S. this week of “direct interference into the electoral process” after the State Department criticized Russia’s decision to ban opposition leader and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny from running for president. A State Department rep had decried the Russian government’s “ ongoing crackdown against independent voices, from journalists to civil society activists and opposition politicians,” according to a statement obtained by Business Insider. “We…

Fuel Scarcity: Saraki directs committee to suspend recess

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Senate President Bukola Saraki has directed the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream) to cut short its recess and immediately convene a meeting with stakeholders in the industries. This he said was in a bid to end the ongoing fuel crisis and the untold hardship it was presently unleashing on Nigerians. This was contained in a press statement from Saraki’s Media Office. Consequently, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), Sen. Kabiru Marafa, said the committee has invited the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, Group…

Ministry faults Memo on petrol crisis

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The Ministry of petroleum Resources says that message making the rounds on social media of a purported memo by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu to the President on the fuel crises was false The Ministry disclosed this in statement signed by it Director of press Mr Idang Alibi, on Thursday in Abuja. “Our attention has been drawn to a message making the rounds on social media of a purported memo by the Honorable Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu to the…

China tests World’s First Solar Expressway

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China on Thursday opened a 1-km section of the world’s first solar expressway for testing. Solar panels are laid beneath part of a ring road surrounding Jinan, capital city of Shandong Province in east China. The road surface is made of a transparent, weight-bearing material that allows sunlight to penetrate. The panels, covering 5,875 square meters, can generate 1 million kwh of power in a year, enough to meet the everyday demand of around 800 households, according to Qilu Transportation Development Group, the project developer. “The project will save the…