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   The expected growth in the iron and steel sub section of Nigeria is continuously dragged down by political intrigues, yet the country incurs more wastes meeting huge financial obligations. The wastes includes having to spend more than N3.6 billion yearly, as emoluments for sustaining the workforce of the Ajaokuta Steel Complex, numbering about 2,700, to keep the plant going without rolling out any product. Also, over $5.6 billion has already gone down the drain in building and maintaining staff quarters, as well as bridges and road network within the complex, which are essential for the rolling out of products from the company. But for the industry to go into real production, government is currently expected to bear another bill of about $1.21bn in 2017, for turning it around before its new investors can take it up. Disclosing this to journalists, at the headquarters of the complex over the weekend, the Sole Administrator, Mr. Isah Onobere, reviewe...

Barely two days after the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, criticised the handling of the Federal Government’s anti-corruption war, the Senate, has given a two-week ultimatum to President Muhammadu Buhari, to submit, without fail, the 2017 budgets of 38 statutory agencies. Similarly, the Senate has ordered the 38 agencies to stop further expenditures of capital budgets, pending the submission of their respective 2017 budgets. Buhari is currently in London for the past nine days on a medical vacation. The position of the Senate was reached, following the adoption of a motion tagged, “Non-submission of 2017 budget by public corporations in violation of the Fiscal Responsibility Act”, sponsored by the Deputy Senate Leader, Bala Ibn Na’Allah. On Tuesday, The Red Chamber expressed shock that despite the fact that the President Buhari-led Federal government continues to lay claim to waging a war against corruption, agencies of the same government keep breaching...

*** DRINKING URINE, WE THINK IT'S TANGERINE  *** FALLING IN LOVE WITH GHOSTS, WE THINK THEY ARE ANGELS  *** TAKING FLIGHTS BY WITCHCRAFT, WE THINK AIRCRAFT  *** LIVING WITH MONSTERS, WE THINK MENTORS  *** EATING THE GOD'S BELCH, WE THINK IT'S MANNA  *** WHERE IS OUR WILL, IN THIS CRAZY WORLD?  *** 2013 brain-match award poem.  ******** By: Ameh Timothy O.  

Who can bear the burden?  When travailers question the gods  Not in this hallowed game  Rainbows shine not in this gaga  I mean the men i met   when we needed the labour stringe.  You are not hallowed  Dissected anatomy,  Truth and troubled   The eagles crystal cry  Now,  lets meet in that sacred place.   Red sach will surrender.  By; Timothy Ameh The poet, AMEH TIMOTHY is the Managing Director of CHOICE CORNER INTERNATIONAL. Based in Anyigba Kogi State.He is a speaker and litteratus whose works has worn several awards in the past few years. meet him on 08183963612

The people of Benue State seem to have had more than a fair share of tragedies emanating from attacks carried out by marauders suspected to be herdsmen. Hundreds have been killed, and whole communities sacked in attacks that smacks of a deliberate and planned motive to ensure that such areas are devoid of the humans who lay claim to the land. Guma and Buruku local government areas, as well as Agatu communities have been the worst hit, and the results have been tales of helplessness, sorrow and perceived conspiracies, laced with accusations and denials amid bloodshed. Tales Of Horror After losing all he had worked for to what he called Fulani occupation, TY, a displaced farmer in his sixties now lives with other displaced persons inside a camp— built by Benue Non-Governmental Network with support from the UN— tucked somewhere in Daudu, Guma local government area of Benue State. “It was after the third attack on our community that we decided to run for our ...

A letter sent by the president to the Senate, notifying lawmakers of his trip, however raised questions Tuesday about Mr. Osinbajo’s powers after Mr. Buhari failed to address him as “acting president”. President Muhammadu Buhari says Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will “coordinate” the nation’s affairs while he is abroad for medical treatment.

There are reports that the Boko Haram Islamic terror group has released more of the Chibok girls abducted in 2014 from their secondary school in Chibok, Borno State. While the number of girls released is yet to be confirmed, reports say they may be as much as 80. The girls, close to 300, were abducted in April of 2014 from the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok where they were writing the WAEC examination. A few of them have over the years managed to escape the terrorist group while 22 of them were released in October last year after negotiations between the group and the federal government. The latest release is said to also have been as a result of concluded negotiations between both parties, details of which are yet to be made public. Senator representing Kaduna central, Shehu Sani, while reacting to the reports, said, “The Only authority to confirm the release of the Chibok girls is the Federal government. However, credible negotiations took ...

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has decried the current situation in Nigeria where President Muhammadu Buhari is only seen on Fridays during Jumat service at the Presidential Villa. Fayose, who is also the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum chairman, unhappy with the situation said that Nigerians did not elect Buhari to function as “Friday President”, adding that he was now acting more like a ceremonial and part-time President. “That’s why Nigerians are told every day that the President said this and that with neither President speaking directly nor attending any official function. This is not good for the image of a country like Nigeria that is struggling to get out of economic recession.

A 100 level female law student of the University of Ibadan identified as Miss Effiong Imarbong lost her life when she fell to her death during a show at her hall of residence after reportedly showing signs of restlessness. According to a statement signed by Olatunji Oladejo, the institution’s Director of Public Communications, the law student died when she jumped from a dangerous position during the show and she gave up the ghost almost immediately. The statement by Oladejo reads thus: “It is with deep regret that the management of the University of Ibadan announces the sudden death of Miss Effiong Deborah Imarbong, a 100 Level student in our Faculty of Law on Monday, May 1, 2017 at the University College Hospital, Ibadan. “Her sudden death, however, remains a mystery. It is in the light of the above that the university management wishes to state that the cause(s) of her death are still being investigated by the appropriate authorities. Moreover, her parent...

A seven-man kidnapping gang which specialise in abducting unsuspecting persons in the Goronyo Local Government Area of the state have been nabbed by men of the Department of State Security Service. The suspects who are all from Taloka village in the Sabon Birni LGA were identified as Abdullahi Mohammed, aka Hanazuwa, (leader of the syndicate), Shabi Danmusa, Muhammed Abdullahi, Isah Aliyu, Ibrahim Maye, Yusuf Ibrahim and one Sule. The DSS state Director, Alhaji Tijani Kafa said while parading the suspects at the command’s headquarters that the ring leader was arrested on April 19, 2017, with a Dane gun through a joint military operation while the others were arrested between April 15 and 18, 2017. Kafa said the syndicate were busted when their spiritual head, Muhammed Abdullahi, aka Boka, after an operation, went back to their victim’s family and promised them spiritual protection. “The security operatives, however, latched on this clue, leading to the arr...

The visit of President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger Republic to President Muhammadu Buhari scheduled for Friday, May 5, 2017, has been pushed forward. According to Mr Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity) the rescheduling is at the instance of President Issoufou who has another domestic engagement. Many Nigerians however expressed doubt over this as there have been serious worries over the health of President Buhari who has not been seen in public for well over two weeks now. They contend that it is a known fact that the president has been too weak to attend to his official duties for sometime, and that this must have been the reason for the canceled visit. Adesina however said arrangements had been concluded for President Buhari to receive his Nigerien counterpart and his delegation at the forecourt of the Presidential Villa and attend the Jumaat prayers together as well as lunch, before the last-minute postponement. A ...

Dj slemjoe: Lamido again, How ex-Gov Lamido battled to get bai... : After four days of incarceration, a magistrate court sitting in Dutse, the Jigawa State capital, on Thursday granted the state...

Dj slemjoe: KOGI: Corp member, accomplice arrested for breakin... : The long arm of the law has caught up with two suspects who attempted to break an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) of a new genera...

By Sonala Olumhense….On August 1, 2015, two months after President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office, I reflected on the need for a vibrant communication strategy that would best serve his mission. “I invite him to multiply his intended harvest and make his prospects and gains not only bigger than himself, but impenetrable to any negative or unpatriotic elements that may arrive after him,” I wrote in “For Buhari: A Winning Communication Strategy.” “All Buhari has to do is to communicate to Nigeria his journey, including his shortcomings and mistakes, in full and as routine, making the flags of transparency and accountability an ally rather than a burden. If he accepts this principle, he would set a standard so high it would be non-retractable in four years, and virtually impossible for anyone to diminish in the future.” In the belief he would hunt for food, dig for water and build for shelter; walk with on the side of the poor and measure by the light of Hist...

The long arm of the law has caught up with two suspects who attempted to break an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) of a new generation bank with the intention to steal the cash in Kogi State. According to the Commissioner of Police in Kogi State, Wilson Inalegwu, unfortunately, one of the suspects, Akah Tersoo, is a member of the National Youth Service Corps serving in Kogi. Inalegwu said the corper and his accomplice Godwin Idih were both arrested at a branch of Ecobank on Ganaja Junction, Lokoja by cops who noticed their suspicious movements while on patrol duty. The CP said both suspects were caught on April 26, 2017, at about 2 .30am while breaking the ATM belonging to Ecobank with a digger and an axe. He said, “My men, who were on a patrol duty, noticed suspicious movements at a branch of Ecobank on Ganaja Junction, Lokoja, and stopped to observe. “On close examination, they saw two individuals who were later identified as Godwin Idih and Akah Tersoo...

After four days of incarceration, a magistrate court sitting in Dutse, the Jigawa State capital, on Thursday granted the state’s former governor, Sule Lamido, bail on self recognition. Lamido’s bail came despite a desperate plea by prosecutor Ikenna Ekpunobi, who told Magistrate Muhammed Lamin that the accused should not be granted. He had argued that if granted bail, the former governor could jeopardise peace in the state. Magistrate Lamin, disagreed with the counsel as well as refuted a report by the police allegedly linking Lamido to violence by his supporters. In response to the prosecutor’s prayer, counsel to Lamido, Felix John, said that his client remained innocent until proven guilty, adding that evidence tendered in respect to why the former governor is being tried was only a documentary and as such there was no witness. He further argued that Lamido, as a former governor could never jump bail. In his ruling, Magistrate Lamin held that the cha...

Apparently following the growing agitation for a Biafran state from Nigeria, the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has cautioned against repeating the same mistake that plunged the country into a civil war in 1967. The Sultan advised that the lessons of the three-year war should help Nigerians guard against another such event, adding, that the country may not be lucky to survive the effect this time. He stated when he spoke to newsmen at the Traditional Rulers Day in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, one of the activities lined up to mark the state’s 50th anniversary. “As a nation, we have gone through and surmounted the worst of all, a civil war. I think we have lessons to learn from that because very few nations could survive civil war. We must check the lessons and guard against repeating such mistakes and move forward,” Sultan said. To also help cushion the growing unrest across different communities and regions in the country, the sultan called o...

  Doctors in Kogi state Wednesday have gone on indefinite strike to push the government to pay outstanding salaries and arrears. An emergency congress of the Nigerian Medical Association held on Tuesday amidst disappointment that the government failed to meet their demands. The strike announcement came in a communiqué issued at the end of an emergency congress in Lokoja, which was signed by the chairman and secretary of the association, Dr Tijani Godwin and Dr Zubair Kabiru, respectively. The doctors allege that the government had failed to clear nine doctors after providing necessary documents as required by the screening committee, under-payment of salaries and arrears of doctors that have been paid, implementation of a new tax regime without commensurate promotion and stepping of doctors in the state civil service, and advertisement for employment of more doctors, despite the inability of the administration to implement adjusted Consolidation Medical Salary (CONMES...

Even though his aides and media handlers keep telling Nigerians otherwise, it is becoming more obvious that President Muhammadu Buhari may not really be ready to continue his official assignments yet. The president was again absent at the weekly Federal Executive Council held on Wednesday at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting was presided over by the Vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, who also presided over the last couple of such meetings. This is the fourth week in row that President Buhari has failed to attend the very important meeting where important issues of state are discussed, and decisions reached. The president’s absence from FEC meetings, and other public functions since his return from a 49-day medical vacation in London, has continued to throw up concerns, different speculations about his health. His wife Aisha however said on Tuesday that the president’s health is not as serious as many people make it seem.

  In an emotional statement issued today, the founding National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) Chief Bisi Akande, urged Nigerians to pray fervently for President Muhammadu Buhari's health, warning of the “ugly consequences” of letting the president’s poor health throw Nigeria into confusion. He also warned those persons who wish to harvest political gains out of Buhari’s condition that they are mistaken. When last we met at the wedding of his daughter in Abuja last December, I complained to him that I was not happy about his stressful looks. His reply connoted some allusions to circumstances where an honest man fighting corruption is surrounded mostly by unpatriotic, greedy ruling class. He felt painfully frustrated. He assured me he would soon be going on vacation. I then knew that corruption has effectively been fighting back. And I prayed for Nigeria. That was why Ashiwaju Bola Tinubu and I rushed to meet him in London in February this year when ...

Edward Onoja, Chief of State to the Kogi State Governor Yahya Bello has discredited claims that State workers have not been paid for 15months. He said those who haven’t been paid are those who weren’t cleared during the Kogi Staff verification exercise. He said all those cleared have been paid. According to him, those complaining over non-payment are those who were only recently cleared due to the kindness of Governor Bello. He said the most owed is 12 months salary. See video below: https://youtu.be/TxUHKJQ-2m8

Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi on Tuesday received the final report of the staff screening, with a vow to retrieve salaries and allowances collected over the years by workers with fake certificates. He also said that workers that gained employment into the state civil service with fake certificates would be prosecuted. The governor, however, said that workers found guilty of altering their birth dates would be pardoned. Bello, who commended the committee that carried out the exercise, said that issues relating to the 14-month verification exercise had finally been laid to rest with the submission of the report. The Chairman cited the case of some civil servants with primary school leaving certificates, who rose to become directors, and described the situation as strange. In his remarks, Chairman of the Kogi chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr Onu Edoka, said that the report was inconclusive as teachers and pensioners, who formed the bulk of complainants, were not captured...

By Abiodun KOMOLAFE … All things considered, I think Nigeria has been punched into coma and only God can bring her back to life! From the man who opted for a bag of rice in exchange for his son; to the pregnant woman who stole N300.00 to answer the call of a normal symptom of pregnancy, there is a rise in Nigeria’s socio-political temperature and no one really knows where Nigeria is headed. Warningly, inflation rate is on the high side and our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate is unsmiling either. From the cosmetic to the substantive, politicians have chopped our country into pieces with each of the parts selfishly kept to themselves even as the gladiators continue to fight in another person’s corner. Dollar gets worse with each passing day, which in turn deeply traumatizes the fortunes of our country. Even as a Buharist whose fierce support for ‘Change’ has been unflinching, I believe it’s time government clipped the wings of this trajectory of sh...

It is a beautiful day already for Erica Campbell as she is a year older today. She is very excited as she took to her Instagram early hours of this morning talking about her guest “Tasha Cobbs Leonard, David and Tamela Mann” on her show “Get Up! Mornings” later in the day. Erica Campbell born April 29, 1972 is an American urban contemporary gospel, Christian R&B and contemporary R&B recording artist, musician and radio host. She started her music career in 1998 with her younger sister, Tina Campbell as part of the gospel music group, Mary Mary. Her solo music career began in 2013 and has since released two albums with Entertainment One Music which both charted on the Billboard magazine charts. She won a Grammy Award for Best Gospel Album at the 57th edition of the event. Since May 2016, She has been the host of Get Up! Mornings with Erica Campbell with comedian Griff, that currently airs on Urban Gospel, which owned by Radio One. Happy birthday great woman of G...

The British Government has denied involvement in any act, during Nigeria’s 2015 presidential election, which aided General Muhammadu Buhari to win then incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. The government of Britain stated this in response to Jonathan’s claim in a new book launched on Friday “Against the Run of Play…,” that the country’s former Prime Minister David Cameron, worked concertedly with United States of America (USA) ex-President Barak Obama and France to ensure he was removed from office. However, the British High Commission in Nigeria in a statement on Friday signed by the Press and Public Affairs Officer, Mr. Joe Abuku, said Britain should not be blamed for the outcome of the election, adding that it was entirely the decision of Nigerians. The statement read, “Prior to the 2015 elections in Nigeria, the UK engaged with Nigerian political parties and their leaders to urge them to run a fair, non-violent campaign and allow Nigerian voters to dec...

Although the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) was said to have returned several cash and documents taken away after raiding the Abuja home of Senator Danjuma Goje, the Force has however insisted that he must appear before ongoing investigation into the matter or risk arrest. Following the raid of the lawmaker representing Gombe-Central senatorial district, the Senate had given the police 24 hours to return documents it took from the home of the senator which was capable of delaying passage of the 2017 budget. While the documents have been returned, the Force Public Relations Officer, Mr. Jimoh Moshood, during an interview on a TV programme, called on Goje to appear before police investigation panel which he said was still ongoing. The investigators according to him are probing all the recovery that was made in the Senator’s house “and it is important that nobody be allowed to cast aspersion on the investigation of police to pervert the course of justice,” he not...

After spending a year and six months in Kuje Prison Abuja, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, on Friday left Kuje prison. Kanu was arrested by Nigeria security operatives in October 2015 and has remained in prison till he was granted bail this Friday. The Abuja Federal High Court had on Thursday granted him bail on health basis and denied the three other members of the group detained alongside Kanu bail. His lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, disclosed that Kanu having met the bail condition, which many Nigerians described as stringent, was released shortly after all necessary documents were signed by the trial judge. Kanu reportedly left the prison at about 5pm. Kanu, along with three others yet to be granted bail are being prosecuted on alleged offences bordering on treasonable charges.

The Presidency has explained that President Muhammadu has not been up and about due to advice by his doctors that he must take things slowly to allow for full recovery from the illness that kept him in London for 49 days. The Presidency therefore asked Nigerians to understand that “full recovery is sometimes a slow process, requiring periods of rest and relaxation. This was contained in a statement the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the President on media and publicity, Garba Shehu, released on Thursday, adding that despite the insinuations of a number of “media organisations, there is no need for apprehension over the health of our President, Muhammadu Buhari.” He further explained that President Buhari’s absence at the Federal Executive Council meeting of Wednesday, April 26, was a last minute decision, “otherwise, the cabinet and the public might have been alerted in advance”. The statement read, “As eager as he is to be up and about, the President...

The absence of President Muhammadu Buhari at Friday’s Juma’at prayer at the Presidential Vila, Abuja, seems to have fueled already heightened speculations that all may not be well with Nigeria’s number one citizen. The president who only recently returned to the country after spending about 50 days on a medical vacation in London, has for three consecutive weeks missed out on the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meetings. Although President Buhari has been unable to attend recent FEC meetings or any public functions, he has however, never failed to observe Juma’at prayer inside a mosque near his office at the Presidential Villa, since he stopped attending the service at the National Mosque, Abuja. During this Friday’s prayers, governors of Ogun, Zamfara and Kano, Ibikunle Amosun, Abdulaziz Yari and Abdullahi Ganduje respectively, who came to join Buhari for the prayers, were present, but the president was nowhere near the mosque. The presidency wa...

BY OCHO BABA… It is no longer news that Comrade Usman Okai Austin who earned for himself the title CFR (Certified Feather Ruffler) was on Sunday 9th April 2017 taken incognito by men with two Hilux vehicles in a gestapo style who were later confirmed to be members of the dreaded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). My regular comic tonics have been truncated albeit temporarily. For a comedian that has been taken too seriously by the State with an inscription on his Facebook timeline that looks like a plate number inscription that reads “INSURED BY MAFIA” with a sub “YOU HIT ME,WE HIT YOU”. The reason he was so clandestinely ambushed was not immediately known until he was arraigned before the Kogi State Magistrate Court in Lokoja on Tuesday 11th April 2017 on the following trumped up charges namely: 1. Inciting the society against the Government of Kogi State. 2. Causing disappearance of evidence, handsets. 3. Conspired with some criminal elements to burn IGR hous...