President Goodluck Jonathan today assured parents of abducted school girls that were abducted by Boko Haram insurgents from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State and all Nigerians that the girls are still alive, adding that his government was doing everything within its power to get them back alive. President Jonathan disclosed this when he appeared on Kaakaki, a live Discussion programme on African Independent Television, AIT, hinging his optimism on the fact that if the girls have been killed, the insurgents would have displayed their corpses so as to induce fear.
Thursday, 5 March 2015
Photos of Olusegun Obasanjo playing football goes viral – You need to see this!
Chief Obasanjo joined members of staff of his Library, the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library OOPL and officials of the Ogun state government in a novelty match played at the MKO Abiola stadium Abeokuta, Ogun state to kick-off celebrations for his 78th birthday which comes up today, March 5th. Obasanjo scored two goals during the match.See More pix after the cut...
Why We Suggested Shift In Dates Of Elections – Military
The military, yesterday, explained why it suggested that the election dates be shifted, clarifying that its advice had no political undertone.
According to the military, the reason for its suggestion for a shift was to enable it take delivery of the long awaited weapons with which to tackle terrorists in the North eastern part of the country.
“I do not want to bring politics into it, whoever wants to bring politics into what we are doing, it’s left for him. I want whoever is saying that to know that war machines are not picked up from the shelf, if it were, we would have got them,” Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh said while receiving drugs and other items worth over N70 million donated by the Association of Pharmaceutical Importers of Nigeria (APIN), to assist the Nigerian Armed Forces in the war against Boko Haram insurgency.
Son Of Former CJN Reportedly Joins ISIS
Former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Mohammed Uwais has declined to comment on the report by a US-based online news platform, THEWILL, that his son had joined the terrorist group, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Speaking with Vanguard over the phone on Wednesday, Uwais, neither confirmed nor denied the report.
“I don’t want to comment on hearsay,” the former CJN told Vanguard.
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
INEC to postpone election again as new controversy arises? (Details)
Tuesday, 3 March 2015
Prof Yemi Osinbajo: Man in Recent Viral Photo Not Related to me
Fuel scarcity gets worse nationwide
ABUJA—As fuel scarcity bites harder nationwide, fresh facts emerged, yesterday, indicating that a combination of policies from Nigeria’s Central Bank and the high level of indebtedness of product marketers to some banks led to the low supply of Premium Motor Spirit PMS (petrol).
Because of the high level of indebtedness of marketers to banks, most of the banks have refused to issue Letters of Credit to them. A competent source at the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, disclosed that “the National Consumption level is predicated at 40 million litres daily and this is shared at ratio 50:50 between NNPC and other petroleum products marketers.
Monday, 2 March 2015
Breaking: Actress, Nadia Buari gives birth to twins – Is Jim Iyke the father? (Photos)
Rumours that Nadia Buari was pregnant some few months ago has turned out to be reportedly true because according to multiple sources from Ghana, the Ghanaian actress has given birth to twins.
The actress, who has been absent from the entertainment scene for some time now, was reportedly delivered of two bouncy baby girls last week. Nadia's father, Alhaji Sidiku Buari allegedly confirmed the news to Myjoyonline.com this morning.
He said:
“It’s true. She brought forth twins alright, that is true. I’m confirming [it] as the father.”
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