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JUNE 29, 2016 SHARE: NewsRescue The Presidency is yet to confirm the reports of the arrest of a Presidential body guard, Corporal Hassan Aminu  found to be “linked to Boko Haram.”  Per second news  reported: A member of President Muhammadu Buhari’s security guard linked to the terror group Boko Haram has been arrested. The suspected Boko Haram member has strong links to the deputy leader of the Wilāyat Gharb Ifrīqīyyah terror group. According to Frontiernews the Army Corporal Hassan Aminu has been arrested. Preliminary investigation Wednesday morning by Per Second News shows that the NSA’s office has began the complete overhaul of the President’s security agents. Aminu, is strongly linked to the leaders of the Boko Haram cell and was nabbed before he could carry out any plot. The fate of the Boko Haram informant arrested at the Presidential Villa is unclear, as he was an integral part of the presidential security. Some in Abuja see the arrest as illustrative of the disconne

Lagos: Violent protest in Maryland as vehicle kills hawker June 29, 2016      Photos: sundayslim This post has already been read 549 times! There was violence in the Maryland axis of Lagos today after a hawker allegedly fleeing from officials of the Kick Against Indiscipline task force was hit and killed by a vehicle on Ikorodu Road. Angered by the incident, hawkers and suspected hoodlums in the area protested and damaged several vehicles, including buses operating under the Bus Rapid Scheme. Sources on the scene said it took the intervention of riot policemen and soldiers to restore order to the area. Details later… Photos: sundayslim

Home    News News June 29, 2016      Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima This post has already been read 199 times! Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The Presidency on Wednesday intervened in the reported cases of poor conditions of Internally Displaced Persons Camps in Borno State. The Chief of Staff to the President, Mr. Abba Kyari, met with the state governor, Ibrahim Shettima, on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari. Shettima attended the meeting with some unidentified officials of his government. The meeting which lasted less than hour was held in the Chief of Staff’s office at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. At the end of the meeting, Shettima did not speak with State House correspondents who approached him for comments. “No, it was just a private meeting,” the governor simply said as he made his way to his waiting car. There have been reports of cases of malnourished children and deaths at the IDP camps in the state. The humanitarian aid organisation, Doctors Without Border

Home    News News June 29, 2016      This post has already been read 316 times! Kamarudeen Ogundele, Ado Ekiti Members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly on Wednesday held their plenary on a major roundabout in Okesa to protest what they said was a witch-hunt against Governor Ayodele Fayose by the Federal Government. The legislators conducted their business under a canopy while the area was cordoned off by a detachment of armed policemen who blocked one side of the two lanes. They accused Lagos lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) and Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Babafemi Ojudu, of being the brains behind a plot to remove Fayose from office. They claimed that both Falana and Ojudu had ambitions of becoming the governor of the state. The Speaker of the Assembly, Kola Oluwawole, said the lawmakers embarked on the “sit out to tell the whole world that we are determined and resolute to support Fayose.” He alleged that 10 of the legislators had been listed for

June 29, 2016      ’Femi Asu with agency report The naira extended its decline at the parallel market on Tuesday, as it traded at 355 to the United States dollar, down from 351 the previous day. Similarly, the local currency closed at 282.50 to the dollar at the new interbank market, slightly weaker than the 282 it ended on Monday. The Central Bank of Nigeria had last week floated the naira and adopted a single structure through the interbank/autonomous window for the nation’s foreign exchange market. The CBN has been selling dollars on the interbank market since it ended its 16 month-old currency peg last week, and it on Tuesday asked currency traders for bid-offer quotes at around 11:18am, according to Reuters. The apex bank sold an undisclosed amount of hard currency on the interbank market on Tuesday to ease dollar shortages and provide importers the dollars to pay for the products they bring into the country, traders were quoted to have said. A total of $51m traded on th

By  Wale Odunsi  on June 28, 2016 The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday, arraigned Nenadi Esther Usman, a former Minister of Finance and Director of Finance PDP Presidential Campaign Organization in the last general election; Femi Fani-Kayode also a former Minister and Director Media/Publicity of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organization; Danjuma Yusuf and Jointrust Dimensions Nigeria Limited before Justice M. S. Hassan of the Federal High Court Lagos, on a 17-count charge bordering on conspiracy, stealing, corruption and making cash payments exceeding the amount authorized by law. The accused were alleged to have stolen and illegally disbursed about N4.9 billion Naira belonging to the Federal Government of Nigeria for political and personal uses. The defendants pleaded not guilty to all the charges preferred against them. Part of the charge reads: “That you, NENADI ESTHER USMAN, FEMI FANI-KAYODE, DANJUMA YUSUF and JOINTRUST DIMENTIONS NIGERIA LTD on or about t

June 28, 2016 Opinion  1,636 Views By Chidi Cali I was stunned by the fuse from some Nigerians over Senator Ike Ekweremadu dressing in traditional flamboyant Igbo regalia to an Abuja court today. They claimed that he choose that dress to wipe up ethnic sentiment and support from Igbos. For crying out loud, Ekweremadu is an Igbo man. Do you guys expect him to dress like Hausa or Yoruba to be accepted in your small world of being seen as a Nationalistic Igbo man? Ekweremadu love clouding himself in Igbo wears, just get use to this. Leave Igbos alone and face your individual ethnic problems as we have moved beyond this irredeemable low Nigeria is striving now. Thank God for #Briexit, a #Referendum will send some lazy booms where they belong.

June 26 17:422016 abachir Lawal, secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), says President Muhammadu Buhari followed due process in drawing up a list of ambassadorial nominees, contrary to the fears of the senate. Last Wednesday, the senate had  suspended the screening of 47 ambassadorial nominees whose names President Muhammadu Buhari sent for confirmation on June 9. The upper legislative chamber cited irregularities in the process of selecting them, and summoned the SGF and Geoffrey Onyeama, foreign affairs minister, to explain the reason for the alleged irregularities. But speaking at an interactive session with journalists at the weekend, Lawal explained that there were criteria set by the government to pick the nominees and that four states – Plateau, Ebonyi, Ondo, Bayelsa – without nominees did not have career diplomats in the foreign service. Lawal said the issues raised by the senate were minor, and that they could have been settled over a telephone call. He,

BN Celebrates Academic Excellence – Class of 2016: Taiwo Oguntuyo 24.06.2016 at 7:24 pm By BN BellaNaija  presents “ Celebrating You! Class of 2016 ” We called for submissions by graduating students who had excelled in their course of study. We acknowledge the fact that everyone who has graduated this year is a winner. We, therefore, want to celebrate people who have gone over and above the norm. People who have gotten meritorious distinctions and awards from their institution of study. We hope that you are inspired and we look forward to receiving more entries. Today we’re sharing  Taiwo Oguntuyo ‘s story. The last child of her parents, Taiwo, graduated from Babcock University with a first class degree in Public Administration. She was also the third overall best graduating student of the class of 2016 in her school. During her first year at Babcock, she was given the excellence award for being the student with the highest CGPA in the department of Political Science and Public Admi