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This was disclosed in a letter to the Senate on Tuesday which was read on the floor during plenary. According to report ,Buhari, implementing a budget of N9.12 trillion for 2018 would be extremely challenging and therefore did not consider it expedient to increase the 2018 budget to accommodate the funds needed for the 2019 General Elections. The president asked the National Assembly to transfer the funds appropriated for the new projects which were inserted in the 2018 budget to cover the sum of N228.8 billion for the elections. Source:  pm news

President Buhari on Tuseday appointed Muiz Banire, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), as chairman of the governing board of the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON).

Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi says he will pay all salary arrears of civil servants cleared and the pension arrears of retirees before the end of 2017. Bello also said that he would commence prompt payment of salaries of workers in the state public service from January 2018. He made the promise on Saturday at the commemoration of the 110th birthday of the Odeyani-Anebira, Alhaji Audu Otonoku and his eight years on the throne as the Otonoku in Lokoja. “As from January next year, we shall be paying all our cleared civil servants salaries as and when due."  “I want to appreciate God that good days are coming to the people of Kogi,” he said.

President Buhari has reacted to a recent interview where former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, said that "for about 15 years, Buhari could not enter America on account of religious considerations." In a statement by Femi Adeshina the Preident's media aide,  'this fictive concoction being passed off as truth is mind boggling, coming from a former Number Two man of Nigeria, who should know the truth. At no time was President Buhari, as a private person, ever forbidden from entering any country in the world. Rather, the rest of the world has always held Muhammadu Buhari as a man of sterling qualities, strong on integrity, transparency and accountability. The same testimony is still borne of the Nigerian President by many world leaders today'. He continued to say,  'It is curious that former VP Abubakar had been asked why he had not visited America for over a decade, something that had been a stubborn fact dogging his footsteps. Instead of answering dire...

A retired Air Vice Marshal (AVM) and his driver have recovered dead after their Ford Explorer Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) plunged into the lagoon Saturday night. A motorist had told The Nation that: “There was a vehicle inside the lagoon. People are trapped in it. The vehicle was heading into Lagos Island. Fishermen and LASEMA are trying to safe the occupants of the vehicle now. May God help them. The deceased were said to be driving inward Lagos Island, when they colluded with another vehicle on the bridge. As a result of the accident, the SUV, it was gathered, tumbled several times before skidding into the lagoon. It was learnt that officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) and local fishermen recovered the bodies from the submerged vehicle around 2:30am. According to a source, they both had their seat belts on and didn’t have physical injuries. He said: “All the air bags in the vehicle came out. It was a serious accident. The burnet pulled out and the roo...

The mobile policeman, Attah Aninoko, on Thursday dragged down Ogundele from an electric pole opposite the house and beat him up for disconnecting power to the house of the former IG.  Ogundele’s leg was allegedly broken by the sergeant, who was reported to have boasted that “nothing will happen.” The matter was said to have been reported to the police at the Ikoyi division and the sergeant was arrested. The Head of Corporate Communications Department, Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC), Mr. Godwin Idemudia, who confirmed the incident, said the sergeant had been detained. He explained that the house of the former IG owed a bill of N154,693.85, adding that the name on the bill was one Yusuf. Idemudia said because the policeman was armed, other officials of the electricity distribution company were helpless and could only watch their colleague being brutalised. He said policemen from the Ikoyi division were alerted and the cop was arrested. Ogundele was said to have been...

  Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, confirmed this development saying, 'the two countries agreed to expand cooperation in exchange of scholars, exchange of students and exchange/sharing of ideas, skills and education technology and to improve scholarships for Nigerians to study in Turkey'. : Shehu also revealed that Nigeria and Turkey agreed to resolve the issues relating to Nigerian students in Turkish universities that were facing exclusion due to visa challenges. : He said: “Nigeria and Turkey have equally agreed to strengthen and promote investments in health institutions and this, as promised by the President will proceed quickly. That is as soon as the details of the various agreements reached in the bilateral discussions are laid on his table.’’

The former minister of Aviation took twitter to rant...what he wrote below; One thing I know is this:Buhari is a man-made President and not a God-made President.He is the biblical Saul.And like Saul,he will end in defeat and shame and his wickedness shall not go unpunished.The good news is that with every Saul comes a David.Soon David will rise and rule

The result also showed that he had alcohol and drugs in his system capable of easing a person into the early stages of hypothermia and eventual death. The toxicology tests detected alcohol (Bacardi 151, 75.5% Alcohol) and topiramate, a medication for epilepsy and/or migraines in a man’s system, in Tagbo Umeike.’ Tagbo’s blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) was at 0.112, higher than the 0.08 legal limit for normal human being state, the coroner’s office stated. While his family claims that Tagbo “didn’t have a prescription for any type of topiramate medication”, the coroner’s office stated that the amount of drug in Tagbos’ system was in the “therapeutic range. A statement by the coroner’s office said, “Alcohol and topiramate are synergistic. When combined, the effect of either or both drugs is enhanced. Topiramate, like alcohol, can cause dizziness, impaired memory, impaired concentration, poor coordination, confusion and impaired judgment. Central nervous system depression, or impairme...

The wife of the president, Aisha Buhari, said on Monday that her husband’s ill health caused instability in Nigeria. She expressed the view at the stakeholders meeting on Reproductive, Maternal, New Born, Child, Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAH and N) in Abuja. The event was also used to inaugurate the Governors Wives Advocacy Group (GWAG) on reproductive health in the country. President Muhammadu Buhari was in London for treatment of an undisclosed illness and spent over 100 days there. He returned to Nigeria on August 19 and has since resumed his full duties which he delegated to the vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, while he was away. As you are aware for the past six months Nigeria was not stable because of my husband’s ill health,” Mrs. Buhari said. “We thank God that he has fully recovered now. Mrs. Buhari also lamented the actions of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, saying he tried to create “a state out of a state.” Although ...

Super Eagles’ Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr has dedicated his team’s World Cup qualification to terminally-ill first choice goalkeeper, Carl Ikeme.  The 31-year-old was in between the goal post for Nigeria in the first two games of the World Cup qualifying campaign, but his participation however ended when he was diagonised with Leukemia in July. Rohr revealed the team promised Ikeme, who is undergoing Chemotherapy, a win and the world cup ticket in a telephone chat before the game in Uyo on Saturday.  In his words, “from day one, our goalkeeper, Ikeme Carl kept us in this race to qualify for Russia. In Ndola, he made great saves to help us come through with a win. He spoke with the captain and the whole team and we promised him we’ll win and qualify. So this win is for Ikeme”. Nigeria qualified for the 2018 World Cup on Saturday, after an Alex Iwobi 73rd minute goal against Zambia.

The Police Command in Ebonyi had confirmed that Chinedu Linus, a student of Ebonyi State University (EBSU), Abakaliki, was killed by gunmen on Friday. .  The Spokesperson of the command, ASP Loveth Odah, said that the gunmen robbed Linus and subsequently killed him. “I urge students not to confront robbers or any person bearing arms whenever they are attacked because such a person was no longer normal. .  It is only a living person that makes use of valuables as no amount of valuables in ones’ possession can equate to life,” she said. The robbers stormed the Lucky City Hostel of the deceased at Ishieke campus of the University at about 1:30 a.m. on Friday during a heavy downpour.  They used a ladder to gain entry into the fenced hostel located in a secluded area. A witness, Eric John, who is 200-level student of Political Science in the University, said they were sleeping when they heard knocks at the gate.  He said Chindu Linus, who was the pr...

No fewer than five people died yesterday after a fuel tanker exploded at Tafa village along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway. An eyewitness, who asked not to be named, told journalists in Kaduna that the tanker laden with kerosene was trying to avoid dangerous potholes on the road when it suddenly fell by the roadside and burst into flames. “Two of the deceased died after inhaling fumes from the flames and the other three were burnt by the fire,” he said. According to him, many others who sustained severe burns have been hospitalised while several vehicles parked by the roadside were burnt. Thousands of Abuja-Kaduna bound passengers were left stranded following the incident. A spokesperson for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), confirmed the incident to newsmen. The official, however, said he could not ascertain if lives were lost in the incident. The busy Kaduna-Abuja highway links the Federal Capital Territory with the North West and North East, with thousand...

In the last 20 years, she has been a banking executive and an investment adviser across retail banking, wealth management, consulting and financial advisory. She is an executive director (retail banking) at Diamond Bank Plc She is the chairperson of the executive council of Women in Management, Business and Public Service (WIMBIZ), a Nigerian non-profit organisation founded in 2001 by 13 women and one man who identified a serious issue concerning women in the workplace and in business, particularly in the areas of leadership capacity building and avenues for networking for growth. Mrs. Ahmad’s professional banking experience traverses the NAL Bank Plc, Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc and Zenith Bank Plc. A member of the Chartered Financial Analyst, CFA and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst, CAIA Associations, Mrs. Ahmad was until her appointment in charge of the Consumer Banking Division at Diamond Bank Plc, covering the consumer banking, privilege banking, retail assets chains. A hold...

The Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the arrest of a police officer, Bello Abubakar, listed as the first prosecution witness in the case of a Nigerian film maker, Olajide Kazeem, better known as Seun Egbegbe, who was charged with serial frauds involving N39, 098,100, $90,000 and £12,550.  The trial judge in the case, Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo, said on Thursday that Abubakar must be produced before her on October 11 to continue his testimony.  The judge had earlier issued a bench warrant against Abubakar, ordering that he must be in court on Thursday.  The police officer, however, failed to appear, to the judge’s displeasure.  The police prosecutor, Innocent Anyigor, told the judge that Abubakar had gone out of jurisdiction, adding that all his efforts to bring him to court on Thursday failed.  Justice Oguntoyinbo berated the police prosecutor for the poor handling of the case, which had been filed before her since February. She said the witn...

The three-year-old marriage between a popular radio presenter, Omotoke Makinwa and her estranged husband, Maje Ayida has been dissolved..  An Igbosere High Court in Lagos on Thursday dissolved the union, citing husband’s adulterous lifestyle. She had on March 9, 2016, asked the court to dissolve the marriage on the grounds that the husband committed adultery.  Justice Morenike Obadina, while delivering judgment held that Ayida filed an answer to the petition but did not give oral evidence in support of it.  She said the position of the law was settled as pleadings did not amount to evidence. “Pleadings on which no evidence was led are deemed abandoned. Therefore, Ayida’s evidence is deemed abandoned.  The effect being that the petitioner’s evidence is unchallenged and uncontroverted,’’ she ruled. The judge said the issue of cruelty which the petitioner (Makinwa) relied on was established because of the “mental and emotional stress” she was subjected to by h...

Recently, there was a case of  a pregnant lady who was brutally abused by her baby daddy that went viral, while weighing into Tonto Dikeh’s marital woes and Tiwa Savage’s viral domestic gender inequality, Nigerian investigative journalist, Kemi Olunloyo has reacted to all them in a post. She also revealed she was also brutalized when she was 9 months pregnant – She wrote; I was 9mos pregnant too with Lade in 1991 beaten up like this and bloodied. My baby had to be induced and forcibly taken out in the delivery room. Not before I struck back. Thank u officer Ronald Roberts for the gun protection idea. It worked! Ladies, better get your back up ready…. Oh yeah, I forgot the man is the head of the house abi. Lade will be 26yo next month and to this day, his dad tells him I inflicted bruises on myself in a 2yr abusive relationship which broke my engagement and I never married in my life. Thank God for officer Robert’s dated police reports I can show my now adul...

Super Eagles becomes first African team to qualify for 2018 World Cup .

In a new video released online, former militant leader, Asari Dokubo, said that the man who spoke to Nigerians on October 1st is a cloned version of President Buhari. In the video, Asari said "A lot of people have been wishing me happy Independence but I told them not to, because I’m not a Nigerian.  So this man they have in Aso Rock was speaking, even from his voice, you will know that he was cloned. You know that there is this thing called cloning, most western judo-Christian country pretend to say they banned human cloning except for the purpose of research into health and to save life.  So we will not be surprised if they did some sort of cloning in all the period this man was incubating in Abuja House in London. The way he was talking, you will notice that he was trying to mimic the original one but he didn’t succeed, we were not deceived.”

She wrote;  Davido where is Tagbo .... he was with you and ur crew last night ... you all wore face cap to hide your identities after he died in ur car.. u dumped him at general hospital and ran away ... the law must play its role this time .. you all better provide Tagbo alive .. davidoofficial. After you all abandoned him at general hospital you continued you stupid grooving at DNA and had the nerves to promote ur show .. this ain't no ordinary boy you can intimidate his family ... we need you to tell us how he died in ur car and why u ran away.. the police and the hospital confirmed u all ran away .. if u think ur money can save u , u just met ur match . Promise .