What would you do if your partner cheats on you on New Year’s Day? Read more at: fayorizu

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With regards to connections, tricking is one of the many issues that tend to startle many people. A great many people consider bamboozling to be unforgivable and in
spite of the fact that it's very difficult, despite everything they get themselves ready to excuse their accomplices, get the broken pieces and proceed onward with their lives together. Dominant part of the general population who have been undermined have a steady anxiety that their accomplice will do it once more. Things being what they are, imagine a scenario in which your accomplice undermines you on the principal day of the year. Would you excuse and proceed with the relationship or would end the relationship and proceed onward? Saturday Vanguard looked for the perspectives of VIPs on this theme and here are their reactions; It's a terrible sign – Imelda J, Singer How can my darling be discovered undermining New Year's Day? That is an awful sign. On the off chance that it wasn't another year's day, I may have likely given him another opportunity or mull over it before settling on any choice. In any case, since it is on a New year's day,, I would have no other alternative than to leave him alone. I can't start my year with such a misfortune, God restrict! I will release him so he can proceed with his conning state of mind. No compelling reason to battle or loathe by any means. I will discreetly leave. I let it out will be agonizing however I will without a doubt get over it. My new year ought to start on a positive note, not with a duping accomplice. I am prepared to relinquish anybody with misfortune who needs to remain in my method for joy and accomplishment in 2017. Imelda J I don't recognize what I would do-Tope Tedela, Actor You can dare to dream and supplicate that you don't end up in that sort of circumstance. In any case, in the event that I wind up in that circumstance, I truly do not understand what will do. He ought to avoid me – Ene Ochu, Actress/Model Aahh! On New Year's Day? In the event that that happens, it implies God doesn't need me to be with that men. It will be hard to reclaim a man who I caught in the act with another lady. He would need to avoid me, that is it! I will pardon her exclusive if – Baba De Baba, Comedian It relies on upon the level of my dedication to her. In the event that I don't wish to wed her, I will proceed with her since I don't have the privilege to secure her to myself alone since I clearly have no arrangements for her. In the event that she is a young lady I genuinely love and wish to wed, I will pardon her in the event that I haven't locked in her. Be that as it may, in the event that I have connected with her and she cheats, I will separate. I can't leave my man for any immaterial chic – Ferrari, Actress I as of now have the attitude of men being polygamous in nature. In spite of the fact that I will be disturbed, yet it changes nothing. I will be exceptionally pissed that he got so imprudent that I got him. He will be grounded for some time. At that point, he should implore me with cash and a beautiful auto to get my absolution, since I can't leave my man for any unessential side chic. Bunch

Olamide joins Omawumi, Waje, others for Alibaba’s ‘January 1st Concert Read more at:fayorizu

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Prevalent rapper Olamide has joined the long line up of A-rundown specialists planned to perform at Alibaba's 'January first Concert'; hanging on the first of January, 2017 at EKO Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos. The up and coming show will check the third release of the 'January first Concert', which started in 2014
and has since turned out to be one of the greatest yearly shows in Lagos. Olamide exciting fans at an occasion Alibaba has guaranteed fans the up and coming release will be fundamentally greater than the past as there are surfeit of amazements for participants. The comic drama veteran likewise uncovered the show won't just include parody and music alone however move also. Created by Bunmi Davies, the show will highlight a portion of the greatest parody names including Okey Bakassi, Akpororo, Omo Baba, AY, Senator, MC Abbey, Kenny Blaq, Funny Bone, Yaw, Short Family and a few other exceptionally looked for—after entertainers. Fans will likewise witness music exhibitions from other skilled specialists, including Harry Somg, Korede Bello, Reekado Banks, Omawumi, Yinka Davies, Cobhams, Simi, Waje and a large group of others.

Army presents Shekau’s flag to Buhari

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The Nigerian Army on Friday night in Abuja facilitated President Muhammadu Buhari to Guards Brigade Regimental Dinner and exhibited to him the caught Boko Haram hail.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the banner was given over to the President by the Theater Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, Maj. - Gen. Fortunate Irabor.

NAN reviews that men of the Operation Lafiya Dole working in the North East had ‎‎successfully caught ‎the‎ "Camp Zero", ‎the most grounded enclave of Boko Haram psychological militants faction, in the Sambisa Forest.‎

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Irabor, had revealed that ‎about 1,240 speculated Boko Haram fear mongers were captured amid a wipe up operation by troops inside the Sambisa backwoods.

While accepting the banner, President Buhari tested the armed force compels on the need to keep on ensuring the survival of Nigeria as a geo-political element in spite of what he portrayed as "political franticness'' being displayed in a few sections of the nation.

As per him, it is compelled by a sense of honor for the armed force to guarantee the sustenance of tranquil conjunction among the more than 250 ethnic gatherings the nation over.

"We will do our best to construct the national organizations in the nation.

"All these political frenzy in the North East, the Niger Delta or in the East ought not be permitted to bring about division or any type of strain in the nation.

"There are 250 ethnic gatherings, so keeping Nigeria one is an undertaking that must be done, notwithstanding for your own reason you should ensure this nation stays joined together and more grounded,'' he said.

President Buhari, who portrayed his initial military life in Abeokuta and resulting redeployment to Zaire (now Congo), said he was nearly executed while on obligation even before making the most of his first compensation as an officer.

The president, hence, expressed that he was acquainted with the issues of the military having put in more than 25 years in the military.

He reviewed how his refusal to cling to a guidance from the IMF, World Bank to downgrade the naira and increment costs of fuel and flour, as a military Head of State, prompted to his expulsion.

He said: "I denied and gave my reasons and the following thing I knew I was expelled and confined for three and half years.

"As a non military personnel president I will put forth a valiant effort and I'm letting you know all these on the grounds that you are a piece of the initiative of this awesome nation and God willing we will stay incredible."

In his comments, the Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Tukur Buratai encouraged the officers and men of the Guards Brigade to dependably keep up the fearlessness and train they were known for in 2017 and past.

He guaranteed that the military would proceed with their invasion in the North East, and would not rest in wiping up of the remainders of the Boko Haram radicals.

Buratai consoled that the Nigerian Army would stay unopinionated in doing its obligations to the country.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the regimental supper night, which was composed to check the end of boring year of the Presidential Brigade of Guards, managed the officers of the unit to associate with their administrators.

The highlight of the event was the ‎inauguration of the PMB (President Muhammadu Buhari) Gymnasium at the Scorpion Mess in W.U. Bassey Cantonment by the President.

The occasion likewise saw the presentation of Souvenirs, Scorpion Magazine and Compendium of Guards Brigade and in addition the behaviors of the band by the President.

The Commander, Brigade of Guards, Brig.- Gen. Musa Yusuf, conveyed the vote of thanks at the event which was gone to by outstanding identities including the agent of Senate President, ‎Sen. Pioneer, Ali Ndume and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Muhammed Bello.

Others are the National Security Adviser, Service Chiefs‎, the Inspector General of Police Ibrahim Idris, Presidential associates among others.

We will wrestle corruption to the ground, says Buhari

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President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his organization's assurance to wrestle debasement to the ground stays unshaken.

The President, who gave the affirmation in his New Year message to Nigerians, be that as it may, said that the battle against debasement would be guided by regard for the administer of law and due process.

He promised that his organization would not extra anyone or organ of government in the progressing campaign against degenerate practices.

"It is an aggregate undertaking and resolve that must be seen to its coherent decision regardless of specific diversions.

"The destiny of our nation lies somewhat in the achievement of this battle.

"It will be unbelievable on my part to permit the vessel of this critical battle guarantee overturn mid-stream,'' he included.

On the economy, President Buhari said his organization had centered its energies to pivot the economy, make occupations, battle debasement, and change horticulture to supplant oil and gas as a noteworthy income worker for the country.

""I am empowered that we are getting things right.''

As per him, horticultural insurgency has started and ranchers in various parts of the nation are encountering guard harvests while states are getting into vital organization towards accomplishing independence in rice.

He said that "the period of over-reliance on oil for outside trade incomes was bit by bit melting away.

""I am idealistic that the CHANGE we as a whole longed for in voting this organization to control in 2015 will show increasingly and be maintained in various divisions, especially horticulture, in 2017.''

He noticed that the country's monetary recuperation and development arrange in 2017 was moored on streamlining the utilization of nearby substance and enabling neighborhood organizations.

""In quest for this present organization's reasoning, we will keep on appealing that we purchase "Made In Nigeria" products.

""Like I said amid the 2017 Budget presentation to the National Assembly, ranchers, little and medium-sized makers, agro-partnered organizations, dressmakers, performers and innovation new companies, will remain the genuine drivers of our monetary future.

""They are the motor of our monetary recuperation and their needs support our Economic Recovery and Growth Plan,'' he additionally kept up.

On occupation creation, the President expressed that his organization would support existing projects went for lifting countless youth out of destitution, while in the meantime making the open doors for individuals to battle for themselves.

President Buhari said thanks to Nigerians for their support to his organization's endeavors to change Nigeria.

""I guarantee you again that the present agonies are brief and will ease when the financial seeds in development start to sprout to fulfillment" he said.

He asked them to keep on supporting the organization in its push to change Nigeria for the benefit of all.

Afenifere wants recruiters of 50,000 ghost workers named

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Commends Buhari on insurrection battle, desires rebuilding

The Yoruba socio-social gathering, Afenifere, has charged the Federal Government to distribute the 11 government employees behind the engagement of the 50,000 apparition specialists found as of late on its finance.

The gathering said the naming and disgracing will reject fears in specific quarters that there was a stupendous trick to conceal the wrongdoing. It included that the trick has again raised the need to rebuild the nation as the centralization of an excessive amount of assets at the middle was reproducing defilement.

Afenifere's response is going ahead the background of the late disclosure by the administration that more than 50,000 phantom specialists had been "conserved" from people in general administration.

In an announcement yesterday, the gathering's National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, added that with regards to the move the legislature has made on the matter, "we were informed that the names of the 11 government employees who planned the demonstration have been sent to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for indictment."

The gathering communicated stun at the namelessness being presented on the scouts, "yet this is a similar nation where government officials have been confined and charged to court over sum that pales into inconsequentiality contrasted with the N143 billion required here.

"It is this sort of exemption that has made wrongdoing to rot in Nigeria as there is no case to demonstrate that wrongdoing does not pay."

Odumakin went ahead: "Around four years back, previous Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, let us know that more than 40,000 phantom specialists were dispensed with from the government benefit with nobody indicted for the demonstration. This more likely than not urged the group to expand their re-enrollment."

The gathering included that in same vein, "we pay heed to late report that all the staff of the Federal Ministry of Finance who were fingered in the 2016 spending cushioning embarrassment have been presented on the money office of the service. We would prefer not to infer this is an advancement yet."

It, in any case, praised President Muhammadu Buhari over the counter uprising campaign in the North-East by the Nigerian Army.

Afenifere, pronouncing that there was no accomplishment that could be more prominent, in any case, encouraged the legislature to execute the 2014 national gathering report, particularly as it identifies with the rebuilding of the alliance.

The Secretary-General, Chief Sehinde Arogbofa, focused on yesterday in Akure that the nation would stay insecure without genuine re-building of the country's establishment.

Buhari cancels Bauchi trip over bad weather

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The Presidency yesterday said the 'predominant climate conditions in the nation' constrained President Muhammadu Buhari to wipe out his booked visit to Bauchi.

"We make our arrangements, God makes His own particular arrangements," Buhari said in an announcement made accessible to State House journalists in Abuja yesterday.

As per the president, "uncooperative climate, which has been the worst thing about air go in the ebb and flow harmattan season, prompting to the postponement and cancelation of flights, raised its head in Abuja Airport toward the beginning of today, keeping the take-off of the President's plane for Bauchi."

His Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu said the specialized data got from the climate station demonstrated that perceivability as at this yesterday morning (Thursday) was 600 meters, 200 meters shy of the 800 meters insignificantly required for a protected airplane take-off.

"As indicated by the data accessible, the perceivability was relied upon to drop to 300 meters before enhancing as far as possible later in the day.

ASUU accuses JAMB registrar, Unilorin VC of N2b fraud

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has requested of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), blaming the organizations for previous bad habit chancellor of the University of Ilorin ( UNILORIN) Professor Ishaq Oloyede (now JAMB recorder) and his successor, Professor Abdulganiyu Ambali of N2 billion misrepresentation.

ASUU in the request of made accessible to columnists in Ibadan portrayed the UNILORIN administration as exceptionally degenerate, saying the establishment has been utilizing the guise of keeping a steady scholarly date-book to quiet informants while executing gigantic extortion.

The Union approached EFCC to do a tenacious and exhaustive examination of the charges.

ASUU blamed the administration for benefits misrepresentation, false and unremitted conclusions, blackmail of understudies, contracts expansion and kickbacks and additionally unlawful installments to ex-foremost officers of the University, even after they have left the said workplaces and have been working somewhere else.

While talking with correspondents in Ibadan on the advancement, the Ibadan Zone Chairman of ASUU, Dr Ade Adejumo, requested that EFCC explore the fantastic extortion executed by the organization of Oloyede and the occupant which have reliably stifled the voices of resistance against the fakes.

ASUU additionally charged that Oloyede in 2011, multiplied the measure of annuity being deducted from staff under the false appearance that the past derivations were lower than recommended by law.

"For the evasion of uncertainty, the legitimate least endorsed by Pension Act at the time was 7.5 of payments and the staff were at that point paying even over this base. By method for correlation, in government colleges, for example, University of Lagos( UNILAG) and Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife the entirety of N20,124.62 is deducted from every teacher as benefits commitment every month.

"Be that as it may, at UNILORIN the aggregate of N40,206.42 is deducted month to month for the same "benefits commitment". In opposition to law, the additional conclusions did not get from any concurrence with the laborers; for sure, the constrained findings were dissented without much of any result. For the shirking of uncertainty, the annuity law does not engage a business to powerfully deduct over the base from any worker. "

"In any case, the administration pushed out the contention, through their sidekicks that whatever sum is deducted for annuities would be naturally multiplied and that the reasonings were, in this way, "for our advantage." The import of this is government is being made, maybe accidentally, to pay twofold the sums endorsed by law, to the Pension Fund Administrators and the supporters, accordingly constituting an outlandish blackmail or deplete on the treasury. The quantum required in this misrepresentation is in billions and is proceeding"

The appeal to likewise charged a misrepresentation of N1.5billion naira mutually executed by the quick past Vice-chancellor and the occupant on false and unremitted derivations from staff pay rates.

"Having given the impression of helping the specialists by coercing more from the treasury than the law recommends, the UNILORIN powers now set out to swindle similar laborers by making extra findings from their pay rates under false appearance.

"From May 2012 to December 2013, the University of Ilorin Administration deducted additionally entireties running from about N9,000 – N20,000 month to month from every staff asserting these to be "back payments of additional finding." However, these additional derivations never reflected in the benefits articulations of the staff worried to date. The quantum required in this extortion is in the area of N1.5 billion.

"Our preparatory examinations uncovered that billions of naira have been so blackmailed from around 35,000 understudies including Sandwich understudies over the past years.The gathering of graduating therapeutic understudies really kept in touch with the powers to request a discount yet they were disregarded."

The union, accordingly, requested that EFCC explore the assertions and save the organization from the dug in fake exercises.

DSS edited my phone conversation with Wike, says Fayose

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Ekiti State representative Ayodele Fayose has faulted the Department of State Services for releasing an altered duplicate of his phone with the legislative leader of Rivers State Nyesom Wike to implicate him and Wike.

"On the off chance that the President and his ax men in the DSS, EFCC and other government organizations don't realize what

to do other than to record telephone discussions of their apparent political enemies, they ought to simply leave and spare the nation from this frightening background," Fayose said in an announcement through Lere Olayinka, his extraordinary right hand on open interchanges and new media.

An online medium, Sahara Reporters, on Thursday, distributed a sound tape in which a man implied to be Wike admitted to how he utilized his position as the legislative leader of the state to impact the result of the wicked December 10 Rivers rerun surveys.

Despite the fact that the Ekiti State representative did not disavow the spilled sound tape, he, be that as it may, that it had been doctored.

"On the off chance that the President and his ax men in the DSS, EFCC and other government organizations don't comprehend what

to do other than to record telephone discussions of their apparent political enemies, they ought to simply leave and spare the nation from this nerve racking knowledge," he said.

He demanded the government was debilitated by his prevalence and underwriting by eminent religious pioneers, for example, Enoch Adeboye and Pastor W. F. Kumuyi. The decision All Progressives Congress along these lines turned to utilizing the DSS and other security organizations to threaten him and other driving resistance figures, he said.

The representative depicted the DSS subtly recording his phone discussions as the tallness of the political wickedness, control, mistreatment, concealment and flightiness by operators of the government that are making a decent attempt to conceal the violations they executed against the general population of Rivers State.

"They ought to try and go past taping of my lines and come to live with me in Ekiti government house so they can do every seconds live recordings of whatever I say in light of the fact that in the year 2017, by the finesse of God, I will in any case say more without expression of remorse," he said.

While keeping up that the APC drove national government don't regard the laws of the nation, Governor Fayose said; "They realize that what they are doing is illicit and clear negation of Section 37 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which gives that; 'The security of subjects, their homes, correspondence, phone discussions and transmitted interchanges is thusly ensured and ensured.'

"In any case, since they are criminally disapproved and are running an oppressive government, utilizing the DSS, EFCC and different offices, one is not shocked at the present advancement."

No plastic rice in Nigeria, says NAFDAC

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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Thursday said research center aftereffect of the presumed fake rice demonstrated that the item was not plastic but rather rice sullied with smaller scale living beings.

The Acting Director General, NAFDAC, Yetunde Oni, said this at a news gathering in conjuction with the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in Abuja.

Oni said the seized rice was unsuitable and in this way unwholesome for human utilization, focusing on that the dispatch would be annihilated upon handover by the NCS.

She clarified that the item marked "Best Tomato", was in 25kg pack, without NAFDAC number, bunch number, date markings and points of interest of the producer.

She said that `floating' was negative, sedimentation was certain, cooking was typical, scent was ordinary, shading was grayish and E-coli was inside detail.

She said lead and cadmium were not identified, pre-ashing was typical, fiery remains, dampness and shape were inside detail yet coli frame was above most extreme cutoff points.

Oni approached the general population to report suspicious cases about all NAFDAC managed items to any of the workplaces the country over for incite administrative activity.

She likewise said that the accompanying numbers could be reached for enquiries: 08013630600, 09094262773 and 08033112282.

The Comptroller-General, NCS, Col. Hameed Ali, said independent of the result of the research facility examination, traditions would stay cautious and alive to its duties.

Ali, who was spoken to by the Deputy Comptroller-General, Tariff and Trade, Umar Iya, said NCS was guided by knowledge reports.

"Knowledge reports demonstrate that few metric huge amounts of lapsed and hazardous rice are as yet lying in hold up in distribution centers in neighboring nations and the objective of the items is the Nigerian market", he said.

Ali said that the NCS would strengthen watches to guarantee that such monetary saboteurs don't succeed.

He asked distribution center proprietors and transporters the nation over not to acknowledge such snuck items in their offices or vehicles individually.

He cautioned that both the snuck items and method for transport were at risk to seizure.

Army dismisses Shekau’s new video as mere propagan

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The Nigerian Army has portrayed the video purportedly discharged by the Boko Haram demonstrating its pioneer as "unimportant psychological militant promulgation."

An announcement by Brig.- Gen. Sani Usman in Abuja on Thursday said the consideration of the Nigerian Army had been attracted to the video cut discharged by the gathering from an undisclosed area, demonstrating its implied pioneer, making spurious cases.

"While exertion is on going to subject the video for further measurable investigation, the Nigerian Army wishes to repeat that it has caught and involved the last known fortress of the fear based oppressors gather in the Sambisa timberland.

"We might want to promise general society that this video is only minor psychological oppressors purposeful publicity went for making dread in the brain of individuals and to stay significant.

"In this way, there is no reason for alert, all the more so as purposeful exertion in clearing the remnants of Boko Haram psychological militants wherever they may stow away is progressing.

"Our heroic troops conveyed in different parts of the North-East have kept on heightening the scan for all people connected with Boko Haram fear based oppressor bunch with a view to conveying them to equity", Usman said.

He encouraged the general population to approach their ordinary legal business, stay watchful and be security cognizant, including that any suspicious individual or gathering of people ought to be accounted for to the security offices.

Med-View Airline pleads with aggrieved passengers over delayed luggage

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Med-View Airline on Thursday guaranteed no less than 100 travelers whose baggage were postponed at the Gatwick Airport, London, that they would arrive Nigeria by Dec. 31

The Airline Managing Director, Mr Muneer Bankole, gave the affirmation amid an intelligent session with the distressed travelers at the carrier's office in Lagos.

Bankole clarified that 365 stuff were left at the London air terminal influencing 100 travelers, saying that satisfactory remuneration had been given to the influenced travelers.

As indicated by him, a flying machine will withdraw Lagos for London on Friday morning and return same day, saying that the rest of the baggage would be transported through the British Airways on Saturday.

Bankole said he felt the torments of all the "aircraft esteemed travelers'', who were influenced by the late entry of the things.

"The circumstance happened in United Kingdom when the aircraft off-stacked some stuff for security reason.

"Along these lines, the influenced travelers are the individuals who remained with us for conceivable answer for their bothers.

"The aircraft and travelers trial began on Dec. 19 when Gatwick Airport shut the fundamental runway for upkeep, and guided the carrier to utilize the shorter runway.

"This was on account of the airplane burdens were heavier than the shorter runway, and the influenced stuff were off-stacked.

"Be that as it may, we acknowledged the fault, and we lament every one of the bothers and truly apologize for every one of the inconveniences they experienced.

"We feel their torments, and truly welcome the support and we have apologized earnestly.

"We are tending to some of their needs and that is the reason we are here with my group," he said.

The overseeing executive said that some stuff landed on Thursday, while their proprietors had been reached for accumulation.

He said that the frequency was a grievous one that was not predicted by the carrier.

Bankole, in this manner, guaranteed them that the aircraft would deal with their settlement, nourishing and different costs that they may had endured in the previous five days.

Court remands Edo APC chiefs over alleged murder attempt

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Two chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osakpamwan Eriyo and Sunday Osagbona were yesterday remanded in jail authority by the Oredo Magistrate Court over claim of endeavored murder.

Eriyo is the APC youth pioneer in the state and the administrator of the Road Transport Employers Association (RTEAN) while Osagbona is the gathering's director of ward three in Oredo nearby board.

Before they were summoned yesterday evening, their supporters resisted police bar and attacked the central command of the State Police Command to request their discharge.

The police later took them to the officer court along Sapele Road under substantial security.

Their requests were not taken but rather insight to the denounced people, Usunobun Evbayiro, in what he depicted as a 'Christmas application' encouraged the court to allow them guardianship at the police facility due to affirmed sick wellbeing.

He said his customers were hypertensive, asthmatic and need steady therapeutic consideration.

One year after, NUC yet to pay LEADS scholars’ stipend

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One year after the Linking Experts and Academics in the Diaspora Scheme (LEADS) researchers at the National Universities Commission (NUC) started benefit in Nigeria, they are yet to be paid any stipend.

The LEADS researchers are Nigerian educators who are specialists in various fields abroad, and took back to Nigeria to fortify instructing in the college framework.

They are caught under the program which started quite a long while back, however appears to have keep running into pained waters since January 2016 when the NUC couldn't pay the month to month stipends of the drew in researchers.

Researchers who have been locked in since January are yet to get installments.

Educator Chinedu Ahaiwe, who has been at the University of Abuja since January, told The Guardian that the experience has been nerve racking. "Owing us since January has abandoned us not able to satisfy numerous commitments", he said.

He likewise depicted the circumstance as embarassing. He communicated frustration at NUC's powerlessness to pay researchers who were gotten from outside the nation, one year running.

Examination by The Guardian uncovered that the NUC had a consent to pay every researcher $2,500 every month among different advantages. While some have returned abroad after a few months of being owed, the individuals who are still inside the program day by day push for their installment without achievement.

All endeavors to get the new Executive Secretary, Professor Abubakar Rasheed, to impact the installment has not yielded any outcome. Additionally, an appeal to sent to the Presidency is yet to yeild the wanted outcome.

Despite the fact that Rasheed had guaranteed to find a way to determine the matter and return to The Guardian since October, all endeavors to contact him demonstrated unsuccessful. Calls set to his telephone from that point forward were not addressed and instant messages were not reacted to.

In any case, The Guardian learnt that the Presidency had begun exploring the matter.

An inside source educated that the last time NUC paid the LEADS researchers was in December 2015. The source included that the commission has not possessed the capacity to pay from that point forward on the grounds that it needed assets. Some different projects, for example, preparing of college speakers abroad have additionally been ended over absence of assets.

ASUU petitions EFCC, alleges N2 billion fraud in UNILORIN

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UNILORIN

Charges false, fit for junk can, says varsity administration

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has appealed to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan Zonal office blaming a previous bad habit chancellor for the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) and his successor (names withheld) of N2 billion misrepresentation.

The appeal, which was put together by the Ibadan Zone Chairman of ASUU, Dr. Ade Adejumo, Chairman, University of Ibadan (UI), Dr. Deji Omole, his Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) partner, Dr. Biodun Olaniran, Kwara State University (KWASU), Dr. Dauda Adeshina and UNILORIN partner, Dr. Kayode Afolayan, blamed the administration for annuity misrepresentation, fake and unremitted conclusions, coercion from understudies, contract expansion and kick-backs, and in addition unlawful installments to ex-important officers of the University, even after they had left the said workplaces and working somewhere else.

In response to the assertions, Head, Corporate Affairs of the college, Kunle Akogun said there was just the same old thing new in the supposed claims, particularly the one on annuity support.

As per Akogun, "These same colleagues made similar affirmations in July this year while shamefacedly kicking against the broadly recognized all around justified arrangement of our previous bad habit chancellor by President Muhammadu Buhari. What's more, obviously, nobody listened to them, as even the president, who is notable for his zero resistance for defilement, is not ignorant of the due perseverance accreditations of progressive organizations of the University of Ilorin."

The college representative said the administration respects the request of and extremely sure that the counter join office would properly entrust it to where it appropriately had a place: the trashcan!

"Our exclusive grouse against the appeal to is the claim by the candidate, Dr. Kayode Afolayan, that he is the Chairman of Unilorin ASUU. He is not", Akogun said.

In the request, the union claimed that the previous VC multiplied the measure of benefits being deducted from staff under the false appearance that the past derivations were lower than recommended by law.
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"For the evasion of uncertainty, the lawful least recommended by Pension Act at the time was 7.5 of remittances and the staff were at that point paying even over this base. By method for correlation, in government colleges, for example, University of Lagos (UNILAG) and Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile-Ife the aggregate of N20, 124.62 is deducted from every teacher as annuity commitment every month.

"In any case, at UNILORIN the entirety of N40, 206.42 is deducted month to month for the same "annuity commitment." Contrary to law, the additional conclusions did not get from any concurrence with the specialists; without a doubt, the constrained findings were challenged without any result. For the evasion of uncertainty, the benefits law does not enable a business to strongly deduct over the base from any worker."

FUTO, host communities bicker over ownership of land

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Pioneers of 11 host groups of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, (FUTO), Imo State have challenged asserted control of around 4,050 hectares of land by the college in insubordination to the choice by the Imo State government to extract 3,123 hectares to the groups.

Talking in the interest of the groups, one of the pioneers, Chief Sam Anokam, demanded that the organization must extract certain parts of the procured arrive, expressing that the establishment obtained human settlement, in Ihiagwa and Eziobodo, and also Owerri West Local Council of the state in disregard to the National Universities Commission (NUC), mandate ashore securing in such circumstance.

He claimed that few petitions have been composed to progressive leaders of the establishment on the matter, blaming them for not making themselves accessible on the best way to determine the matter.

In any case, responding, the Vice chancellor of the establishment, Prof. Francis Eze, asserted that the host groups were debilitating the presence of the college.

As indicated by him, they have been included in offering parts of the university's' property for the arranged development of a Teaching Hospital to purchasers. He cautioned the general population to be cautious of such dealings regretting that regardless of the business openings and different honors of agreements to the groups, despite everything they challenge them.

Communicating worries on the position of the V.C, an Estate Surveyor, just distinguished as Anokam, said the contention by Prof. Eze, that the Port-Harcourt Road end of the land would require more than 1,000 hectares of land to fabricate the arranged development of FUTO Teaching Hospital, was not worthy to the groups at that area. He demanded that the Owerri North end of the organization could suit not exactly such spread of land.

He blamed powers for the foundation of not satisfying their Corporate Social Responsibility of utilizing indigenes of the groups and infringing on Umuezeala, Eziobodo, Ebikoro, Amaeze, Uba-Eziobodo lands, among others.

As indicated by him, the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, has around 800 hectares of land for such healing facility, asking why FUTO required such span of land.

Anokam said FUTO had just paid remuneration for around 1,000 hectares of land out of more than 4,000 it obtained, demanding that the securing procedure was not finished by that reason.

"We approach the Federal Government to set up ta Technical Committee of center experts to see with their own eyes and compose an answer to settle in this manner matter, if the Federal Government need to settle this matter earnestly," he expressed.

NAFDAC secures eight convictions, arraigns 52 drug suspects

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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it has secured no under eight feelings and charged 52 sedate suspects in different courts across the country amongst February and December this year.

The Acting Director-General of NAFDAC, Mrs. Yetunde Oni, made the exposure yesterday in Sokoto while opening the office's National Education and Awareness Campaign with the subject, "Medications are perilous: Know the truths."

She watched that medication manhandle was turning into a genuine general medical problem and a standard among the youths.According to her, the Federal Ministry of Justice was guaranteeing fast arraignment of guilty parties however lamented the lack of assets for acquisition of more operational vehicles, research center hardware and strategic things.

She bemoaned the country's import-subordinate nature though it should be a noteworthy producer of value items Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, spoke to by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Bashir Garba, lamented that medication manhandle had discovered approach to wedding homes.

Trial of BDC operators on fraud charges adjourned to Feb 27

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A Federal High Court, Lagos has suspended the trial of two Bureau De Change administrators (BDC) and their firm accused of extortion and issuance of flop check to February 27, 2017.

The denounced are Abdullahi Awwal Mohammed, Mohammed Kabiru and their organization, Kabiru Global Investment Limited.They were summoned before Justice Mojisola Olatoregun by the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigerian Police on 10 tallies verging on those charges.

The denounced people as indicated by the charge were claimed to have falsely gotten N92.703 million from another BDC administrator, Mr. Churchill Tom Udo and his organization, Westgate Global Trust Limited under affectation that they can help him in changing the cash into American dollar comparable.

They were likewise claimed to have approximately July 15, 2015 issued 10 checks from their organization's record domiciled with United Bank of Africa (UBA) with record number 101896574 to Churchill Udo. Be that as it may, on introducing the checks at the bank for installment, they were stamped dismisses because of absence of adequate subsidizes in the record.

The Special Fraud Unit (SFU) prosecutor, E. A. Jackson, expressed that the offenses conferred by the BDC administrators are in opposition to and culpable under segments 1(1)(b) and 1(3) of Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offenses Act No. 14 of 2006, and areas 1(b), (2), and segment 2 of Dishonored Check (Offenses) Act, Cap. D11, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

In any case, the blamed BDC administrators argued not liable to the charges and have been confessed to abandon different terms and conditions.The arraignment of the BDC administrators and their organization, was spin-off of an appeal to kept in touch with Inspector-General of Police by a Lagos-based legal counselor, Mr. Hycinth Odu for the benefit of his customer, Churchill Tom Udo.

Ogun pays N1.5b severance allowances to ex-political appointees

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Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun has dispersed checks totalling N1.5 billion to 663 previous political office holders as installment for their severance recompenses.

They are the individuals who served under the organization of quick past senator, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, between 2007-2011 and amid Amosun's initial residency, 2011-2015.

Any political representative probably served for a long time before meeting all requirements for such privilege.The recipients, in any case, avoided political nominees who served at the nearby chamber level under the quick past organization and they were at the occasion to enroll their outrage, addressing why the senator has "underestimated" them.

The senator was quiet on why they were excluded.Amosun, who yesterday by and by gave out the checks to the recipients in Abeokuta, the state capital, focused on that his organization would keep on being focused on the welfare of the state's government employees and political deputies.

In another advancement, Secretary to Kogi State Government (SSG), Mrs. Ayoade Arike Folashade, has clarified why a few retired people were yet to be paid.

The SSG, who talked at the Odokoro Day where the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) director propelled an aptitudes' procurement preparing focus to enable adolescents of the group, said there were instances of retired people that have passed on yet gathering benefits.

Her words: "We have an instance of a beneficiary that resigned as executive, who eight years after retirement as a chief was advanced as perpetual secretary and after 10 days, resigned as changeless secretary. He is currently taking annuity as perpetual secretary subsequent to gathering benefits as chief for a long time.

"We have instances of beneficiaries that have resigned are as yet gathering annuities and consistent salaries."These are a portion of the inconsistencies that we need to remedy. In the event that there are beneficiaries that have not been paid, it is on the grounds that we are becoming more acquainted with the correct retired people.

"The general population ought to likewise realize that the survey board is not made up of individuals from Kogi State alone as we welcomed measurable evaluators from outside the state."

Amosun noted said that he could clear the recompenses and six months' overdue debts his organization owed the laborers from the N10.6 billion that the state got from the Federal Government.

He said despite the fact that the Federal Government had exhorted all states to use no less than 25 for every penny of the cash to pay part of the remarkable compensations and recompenses, Ogun was spending the rate as well as had depleted all the cash on specialists' welfare.

A previous Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs under Daniel's organization, Mr. Tunde Alabi, who reacted for the benefit of the recipients, commented: "The senator has demonstrated that he is a legislative leader of everyone as his signal does not have any political gathering shading."

Reps bid to probe aviation crises suffers setback

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The arrangement by the House of Representatives to test avionics emergencies has endured a mishap because of various factors.One of them, as indicated by the Chairman, House Committee on Aviation, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha is the novelty of the agent of the House of Representatives in office.

Onyejeocha said Basil was yet to "settle down adequately to pass on the House resolutions to the fitting quarters."The National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) had delegated a previous appointee assistant of the House of Representatives, Mr. Edhere Uzezi Basil in September this year as the substantive agent of the House.

In view of the proposals of the board of trustees on flight, which held a four-day open hearing in October on the emergencies, the House had consistently consented to welcome the Minister of State, Aviation, Hadi Sirika to "brief the House on his arrangements for the aeronautics area, including the status of the continuous rebuilding of worldwide air terminals and the purposes for the degree and plan of the progressing redesigning."

Sirika was relied upon to clarify the proposed choice of Federal Government to concession significant airplane terminals in the country.The board of trustees' proposals took after Sirika's introduction of two advisory groups in September this year to quick track the concession procedure went for enhancing models and limits of the air terminals.

The nonattendance of the delegate director of the panel, Isa Salihu Bashir (APC), Sokoto all through the term of the hearing where the resolutions were come to had additionally influenced usage of the choices.

Bashir told The Guardian that he was not part of the choices came to toward the end of the hearing, "as I was away around then and not in the position to state why, who does what or didn't do what."

Likewise influenced by the postponement in passing on the House resolutions was the officials' yearning to approach the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to explore claimed preoccupation of N120 billion avionics intercession support gave by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in 2012 to patch up the area.

The officials additionally asked the CBN representative, Godwin Emefiele to show up before them to clarify the usage of the store and proffer methods for managing forex challenges confronting the division.

Forex shortage has recently prompted to intense deficiency of stream fuel, constraining a few nearby transporters to suspend operations.To manage the difficulties, the House additionally made plans to welcome Assets Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON) and all the aeronautics administrative offices to offer recommendations.

Army claims recovery of Shekau’s Qur’an, flag in Sambisa Forest

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The Nigerian Army yesterday said it had recuperated Boko Haram pioneer Abubakar Shekau's Qur'an and banner in Camp Zero, the Boko Haram's central station in Sambisa Forest.

The Theater Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, Major-Gen. Fortunate Irabor, who said this while giving overhaul on the 'Operation Rescue Final' in Maiduguri, included: "We trust that the Holy Book and the banner were surrendered by Abubakar Shekau while he got away."

The Book would be taken to the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.- Gen. Tukur Burutai, for forward presentation to Mr. President," Irabor said.According to the theater authority: "We have likewise made a considerable measure of captures. Boko Haram individuals are escaping the warfront.

"We, in this manner, caution occupants of the state to be careful about individuals stowing away in and around their homes. We are additionally cautioning inhabitants to report any speculated Boko Haram individuals covering up in their homes to the applicable security offices and any inability to do that would equivalent to supporting and feeling for the organization's exercises," Irabor said.

Irabor said troops captured in regards to 1, 240 speculated Boko Haram psychological oppressors amid a clean up operation by troops inside the Sambisa forest.He expressed that 413 of the suspects were grown-ups; 323 were female grown-ups; 251 male youngsters, while 253 were female kids. The theater officer said that the suspects were caught amid a wipe up operation against the faction individuals in the timberland.

"We are still on the trail of the fear mongers and I need to guarantee you that all escape courses have been blocked. Inside this period, additionally, around 30 escaping suspected Boko Haram individuals have surrendered to the Niger Multinational Troops on the shores of the lake Chad and we learnt that they were taken to Difa in the Niger Republic.

"The suspects incorporate; 24 male and six females. "We might want to utilize this chance to urge the psychological oppressors to surrender the battle in light of the fact that the window is still open," the officer said.

‘We won’t stop agitation until Biafra Republic is created’

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One of the gatherings fomenting for independence in the southeast, Biafra Independent Movement (BIM) yesterday pledged to proceed with the battle until their demand for sway is conceded by the Federal Government.

They said the tumult would end when the Republic of Biafra is isolated from the Nigerian nation.According to the gathering: "There is no motivation to discuss an assembled Nigeria when President Muhammadu Buhari is just worried about the northern intrigue and the underestimation of Ndigbo in the nation."

In an announcement in Abakaliki, the pioneer of BIM Ebonyi South zone, Mr. Sunday Ezaka, focused on that the main answer for enduring peace and political dependability of the country is for the Federal Government to permit power for the Igbo.

The announcement said: "The whole individuals from BIM MASSOB in Ebonyi South zone bolster Ralph Uwazuruike, the pioneer of the Movement for the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) (BIM) and the MASSOB BIM pioneer, S.O Chukwu for their vision for the Igbo. They have done well more than some other gathering in the nation.

"Today Biafra has come to be a reality and soon it would be open and clear to everyone. The main thing that will convey peace to Nigeria is for the Federal Government to quit contradicting the fomentation.

"On the off chance that Biafra remains all alone, it would help a considerable measure. We have every one of the minerals assets that would help us to create and be autonomous. The administration is not improving the situation and we censure them for every one of the passings of our individuals since the tumult started."

Policemen protest against transfer to North without incentives

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Stressed over their exchange toward the Northern zone of the nation without motivators, around 1,260 policemen from six South West conditions of the nation have whined intensely against the "lopsided"‎ practice from the Nigeria Police Service Commission.

As indicated by a flag marked by AIG Abdul Bude from Force Headquarters, Abuja and dated December 24, 2016 with reference no CB 4770/FS/FHQ/ABJ/Vol. 5/232, the influenced policemen have been commanded to continue in Kaduna on January 4, 2017.

In spite of the fact that they concurred that their essential duty as security specialists was to ensure lives and property, the distressed policemen said they are not happy with the way the exchange was taken care of.

The Guardian assembled that comparative moves done in 1997, 2003 and 2015 recorded substantial losses among policemen from the South West because of the nonappearance of fundamental offices while their northern partners did not endure such destiny.

One of the influenced policemen who talked on state of secrecy said their northern partners who were similarly exchanged in the meantime toward the South West supposedly disregarded the exchange.

The influenced policeman regretted that most officers from the South West who were moved in the past had been squandered by Boko Haram guerillas.

Different grievances of the policemen incorporate non-arrangement of vehicles that would pass on them to their new stations; non-arrangement of convenience and other welfare administrations, dialect hindrance and non-nature with the northern landscape.

These, he said, had made them simple prey to the agitators including that the setback figure experienced by his associates the South West was more contrasted with their northern partners.

He said, "since they began the exchange, lives of a few policemen from the South West extraction have been squandered in light of the fact that when they exchanged them, the power would not give all important offices, for example, cash, convenience and arms and this made them inclined to assaults by the extremists".

"We are not glad by any stretch of the imagination. This same exchange had at first been halted by the National Assembly and an effective government official from the South West in 2015. It is the same policemen that are being exchanged at this point. We knew this in light of the fact that the letter sent to them was tended to with their previous positions while these policemen had been exchanged by the previous Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase".

With the exchange, he said, the police powers have run foul of a before record, which expresses that no policeman ought to be exchanged outside his zone.

"We are not saying we ought not be exchanged but rather given them a chance to give empowering environment to us to work. They can't simply keep on making us conciliatory sheep," the officers shouted out

APC not afraid of mega-party, says Odigie-Oyegun

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said it won't feel undermined by the greatly touted uber gathering being by assembled by a few government officials in front of the 2019 decisions.

Addressing columnists in Benin City, Edo State yesterday, the National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun additionally proclaimed that he was certain the National Leader of the gathering, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and previous Vice President Atiku Abubakar would not join the new party

Odigie-Oyegun reviewed that he had met with a portion of the pioneers of the gathering including the initiative of the National Assembly and the previous Vice-President as of late.

"Tinubu was not around so he couldn't go to the meeting. When he returns, we would likewise meet with him and have important dialogs since he is an all around regarded pioneer of this gathering."

As per Odigie-Oyegun, "We don't feel debilitated by any stretch of the imagination. No uber gathering would survive the APC. I don't know where the name uber party all of a sudden originated from in the dictionary of governmental issues. At the point when two individuals accumulate to have a meeting they now assemble themselves a uber conference. We don't feel undermined, we will truth be told, empower a super gathering, on the grounds that with the progressive crumple of PDP, we need a gathering that can make us sit tight and be on our toes.

Uncertainty over NNPC budget hinders Reps oversight on Ogoni land cleanup

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The House of Representatives has said the instability over the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) spending plan is keeping its offer to investigate Federal Government's arrangement on Ogoni arrive tidy up.

The Chairman of the House Committee on Environment and Habitat, Obinna Chidoka said in light of the fact that the financial plan of the NNPC has not been sent to the National Assembly, it had turned out to be inconceivable for the board to decide the level of government readiness for the tidy up propelled by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at Ogoni, River State.

Chidoka said another viewpoint is the degree of worldwide oil organizations' contribution in the tidy up. The IOCs, which incorporate Shell Plc, Total Oil and Agip, are required to give money related support to the work out.

The Federal Government, reports had it likewise plans to extend the tidy up to different parts of Niger Delta, voting N9.52 billion for it in the 2017 spending plan "to shielding of water, terrains, rivulets and biological system of the locale."

Oil investigation started in Ogoni arrive in the 1950s, with more than 30 billion pounds of oil removed till date. The unrefined extraction has obliterated the eco framework.

Amid the late residency of Ibe Kachikwu as Group Managing Director, the NNPC in July reported a working benefit in May 2016 of N273.74 million as against its working loss of N19.43 billion in April.

Why Jonathan would have annulled 2015 polls

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A Professor of history and vital reviews, Nkem Onyekpe, has propelled reasons why previous President Goodluck Jonathan would have addressed and even canceled the memorable presidential race of 2015.

Onyekpe contended that Jonathan, who was a sitting president had substantial grounds whereupon he could have anticipated a protest to the procedure and result of the decision, which both neighborhood and universal groups, portrayed as a noteworthy test to the nation's juvenile vote based system.

In an address titled: "The Anioma country and fair union in Delta State," the University of Lagos Professor predicated his first contention on the suspicious formation of something beyond

surveying focuses in the northern part of the nation without a comparable foundation of such extra focuses in the south.

He kept up that when plainly voter cards were not accessible for some enrolled voters in the fortifications of Jonathan in the South and South East geopolitical zones and "when the card peruser severally dismisses him, his significant other and his mom, the ex-president could have taken activities that would have risked the appointive procedure.

Onyekpe, who talked at Ejeme-Aniogor; Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State, amid the fourth biennial open address/terrific city gathering to pay tribute to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa at the end of the week, asserted that Jonathan could have sounded the caution when it got to be "clear that while the 'instructively in reverse' or 'less created' conditions of the North did not have or had just few voided votes, the 'instructive exceedingly created' conditions of the South had many voided votes."

Onyekpe demanded that Jonathan could have towed the dishonorable way of dissolving the 2015 presidential surveys, 'when his supporters cried foul at the administration of the presidential decision by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)" and different organizations required in the challenge.

The teacher said Jonathan was not a pioneer and, in this manner, declined to investigate the upside of his incumbency to the impairment of the whole nation.

"He didn't tear his voter's card! Rather, he begged the whole country for comprehension and participation with the INEC. He dodged the

Ambitious way and picked rather, the way of peace and respect.''

He approached pioneers in the nation to "assimilate the excellent supernatural pacificist soul and mentality of Goodluck Jonathan," including that Jonathan's activity ought to serve as an opportune lesson for all pioneers.

Jibrin denies fleeing from the UK

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The House of Representatives has said that the previous Chairman, House Committee on Appropriations, Rep. Abdulmumin Jibrin fled United Kingdom (UK) to abstain from being captured by hostile to join organizations on his trail for asserted criminal exercises.

‎Jibrin has instantly denied the claim and said he came back to Nigeria on the welcome of one of the counter join offices. He burned through two months in the United Kingdom.

Administrator of the House council on Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Rep. Herman Hembe, however charged that Jibrin was on the run since security offices were after him in the UK.

The administrator who had a running fight with Jibrin since the spending cushioning affirmations debilitated that there will be "no concealing spot for Jibrin".

He said "I comprehend that the suspended Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin has fled back to Nigeria after report of his responsibility for remote records in Backlays Bank and property situated at No. 81, Cotswold Gardens, London, NW2, 1PE in London was published‎.

"I wish to remind Jibrin that there is no longer concealing spot for crooks.

"He fled to UK in the wake of getting insight that against join organizations in Nigeria were examining him so as to maintain a strategic distance from capture and indictment"

As per Hembe, " having understood that even in the UK the National Crime Agency and the Financial Intelligence Unit have as of now profiled him and may soon open a body of evidence against him; he unobtrusively sneaked back to Nigeria.

"His days of opportunity are numbered and within the near future he will confront the full fierceness of the law", he said.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Jibrin had last Nov. fled the nation over a claimed endeavor to kill him and hijack his family in view of his hostile to defilement campaign against the authority of the House of Representatives.

‎Jibrin was accounted for to have promised not to come back to the nation until his security was guaranteed.‎

NAN additionally reports that in Nov. the House passed a determination ordering it's advisory group on Ethics and Privileges to summon Jibrin to react to charges of responsibility for records.

The House additionally ordered the board to summon him for poor representation and non-attendance leveled against him by a group of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) and some of his constituents.

Reacting to the affirmations of fleeing from UK, Jibrin in an announcement clarified that he was in the nation at the command of one of the counter join offices.

He said "I came back to the nation on the welcome of one of the counter unite organizations who required extra data from me as they were concluding examination and prepared to summon Hon. Hembe and few others.

"I went by the organization and gave what they required and marked to stand witness"

As indicated by him, "Hon. Hembe is clearly mindful of this reality and has been panicky and running harum scarum including attempting to get the Speaker to intercede and spare him.

"I voyaged gently from the Nnamdi Azikwe airplane terminal Abuja and arrived at Heathrow Airport and same on my way back.

"I likewise making the most of my stay in London and other piece of Europe getting up to speed with my boundless universal system, conveying addresses and allowing interviews.

"I have reacted to the faltering affirmations and my reaction are in people in general glare,"Jibrin said.

NDLEA arrests 2 suspects with cocaine

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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Tuesday said it captured two suspects with cocaine at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport

An announcement by the organization's representative, Mr Mitchell Ofoyeju, said one of the suspects was captured on his approach to Hong Kong subsequent to ingesting cocaine.

"Another suspect, who lives in Athens, Greece, was likewise secured regarding unlawful ownership of wraps of substances that tried positive to cocaine.

"The captures were made at the MMIA, Lagos, amid screening of travelers on an Ethiopian Airline flight to Hong Kong and Egypt Airline flight to Athens.

"Preparatory examination recommends that the suspects had focused on the Christmas occasion to sneak cocaine out of the nation yet medicate law requirement authorities at the Lagos air terminal could reveal their arrangement.

"The aggregate weight of cocaine seized from the suspects is 1.150kgs.

"One of them discharged 45 wraps of cocaine he ingested, weighing 935 grams while the other discharged five wraps of cocaine weighing 215 grams.

"Both presumes tried positive for opiate ingestion keeping in mind under perception; they removed wraps of cocaine which they had needed to pirate out of the nation.

"The suspects are presently under scrutiny.

"The exclusive requirements of both presumes profiting this happy season from medication trafficking had been dashed by watchful against opiate officers," the announcement expressed.

The announcement likewise reported the Chairman of the office, Mr Muhammad Abdallah, as saying that those wishing to get rich through medication trafficking would wind up in jail.

"This is a notice to medication traffickers that the office is resolved to distinguish every concealed medication and arraign wrongdoers.

"There are control measures set up to distinguish opiates at all exit and section focuses.

"We should keep on improving on our techniques in accordance with our main goal of giving a protected and solid society for all." Abdallah said.

Dogara’s performance has reinforced my confidence in youths – Buhari

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President Muhammadu Buhari has recognized the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, "for continually putting Nigeria's enthusiasm over each other thing."

The President said this on Sunday in Abuja in an announcement to check the Speaker's 50th birthday commemoration.

The announcement was marked by the president's Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu.

President Buhari noticed that he was awed with Dogara's rising political vocation and initiative style at his moderately youthful age.

He said the Speaker's execution had fortified his trust in the nation's childhood.

"With Dogara's execution as Speaker, fears that the nation's more youthful government officials have been pushed into foundation are unwarranted,'' he included.

He included that his organization would dependably support the more youthful era.

The President said he was hopeful of nearer working association with the council to quick track the usage of basically critical national strategies and projects.

El-Rufai condemns renewed attacks, says culprits will know no peace

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Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has denounced Saturday and Sunday assaults on Goska, Kaninkon chiefdom in Jema'a Local Government Area of the state, portraying it as "heartless and handicraft of strengths of murkiness."

In an announcement by his Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr Samuela Aruwan in Kaduna on Sunday, El-Rufai understood mourned with families that lost their friends and family.

He encouraged security offices to try harder, saying the aggressors would know no peace as they would be pursued to their safehouses and conveyed to equity.

The representative said "while government and security offices work to square all windows to guarantee that nationals in the three nearby government zones and the whole state are ensured, these strengths of haziness will know no peace.

"These powers of murkiness that speak to underhandedness and cruelty stroke once more, murdering

blameless nationals, smoldered their homes and harmed a few and alarmed numerous.

"Government and security organizations won't be hindered; we will keep on being strong, up and doing and bold in handling this awful circumstance.

"Their strategies are to make a gap, separate individuals, breed loathe and partiality and dive the state into mayhem yet we will triumph over these shrewd powers by the finesse of Almighty God.

"No measure of underhandedness will change our profound responsibility. We will keep on being firm, conclusive and put lives of our citizenry and their prosperity as our definitive objective."

He expressed that the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) had been coordinated to take stock of those influenced and give help materials to help the casualties.

"Our profound sympathy and petitions go to the families that lost their friends and family, those that lost their homes and properties. May their souls rest in peace and may God see us through this testing time," he asked.

God ‘ll give Buhari solution to Nigeria’s problem in 2017- Kumuyi

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The General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor William Kumuyi, on Sunday said that in 2017, God would give President Muhammad Buhari the answer for the various difficulties confronting the nation.

Kumuyi gave the affirmation while talking with newsmen when he played host to the Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr Mudashiru Obasa, who drove a few individuals from the Assembly on civility visit to the congregation's December Convention.

The minister said, "We discussion of the hours of subsidence, trouble, pain and all that, however God is giving us His guarantees. We are not going to persist our issues. "We ask and trust that the Lord will reply.

"As you will see, as we get to the New Year, there is no remainder of our issues. God will offer answers for the issues of our lives, families, groups, the state and our country."

The minister said that with petition and confidence in God, the nation would escape every one of its difficulties, including the monetary subsidence.

The author of the congregation said that God made ''us and needs everything to be adequate for everyone.''

Then, tending to the assemblage of a large number of admirers, Obasa, asked all Christians to show love to their neighbors, including that the state was resolved to battle unemployment among the adolescent.

He said that the recently made Employment Trust Fund would decrease joblessness by giving delicate advance little enthusiasm for ambitious individuals of Lagos state.

"We should go past religious boundary and demonstrate to ourselves that we are siblings and sisters. Give us a chance to love each other. We ought to stretch out hands of cooperation to our neighbors," the speaker said.

Obasa, who asked houses of worship to petition God for the state and country, said that the state was energetic to give great administration and enhance the economy of the state for the advantage of all.

He communicated amuse over the glow gathering concurred his group by the administration of the congregation.

NAN reports that the speaker the Deputy Majority Leader of the House, Mr Muyiwa Jimoh and the Chairman, House Committee on Environment, Mr Dayo Saka-Fafunmi were among the group.

Mrs Funmilayo Tejuosho, the Chairman, House Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights, Petitions and Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission among others government functionaries likewise made the rundown.

NAN reports that the four-day, across the country tradition, which began on Dec. 23 and anticipated that would end on Dec. 26, is labeled, "Power for the Present Hour".

It is occurring at the Deeper Life Conference Center (DLCC) KM 42, Lagos/Ibadan Expressway.

IPMAN seeks Buhari’s intervention in bridging refund, diesel price

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Free Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has engaged President Muhammadu Buhari and Ministry of Petroleum Resources to mediate in the non-installment of over #7b spanning discount by Petroleum Equalization Fund Board its individuals acquired while transporting items.

Additionally, IPMAN needs the Federal Government to examine the reason for sudden climb on the cost of diesel in the most recent couple of months.

IPMAN Zonal Chairman accountable for Kano, Katsina, Jigawa, Bauchi and Yobe States, Alhaji Bashir Danmallam, made the engaging amid a question and answer session yesterday. DanMallam said IPMAN individuals in the zone had over-extended their continuance, lamenting that the circumstance was debilitating their organizations.

While encouraging the President to intercede on the matter, the IPMAN zonal administrator mourned the "carelessness of the Petroleum Equalization Fund (PEF) for more than one and half years over the discount."

He communicated the dread that the circumstance could decline and cause unnecessary shortage of Petroleum items, which he said may prevent simple stream of vehicular development amid the yuletide and New Year festivities if not immediately tended to.

Christmas: Buhari, Saraki, Tinubu urge prayers for recovery

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President Seeks Prayers For Soldiers, IDPs

President Muhammadu Buhari, Senate President, Bukola Saraki and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, have urged Christians to look for celestial direction for Nigeria to escape the financial retreat and different difficulties plaguing the country.

In their different Christmas messages, they likewise looked for the support of Nigerians in guaranteeing the achievement of the present organization in every one of its projects.

President Buhari in his Christmas message to Nigerians ‎said there was no preferable time over now in the country's history to appeal to God for awesome direction to empower the nation escape the present difficulties.

"Amid his natural stay, Jesus Christ over and over helped his devotees and adherents to remember peace that comes amidst hardships on earth. We can have tranquility in Nigeria, on the off chance that we as a whole figure out how to endure and value each other, regard constituted power; and be our siblings' guardians in word and deed," Buhari said.

The President additionally encouraged Nigerians to utilize this period to offer uncommon petitions to God for the warriors presently occupied with the battle to reestablish peace and security in the North East and other blaze focuses in the nation.

"Let us likewise recollect in our supplications for the security compels in the forefront in the proceeding with fight to free our country of psychological warfare and savagery.

"Amid this period, we ought to recollect to offer unique petitions to God for all our courageous subjects who paid the preeminent cost to reestablish peace and security in the North East and other blaze focuses in the nation."

He particularly communicated the need to recollect the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who, as per him, have endured untold hardship as a consequence of exercises of extremists and psychological oppression in the nation.

President Buhari noticed that the most extreme worry of his organization was to reduce the overall hardship Nigerians were experiencing by rapidly animating ‎the economy and reestablish their trust in the advance and flourishing of the country.

"I guarantee Nigerians that our administration is doing its best to make life less demanding for all," the President included.

Saraki in an announcement by his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, encouraged Nigerians to utilize this season to rededicate themselves to the administration of mankind in accordance with the genuine lessons of Jesus Christ, which underscores magnanimity, devotion, charitable benevolence and love towards each other.

Saraki emphasized the dedication of the eighth Senate at guaranteeing that the nation recaptures her pride among the comity of countries through significant and auspicious enactments.

"This is the period of affection and pardoning. It ought not be seen just as a fun period, but rather as an opportunity to implore intensely for a quiet and prosperous country. As a country, we have gone through arrangement of difficulties, however the reality remains that we can just surmount our monetary emergency on the off chance that we remain joined together, stretch out hands of cooperation to each other and be well behaved," Saraki expressed.

On his part, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu needs Nigerians to grasp and spread the good news of adoration, resilience and pardoning, and in addition confer themselves to peace and solidarity.

He said: "This Christmas, yes, let us recognize his introduction to the world, however how about we give that affirmation its fullest significance by perceiving how Jesus lived and what he lived for. He connected with all. Jesus nourished poor people and recuperated the wiped out. He spread empathy and philanthropy and lectured love and equity."

Tinubu, be that as it may, said that Nigerians must accomplish more than implore. "We as a whole have something to offer, something to add to more prominent's benefit. As Jesus gave of himself that we may live better, we should give of ourselves that others around us may have a superior life and that this country may inhale another demeanor of success and trust," he said.

Pastor Adeboye extols Fayose for defending people’s rights

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General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has rebuked state governors in the nation to copy their Ekiti State partner, Mr Ayodele Fayose, by defending and securing the interests of their kin.

Adeboye, who made the comment in Ado-Ekiti, on Saturday, at the royal residence of Ewi of Ado-Ekiti, Oba Rufus Adejugbe Aladesanmi 111, amid a kindness approach the ruler before going to a campaign at the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium, portrayed Governor Fayose as an awesome safeguard of his kin and their cause.

‎"Your Excellency, we express gratitude toward God for your life, valor, intensity and being willing to go for broke, so that your kin can be secured and I know you recognize what I am discussing. You can make sure that we are petitioning God for you and you will succeed.‎ I seek different governors will remain after their kin like you and protect their kin and say that's it," Adeboye said.

While appealing to God for the rebuilding of the lost grandness of Ekiti, the eminent pastor recognized Oba Adejugbe for driving his kin in the method for the Lord.

Wike denies plans to sponsor protest against FG

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Rivers  State representative Nyesom Wike has said he didn't support anybody to challenge the Federal Government,

He added that the individuals who wanted to challenge to support him probably taken a prompt from the individuals who challenged him in Abuja. Wike expressed this when he allowed crowd to the Rivers State Elders Council of Ministers (RISECOM), in Port Harcourt on Friday.

"On the off chance that they like, let them bring all way of allegations every day, it won't cow me. Three days back, they supported dissents against me in Abuja with the police driving the dissidents.

"It is so tragic how they can dive so low. The DSS is troubled in light of the fact that I prevented them from capturing a judge. Till today, they are yet to welcome that specific judge," he said.

Wike asked, accepting individuals need to dissent, would we say we are not in a majority rule government? In the event that I am the person who is the backer of the arranged dissent to support me, who supported the challenges against me?

"It implies they are the general population who supported the dissents", he fought.

Wike guaranteed the Christian pioneers that he stayed focused on the advancement of the state and the welfare of its kin.

He said no amount of terrorizing or shakedown from government offices would frighten him into offering out the state to outside strengths.

He said this was a turbulent period yet that the state would defeat the difficulties since he couldn't be cowed.

He encouraged Rivers individuals not to freeze "since no one can take the state by compel notwithstanding maintained shakedown by the Police and the Department of State Services (DSS).

"None of them gave me the order. The general population of Rivers state gave me this order and I will never offer the enthusiasm of this state for reasons unknown.

"I won't draw out the cash of Rivers to support other individuals outside the state", he said.

Wike told the Christian pioneers that security offices were baffling the security design of the state to promote their plot to announce a highly sensitive situation and from that point convey a toady to plunder the state.

Pioneer of RISECOM, Archbishop of Niger Delta Province, Most Rev Ignatius Kattey complimented the senator for his formative walks in the state.

Methodist Archbishop of Port Harcourt, Most Rev Agwu encouraged the representative to stand firm in spite of the mistreatment.

Christmas: Obasanjo, Amosun, preach unity, religious tolerance

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Wife of the General Overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor (Mrs.) Folu Adeboye, General Overseer, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, wife of the Ogun State Governor, Dr. (Mrs.) Foluso Amosun, Governor Ibikunle Amosun and spouse of previous President Obasanjo, at the Ogun State 2016 Carol held in Abeokuta… yesterday

Previous President, Olusegun Obasanjo, Ogun State representative, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, and Secretary General, Anglican Communion Worldwide, Archbishop Josiah Atkins Idowu-Fearon, have charged Nigerians to keep on promoting solidarity and religious amicability in the nation.

They talked in their different messages amid the Christmas tune and Service of nine lessons sorted out by the State government held at June 12 Cultural Center, Abeokuta.

In their perspectives, the nation could just experience advancement when there is peace and amicability among the general population.

In his goodwill message, Obasanjo encouraged Nigerians to dependably consider themselves to be one paying little mind to their religion or political connection, adding that they should keep on demonstrating the soul of unity.

Amosun, in his own comments, approached Nigerians to keep on praying for the nation and the administration at all levels.

In his Christmas message, the Secretary General of Anglican Communion Worldwide, Archbishop Idowu-Fearon encouraged pioneers in the nation to be just and fear God at all circumstances.

Other conspicuous individuals at the occasion incorporate Chief Ernest Shonekan, Pastor Enoch Adeboye and his better half, Mrs. Folu Adeboye Others were, previous military governors of the state, Daniel Akintonde, and Raji Rasaki, previous military overseer of Bauchi and Sokoto States, Rasheed Raji among others

How Igbo can develop, by Obasanjo, Anyaoku, others

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Previous President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday pestered the requirement for collaboration among conditions of the South East district, demanding that the zone can nourish the nation and create with next to zero help.

He talked amid the South East Security and Economic Summit in Enugu, as governors of the zone distinguished foundation shortfall, unfortunate condition of government streets, weakness, biological difficulties among others as components frustrating the advancement of the territory, bringing up that these had brought other negative results.

Be that as it may, President Muhammadu Buhari, his pastors from the South East zone and just representative created by the All progressives Congress (APC) in the zone, Rochas Okorocha evaded the summit.

The president who was to announce the occasion open did not likewise send representation, an improvement that sent individuals from the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) into the lanes jubilating.

Delegate Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu had in a similar vein said that absence of incorporation and regard for govern of law were key to the level of upsetting in the nation, clarifying that no area of a nation could feel glad when unreasonably treated or when her kin are grieving in penitentiaries notwithstanding when the courts have requested their discharge.

Obasanjo, who was the visitor of respect demanded that the South East ought not surrender to the dangers of underestimation and disregard, focusing on that the zone had something that could be investigated to pivot her fortunes and that of the whole nation.

He said: "When I was growing up, we know the South East with big business, enterprise, shared exertion and common soul, soul of experience, there is no place you go and there is no Igbo man there. No one has removed this from you. The issue is the means by which we can use these aptitudes in the territory of economy and security. We ought not work alone, in the event that we have been working alone and not gone far, we ought to stop. That is the reason for this summit."

Previous Commonwealth Secretary General, Emeka Anyaoku, pestered the requirement for rebuilding for monetary dependability and solidarity of the nation, clarifying that Nigeria would dependably witness a work in progress and financial emergency unless the different units are made to grow independently.

Representative Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, for the benefit of the governors required the intercession of the Federal Government in guaranteeing that the Akanu Ibiam International Airport meets with globally acknowledged models.

Administrator of the Summit, Prof Barth Nnaji had expressed that the charged sentiment deserting by the legislature since the end of the war, absence of value and decency among others evoked the summit.

He said that Ndigbo were just asking that what was because of them as a vital part of the nation ought to be given to them, clarifying that it would address youth's anxiety in Nigeria.