April 2019

UAE clarifies: No change in visa policy for Nigerians

April 5, 2019 12:09 pm

The United Arab Emirates(UAE) Embassy in Abuja said the country’s visa policy has not changed, debunking  reports  in the media that it has suspended issuing three-month visa to Nigerian visitors.

An embassy source clarified that the 90-day or 60-day visa is not meant for tourists, but it is issued only to those going to the country for business.

Tourists, the official said, are entitled to 14-day visa.

The Embassy on Thursday on its Twitter handle @UAEEmbassyNGR said; “In the light of the press report published this morning (Thursday 4/4/2019) alleging that the United Arab Emirates has suspended issuing tourist Visa

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BREAKING Appeal Court faults order used to dismiss Onnoghen

Onnoghen: Presidency keeps mum

April 5, 2019 11:52 am

Presidency has yet to confirm the resignation of the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, even as the news gathers momentum.

It was reported that Onnoghen’s resignation letter was submitted to the Chief of Staff to the President, Malam Abba Kyari, by some Justices of the apex court.

The Justices arrived at the presidential villa few minutes after President Muhammadu Buhari left Abuja for Jordan to participate in the World Economic Forum (WEF).

A presidency source confirmed to NAN that President Buhari had on Thursday, before his departure to Jordan, received the National Judicial Council’s recommendations on …

Suspended CJN Onnoghen resigns

April 5, 2019 11:42 am

Suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, has tendered his resignation as CJN, according to a member of his legal team.

Though his resignation has not been announced officially, one of his counsels, who said he was not authorised by Onnoghen to speak to the press on the issue, confirmed this to our correspondent.

However speaking to THISDAY on the issue, Director, Information, Supreme Court of Nigeria, Festus Akande, said he was not aware of the resignation of the CJN and dismissed it as a mere rumour.

Akande who said he was currently in Enugu for the burial of

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Gang of Looters

April 5, 2019 11:26 am

By MarkAnthony Nze

 

A political story

Chief Timbabu, popularly known as Janja, chieftain of the ruling party, and a political lord controlling virtually all the South-West states including the rich state of aquatic splendour.

He sits on the couch of his massive and exquisitely furnished living room, crosses legs on a coffee table, and slowly dragging his jumbo wrap of Marijuana heavily mixed with raw Cocaine, and intermittently, he speaks to the four prominent men in the country with him.

Timbabu has a habit of consuming about $3000 worth of Cocaine daily, which takes him to cloud nine, making …

Churchil accuses Tonto Dikeh of forgery, petitions IGP

April 5, 2019 3:20 am

Mr Olakunle Churchill, the estranged husband of Tonto Dikeh, has petitioned the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammad Adamu, against the controversial actress.

Churchil accused her former wife of document forgery and illegal sale of his Toyota Prado SUV vehicle worth N22 million.

He submitted the letter through his lawyer, Ace Solicitors, to the office of the IGP and made the acknowledged copy, dated April 4, available on social media.

The petitioner alleged that he acquired the said vehicle through his organisation, Big Church Group.

He alleged that after their divorce, he left the white Prado SUV with Tonto Dikeh,
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US willing to admit more Nigerian students

April 5, 2019 3:10 am

The U.S Department of State Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs has said the country was willing to admit more Nigerian students to its over 1000 community colleges.

Mr. Mathew Washburn, Programme Officer, EducationUSA, U.S. Department of State, said at the Foreign Press Centre International Reporting Tour of the U.S. Community Colleges and Workforce Development programme in Washington D.C.

The tour was organised by the Foreign Press Centre, Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State to provide foreign journalists with information on opportunity available to foreign students in community college in U.S.

Washburn explained that Community colleges are two-year …

Jeff Bezos, ex-wife agree $36 billion divorce deal

April 5, 2019 2:53 am

World’s richest man, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his ex-wife, MacKenzie, have agreed the biggest divorce settlement in history, leaving him with 75 percent of their stock in the tech giant and giving her nearly $36 billion in shares.

MacKenzie Bezos said she would give all of her stake in The Washington Post and the space exploration firm Blue Origin to her ex-husband — the world’s richest man — as well as voting control of her remaining Amazon stock.

Jeff Bezos, 55, and MacKenzie, 48, a novelist, married in 1993 and have four children. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in their

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Fashola and his bogus claims

April 4, 2019 8:43 pm

By Okechukwu Keshi Ukegbu

The ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC) is peopled by a band of double speakers and elements who speak from both sides of the mouth. Buck passing and and blame game are their stock-in- trade. They always find excuses where none exists. And are always eager to justify lackluster performance by blaming the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) they took over from.

The Minister of Power,Babatunde Fashola ressurected these antics recently when he made a bogus claim that some states in the country enjoy 24 hours power supply. No response could better match this claim than that …

Defence chief explains military’s role in elections

April 4, 2019 8:35 pm

Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Gen Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin yesterday defended the action taken by the military during the general elections.The Gen.

Olanisakin noted that if such actions were not taken and deployment of the military personnel made, the security situation of the country would have been jeopardised.

Speaking yesterday in Abuja during the orientation programme for senators-elect and House of Representatives members-elect, Gen Olonisakin noted that the deployment of the army during the election was constitutional.

He insisted that the deployment helped in preventing Nigeria from being thrown into war.

Speaking on “Issues on security and governance”, the CDS
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Three undergraduates die in sex romp after taking tramadol

April 4, 2019 8:23 pm

It was tragedy at Sunshine Lodge, Ihiagwa, one of the satellite communities close to the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO), Imo State on Tuesday night. Three students collapsed and died while taking turns to have sex with a co-student after allegedly taking a mixture of tramadol, codeine and vodka. Two of them, according to an eyewitness account, died instantly while the only lady among them and another male student were found unconscious.

They were immediately rushed to the Federal Medical Centre Owerri where they were admitted at the Intensive Care Unit. The male student later died at the hospital, …

Gunmen kill Akure Anglican Church bursar

April 4, 2019 8:13 pm

A bursar attached to the Akure Anglican Diocese Secretariat, Alagbaka, Akure, has been reportedly killed.

The deceased, identified as Gabriel Abiodun, was shot dead yesterday by gunmen suspected to be robbers, who were said to have trailed him after leaving a new generation bank at Alagbaka.

An eyewitness, who was on the scene, said Abiodun was trailed from the bank by the three gunmen to the church where they rained bullets on him.

He said: “The man (bursar) had just returned from one of the new generation banks to withdraw N500,000, which we learnt was probably meant for retirees.

“The …

₦29b recovered from debtors of liquidated banks – NDIC

April 4, 2019 10:14 am

The Managing Director of Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation ( NDIC ), Umaru Ibrahim has said that, the corporation has so far recovered N29 billion from debtors of liquidated deposit money bank, microfinance banks and primary mortgage banks.

He said that NDIC insured limits of N500, 000 for depositors in deposit money banks, non-interest bank and primary mortgage banks and N200, 000 for depositors in microfinance banks currently covers 95 percent of depositors across the country, 96.8 million accounts and 97.63 percent of the entire accounts in the banking system.

Addressing the NDIC Special Day at the 40th Kaduna International Trade …

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