June 30, 2020

Buhari Set For Virtual Flag-Off Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano Gas Pipeline

Buhari Set For Flag-Off Of Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano Gas Pipeline

June 30, 2020 9:23 am

President Muhammadu Buhari will tomorrow perform the flag-off of the building of the 40-inch x 614km Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) Gas Pipeline project.

The project, expected to be completed within 24-months, is a section of the Trans-Nigeria Gas Pipeline (TNGP) with capacity to transport about 2.2billion cubic feet of gas per day.

Dr. Kennie Obateru, Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), explained that the flag-off would be performed virtually from the Aso Rock Villa in Abuja.

There will be simultaneous link to Rigachukun, Kaduna State and Ajaokuta Steel Complex, in Kogi State.

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Blame Nigeria’s Backwardness On Fulanis – Ohanaeze Youths

Blame Nigeria’s Backwardness On Fulanis – Ohanaeze Youths

June 30, 2020 8:48 am

The backwardness of Nigeria has been blamed on the Fulanis who have ruled the country for several years without ”anything to show” for holding levers of power.

The National President of Ohaneze Youth Council, Igboayaka O. Igboayaka made the assertion through a release last weekend.

Read Also: Almajiri: We’re Ready To Defend Ourselves – Ohanaeze Youths

The OYC president was reacting to a remark by the President of Arewa Youths Forum, Alhaji Yerima Shettima that no Igbo man will rule the country.

According to Igboayaka, “Fulanis have ruled Nigeria with five military heads of state and three civilian Presidents since

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Hushpuppi’s Arrest - Mompha Deletes All Instagram Posts

Hushpuppi’s Arrest: Mompha Deletes All Instagram Posts

June 30, 2020 7:22 am
Social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha, better known as Mompha docked by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC fraud and money laundering has deleted all contents on his Instagram page.

This is the second time Mompha also known as ‘sky man’ and ‘citizen of the sky’, who had used Instagram to display an ostentatious lifestyle will be going blank on the platform.

The CEO of the unregistered Mompha Bureau de Change first deleted his posts after returning from EFCC’s custody on December 10, 2019.

Read Also: Hushpuppi’s Right-Hand Man, Woodberry Falls Ill in US Prison

However, Mompha wiped off all …

Fillon French Court Sentences Former PM Fillion, Wife To jail

French Court Sentences Former PM Fillion, Wife To Jail

June 30, 2020 7:21 am

A French court has sentenced former French prime minister, François Fillon and his Welsh wife, Penelope, to jail for embezzling public funds.

Francois was found guilty of creating a fake job for his wife, using taxpayer money.

The 66- year-old was accused of creating a position that paid his wife over €1 million ($1.13 million) in public funds, a charge that cost him his 2017 presidential bid. His wife, Penelope, was also found guilty of being complicit in the case.

He was additionally accused of getting the millionaire owner of a literary magazine to pay his wife €135,000 for “consulting …

Godfatherism Keeping Abia In Dilapidated Condition – Apugo

Godfatherism Keeping Abia In Dilapidated Condition – Apugo

June 30, 2020 7:00 am

A chieftain of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the immediate Past General Manager of the Abia State Environmental Protection Agency, ASEPA, Victor Okechukwu Apugo, has decried the politics of godfatherism allegedly being displayed under the past and current government in the state.

Apugo who harped on the negative effects of Godfatherism on the people and the development of the state asserted that the practice,(Godfatherism), and fake popularity being exhibited by the political class in Abia, had brought systematic slavery on the Abia constituents.

Read Also: Abia Govt Blasts Churches For Violating COVID-19 Directive

He opined that if …

2023 - Tinubu, Oshiomhole, And The Rest Of The Fulani Stooges

2023: Tinubu, Oshiomhole, And The Rest Of The Fulani Stooges

June 30, 2020 5:02 am

In Nigeria, the politics for the 2023 presidential race has already begun with the rift between Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the Fulani cabal as well as the ousting of the All Progressives Congress National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.

Tinubu who is facing his travails of being relegated behind in APC and Oshiomhole who was kicked out as the APC national chairman are not having the best of times even though they are deluding themselves by hiding under the guise of all being well when it has become very apparent to all and sundry that they are now worthless as far …

The Federal Government on Monday said schools are allowed to reopen amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF

Villa Shooting: Buhari Appoints New Chief Personal Security Officer

June 30, 2020 4:31 am

The President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Aliyu Musa, as his Chief Personal Security Officer.

Musa’s appointment follows the redeployment of his predecessor, Commissioner of Police, Abdulkarim Dauda.

Dauda was redeployed after his involvement in the shooting incident which happened at the presidential villa some weeks ago.

The shooting incident happened after Aisha and her security details had stormed the official residence of the President’s Personal Assistant, Sabiu Yusuf, in an attempt to force him into 14-day isolation after his travel to Lagos considered to be the epicenter of COVID-19 in Nigeria.

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Buhari Govt Okays Reopening Of Schools, Gives Condition

Buhari Govt Okays Reopening Of Schools, Gives Condition

June 30, 2020 4:30 am

The Federal Government on Monday said schools are allowed to reopen amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, who made the disclosure, however, said only graduating students are allowed to resume.

Read Also: COVID-19: FG Confirm Airports 90 Percent Ready To Reopen

Mustapha, who is the chairman of the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19, explained that the measure would allow the graduating students resume and prepare for their final examinations.

He disclosed this during the taskforce daily briefing in Abuja, on Monday.

According to Mustapha: “Safe re-opening of schools to allow students in graduating …

FG finally Lifts Ban On Interstate Movement

FG finally Lifts Ban On Interstate Movement

June 30, 2020 4:29 am

The Federal Government has lifted the ban on interstate movement.

Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, made the announcement during the daily media chat of the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 in Abuja on Monday.

Read Also: COVID-19: FG Confirm Airports 90 Percent Ready To Reopen

Mustapha, who is the Chairman of the taskforce said the directive would take effect from July 1.

 

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Primary Schools, Daycare Centres Remain Closed – FG

Primary Schools, Daycare Centres Remain Closed – FG

June 30, 2020 4:29 am

The Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 on Monday said Daycare centres and primary schools remain closed.

This was disclosed by the National Coordinator of the Committee, Sani Aliyu during its daily briefing in Abuja.

Read Also: COVID-19: FG Confirm Airports 90 Percent Ready To Reopen

“All daycares and primary schools to remain closed till further evaluation,” Aliyu said.

Recall that the Chairman of the Committee and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Boss Mustapha had earlier announced the “safe” reopening of schools.

Mustapha had said only graduating classes would be allowed to resume.

He had explained that the …

Appointment, Promotion Using IPPIS Illegal – ASUU

Appointment, Promotion Using IPPIS Illegal – ASUU

June 30, 2020 4:28 am

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has declared that any appointment and promotions carried out under the Integrated Payment and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) is illegal.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the union has been on strike since March 2020.

Read Also: IPPIS: Why FG Is In Loggerheads With ASUU – Ngige

ASUU declared the strike due to the failure of the government to fulfill agreement reached with the Union in relation to revatilisation funding of varsities, earned academic allowances, visitation panel to public school, proliferation of universities and their governance and conclusion of renegotiation of 2009 …

Buhari, Prince Salman Discuss OPEC+ Deal On Phone

Buhari, Prince Salman Discuss OPEC+ Deal On Phone

June 30, 2020 4:28 am

President Muhammadu Buhari in a phone chat with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, have reviewed the current progress made on the OPEC+ deal.

According to SPA, the Saudi news agency, both leaders spoke on Monday.

Buhari and Salman also reviewed aspects of cooperation to enhance stability of oil markets, SPA added.

Under the deal, Nigeria’s production quota has been pegged at 1.4m bpd.

Read Also: OPEC Committee Recommends Fresh 600,000bpd Oil Output Cut

The country has promised to keep to the quota by the end of June, though it supplements its oil exports with over 350,000 bpd of condensates.…

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