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Obasanjo Criticizes Ambode For Abandoning Lagos Rail

December 28, 2019 2:44 pm

Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has criticised former Lagos State governor Akinwunmi Ambode for abandoning the Lagos light rail project while he was the governor of the state between 2015 and 2019.

“We borrowed to build a light rail in Lagos, embarked on the project and a succeeding governor abandoned the project for his full term of four years at 65 per cent completion when he should have started paying down on the loan,” Obasanjo said on Friday in Lagos as a keynote speaker at the “Why I am Alive” campaign.

Obasanjo also criticised Ambode of prioritising the construction of …

Enough Is Enough – Saraki Dares Kwara Governor

December 28, 2019 11:39 am
Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has claimed that Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, is out for vengeance against his family.

Saraki stated this on Saturday, while reacting to the governor’s decision to revoke a land occupied by his family in Ilorin, the state capital.

In a statement on Friday, Abdulrazaq’s Chief Press Secretary, Rafiu Ajakaiye, claimed the land was originally meant for government secretariat and parking space of a clinic.

But in a statement he personally signed, Saraki who once governed the state, insisted the land was duly allocated and a Right of Occupancy title issued on it.

“It should

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ISWAP: We Killed 11 Christians To Avenge Al Baghdadi

December 28, 2019 9:16 am

The ISIL (ISIS) group has released a video claiming to show the execution of 11 Christians in northeast Nigeria, one day after Christmas.

The footage posted in an online Telegram news channel late on Thursday by ISIL-linked propaganda arm Amaq showed 11 blindfolded men being lined up at an unidentified outdoor location.

One man is shot before the other 10 are beheaded. A masked man in the almost one-minute video claimed the killings were in response to the death of ISIL chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his spokesman.

Al-Baghdadi committed suicide in October to avoid capture during a raid by …

What Nigerian Military Should Have Done – Donald Duke

December 28, 2019 7:29 am
A former Governor of Cross River, Donald Duke, has blamed past military administrations for instituting the transfer of senior personnel to states they were not familiar with.

He said they should have allowed administrators to remain in the state in order to govern properly since they know the terrain.

NAN reports that Duke spoke on Friday at a lecture organised by the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star in Calabar, while insisting that local policing is the only way to ensure effective security in Nigeria.

He described policing as “a very local thing which requires a lot of intelligence and

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Removing Minimum Wage Will Enslave Workers – NLC, TUC

New Minimum Wage: Labour Gives December 31 Deadline

December 28, 2019 7:27 am
Organized Labour has said it was ready to go to war with any governor that fails to implement the ₦30,000 minimum wage by December 31, 2019.

Six months ago, President Muhammadu Buhari signed the New Minimum Wage Act into law.

However, only five states – Kaduna, Kebbi, Lagos, Adamawa and Jigawa – have commenced implementation and payment of the new wage so far.

The Secretary-General of Trade Union Congress (TUC), Musa-Lawal Ozigi, has now said any governor that fails to implement or show commitment before the Tuesday deadline, would be deemed to have declared war against labour.

He told newsmen

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I’m Searching For New Wife – Ibrahim Babangida Announces

December 28, 2019 7:24 am

Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, rtd, has announced that he is in search of a new wife.

Describing the kind of woman that will suit him at this stage of his life, IBB said he will not take a wife much younger than him because that will be a problem for the woman and for himself (IBB)

Speaking with The Sun, the former Head of State, however, expressed the fear that the new wife may not be able to live the way he lived with his late wife and former First Lady, Maryam.

Asaba Delta-born Maryam died

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Nigeria Faces Impending Bankruptcy, Says Obasanjo

December 27, 2019 2:04 pm

President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday in Lagos expressed deep concern about Nigeria’s current debt profile and warned the Federal Government against “impending bankruptcy.”

Obasanjo was a keynote speaker at the “Why I am Alive” campaign celebration in Lagos on Friday.

Nigeria’s external debt, he said, grew by as much as 700 percent to N24.947 trillion ($81.2.74 billion), from $10.32 billion in just four years (2015), meaning that the country would have to commit half of its foreign earnings to servicing its current level of indebtedness.

“Such a situation talks about impending bankruptcy,” the former president warned. He insisted that “no …

‘$10bn Needed To Fix Infrastructure Decay’

December 27, 2019 4:35 am

With the recurring incidences of building collapse in the country and deadly portholes on the nation’s roads, stakeholders have proffered that Nigeria will need over $10 billion to bridge infrastructure decay in the country.

Speaking at a seminar organised by Axion Global Engineering Limited, a leading producer of Axion bitumen booster, Axion Tuffcrete and Axion solid base stabilizer, construction experts and members of the Nigeria Society of Engineers said there is urgent need to curb the spate by leveraging on comparative advantages of innovative products that would extend the lifespan of road networks.

The experts and producers of the products …

Gbong Gwom Jos Urges Berom Youths To Work For Prosperity

December 27, 2019 4:34 am

The Gbong Gwom Jos, Da Jacob Gyang Buba, has urged Berom youths to shun all forms of sentiments and work collectively for the prosperity of Berom nation.

He admonished them not to allow politics and selfish interests divide  them even as he enjoined them to unite to protect their heritage.

Da. Buba stated this, yesterday, when President of Berom Youth Moulders-Association (BYM), Mr.  Gabriel  Badung, led youths on a Christmas visit  to the monarch’s palace.

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We’ll Submit Atrocity By Nigerian Security To The USA -Kanu

December 27, 2019 2:39 am

The Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, in another chapter of his campaign against the corrupt Nigerian government and the incentive to let the world see Nigeria for how it really is has asked all Biafrans to tender all reports and episodes of misdeeds being committed by the Nigerian security force to him and try as much as possible to broadcast it, whilst he continues to submit them to congress offices in the United States.

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“If you see any atrocity being perpetrated …

Norway Princess’ Ex-Husband Ari Behn Commits Suicide

December 26, 2019 1:48 pm

Norwegian author, Ari Behn, who was previously married to the country’s Princess Maertha Louise, died on Wednesday aged 47.

His manager told AFP that he had committed suicide.

“It is with great sadness in our hearts that I on behalf of the very closest relatives of Ari Behn must announce that he took his own life today,” Behn’s manager Geir Hakonsund said in an email to AFP.

Behn published his first book in 1999, a collection of short stories whose English translation is “Sad as hell”.

He rose to public prominence in 2002 after marrying the Norwegian royal …

Why Nigeria Does Not Need A Rubber Stamp Legislature

December 26, 2019 1:47 pm

More than ever before, Nigerians need to start to pay attention to the survival of its democracy, if they truly desire that system of government. As harmless as it seems to be, the statement credited to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, concerning the 9th National Assembly’s preference for being a malleable institution should agitate the minds of Nigerians on the safety of their future in the hands of politicians who are misguided as to their very essence.

To be sure, no one expects the two arms of government to be at each other’s throat perpetually; …

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