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2019 elections: Buhari’s minister, Khadija Ibrahim resigns The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Khadija Ibrahim, has resigned her appointment from President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet. Ibrahim confirmed her resignation to State House Correspondents while disclosing that Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting will be her last. The former minister, who is contesting for a seat in the House of Representatives in the February 16 general election, made the disclosure shortly before the weekly meeting. She is running to represent Damaturu/Tarmuwa/Gujba/Gulani federal constituency of Yobe State. She defeated her son-in-law, Mohammed Ibrahim, to emerge as the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the election. Source:https://samueljackson12.blogspot.com/2019/01/2019-elections-buharis-minister-khadija.html

‘Simi’s full name will now be “Simi Gold” Abuja – Musicians Folarin ‘Falz’ Falana and Ric Hassani have joined fans to react to the ongoing wedding between Adekunle Gold and Simisola Ogunleye. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that news of the wedding between the two music stars broke on Wednesday morning causing a frenzy on social media. Reacting to the news, Falz shared a video (gif) of a young girl with tears running down her cheeks on his Twitter page @Falzthebahdguy which fans found funny. At the time of this report, Adekunle Gold, Simi and Falz are the top three trends on Twitter as fans have taken to the social network to congratulate the couple and express their surprise. Simi and Adekunle Gold’s continuous denial of their relationship left fans confused until a picture showing them kissing during her sold-out Lagos concert was released few weeks ago. Adekunle Gold, Simi’s wedding up Jan. 10, 300 guests expected Falz was not left out of the discussion as...

Customs seizes tramadol, rice, worth over N54m in Kaduna The Nigeria Customs Federal Operation Unit, Zone `B’,  has seized three cartons of Tramadol 255 mg and 1,100 bags of foreign rice with Duty Paid Value of over N54 million in Kaduna. Customs seizes bags of rice The Area Controller of the zone, Mohammed Sarkin Kebbi, who disclosed this while conducting Journalists round the seized items on Wednesday in Kaduna, said the rice were in various vehicles covered in local rice bags. The Controller further explained that the three cartons of tramadol were uncovered along Kaduna Abuja road, concealed in a truck conveying motorcycle spare parts. He said the discovery was done based on intelligence information from good Nigerians, adding that each carton of tramadol had a market value of over N5 million, thus putting the value of the total seizure at N15 million. He noted that tramadol drugs are still being imported into the country in large quantities in spite ...

Buhari reports Atiku, PDP to national peace committee President Muhammadu Buhari has called on the National Peace Committee to act on an alleged violation of the peace accord signed by presidential candidates in December 2018 by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The pact was signed at the instance of former Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar, Bishop Mathew Kukah and other eminent public figures. A statement on Tuesday by his spokesperson, Garba Shehu, accused the PDP presidential campaign organisation of bad faith, character assassination and inflammatory utterances. Shehu noted that the open and unsubstantiated allegations against the President’s family by the Atiku Abubakar media campaign contravened the spirit of the peace accord. “Dragging the President’s family into the campaign and accusing them of wrongdoing without producing unassailable evidence, amounts to an act of bad faith and malice. “Instead of concentrating their efforts on persuading N...

North Korea's Kim ends Beijing visit as Trump summit looms This picture released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivering an address to mark the New Year at an undisclosed location on January 1, 2019. (Photo by KCNA VIA KNS / KCNA VIA KNS / AFP) / – South Korea OUT / Kim Jong Un’s train left Beijing on Wednesday after the North Korean leader visited his key ally on a trip seen as a strategy session ahead of his expected summit with Donald Trump. Kim arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for his fourth visit to Pyongyang’s sole major diplomatic friend, meeting President Xi Jinping and reportedly visiting a factory. The North Korean leader’s motorcade was spotted entering the Beijing central railway station on Wednesday afternoon, and the train departed shortly after on a day-long ride back to the northeast border, according to AFP journalists. The unannounced trip was largely shrouded in secrecy. Beyon...

‘I Only Fingered One’ – Uncle Love Arrested For Defiling Underage Girls. Photo A teacher with a private school in Ogun State has been arrested by the police for taking advantage of his position to sexually abuse two underage girls, and had carnal knowledge of them sequentially. The randy suspect, Akinsoku Love Olomi, 33, it was gathered, lured his six-year-old neighbor’s daughter and friend, seven-year-old, into a private school near their House No. 10, Baba Esther area in Iyesi-Otta, without each of the victims realizing his intention. He was said to had first called one of the girls into the classroom, while sending the other to buy biscuit. Before the one running the errand could come back, he was done with his first victim, who he also cajoled to buy biscuit and did the same thing to the other. Just as he was in a state of intense happiness and joy of satisfying his sexual urge, bubble burst: one of the girls got home and looked very moody, a condition the mother f...

Nigerian players missing in Africa’s Best X1 No Nigerian male player is considered good enough to play for Africa, at the moment, as they missed out in Africa’s Best X1 unveiled at the annual CAF/Aiteo awards, held Tuesday night in Dakar, Senegal. Africa’s Best X1 players In the selection, African Footballer of the Year, Mohamed Salah of Egypt and Liverpool leads the attacking trio that consist Sadio Mane of Senegal and Liverpool and Pierre Emerick-Aubameyang of Arsenal and Gabon. U-17 AFCON: Golden Eaglets will qualify for World Cup, Garba assures In the midfield are Riyad Mahrez of Algeria and Manchester City, Naby Keita of Guinea and Liverpool and Thomas Partey, of Ghana and Atletico Madrid. Kalidou Koulibaly, who plays for Senegal and SSC Napoli, Eric Bailly, Ivory Coast and Manchester United, Medhi Benatia, of Morocco and Juventus and Serge Aurier of Ivory Coast and Tottenham Hotspur are in the defence. To keep the goal is Denis Onyango, who plays for Ugan...

Julius Berger reveals when second Niger Bridge will be completed Mr Frederick Weiser, the Project Director, Julius Berger Nig. Ltd. on Tuesday disclosed that work on the second Niger Bridge will be completed by Feb. 28, 2022. Weiser made the disclosure when Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra State inspected ongoing work at the project site in Ogbaru near Onitsha. He said the contract for the construction of the Bridge was awarded over the years but was abandoned due to poor funding and failure to mobilise the contractor to site. According to him, the Bridge is 1.6 kilometres long with 3.3 kilometres adjoining room from Delta and another seven kilometres at the Anambra end. The project director, who disclosed that the project was awarded at N206 billion, said the Federal Government had so far released about 15 per cent of the contract sum. Weiser explained that the firm was currently constructing beams and doing piling work on the Bridge. “The biggest challenge we had ...

For suspending me PDP’ll regret its action – Gamawa Buhari receives PDP national deputy chair, BoT member back to APC By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA – PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday night received the national deputy chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Babayo Gamawa and a member of the party’s Board of Trustees, Kaulaha Aliyu, who defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. PDP Deputy National Chairman North, Alhaji Babayo Gamawa now in APC Recall that the PDP has recently slammed Senator Gamawa with suspension order for alleged anti party activities. The defection of the PDP bigwigs from Bauchi State which is the home state of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, came barely 24 hours after the president received some members of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Support Groups from the North East, who defected to the ruling APC. President Buhari and his guests held a strategic meeting that lasted over 30 minu...

Fresh FM: Yinka Ayefele pays ‘thank you’ visit to Ajimobi after rebuilding his Music House Popular gospel musician, Mr. Yinka Ayefele, on Tuesday expressed `profound gratitude’ to Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State for assisting him to remodel and rebuild his Music House, which was last year partially demolished by the agents of the state government to a better edifice. DAILY POST recalls that the building was demolished for allegedly contravening environmental laws in the state. The building was later rebuilt by the state government on the order of the state governor, Abiola Ajimobi late last year. Ayefele as a way to appreciate the governor, on Tuesday led top management of the station on what he called a `thank you’ visit to the governor, in his office. Ayefele, who described Ajimobi as a listening father and good leader, said he had learnt lessons from the whole saga and had appreciated the need for mutual understanding and cooperation between the government and c...

How Nigeria can achieve happiness in 2019 By Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa IT is traditional to make wishes for a new year. And it is also normal for everyone to wish for better in a new year. Many Nigerians have wished each other many things for the new year. One common or universal wish is “happiness”. That is why almost every Nigerian must have wished many other Nigerians “happy new year” since the mid-nite bell rang on December 31, 2018 ushering the new year- 2019. Indeed the same thing has happened globally, just as it has happened every year since I was a child. I cannot say when the greeting was first used but it must have been since the  first century or so. But my earliest vivid recall of hearing and exchanging this greeting was at age five. And that’s over six decades ago and yet this greeting remains current and indeed the major goodwill exchange every new year. Nigeria Thus, it becomes very clear that the attainment of happiness is one the greatest needs of...

Shocking: Makeup Artiste Tells How She Narrowly Escaped Being Used By Suspected Ritualists In Ibadan A young Nigerian makeup artiste simply identified as Daizy, has told a terrifying story about how she narrowly escaped being used by some persons now suspected to be ritual killers in Ibadan. She told her story on her Twitter page. According to the lady, the incident happened yesterday, January 6th, 2019. She explained that she was invited to carry out a makeup session for a client in Ibadan and she happily went. However, when she got to the hotel she was directed to, things began to appear strange. She saw only one man in the room she was sent to and wondered why. When it got to 6pm she decided to leave but the man asked her to hug him. However she refused. Upon her refusal, the man threatened to deal with her if she does not calm down and comply. He then ordered her to go int the toilet, perhaps to remove her panties for him. It was at this point that she realized th...

The assassination of Alex Badeh, insecurity and the privatisation of the police (2) By Rotimi Fasan FAMOUS or infamous as the Chibok and Dapchi school girls’ abduction cases have been, the Nigerian government is still in the game of spinning stories about what is going on. The government has not been able to do what it has severally promised: secure freedom for all the girls. Neither have their parents, families and friends been allowed closure after these many years of endless promises and chest-thumping about beating Boko Haram at its own game. Late. Alex Badeh Would the many cases of abduction have remained unresolved had the victims been children, relations and associates of this country’s rulers? How many Nigerians have access to the kind of security- financial, health and systemic- that is the exclusive privilege of the few with the means and ways to them? The few here being those occupying or have occupied positions of influence or authority in any tier of ...

How Buhari’s re-election campaign team decision may pit Tinubu against Amaechi Buhari’s re-election campaign council Since President Muhammadu Buhari announced his decision to place a former governor of Lagos State, Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in full charge of his re-election campaign at the inauguration of All Progressives Congress (APC) 2019 Presidential Campaign Council in Abuja on Monday, it has thrown up several interpretations from political observers. Some believe that Buhari might have taken the decision to express a loss of confidence in the Director-General of his re-election campaign, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, over the recently leaked controversial video where the Minister of Transportation allegedly says the president does not listen and neither takes advice nor reads to acquire information. Others are of the view that the decision must have been made based on the conviction that the national leader is of more value to the president’s re-election bid than the for...

Electioneering and partisanship in the age of fake news By Tabia Princewill NIGERIA is one of those countries where, every time you think you’ve seen it all, something or someone intervenes to prove to you the sky is truly the limit in terms of the bizarre and extreme lengths politicians are ready to go to score a point. Corruption The sad case of Metele – Reno We all accept everything on the spectrum of half-truths to outright lies, just in case the day comes when we need to “bend the truth” a little ourselves, which is the same reason very few people take a real stand against corruption: everyone hopes to benefit from the system one day. “Jibril from Sudan” was born in such a climate: Jibril-the-clone might as well be a metaphor for Nigerians’ gullibility in the face of the shrewd manipulations of the political class which is adept at weaving fluid storylines and ever-changing, kaleidoscopic episodes to confuse Nigerians and obscure issues, therefo...

President launches 2018-2022 National Strategic Health Development Plan [FILES] Buhari during recent APC Presidential campaign •Unveils disbursement of N55b healthcare fund •Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supports healthcare fund with $ 1.5m President Muhammadu Buhari has launched second National Strategic Health Development Plan from 2018-2022) to attain the Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria.He also unveiled the first phase of the N55 billion Basic Health Care Provision Fund in six states of the federation, and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Meanwhile, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has donaated $ 1.5 million to the Basic Health Care Provision Fund account, and also pledged to commit additional $75 million into the account in the next five years. Also, Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote has promised to mobilise N2billion from the private sector to support the healthcare fund.Speaking at the event in Abuja, Buhari expressed his commitment...

Why I Don't Believe In State Police - Buhari President Muhamamadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has said even though state Police is a good initiative, he does not want to be a part of it, a report by Punch has revealed. “It may be more efficient, which was why I congratulated the governor of Lagos State (Akinwunmi Ambode) when he started the Lagos State Neighbourhood Corps. It’s a good initiative,” the President said in a recorded interview aired on Arise TV on Monday night. He, however, said it could be problematic in the long run because most states could not afford to pay the salaries of their workers. He said, “Lagos State is richer than the Federal Government. How many states are there that can pay salaries and you now ask them to go and form state Police? “And, do you know what can happen if you can’t feed the Police? Do you just give him uniform and a gun but can’t pay him salaries for six months? “It’s going to be a problem and I don’t want to be ...

Why I Married Funke Akindele - JJC Skillz Makes Interesting Revelation Husband to popular Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele has explained why he got married to the actress. JJC Skillz said he approached Akindele in 2012 after he had a dream that he would get married to the actress. According to him, though things did not work out between them in 2012, he followed his dream and 4-years later, in 2016, he got married to Akindele in August. JJC further urged Nigerians to pay attention to their dreams because they could be telling you things you need to know. He wrote: “I have to testify. God is great. I had a dream one night around Christmas 2012 that I will be married to Funke Aakindele and believing in the mighty God I trust, I approached and she didn’t believe me. “A week of romance ended, we broke up and I wrote a song to send a message of what is to come. “My God has never lied or lead me astray. A year later she had a calling to find me and so the story continu...