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Nigeria’s fight against the Boko Haram jihadist group was expected to top the agenda in talks Monday between President Donald Trump and Nigeria’s Muhammadu Buhari, leader of Africa’s most populous and wealthiest country. President Donald Trump of the US (r) dicussing with visiting President Muhammadu Buhari during a meeting at the White House, Washington, USA. Buhari became the first leader from sub-Saharan Africa to visit Trump when he arrived at the White House at midday. As they opened discussions in the Oval Office, Trump said it was important to meet face-to-face, “especially on terrorism and terrorism-related” issues. “We have a very big trade deal we’re working on for military equipment, helicopters and the like,” Trump added. Buhari is seeking support in the battle against Boko Haram extremists, who for nine years have attacked cities and towns in the country’s northeast, killing more than 20,000 people in a bloody quest to establish an Islamist state. But Trump said h...

The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Oyo Province 6, were on Saturday 28th of April 2018, commence an Evangelical Prayer Health Walk with a theme "Be Health Aware, Health is Wealth ". The Prayer / Health walk that begins at the Provincial Head quarters opposite All Motors, Gbagi, Ibadan,  went through Ayepe behind Wema bank, Molade, Asaju, Adelubi, Brewery through Old and New Ife road, through Gbagi market back to the Provincial head quarters. Side attraction of the event include Preaching, Prayer, Free Health Check, Health talks, Medical Consultation, Free drugs,Giving of Bibles and Walks. The walks was blessed with 22 prayer points, which cut across RCCG, Ibadan town, Oyo state, Leaders, and RCCG Oyo Province 6 and was led by the Pastor in Charge of the Province and his wife (Pastor and Pastor (Mrs) Enoch Tomoloju). Provincial pastor and wife, leading the members  Prayer point  Participating Members 

It was African culture at its best at the third edition of the Africa Drum festival currently going on in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital, as drummer groups from 33 states of the country  as well as other African countries performed to the delight of the audience. The festival was the third edition tagged, ‘Drumming for Advancement’, held at the June 12 Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta. From left: Speaker, Ogun State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Suraj Adekunbi, Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, Minister for Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and Secretary to the Ogun State Government, Barr. Taiwo Adeoluwa, at a symposium, with the theme, Druming for Advancement, held at the Olumo Rock, Abeokuta, as part of activities at the African Drums Festival yesterday. The opening ceremony of the festival which was held on Thursday at the June 12 Cultural Centre in Abeokuta, was graced by royal fathers from the South West and...

All roads leads to Church of the Transfiguration, Ikolaba, GRA Agodi, Ibadan on Saturday 21st of April, 2018 as the families of Oladimeji and Odejobi joined their Children Adeola Rhoda Oladimeji and Kayode Olanrewaju Odejobi in holy matrimony. The program which started with praise and worship by the host choir was witnessesed by many great people from all works of life most especially great men of God from the host church and The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Ogun province 16. While admonishing the couple in sermon, the priest in charge,  Rev. Canon Jaye Fadayomi, speaks from Numbers 33 on the topic that says "The journey of marriage and the journey of the Israelites ". He said "If you want to go fast, you go alone but if you want to go far, you go with your partner. Do not keep malice, be free with yourself. He told the husband that "In the time of provocation, please relax" and told the wife not to be too demanding. And encouraged them ...

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President Muhammadu Buhari came under fire on Thursday for criticising Nigerian youths who he said “do nothing” and want everything for “free” in the oil-rich country. Buhari, who declared earlier in April he is seeking re-election in 2019, made the remark on Wednesday at a business conference in London. “A lot of them haven’t been to school and they are claiming, you know, that Nigeria has been an oil producing country therefore they should sit and do nothing and get housing, health care, education, free,” said Buhari. The comment touched a nerve West Africa’s largest economy, which suffers from high unemployment and lacks basic government services, including running water and electricity. Most business and homes rely on private generators for power and buy water privately. Former Nigerian vice president Atiku Abubakar, who is also running for president, lambasted Buhari. “I will never refer to Nigeria’s youth as peopl...

Senator Omo-Agege arrested by the Police (Photo taken by Kemi Busari, 18/04/2018) A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory has restrained the Nigeria Police, the State Security Service (SSS) and the Attorney General of the Federation from arresting or threatening a senator, Ovie Omo-Agege. The senator was briefly detained by the police on Wednesday after he was arrested at the premises of the National Assembly. Mr. Omo-Agege was suspended from the Senate on April 12 over his allegations that a bill for reordering of election sequence was targeted at President Muhammadu Buhari. The senator later apologised to his colleagues after the Senate had directed its Ethics & Privileges Committee to investigate the matter. The committee eventually recommended Mr Omo-Agege’s suspension. However, on Wednesday, the suspended Senator resurfaced at the National Assembly. The Senate spokesman, Abdullahi Sabi, later accused Mr. Omo-Agege of leading the unknown persons who broke ...

Primate E. O. Akeju of New Holy Messiah Church in Ilasamaja, Lagos state on Wednesday announced a set of 32 prophecies wherein he stated that God revealed to him that former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, will emerge as Nigeria’s next president. He also called on APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to be wary of supporting the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari if the former Lagos governor does not want an end of his political career. The prophet maintained that Buhari will be disgraced like former president Goodluck Jonathan if he goes ahead to contest the 2019 elections. Not yet done with Tinubu, the cleric called on him to be mindful of his health and be more prayerful for his children so as to avert “another tragic occurrence on any of them”. The prophecies also affected former presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida, both of whom Akeju called enemies of this country, insisting that nobody should take them seriously. He went on to state tha...

K aduna  State government has dismissed 4,562 newly-recruited teachers a few weeks after they were issued with employment letters to replace those sacked for failing a competency test. The state Commissioner for Education, Alhaji Ja’afaru Sani, who stated this at a briefing yesterday, explained that the newly-recruited teachers were sacked because they found their ways into the service of state government through dubious means. Classroom The state government had sacked 22,000 teachers that failed competency test based on questions meant for primary four pupils and announced that it will replace them with competent teachers, based on a competitive recruitment exercise. Sacked, again However, at the end of the exercise, some of the teachers could not correctly write acceptance letters, forcing the state government, according to the Commissioner, to organise another screening for all the newly-recruited teachers. Sani said: “At the end, 4,562 incompetent ones, believed to have f...

A retired Chief Superintendent of Police, David Agholor has reportedly shot himself dead. The incident happened at his residence on Sharaton Estate, Olaogun, in the Ijoko area of Ogun State. Agholor, who was the Officer-in-Charge of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Enugu State Police Command, reportedly shot himself in the head. One of the family members told Punch that the deceased was behaving strangely a day to the incident. The source said Agholor insisted that nothing was wrong with him when he was questioned until they heard a gunshot from behind the house. “He started behaving unusually on Wednesday evening. When they asked him what was wrong with him, he said he was okay. When he woke up on Thursday, he went to his wife’s bedroom to greet her. “Afterwards, he had a bath and dressed up. He looked corporate. They asked him where he was going to, but he did not talk. He called his first daughter and handed over the keys to his houses to her. He has two hou...

How thugs stole Senate maze The Nigerian police say they have recovered the mace that was  stolen from the Senate on Wednesday. According to a statement signed by the deputy public relations officer in the police headquarters, Aremu Adeniran, and sent to PREMIUM TIMES, the police said they recovered the mace where the hoodlums abandoned it. “The police teams engaged in massive raids of identified criminal spots/flashpoints, stop and search operations, visibility and confidence building patrols, intelligence gathering which forced the suspected miscreants to abandon the mace at a point under the flyover before the City Gate, where a patriotic passer-by saw it and alerted the Police.” He, however, said discreet investigation into the incident is still ongoing to arrest and bring the perpetrators to justice. He appreciated members of the public, most especially motorists within Abuja Metropolis for their support, cooperation and timely information during the stop...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said many Nigerian youths like free things based on the notion that Nigeria is an oil-rich nation. According to  The Cable,  President Buhari made this assertion while speaking at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Westminster. The president said that Nigeria has a very young population, most of whom were uneducated but wanted everything offered them on a silver platter, just because the country is an oil-producing nation. “About the economy, we have a very young population, our population is estimated conservatively to be 180 million. This is a very conservative one. “More than 60 percent of the population is below 30, a lot of them haven’t been to school and they are claiming that Nigeria is an oil producing country, therefore, they should sit and do nothing, and get housing, healthcare, education free,” Buhari said. The president is expected to meet with business leaders and o...

The management of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has suspended Prof. Richard Akindele, whose telephone conversation in which he demanded for sex from a female student was recorded and released on social media. A member of the committee who pleaded anonymity confided this to our correspondent in Osogbo on Wednesday. He said the committee recommended the suspension of the professor  in a report of the committee set up by the university to probe the matter and to authenticate the veracity of the telephone conversation, where the lecturer demanded to have sex with the student five times before he would upgrade her mark from 33 to a pass mark. In the leaked telephone conversation, the  female student, who our correspondent gathered was a postgraduate student doing her Masters in Business Administration,  initiated a call and asked the professor about their earlier discussion on the matter. The member of the committee said, “The committee recommended the indefinite sus...

Lawmakers from Ghana were on a visit to the National Assembly on Wednesday when the hoodlums invaded the  Senate chamber and stole the mace. The Ghanaians, who were also as confused as the Nigerians scampering to safety, watched in amazement. They entered the House and sat at the gallery to observe proceedings as members debated the invasion. Gbajabiamila, feeling embarrassed that the visitors saw what played out, apologised to them on behalf of the National Assembly. “It is unfortunate that we have visitors from Ghana, who are on a parliamentary visit to Nigeria. “We apologise because this is not usually how our legislature operates,” he added. A member from Anambra State, Mr. Gabriel Onyenwife, supported the motion, calling the invaders terrorists. He spoke more, “The National Assembly is under a terrorist attack; that is the appropriate description. “If the legislature is no more, what is the fate of democracy? Today, it is the mace, it could have been a senator or a memb...

Nurses, pharmacists, medical laboratory scientists and other workers under the umbrella of the Joint Health Section Unions in Federal Government owned hospitals across the country have begun an indefinite strike. The workers said on Wednesday morning they had to resort to the strike to press home their demands because the FG had refused to act on   the agreements reached with them when they suspended their last strike on the same issue of adjustment of Consolidate Health Salary Structure and payment  of arrears of CONHESS 10 over six months ago. The National Vice Chairman of JOHESU,  Dr. Obinna Ogbonna, who declared the strike after addressing a congress of the union at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, Ile Ife, said it was painful that while the FG had implemented the salary structure for medical doctors, other members of the unions had been neglected since 2009. Apart from the upward adjustment of CONHESS,  he said the government had a...

Ike Ekweremadu, Deputy Senate President The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has briefed Vice president Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday invasion of the Senate chamber by thugs reportedly led by a suspended senator, Ovie Omo-Agege. Mr. Ekweremadu told State House correspondents after meeting with Mr Osinbajo that he was at the Presidential Villa to brief the Vice President on the matter. “I am sure you are aware of the  Senate invasion  today and we have to come and brief the Vice President because the President is not in town. “So it was appropriate for him to know what transpired because we run democracy, we are all in one government and it is the responsibility of the President or the Vice President to ensure law and order in the country and once we have this kind of major development it is important that he is briefed at the earliest opportunity,” he said. Mr Ekweremadu said he had to be the one to do the briefing because the Senate President,...

Proprietor and staff of the hotel where suspected Offa, Kwara state bank robbers lodged before launching their attack have been charged to court. The accused were arraigned before an magistrate court in Ilorin, for alleged conspiracy over the criminal act of the robbers. Staffers of the hotel arraigned are the accountant, a receptionist, a room keeper and a club house operator Also arraigned are four lodgers at the time the suspected robbers also lodged there. All the accused including the four lodgers are of residential addresses of the town. They were arraigned on a 2-count charge of criminal conspiracy and causing disappearance of evidence and giving false information to screen an offender. The police who arraigned them said the offences contravened sections 97 and 167 of the Penal Code Law. The police said on April 6, a team of operatives on investigation into the armed robbery attack extend their investigation based on intelligent gathering to the hotel located along Igosun...

A Federal High Court in Abuja has halted the planned sale of the troubled telecommunication firm, Etisalat (now 9Mobile) following opposition to the move by some aggrieved shareholders. The shareholders – Afdin Ventures Limited and Dirbia Nigeria Limited – who claimed to be major investors, claimed they were left out in the firm’s decision making and demanded a refund of their invested funds estimated at $43,330,950. They have filed a suit to that effect before the Federal High Court, Abuja. The suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/288/2018 has Karlington Telecommunications Limited, Premium Telecommunications Holdings NV, First Bank of Nigeria Plc, Central Bank of Nigeria, Etisalat International Nigeria Limited and Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) as defendants. On April 17, Justice Binta Nyako, after hearing the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Mahmud Magaji (SAN), moved an ex-parte motion and ruled that “an order is made for the maintenance of status quo as at tod...

Thugs suspected to be loyal to the suspended Senator representing Delta Central Senatorial district, Ovie Omo-Agege have invaded the red chambers and forcefully taken away the mace. They broke into the chambers when plenary was going on, thereby creating serious confusion and tension. The operation took Sergeant-At-Arms by surprise who tried to reclaim the mace without success. It could be recalled that Omo-Agege was suspended last week following his role in the electoral act amendment bill seeking to reorder the election sequence. This development has, hitherto, thrown the Senate, and the entire National Assembly into uproar and fear of what really happened. The snatched mace is the symbol of authority and the Senate consequently can no longer legitimately hold plenary. Discussions right now is being held in groups and hush tones as to what might be the next line of action. This development happened as the Deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu was presiding over the plenary ...

Omo-Agege The suspended Senator Omo Agege who led some hoodlums that stole the symbol of authority, the mace, in the upper chamber on Wednesday has been arrested by Police. Omo-Agege Recall that Senate has given Security agencies 24 hours ultimatum to retrieve its mace, Symbol of authority. Details later:

A university lecturer, Mr. Kisuze Edward, has been suspended by the University of Makarere in Uganda over allegations of sexual harassment. In the letter of suspension, which bore the stamp of the office of the Vice Chancellor and was posted on the university’s Twitter handle on Tuesday, Edward  is on suspension due to allegations of sexual harassment preferred against him by one of his students, Rachael Njeri, who wrote the school authorities on 16th April. Edward was notified of the allegation and asked to share his own side of the story. Upon receipt of his response, the university placed him on immediate suspension on half pay, pending an investigation into the allegation. The university later tweeted that the lecturer has also been arrested by the Police. See the tweet containing Edward’s suspension letter and arrest notice: Suspension of Mr. Kisuze Edward from Makerere University.  pic.twitter.com/F5wJEl1Wdb — Makerere University (@MakerereU)  April 17, 201...

NATIONAL Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Chief Olu Falae, yesterday, said he regretted supporting President Muhammadu Buhari’s  ambition in the 2015 presidential election. Falae He also passed  a vote of no confidence on  the Buhari administration saying “he has failed.” He said this after a closed-door  meeting with  former President Olusegun Obasanjo  at his Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, in Abeokuta. Falae, who emerged from the meeting told newsmen he came to visit the former President to chart a  way forward for the country. His words: “I came here to see the former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who is also my boss when I was permanent Secretary. As my boss, I have come to see him. “The affairs of Nigeria are far bigger and larger than the political ambition of any person, so, I have come to see the former president on the affairs of Nigeria. “Once upon a time, between 1977 and 1979...

Abia is a state in the south eastern part of Nigeria. The capital is Umuahia and the major commercial city is Aba. The commercial hub, Aba was formerly a British colonial government outpost in the region. Abia state was created in 1991 from part of Imo State. It is one of the constituent states of the Niger Delta region. Nickname(s): God's Own State Igbo:Ọ̀hà Chineke Coordinates: 5°25′N 7°30′E Date created   27 August 1991 Capital. Umuahia Government • Governor Okezie Ikpeazu (PDP) • Deputy Governor Ude Oko Chukwu (PDP) • Senators Enyinnaya Abaribe Theodore Orji Mao Ohuabunwa Area • Total 6,320 km2 (2,440 sq mi) Population (2006 census) • Total 2,845,380 • Density 450/km2 (1,200/sq mi) Demonym(s) Abian GDP (PPP) • Year 2007 • Total $18.69 billion • Per capita $3,003 Time zone WAT (UTC+01) ISO 3166 code NG-AB Official language English Website abi...

Doctors attending to patients at National Hospital The Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, has announced an indefinite strike that, it says, will paralyse activities in all health institutions across the country. “All federal government health institutions in Nigeria including federal medical centres, specialists’ hospitals, orthopedic hospitals, psychiatric hospitals among others will be the first to shut down. If the government allows the strike to continue after two weeks, all the states and local government health institutions will now join,” the National Vice Chairman of JOHESU, Ogbonna Chimela, told PREMIUM TIMES on Monday. The members of JOHESU are hospital workers, including nurses and pharmacists, but excluding medical doctors and dentists. Mr Chimela said the strike will commence from midnight on Tuesday. JOHESU embarked on a nationwide strike last September to protest among other issues, salary adjustments, promotion arrears, and improved work envi...

The social media aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mrs. Lauretta Onochie has made a cartoon of her principal publicly declaring his interest to contest for the 2019 Presidential election. In the above cartoon therefore, it would be deduced that the captured opposition candidates were of the view that Buhari should not re-contest following their discontent perception that Mr. President has failed the country. Read what Lauretta wrote below: His name is @MBuhari ✔He is standing ✔He’s running ✔He’s our candidate ✔He’s performing ✔We will stand by him ❎You are sitting ❎You are moaning ❎You are crying ❎You are angry ❎You are bitter ❎You are even abusive ✔Get off your butt See tweet below: His name is  @MBuhari ✔He is standing ✔He’s running ✔He’s our candidate ✔He’s performing ✔We will stand by him ❎Yo...

Pastor Bakare Nigerian Prophetic-Apostolic pastor, Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly has recently said that he wants to be President and that Omoyale Sowore of Saharareporters want to be president too. Bakare speaking in during Sowore’s visit to his church said : “The problem that I have is that Sowore wants to be president and I want to be president. One of us will have to knock each other,” “Well, everybody say, ‘turn by turn’. I will fulfill my own turn and he will do his own turn. “It is not his first time here by the way. Many people don’t know this guy had fought lions and bears and battles just to ensure there is good governance in our country and I am so happy that people like him are thinking of contributing their meaningful quota while it is yet day. “If people will not gather together to shake the system, the system will remain unshaken. But now they are afraid because we are coming from the east, from the west, from the north, from the south, from outsid...

Oba Lekan Balogun The abducted twins of Oba Lekan Balogun, Otun-Olubadan of Ibadanland were released to the family, seven days after they were kidnapped. The twins, abducted seven days ago were released in Lagos on Monday afternoon by the abductors after collecting a ransom of N10 million. NAN reports that the twins have since been moved to an undisclosed hospital for medical check-up. The hitherto shattered mother had also joined them in Lagos. Balogun said the twins were released unhurt. He said that he has heard their voices, but he has not seen them. He confirmed the payment of N10 million to the kidnappers to secure the release of the twins, adding the money paid could not be compared to the joy of their safe return. According to him, “my wife and the mother of the twins, Mrs. Funmilayo Balogun had gone to Lagos to monitor the medical check-up of the twins and bring them back to Ibadan. “On-the-spot assessment by my wife reinforced my belief and conviction th...

A former Secretary to the Federal Government, and the national chairman of the Social Democratic Party, says he has come to visit a former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, about the affairs of the country. He mentioned that to journalists as he emerged from the over two hours closed-door meeting held with the former president at his  Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential  Library, Abeokuta, at exactly 2.25pm. He described Obasanjo as his former boss, and argued that the affairs of the country were greater than anybody’s political ambition. He said, I am here to visit Papa Olusegun Obasanjo, former head of military government and former President of Nigeria who was my boss when I was the permanent secretary at the presidency. I have to come to see him about the affairs of Nigeria. “The affairs of Nigeria are greater than the political ambition of anybody. So I came here to exchange views with Baba.”

A former military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, says Nigerians no longer take him seriously because he annulled the June 12, 1993 Presidential election adjudged as the most credible election in the history of Nigeria. Babangida said this during a programme on  Channels Telev ision titled, ‘Roadmap 2019’ on Monday. When asked to explain further if it was true that people dismissed his words because of the annulment of June 12 election, he said, “That is right. They say, ‘he cancelled the freest election in the history but he annulled it’ but nobody gives me credit for conducting the freest election in the country.” The former maximum ruler said he was hopeful that the younger generation would understand why he annulled the election. He added, “We try to rationalise why we did what we did but nobody is prepared to listen to us. So, it is a matter of time. One day, the younger generation will say they have heard one side and want to hear ...

A student of the College of Education, Ikere Ekiti, Ekiti State, who was identified as Akintunde Adegunloye was reportedly found dead in his friend’s room on the premises of the State Specialists Hospital, Ondo town, Ondo State. According to the Ondo State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Femi Joseph, the incident happened last Thursday at 10pm. He said the deceased left his school in Ekiti State to visit two of his friends who were pharmacists and members of the National Youth Service Corps, serving in the government-owned hospital in Ondo. Joseph further explained that the cause of the death of the deceased was yet unknown to the police but saying the command had commenced an investigation to unravel the cause of the incident. He said, “The deceased paid his friends a visit in Ondo, the friends were corps members pharmacists who are serving at the hospital. We learnt that the friends got home on that fateful day and found him (deceased ) dead in the room. “We have in...

Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herders have allegedly killed 32 Tiv villagers at various locations across the southern senatorial district of Nasarawa State. The coordinated attacks reportedly took place on Saturday and Sunday. The Punch learnt that the attacks were carried out simultaneously in Awe, Keana, Obi and Doma local government areas of the state, leaving 19 others with varying degrees of injury. Confirming the incident in a telephone interview, the state Commissioner for Water Resources, Gabriel Akaaka, said the gunmen invaded his house and set it ablaze. He said, “It is true the gunmen believed to be Fulani herders raided my house this morning and set it ablaze. “The Tiv villagers are stranded. I have just spoken to the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ahmed Bello, to deploy his security personnel and security operatives in the state to the area in order to rescue the villagers.” One of our correspondents, who went round some of the affected areas reports t...