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The Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has ordered travelling officers and men to wear plain clothes [mufti] while travelling across Nigeria. This is as Buratai accused the Force Headquarters of making “inciting and inflammatory comments” following soldiers’ killing of three policemen and a civilian in Taraba after they had effected the arrest of a notorious kidnap kingpin, Alhaji Hamisu Bala Wadume, who is now on the run. Buratai’s order which leaked to the media on Monday was contained in a circular with reference number: AHQDAIOPS/G3/240/232, and copied to Army formations nationwide. The letter signed by Brig. Gen. F. Omoigui, on behalf of the COAS, was entitled: “Need for troops to be circumspect in dealing with members of the Nigeria Police.” Buratai directed soldiers on internal security (IS) operations across the country to be circumspect, alerting of the likelihood of aggression towards troops by police personnel. He said Police statements and reactions had the pote...

The Nigerian government has attributed the delay in the implementation of the “Consequential Adjustment” of the N30,000 new minimum wages to the unrealistic demands of labour unions. The Chairman, National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission (NSIWC), Richard Egbule, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday. Mr Egbule explained that the current demand of the labour unions would raise the total wage bill too high and that was why the government could not accept their proposed salary adjustments. "Labour is asking for consequential adjustment and government in its wisdom had made budgetary provision for an adjustment of N10, 000 across the board for those already earning above N30, 000 per month.

The Chairman, National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, Dr Ibrahim Kana, has said the number of Nigerian pilgrims who have died while performing the 2019 Hajj in Saudi Arabia has risen to nine. Kana disclosed this in Muna on Monday while briefing journalists on the activities of the medical team of NAHCON for the pilgrims. Kana said, “The deceased, a Lagos State pilgrim, collapsed at Jamrat and was brought to hospital in Muna but died, she was hypertensive.” Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeriain Muna, Kana said the leader of the Lagos State team in Saudi for the Hajj, Alhaji AbdulLateef Abdulkarim, had identified the deceased as Alhaja Folashade Lawal. He said the deceased hailed from Oshodi Local Government Area of the state, saying she slumped at 3am while heading for Jamrat to throw stones at the devil. Throwing stones at the ‘devil’ is one of the Islamic rites towards an acceptable Hajj. Kana said NAHCON opened 21 field offices in Muna with adequate drugs and ambulances. A NA...

The Presidency on Monday declined official confirmation of the status of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang. There has been speculation, that he had been relieved of his position. Enang, a former senator, defected to the All Progressives Congress from the Peoples Democratic Party ahead of the 2015 polls. He eventually became the SSA to the President on National Assembly Matters. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu, merely redirected enquiries to the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha. “The SGF is in the best position to speak on that”, Shehu said in a terse reply. Enang himself remained inaccessible on Monday as calls to his two mobile lines were not picked.

Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State has said that he would not use public fund and resources to gratify himself at the expense of the masses that brought him to power. AbdulRazaq said this on Monday in Ilorin during a speech delivered at the second edition of the Ilorin Grand Durbar. Represented by his deputy, Mr Kayode Alabi, the governor declared that public resources would only be applied strictly to public projects and overheads approved and budgeted for. “We will not entertain excesses of any sort. With people’s interest as the guiding principle, we will do things differently and purposefully to get more impactful results. “I appeal to this distinguished gathering of our people to unite behind this agenda for the progress of our community and generations yet unborn. “Anything short of this will keep us moving in a circle and that would defeat the purpose of our people standing in the sun to vote the way they did. “We must embrace reforms which are often tough at t...

Prominent political gladiators from the ruling All Progressives Congress were on Monday absent at the 80th birthday celebration of the first National Chairman of the party, John Odigie Oyegun, which held in Benin, the Edo State capital. But the national chairman of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Uche Secondus and the Edo State Chairman of the party, Chief Dan Orbih were at the special church service held in honour of the octogenarian while former President Olusegun Obasanjo sent a representative and his goodwill message. Prominent APC members absent at the occasion include President Muhammadu Buhari, Bola Tinubu and the APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomole among others. Among the APC governors, only Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State was at the mass held for Oyegun at Saint Paul Catholic Church Airport Road. However, prominent Edo indigenes including Governor Godwin Obaseki, former Edo State governor, Lucky Igbinedion, the Esama of Benin, Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, th...

A pregnant woman identified as Endurance Onaphie who lives in iwhrekpokpor off otuagoma in Ughelli North LGA of Delta State stripped herself unclad and stood in the middle of the neighborhood road to swear over accusations of complacency in a stolen bike. According to reports gathered, pregnant Endurance and another friend who later confessed, conspired to steal the motorcycle but when she was accosted and accused of being involved in the stealing of the motorcycle, she stripped unclad with her protruding stomach, stormed the road and began to swear just to prove a crocodile innocence and garner public sympathy. The matter however, has been taken over by the chairman of the area and his executives for deliberations.

The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky will depart Nigeria on Monday through the Abuja International airport to India. Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky will depart with his wife, Zeenat for the Medenta Hospital, New Delhi, India for medical treatment. A source within the IMN in Kaduna told our correspondent that the IMN leader was already in Abuja and waiting to be flown to India along with DSS personnel by a privately chartered aircraft. Recall that a federal high court granted the IMN leader application to seek for medical attention in India last week.

The Federal Government has threatened to use Tekno as a scapegoat to send strong signals of intolerance to ‘nonsense and immorality’, as it expressed disappointment that the Cartel Music boss released the music video which sparked controversy while being shot. Recall that Tekno suffered a backlash after being spotted in a viral video shared on social media dancing in a transparent moving van on the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge in Lagos, with four semi-nude women. Reacting to the release of the music video, Director General of the National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC) a parastatal of the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, Segun Runsewe said they were queried by Nigerians at home and in diaspora after a clip of the semi-naked women went viral. He also warned against shameful conducts which is not part of “our” culture. “We commend the police for arresting Tekno for the shameful misconduct. The same person, who was granted bail on health grounds has gone ahead to release...

A voting poll is way of asking questions through a social platform for the audeinces to vote by selecting the answers of their choice. Creating a voting poll on social media platforms can be very interesting and enticing. I had previously written an article on how to create a voting poll with images on Facebook and Telegram. So, since whatsapp is one of the most used and popular social media app, I have decided to write an article on how to create a voting poll on whatsapp group chats to enhance more users experience and keep your group member engaged. Creating a voting poll on WhatsApp comes with a different technique, which is quite different from that of Facebook and Telegram. This is because whatsapp doesn’t have any feature that can enable you easily create a voting poll, just like Facebook and Telegram has. But there is certainly a way to create a voting poll on whatsapp. So, if you run a WhatsApp group chat, and you really want to create a voting poll for your members to v...

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The Kano State Governor, Alhaji Umar Ganduje, on Saturday appealed to the Federal government to formalise the removal of discrimination between holders of Bachelor’s Degrees and Higher National Diplomas (HND) in the public service. He said this was necessary if the Federal Government was really determined to promote and sustain science and technical education in the country. The News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN) reports that Ganduje spoke at the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, as one of the recipients of the award of fellow of the institution. He said the removal of the discrimination would help in encouraging technical education in the country. According to him, the removal of the discrimination remains the best way to promote technical education which the politechnics were purposely established to achieve. NAN reports that Ganduje said the 17th combined convocation ceremonies of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, where 16,786 graduands were conferred with Ordinary Nati...

The governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, has directed 36 out of 44 local government district heads not to attend Daushe Durbar in Kano. The government countered an announcement from the Kano Emirate Council on local radio inviting all district heads to attend the grand Daushe Durbar, which usually holds a day after Sallah. On May 8, the governor assented to a controversial law establishing four additional emirates with first class emirs in Rano, Bichi, Karaye and Gaya. However, at least two court cases were instituted, challenging the governor’s action. Following the governor’s decision, the powers of the Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi was whittled down as he was only left with eight metropolitan local governments under his control, with other 36 local governments shared to the four new emirates. Although the emir had survived a dethronement scare in May after the intervention of the presidency, the governor and the emir are still not good terms. But in a statement by the go...

An indigenous printing firm, KAS, says it will launch a programme in the next three months to create job for 1,000 graphics designers in the first phase. Its Managing Director, Mr Ademola Kasumu, made the promise during an interview with newsmen in Abuja on Saturday. Kasumu said that the programme would be launched in partnership with Canon, an international digital printing organisation based in Japan. “What we are trying to do is to key into the Federal Government’s plan to create employment for the teeming youths in the country,” he said. Kasumu said his firm would create employments by setting up branches across the country. On the modality to achieve the mass employment plan, he said that youths with the knowledge of graphics would be targeted. “They need to have some knowledge of graphics design. Then, we will train them and attach them to one of our centres across the nation. “They don’t need to have equipment; we only need their brain and then, we will train them in the are...

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has begun the probe of the $16 billion power project of the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. There had been conflicting figures on the exact cost of the project as some people put it at $16 billion while others say it is $13.8 billion. It was gathered last night that the anti-graft agency may arrest key contractors involved in the power project scam which extended beyond the Obasanjo administration into those of former Presidents Umaru Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan. It was also learnt that about 18 top former and serving public officers, including two ex-ministers, may be questioned. Also likely to be interrogated by the EFCC are some top officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Preliminary investigation revealed that Rockson Engineering Limited got a chunk of the contracts worth about $2 billion. The findings revealed that the transactions involving the firms implicated in the power contracts were c...

Authorities of Bayero University, Kano has terminated the studentship of twenty-four final year students of the institution. This was confirmed in a statement released by the institution management on Friday, August 9. Signed by the spokesperson for the university Lamara Garba, the statement revealed that 6 students presented fake results from their institutions while another student presented a cancelled NECO result. It however added that 18 students will be reappearing before the Senate Committee on Entry Qualification Irregularities to be given a fair hearing on their expulsion. The students’ expulsion announcement came after the 374th meeting of the University’s Senate on Wednesday August 7. It was learnt that 10 of the expelled students were from the Faculty of Education, nine from Faculty of Social and Management Sciences while Faculties of Law, Agriculture, Science, Engineering and Arts and Islamic Studies had one each.

  DMW boss and “Blow My Mind” crooner, Davido is currently under fire, after posting a video on his insta story of him reassuring his loyalty to Aye confraternity. Davido can be seen in the video displaying the confraternity’s trademark with words like; “Egede, Aye for life” We can really say if he made the moves under the influence of alcohol, because his location at that moment looked like a bar. Watch the the video below

  Raving Nigerian street-hop artist, Naira Marley comes through with a brand new single titled ‘Soapy.’ The controversial Moves Recording signed artist has been in the news for different reasons in recent weeks, including his arrest by the EFCC for alleged credit card fraud. This however, has not deterred Naira Marley, as he has since his release on bail, released a couple of songs. Here is the official music video for SOAPY Quotable Lyrics: Inside Life (Inside) loti ri 5 Alive  Inside life (Inside) loti ri Deeper life  Inside life awon kan je iya Awon n’kan chop life (Inside Life) Inside life awon kan shepe Awon kan je ewa Jo Soapy (Soapy) Kiri kiri n’jo Soapy  Jo Soapy (Soapy) Ikoyi prison n’jo Soapy  Jo Soapy Ninu cell EFCC won n’jo Soapy  Jo Soapy To ba ni iyawo nle ko jo Soapy (Soapy) Soapy (Soapy) Broda yi n’jo Soapy  Soapy (Soapy) Abi eyin na Soapy  Jo Soapy (Soapy) Single, Single father n’jo Soapy  Jo So...

  Eighteen-year-old Terna Taga, who allegedly impregnated a 10-year-old internally displaced person, Masenengen Targba , has said he did not meet the girl a virgin. On Sunday, Targba was said to have been abandoned at a hospital but later rushed to Foundation Memorial Hospital, Makurdi, where she gave birth to a baby girl. Taga is a farmer who dropped out of school in Senior Secondary School 1. Taga, who was paraded by the Benue State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Garuba, told our correspondent on Thursday that though he slept with the little girl twice, he didn’t meet her virgin. He said he slept with her twice in December 2018 with her consent. He said, “I actually slept with her twice in December last year and it was with her consent. I did not rape her and since then, every effort to get close to her proved abortive as she was always running away whenever I saw her. “It was around May this year, l saw her with pregnancy and I tried to engage her in a t...

The governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike,   THE Nigerian Army has captured suspected notorious cultist, Bobrisky, barely 24 hours after Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike placed a N30million on him and suspected killers of a state official in recent Choba crisis. Wike during a security meeting with leaders of Rumuolumeni Community at the Government House Port Harcourt Friday, Governor announced the capture of Bobrisky, alleged mastermind of dastardly killings in Gokana local government area of Ogoniland in Rivers state. The Governor said, “The Army has captured Bobrisky of Gokana. I will pay the bounty that I promised to the Nigerian Army. Anyone who generates insecurity in Rivers, I am ready to pay any amount to ensure the arrest of that person”. Governor Wike called on community leaders to provide information to the State Security Council on criminals in their communities to frontally reduce crime in the state. He described Rumuolumeni as one flashpoint where criminals...