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President Muhammadu Buhari arrived at the Victor Attah International Airport on Friday’s afternoon to a rousing welcome for the flag-off of the South South zonal presidential rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Buhari’s presidential aircraft landed at the airport at about 3.40 p.m. He was received by Akwa Ibom state governor Udom Emmanuel. The President was accompanied by the National Chairman of the APC Comrade Adams Oshiomole, National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Minister for Transportation Rotimi Amaechi and Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi, among others. However, there was no protocol glitch between officials of the state…

A former Aviation Minister has risen in support of police who absconded after deployment to fight Boko Haram insurgents in Nigeria’s North East region. In recent, years, thousands of policemen have been consumed by the insurgency. In his Twitter handle on Thursday, Femi Fani-Kayode alleged that the runaway policemen drafted to fight Boko Haram are mainly Christians from the Southern Nigeria. Premium Times reported on December 26 that 167 policemen who were on training at the Nigerian Army Special Forces Training School in Buni Yadi, Yobe State, Wednesday abandoned their duties and fled with their respective riffles for fear of…

As the 2019 fast approaches, a Nigerian clergyman has urged politicians in the country to stop overheating the polity on account of desperation to become elected into their different offices. The spiritual leader of Christ Deliverance Ministries Inc. (CDM), Lagos, Prophet Ekong Ituen, also told the political gladiators not to see politics as a do-or-die affair. Speaking with newsmen in Lagos, Ituen enjoined “I, therefore, urge the religious leaders in the country to refrain themselves from making inflammatory utterances that promotes conflicts and disunity because God gives power to whoever He pleases.” The cleric, however, advised politicians and lawmakers to…

The immediate past Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has declared that elections are not usually won by engaging in image-tarnishing venture of other persons who have a track record of impressive performance. In recent times, Akwa Ibom Government has allegedly paid agents using mass media, social media and persons to denigrate the image of Akpabio as a villain and label his administration with unprintable names. Consequently, the government has forgotten to tell the people its achievements over the past three years and to sell its programmes to the electorate as 2019 general elections are fast approaching. Akpabio who is…

Senator Godswill Akpabio has doubted the claim touted by the state government that Akwa Ibom is the safest state in the country. Akpabio representing Akwa Ibom North West in the Senate dropped the bomb Wednesday in an interview in Comfort 95.1 FM, Uyo as part of preparations by members and stakeholders of All Progressives Congress, APC, to receive President Muhammadu Buhari in Uyo, the state capital on Friday, December 28. Governor Udom Emmanuel who during his 2018 Christmas broadcast in radio and television to Akwa Ibom people declared that “Three and a half years as your Governor, no one has…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Wednesday, announced a trading surplus of N9.85 billion for the month of September 2018, a significant rebound from the N3.90 billion deficit recorded in August 2018. In a statement on its Monthly Financial and Operations Report for September 2018, the NNPC attributed the N13.75 billion improvement in its bottom line to higher revenue by its upstream subsidiary, the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC. In the statement signed by Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, its Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, NNPC said NPDC’s production had been on the rise as a result of success recorded…

Force headquarters, Wednesday, denied plan to arrest and kill Senator Dino Melaye, warning him against hate speech. Melaye in his Twitter handle had alleged that Ibrahim Idris, the Inspector-General of Police, has given orders for his arrest and injection to death. While denying that there was no such plan to arrest Senator Melaye or kill him, the Police described Dino’s allegation as hate speech aimed at putting the force into disrepute before members of the public. A statement by Acting DCP Jimoh Moshood, Force Public Relations Officer, said there was no such order from the Inspector General of Police or…

The price oil crude oil Wednesday dropped to $50.00, showing $10 below Nigeria’s $60 per barrel 2019 budget benchmark in the volatile global market. The price of Brent, West Texas Intermediate, WTI and the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, basket of 15 crudes stood at $50.00, $45.00 and $53.92 per barrel respectively. Traders attributed the development to over-supply; coming from some non-OPEC oil producers that are not involved in the supply cut deal. Meanwhile, OPEC said it was committed to achieving stability in the market, in the best interest of producers and consumers. The secretary general of the organisation,…

Police, Wednesday, admitted that they have arrested some suspects connected with the killing of Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, former Chief of Defence Staff, who was killed at Jitata, along Keffi-Abuja road while he was returning from his farm. Though details of the arrested suspects were sketchy at press time last night, Acting DCP Jimoh Moshood, Force Public Relations Officer, said he could not comment on the matter. He, however, said some suspects would be paraded at force headquarters today without giving an inkling of why they were arrested. Vanguard gathered that a few of those being held may have…

The Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has called on the appropriate authorities to urgently probe to unravel the hidden faces behind the new ownership structure of multi-billion naira telecoms giant, Etisalat Nigeria as well as Keystone Bank. But the APC in a swift reaction to the allegation last night said Atiku Abubakar was suffering from early signs of depression. However, in a statement issued in Abuja Wednesday, Mr. Phrank Shaibu, Special Assistant to Atiku on Public Communication, said such a probe was necessary, in view of reports that members of President Muhammadu Buhari’s family now own…