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The International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, has raised an alarm over the 24 hours deadline given by Boko Haram to eliminate another female staff held captive by the insurgents. Head of ICRC’s Operations in the Lake Chad Basin, Mamadou Sow, in a statement Sunday, made an appeal to the Federal Government, communities and individuals towards the release of two medical workers. Sow named the affected medical workers as Hauwa Mohammed and Alice Loksha. According to him, speed and urgency are critical as expiration of the deadline that could result in the killing of another health care worker in…

Ahead of the 2019 general elections, Senator Walid Jibrin, the Board of Trustees, BoT, chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has advised Atiku Abubakar, te party’s Presidential candidate to include youths and women in his campaign team. Jibrin, who gave the advice in Abuja Sunday, also urged the former Vice President to include members of the BoT in his campaign council Explaining the role the board played in ensuring the survival of PDP, Jibrin said but for the advisory disposition of the BoT, the party would have contended with a lot of issues capable of threatening its peace. He said:…

The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has disowned its Secretary-General, Anthony Sani, over his scathing comments about former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, saying his views in the media interview criticising the former President do not represent those of the group. Sani had described former President Olusegun Obasanjo as “suffering from a dearth of vision, conviction and consistency required of a statesman.” But in a statement issued Sunday, spokesman of the umbrella body of northerners, Muhammed Ibrahim Biu, said the views expressed in the said media interviews were the personal opinion of its secretary-general. “It is not in the character of…

As the countdown to Wednesday’s Appeal Court ruling continues, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, former Delta State governor, has said the injustice visited on him in the United Kingdom has made him to have little faith in the UK judicial system. In a statement issued by his Media Assistant, Tony Eluemunor, Sunday, Ibori said: “I have been informed that the British Court of Appeal will on Wednesday, October 17, 2018, in London rule on the challenge I mounted against my conviction. ”Many Nigerian journalists who have been following Mr. Lambertus the de Boer on Twitter have also for days now been…

Former Kaduna State governor and a presidential aspirant in the recently concluded national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has denied nursing any intention to return to the Senate in the 2019 general elections. The erstwhile chairman, National Caretaker Committee of the PDP stated this while reacting to speculations linking him with intent to return to the federal parliament. In a statement issued by his media aide, Mukhtar Sirajo, the PDP chieftain urged Nigerians to dismiss the insinuation, adding that since he did not participate in the primary elections; there was no way he…

The Police Command in Sokoto State has confirmed the death of one person as a result of stray bullets fired when hoodlums allegedly attacked Governor Aminu Tambuwal’s motorcade in Sokoto last weekend. The command’s spokesperson, Cordelia Nwawe, told journalists that one other person who was injured during the incident had been hospitalised. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the PDP had organised a reception rally to welcome Governor Tambuwal after his failed attempt to secure the 2019 presidential ticket of the party. NAN reports that the governor was received by a crowd of supporters at the Sultan Abubakar…

An Abuja-based legal practitioner and Right Activist, Dr. Kayode Ajulo, has asked Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, to disqualify herself from handling a fresh suit seeking to strike-down President Muhammadu Buhari’s Executive Order 6.      The Presidential Executive Order permits the Federal Government to confiscate assets belonging to persons facing corruption related charges. The federal government had, on the strength of a recent judgement by Justice Ojukwu, banned 50 high-profile Nigerians facing corruption charges, from travelling outside the country, pending the conclusion of their trial. Among those on the watch-list are thirteen…

The Federal Government, Sunday, announced December 31, 2019, as date for final performance review of the privatised electricity distribution companies, DISCOs. The management of Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, which made this known via a statement in Abuja, said the announcement became imperative because of the interest shown by various stakeholders in the electricity industry regarding the date for final review of DISCOs’ performance. Director-General of BPE, Alex A. Okoh, who personally signed the statement, noted that the five-year Performance Agreement for all the electricity distribution companies, with the exception of Kaduna DISCOs, became effective on January 1, 2015, adding…

Elder statesman, Engr. Bubu Galadima, said Nigerians must all join hands to send President Muhammadu Buhari back home in 2019 general election. Galadima a critic of the president said he has grossly under-performed, asking the people to give Atiku Abubakar, a former Vice President and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, a chance to put the country on a growth pedestal once again. According to him, the greatest offence of President Buhari is his failure to secure lives, properties and bring food in the homes of Nigerians. Galadima made the call at the unveiling of…

One dead person is among the 50 high-profile Nigerians banned from travelling overseas by the Federal Government, Straightnews has gathered. He is Justice Innocent Umezulike, the late ex-Chief Judge of Enugu State placed number 30 on the travel ban list. The presidency, Saturday, announced the placement of 50 high-profile Nigerians on travelling restrictions. According to the statement, the individuals include those whose assets, valued at N50 million and above, are subject of corruption investigation and litigation. In his Twitter handle on Sunday, Reno Omokri, a one-time aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan wrote “Not content with appointing dead people to political…