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Reacting to the invitation of some state PDP leaders by Mr. Ibrahim Idris, the Inspector-General of Police, Luke warned that the office of President Muhammadu Buhari cannot be used to intimidate him or any member of the PDP in the state in the ongoing preparations for the 2019 general elections. “Akwa Ibom people respect the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. His office should therefore not be used as the office of the intimidator-in-chief,” Mr. Onofiok Luke, speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Tuesday, dared the presidency. Last week Thursday, the Department of the IGP’s…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, said Tuesday that the federal government was not considering undertaking a review of the pump prices of petroleum products, especially Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol. This came on a day the NNPC also said its subsidiary, Nidas Shipping Services, has resumed the international shipment of crude oil and petroleum products and had already got its first consignment. In a statement in Abuja, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the NNPC, affirmed that contrary to the misinformation trending in the social media that the Federal Government had no…

President Muhammadu Buhari, Tuesday, reiterated Federal Government’s determination to prosecute perpetrators of violence that recently erupted in Kaduna State. Buhari spoke at a meeting with religious and traditional rulers in the state when he visited Kaduna to condole residents on the recent violent incidence. According to the President, Kaduna residents “cannot kill and burn our way out of poverty and inequality. Strife can only deliver more pain and more strife. ”It is time to break out of the mindset that limits us from collaborating productively for the common good.” He said: “Kaduna, once the home of the Premier and home…

Senator Shehu Sani using allegory has condemned the Federal Government’s planned sale of national assets to finance the deficit of 2018 budget. Sani representing Kaduna South said “To sell your national assets to fund budget is to sell your intestines and bladder in order to be able to buy food.” Recall that Mr. Ben Akabueze who is the Director General of the Budget Office had on November 27, last year affirmed that the Federal Government has finalised plans to sell some National assets to generate revenue for annual budgets between 2018 and 2020. Mr. Akabueze explained that the country was not…

For the second in one year, Julen Lopetegui, Real Madrid’s coach has lost his plum job after humiliating defeat of his team by the rival Barcelona FC on Sunday. On June 13, two days before the start of the World Cup in Russia, Lopetegui, the Spanish coach was fired from the team for accepting the invitation of Real Madrid to replace Zinedine Zidane. Spain ended up training in the World Cup by Fernando Hierro, assistant of Lopetegui, and, without brilliance, was eliminated in the eighth of end by the host Russia, in the dispute of penalties. The 5-1 defeat against…

President Donald Trump offered a dramatic, if legally dubious, promise to unilaterally end birthright citizenship, ratcheting up his hardline immigration rhetoric with a week to go before critical midterm elections. A report by CNN says Trump’s vow to end the right to citizenship for the children of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born on US soil came in an interview with Axios released Tuesday. Such a step would be regarded as an affront to the US Constitution, which was amended 150 years ago to include the words: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction…

The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, Tuesday, stated that for eight years, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, and companies operating in the oil and gas industry in Nigeria are yet to remit $22.06 billion and N481.75 billion to the Federation Account. In a report presented at its National Conference on Remedial Issues in Abuja, NEITI stated that Nigeria lost $3.038 billion and N60.997 billion from crude oil production, production and transportation, while unreconciled differences arising from the allocation, sale and remittance of proceeds from domestic crude oil allocated to the NNPC amounted to N317.475…

Two weeks after abandoning his party, Senator Shehu Sani has launched ferocious attack by predicting doom for his estranged All Progressives Congress, APC in the forthcoming elections. Sani, who left APC after failing to get the party’s Senate ticket for Kaduna Central Senatorial District and joining Peoples Redemption Party, PRP, urged the former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio who recently joined APC to return to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He had been promised the ticket by Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the national chairman of the party, but Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State wrestled him to the…

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has dismissed claims by Senator Abba Bukar Ibrahim that the North East could turn its back on the party and President Muhammadu Buhari in the forthcoming elections, if the party failed to entrench good governance in the region. National Vice Chairman of the party in the North East, Comrade Mustapha Salihu, told Vanguard in an interview that the claim as enunciated by Senator Ibrahim was his personal opinion, saying the people of the region knew where their hearts laid. Ibrahim, a three-term governor of Yobe State and a three-term senator had at the launch of…

The Federal Government has warned chairmen of boards and agencies against interfering with the operations of their respective agencies. The board chairmen, according to government, do not possess the powers to suspend heads of agencies under them. The warning came on the heels of the recent suspension of Yusuf Usman, the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, by the board of the agency. Secretary to the Government of the Federation SGF, Boss Mustapha, Tuesday, gave the warning at the induction of board members of some agencies, including federal universities and medical centres in Abuja. He noted that…