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Senators, Tuesday, differed on a $3.5 billion budget recovery fund allegedly spent by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. During the plenary, two senators of All Progressives Congress, APC- Kabir Marafa (Zamfara-APC) and Ali Ndume (Yobe-APC) sharply disagreed on the committee that should investigate the matter. Biodun Olujmi (Ekiti-PDP) had brought the matter to the notice of the Senate. “I bring an issue in today’s ThisDay newspaper and it’s about $3.5 billion budget recovery fund being used by the NNPC,” she said. “It is earmarked as subsidy recovery fund by the NNPC. Mr President since 1999, there has always been…

Nigeria’s Super Eagles, Tuesday, overpowered Libya’s Mediterranean Knights 3-2 goals in Tunisa to top Group E in the African Cup of Nations football competition slated for Cameroun next year. Super Eagles had beaten the Libyan national team 4-0 on Saturday at Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State Capital while Bafana Bafana of South Africa walloped Seychelles 6-0. Odion Ighalo scored two goals while Ahmed Musa netted one goal to give Nigeria the win. In another match, South Africa, Tuesday, played a goalless draw with Seychelles to garner eight points to be placed second in the group. Libya has…

A five-man investigating team set up by Mr. Ibrahim Idris, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), has arrived Akwa Ibom State, to unravel the truth on the recent attack in the residence of Mr. Nsima Ekere, the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), it was learnt Tuesday. The team, classified as X-Squad, is being led by Mr. Yusuf Abdullahi, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Straightnews gathered. Unknown gunmen had reportedly shot severally into Ekere’s bedroom at his Ewet Housing home in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, soon after he was declared winner of the September 30,…

A police officer who served Bayelsa State Police Command while on patrol duty around Tombia junction in the state capital was Monday shot dead by suspected cultists. The killing, it was gathered, occurred around 5 p.m. A statement by DSP Asinim Butswat, spokesman of Bayelsa Police Command,  who confirmed the killing, said the killers were, however, unable to steal his service rifle. Butswat said: “A policeman was shot dead at Tombia. He was shot while the unit patrol vehicle was caught in a traffic jam. He came down to help with the heavy traffic and was shot by the suspected…

In an effort to neutralize the strength of terrorists’ activities on the cyber space, the Nigerian Army has established a cyber command centre. The command, according to the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, is principally to empower the Nigerian Army with the capabilities to protect its data and network against cyber attacks and hostile elements. Speaking at the commissioning of the cyber operations centre of the Nigerian Army Cyber Warfare Command located at the Army Headquarters, Abuja on Monday, Buratai noted that cyber-warfare was “the fifth domain of warfare after land, sea, air and space.” According to…

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Monday, reaffirmed its stand that the All Progressives Congress, APC, will not field candidates for the 2019 general elections in Zamfara. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, stated this on the sideline of the opening of a two-day validation workshop titled “Study on the cost of elections in ECOWAS Region” yesterday in Abuja. “We have issued a statement on Zamfara and nothing has changed. We stand by the statement that we issued,” he said. Yakubu re-emphasised that the deadline for submission of party candidates’ name to the commission was October 18, saying that it would…

Some Nigerians have spoken against the killing of an aid worker with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) by factional Boko Haram. Atiku Abubakar, a former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, condemned the execution of Hauwa Leman by Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), a faction of Boko Haram on Monday. This is even as ICRC, Tuesday, confirmed the killing of its aid health worker. Reacting, Atiku on his official Twitter Page, said, “I’m deeply saddened by the murder of Hauwa Leman, an ICRC aid worker, by terrorists. “I implore the Federal Government to…

American rapper, Nicki Minaji, s celebrating her new album “Queen”, two after the album was declared eligible for platinum. In celebration, Minaj took to her Instagram to thank all those who continued to stand by her side despite everything. “#Queen becomes my 4th Platinum album in the US this week. Thank you guys for your love & support. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this project in any way,” she wrote, adding, “To God be the glory.”

With the exit of Ayodele Fayose from office,  John Olukayode Fayemi, Tuesday, assumed duty as new Ekiti State Governor. Born in 1965, Fayemi, a former minister of Solid Minerals Development, was elected governor for a second time under the platform of APC on July 14, 2018, after defeating Professor Olusola Eleka of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He had served as Ekiti governor from 2010 to 2014. The swearing-in programmed was attended by notable Nigerians and the All Progressives Congress chieftains. President Muhammadu Buhari was represented by Mr Boss Mustapha, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. The National leader of the APC,…

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has begun meeting with the 11 aspirants, who lost out during its just-concluded presidential primaries in Port Harcourt. The move to pacify and unify the aspirants is being coordinated by Seriake Dickson, Bayelsa State governor, who is the chairman of the party’s National Reconciliation Committee. In the first of such rapprochement, Dickson, in company of his Delta and Taraba counterparts, Ifeanyi Okowa and Dairus Ishaku, met with Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, who came second in the presidential primaries and a former caretaker Committee Chairman, Dr. Ahmed Makarfi, in Abuja on Monday. At the…