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Some Nigerians in the social media have continued to knock the appointment of retired Yusuf Magaji Bichi, another Northerner as the Director-General of the Department of State Services, DSS by President Muhammadu Buhari. With the appointment, Bichi will take over from Matthew Seiyefa, a Southerner who was appointed an acting Director-General of DSS after the sack of Lawal Musa Daura from Katsina State by Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the then acting President. Appointees of Northern extraction under President Buhari include Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau, rtd (Kaduna state), Minister of Interior;  Ibrahim Magu (Borno state), Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman;  Lt.-Gen.…

In the current ranking of top-flight African clubs, Egyptian club, Al Ahly, have the best team in the continent with Enyimba, a two-time African champions and Akwa United FC, the 2017 Aiteo Cup winners are the only two Nigerian clubs to join top 50. Ranked 69th in the world, Al Ahly is also only the African club ranked in the top 100 clubs with European champions Real Madrid leading the pack on the world stage. Enyimba, however, is Nigeria’s only representative in the top 500 clubs in the world, occupying 470, with Akwa ranked 634, while Lobi Stars and Kano…

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has promised Yakubu Dogara a crushing and humiliating defeat at the polls in the next year’s general elections. In its first formal reaction to news of the speaker’s defection, the party empathized with House Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, on his reported defection to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, saying a bleak political future awaited him. “We have received several media requests for a reaction to the purported defection of the Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to one of the opposition political parties, as reported…

The governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, has called for caution by member countries of the West African Monetary Zone against rushing into a common monetary union and creating a common currency in the sub-region. He spoke at the 37th meeting of the Committee of Governors of Central Banks of the West African Monetary Zone, in Abuja, Thursday. He saidL “Our desire for greater economic prosperity for our people through a common monetary union must not vitiate our awareness of the potential adverse and contagion factors associated with unified monetary area and common currency.  “The unfolding…

Some governors, under the aegis of PDP Governors’ Forum, are divided between the choice of Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, and ex- Vice President, Atiku Abubakar. Yet, Board of Trustees (BoT) members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP are inching for a consensus presidential candidate of the party’s presidential primaries is slated for October 5 and 6. A source in the PDP Governors’ Forum, who confided in our correspondent Thursday, said eight out of the 14 PDP governors were rooting for Saraki, while the remaining governors are divided between Atiku and Tambuwal. The party has governors in…

Crisis is looming in Rivers State over the controversial movement of Logistic Base, a subsidiary of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, SNEPCO, from Rivers State to Lagos as teeming protesters gearing to invade the SNEPCO base at the Onne Free Trade Zone over the matter were stopped. A major crisis was averted on Wednesday when ex-Militant Warlord, now HRM King Ateke Tom, Amanyanabo of Okochiri, Okirika local government area of the state and men of the Department of State Security Services, DSS halted the protesters. The youths fear that over 5,000 direct and indirect jobs in Rivers could be…

Abuja Federal High Court, Thursday, ordered Department of State Services (DSS) to pay N10 million as damages for infringing on the fundamental rights of a Bayelsa-based journalist as well as to pay him N500, 000 to cover the cost for the litigation. Jones Abiri had dragged the DSS before the court, challenging his illegal detention for more than two years and had also demanded compensation. Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the court held that national security was not sufficient ground for the Department of State Service, DSS, to overide the rule of law and personal liberty of any citizen not facing…

The embattled Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, Wednesday night picked Peoples Democratic Party, PDP form for re-election into the House. Dogara, who was elected to represent Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa Federal Constituency of Bauchi state in the House of Representatives on the platform of APC in 2015, received the PDP House of Representatives form to contest during the 2019 general elections. The speaker picked the form, a day after dozens of his constituents travelled from his home state in Bauchi to Abuja to persuade him to seek re-election. Born to Yakubu Ganawuri and Saratu Yakubu on December 26, 1967, he…

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has confirmed that the upcoming 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and Libya will take place at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna. After their victories of Seychelles and Liberia in an international friendly, the Super Eagles will return to action against Libya in October. The game against Libya in the AFCON qualifiers will be a double header which will go a long way to determine the teams that progress from the group. The Super Eagles are currently third in group E of the qualification series behind Libya and…

Nigerian states owing a backlog of salaries and other related staff arrears are given the condition to clear such before they could access the remaining $2.69 billion Paris Club refund. The Director of Information, Federal Ministry of Finance, Mr Hassan Dodo, on Tuesday, said the Federal Government would commence phased payments of the refund to the states once the condition and several others were met. “The DMO led the reconciliation process under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Finance. The final approval of 2.69 billion dollars is subject to some conditions. “Salary and staff related arrears must be paid…