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Gill Onwudiwe, a security expert of the American Emergency Alert System, has proffered that training the locals with the newly invented emergency alert systems could end the herdsmen attacks among other violent crimes in the communities. This was even as Rev. Father Kizito Onyeka, a Catholic priest in Imo state, Sunday, said as result of the level of reported killings in the country, the citizens are in search of a good shepherd to rescue them. Onwudiwe, who looked at the possible solutions to the spate of killings linked to herders in the country, rolled out it strategies to end the…

Confusion is enveloping the purported setting up of a seven-man committee by Imo state Chief Judge, Mr. Paschal Nnadi, to prosecute the impeachment of Eze Madumere, the Deputy governor of the state by the state House of Assembly. However, our reporter could not confirm from Mr. Marcel Ekwezuo, the Chief Press to the Speaker of Imo state House of Assembly was not certain whether the state House of Assembly had been officially notified on the said committee by the Chief Judge. Ekwezuo gave as excuse that he was busy participating in the congress of the Imo state All Progressives Congress, APC, during the…

Despite the explanation given by Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment over delay in the inauguration of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Adams Oshiomhole, the national chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Monday, still threatened to expel him from the party. Oshiomole and Ngige have been at loggerhead over purported refusal of the minister to inaugurate boards of parastatals under his ministry, several months after they were appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari. Ngige had told Oshiomhole that the delay in the inauguration of the Board of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Funds, NSITF, was as a result…

The Auditor-General of the Federation has faulted the 2016 Financial Statement of the federal government as having several undisclosed revenues and poorly disclosed expenditures. In the report submitted to the National Assembly, Mr. Anthony Mkpe Ayine, the AuGF expressed disappointment at the shoddy job by the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Mr. Ahmed Idris, which led to the late submission of the report to the National Assembly. According to Ayine, the non-disclosure and non-remittance of revenues by some agencies of government into its coffers has become a critical factor militating against the economy. The report indicated that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation,…

Neswpaper publishers in the country, editors and Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, have described the New Media Bill currently before the National Assembly as draconian, unconstitutional, anti-people, business and free speech. Consequently, the Nigerian Press Organisation, NPO, and other media stakeholders have asked the National Assembly to drop the bill. They also asked the Senate to borrow from best practices in other jurisdictions that had expressly provided for and guaranteed press freedom without any form of government interference. The NPO and others equally implored the Senate and, indeed, The National Assembly, to enable the media in the exercise of its…

The Federal Government, Monday, restored the embattled Amaju Pinnick board of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to office. An unconfirmed report had it that Department of State Security (DSS) moved in and whisked the factional leader, Chris Giwa and his board. During the heat of the crisis between Pinnick and his rival, Chris Giwa, Gianni Infantino, FIFA President had announced two weeks ago that he recognised Amaju Pinnick as the NFF President. Muhammed Sanusi, the General Secretary of NFF, spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) from his office in Abuja on Monday. “I am back to my office to…

The continued killings of innocent Nigerians in various parts of the country gnawing many appears to have no solution. In a twist, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, former Governor of Kaduna State has stirred the hornet’s nest that the killings would continue beyond 2019 if the present administration is allowed to remain in power. The attacks will not stop because, according to Musa, the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari was weak and irrelevant. In a report culled from Vanguard, Musa said it was clear that President Buhari lacked ideas on how to stop the killings, adding that the only end to…

The brain drain syndrome has taken a toll on the country’s medical profession as more than 5,000 Nigerian medical practitioners are said to be working in various South African teaching, public and private hospitals. Mr. Godwin Adama, the Consul General (CG) of Nigeria in South Africa, stated this in a statement through Mr. David Abraham, the Vice Consul, Information and Culture on Monday in Abuja. Adama was quoted by Abraham that this news was broken to him when Nigerian Doctors’ Forum South Africa, led by Dr Emeka Ugwu, its Secretary General, visited him in Johannesburg. “This shows that virtually every…

Among the worshipers of Jerusalem Church of Christ, Kawangware, Nairobi, it is not strange to dance with the dead before they are interred. Usually led by Prophetess Mary Akatsa, the church founder, the worshippers would dance with corpses before they are taking to their resting places. According to Akatsa, dancing shows respect to the dead and makes them happy before the corpses are buried to prepare them for another world. Akatsa said ‘’dancing with the dead makes them happy and prevents their spirits from hunting the living. “Death is not the end of life that is why we celebrate the…

Celebrity DJ Cuppy was overjoyed after her billionaire dad, Femi Otedola shocked her with a white 2018 edition of Range Rover Sport gift valued at N24 million. Cuppy made the announcement on Saturday, July 21, 2018 on her Instagram page with a picture of the new automobile. She posed with the white automobile which has a special plate number CUP 9Y in the United Kingdom. “Out with the old, in with the new! THANK YOU @FemiOtedola,” as caption for the picture,’’ she wrote. The new car is coming a month after Cuppy’s sister, Temi Otedola, got a brand new Range Rover…