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The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and its governors have dismissed reports of an altercation between President Muhamamdu Buhari and his vice, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, describing it as mere gossip. Speaking at the inaugural meeting of the APC Governors Steering Committee on Media and Communication, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Lagos State governor, noted that just on Wednesday, the vice president presided over a meeting of the Federal Executive Council, FEC. Sanwo-Olu, who was represented by his deputy, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, said as governors, they deal with facts and not rumours, urging Nigerians to continue to support the Buhari administration. “There is no…

Despite meeting the bail conditions, Omoyele Sowore, Convener of the #RevolutionaryNow protest, is still in the custody of the Department of State Service, DSS, said his lawyer. Sowore was arrested and detained by men of Department of State Security, DSS but freed by Federal High Court Lagos on Wednesday, September 25.  His counsel, Femi Falana, SAN, who stated this in an interview with Channels Television, explained that no reason had been given by the DSS for its failure to comply with the court order delivered on Tuesday, September 24, 2019. Justice Taiwo Taiwo had ordered the release of Sowore who…

As a measure of checkmating terrorism and other violent extremism in Nigeria and other affected countries, Major-General Bashir Magashir, retd, the Minister of Defence has opined asset freeze, travel ban and expulsion, among other measures. Magashir, who told the Global Counter-Terrorism Forum, GCTF, and representatives of member countries of the United Nations that said terrorism threat in Nigeria and across the Sahel Africa was compounded by the global movement of foreign terrorist fighters. Speaking as the co-chair of the Criminal Justice and Rule of Law Working Group on the sidelines of the 74th UN General Assembly meeting, the minister said:…

President Muhammadu Buhari, Thursday, said Nigeria lost an estimated $157.5 billion to illicit financial flows from 2003 to 2012. Buhari quoted from the 2014 Global Financial Integrity Report in his address to the High-Level National Side-Event organised by the African Union Development Agency and New Partnership for Africa’s Development, AUDA-NEPAD, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday in New York. At the margins of the 74th United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, under the theme, “Promotion of International Cooperation to Combat Illicit Financial Flows and Strengthen Good Practices on Assets Recovery and Return to Foster Sustainable Development, he noted…

The House of Representatives Thursday recommended a 10-year jail term for consumers and exporters of donkeys. Apart, the House will inaugurate its 105 standing committees next week. The committees and their heads were named July 25 by the speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, before the House embarked on its two-month recess. The Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Wase (APC-Plateau), who announced this at plenary Thursday, also said the leadership of the House would meet with chairmen and their deputies and give a direction on how the committees should conduct business, going forward. The House upon resumption of plenary Thursday, mandated all ad hoc committees…

Angered by a barrage of petitions and setting the ranch ablaze by unknown persons, Akwa Ibom government may have backed out of plans to establish a ranch in Uruan Local government area of the state to accommodate 2,000 cows from Mexico, a South American country. Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel, had in May 2017 revealed plan by his administration to kick start the project, explaining that the cow importation was to ensure fresh milk for Akwa Ibom people as against evaporated milk. “Fresh milk is more nutritious and will enhance good health and growth among the people of the…

By Akanimo Sampson Total, a French major energy player, which produces and markets fuels, natural gas and low-carbon electricity is currently bracing to export its first Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) cargo from Gydan peninsula, Russia by 2023, while the second and third train to start up by 2024 and 2026. Total, Novatek and the other project shareholders have approved the Final Investment Decision (FID) for Arctic LNG 2, a major LNG development in Russia, with a production capacity of 19.8 million tons per year. The news came as the Board of Directors of the French oil major, reviewed the outlook…

A six-year-old Nigerian student has emerged Africa’s youngest Microsoft Specialist in the Certiport international certification examination. Master Damilare Akano alongside 200 other students participated in a month-long summer camp tagged: ‘Nextgen IT Experts’ organised by a Learning Systems Institute, New Horizons in Lagos recently. The pupils were trained in various information and communication technology, ICT, courses like Microsoft, Multimedia, Robotics Engineering, Drone Technology, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) and Coding, among others. He came top in the Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2016 examinations with a score of 871 out of 1,000 points. He was followed…

By Akanimo Sampson Favour was ready to start her first year of university when a man approached her mother with a proposition for her to study abroad. “He managed to convince my mother that he could get me a scholarship in Italy. All I had to do was give him the necessary documents for him to process the paperwork,” she said. She, however, remembered that once they arrived in Libya, things changed: “The pusher man gathered all the women who were in the truck and handed us over to another man. The man took us to Qatrun, a city in…

As the planned sale of the Bayelsa State Oil Company Limited (BOCL) by the state government continues to generate controversy, a renowned social and environmental activist has called on members of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly to intervene, deliberate and take a drastic decision on the issue. Straightnews had on September 19 published an exclusive story headlined: Alleged Plans By Dickson to sell Bayelsa Oil Firm Shares foiled” and quoted Barr Orua Mark, secretary/legal adviser to BOCL, alleging plans by Governor Seriake Dickson to sell shares in the government-owned company. Mr. Morris Alagoa, in a telephone interview with our…