Flood destroys N70m farmlands in Plateau

Mr Alex Nantuam, Chairman, Shendam Local Government of Plateau State, says farmlands worth about N70 million in Shimankar, Dokan Tofa, Angwan Rina, Angwan Dadi and Kallum communities have been destroyed by flood, recently.

El-Zakzaky has Iran’s support to turn Nigeria to Islamic State —FG

The Federal Government has alleged that the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky has the sole aim of establishing an Islamic State in Nigeria.
The government also said the cleric had the full support of the Iranian government to achieve this aim.

Rape: Fatoyinbo returns to police for another round of questioning

Founder and  Senior Pastor of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, Biodun Fatoyinbo, has returned to the police for another session of interrogation over the rape allegations levelled against him by Mrs. Busola Dakolo, wife of popular singer, Timi Dakolo.

MTV VMA: Cardi B, Missy Elliot, Taylor Swift win big

Cardi B, Taylor Swift and Missy Elliot were among the biggest winners at the 2019 MTV VMA awards. The awards, which were held on Monday night, celebrated outstanding music videos churned out within the review year.
Taylor Swift picked up two awards, including ‘video of the year’, in a girl-powered start to the Awards show while rapper Cardi B won best hip-hop video.

Why we hiked Nigerian applicants’ visa fees – US

 

Nigerian citizens applying for United States’ visas will be required to pay a visa issuance fee, or reciprocity fee, with effect from August 29.

The reciprocity fee will be charged in addition to the non-immigrant visa application fee, also known as the Machine Readable Visa fee, which all applicants pay at the time of application.

Man nabbed for defiling five-year-old girl in Yola

 

The Adamawa State Police Command has arrested one Abdullahi Adamu, aka Adati, 19, for defiling a five-year-old girl.

The spokesman for the command, DSP Suleiman Ngoroje, confirmed the arrest in Yola on Tuesday.

Court orders el-Rufai, police to pay Choc City boss, Maikori N40m

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday awarded N40m to the President of Chocolate City Group, Audu Maikori, as compensation for his unlawful arrest and detention between February 17 and 18, 2017 and again March 10 and 13, 2017.

Burundi withdraws from ICC

Burundi on Friday became the first ever nation to leave the International Criminal Court, set up some 15 years ago to prosecute those behind the world’s worst atrocities.

“Burundi’s withdrawal from the Rome Statute will take effect on Friday, 27 October 2017,” an ICC spokesperson told AFP.

Catalan parliament declares independence

Catalan lawmakers voted Friday to declare independence from Spain, as Madrid vowed in turn to “restore legality” and quash the region’s secessionist bid.

With thousands of pro-independence activists gathered outside, the regional parliament in Barcelona passed a resolution to “declare Catalonia an independent state in the form of a republic”.

Court decides Evans’ applications to quash murder charges Nov. 10

The Lagos State High Court in Igbosere has fixed November 10 to rule on whether or not to quash the murder and illegal sales of firearms charges filed by the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecutions against alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans.

FG allocates N6.9bn for Villa zoo, presidential fleet, others

Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma

The Presidency is proposing to spend a total sum of N6.94bn on wildlife conservation, fuel and lubricants, purchase of C-Caution triangles for vehicles, fire extinguishers, construction of recreational facilities at the State House and maintain the presidential fleet.

Details of the spending are contained in the 2016 budget, which President Muhammadu Buhari presented to a joint session of the National last week.

Female suicide bombers now attack after asking water for ablution, defence chief warns Nigerians

The Chief of Defence Staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin, has warned that female suicide bombers have deployed a new tactic to carry out their nefarious activity. Speaking at the end of year conference with principal staff officers of the Defence Headquarters yesterday Dec. 30th, Olonisakin said that female bombers now get easy access to people's homes by requesting for water to perform ablution.

See full list of Buhari’s ministers and their portfolios

Barely six months after coming to power, President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, finally assigned portfolios to his ministers-designates at the Ministerial Inauguration that took place at the Presidential Villa.

The full list include:

1. Chris Ngige – (Anambra) Minister of Labour & Employment

2. Kayode Fayemi- (Ekiti) Minister of Solid Minerals
3. Rotimi Amaechi – (Rivers) Minister of Transportation

Buhari slashes federal ministries to twenty five

AHEAD of Wednesday’s (today) inauguration of 36 ministers-designate, there were indications on Tuesday that President Muhammadu Buhari, had reduced the number of federal ministries to 25 from about 29.

Under the new dispensation, the ministries of police affairs, aviation and special duties appear to have been scrapped while ministries of Lands, Housing, Urban Development and Works have been merged to become Ministry of Works and Housing. Also, the information, culture, national orientation and tourism ministries have been collapsed into one Ministry of Information and Culture.

Stay off sex before marriage or go to hell – Egbe preaches

Banker turned movie producer and actress, Blessing Effiom Egbe, seems to always have something to share with her colleagues even though the thoughts don’t always go down well with them.

The former model who once took a swipe at actresses who sleep around to make ends meet has another word for single couples – stay off sex before marriage or go to hell. She passed out this message in a blackberry message sent to all her contacts.