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Katsina State government is to look into the possibility of redeploying redundant directors in the state ministry of education to classrooms to address shortages of teachers. Governor Aminu Bello Masari said this yesterday when he received the midterm report of the Restoration Committee on Education.  There are about 600 directors in the state ministry of education with most of them not having any schedule of duties. Governor Aminu Bello Masari 

The Federal Government through the Ministry of Health has committed over N4 billion to interventions addressing the on-going humanitarian crisis in the Northeast. The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole made this disclosure during the commemoration of the 2017 World Humanitarian Day in Abuja. The sum was used in purchasing relief materials including drugs and medical consumables, hospital equipment, capacity building and deployment of volunteer health workers. He stressed that the crisis is both unprecedented and protracted and that the Ministry has deployed a two pronged approach aimed at providing basic medical services to the affected population and strengthening the pillars of the region’s health system.

A business woman, Mercy​ Segun, 42, was on Wednesday arraigned at a Karmo Grade 1 Area Court in Abuja for allegedly beating her daughter and pouring pepper into her sex organ. Segun, who resides at Idu Gbagyi, Karmo, is facing a three-count charge of criminal force, assault and causing hurt to a minor. The Prosecutor, Mrs Florence Auhioboh, told court that the defendant’s neighbour, one Gift Afegua, reported the matter at the Karmo Police Station on Aug. 22.

The personal assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social media, Laurretta Onochie, Tuesday said that the leader of the indigenous people of Biafra, IPOB, should be pulled back to where he belongs having violated three of his bail conditions granted him by court. “Time will come when Kanu will be locked up, and the keys thrown into the Atlantic Ocean”, she equally said. In her statement on facebook tagged, ‘Due process, being followed on little Nnamdi Kanu’, Laurretta described Kanu’s followers as touts, hooligans and hoodlums who do not have formal education and thus were incapacitated in processing information or responding civilly.

Anthony Obo of God’s Commandment Ministry was defiant, yesterday, when he was paraded by the Police, claiming that the ‘occult items’ found in his church were drama costumes, while the blood found in a red bucket in his church was that of a goat and a chicken he killed to celebrate his baby’s dedication. Anthony Obo The pastor, who was paraded along with five other accomplices, told Vanguard that he did not abduct the one-year, six-month-old girl whose heart was reportedly found in a white basin in his church.

An Osun State Magistrate court sitting in Ipetu, on Monday remanded a pastor in charge of a Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) in Edunabon, Adeyemo Adedayo in prison custody for allegedly being in possession of human skull. Presiding Magistrate, Mr Olakunle Faith Idowu who gave the order declared that the suspect be kept behind the bar because of the criminal nature of the offence committed. It would be recalled the human head was found under a big mortal kept in the bamboo constructed in the church which was located at Anglican High School, Edunabon, Ife North Local Government Area. The 43-year-old pastor, Adeyemo popularly called Efa-Efa was arrested following the tip off from some people residing in the community.

 Igbo must go cartoon  The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, on Tuesday, explained why the Federal Government could not arrest sponsors of the quit notice that was previously issued against Igbos residing in the northern part of the country. Malami, SAN, said the government resisted pressure to go after leaders of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, after it gave due consideration to “security implications” of arresting them. However, the AGF said the government would not hesitate to wield the big stick against anyone or group found to have engaged in any form of lawlessness in any part of the country. According to him, “Government considered the security implications on the issue.

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said he stands by all he said about President Muhammadu Buhari on his ill health and therefore has no apology to make to anyone about it. The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Governors Forum advised the President “to resign so as to look after his health because he is sick and tired.”

After a month of speculation and rumours, Olori Wuraola has confirmed the she is no longer with the Ooni of Ife. In a statement released today, Wednesday, August 30, 2017, the Olori said " the Ooni and I are no more. I inhale love & exhale gratitude."  This news comes after the Ooni of Ife denied rumours that his marriage had crashed. "There is no truth to the news; it is unimaginable. We would issue a statement on the matter soon. The palace is not interested in this rumour as there are lots of positive activities happening every minute so we don’t have time to respond to such noise being created by nonentities" the Ooni's aide wrote in a statement. Olori Wuraola has now broken her silence on the issue. You can read the statement below;

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said yesterday that 120 marks in Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination will be the minimum marks required by candidates to get admission into any university. The minimum cut-off marks for admission into polytechnics and colleges of education was agreed to be 100 marks at the meeting while innovative enterprise institutions had 110 as minimum admission marks.

For several hours on Monday, All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State and the coalition of civil society groups staged a peaceful rally to celebrate the return of President Muhammadu Buhari to Nigeria after medical treatment in London. Speakers at the rally made up of leaders of the party and various groups, descended heavily on Governor Ayodele Fayose over the statement credited to him that President Buhari, had been placed on life support since June 6 in the London hospital.

The meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) will not hold today. Presidential spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, said this in am statement this morning. The FEC meeting holds every Wednesday and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo presided over the meeting for over three months during Buhari's 103 days in London. President Buhari resumed work on Monday having returned from his medical vacation in the United Kingdom on Saturday.

President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to return to the country later today after receiving medical attention in London, the presidency has said. The president is set to return after over 100 days in London for medical treatment.

Security has been strengthened for the Acting Chairman of the EFCC Mr. Ibrahim Magu and his family, including his aged mother. It was learnt that some strangers have been prowling Magu’s residence in Maiduguri. Some policemen have been deployed in Magu’s uncompleted bungalow in Karshi, Abuja. According to a source who who pleaded not to be named, the last seven months had been tough for Magu because of his refusal to bow to pressure from some high-profile suspects and Politically-Exposed Persons.

Alhaji Tunde Ayankojo and Gov. Ajimobi  Oyo state Governor, Abiola Ajimobi last week swears in Alhaji Tunde Ayankojo has Commissioner, Local Government Service Commission. Until his appointment as Full Time Commissioner, Local Government Service Commission, he was Senior Assistant Registrar at Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo. He has equally served as Secretary, Caretaker Committee, Atiba Local Government, Oyo state. 

Labour unions in Ondo State have kicked against the state government’s plan to pay fractional parts of their outstanding salaries and pensions from the second tranche of the Paris Club fund. Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN), in July, confirmed the receipt of N7.6 billion by the state as part of the Paris Club refund. The governor pledged not to spend the money until a meeting was held with labour leaders on the modality for payment.

A Commissioner with the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC), Alhaji Lateef Raji has died. Raji, who was also a former Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to former Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN was reported to have died at the early hours of Monday at his resident in Magodo area of Lagos state.

Worried by his wife’s defiant posture, a civil engineer, Kazeem Azeez, on Friday pleaded with a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve his 10-year-old marriage to his wife, Fatimoh. “My Lord, little did I know that I was inviting the devil into my house when I married Fatimoh 10 years ago. “As soon as she got into my house as a wife, Fatimoh, started showing the stuff she is made of by tormenting and fighting me and my first wife.

The PDP will never recover because Nigerians would reject it in the race for the Presidency in 2019, National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, said yesterday. Malam Abdullahi was reacting to comments by chieftains of the PDP at the party’s non-elective convention held on Saturday. He said the APC remained the preferred choice for Nigerians who would not be carried away by “rhetoric of those who short-changed them for sixteen years.”

The Presidency said it paid N6.2 billion 14 states during the school year ending this month for the feeding of 2,827,691 students out of the three million targeted for this year. The Senior Special Assistant to the Acting President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, listed the benefitting states as Anambra, Enugu, Oyo, Osun, Ogun, Ebonyi, Zamfara, Delta, Abia, Benue, Plateau, Bauchi, Taraba and Kaduna. He said a total of 33,895 cooks had been engaged in the communities where the schools were located across the 14 states.

Four final year students of Government Science and Technical College, Karniya in Yankwashe Local Government Area of Jigawa State have been arrested over theft of 18 sets of mini laptop computers valued at about N1.4 million. The spokesperson of the Jigawa State Command of Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), DSC Adamu Shehu, disclosed this over the weekend in Dutse. The suspects – Shehu Abdulrazak, Abdullahi Suleman, Sani Abdulraham and Yakubu Abdullahi – are between the ages of 15 and 17.  They broke into their school ICT centre and carted away 12 sets of the mini laptops while the school was on holiday.

President Muhammadu Buhari has insisted that his doctors will decide when he will return from the United Kingdom where he has been on medical vacation since May 7 He said there is tremendous improvement in his health and that he wishes to return home. He stressed that “but I’ve learnt to obey my doctor’s orders, rather than be the one issuing the orders. Here, the doctor is absolutely in charge.”

A Muslim woman based in Long Beach, California has been paid $85,000 settlement after a police officer forcefully removed her hijab. She won the lawsuit after a police officer forcefully removed her hijab The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on behalf of the woman identified as Kirsty Powell sued the city of Long Beach. According to Arab News, a police officer in Long Beach forcefully removed Powell’s hijab in front of other male officers and inmates.  The settlement, approved Tuesday, concludes the legal battle undertaken by Kirsty Powell, an African American Muslim.

Senate President Bukola Saraki said he sacked 98 aides to reposition his office. It was reported yesterday that Saraki sacked 98 of his aides including the director of protocol, and head of administration. Saraki’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu said the exercise wasn’t a witch hunt but an effort to reposition the office of the senate president.

The Federal Government, yesterday, vowed to unleash the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC and security agencies against promoters of hate speech and songs now raging in some sections of the country. The vow by the Federal Government came as the NBC vowed to apply appropriate sanctions from the broadcasting code against the broadcasters of the hate songs. Former governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, also condemned the anti-Igbo songs fanned in some sections of the North. Asked to give the Federal Government’s reactions to the anti-Igbo songs, yesterday, Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said: “Let me make it very clear, hate speech from anywhere, from any part of the country is what we have been preaching against and I feel that there must be sanctions.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has traced N47.2Billion and $487.5million in cash and properties to the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, according to an article written by officials of the anti-graft agency. The article titled ‘Diezani Alison-Madueke: What an Appetite!’ was jointly written by Tony Orilade and Aishah Gambari of the Public Affairs Directorate of the EFCC. It detailed properties and money allegedly owned by the former minister.

The Federal Capital Territory, FCT Police Command has identified disturbance of public peace and a near breakdown of law and order in the nation’s capital, Tuesday, as possible reasons it clamped down on anti-Buhari protesters. The police explained that the protest which was going on at the Unity Fountain got its attention to intervene when it was turning volatile following infiltration by hoodlums. It said some miscreants, hoodlums and other criminal elements had infiltrated the protest being carried out by a group of concerned Nigerians under the aegis of “Our-Mumu-Don-do Movement”, led by famous Nigerian musician, Charles Oputa popularly known as “Charlie Boy”.

The police on Tuesday arraigned a 42-year-old driver, Igwe Dike, before a Lagos State Magistrates’ Court in Ikeja, for allegedly beating his wife, Nkiru Egbo, with a plank which left her and their son seriously injured. Dike was arraigned on two counts of assault and causing of grievous bodily harm, which he pleaded not guilty to. According to the police prosecutor, Inspector Simon Imhowa, the incident happened on July 30, 2017, at the couple’s residence on Ferry Street, Mile 2, Lagos.

The Senate yesterday said President Muhammadu Buhari has not violated the law over his long absence from duty, while on medical vacation in the United Kingdom. There have been protests by groups that the president, who left for UK on May 7 for follow-up consultations with his doctors, should either return to the country or resign. In a statement by its spokesperson, Senator Aliyu Sabiu Abdullahi, the Senate said “The president has broken no law and therefore we do not see any justification for this diversion and noise making. The sponsors are merely seeking cheap publicity at the expense of the peace of Nigeria.

A socio-political group, Kwara Mass Movement (KMM), has called on the President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, to return all monies he had collected as pension from the state government. National Coordinator of the group, Mr Salmon Jawondo, made the call in Ilorin on Thursday while briefing the media on “the state of the State’.

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has dismissed four policemen for their involvement in the theft of property belonging to former President Goodluck Jonathan. The policemen, who were on guard duty at the Gwarinpa residence of Jonathan, allegedly stole movable items, including furniture sets, beds, electronics, toilet electrical fittings and internal doors and frames.

Former Governors Ahmed Sani Yarima (APC, Zamfara), George Akume (APC, Benue), Danjuma Goje (APC, Gombe), Jonah Jang (PDP, Plateau) and Bukar Abba Ibrahim (APC, Yobe) are among the senators without a single bill to their names in the last two years. Other senators in this league are former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Bayero Nafada (APC, Gombe), Muhammed Sabo (APC, Jigawa), Mustapha Sani (APC, Niger), Yele Omogunwa (APC, Ondo), Jeremiah Useni (PDP, Plateau) and Ibrahim Abdullahi (APC, Sokoto).

A young man in his 30's has been sentenced to nine years in prison for raping his wife repeatedly in her sleep and filming the act on his mobile phone. The victim who got curious of an app called ‘Video Locker’ on her husband’s phone opened it up to take a look. She was shocked to find footages of her husband carrying out sickening sex acts on her while she was asleep, including close-ups of him raping her.

  The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, said the National Assembly was ready to consider and pass a new Minimum Wage Bill whenever it was presented by the executive. Saraki, who made this known when he featured in News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja, said that the senate was aware of the need to review the current minimum wage. He said that all the indices upon which the last minimum wage of N18, 000 was approved had changed and that there was, therefore, no need leaving the wage unchanged.

The fake Doctor, Jonathan Ibrahim  Nasarawa State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) has said that a fake medical doctor arrested for allegedly infecting a six-year-old boy with HIV through unscreened blood transfusion has tested positive to the virus. NSCDC Commandant in the state Lawan Bashir-Kano, who disclosed this to journalists in Lafia yesterday, said investigation into the case revealed that both the 30-year-old fake doctor Jonathan Ibrahim and his wife tested positive to the HIV virus.

The Police in Delta have arrested a commercial sex worker who allegedly stabbed her client to death during an argument at Destar Hotel, Asaba, Delta, on July 18 . The Spokesman of the Police Command in the state, DSP Andrew Aniamaka, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Asaba that the police responded to a distress call from the hotel after the incident. “The suspect is currently in police custody.

President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, has ruled out the possibility of his son participating in the governorship race in Kwara in 2019. He said at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja that it was untrue that his son was being groomed as the next governor of the state. According to Saraki, the boy is not interested in politics. That is not in the offing at all; I am sure he doesn’t even want to hear politics at all. “You know it is not easy for children who are born to politicians, especially in this time, to embrace politics.

The Special Assistant to the President on Prosecutions, Okoi Obono-Obla, has said there will be consequences for the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu, if the anti-graft agency fails to act on the letter written to him by Abubakar Malami, the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice. The AGF, in a letter dated August 1, 2017 had ordered Magu to forward to his office the outcome of investigations along with its recommendations on “serious or complex” cases. Ibrahim Magu 

Tonto Dikeh has responded to Nollywood actress and producer Adaslim who called her out for allegedly not returning the cloths and car she borrowed from her years back. In a post on her instagram she narrated how Tonto made her lose N2million and never looked out for her for the 5yearrs she was in exile in New York.

There was mild drama in Osogbo, capital of Osun State on Thursday when aggrieved retirees under the aegis of Forum of 2011/2012 pensioners stormed the frontage of Osun State secretariat, Abere to organise a mock Fidau prayer for Governor Rauf Aregbesola. Though Fidau prayers are usually organised for the repose of the soul of a dead person, the enraged pensioners argued that they were embarking on a mock Fidau for Aregbesola to underscore the pains, anguish and death suffered by some their members over unpaid pension arrears and allowances.

Nigerian musician and filmmaker, Abdulrasheed Bello popularly known as JJC has revealed that one of his daughters convinced him to marry Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele. He also said his children with other women accepted Funke as his partner. JJC, who spoke in an interview with Playground TV, said, “Well, before we got married in London, we all had a good relationship here in Nigeria.

Loyalists of former Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi on Thursday set up a campaign structure, JKF Movement, for his yet-to-be declared ambition to run for the 2018 governorship race. The JKF Movement, is a platform raised to mobilise voters and sell the candidacy of the Minister of Mines and Steel Development in all polling units, wards, local government areas and senatorial districts in the state. They said the move was premised on what they called “the reality on ground today in the state indicating that we have missed a great opportunity in our failure to continue to enjoy Dr Fayemi’s services as demonstrated by the unprecedented development witnessed during his four-year tenure.”

A n Evbuoriaria Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Benin, Edo State, has ordered five members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, to be remanded in prison over alleged murder of one of their members. The accused persons; Godwin Ukrakpor (70), Uche Esegine (22), Taiwo Omogoroye (42), Austin Oni (39) and Meshak Owuh (28); who were arraigned on a two-count charge, allegedly committed the offence at about 5 am on 1 July 2017, at Sapele Road, Benin City, while returning from a vigil.

Three women have appeared in court after a pastor said they raped him.  Two of the women are alleged to have pinned the man down on a bed, while the third carried out the sex attack.  A magistrates’ court in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, was told that the victim was owed money by the attackers and he went to their home to collect it. They invited him into the house, but once he was inside, he said, he was grabbed around the waist and his trousers were pulled down by a second who then groped him.   The women Sandra Ncube, 21, Riamuhetsi Mlauzi, 23, and Mongiwe Mpofu, 25, denied rape, but pleaded guilty to indecent assault.

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo and state chairmen of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday met behind closed doors at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja. Addressing State House correspondents later, the leader of the delegation and chairman of the Lagos chapter of the APC, Mr Henry Ajomale, said the meeting discussed the health of President Muhammadu Buhari, who is currently in London on medical vacation.

Some assailants, suspected to be ritual killers, on Tuesday killed a 73-year-old pensioner, Mrs. Adetutu Ajayi, in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State. Adetutu, the daughter of a former Accountant General of the Old Western Region, Mr. Samuel Sotoowa, was butchered at her residence on Moferere Street, in the Ajilosun area of Ado Ekiti. The deceased was found in a pool of blood in her three-bedroomed bungalow by church members around 11am, with her fingers cut off. Different parts of her body also had machete cuts.

Suspected Boko Haram terrorists have attacked Mildu village in Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa state, killing seven people. It was gathered that the insurgents, who entered the village from the eastern flank of Sambisa Forest, also injured 10 villagers, before fleeing with food items.

Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, the Commissioner in charge of the Public Complaints Commission (PCC) in Benue, says he will not retract his alleged damaging comments about Governor Samuel Ortom as requested by the Tiv Traditional Council. Tsav told newsmen on Wednesday in Makurdi that he stood by his letter where he urged the anti graft and security agencies to investigate allegations of corruption against Ortom.

Gunmen on in the early hours of today kidnapped the Ikeja Local Government Clerk, Shamsideen Omotayo.  spokesman for the local council secretariat, Bello Onilegbale told newsmen that the clerk was whisked away at Imota, near Ikorodu, while on his way to work. According to him, Mr Omotayo’s kidnappers have contacted the council’s Head of Administration, Mosunmola Otaiku-Okoka.

The Acting President on Wednesday urged Nigerians to exercise caution in their utterances and respect each other in their conversations and interactions to foster national unity. Osinbajo Speaking at a seminar on national unity and stability at the DSS Training School, Bwari, Abuja. Osinbajo also advised the citizenry to shun all narratives which foment trouble and create divisions and embrace those that unite. According to the Acting President, the language of exchange in the country must be civil and we must not tolerate a situation where people speak in any way they like.