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Special Press Statement By President Olusegun Obasanjo Since we are still in the month of January, it is appropriate to wish all Nigerians Happy 2018. ( Kindly take your time and read everything he said ) I am constrained to issue this special statement at this time considering the situation of the country. Some of you may be asking, “What has brought about this special occasion of Obasanjo issuing a Special Statement?” You will be right to ask such a question. But there is a Yoruba saying that ‘when lice abound in your clothes, your fingernails will never be dried of blood’. When I was in the village, to make sure that lice die, you put them between two fingernails and press hard to ensure they die and they always leave blood stains on the fingernails. To ensure you do not have blood on your fingernails, you have to ensure that lice are not harboured anywhere within your vicinity. The lice of poor performance in government – poverty, insecurity, poor economic management, nep...

A Bomb making factory has been discovered at Okpella. The strangers who were living in the premises with their wives and children, which the community thought they were farmers, little did they know that the premises was a bomb making factory. Okpella Bomb explosion Nemesis Caught up with them, one of the bombs exploded killing one of them while fabricating them. the explosion called the attention of neighbors, While the Community tried to find out the cause of the explosion, they quickly packed the bombs and other weapons into their car to escape, members of the community gave them a pursuit when they took off. With the help of the Edo State Police Command three suspects were arrested for assembling items used in the manufacture of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). The suspects, all Kogi State indigenes, are Idris Ibrahim, 22; Zainab Ibrahim and Oyeza Abdul. They were arrested at Okugbe area, near Iddo village in Okpella, Estako East Local Government Area. The main su...

Lagos-based lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/cttee-end-herdsmen-killings-just-deceiving-nigerians-falana/ Lagos-based lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/cttee-end-herdsmen-killings-just-deceiving-nigerians-falana/ Lagos-based lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/cttee-end-herdsmen-killings-just-deceiving-nigerians-falana/ Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana has kicked against the setting up committee to look into the killings in Benue and other parts of Nigeria. He said “The government is parading Nigerians as a bunch of jokers. It is not rocket science to solve this problem. And I am bothered when leaders come out to make statements that give the impression that we are either out to cover up serious criminality “We don’t want a committee for heaven’s sake! A comm...

     A serious accident occurred today 26th December 2016 at Hatlab junction, the accident involving a Hilux Melo van with 3 occupants and Woman driving her children in a sport car,the woman was driving across the junction towards Bigbite, along Ademola Adetokunbo road when the Hilux Van came with high speed from Ahmadu bello way and clear up the woman and her children, oh, oh see the car was rolling in the air, before hitting the ground one of the kid fell off from the back screen that was broken, the car is written off, oh, we are praying God to keep the occupants alive, see how the woman was shouting my children, my children.    We have reported about several junctions in Abuja with the non functioning  old Traffic lights , there is no week accident does not occur at one of these junctions.   What is the FCT Minister doing, about these traffic Lights?    What is FG as a whole doing about these Non-functioning old traffic ligh...

Yesterday the Senate turned down the confirmation of Ibrahim Magu as substantive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, upon a security report by the Department of State Services, DSS, sparking a verbal backlash from supporters of Magu.  The 14-paragraph confidential report said that Magu has failed the integrity test and that if confirmed, he could eventually constitute a liability to the anti-corruption drive of the administration. The Senate, however, gave approval for the screening of the four members of the EFCC board whose names were sent alongside Magu by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo for confirmation in July while President Muhammadu Buhari was away on medical vacation. 

Nigeria government has on Monday banned the importation of vehicles into Nigeria through the land borders. The statement made know by the Public Relations Officer of Customs, Wale Adeniyi, said “The prohibition order covers all new and used vehicles., “The ban is sequel to a Presidential Directive restricting all vehicle imports to Nigeria Sea Ports only. “The order takes effect from 1st January 2017. he said, “The restriction on importation of vehicles follows that of Rice, whose imports have been banned through the land borders since April 2016. “Importers of vehicles through the land borders are requested to utilise the grace up till 31st December 2016 to clear their vehicle imports landed in neighbouring ports.”

The one-week warning strike declared by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has crippled academic activities across the country. Main while the federal government through the  Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, however, appealed to ASUU to rescind its decision to embark on the one week warning strike from November 16. Ngige, in a statement issued by Samuel Olowokere, Deputy Director of Press in the Ministry, “The claims of nationwide consultations by ASUU cannot be true as the Ministry of Labour and Employment which is the chief conciliator of industrial relations disputes is yet to receive a direct petition from ASUU

“Government is making urgent effort to start the rehabilitation of the runway at the Abuja airport and government has provided funds for the work, which could start anytime from now. “The committee is expected to schedule the maintenance dates, which are expected to run from days to weeks. “It is expected to also decide whether the runway would be closed daily or some hours of the day so that work could start on the facility”, the source added. According to the source, Mr. Sirika had designated Kaduna airport as alternative to Abuja so that flights would be diverted to Kaduna while work is ongoing at the nation’s second busiest airport

Nigeria president Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday swore in Walter Onnoghen as the new acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) . The ceremony was conducted at the council chamber in the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Mr. Onnoghen, the most senior justice of the Supreme Court, will replace Mahmud Mohammed, whose tenure as CJN expired at midnight on Wednesday

A shocking event happened yesterday 7th November 2016, in Mpape, Ajegunle road of Abuja, when a brother slaughtered his own brother while asleep.   It was learnt that the culprit came all the way from ogoja village to visit them in Abuja, not knowing he had an evil plan against the elder brother until last night that he carried out the evil plan.    Neighbor got to know this morning when they enter the room to see the lifeless body of the man in his pool of blood. they immediately called the police which has taken away the corpse.   The culprit disappeared immediately he committed the evil act. Nemesis will definitely catch up with him

We have been hearing rumors that fuel price will soon be increase again, they say there is a pinch of true in every rumor, the federal government should better not, not at this time, lets hear from the horse's mouth: The Federal Government, weekend, said it would undertake a review of the pricing template for  petrol, to forestall a further increase in the price of the commodity.      Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, stated this during a grand award ceremony organised by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, branch of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN  in Abuja.    Meanwhile the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream), has asked the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, to henceforth, prepare and forward to it, the daily product records of oil and gas in the country.     The committee said the record of daily crude oil production must be submi...

A cook who served Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue, a Managing Director at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in Abuja, has ran away with cash and pieces of jewelry worth $6million,on Wednesday. The man, identified as Gabel Segbedji, a national of Benin Republic, took off with the loot in a Toyota Camry car which also belonged to her boss, last Wednesday. Mrs. Nnamdi-Ogbue did not report the burglary to the police, in the hope of avoiding further attention, as she is already under investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Mrs. Nnamdi Ogbue was the Managing Director of the cash-spinning Petroleum Products and Marketing Company (PPMC) before she was moved to Products Retail by then GMD of NNPC, Ibe Kachikwu, in 2015. Segbedji is said to have been recommended for employment to Mrs. Nnamdi-Ogbue by a close friend of hers, Toke Benson.  Our source said the NNPC chief obtained the mountain of cash from kickbacks given by oil markete...

Earlier this year  February, Ifeanyi Ubah had vowed on a national television that if consulted by President Buhari, he could use his technical-know-how to stabilize the Naira to an exchange rate of N200=$1. Then, the Dollar/Naira disparity had skyrocketed that N400 was already exchanging for $1 in the Parallel market. Insisting on his earlier stance of possessing the technical-know-how on how the Dollar/Naira disparity can be crashed, Dr. Ubah pointed that “the only solution to Nigeria’s economic problems is one- addressing the cancer to our Forex which setting up 10 modular refineries can solve that problem. The second cancer that is affecting us is the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).” The oil magnate stated at the Adoration Ground in Uke,  “I said that I am going to bring down the dollars, I sought for consultations because in the past I have done so many things and at the end of the day, people took the glory. This is an issue that is very important t...