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The House of Representatives has mandated two of its committees to investigate the alleged abduction and forceful marriage of 14-year old Habiba Isa in Katsina State. The House noted with concern recent media reports that Habiba, from Warkaza community in Kankara local government area was married off forcefully. Adopting a motion by Rep Raphael Nnanna Igbokwe (PDP, Imo) the House said Section 21 of the Child’s Rights Act provides that “No person shall remove or take a child out of the custody or protection of his father or mother or guardian against the will of the father, mother or guardian.” The lawmakers added that the alleged marriage was without the consent of her parents, who have been reported to be under threat and harassment over their request for the release of their daughter. If nothing was done, the House said the trend might continue, which would be a threat to peace and unity in the country. The House asked the committees on Women Affairs and Human Rights to probe ...

Economic recessions occur when aggregate spending by governments, consumers and investors drop below the levels required to sustain the previous tempo of economic activity. Recovery starts when increased spending occurs significantly. Furthermore, a recession such as Nigeria is experiencing does not come suddenly. There usually are signs to indicate that the economy is slowing down. The signs were there for quite some time but we failed to act. Unfortunately, when such signs occur in a fledgling democracy, especially within an election year or a period of high transitional activities, the tendency is always for the ruling party to ignore them. Economists and other experts pointing to the imminent drop in economic activity are dismissed as alarmists. Back in 1981, when the leader of the defunct Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) and main opposition group, the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, warned the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) Federal Government led by President Shehu Shagari about the in...

THE long-awaited report of the Hon. Nicholas Ossai-led House of Representatives Committee on Ethics and Privileges probing the alleged sexual misconduct of three members of the House while on an official assignment to Cleveland, Ohio in the United States of America in April this year, has come out with a verdict of not guilty. This verdict is hardly surprising, in view of the fact that former US Ambassador James Entwistle, who levelled the allegations against Hon Samuel Ikon (PDP Akwa Ibom), Hon Mark Gbillah (APC Benue) and Hon. Mohammed Gololo (APC Bauchi), failed to appear or send representation to tender any evidence to buttress his accusations. Entwistle had, in a damning letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara on June 9th, 2016, accused Gololo of sexually harassing a hotel chamber maid, while Gbillah and Ikon were said to have solicited for the services of prostitutes from hotel staff. He insisted that the US Mission “took pains” to confirm th...

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state has dismissed the insinuations that President Muhammadu Buhari’s three-day visit to Germany was more of a medical trip than official engagements. Okorocha, who was part of the president’s entourage to Berlin, Germany, made the clarification in his reaction to media interview granted by a Kano-based social commentator, Dr Junaid Muhaamed. Muhammed had alleged that Buhari visited Germany on Friday to seek medical attention over an undisclosed illness.                                                               German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari. Okorocha, who spoke to State House correspondents in Abuja, however, debunked the allegation and said that the official engagements of Buhari in Germany, had no connection, whatsoever, with medication. He said ...

•Only 104 of the girls not married off  •Some died, some married off, radicalised into sect  •Boko Haram tables demands to free 83 more girls •How faction tried to stall release by bombing Maiduguri a day before. Stunning revelations have emerged, a day after the 21 of the abducted Chibok girls were freed and brought to Abuja by top security officials. Saturday Vanguard gathered from top individuals who were involved in the negotiations leading to the release of the girls that most of them were kept by a faction loyal to the son of the founder of Boko Haram, Mohammed Yusuf, in areas around Lake Chad while the rest of them were with another faction loyal to Abubakar Shekau.                                                        Cross section of released Chibok girls in Abuja.   It was also learnt that out of the 276 Chibok...

South Africa-based goalkeeper Daniel Akpeyi is set to be recalled by the Nigeria Football Federation for next month’s World Cup qualifier against Algeria. “Akpeyi will return for the Algeria match as he has been playing well and regularly in South Africa,” a team official disclosed. Akpeyi has been playing regularly for his South African club, Chippa United after he featured for Nigeria as one of the over-aged players at the recent Rio Olympics.                                                                                     Daniel Akpeyi Chippa are seventh on the Premier Soccer League (PSL) table with seven points from four matches. The former Warri Wolves shot stopper last appeared for the Super Eagles in an AFCON qualifier against Egypt in Alexandria in March. He wi...

Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti state today stopped the arrest of a woman who tried to withdraw money from an account already red-flagged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.                                                      Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State and Mrs Fani-Kayode after her release. The woman described in some posts as the wife of Chief  Femi Fani Kayode and her child were reportedly detained by the EFCC. But the EFCC in a late statement Monday denied detaining any one, while also revealing the role of Governor Ayo Fayose in frustrating the arrest. Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC spokesman said Fayose stormed the bank with thugs to stop the arrest. “Contrary to the media spin about the purported arrest of mother and child, a certain Chikwendu Sonia today attempted to withdraw money from an Access Bank account that...

*Says EFCC probe won’t distract me Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has told the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to pay attention to hunger and suffering ravaging Nigeria and its people and leave him alone, saying, “This project ‘Fayose must be implicated at all cost’ will definitely not put food on the tables of Nigerians and for all I care, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and its collaborators can keep running from pillar to post while I keep delivering good governance to Ekiti and its people.”                                                              Fayose-Buhari The governor, who dismissed the reported claim that former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro confessed to the EFCC that he received fund from the ...

Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has urged a review of Nigerian laws to enable anti-graft agencies in the country retain a percentage of the loot recovered to fund their operations. The Acting Chairman of the commission, Mr Ibrahim Magu, made the request at the national anti-corruption conference organised by the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (PACAC) and the National Assembly in Abuja. The conference which began Tuesday will end Wednesday.                                                                                             Ibrahim Magu Magu said the review will be in line with international best practices. “In some jurisdictions like the UK, proceeds of crime are further used to strengthen the agen...

•Says Coaches demand N250,000 from young players ABUJA—Ex-International, Daniel Omokachi, yesterday, opened a can of worms in the nation’s sporting arena, alleging that Nigerian youths cough out as much as N250,000 each to get into the U-17 team in Nigeria. Amokachi spoke when he joined forces with coalition of Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, operating under the aegis of National Support Groups for Good Governance, NASUGG, protesting in support of war against corruption in Abuja. Amokachi who hailed the Department of State Services, DSS, over the arrest of alleged corrupt judges, in Abuja, described the sport arena as den of corruption. Amokachi, while addressing Senators Barnabas Gemade and Ovie Omo-Agege, when the group stormed the gate of the National Assembly, said corruption is endemic in sports.                                                  ...

13 soldiers have sustained various degrees of injuries while many are still missing in action following the attack of troops’ location in Borno on Monday by the Boko Haram terrorists. Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman made this known to newsmen Tuesday evening. According to him, the troops who did their best to defend the location to no avail were however forced to withdraw from the location as they were outnumbered. “Yesterday at about 5.30pm suspected escaping remnants of Boko Haram terrorists attacked troops location at Gashigar, border area with Niger Republic, northern Borno State. The troops did their best to defend the location in vain.” “In the process, 13 soldiers sustained injuries while some are still missing in action. The temporary setback made the troops to withdraw from the location.” “However, the wounded soldiers have been evacuated and receiving treatment, while efforts are ongoing in search of those missing and clear the Boko Har...

LAGOS—A 41-year-old woman, who was arrested by policemen attached to Area ‘J’ Command, Ajah, Lagos State, for allegedly hiring assassins to kill her husband of 14 years over a disagreement which led to their separation, has said she was a frustrated housewife but that she only sent the thugs to beat him.                                                                             Mrs Orji and Ikechukwu The suspect, Mrs. Chika Orji, was arrested following a confessional statement by one of the suspected assassins, Bright Ikechukwu, who was arrested while attempting to break into Mr. Orji’s apartment at Jakande Estate, Ajah. During preliminary investigation, it was discovered that one of those hired for the botched assassination was a carpenter, identified as Ekene, who usually worked for Mr. Orji...

Precious Chikwendu, wife of erstwhile Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, Tuesday, denied allegation by the Economic and Fianancial Crimes Commission, EFCC, that her Access Bank account was used to launder funds from the NSA’s office and that approximately N2.4 million balance was found in her account, when she was arrested by the anti-graft agency yesterday.                                                          Fani-Kayode and Precious Chikwendu  In a statement by Chineye Okechukwu, her Special   Assistant, Chikwendu  said the allegation was a lie from the pit of hell. The statement read: “The assertion by one Wilson Uwujaren who is supposed to be the spokesman of the EFCC that Precious Chikwendu’s Access Bank account was used to launder Jonathan campaign funds or funds from the NSA’s off...

The National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has said that President Muhammadu Buhari does things in a spartan way. Tinubu who used the opportunity of the launch of a book on President Muhammadu Buhari also said that Buhari has always been and is still on a mission to fix Nigeria.                                         BOOK LAUNCH ON PRESIDENT BUHARI 15. On arrival; President Muhammadu Buhari accompanied by the Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo being received by the APC Chaiftain and Former Governor of Lagos, Senator Bola Tinubu and Speaker Rt Hon Yakubu Dogara during a book Launch on President Muhammadu Buhari tittle: The Challenges of Leadership in Nigeria by Mr John N Paden held at the International Conference Centre in Abuja. PHOTO; SUNDAY AGHAEZE. OCT 3 2016. The APC leader  was one of the four reviewers of the book, titled;  “Muh...

Senator Ben Bruce says The president Muhammadu Buhari Has no Enemies in the country, so he should focus on Economic reforms in a video recording.

After pleading not guilty to giving a policeman a head-butt, 36-year-old Temitope Fagbemi, is on temporary reprieve as he was granted a N50, 000 bail by a Lagos court. Fagbemi, an employee of Superior Belt and Game Company, Maryland, Lagos, is being tried for serious assault at an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court. The Magistrate, Mrs. O. Sule-Amzat, who gave the ruling, also granted the accused two sureties in like sum. The sureties are required to deposit N25, 000 each in the account of the court’s Chief Registrar. In addition, Sule-Amzat said the sureties must be gainfully employed and should show evidence of tax payment to the government. Earlier, the prosecutor, Sgt. Lucky Ihiehie, told the court that the policeman, an inspector, attached to the company, was assaulted by the accused. “The inspector reported the assault at Anthony Police Station. “The accused and some of his colleagues had a disagreement and this prompted the intervention of the inspector. “Suddenly, the accused got provo...

KADUNA—Senator Danjuma Laah, (PDP, Kaduna South), has described as unforgivable the invasion of Godogodo in Southern Kaduna last weekend by herdsmen, who allegedly killed 20 persons and injured scores of others.  The death toll in the Saturday and Sunday attacks rose to 40 Monday, as residents have abandoned the community located in Jema’a Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Senator Laah, who was surrounded by beleaguered survivors and stern-looking soldiers and policemen, lamented that relevant authorities have refused to give the soldiers and police stationed in the semi-urban town enough men and equipment, welfare and other incentives to motivate them to bring out their best. Laah, who arrived Godogodo at 8a.m., Monday, inspected the carnage and later addressed the mourning crowd. He said: “I heard what has been happening since last Saturday evening, but I was stopped from rushing down here. “I want to say that what I have seen here is a huge crime. It is an unforgivable ...

SUCCOUR will soon come the way of four Kolo Creek cluster communities in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State as Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, has commenced the building of a gas turbine plant at Imiringi to provide uninterrupted electricity supply to the area. The oil-rich communities of Elebele, Imiringi, Otuasega and Yiba-Ama (Oruma) have been without electricity over the years, following the collapse of the state- owned Imiringi gas turbine. The new SPDC gas project known as ‘K2S’ being handled by Nestoil, when completed is expected to boost commerce in the area where many of the residents have been forced to relocate to Yenagoa, the state capital, due to the many years of power outage. Chairman of Kolo Creek Cluster Development Board, Chief Okpu Solomon, at the commissioning of some SPDC sponsored projects in the area, thanked the oil company for initiating the gas turbine project.  

WARRI—NIGER Deltans across the divide, yesterday, urged the Pan- Niger Delta Forum, PNDF, headed by Chief Edwin Clark, meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, on October 29, for preliminary talks, ahead a proper Federal Government dialogue/negotiation with stakeholders, to tell Mr. President to come clean on his plans to develop the Niger Delta and resolve the crisis in the region.   They want leaders from the region to tell the President that the only way forward for the country is true federalism and warned them not to demand and take gratification from the Buhari government during their visit, adding that accepting hotel accommodation, money for transportation, feeding and entertainment could compromise their position. True federalism Archbishop of Anglican Communion, Calabar, Cross River State, Reverend Tunde Adeleye, said: “It is my opinion that the main solution to restiveness in the Niger Delta is still true federalism. That is one issue that should be tabled before the p...

ABUJA—The House of Representatives Committee on Maritime Safety, Education and Administration and the Director-General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dakuku Peterside, yesterday disagreed sharply over the amount owed the agency and the ‘controversial’ award of contract to recover alleged $5 billion debts for the agency. While, Chairman of the Committee, Umar Bago, insisted that the debt was about $5 billion, Peterside disagreed, saying the debt profile from 2004 till date was $420.5 million. According to Bago, there have been a plethora of petitions over the recent award of contract to a firm, SNECO Financial Services, which was said to have been incorporated on April 4, 2016, which the petitioners claimed breached due process. But the NIMASA DG, Peterside, who was a former member of the House, told the committee that the agency complied with all due processes required in awarding the contract and that the Bureau of Public Procurement, BPP, awarded a c...

It came like a bolt from the blue on Thursday, 13th October 2016, when the news of the return of 21 of the 219 female students of Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State, who had been captives  of their Boko Haram Islamist terror group abductors since  April 14, 2014, unfolded. The deal was reportedly carried out by the Department of State Services (DSS) with the help of the government of Switzerland and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The girls were handed back to their families on Sunday, three days later, amidst outpouring of joy and thanksgiving, not only by the families but also members of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) campaigners and the entire nation. The Federal Government insists no ransom was paid and no prisoner exchange took place, even though some media reports had it that five top commanders of the terrorist group were swapped for the girls.                       ...

MAKURDI—More than 300,000 Nigerians affected by the insurgency in the North-East are to benefit from an 11 million Euros Oxfam intervention fund to aid food production in impacted communities. Oxfam Head of Programmes in Nigeria, Constant Tchona, who made this known at the 2016 Female Food Hero, Ogbonge Woman awards, organised in Makurdi by Oxfam, Nigerian Association of Women in Agriculture, NAWIA, and Benue State government, said 50 percent of the beneficiaries would be women. Tchona said the intervention, which would be implemented for four years under the Pro-Resilience Action, PROACT, programme of Oxfam, was being co-funded by the European Union and would be executed in Adamawa and Kebbi states. He said: “PROACT is intended to improve adaptation to climate change, combat desertification, promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture and policies and encourage sustainable and resilient small scale agricultural practices. “The project will also build the food security, nutrition, and re...

The informal office of the First Lady of a country or a state is a concept extremely African. Often, the world is assailed with the bogus appellation of the “First Lady” of Ghana, Ethiopia, Togo or Nigeria and the rest. In contrast, it is something of a taboo to hear of anything in the semblance of something like “The First Lady” of America or Britain or even Brazil. For instance they are known as “Wife of American President” or “Wife of the British Prime Minister.” Women are powerful as documented in the Biblical story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden known to all. However, the perception of Africans is different. The average African believes behind every successful man is the shadow of a woman. So, African nations have seen First Ladies who wield far more tremendous influence than their husbands whom destiny has entrusted leadership of these countries. Nigeria shared this burden in her recent history, when former President Goodluck Jonathan held sway in Aso Rock. His wife, D...

Cameroon striker, Samuel Eto’o has placed a bet of 100,000 euro(about N34.4m) that his club Antalyaspor will not only beat relegation, but will finish in the top ten. Antalyaspor are stuck to the bottom of the Turkish Super Lig table and discontent is rife among fans. On Monday they were seconds away from winning their first league game of the season at the seventh attempt, but Rizespor scored in stoppage time to secure a 1-1 draw.                                                                                Eto’o    Eto’o went out to meet with many of the angered supporters after the match and didn’t just promise they’d finish in the top 10 despite their shocking start – he put €100,000 of his money where his mouth is. One fan, named in Turkish press as Mehmet Akdeniz,...

Writes CJN, says government behind his travails Alleges APC bent on winning elections in Rivers, A-Ibom, Abia Presidency, exGov Amaechi react Justice Ademola hands off NSA Dasuki’s case By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor, Levinus Nwabughiogu & Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—One of the Supreme Court judges, whose home was invaded by the Department of State Services, DSS, penultimate weekend, Justice John Inyang Okoro, has alleged that his travail in the hands of the operatives was in connection with alleged desire of  the Presidency and All Progressives Congress, APC, to win at all cost, election appeals in Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Abia states.  He also said the $24,000 and £10,000 recovered in his house by the operatives was balance of the estacode he received on foreign trips for three years.                    This came as indications emerged, last night, that a female  judge of the Federal High Court might be arres...