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President Muhammadu Buhari Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the composition of the governing boards of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA and Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency,NIMASA. The announcement was contained in a statement issued on Friday night by the Director, Press and Public Relations in Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Bolaji Adebiyi. Image result for Nigerian President approves Governing Board of NPA, NIMASA While the NPA governing board has Emmanuel Olajide Adesoye as chairman, other members include Supo Shashore; Suleiman Halilu, Constance Harry Mashal, Umar Shu’aibu, Charles Emukowhate Sylvester and Hadiza Bala Usman. Others are Mohammed Bello Koko, Dr. Sekonte Davis, Prof. Idris Abubakar and I. J. Uche-Okoro. Members of the NIMASA governing board are Major General Jonathan India Garba as chairman, Asekomhe Kenneth, Mohammed Gidado Muazu, Hon. Barrister Ebele Obi, S. U. Galadanchi and Nene Bet...

A BUJA — The United States of America has warned its citizens against travelling to 20 states in Nigeria due to  security concerns. According to the travel advice on the Department of State’s website, the North-Eastern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, where the Boko Haram terrorists were more brutal, topped the list. It read: “The Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the risks of travelling to Nigeria and recommends that U.S. citizens avoid all travel to Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states because the security situation in northeast Nigeria remains fluid and unpredictable.The Department of State strongly urges U.S. citizens in Nigeria to consider their own personal security and to keep personal safety in the forefront of their travel planning. This Travel Warning replaces the Travel Warning for Nigeria dated February 5, 2016. “ The ability of the Mission to provide assistance to U.S. citizens in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states remains severely limited. The Depa...

A group of serving and former members of the House of Representatives have concluded plans to approach the courts for the interpretation of Section 80 (4) of the 1999 Constitution as amended. This they say, is in efforts at correcting the impression that Nigerian lawmakers criminally inflate budget proposals submitted by the executive arm of government. The lawmakers said their intent is to ask the courts to give an interpretation on the ownership of budget between the executive and the legislature. The section of the constitution the lawmakers are seeking interpretation for confers absolute power on the legislature over public funds. Section 80 (4) “No money shall be withdrawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund or any other public fund of the Federation, except in the manner prescribed by the National Assembly”. The lawmakers, under the aegis of Faculty Board of Initiatives, FBI, said the controversy generated by the budget padding issue has made it expedien...

Buhari saved Nigeria from economic crisis, Lai Mohammed says Despite widespread lamentations over the state of the Nigerian economy, the Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Thursday insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari saved the country from economic crisis and has prevented it from getting worse than it would have been. The minister stated this at the All Nigerian Editors Conference 2016 in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. According to a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Segun Adeyemi, Mohammed said just like oil rich Venezuela, which now depends on neighbouring Columbia for essential commodities, Nigeria would have been in the same situation because it failed to save if not for the leadership skills of President Buhari. The minister said: “We must give hope to our people, while also giving encouragement to those who are working non-stop to revamp our economy. In one country that failed to save for the rainy day l...

The hope of Chief Raymond Dokpesi of becoming the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), national chairman has been quashed as the party finally zoned its chairmanship to the South West. Dokpesi appears to have campaigned more than any other interested in the race for the party chairmanship, having toured over 16 states campaigning. He said while recently addressing some delegates in Ekiti state, “I have been touring 17 states of the federation for just about a week now and I’m still strong.” All that touring is now wasted efforts as southern leaders of PDP, finally resolved to zone the national chairmanship position of the party to the South-West geopolitical zone. The leaders agreed on this at a meeting on Thursday, attended by governors, National Assembly members and former ministers, in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. The party also resolved to zone national treasurer and deputy national publicity secretary positions to the South West. The position of the first deputy nati...

Blunders: How safe are Nigerians under IGP Idris? Last Friday blunder by Adamawa State commissioner of police, Mohammed Ghazzali, has heightened apprehensions over insecurity of lives under IGP, Ibrahim Idris. If there is anything Nigerians are gravely concerned about at the moment, aside the dwindling economy, it is insecurity and quality of decision making in the police force. Reports of armed robberies, kidnappings, militancy in the Niger Delta and the rampaging menace of the Fulani herdsmen against farmers, especially in the North Central geopolitical zone of the country, have become of serious concerns. But recent actions of the Nigerian Police, the government body saddled with the responsibility of detecting, and , or preventing such crimes has rather raised more concerns among Nigerians as to how safe they really are in their own land. Last week, there were reports of an attack in Adamawa State, in the North East, by suspected Fulani herdsmen which left...

Revelations coming from a witness in the alleged diversion of that sum by former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, to Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State for the prosecution of the 2014 governor election in the state, said it took ten hours, and two aircraft over three flights. Head of Cash-In-Trust Service of Diamond Bank, Damola Otuyalo, said in a statement of oath to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC) that the money was first taken to the Ikeja Airport at dawn in 65 bags before being dispatched to Ekiti State via the Akure airport. It was also gathered that the cash, which was originally released for six beneficiaries – Santuraki Bello (N200m); Yusuf Bulama (N120m); Chimenum Njoku (N250m); Josiah Moses (N280m); Abubakar Sadiq Zanna (N200m); and Franklin Tolani (N150m)- was diverted to Fayose by Obanikoro under the pretence that the six persons could not be located. Otuyalo, in his oath, said:”On the N1.2billion, my director,...

Award-winning actress Bimbo Akintola has spent the last 20 years making Nigerians fall in love with whatever role she has interpreted. From Out of Bounds to The Mourning After, her talent, charm and bubbly personality have lit up the screens. Often described as the actor’s actor, Akintola, a Theatre Arts graduate of the University of Ibadan, has had an interesting acting career. Having recently starred in Comatose, a movie that was shot and produced in South Africa, the charismatic actress can’t wait to share the experience with fans. She says, “It’s a drama that seeks to know if it is okay to pull the plug and let someone die. It was a very challenging role and I played the daughter of a woman who was in a coma for two years.” Even though Akintola’s acting career has spanned almost a quarter of a century, she says playing late Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh alongside Hollywood legend, Danny Glover, in 93 Days, is one of her most intense roles yet. In deciding what roles ...

Tragedy struck in The Polytechnic Ibadan, Apete area of Oyo state on Friday , when a trash truck belonging to Oyo State Solid Waste Management Authority, OYOWMA, crushed a motorcycle with three people and killed two. According to an eyewitness, the sad incident occurred when the truck’s brake failed at Apete/Ijokodo area and killed one student and the okada rider in the process, leaving the other student injured. A source said the truck was immediately burnt down by angry mob while the driver was also arrested. However, Nigeria Politics Online also gathered that the deceased, name withheld, was an HND2 from Accountancy department of the institution.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board on Sunday announced that it has withdrawn the list of admissions sent to respective universities earlier. Fabian Benjamin JAMBs Head of Media in a statement on Sunday adviser candidates not to panic adding that ” this is part of the process of the 2016 admission exercise. “ He said further “JAMB regrets any inconvenience this decision would have caused the tertiary institutions“The Board regrets any inconvenience it’s proactive step would have caused the tertiary institutions.” There had been so much back and forth movements over the 2016 admission process making many candidates to panic.

The Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari got a total N2,203,573,573,563.25(Two trillion, two hundred and three billion, five hundred and seventy-three million, five hundred and seventy-three thousand, five hundred and sixty-three naira and twenty-five kobo) from the Federation Account as allocation between June 2015 and May 2016, the Economic Confidential reports. In what was contained in its recent search, the administration under Buhari’s watch got the highest allocation in July 2015 with N412.60 billion and the lowest allocation within the period under review of N113.80 billion in May 2016! The report further reveals that in June 2015, the Federal Government received N173.91 billion made up of N159.72 billion for consolidated Revenue fund, N3.27bn for share of derivation and ecology, N1.63bn for Stabilization fund, N5.49bn for development of natural resources,   and N3.78bn for the Federal Capital Territory Administration. In  August, Septe...

Clinton leads Trump by 6 points after Democratic confab: Reuters/Ipsos poll Aug 01, 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton held a 6- percentage-point lead over Republican rival Donald Trump, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll with new wording that was released on Friday , the day after she formally accepted her party’s nomination for the Nov. 8 election. Nearly 41 percent of likely voters favor Clinton, 35 percent favor Trump, and 25 percent picked “Other,” according to the new July 25-29 online poll of 1,043 likely voters, which overlapped with the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. The poll has a credibility int...

On their first night of performances, the top fourteen contestants performedwithout the fear of being on probation and the Judges forgave whatever imperfections some of their performances carried. However, the same will not be said of today’s show as four contestants who were not impressive enough landed on probation. The evening saw the contestants serenading the audience with some of the finest songs from the R n B and soul genre. Some of the performances had the crowd cheering and applauding the contestants endlessly, while some even left the Judges speechless in admiration, but not all the contestants achieved these. In the end, the Judges made the decision to place Dapo (3), Favour (6), Oluchi(12), and Yusuph(18) on probation. Now West Africa, it is time to save your favourite of these four. To vote, send contestant’s voting number to 306 if you are in Nigeria and Liberia, if you are in Ghana, send voting number to 1745. Click ‘Voting rules’ for details o...

Governor El-Rufai of Kaduna State yesterday visited Tunde Bakare, former vice-presidential aspirant and general overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Lagos. El-rufai shared the photos on his Twitter handle saying: Today, I had the pleasure to thank Pastor Tunde Bakare and the members of the Latter-Rain Assembly for their prayers. See more photos

Nollywood actress,  Halima Abubakar got into some trouble with fans a few days ago when she revealed that she can not wait to lose her virginity and have kids of her own. Now, the busty actress has come out to explain what her statement meant in a recent interview with Punch. She asked the media house,  “Why would people become annoyed because I said I am a virgin? Just because I’m in the industry does not mean I am badly behaved. Not everyone is sexually active. You can have a boyfriend and not be sexually active. The reaction I got shows the mentality of the people. If I say I’m a virgin, I am and if I say I am not, then I am not. They tell me to go get married, should I go after  someone else’s  husband?” She added “Everybody thinks one should get married from age 18. A lot of marriages are complicated. Marriage will come when it will come, one doesnt need to force it. People are getting divorced with pregnancies because they got married u...