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Dr. Abdul-Mummuni Kabir, The Emir of Katsina has beckoned on Nigerians to stop castigating President Muhammad Buhari over the economic challenges facing the country. Kabir made the call during inauguration of a book on family lineage of late chief Imam of Kano residing in Katsina, Muhammad Zaharaddeen, on Saturday in Katsina. “It has come to our knowledge that some disgruntled people are castigating President Buhari and blaming the economic problems of the country on him. “The President cannot solve the economic blunder committed in 16 years within one year. “President Buhari needs some time to marshal plans that will solve the several challenges facing the country”, he said Kabir advised Nigerians to rally round and support Buhari to enable him to discharge his duties for the betterment of the people. “The President needs the support and prayers of his brothers and sisters from the North to overcome the several problems facing the North and the country.” The emir commended the author ...

Jurgen Klopp watches on from the technical area Jurgen Klopp argued Liverpool are ready to ‘fight for everything this season’ after seeing his team overrun Barcelona to claim an emphatic 4-0 International Champions Cup victory at Wembley. In front of the second-highest crowd ever to attend the new Wembley, Liverpool cruised to the win against the Spanish champions with goals from Sadio Mane, Divock Origi, Marko Grujic and an own goal by former Anfield midfielder Javier Mascherano. And with Liverpool not distracted by European competition after finishing eighth in the Premier League last season, Klopp claimed his team can fight for the title after this result. "We shall fight for everything this season,” Klopp said. “We need to be ready. It’s not a case of pressure, we are just ambitious, but everyone else is ambitious too. So it will be an interesting league we have to fight and I know we will be ready, but I don't know where we will finish.” Klopp, who revealed James Milne...

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress suffered a historic defeat in the country’s capital to the opposition Democratic Alliance in local elections, the electoral commission said Saturday. In Tshwane, the metropolitan area that includes Pretoria, DA won 43.1 percent of the vote over the ANC’s 41.2 percent, according to final results in elections highlighting the declining popularity of the party that led the anti-apartheid struggle. The loss of Pretoria comes on top of the ANC conceding defeat Friday in Port Elizabeth, a key battleground of Wednesday’s municipal election. Defeat in Port Elizabeth by a margin of 46.7 to 40 percent was a humiliating blow for the ANC as the municipality is officially known as “Nelson Mandela Bay” in tribute to its past as a hotbed of anti-apartheid activism. The showings have prompted speculation over their long-term impact on President Jacob Zuma. At the national level ANC remains the nation’s top party. However, the party Mandela once headed ha...

Ogunkoya Opeyemi, 20, is a first-class Biochemistry graduate of Covenant University , who is currently undergoing the National Youth Service Corps programme, where she was deployed in a secondary school to teach. Interestingly, Opeyemi, who had 4.70 CGPA in the 2014/2015 academic session, she avows that she is enjoying the experience. She shares more about her experience in this interview You graduated last year, what have you been doing since then? I’m currently undergoing my National Youth Service Corps programme. I’m teaching in a public school and the experience has not been bad at all. It must have been a lot of work to graduate with a first class. Was it? Earning a first class in Biochemistry wasn’t an easy task. It took a lot of hard work, dedication, commitment and sacrifices. In all, it wasn’t my efforts that counted, only God’s grace did. Apart from God’s grace, were there other things you did differently to be better? It was my decision from the start to put my very best i...

New signing Sadio Mane scored one goal and made another as Liverpool slickly defeated Barcelona 4-0 in a one-sided friendly match at a sun-soaked Wembley on Saturday. A 34 million pounds ($44.5m) capture from Southampton, Mane struck a 15th-minute opener and then supplied the cross from which ex-Liverpool player Javier Mascherano scored an own goal. Divock Origi added a third seconds later and substitute Marko Grujic chipped in with a stoppage-time header as Jurgen Klopp’s side registered their sixth win in eight pre-season games. “I’m happy with the result and with a lot of the game,” said Klopp, who lost James Milner to a first-half heel injury. “I don’t want to over-estimate this game, but it’s still good for us. We didn’t think that we were lower than Barcelona before the game and we don’t think that we’re higher than them after the game.” Liverpool play Mainz, one of Klopp’s former clubs, in a friendly in Germany on Sunday before tackling Arsenal in their Premier League...

Kim Kardashian West refuses to brand herself a feminist - because she hates labels. The 35-year-old reality TV star says she doesn't want to label herself and even though she is supportive of other women, she doesn't feel the need to call herself a feminist. Speaking at the BlogHer conference in Los Angeles, Kim said: "I don't think that I am. I think that I'm just. I don't like labels. I just think I do what makes me happy and I want women to be confident and I'm so supportive of women. I love nothing more than supporting my friends and other women.” "But I'm not the free-the-nipple type girl. If you're not comfortable with that don't do it! You know, so I'm not about the labels. Just be you. Be confident within you and if you're not, then that's fine too. Just like no hate. That's my thing. It's just be happy, spread love, no hate. No need for it." Kim also revealed that she posts nude selfies because she is...

In the early hours of Saturday, the media was awashed with the reports that the Niger Delta Avengers Militant group had ruptured and were facing possible balkanization leading to the emergence of a splinter group . Without much delay, the group have released a statement in response to such claims. In the statement released on Saturday, by its spokesperson, self-styled Brig. Gen. Mudoch Agbinibo, the group denied facing any crisis, stating that “the entire household of the Niger Delta Avengers remain intact.” The group claimed that the supposed spokesperson of the acclaimed breakaway group, Cynthia Whyte “was the negotiation organ for Mr. Victor Ebikabowei Ben (Boyloaf), former governor Timipre Silva and Sele Ebikabowei for settlements in kidnappings, bank robberies, illegal crude oil bunkering and dirty jobs for government.” It further said these set of people sponsored Sele Ebikabowei to testify against Niger Delta leaders, Charles Okah, Henry Okah and Edmund Ebiwari. The statement r...

A militant group, the Niger Delta Revolutionary Crusaders (NDRC) on Saturday, avowed to carry out reprisal attacks if Boko Haram kills Christians and burn down churches in the north, as threatened by its new leader, Abu Musab Al Barnawi. The group threatened to kill Muslims and burn down mosques in the Niger Delta region if Boko Haram makes good of its threat. Spokesperson of the militant group, W O I Izon-Ebi, in a statement quoted by The Vanguard, said: “We want to alert Nigerians and the world that the Islamization plot has been proven by the Boko Haram new leader Abu Masab el Barnaw that their new mission is to kill all Christians and burn down all churches.” “But, we want to warn them that we, the Niger Delta youths, in this 21st century will not accept killing of innocent Christians or burning of churches. That if they try it in the north or any part of Nigeria, we the Niger Delta youths will not see any Muslim or mosque in the Niger Delta,” it said. “We are not against President...

Lagos state Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode was seen at the Redeemed Christian Church of God at the New Arena in Redemption camp, along Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The church, with millions of members spread across the world clocked 64 years and celebrated it with an annual convention spanning from the August 1 to 7. Governor Ambode and his wife visited the convention ground to celebrate and thank God on behalf of the church. Nigeria's Vice President was unavoidably visible in the service. Also, Governors Mimiko of Ondo state ,Udom Emmanuel of A'Ibom and  Ortom of Benue State were counted among the guests in the program. pictures shortly...... Governor Ambode and his wife with Vice President  Yemi Osinbajo and Governor Mimiko of Ondo state

Dear Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah. I bring you greetings this afternoon from Umuahia. I sincerely hope you’re doing well. If so, doxology. I write to update you on recent developments in Abia State seeing as you do not live here and you don’t know what is happening. Are you aware that since your attempted coup in Abia State which was thwarted to the glory of God and shame of the devil, things have not been the same in Abia State? Do you know that prior to your voyage in judicial and administrative rascality, Abia had found a rhythm. The administration of Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu had stabilised after the Supreme Court put Alex Otti where he belonged and we were cruising at an enviable altitude. Contractual commitments were being entered on a daily basis and investors were falling over themselves to put their money into Abia State. Everyone was in agreement that we were on a good trajectory and Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu came tops in most performance evaluation rankings. Then you struck and murdered sleep....

Enugu based Charismatic priest of the Catholic church and the Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, on Saturday denounced media reports that he attacked President Muhammadu Buhari in a recent message . Mbaka said he only advised Buhari against marginalisation, urging him to proffer solutions to the hunger in the land. In a statement released on Sunday by his media aide, Mr. Maximus Ugwuoke, Mbaka said that he only admonished the President against marginalising parts of the country in his appointments. he statement reads, “Fr. Mbaka equally advised the President on being careful about how he appoints people to prominent positions, so that no region will appear marginalised, as happened in Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation board and charged the President to make sure that those around him are not misguiding him. “He advised the President on human empowerment and making sure that those who worked for him (Buhari) during the election ought to b...

The permanent secretary, Taraba State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Nuvalga Dan-Habu has said a full truck of relief materials sent to Taraba state for distribution to the Internally Displaced Persons IDPs by President Muhamadu Buhari have gone missing. The permanent secretary disclosed this while taking journalists round the venue where the relief materials were stored for safe-keeping in Jalingo, Taraba state capital. Nuvalga said he got a call from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA)North East zonal office Gombe, few weeks ago informing him that twenty (20) trucks of relief materials (Maize) were being sent by President Muhamadu Buhari for IDPs in Taraba state and the materials were on their way from Abuja to Taraba state. He said the NEMA zonal office directed that the Taraba State Emergency Agency should keep the materials for latter distribution to the IDPs. He stated that only nineteen (19) trucks of the materials arrived Jalingo, instead of the twenty trucks w...

Laura McFerran did not let her cancer battle stop her graduating as a teacher and says 'my pupils are fascinated' Lauren McFerran at her graduation at Liverpool University It all began with a dark spot that Laura McFerran noticed in the mirror. She was only 20 – and it meant she faced an agonising cancer battle in which she would lose her entire right ear. Lauren had just been deciding where to have a new piercing when she noticed her mole. She went straight to her GP, who removed the growth and sent it for tests. Two months later, in February 2015, it had grown back. Specialists at Clatterbridge Cancer Centre on the Wirral, Merseyside, ­diagnosed her with malignant ­melanoma – a type of skin cancer that spreads. The mole grew and was removed by came back with a vengeance Lauren was amazed ­because she had always hidden in the shade from the sun. A typical break for her would be walking in York shire with her boyfriend Dave. She said: “I’d never been on a sun bed and I had only...

A lecturer in the Department of Education of Delta State University (DELSU), Abraka, has been nabbed and remanded in police custody it the university town over alleged sexual harassment of a female student. Police Commissioner in the state, Mr. Zanna Ibrahim who confirmed the arrest in Asaba, paraded 36 other suspects arrested by the command for various crimes including kidnapping, robbery, car snatching, human trafficking, defilement and pipeline vandalism. CP Zanna said the sexually harassed victim told investigators that the said lecturer is her course adviser who has been harassing her sexually. According to him, she said the lecturer threatened that if she refused to yield to his sexual “demands he would make her carry over some of her courses,” adding that during “Maths examination she told the suspect that she had accepted her proposal, but before then she had reported the matter to the police station at Abraka. “Based on the complainant’s feigned acceptance of the suspect’s d...

There are indications that there has been a rupture in the leadership of the Niger Delta Avengers, as a breakaway group, announcing itself as Renowned Niger Delta Avengers (RNDA) emerged on Friday. According to a statement by the group’s spokesperson, Cynthia White which was quoted by Sahara reporters on Friday, the group decided to split from the Niger Delta Avengers, following appeal from former president Goodluck Jonathan that the peace initiative of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) is genuine. The breakaway group also said it felt guilty of destroying the efforts of President Buhari to clean up the region. It also said the group will reveal identities of those perpetrating the destruction of pipelines in Niger Delta. The statement reads, “We have decided to join the MEND Aaron Team 2 peace initiative through the clearing house of Niger Delta Dialogue and Contact Group (NDDCG) headed by HRH King Alfred Diette-Spiff. “We will also cooperate with the g...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has seized four houses worth N872 million from a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Sen. Bala Mohammed, and his son, Shamsudeen Bala. The ex-minister is also being investigated for fictitious contracts of about N1billion, allocation of 12 choice plots worth billions of naira and 37 other commercial plots of land worth about N8 billion to his suspected front named Tariq Hammoud. Bala is expected to explain his role in the controversial N1 trillion Abuja land swap. Already, companies linked with fictitious contracts awarded by Bala have been questioned by the EFCC, The Nation reports. EFCC said it had obtained an interim forfeiture order to confiscate a N650 million house at 1 and 3, Mariam Mukhtar Street, Asokoro. The same forfeiture order was secured to seize the ex-minister’s son three duplexes costing about N222 million in the Apo Area of Abuja. A source told the newspaper that: “Some of those quizzed so far confessed...

The world's second richest man, Carlos Slim, chairman emeritus, América Móvil, wants his employees to work for just three days a week. Slim thinks by introducing the three-day workweek, it would spur on economies with more tourism, entertainment, and culture, and encouraged other companies to follow his lead. Slim explained why everyone should work less and take more time to relax in an interview he granted Bloomberg Businessweek. He said, “Historically, the more technology advances and the more progress there is, people work less. “I think they should work three days a week, so that it creates space for others. “The quality of life and having four days a week free would encourage a lot of economic activities – more tourism, entertainment, sports, culture, and education.” However, Slim said working for three days in a week comes with a price. The employee will have to work more time before retirement. When he was asked if people would earn less this way, he said, “No, I think the ...

All Progressives Congress in Oyo State says it will conduct a primary election on August 8 to pick a candidate for Oorelope State Constituency re-run election. Mr Olawale Sadare, the Director of Media and Publicity of the party, announced this in a statement issued in Ibadan on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the seat became vacant following the assassination of Assemblyman Gideon Aremu on July 1. NAN also reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission has fixed August 20 for the election to fill the vacant position. Sadare said that the eligible party members had been informed to visit the state secretariat for the collection of expression of interest and nomination forms. According to him, the deadline for payment and collection of forms is August 8 by 10am.

Two Chinese nationals attached to West African Polaris have been kidnapped in Agada village, Nasarawa Local Government Area of the state. According to the Police Public Relations Officer Ismail Noman AI Jung, 50 and Wenso Ping, 45, were ambushed by unknown gunmen at about 2.28pm on the their way to Abuja. He said that the police had begun investigation to track the abductors. According to him, security operatives in collaboration with vigilance groups, local hunters and community leaders were also involved in the search. “The Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq-Bello, has directed that the search operation team should do everything possible to ensure that the victims are rescued,” he said. Noman also said the police had intensified efforts to stop and search activities across the state borders as part of security measures. He urged residents of the state to report any suspected person in their domain to any nearest police station.

Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari who is currently on a visit to the United States of America said on Saturday that the visit was necessary to hold discussions with aid organizations on how to help the women and children facing starvation in the north eastern part of Nigeria. Aisha Buhari spoke in an interview with the Hausa service of the Voice of America, VOA. Buhari said she met with officials of the United States Institute for peace on Friday and assured them that any aid rendered to displaced persons would go to those who needed them, unlike before. She noted that the United Nations International Children Fund (UNICEF) had been providing aid packages containing nut-related supplements, which, she said, are produced in large quantities by Nigerian farmers. The president’s wife said she told the officials that there was need to set up a plant in Nigeria that could produce the package. “Our children in the various camps are in dire situation and the government alone cannot do it, w...

Former Golden Eaglets star, Peter Ogaba, is dead. 42-year-old Ogaba is said to have died after a brief illness in Abuja. Ogaba was before his death, the youngest Nigerian player at the FIFA U-20 World Cup hosted by Saudi Arabia in 1989 where Nigeria lost in the final to Portugal was also the youngest player to feature at the FIFA Under 17 World Cup at Canada ’87. According to a condolence statement by the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, “We are shocked to hear of the sad demise of former Junior Int’l Peter Ogaba. Ogaba was part of the Eaglets at Canada 87

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There are strong indications that fresh crisis is looming in the Peoples Democratic Party over the zoning of its national chairmanship position to the South-West. Already, one of the serious contenders for the position from the South-South, Dr. Raymond Dokpesi, has rejected the zoning arrangement and has picked the form to contest the office of the national chairman at the forthcoming national convention. The convention holds in Port Harcourt on August 17 Dokpesi, who was the first person to pay the mandatory N1m for the form, was represented by one of his sons at the party’s temporary national secretariat in Abuja. The son, Raymond jnr., refused to speak with journalists after he paid and collected the form. The leaders of the party from the southern part of the country met in Port Harcourt on Thursday where the decision to zone the office to the South-West was taken. In the meeting attended by governors, National Assembly members and former ministers, the leaders of the part from th...

Praise a 300 LEVEL Law student of Obafemi Awolowo University cannot forget in a hurry her horrible and life-threatening experience on Saturday 23 july, 2016. That faithful day miss Praise left Osun state for Ibadan,Oyo sate a journey that usually should last for about two hours almost turned out to be a perplexity. Praise had gone to the school in the morning of that day to check whether her things were still intact in her hostel before resumption after some weeks of strike by lecturers in the institution. Around 4pm, when she ensured she had put everything in place, she left for the Mayfair Motor Park in the town to board a bus going to Ibadan, where her family resides. All things being equal, she should have been back in Ibadan by around 6pm on the same day, but by 12 midnight of the following day, she found herself in Ilorin, Kwara State. Narrating the incident to our correspondent in Ibadan on Tuesday, she said, “We’ve been on strike for some weeks. Meanwhile, freshers had resumed ...

Tragedy struck on Saturday (today) during a birthday party at a bar in the northern French city of Rouen, where about 13 people were reportedly killed and six wounded in an catastrophic fire accident in the early hours. The blaze, which was France’s deadliest in a decade, was sparked by the candles of a birthday cake. They appear to have ignited the polystyrene ceiling of the basement room where the celebrations were taking place. The victims, who were primarily between the ages of 18-25, were poisoned by a toxic mix of gases released by the burning plastic. One of the injured was still fighting for their life. Local official Laurent Labadie, who was at the scene of the fire, described the blaze as accidental. The blaze started at around midnight at the Cuba Libre bar in the city centre, and the firemen were at the scene by 00:20 am (2220 GMT Friday). Its burnt facade and broken front windows were protected by metal barriers and police on Saturday. “A fire broke out in a bar in the cit...

  The chief Whip of the House of Representatives; Mr. Alhassan Ado-Doguwa who happens to be one of the four principal officers accused by former Chairman, Committee on Appropriation, Mr. Abdulmumin Jibrin, of ‘padding’ the 2016 budget. In an interview enunciated his on version of the story Have an Enjoyable read. Abdulmumin Jibrin has levelled grievous allegations against you and three others including the Speaker, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, which you have denied. If you say they are not true, why did he specifically mention the names of the four of you and not others? With all sense of humility and responsibility, I want to say that all the allegations that he has made public against the four principal officers of the house, especially in the manner he has them, are basically unfounded, untrue and baseless. Jibrin is one very crafty and cunning individual that can take advantage of circumstances; distort facts, mutilate them and present them in a manner that could seamlessly be perceive...