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ABUJA — EXACTLY 158 days after he inaugurated the 2014 National Conference, President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, received the report of the confab and vowed that his government would implement the recommendations. The visibly elated President, who said that Nigerians had shamed critics, who thought the exercise would dismember the country, added that the government would discuss the outcome with the …

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State yesterday said the Federal Government was yet to justify the 52 percent revenue allocation; it received monthly from the federation account. Fashola spoke at the flag-off of the expanded Lagos State Economic and Empowerment Programme, EEP, at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium, Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja. The governor, who described the central government as the big …

Yesterday, Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s president was interrupted during a parliamentary session where he was responding to allegations that he had excessively spent public funds in renovating his sprawling residence in the rural KwaZula-Natal province. A BBC news report today announced that President Zuma declared that he had “responded appropriately to parliament” after a member of parliament, Julius Malema, asked …

US Navy fighters and drones provided air cover to Kurdish and Iraqi forces battling IS near the city of Mosul. On Tuesday the group released a video showing the beheading of journalist James Foley, who went missing in 2012. In it, the militants threatened to kill another US reporter they are holding. But since the video was released, American forces …

ABUJA — The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, said yesterday, that it would not allow the use of masked security agents to safeguard the 2015 general elections, stressing that “any security personnel deployed for the election must be someone identifiable.” INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, who made the position of the Commission known during an interactive session he had in …

Sequel to the July 3rd recommendation by the National Conference that 18 additional states be created to bring the total number of states in Nigeria to 54, members of the National conference Committee on Political Restructuring and Forms of Government, jointly headed by Ike Nwachukwu & Mohammed Kumalia have released a copy of proposed new map of Nigeria with the …

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has cancelled the orientation camping for 2014 second stream batch B corps members as a result of the presidential pronouncement that all schools should not be re-opened at this time of national health emergency. All prospective corps members deployed to the affected states scheduled for the exercise are to report at the designated orientation …

It has been revealed that Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh, the consultant physician who passed on last night after having contracted the dreaded Ebola Virus from Patrick Sawyer, reportedly did a heroic job for the country when she forced Sawyer to his bed after he attempted to escape from the hospital . Report says Dr. Adadevoh was infected when she forcefully restricted …

Chuka Umunna of Nigerian descent on May 7, 2015, could make history by becoming the first black Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Born in London in 1978, Chuka was bred in the UK. His late father, Bennett, hailed from Anambra State while his Irish mother, Patricia, is a solicitor. He is a British Labour Party politician who has been …

Some Air France flight crews are refusing to board planes bound for Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria over fears of the Ebola outbreak. Cabin crew scheduled to work on some flights “have not wanted to carry out their assignment”, a ccording to a spokesman for the company. He refused to be drawn on numbers but said none of the flights …