In the second part of his report, KUNLE FALAYI takes on the Lagos State Water Corporation armed with the report of a chemical analysis done on a sample of the contaminated water which some Lagos residents drink oblivious of the dangers they fa...
Jonathan’s taken aviation to global standards — PDP
President Goodluck Jonathan’s party, the Peoples Democratic Party, yesterday, X-rayed his performance in the aviation sector and concluded that he had taken it to an unprecedented high level.In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, PDP said it was happy with the transformation in virtually every sector...
Ogun PDP CRISIS: Daniel, Kuye, Dimeji set to defect to SDP
A strong indication has emerged that, a mass exodus of members and stalwarts of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun State is currently looming.This is coming as a former chairman of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Aviation, Hon. Dave Salako has warned the national leadership of the ...
Another Ondo FMC doctor attacked by gunmen
Barely a week after a medical doctor of the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Owo, died mysteriously in a fire incident in Akure, Ondo State, another doctor of the hospital, Muyiwa Alonge, has escaped death as gunmen invaded his house.Afric Tv gathered that the gunmen broke into his home in Aule, in Akure metropolis, on Christmas...
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Employer: Cuso InternationalThe Company:Cuso International, an international volunteer development organization based in Cross River State is implementing a 5 year Youth Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Access and Development (YouLead) project in Cross River Sta...
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Boko Haram Kill 15 In Borno Village Kautikari
Suspected Boko Haram insurgents shot dead at least 15 people in Kautikari located close to the troubled Chibok town, Borno State.Reuters reports with reference to the witnesses that the attack was launched Monday, December 29, and targeted Kautikari, which is situated near Cameroon border.A survivor identified as Jonah Umaru...
Building set ablaze, as brothers row over inheritance
Two persons have been arrested and detained by the Police for allegedly setting a building ablaze in Ondo town, Ondo State, over disagreement on the owner of some shops within the building.Afric TV gathered that two brothers had disagreed over the ownership of the shops in the building they inherited from their late father.One...
Stop attacking Buhari, APC chieftain warns Lamido
The Chairman, fund raising committee for General Muhammadu Buhari Support Group, Mr Farouk Aliyu has cautioned Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido to desist from attacking the personality of General Buhari at political gatherings.
Aliyu in an interview with journalists after the fund raising campaign organised in Dutse,...
7 Boko Haram Members Dead As Bomb Detonated In The Car
Seven Boko Haram suspects were reportedly killed December 29 when an explosive hidden in a Toyota pick-up van had gone off before they reached the Biu market, Borno State.A security source who pleaded for anonymity made this known Tuesday adding that the insurge...
120 People Died During The Christmas Celebrations - FRSC
Not less than 120 persons have been killed in road accidents across the country during the 2014 festive season between December 19 and 28, 2014 Daily Trust reports.The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) disclosed that the figures translated as 42 percent reduction when compared to last year’s figure of 208, within the same...
Court Stops INEC From Publishing Names Of PDP Aspirants
A Federal High Court in Abuja has stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from publishing names of nominees of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for national and state assembly elections from Ondo State.
Justice Ahmed Mohammed issued the preservative order on December 30, 2014, Tuesday, after listening...
IGP Pledges To Find Missing Policemen Dead Or Alive
Four months after no fewer than 35 mobile police officers were declared missing following Boko Haram attack on a Mobile Police College in Gwoza, Borno State, the inspector-general of Police, IGP Suleiman Abba, has pledged that the Nigeria Police would find the officers dead or alive.The IGP made the pledge in Nasarawa State...
Nigerian, not Cameroon airforce bombed Boko Haram terrorists in North-east says DHQ
Following reports Tuesday, that Cameroonian air force jets on Monday launched air strikes on scores of Boko Haram terrorists who occupied a military ba...
Corruption: Ex-ICPC boss, others tackle Jonathan
Former President of the Court of Appeal and pioneer Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related offences Commission, ICPC, Justice Mustapha Akanbi (retd) yesterday in Ilorin...
Nigerians’ll appreciate my good work after I leave office says Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan has said that Nigerians will appreciate the good work he has done for the country after he has left office.
Speaking yesterday when he received a delegation from Bayelsa State who paid him a Christmas visit, President Jonathan said he will continue to do his best in order to meet the expectations...
2015: Labour Party urges Nigerians to reject anti-people parties
The Labour Party, LP, has urged Nigerians not to make the mistakes of the past by voting for political parties whose policies and programmes are anti-masses.Addressing newsmen in Lagos, Secretary of the party, Mr. Kayode Ajulo, said: “Except the Nigerian masses rises up to the situation, politicians will continue to take...
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Illegal bunkering: JTF adopts non-combatant approach
The Joint Task Force, JTF, code named Operation Pulo Shield, has embarked on non-combatant approach in its effort to tackle crude oil theft in the Niger Delta region.The approach, Afric TV learned, involved engaging the youths, elders and traditional heads of affected communities in the campaign against oil the...
Minister directs IGP to arrest politicians over inciting statements
Minister of Police Affairs, Mr. Jelili Adesiyan, has directed the Inspector of General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba to arrest and prosecute any politician who makes any inciting statement aimed at undermining the corporate existence of the nation.Speaking, yesterday, in Lagos at the launch of a book Watch the watcher: ‘A...
2015: Buhari fails to submit academic qualifications to INEC
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari, did not present his academic qualifications to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, even as he prepares for the 2015 presidential contes...
Cameroon bombs Boko Haram, kills 41
Nigeria’s neighbour, Cameroon, has launched air strikes against Boko Haram terrorists for the first time, killing no fewer than 41 Islamist militants after the large force of jihadists crossed the border and seized a military camp at Ashigashiya, the government said...
Bakassi: Refugee father uses daughter as collateral for N600,000 loan
Apart from hunger and ill health ravaging the camps of displaced Bakassi indigenes, TEMITAYO FAMUTIMI uncovers the story of a 12-year-old girl whose refugee father has pushed into servitudeIn the dusty village of Akwa Ikot Eyo Edem, Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River State, Edet Okon sat down in front of St. Mark...
FG owes 70,000 workers three - month salaries
No fewer than 70,000 civil servants in 30 Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government have yet to receive their three months’ salaries.
The Secretary-General of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, Mr. Alade Lawal, made this known just as investigations by The PUNCH revealed...
My certificates are with military, Buhari tells INEC
A former Head of State and the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2015 general elections, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has told the Independent National Electoral Commission that his academic qualifications and credentials are with the military.A visit by journalists to the headquarters...
Obasanjo, Buhari planning interim govt — FG
The Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan, on Monday, said a plot by former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) to form an interim government has been uncovered.The minister said this in Lagos at the launch of a book titled,...
2015: IBB may intervene in Jonathan/Gov Lamido face-off
A few days after venting his anger on President Goodluck Jonathan, Jigawa State governor, Dr. Sule Lamido, yesterday, travelled to Minna, Niger State, where he held a closed door meeting with former military head of state, General Ibrahim Babangida.Details of the meeting were still sketchy at press time, but a source close...
Obasanjo begged AD govs for 3rd Term — Osoba
As comments and reactions were still trailing the publication of an autobiography of former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo entitled, “My Watch” from well meaning Nigerians, former governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba faulted claims made by the former President of not nurturing a Third Term agenda, saying...
Buhari won’t probe past leaders - Oyegun
Contrary to fears in some quarters that the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, may probe past corrupt political office holders if elected into office in the next presidential election, the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has hinted that a Buhari presidency...
We didn’t rob; we only collected our dues – Suspects
The police have arrested four suspected robbers at a Lagos market who claimed they did not steal from the traders, but only came to collect their dues.Afric TV learnt that the suspects- Onyenge Osanie, Azuka Eboh, Ezelonwu Michael and Afolabi Shakiru- were nabbed by the police while they were looting some shops and robbing...
My certificates consumed by fire, Sambo tells INEC
Ahead of the 2015 general elections, Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo has told the Independent National Electoral Commission that his Bachelors and Masters degrees certificates in Architecture from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, have been consumed by fire.Sambo, who is the Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples...
Plane with 16 children, 146 others disappears
There was grief across the globe on Sunday as two separate disasters in Indonesia and Greece put the lives of 562 air and sea passengers at high risk.
The first disaster was the disappearance of a Singapore-bound AirAsia commercial jet carrying 162 people from the radar in Surabaya, Indonesia.
Just as the news...
Nigeria’s problems increasing – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday admitted that Nigeria’s problems were increasing, instead of abating.Noting that the situation would have been worse if not for the prayers of Nigerians, Jonathan said he was optimistic that God would, in the same way he tackled the problems of the Israelites, do same for Niger...
Show your anti-corruption feats, Buhari dares Jonathan
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and his running mate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), have declared war on corruption.They, therefore, called on President Goodluck Jonathan to showcase his achievements on the war against corruption in the face of allegations of...
Why Gov Lamido is moving against Jonathan
Indications emerged, weekend, that Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State had openly rejected the re-election bid of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015.Although there had been speculations in the past that Lamido was unhappy with Jonathan over the way he had been treated by the leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic...
Why Jonathan is in trouble — Gov Amaechi
Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State was recently appointed Director-General of the Buhari Campaign Organisation. At an interactive session, Amaechi among other things, reels out plans of the campaign organisation and also clears the air on knotty issues. Excerpts:
Says he didn’t fund Buhari’s campaign
IS it true you...
2015’ll be tough, says Jonathan
In clear terms, President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, previewed 2015 politically and economically and returned a grim verdict: It may be a turbulent year and there is need for Nigerians to pray.
Speaking at the Christ Apostolic Church, Area I, Durumi, Abuja where he joined other worshippers for the last Sunday service...
TB Joshua Predicted A New Tragedy
TB Joshua has predicted another plane crash which will cost a lot of lives...
During one of the live Sunday Services at the SCOAN, Prophet TB Joshua predicted another plane crash. He warned the nation of Indonesia about an upcoming disaster. In a fresh video, uploaded on YouTube on the same day as AirAsia flight with...
Mutiny: Ex General Blasts Army Tops Over Death Sentence
A retired army general, Ishola Williams, criticized the recent decision by the court martial to condemn 54 soldiers to death.
Williams said that the soldiers had the right to refuse to join counter-terrorism operation without having a proper equipment for the battle. He lamented that scores of men became victims of political...
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Employer: Wema BankOur ClientWema Bank is recruiting entry-level candidates to fill various positions across their branches nationwide.Vacancy - Graduate Trainees Location: NationwideQualification:University Degree or its equivalent (HND), with a grade not lower than Second Class Lower Division. Professional qualifications ...
Kaduna PDP senator, Zagi defects to APC
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kaduna State yesterday announced that Senator Caleb Zagi, who represented Southern Kaduna Senatorial District from 2007 to 2011 on the platform of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has formally defected to the party.
This was the second time that Zagi had left the PDP for the...
Child-bride confesses to killing husband with rat poison
A packed Kano State High Court, yesterday, heard testimony that a 14-year-old girl admitted to killing her 35-year-old husband with rat poison, and signed a police confession with a thumbprint because she cannot write.The girl, from a poor and conservative Muslim family, has been charged with murdering her husband, Umar...
APC, PDP disagree over Fayose’s stomach infrastructure programme
The All Progressives Congress, APC and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State have disagreed over the implementation of the concept of stomach infrastructure by Governor Ayo Fayose.
According to the state Publicity Secretary of APC, Taiwo Olatubosun, yesterday, the governor has turned Ekiti people to beggars...
2015: PDP lampoons Buhari, APC
Ahead of campaigns for the 2015 Presidential election, national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday lampooned the Presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), saying the opposition party has again passed through a motion and endorsed its perennial candi...
Buhari will wipe out Boko Haram, create jobs - Osinbajo
Vice-Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has stated that the Presidential candidate of the party, Gen. Muhammed Buhari will wipe out the dreaded boko haram insurgents and create jobs in the country if elected in 2015.
Prof. Osinbajo was responding to questions from some of his followers...
Bloody Monday: Bombers hit Gombe, Bauchi, kill 30
No fewer than 20 people lost their lives with 25 others sustaining various degrees of injuries in yesterday’s bomb blast at Dukku motor park in Gombe.In like manner, 10 people were killed yesterday evening in a blast that occurred at the ever-busy Central Market in Bauchi with scores sustaining serious injuries.Eyewitnesses...
SECRET DOCUMENTS: Shocking Revelations About Buhari
A Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President, Reuben Abati, published an abstract from secret documents in his Twitter, exposing the information from Wikileaks about Buhari’s 1983-84 governing years.The information is provided by the Public Library of United States Diplomacy through Wikileaks. The exposed classified...
