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Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi has sacked his Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Mr Arome Adoji and approved the appointment of 16 new aides. A statement issued in Lokoja on Wednesday by Secretary to the State Government, Mrs Folashade Ayoade, confirmed the removal of Adoji but did not give reasons for the action. Ayoade said that Dr Paul Ugbede Ebije had been appointed by the governor to replace the sacked commissioner. According to the statement, Mr Aliyu Salami has also been appointed as the new chairman of the Kogi State Internal Revenue Service. Salami, is replacing the former chairman, Alhaji Yakubu Oseni, who is now the Kogi Central senatorial candidate of the of All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2019 election. Chief Gbenga Asagun and the state’s former Head of Service, Dr Moses Atakpa, were also appointed to serve as chairmen of Elders Advisory Council for Kogi West and East senatorial districts respectively among others, the statement said. Other aides appoint...

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday preside over a `Special’ Federal Executive Council meeting to deliberate solely on 2019 draft budget proposal. Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, revealed this when he briefed State House correspondents at the end of the Council’s meeting. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the FEC meeting was presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday. Adesina stated that the Friday’s Special FEC meeting would endorse and approve the 2019 draft budget for onward submission to the National Assembly for its approval. NAN reports that on Oct. 18, Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udoma, at the consultative forum on the medium term expenditure framework (MTEF) and fiscal strategy paper (FSP) 2019 to 2021, said the Federal Government plans to submit a leaner 2019 budget to the National Assembly before the end of November. In spite of...

Buhari bids Governors Yahaya Bello, Ugwuanyi and Sani Bello bye. Beside Yahaya Bello is the NSA Babagana Monguno[/caption] President Muhammadu Buhari has departed from Poland to Nigeria, his personal photographer, Sunday Aghaeze said. The president’s plane departed the military base in Balice-Krakow, near the International Airport for Abuja this morning. President Buhari left Nigeria at the weekend to attend the UN Climate Change Conference COP24.

The Federal Government has withdrawn the recent threat to activate the ‘no work no pay policy’ against striking university teachers. This was disclosed by the National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, in an exclusive chat with Vanguard Media. Ogunyemi also said that the negotiation meeting between ASUU and the Federal Government would continue on Monday, stressing that what the union was doing was to rescue the education sector from imminent collapse and to ensure that the children of the poor get access to quality and affordable education. The ASUU boss also said that last Friday’s meeting between the two parties did not yield much results. He said:   “Well, we have confirmed that they have withdrawn that threat (no work no pay). So it appears the threat is not there for now. “But even if the threat is there, we are prepared for that because for our members, no sacrifice is too much to salvage Nigeria’s education...

On 28/11/2018 at about 15:20hrs, the Katsina State police Command succeeded in busting a notorious syndicate of thieves, that specializes in breaking bank customers’ vehicles and steal their money.  Nemesis caught up with the suspects when they trailed one Umar A. Maigoro, aged 32yrs, of Kofar Kaura Layout, Katsina, who withdrew some money from a commercial bank along IBB way, Katsina. The complainant being a victim of similar incident became wary and suspicious when he discovered two motorcyclists were on his trail.   He then alerted policemen on duty at Federal Medical Center where the suspects were waylaid and arrested while in the act of breaking and stealing from the vehicle.  The following members of the syndicate were arrested: Shu’aibu Isah, alias ‘BABA’, ‘m’, aged 32yrs of Hayin Danmani Kaduna state. Abdulrazaq Musa, ‘m’, aged 30yrs of Hayin Dogo, Zaria, Kaduna state. Nasiru Musa, ‘m’, aged 27yrs of Dan Magaji Quarters, Zaria, Kaduna state. O...