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  Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has warned President Muhammadu Buhari to learn from history and stop treating killer herdsmen with kid gloves. Soyinka also described incessant attacks by killer herdsmen, in many parts of the country, as a declaration of war on Nigeria. The Nobel laureate made this known in a statement yesterday. Soyinka specifically warned Buhari not to fall into the same trap former President Goodluck Jonathan fell into with Boko Haram insurgency when the sect kidnapped 267 girls on April 14, 2014. “We have been here before – now, ‘before’ is back with a vengeance. “President Goodluck Jonathan refused to accept that marauders had carried off the nation’s daughters; President Muhammadu Buhari and his government – including his Inspector-General of Police – in near identical denial, appear to believe that killer herdsmen who strike again and again at will from one corner of the nation to the other, are merely hot-tempered citizens whose scraps occ...

  A Fulani herder, Muhammed Haruna, has allegedly died from injuries he sustained after being stoned by a female farmer in Delta State. It was gathered that the herder and his colleague drove their cattle into the yet-to-be indentified woman’s farm in the Upper Agbarho area of Ughelli. The incident, Southern City News learnt occurred last week. It was gathered that the woman and the herders were engaged in a stone-throwing match after a heated argument

  INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu The major political parties contesting for the Anambra Central Senatorial seat have expressed mixed feelings towards the announcement of a date for the re-run election amidst controversial court judgements. The election has been delayed by legal battles since the Court of Appeal sacked Uche Ekwunife of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, as winner of the seat on December 7, 2015. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has fixed January 13 for the conduct of the re-run election to fill the vacant seat. INEC’s decision followed a judgement by the Appeal Court which on November 21, 2017 ordered the commission to conduct a re-run election within 90 days. Three weeks later, another judgement emerged from the Federal High Court ordering INEC to issue the Certificate of Return to Obiora Okonkwo of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the validly elected senator for the district. Mr. Okonkwo had contested the PDP ticket with M...

  Idris Miliki Abdul The current administration of Alhaji Yahaya Bello was inaugurated on the 27th of January 2016 and less than one month of its inauguration, it embarked on Screening and Verification of the actual numbers of civil servants and their wage bill. An exercise that lasted for not less than 14 months, culminated in various crisis ranging from non-payment of salaries of civil servants and pensioners in Kogi State, Including the local government workers. Despite the colossal amount ranging into Billions of Naira from statutory allocation, Bailout and Paris Club refund received by the current administration including but not limited to Local government funds meant for the administration of the Local councils, the state has continuously been in perpetual crisis due to lack of payment of workers and pensioners as at when due. More worrisome and alarming, on Friday 5th January 2018, at the Presidential villa Abuja, the Governor pronounced to the whole world while ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced the 2019 general elections timetable and schedule of activities. According to the timetable, Presidential and National Assembly primaries will begin on August 18th 2018 while campaigns will commence on November 18, 2018. Campaigns for the governorship and state assembly are scheduled to commence on December the 1, 2018. Presidential and National Assembly elections will hold on February 16th, 2019, while the governorship, state assembly and area council elections in the federal capital territory will take place on March 2nd, 2019. See the full timetable below

Kogi State Commissioner for Education, Mrs Rosemary Osikoya has bemoaned poor attitudes of teachers in public schools in the state as responsible for the dwindling fortune of the sector. She made the lamentation, Thursday, during an inspection tour of schools to monitor the resumption of primary and secondary schools pupils for the new term in selected schools within Lokoja metropolis. Mrs. Osikoya, who expressed disappointment over the way teachers in the schools she monitored treated the issue of their return to classes, expressed shock at some of the negative things she discovered. The Commissioner who wondered why some school head teachers could be careless with the issue of record keeping about the schools they head, said she was surprised that some of them could not even maintain the academic records of their students, lamenting that she was let down by what she met on the ground. She said some teachers could not even prepare for the classes they were supposed to teach ...

A socio-cultural group under the aegies of Kabba Unity Forum has called on the Obadofin of Oweland, Oba Michael Yusuf to thread softly over his proposed indigenisation of the Fulani herdsmen into Kabba native land saying his action is capable of generating unending crises in the area. The Monarch had on Sunday inaugurated a 13- man committee comprising of some chiefs in the community to implement the indigenization of the herdsmen into Kabba native land. Oba Yusuf claimed the committee was inaugurated in compliance with the directive given by the state governor, Alh Yahaya Bello and directed the committee to give out indigenization forms to the chairman of Miyetti Allah, Ibrahim Seidu for on ward distribution to his members. But in a statement signed by the chairman of the group, Chief Ojo Malomo and made available to newsmen in Lokoja on Monday, the group said the governor did not at any time ordered that Fulani herdsmen be indigenized to the various communities in the state. ...

FG Will Not Condone Further Attacks By Herdsmen, Says Dambazau   The Federal Government has assured Nigerians in all parts of the country that it will not condone further attacks by herdsmen. Minister of Interior, Lieutenant General Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd), gave the assurance on Monday at a meeting with some state governors in Abuja, the nation’s capital. He told the governors that President Muhammadu Buhari remains committed to ensuring peace in every part of the country. State governors present include Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna), Abubakar Bello (Niger), Samuel Ortom (Benue), Darius Ishaku (Taraba), and Mohammad Jibrilla (Adamawa) among others. Also in attendance were the Inspector-General of Police, Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp, representative of the Department of State Services and Commissioners of Police from the five states who were later joined by the Nasarawa State governor, Tanko Al-Makura. The Minister of Agricultu...

The Founder of the Divine Hand of God Prophetic Ministries International, Abuja, Prophet Emmanuel Omale, has called for serious prayers for some political office holders including President Muhammadu Buhari and his wife, Aisha Buhari, former President, in order to avert food poisoning, death and terminal diseases.   Buhari and Atiku  Prophet Omale who stated this in the prophetic declaration for 2018, issued in Abuja, specifically solicited for divine intervention against resurgence of insurgency and death of a South-West State Governor, among others. He specifically revealed notable activities that would hearald Nigeria’s political landscape ahead of the 2019 general elections, among others. While describing the incoming yeas as full of expectation, hope and fear many Nigerian citizens, the Clery assured true worshippers of God of fulfilment in all ramifications. Below are the details of the prooehtic declaration. Excerpts: “2018 is a very pregnant year, full of ex...

Prof. Oluwarotimi Akinola, President SOGON So we can mentor them and we know what it is, we need to improve the statistics. So the plan is actually to avail them of those services through those interventions. Major problems in health sector One of the major problems in the sector is the lack of political will to drive policies. For instance, Nigeria has not devoted 5 percent budget to health. The Abuja declaration which was done in Nigeria for African nations actually specified 15 percent of the budget so there is paucity of fund but even with the available resources you still find out, for example policies are often not well orchestrated towards addressing the issue of maternal and new-born health. As specialists, we are custodians of women’s health. What do we want to do? We feel that we need to broaden our partnership particularly with the media in terms of advocacy, we can’t get to the people, the people do not know, so if we can increase awareness of health issues we ...

This was a big year for tech. Twitter users finally broke free of their 140-character chains, while Tesla made good on its electric car for the people in the Model 3. The Wannacry ransomware attack became one of the most disruptive cyberattacks in history, and three commissioners on the FCC lead by Chairman Ajit Pai (at least temporarily) repealed Obama-era net neutrality rules. Good news or not, it was a busy year in tech. 2018 looks no different, and we're already watching some important tech trends that we expect to make waves in the new year. But first, let's see how we did in predicting what we would be talking about in 2017.

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HIGHLIGHTS Samsung has sent out media invites for the launch Galaxy A8+ (2018) will be an Amazon-exclusive in India The Galaxy A8 (2018) may also be unveiled at the event Samsung Galaxy A8+ (2018) India launch is round the corner, what with Amazon setting up a dedicated page for the handset a day ago. Now, Samsung has sent invites for an event it will host next week in India, which the company is calling “the year’s first big innovation.” This invite pretty much confirms the fact the Galaxy A8+ (2018) launch event will be held on Wednesday, January 10 in New Delhi. The handset’s USPs are the Infinity Display design, water- and dust-resistant body, and up to 6GB RAM. Going by the dedicated micro-site, the upcoming model will be an Amazon-exclusive in the country. The upcoming Samsung Galaxy A8+ (2018) has a 6-inch full-HD+ (1080x2220 pixel) Super AMOLED display and the flagship Infinity Display design with 18.5:9 aspect ratio seen in last year’s flagship smartphones. It is powered...

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