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Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has declared that no student was abducted by the dreaded Boko Haram sect from Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State. Over 200 pupils of the school were reportedly abducted in 2014 by the terror group. But Fayose said the report was politically motivated to influence public opinion against the Goodluck Jonathan administration ahead of the 2015 general elections.

  Today March 31, 2016, marks one year after a former minister Godsday Orubebe who was representing then President Goodluck Jonathan almost disrupted the 2015 presidential election results collation and declaration of winner by then INEC chairman, Prof Jega. But he failed! More photos...

   The Federal Government is to send some members of the Chibok community to neighbouring Cameroon, to verify whether a female suicide bomber arrested on Friday, is one of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls. This information is contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Saturday by Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari. The statement said already the Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Alhassan, and the Nigerian high commissioner in Cameroon had swung into action and were receiving a lot of cooperation from the Cameroonian authorities. “It has been confirmed that one of two girls is claiming to be among the girls stolen from Chibok on April 14, last year, although doubts have creeped into the claim following new information from Cameroon that the two girls are aged about 10 years,’’ it stated. According to the statement, one of the two is also believed to be heavily drugged and therefore not in full control of her sense...

   The 2016 budget passed last week by the National Assembly may not be signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari any time soon if feelers from Aso Rock, the seat of power, is anything to go by. The N6.07 trillion 2016 budget passed by the Senate and House of Representatives was returned to the Executive without the details, hence the president will await the details before giving assent. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, who made this known in an interview, said the tradition is that the details would have accompanied the bill returned to the Executive, but this was not so in the present circumstance. While acknowledging that there was an urgency to see the budget signed into law, Mr. Shehu maintained that President Buhari cannot sign the bill without first seeing the details, in case there are areas that may require clarifications from the Legislature. “Yes, the National Assembly has passed the budget and sent ...

  He speaks like somebody who has guts. To him, no argument can dent the "rightness" of his position on the Presidency of Muhammadu Buhari. Yet, he tells you he is not confrontational. He claims he has prioritized governance with a view to putting the welfare of the people first. Perhaps, this is the reason he was re-elected after staying out of power for eight years. In this interview in Abuja, Ayo Fayose, Ekiti State governor, says Buhari is not technically equipped to better the lot of Nigerians. He also speaks on the retreat by the National Economic Council (NEC). Excerpts:

The Elgeyo Marakwet governor is said to be wasting tax-payers’ money on young University girls after allegedly getting down with them. The governor’s car was snapped at UON’s ladies’ hostel just to prove his wayward lifestyle. One of the students who spoke to The Africa News Post further alleged that the governor was visiting a lady identified as Anita Epale,who is well known in the campus for defending women’s rights. Anita is contesting for a seat in the up-coming SONU elections and has been spoiling other students with money during campaigns.She has been cruising in an expensive BMW X6 and this has left other students wondering who finances her lavish lifestyle.Can this be true?  

   A young man built this in Bida, Niger State..good one

   The beautiful Actors Guild President visited Creek market in Port Harcourt ,where she interacted with the market women by selling tomatoes