APC leader denies rift with Tinubu

The Chairman, United Muslims Council, Lagos State and state leader of the All Progressives Congress, Mufutau Hamzat, has denied reports that there is a rift between him and a national leader of the party and former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu.
Speaking at his residence in Lagos on Friday, Hamzat said it was untrue that he was planning to mobilise Islamic clerics and Muslims to protest against Tinubu’s alleged imposition of a former Accountant-General of the state, Akinwunmi Ambode, as the next governor of the state.

Build Up To Brasil 2014

As Nigerian football fans await  the final release of the Super Eagles list for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, former Nigerian International, Baldwin Bazuaye, has affirmed that players like Vincent Enyeama, Osaze Odemwingie, Emmanuel Emenike, Mikel Obi and Ikechukwu Uche will be Keshi’s biggest assets at the competition.

Former NAFDAC Boss Prof. Dora Akunyili’s Health Worsens, To Be Flown Abroad

The former Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control and ex-Minister of Information, Dora Akunyili, was to be flown abroad for medical treatment on Saturday.

Akunyili, a delegate at the ongoing National Conference had said she was recovering from a life-threatening ailment.

Lets Unit Against Boko Haram Insurgency---- IBB Charges Muslims

Piqued by the activities of the dreaded Boko Haram sect in the country, a former military head of state, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd) has called on Nigerian Muslims to rise up against the continued blackmail of the religion of Islam in the land.
“Islam enjoins you to live peacefully with fellow human beings. Allah says there is no compulsion in religion, so this alone is okay for us. Therefore, anybody who will come and smear our name, all Muslims should kick against that. Muslims should also do everything possible to stop this continued blackmail against the religion of Islam. We must prepare to fight it and ensure that we become successful,” he said.

Osun 2014: PDP is a poisoned cup of tea —Oyatomi, APC spokesman

Barrister Kunle Oyatomi is the Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy for the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State. In this interview, Oyatomi accuses the PDP of plans to cause  chaos ahead of the August 9 governorship election  in the state. Excerpts:
kunle-oyatomiYour party, the APC, has consistently accused the opposition PDP of alleged plans to cause chaos and a state of anarchy in the state. How true is this because the PDP has denied this?
Osun PDP is a poisoned cup of tea. That leadership is notorious. If the Vanguard cares, we suggest it does a comprehensive investigation of the antecedents of that leadership which has been absolutely rejected by the original stakeholders of the PDP in Osun.

Fashola to Lagosians: Reject messages of fear

Governor Babatunde Fashola has charged Lagos State residents to resolve not to be voluntary purveyors of messages of fear that can cause panic.
The governor, who spoke in an interview with newsmen at the end of the 11thExecutive Legislative Parley held at the Golden Tulip Hotel, Festac, added that residents must resolve that any message likely to cause panic must not be forwarded to other people but security agencies so that the link through which panic can spread will be broken.

“How the oil was lost by Niger Delta governors”

“For every folly of their princes, the Greeks feel the lash.” Horace, 65-8 BC.
Soon, for the current folly of their governors, Niger Deltans might feel lashes of hunger and deprivation – if care is not taken. This is not a partisan matter. Governors of APC, Labour Party and PDP are implicated.
I pray that, one day, indigenes of the oil producing Niger Delta states will not open their newspapers, or go online, to read an article with the heading above. Collectively and individually, the governors of the oil producing states in the Niger Delta are, deliberately, or inadvertently, working to give back all the gains which former Governor Victor Attah single-handedly made by fighting for Resource Control during his tenure of office. It was Attah who made it possible for thirteen per cent derivation, without recourse to onshore/offshore dichotomy, to be applied.

TRAGEDY: Road Safety Official chases 2 siblings on Tricycle To Death

Tragedy struck on Friday at the Swali suburb of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital when a Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) patrol van, allegedly pursuing a tricycle, popularly known as ‘Keke NAPEP’, caused a crash that  led to the death of two pupils.
The Keke driver and another victim, it was learnt, are receiving treatment at the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa.

Boko Haram attacks Should end in 3 months – Northern govs

*US may deploy drones to rescue Chibok girls
*Obama family ‘outraged’
*UNSC to sanction sect
*Jonathan begs Nigerians
By Henry Umoru and Daudu Olatunji
“Boko Haram should be eliminated at the maximum of three months”.

Interpol Wants To Join In The Chibok Girls Search

The President of the International Criminal Police Organisation, Mireille Ballestrazzi, has assured President Goodluck Jonathan and the Nigerian people that the organisation would track down and free the over 200 girls abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Borno State, wherever they may be.
President Jonathan, who disclosed this on Saturday, said he received the commitment when he spoke with Ballestrazzi of the French National Police.