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Ambassador Maitama Sule-led Northern Elders Forum (NEF) yesterday hit back at President Goodluck Jonathan for describing some elder statesmen as touts. Addressing the press at his Zaria farm yesterday, the spokesman of NEF, Professor Ango Abdullahi said, even some sitting leaders were worse than pick-pockets in motor parks, adding that, President Jonathan shouldn’t have made such abusive statement on the nation’s statesmen, who fought for the unity of the country. Professor Abdullahi, who is also a member of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) also tongue-lashed the Tanko Yakasai-led Northern Elders Council (NEC), saying the group lacked principle and couldnot speak for the generality of Nigerians. The former Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) vice chancellor and Special Adviser on Agriculture during President Obasanjo’s administration said, NEF was more focused and committed to the political well-being of Northerners and Nigerians in general. According to him: “President Jon...

Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State yesterday disbursed N200 million grant to six rural hospitals in the state. The disbursement brought the total number of such grants to rural mission hospitals since 2008 to N2.2 billion. The donation was aimed at providing hospitals with modern, diagnostic equipment and promoting training for health workers and mid-level manpower. The grant was also aimed at promoting maternal and child health, increasing immunisation coverage, providing free maternal healthcare and to enable the hospitals in the recruitment of skilled\expert human resource for health (doctor, nurses and other paramedics). While disbursing the grants to the benefiting hospitals, Governor Elechi said the hospitals would include Mater Misericord Hospital Afikpo (N18million), Presbyterian Joint Hospital Uburu (N14.1million), Rural Improvement Mission Hospital Ikwo (N17.6million), St. Vincent Hospital Ndubia (N17.6million), Mile 4 Hospital Abakaliki (N15.1million) and...

A group of lawyers, under the aegis of Lawyers for Change (Lawyers4Change), has declared its intention to campaign for the candidacy of Mohammadu Buhari and Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the presidential and vice presidential candidates of the All Progressive Congress (APC). At the inauguration of the group yesterday in Lagos, its National Coordinator, Adesina Ogunlana, said they took the decision because of their conviction that the ticket represents the best option for the salvation of the country from alleged ‘misrule of incompetent and selfish leaders.’ Ogunlana, who is a former first vice chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ikeja branch, said the time had come for the country to put forward its best foot. “Our nation’s problems are gigantic. Let’s put round pegs in round holes. Let’s put our best foot forward. Don’t let us bury our talents and consign our gifted ones to the background. “Our group is highly interested in and committed to the betterment of ...

Right now, the style team of Sunday Sun is seated gazing at the crystal ball. We are trying hard to look into the future, and in some hours now, it will be 2015! We examined what was on the runway at the different fashion parades, but time will determine which style will catch your fancy and become trendy. From what we have seen, we know for sure that the athletic culture will be influencing the trend and our crystal ball is telling us you will have the choice of styles ranging from iconic to cool, plain, elegant, wearable, retro, and charming come year 2015.Have a wonder­ful New Year! Colours Adorn yourself in the essential shades of 2015. The colours we will be doing next year are blue, yellow and pale pink. A soothingly sweet shade of blueberry milk refreshes your wardrobe with a summery appeal in many collections on the runway. The banana shade of yellow will be emerging as an essential new shade, offer­ing a luminous, optimistic note to casual styling. A soft shad...

Nigeria and members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) battling weaker export prospects, an impending rise in global interest rates, and fragile financial market sentiment have been urged to rebuild their fiscal buffers to support economic activity in case of a sustained growth slowdown. The World Bank Grou p in its latest edition of Global Economic Prospects released on Tuesday, advised developing economies facing lower oil prices that the development offers them a timely opportunity to rebuild their buffers. It acknowledged that countries with elevated domestic debt or inflation and monetary policy options to deal with a potential slowdown are constrained, stressing that in the foreseeable future, such countries may need to employ fiscal stimulus measures to support growth. But many developing countries have less fiscal space now than they did prior to 2008, having used fiscal stimulus then even as private debt levels have risen substantially...

In line with the privatisation guidelines, NATCOM Consortium, the preferred bidder for Nigeria Telecommunications Plc (NITEL) and its mobile arm, Nigerian Mobile Telecommunication (MTEL), has paid $75,756,300 (N12,727,058,400) being 30 per cent of the $252,521,000 bid price for the acquisition of the assets and business units of the enterprises. It explained in a statement that the move was in line with the offer letter by the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) to the preferred bidder, which mandates NATCOM to make an initial deposit of 30 per cent of the bid price not later than 14 days on receipt of the offer letter. With the payment of the 30 per cent, NATCOM is expected to pay the balance of 70 per cent of the bid price within 90 days. “It is therefore imperative to inform creditors that disbursements to them will be considered only after full payment has been received,” BPE said. The National Council on Privatisation (NCP), at its meeting of February 27, 2012,...

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     From TIMOTHY OLANREWAJU, Maiduguri Hundreds of corpses of slain residents of border town of Baga, north of Borno State, still littered the streets and nearby bushes of the restive community barely a week after Boko Haram attacked the area. The District Head, Alhaji Baba Abba Hassan, said yesterday in Maiduguri that it was difficult to ascertain the actual figure of those killed, but stated that hundreds of corpses still lay on the streets and bushes of the fishing town located along the Lake Chad Basin area. Hassan also denied the report of a second attack on the town by Boko Haram and casualty figure of 2,000 people killed as reported by some international media, as outrageous. He insisted that hundreds of people were killed in last Saturday’s attack on Baga, but insisted the 2,000 figure given was unrealistic. He said there is no fresh attack on Baga as reported. The district head said many women and children were the victims, adding that the ins...

A member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has berated the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over what he called deviation from an issue-based election campaigns to calling of names. Mr Tunde Bank-Anthony on Friday condemned the director of President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign, Fani Kayode, for insisting that President Buhari was part of the issues that the party would focus on during the campaign. “I believe this should be an issue based election. The focus of what President Jonathan said would be emphasised on has been deviated from. “I can’t sit down here bashing the President as Fani kayode did,” he said. Mr Bank-Anthony said the APC had maintained an issue based campaign, listing the areas that the party had focused on as education, Nigerian economy and the level of corruption and impunity in the society. “The main issues are what are we going to do to transform the society for better. “One of the things that are uppermost in the nation today is corruption...

All Progressives Congress (APC) has said President Goodluck Jonathan is only shedding crocodile tears with his lamentation over the fact that the country has become more divided along religious and ethnic lines today than at anytime in its history. ‘’Mr. President, there is no point being sanctimonious about an issue for which you bear the most responsibility. You are the most divisive leader in the history of Nigeria, having ceaselessly exploited the country’s fault lines for political gains,’’ the party said in a statement issued in Abuja yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. It said President Jonathan was the first leader to have turned the house of worship to a political arena, using the pulpit to make political and policy statements and making a show of what should ordinarily be a personal religious affair. The APC said the president’s belated lamentation was aimed at pulling the wool over the eyes of Nigerians with a view to extrac...

President Goodluck Jonathan has told his opponent in the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari, not to be carried away by the purported endorsement by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), saying he has the backing of Niger Deltans to return to office. His Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati in a statement, said the president was amused by the vituperations against him following MEND’s endorsement of Buhari, describing it as mischievous, baseless and deliberately styled to denigrate the good works of the president. He said it was regrettable that rather than show remorse for the terrorist acts against his fatherland for which he was serving a term of imprisonment in South Africa, Henry Okah, had continued to pursue a pointless personal vendetta against President Jonathan who had been advancing and protecting the interests of the people of the Niger Delta which Okah and his group threa...

Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram have attacked the northeastern town of Baga for the second time in a week, leaving bodies littering the streets, according to an official. Unconfirmed estimates by victims’ relatives put the death toll from violence in and around Baga on Thursday and on January 3rd as high as 2,000, said Musa Bukar, chairman of local government for the Kukawa district, which includes Baga. The dead are “littered on the streets and surrounding bushes”, said Mr Bukar, speaking from a camp in the city of Maiduguri that is sheltering people who have fled the attacks. On January 3rd, Boko Haram captured the headquarters of a multinational military force in Baga set up to combat the insurgency. In October, Nigerian authorities said they had agreed to a ceasefire with the group, which has killed thousands in its attempts to impose Islamic law on the country. Since then, violence in the the north has continued unabated. On Wednesday a man claimin...

APC Presidential aspirant Gen . Buhari was this morning conferred the title of Ogbuagu1 (The Lion Killer) of Aba by Enyi of Aba in Abia state. He is currently in Abia state campaigning.

On the morning of January 7th, model and MBGN contestant Esther Kanu suddenly slumped and died later  at the Garki General hospital Abuja where she was rushed to. Her family just released a statement today saying that the beautiful young woman, born on October 22, 1990, died of Cardiac Arrest, according to the doctor who treated her.  How do you die of cardiac arrest at 24? She slumped around 2.30am at her family home in Abuja on Wednesday without any prior illness. This is scary and too sad! May her soul rest in peace,Amen  

A bloody sleazebag in the guise of a pastor has been arrested by the Nigerian police for allegedly fingering a female member of his church to test her virginity. The criminal identified as 34 year old Adekunle Kayode,works for Evangelistic Ministry,Olorunsogo,Abeokuta,Ogun State capital. The victim, a 20 year old lady, had told her father that the pastor fingered her on several occasions during her menstrual period.Oluwasegun planned to charm her to rape her with the knowledge of the pastor for ritual purpose,but she was saved by God.Some charms were also recovered from the church by the police. An alleged accomplice of Kayode was also arrested, he was identified as Oluwasegun onatade. The matter has been trnsferred to SCID, Eleweran for further investigations SOURCE:PUNCH

     Pastor Obi Ofoedu, founder and General Overseer of Faith Alive Christian Centre located at 43 Dada Olowu Street, Abule Taylor, in Abule Egba, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, has been remanded in prison for allegedly giving false prophecy to a member of his church.          The pastor landed in trouble during the church service after he claimed that he received a divine vision that his church member, Mrs Favour Okafor, would face calamity in her place of work and she can only avert the impending doom if she comes to the church for special prayers.       Mrs. Okafor said she disregarded the prophecy and challenged the pastor for giving her a false prophecy. She told the pastor that he did not receive the vision from God and nothing bad would happen to her.        This infuriated the pastor who allegedly said that she would be inflicted with stroke and illnesses for doubting ...

        A 27-man gang on Friday abducted a pastor, Mr. Godson Akubiro, and six of his children from their Adeosun Street residence, Koya Estate, Igbo Olomu, Ikorodu, Lagos State.  Akubiro is said to be the founder of Mountain of Breakthrough Church in the area. The incident was said to have occurred about 1.30am.       Neighbours, who requested anonymity, told PUNCH Metro that the gunmen arrived at  Akubiro residence in three jeeps and a Toyota Tundra vehicle. The  number plates of the vehicles were said to have been covered. The gunmen, who wore army camouflage, had allegedly gained entrance into the house with the aid of an iron cutter. It was learnt that since the abduction, no one had heard from Akubiro and his six children.       The Community Developmen Association  Chairman, Mr. Yinka Obasan, said he was alerted about the development about 2am.   ...

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