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The newly  posted commissioner of Police, Bauchi State Command, CP Zaki M.Ahmed  and his management team paid a familiarization visit to  His Excellency the Executive Governor of Bauchi state, Mohammed A. Abubakar Esq at Government House Bauchi.         The CP. was welcomed with his management team by the Governor, while senior government officials were in attendance .The CP Stressed that his policy trust center's on 1.Intelligence led policing 2.Proactive Policing 3.Human Rights based policing( HRBP)4.Civil/Democratic Policing. The CP also spoke on various proactive strategies to include visibility policing,raids of criminal hideouts, black spots,flash points. Also promising to build capacity of his personnel for enhanced policing. He further advocated community partnership policing which he said is inline with IGP Ibrahim k.Idriss mni,psc(+) core values as a panacea for synergy between the police & the general public. The CP also emphasize ...

-Total Number of People Registered:749,000 -FG to commence Training of Applicants The Federal Government social investment programme aimed at recruiting 500,000 graduates and 100,000 trainees said it has received 749,000 applications as at the close of the online portal on 31st of August. The Special Assistant to the President on Social Investment Programme, Mariam Uwais who stated this while speaking to journalists in Abuja said the N-power program received application from all the 774 Local government areas of the country with the highest applicants coming from Lagos, Oyo, Rivers and Bauchi. She said they are in the process of compiling the application and commence training of successful applicants by October adding that the training would last a period of one month before the participants are deployed to states to provide extension services. She disclosed that the participants would be provided with a training device which would be used for the extention services, addi...

President Buhari with L-R: Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, top 3 winners of Boot Camp on ICT Solutions (Emmanuel Okena of Tracology, Miss Damilola Olokesusi of Shuttlers, Alison Ukonu of Recycle Points) Chief of Saff Abba Kyari and Minister of Communication Barr. Adebayo Shittu during "Aso Villa Demo Day" (AVDD) at the Statehouse. Sep 2, 2016

President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja commended the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of social networking website, Facebook, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg for sharing his wealth of knowledge with Nigerian youths, and inspiring a new generation of entrepreneurs. Receiving the internet entrepreneur in the State House, President Buhari said the various meetings held with Nigerian youths since his arrival were most timely as the country was already exploring opportunities to spur development through entrepreneurship. ``Nigeria has always been identified as a country with great potentials for growth, especially with our youthful population, but now we are moving beyond the potentials to reality. ``I am impressed by your simplicity in sharing your knowledge and wealth with those with less income,’’ the President said. President Buhari noted that the simplicity and magnanimity of the entrepreneur, who is among the world’s richest men, had also challenged the culture of lavish wealth...

Nigeria will be one of the most attractive and easiest places of doing business in the world by 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Sunday in Nairobi, Kenya. Speaking at a plenary session on "Dialogue with the Private Sector" at the sixth Tokyo International Conference for African Development (TICAD VI), President Buhari said his administration is implementing policies and measures to create right and enabling environment for business and investors in Nigeria. Nigeria is currently ranked 169 out of 189 countries by the World Bank, according to the Bank's 2016 Ease of Doing Business report. President Buhari told the session attended by several African leaders, Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and international business executives that his administration’s vision and objective is to make Nigeria one of the top investment destinations in the world, within the shortest possible time. ‘‘We believe government has a particular responsibility to create right and att...

President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated the preparedness of the Federal Government to discuss the release of the Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram terror group since 2014, In an interview with journalists in Nairobi, Kenya at the weekend, President Buhari said the Nigerian government is ready to dialogue with bonafide leaders of the terror group who know the whereabouts of the girls. ‘‘I have made a couple of comments on the Chibok girls and it seems to me that much of it has been politicised. ‘‘What we said is that the government which I preside over is prepared to talk to bonafide leaders of Boko Haram. ‘‘If they do not want to talk to us directly, let them pick an internationally recognised Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), convince them that they are holding the girls and that they want Nigeria to release a number of Boko Haram leaders in detention, which they are supposed to know. ‘‘If they do it through the ‘modified leadership’ of Boko Haram and they talk wit...

A major breakthrough was recorded last night in Ahoada East Local Government Area in Rivers State as the leader of the dreaded Ekpeye Liberation Front,General Igbudu and five others were killed in an operation along East/West road in Ahoada East. It was gathered that they mounted a road block in Ihubu,opposite an NNPC filling station,along the East/West road for a robbery operation and a bus swooped at them that left them unconcious before the men of the JTF opened fire on them. The people of the area have been trooping in and out of the Ahoada Police Station to see their dead bodies laid on the ground. See more photos... (C) BBOreporters

New facilities were today commissioned on NAF Base Kaduna as part of the ongoing efforts to enhance the welfare of personnel. Among the newly provided facilities are 1200-bed hostel built for recruits and, quarters for airmen instructors at the Ground Training Centre (GTC). Construction works on the new blocks of accommodation started some months ago in anticipation of the recent increase of fresh intakes from about 1200 to 2500 per annum. The increase in recruit intake is aimed at providing employment opportunities for more young Nigerians who are genuinely interested in serving in the military and, to enable the NAF meet its manning requirement to adequately tackle insurgency in the North East and emerging security challenges in other parts of the country. Speaking at the commissioning ceremony, the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Mshl Sadique Abubakar stated that the projects were aimed at creating enabling working environment for personnel as a motivation to discharge their duties ...

Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Bayelsa State on Wednesday, raided the private residence of the Bayelsa State Government House Accountant, Richard Etonye in a secret operation that lasted for about two hours. The house, located along Brass Road was allegedly raided on the orders of Governor Seriake Dickson after Etonye reportedly absconded with his principal's money said to be $4.6m. The money was handed over to the accountant by the governor for safe keep just a few days before the raid on Tuesday. SaharaReporters contacted a spokesman for Mr. Dickson who said that they were not part of the raid and were not informed as to why SARS raided Mr. Etonye’s home. The spokesman said that “[Mr. Etonye] absolutely did not take any money from the Governor” and “we were told that the team was sent from the IG [Idris] from Police Force HQ but we don’t know why.” According to a security source close to Government House, Yenagoa, Governor Dickson had handed over th...

Nigeria is set to witness a major breakthrough in its economic diversification drive with the planned inauguration of the Integrated Produce City (IPC)  on August 29 in Edo State. Senior government officials, private sector leaders and foreign dignitaries are expected to lead the parade of stakeholders to Benin as the Nigeria’s first ever integrated produce city, a combination industrial park, farm settlement, and commodities exchange. Chairman and CEO of IPC, Prof. Pat Utomi in an exclusive interview with our correspondent, said that IPC, the $136 million project located 24 kilometre from the Edo State Capital, Benin, would revolutionise and redefine the operations agricultural value chain in the country. He said that Nigeria has suffered for so long from the failure to recognise the need to have a diverse economy.  “Anytime we talk about it (economic diversification) we hear this sweeping statement about commitment to restructuring the base oh the Nigerian economy ...

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu yesterday told Niger Delta Coastal State monarchs and stakeholders that there was no infrastructure in the creek to show for the $40 billion released to the Niger Delta in the last 10 years. He told the monarchs who visited him in Abuja that he (the minister) went round the creeks and found no infrastructure that reflects the money disbursed to the region through the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) or the 13 per cent derivation from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC). The traditional rulers had in their joint presentation read by Bolowei of Gbaramatu Kingdom, Chief Wellington O. Okrika,  demanded a Federal Government dialogue team. This, they said, will give them confidence in the peace moves in the Niger Delta. The group demanded the release of the 10 “innocent” school children arrested by the army on May 28 in Oporoza and others on “trumped up charges”. The monarchs demanded for th...

Four World Bank officials had been reportedly drowned at Egbe Dam in Egbe Ekiti, Gbonyin Local Government Area of Ekiti State. Egbe Dam is the biggest of the six dams in the state. Folasade Akinrinmola, the Chairman of the council, and the state police command confirmed this development to newsmen on Thursday. Akinrinmola said the incident, which occurred on Wednesday night, involved a team of seven contractors employed by the World Bank on an assessment mission to the dam. She said the team had commenced work on Tuesday night from a section of the dam and moving to the other section when the incident happened on Wednesday. She said the traditional ruler of Egbe notified her of the incident. Akinrimola said: “We immediately mobilized a rescue team and an ambulance and in the process, those wearing life jackets were rescued. “The rescued people were the ones who told us that others were in the water. “The bodies of those that had drowned were later retrieved by the loca...

It was celebration galore on Monday, August 15, 2016 when the President of the Dangote Group and Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote led other dignitaries to flag off Nigeria’s first full-fledged technology bank, SunTrust Bank. SunTrust Bank is the first regional bank to receive a new license by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) since 2001 and the first full-fledged financial technology bank in Nigeria. The Bank is the first commercial bank that runs minimal branches and focuses on electronic channels by offering telephone, mobile and internet banking services. According to Mr. Dangote who chaired the opening ceremony at the bank’s headquarters in Lagos, Fintech Bank is a welcome development in this era of cashless economy. He emphasized that SunTrust Bank will help the country harness its potential in the digital world. He explained further that technology-driven platform would distinguish the bank and make it the most cost-effective bank in the country with fewer personnel ...

Enormous sums of money spent on the oil-producing Niger Delta region by the Federal Government between 2009 and 2015 delivered very meagre impact on the lives of the people of the area. According to the report of the Ministerial Technical Audit Committee on Contracts Awarded by the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, exclusively obtained by SaharaReporters, the Federal Government spent over N700billion on 427 contracts and achieved a measly 8 percent impact, indicating that it was money not well spent.  Eighteen percent of the contracts were stalled, with only 12 percent completed. A hefty 70 percent remains under construction. “The technical auditing exercise of the projects revealed that the intervention expected in the Niger Delta only commenced at the level of contract awards and practically did not address the yearnings and needs of the region, as clearly captured in the mandate of the Niger Delta Affairs Ministry,” the report said. The beneficiary states are Abia, Akwa...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a brother to Governor Ben Ayade of Cross Rivers State over alleged N2.4billion contract scam. Sources at the EFCC told PREMIUM TIMES that Francis Ayade was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the scam. Mr. Ayade, managing director of Leophina Nigeria Limited and Hally Brown International Limited, was fingered in alleged shady deals involving diversion of public funds into his companies’ accounts. “Specifically, four different allocations from the Federation Accounts were alleged to have been diverted into Hally Brown International Limited’s account owned by him,” an official told PREMIUM TIMES. Investigations by EFCC operatives showed that Hally Brown International Limited was awarded a road construction contract to the tune of N2.4billion in 2011. To finance the contract, Mr. Ayade allegedly took a loan of N350,000,000 (Three Hundred and Fifty Million Naira only) from First Bank Plc, on behalf of Cross Rivers Rur...

Operatives of the Operation Delta Safe made a ground-breaking raid of a militant camp on Wednesday during which they arrested three suspected members of the Niger Delta Avengers, who were part of the group that attacked 343 troops located at Nembe. The Avengers had attacked the troops on August 8, 2016, and killed four soldiers. However, the ODS operatives led by Rear Admiral Joseph Okojie, acting on a tip-off, were able to track them to their camp at Epebu Creek in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area in Bayelsa. THISDAY exclusively gathered that the ODS had carried out a search and rescue operation based on a tip-off from well-placed citizens in the area. Acting on that, the three suspects were arrested at Ogboinbiri, and preliminary interrogation of them revealed that they were part of the gang that attacked and killed some soldiers. It was based on other subsequent information ferreted out of the suspects that the taskforce was able to carry out a raid on Epebu Creeks. ...

The Niger Delta Avengers has announced a conditional ceasefire and agreed to hold talks with the  federal government following months of attacks on key oil and gas facilities that have hammered the economy. In a message posted on the Niger Delta Avengers’ (NDA) website late on Saturday, the group said it would “observe a cessation of hostilities,” so long as the country’s ruling party stops what it called harassment of innocent civilians. It said it would support efforts to negotiate with “the federal government of Nigeria, representatives from the home countries of all multinational oil corporations and neutral international mediators.” There have been unconfirmed reports for several weeks of talks underway with Abuja, and the government of President Muhammadu Buhari has invited rebels to discussions several times. But the NDA never publicly acknowledged that it was engaged in negotiations, or that it would support efforts by community figures from the area. The NDA s...

The Niger Delta Avengers, the group responsible for renewed insurgency in Nigeria’s oil rich region, has expressed readiness for a peace deal with the federal government. The group, in a statement posted on its website late Saturday, said its disposition to dialogue and peace deal with government was conditional. Among its condition was multi-side engagement of relevant actors, restructuring Nigeria, and a cessation of military offensive in the region. “We are going to support any collective/negotiation team emerging from the Chief (Dr.) Papa Edwin Kiagbodo Clark Niger Delta elders and genuine stakeholders conference to engage with the federal government of Nigeria, representatives from the home countries of all multinational Oil Corporations and neutral international mediators,” the group said. Such negotiation should be “focused on achieving the short, medium and long term frameworks and objectives to de-escalating conflicts in the Niger Delta,” the group said in the statemen...

The Nigerian Police authority has declared that the indicted Speaker of House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara enjoys no immunity under the law and as such will be prosecuted over the 2016 budget padding allegation labeled against him and three others if found culpable. Fresh report suggests the Police are on course to interact with Speaker Yakubu Dogara of the House of Representatives on the alleged padding of the 2016 budget after resumption of the National Assembly from its current recess. Also lined up for the proposed interaction are Deputy Speaker Yusuff Lasun, Chief Whip Ado Doguwa, and Minority Leader Leo Ogor. Saddled with the assignment is the Police Special Investigative Panel which, according to sources has had a session with House Leader Femi Gbajabiamila. Gbajabiamila who had been out of the country said on Friday that he was offering himself to the law enforcement agencies for probe over the budget padding allegation. Although his name has not featured among...

Nigerian-born Pastor Sunday Adelaja is the founder of Embassy of God Church, Kiev, Ukraine, the largest Pentecostal church in Europe.  He spoke with Sunday Oguntola on the wrong concepts that churches in Nigeria are promoting. Excerpts:   During your last visit to Nigeria, you were emphatic that the church was the major problem with the nation’s stunted growth. Do you still maintain that stance? I wish to state categorically that I am not talking about any particular ministry. There is nothing personal at all. I am not against any man of God or any denomination. I’m just pointing out what I believe is the truth about the situation in our country. I wish to appreciate all the men of God that have labored in our country. I think they did their best. I believe they taught us what they know. But we still have to admit that things were wrong and these things have to be corrected. What are some of these things? In my opinion, the leadership and the structure of the churc...