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Accommodate your countrymen, Buhari begs Benue leaders Buhari and Benue leaders discussed the recent crisis in the state President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday appealed to the government and people of Benue State to “in the name of God” accommodate their countrymen. He urged them to exercise restraint following the recent attacks on some communities and assured them that all the perpetrators of violence in the state will be made to face the wrath of the law. According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the President made the call while receiving a delegation of political leaders, traditional rulers and elders of the state led by Governor Samuel Ortom at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Buhari was quoted as promising that all those involved in the conflict that culminated in the loss of lives would not escape justice, including any illegally armed militia in the state. The President commiserated with all the victims of ...

Dye’s Open Letter – “Dear I Go Dye” naijaloaded.com.ng Dec 8, 2017 1:00 PM Some days ago, Nigerian comedian I Go Dye wrote an open letter via Instagram to former vice-president of Nigeria and a 2019 presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubaka, telling him not to use sentimental empathy on the youths to forward his political ambitions. This was due to the fact that when Atiku resigned form APC two weeks ago, he mentioned that the ruling party APC had forgotten about the Nigerian youths. Atiku Abubakar has now replied him here’s what he wrote ; Dear I Go Dye, I read your post on Instagram. It was hard to miss it because it was on every major news website. I would like to say that you were mostly right. The questions you raised in your post are similar to the ones I have been asked by other young people on social media, so I am replying this not just to you as a person, but to all young Nigerians who have asked similar questions. Firstly, you are right. The Nigerian yo...

Court unfreezes Patience Jonathan’s 16 accounts The court unfreezes Patience Jonathan’s accounts as the 90 days ultimatum for EFCC to inspect the bank accounts had lapsed Six months after temporary freezing, The  Federal High Court  sitting in  Abuja  has ordered that the 16 frozen bank accounts owned by former President,  Goodluck Jonathan ’s wife, Patience Jonathan be unfrozen. The trial judge, Binta Nyako, gave the directive on Tuesday – having frozen the accounts since May 30. Patience’ accounts were frozen as a result of a suit filed by the  Economic and Financial Crimes Commission  (EFCC). The commission was given 90 days to carry out its investigation on the said accounts. Seven of the sad accounts are in Diamond Bank Plc, Five are with Skye Bank Plc, and the rest four accounts are with Union Bank Plc, First Bank Plc, Ecobank and Zenith Bank Plc. However, Justice Nyako reversed the order on grounds of an application filed by Mi...

More Nigerians repatriated from Libya. No fewer than 144 Nigerians have returned to Nigeria from  Libya  through a chartered Buraq Airlines aircraft on Tuesday as some government agencies received them at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at about 6:45 pm. From Naija News , it was  gathered that they were provided aid back home by the International Organisation for Migration, (IOM), and the European Union (EU). The Lagos State Governor’s wife Bolanle Ambode, who represented the wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, was present at the airport to receive them. The South West Zonal Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency, Suleiman Yakubu, said the returnees were 97 men, 39 women, two children and six infants. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, also present at the airport, commended the IOM for facilitating their return. She, however, Nigerians should be stopped from...

Buhari reveals why he almost ran away from Nigeria in 2016  President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that he once considered running away from Nigeria in the  early days of his administration. Buhari said he considered running away from Nigeria due to the parlous state of the economy that he inherited from the immediate past administration. Speaking in Cote d’Ivoire, Buhari said the situation was so bad that he considered abdicating not just the office but thought of fleeing the country. He said, “When I came, what I found out is terrible. It is absolutely terribly. “We are lucky in Nigeria that we have been able to survive 2016. Honestly, I told some people close to me that I was thinking of which country to run to if things got out of hand. “Between 1999 and 2014, I have said it several times in Nigeria, Nigeria had never got so much revenue like it did at that time. But then, when we came, the price of oil went down to $28 per barrel from an...

Corps member, lover quarantined for monkey pox in Benue Benue State Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr. Cecilia Ojabo, has said that a 20-year-old corp member (names withheld) has been quarantined for exhibiting symptoms of monkey pox. The commissioner who spoke with our correspondent on the update of the suspected victim of monkey pox discovered in Gboko early November said a corp member who was the victim’s lover also showed similar symptoms that led to his being quarantined. She explained that the result of the blood samples of the Gboko victim of monkey pox was received a few days ago and tested positive to other viral infections. While giving details of the possible area the victim contacted the monkey pox from, the commissioner said the victim’s lover, who was a driver from Lagos, had visited and slept with the lady before she showed the symptoms. The commissioner further said that efforts to get the said lover driver apprehended were rebuff...

Return to PDP, Atiku begs defectors  Atiku addressing party members at the national headquarters of Peoples Democratic Party in Abuja. Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has asked politicians who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to other parties to return. He said there “is no other political party” in the country apart from the PDP. Atiku spoke in Abuja on Tuesday when he paid a courtesy call on the national leadership of the party at its national secretariat in Abuja. The former Vice-President had resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress about a week ago without joining any other political party. But on Sunday, he announced that he had returned to the PDP, which he left in 2014 with others to form the APC. While leaving the PDP then, he had said that the APC would be his “last bus stop”, vowing never to return to the former ruling party. Accompanied by his loyalists and praise signers,  Atiku wh...