Day: October 25, 2017

Hollywood actor Robert Guillaume passes on at 89

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Actor Robert Guillaume, best known for his role in the TV series “Benson,” died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 89. His wife Donna Guillaume told CNN he had battled prostate cancer in recent years. “He kinda went the way everyone wishes they could, surrounded by love and in his sleep”, Guillaume said. She added that her husband really loved making music, entertaining and making people laugh. He treasured his role as Rafiki in Disney’s 1994 animated film “The Lion King,” she said. Guillaume starred as the…

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Osinbajo seeks revival of anti-corruption war

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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday declared that the anti-corruption fight in the country must take a new turn for it to succeed. Osinbajo stated this at the opening of a two-day capacity building workshop for justices and judges, organised by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in collaboration with the National Judicial Institute (NJI) in Abuja. He said that the administration was reviving the entire anti-corruption system for speedy dispensation of justice. “We are re-jigging the entire system; the Chief Justice of the Federation has laid down the…

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NEPAD boss tasks women on good parenting

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Mrs Gloria Akobundu, National Coordinator, New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), Nigeria, have urged African women to return to the basics of traditional parenting for the development of African nations. She made the call on Tuesday in Abuja during the International SHEROES Forum with the theme: “Advancing women’s roles in business leadership and governance”. According to Akobundu, the decorum in societies which has led to armed conflicts, communal clashes, underdevelopment among other man-made induced disasters can be attributed to poor parenting. She emphasised that good parenting, which is the primary…

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Maina: Fire Malami, Dambazau now – Lawyers tell Buhari

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Human rights lawyers under the aegis of Public Interest Defenders (PID), have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to remove Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) and Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazzau for their roles in the re-engagement of ex-chairman of Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdurasheed Maina. The lawyers also said the duo should be investigated and prosecuted for breach of public trust. PID in a statement by its chairman, Pelumi Olajengbesi, said “By virtue of Section 174(1) of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended), the…

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BVN: Give Nigerians abroad more time, Dabiri-Erewa urges CBN, AGF

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Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, has called for more time for Nigerians in Diaspora to obtain their Bank Verification Number (BVN). Dabiri-Erewa also urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) to put modalities and logistics in place to make it easier for Nigerians abroad to obtain it. “I hereby appeal to CBN to look into the challenges Nigerians living abroad are facing in getting their BVN done and extend the deadline for them…

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Dambazua orders Maina to submit self to EFCC

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The Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, has told the wanted former chairman of Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, to submit himself to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The minister’s directive is contained in an official correspondence sent to the EFCC by the ministry. The letter was in response to a letter written to the ministry asking that it makes Maina available for questioning. A top EFCC official told Punch that the usual procedure for inviting senior government officials was to write to the head of the ministry…

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Italy to shut down coal power stations by 2025 – Minister

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Italy will phase out coal-powered power stations by 2025, the Economic Development Minister, Carlo Calenda, said at a parliamentary committee meeting on Tuesday. “The political objective is phasing out coal by 2025,” Calenda told the joint environment and industry committees of the lower and upper houses of parliament, as quoted by the ANSA news agency. The target should be part of a National Energy Strategy that the government will publish by Nov. 10, the minister said. In a current draft version, the strategy sets 2030 as a target date. Jan…

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Biafra: How Ojukwu’s ‘lies’ caused civil war – Gowon

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Former Military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd) has disclosed how lies by late warlord, Odumegu Ojukwu after the Aburi accord led to Biafra civil war, between 1967 and 1970. Gowon made the claim while giving insight into what happened at the Aburi Conference, in Ghana, convened to resolve Nigeria’s political logjam. He said the Federal Government went to Aburi unprepared, following a disagreement which broke out between the Supreme Military Council (SMC) and the Eastern region, led by Ojukwu. Speaking on AIT’s programme “People, Politics and Power,” on…

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Republican Senator Jeff Flake blasts Donald Trump, calls him a reckless president

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A senator from Donald Trump’s Republican Party unleashed a fierce broadside Tuesday against the US leader as he announced he would not seek re-election, telling Senate colleagues he “will not be complicit” with a “reckless” presidency. Jeff Flake of Arizona has served in the Senate since 2013 and has been an outspoken critic of Trump-era politics, writing a book called “Conscience of a Conservative.” “We must stop pretending that the degradation of politics and the conduct of some in our executive branch are normal. They are not normal,” Flake, 54,…

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Delta govt confirms fresh cases of monkeypox

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The Delta state government has confirmed three reported cases of suspected monkey pox disease in the state. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Nicholas Azinge, made the disclosure Tuesday in Asaba at a media briefing, according to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN. Azinge said the suspected cases of the disease were currently under medical care at an undisclosed location in the state. “A total of three cases of suspected monkey pox disease have been reported in Delta state with no death recorded so far. “However, for now we cannot…

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