PDP bashes Buhari for giving Nigerians gloomy festive seasons

The PDP has said under president Buhari's regime 
,Nigeria is experiencing the gloomiest festive season.In a statement on Tuesday, by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, the PDP said,

“rather than evolving economic initiatives to improve the lot of the citizens, this administration has, in the last seven months churned out policies that stifle productivity in the formal and informal sectors, thereby inflicting hardship on them. This has resulted in the semi-destruction of the long-standing extended family system in our society.

Social Media Bill: Activists march on National Assembly

In protest of the Social media bill  “Frivolous Petitions (Prohibitions, Etc.) Bill, 2015″ sponsored by Senator Bala Ibn Na’Allah, the Deputy Senate Leader, Nigerian social media activists on Tuesday, stormed the National Assembly, Abuja, for a rally tagged #NoToSocialMediaBill.

Now is the best time to remove subsidy -World Bank tells Buhari

The right time for President Muhammadu Buhari to remove fuel subsidy if he is desirous of doing so is now, the World Bank has said.

The World Bank’s Lead Economist, Nigeria country office, John Litwack, said Tuesday at the launch of the new edition of Nigeria Economic Report that if the government really meant to take a decision on the issue of fuel subsidy removal, the best time to act would be now that global crude oil price was at its lowest level.

December deadline to crush BH is sacrosanct -CDS

The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin, yesterday, vowed that the December deadline to end terrorism is Sacrosanct.

Olonisakin said this when he visited Maiduguri, Borno State, to inspect the ongoing Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Insurgency Operations against Boko Haram terrorists.

6.3 milllion Nigerian children die yearly from vaccine preventable diseases

Dr. Irene Isibor, the National Surveillance Officer of World Health Organisation, on Friday said most children in Nigeria were still dying from vaccine-preventable diseases due to people’s wrong attitude.

Bayelsa guber: SA, 3 other PDP members injured in attack

The Special Adviser to the Bayelsa State Governor on Inter-Party Matters, Hon. Austin Adigio, and three other members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Okpoama and Eweama communities of Brass Local Government Area of the state were on Friday macheted in a bloody attack ahead of the election.

Twin bomb blast in Borno today

5 people have been confirmed dead in a twin bomb blast that rocked Kimba village in Biu local government area and Sabon gari district both in Borno state today. The bomb blast occurred between the hours of 8am and 12 noon today.


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Cut travels and wastages, not workers' salaries -Fayose tells fellow Governors

Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has dissociated himself from calls by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum that workers’ salaries be reduced or mass retrenchment done to lighten some burden of the states.

Speaking on Thursday in Abuja, Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum and governor of Zamfara state Abubakar Yari told newsmen that the current low prices of oil was making the payment of N18, 000 minimum wage impossible for state governments. He said it would either be reviewed downward or workers would face sack.

However, Fayose has a better solution. According to the governor, instead of reducing salaries and sacking workers, the state governors could reduce the affluence they enjoy in office and put an end to wastages.

N106 Billion error in MTN fine letter 'emanated from Presidency'

The Nigerian government on Friday admitted responsibility for an embarrassing N106 billion discrepancy in fines imposed on telecoms firm, MTN.

The Nigerian Communications Commission had on Thursday asked the South African operator to pay 35 per cent less N1.04 trillion ($5.2 billion) fine earlier charged the company for failing to disconnect unregistered subscribers.

Jihadist plot to kill Pope Francis thwarted

 

Four people have been arrested over alleged threats made by jihadists to kill Pope Franics.
The arrests, made in Italy and Kosovo, were conducted by anti-terror police who had been monitory a "highly dangerous group" on social media.All four were Kosovan nationals said to have links to Syria. Police said threats had been made warning Pope Francis "would be the last Pope",