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The vice presidential candidate of the All progressives Congress, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo Vice-Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Prof. Yemi Sinbad The running mate to the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Tuesday, said the poor state of the nation’s economy has plunged many Nigerians into poverty. He added that there must be a change of government at the federal level to liberate Nigerians from poverty. The former Attorney General of Lagos State spoke at a town hall meeting with artisans, tradesmen and farmers, organised by the Lagos State Government in Ikeja. He said only those who love poverty and would want to remain perpetually in hunger that would vote for President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015. Osinbajo said, “No one is ignorant of all that is happening in this country. No one likes hunger and poverty, but people are hungry. In 2015, only those who love to continue to be hungry that would prefer that the government in p...

English Premier League club West Bromwich Albion on Monday announced they had sacked manager Alan Irvine following their defeat to Stoke on Sunday, their seventh in nine matches. "Irvine leaves the club with immediate effect and has been placed on gardening leave," said a statement on the club's official website.  It explained that the decision had been taken with "regret but necessity" and that they expect to name Irvine's replacement by the weekend.  The club lie 16th in the league, just one point above the bottom three. Assistant head coach Rob Kelly will take charge of the team for their New Year's Day game at West Ham.  Albion's technical director Terry Burton said: "We appointed Alan in the summer convinced that we had taken on one of the foremost coaches in the UK and nothing that has happened since then has altered our view.  "The individual progress of our players such as Craig Dawson and Saido Berahino are testament to that.  ...

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Items resembling an emergency slide, plane door and other objects were spotted during a aerial search on Tuesday for the missing AirAsia plane, according to information from the flight. "We spotted about 10 big objects and many more small white-coloured objects which we could not photograph," Indonesian air force official Agus Dwi Putranto told a news conference. Dozens of ships and planes earlier today joined a widening international effort now covering huge swaths of Indonesian sea and land. The United States announced it was sending the USS Sampson destroyer, joining at least 30 ships, 15 aircraft and seven helicopters in the search for the jet carrying 162 people, said Indonesia's Search and Rescue Agency chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo. A Chinese frigate was also on the way, while Singapore said it was sending two underwater beacon detectors to try to detect pings from the plane's all-important cockpit voice and flight data recorders. Malaysia, Australia and Thaila...

Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, is confident that crude prices will rebound with global economic growth boosting demand. Prices will recover from a slump due to a glut created by a lack of cooperation from producers outside the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Saudi Arabia Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi said at a conference in Abu Dhabi. Al-Naimi ended his speech showing the confidence as he jumped off the stage and smiled. Brent oil tumbled into a bear market this year as the U.S. pumped the most crude in more than three decades and economic growth slowed from China to Germany. The increase in global crude demand was about 700,000 barrels a day this year, below the projected 1.2 million barrels a day, Al-Naimi said. “The oil market will recover,” Al-Naimi said. “Fossil fuel will remain the main source of energy for decades to come.” Oil surged from a five-year low at the end of last week after Al-Naimi said the slump in prices was temporary. West Texa...

Chelsea boss  Jose Mourinho  is unlikely to face punishment over his comments about referee Anthony Taylor. Taylor booked Cesc Fabregas for simulation during Chelsea’s game against Southampton after an incident Mourinho feels should have been a penalty. “I think it is a scandal because it is not a small penalty - it is a penalty like Big Ben - He made a big mistake like I make, like the players make sometimes,”  said the boss . Didier Drogba has sent out a warning to Manchester City in the  Premier League  title race. The striker says ‘the game is on’ as Chelsea look to defend their lead heading into the New Year. “I think it's going to be tough - I think now we start again a new championship. I think the game is on,”  said the forward . Tomas Kalas  is being tipped to move to Queens Park Rangers on loan, with reports suggesting he’ll return early from a spell with Cologne. He’s being tipped to have his future sorted out over the nex...

The nation’s currency, the naira, on Monday lost N1.92k to the US dollar at the inter-bank market as there was no foreign exchange supply from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and oil majors. This is coming after the two-day festive holidays, marking the Christmas celebration. After trading on Monday, the local currency closed at N183.10k/$ compared to N181.18k/$ on Wednesday last week, according to the data obtained from Financial Markets Dealers Quotations (FMDQ). The naira depreciation was attributed to increased demand for the greenback by the end users of foreign currency. The usual twice weekly Retail Dutch Auction System (RDAS) could not hold on Monday as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had closed forex auction for the year. Meanwhile, the local currency on Monday gained N0.50k/$ at the parallel market as it closed at N191.00k/$ as against N191.50k/$. On Wednesday, last week, before the holiday naira lost N4.50k to the US dollar at the parallel market as the official window r...

Despite several assurances, the Federal Government has failed to meet its target of 4,000 megawatts of electricity supply because of the high spate of gas pipeline vandalisation, it says. The implication is that Nigeria will be unable to take full advantage of the economic development which its gas resources promise, until government finds a solution to pipeline vandalisation. Small and large businesses would continue to bear the high cost of purchasing and operating power generators which then make their goods and services often uncompetitive in the global and local markets. Government says even though it succeeded in the last few days in hitting 4,200 megawwats, it is not sure if this can be sustained because of the constant vandalisation of the major pipelines which supply gas to the power companies. It further says that the level of vandilisat...

Contrary to the announcement made by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) which picked Buruji Kashamu as senatorial candidate for Ogun East as against Gbenga Daniel, ex-governor of the state, the former governor has kicked, saying such a political arrangement would take PDP nowhere. Daniel, who was apparently reacting to alleged endorsement of Buruji Kashamu, chairman, Mobilisation and Organisation of the PDP in South West by over 700 delegates from nine local government areas under Ogun East senatorial district against the former governor, declared that the political arrangement that produced Kashamu instead of him would further affect the fortunes of the party in the state in 2015. The former governor, in a statement issued in Abeokuta by Ayo Giwa, his media officer on Monday, submitted that the primaries for which the delegates cited that it produced Buruji Kashamu as the party senatorial candidate for Ogun East did not exist because the National Working Committee had earlier vo...

EverythingBuhari: Blame Buhari for Lagos Traffic-FG : The Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory, Jumoke Akinjide, says the people of Lagos State should blame the presidential cand...

EverythingBuhari: Blame Buhari for Lagos Traffic-FG : The Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory, Jumoke Akinjide, says the people of Lagos State should blame the presidential cand...

No fewer than 70,000 civil servants in 30 Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government have yet to receive their three months’ salaries. The Secretary-General of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, Mr. Alade Lawal, made this known   just as investigations by  The PUNCH  revealed that states like Osun, Oyo, Benue and Plateau are owing their workers between three and four months’ salaries. Prominent among the ministries listed by Lawal during an interview with one of our correspondents in Abuja on Monday are Education, Works, Labour and Productivity, Mines and Power. He said, “About eight MDAs have been owing workers their salaries from   October. The number rose to 11 in November and in December, hit 30, including departments and agencies.” Asked what was responsible for the increase in the number of MDAs indebted to their workers, Lawal said some government officials involved in salary payments were engaged in a g...

Odigie-Oyegun THE All Progressives Congress on Monday said that only corrupt Nigerians and persons opposed to change would be against the election of its presidential flag bearer, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, as the nation’s President in 2015. The National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, stated this while speaking with journalists in Benin, against the backdrop of speculation that the former military Head of State would probe past political office holders if he emerged victorious in the 2015 presidential election. Odigie-Oyegun stressed that the party was interested in the future of the country, rather than digging into the past. He said, “The only people I can think of, who will fear the Buhari Presidency are those who do not want change; they are those who want to continue with business as usual; they are those who want to continue to profit from the level of corruption in the society. We will have no apologies for people like that. “But it is clear that ...

Buhari A former Head of State and the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2015 general elections, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has told the Independent National Electoral Commission that his academic qualifications and credentials are with the military. A visit by journalists to the headquarters of the commission on Monday in Abuja revealed that Buhari’s academic qualifications were not on display, unlike those of other Presidential candidates, including President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party. But in an affidavit, which he deposed to at a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, he explained that all his certificates were with the Secretary, Military Board. The affidavit dated November 24, 2014, was stamped and received by INEC on December 18 2014. “I am the above-named person and deponent to this affidavit therein. All my academic qualifications documents as filled in my presidential form, President APC/001/2015, a...

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The Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan, on Monday, said a plot by former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) to form an interim government has been uncovered. The minister said this in Lagos at the launch of a book titled, ‘Watch the Watcher,’ written by an activist, Yinka Odumakin, in reaction to Obasanjo’s controversial book, ‘My Watch’. Adesiyan said he had already directed the Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba; and the Department of State Service to arrest anybody that made inflammatory statements ahead of the 2015 elections. He said, “Many of those in the APC are disgruntled PDP members who are no longer relevant and because they could not have their way, they have started to heat up the polity. They have said they will form a parallel government if they lose. “I have already told the IG and the DSS to arrest anybody making such mutinous and inflammatory statements.” ...

Ahead of the 2015 general elections, Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo has told the Independent National Electoral Commission that his Bachelors and Masters degrees certificates in Architecture from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, have been consumed by fire. Sambo, who is the Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, made the declaration in the documents he filed with INEC and displayed on the commission’s office in Abuja although the details of the fire that consumed the certificates were not given. Sambo’s papers were received and stamped in INEC headquarters between December 10 and 18, 2014. The VP’s declaration was validated by two letters from the ABU, a copy of which was obtained by The PUNCH on Sunday. The first letter, signed by one Alhassan Garba for the institution’s registrar under the title, “To Whom it may Concern: Mohammed Namani Sambo,” read, “I certify that the above-named person having completed an approved course of study and passed the p...

A leader of the Peoples Democratic Party in Bayelsa State, Chief Jude Tabai, has said the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, is a big threat to President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election in 2015. Tabai, who is also a youth leader in the Niger Delta, expressed the fear in an interview with our correspondent on Saturday. He said, “By and large, the PDP should see the opposition party as a challenge, no matter who they project as their candidate owing to their desperation to get power. Even though we know that they have nothing to offer to Nigerians but the PDP should be wary of their desperation, because the APC is a propagandist party. “The PDP should use the remaining one month to the elections to sensitise Nigerians to the antics of the opposition to clinch power at all costs. “If anybody says Buhari is not a threat, that person is deceiving President Goodluck Jonathan. This is because Buhari and his party (the APC) are ready to kill and m...

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has chosen a trained teacher and an accountant, Alhaja Safurat Olayinka Abdulkarim, to run with Mr. Jimi Agbaje, its Governorship Candidate in the 2015 race for Lagos State. A staunch Muslim, who had been Running Mate to Late Engineer Funso Williams (PDP Governorship Candidate for Lagos in 2003), Safurat is the wife of a retired Air Force officer and holds an MBA. In a press statement yesterday (Saturday) by Agbaje’s Media Director, FELIX OBOAGWINA, Mrs. Abdulkarim said she would complement her principal, and assist in ushering into Lagos a refreshing atmosphere, devoid of state-brewed intimidation and human rights abuses. It is a second coming for Safurat Abdulkarim, who in 2003 had been Running Mate to the Late Engineer Funsho Williams, a PDP Lagos Governorship Candidate, mysteriously assassinated later in 2006. “I feel humbled about being chosen for this noble responsibility,” she said of her pairing with the PDP Governorship Candidate. “Mr. J...

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and his vice presidential candidate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), have declared war on corruption. They, therefore, called on President Goodluck Jonathan to declare his anti corruption gains on the war against corruption especially as his administration faces complicity in the case of a missing $20bn from the nation's till. Buhari said this in a statement by the Director, Communications, Buhari Campaign Organisations, Mr. Dele Alake, yesterday. He said, “In the spirit of the war against corruption, we demand the release of the audit report of the missing $20bn. “Clearly unable to oppose us with an equally clean and unassailable ticket, we can understand why our opponents are running from pillar to post digging graves in search of rumours in the impossible hope of misinforming unsuspecting voters and spinning a web of blackmail and deceit. “In this electoral contest of vision and mor...

James Franco and Seth Rogen, the lead stars of The Interview, also rose to the rescue of the controversial movie that was nearly cancelled but received a revival courtesy of a surprise Christmas Day release mainly through online streaming. A few minutes ago, the leading men gave it another boost with a streaming live-tweeting interview with Franco and Rogen in another promotional bid to popularise the movie positively. The movie's production led to the hacking of Sony's computers by groups that American intelligence traced to North Korea. This situation led to the release of damaging and confidential information about the internal workings of the corporation and its stars on one hand, and state of affairs within the multinational itself. One email exchange revealed how Angelina Jolie was dubbed merely a "celebrity" who is "minimally talented". Another detailed a racist convo among Sony's top management where a list of recent movies having Afri...

He admitted to getting into a relationship with famous Khloe Kardashian, the reality star, in order to cash in on her popularity to getting famous in his musical career. That gambit seems to be yielding dividends for French Montana, an American rap artiste. He has lined up a musical collaboration with Queen Bey, as Beyonce is fondly called, for a remix of 7/11 which is one of the tracks from her last album. Granted, he might have been working on getting this deal for a while but surely, the increased exposure that is certain to greet the remix is due to French's involvement, prior or ongoing, with Khloe. Well, we are waiting to see how it plays out.

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Militant Islamists have carried out a wave of bombings in Nigeria since 2009 Continue reading the main story Boko Haram What now? Escape from Boko Haram Battle to free the girls 'I saw my parents killed' At least 20 people have been killed in a bombing at a bus station in Gombe city in north-eastern Nigeria, emergency workers say. Body parts lay scattered across the scene after the explosion near a bus filling up with passengers, they said. Militant Islamist group Boko Haram is waging an insurgency in the area. Meanwhile, a video purportedly released by the group shows dozens of people being executed at a school dormitory after they were made to lay face down. There is no independent confirmation that Boko Haram produced the video. It is unclear where or when it was shot. But the video bears Boko Haram's insignia and shows gun-wielding men chanting "Allah is great" and speaking in the Kanuri language associated with the group's fight...