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Finally, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu fulfills bail conditions and may walk home anytime from now . Enyinnaya Abaribe (Senator), Immanu-El Shalom (Jewish High Priest) & Tochukwu Uchendu (Abuja-based Chartered Accountant) signed the bail bonds. This fulfills the primary bail terms which includes three sureties who must be a high-ranking member of the society, a Jewish high priest and a top ranking Abuja resident respectively. Each guarantor also paid N100 million each as part of the bail conditions spelt out by Justice Bunts Nyako while granting him bail Wednesday, 26 April.

THE Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday approved a comprehensive reform of Nigeria's tertiary education system, scrapping the award of the Higher National Diploma (HND) by the nation's polytechnics. In effect, the award of the HND will be limited to only the students currently admitted for the programmes. Also, all the programmes currently being run by the polytechnics, which are not technology-based, and which are about 70 per cent, will be scrapped. Under the new rule, the polytechnics will now become campuses of the proximate universities with the Vice Chancellors of those universities appointing provosts for the polytechnics, subject to the ratification of the Universities Councils. The polytechnics will now be limited to award of the National Diploma (ND) while those desirous of further education will be awarded the Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) by the proximate university. To kick-start the new policy, the nation's two most prominent polytechnics - Y...

A National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has alleged that Senate President Bukola Saraki and the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, worked against the plan to make him President Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate in the 2015 presidential election. Tinubu stated that Saraki, El-Rufai and other stalwarts of the Peoples Democratic Party, who defected to the APC in the build-up to the 2015 elections, instigated Buhari and some APC chieftains not to pick him as the would-be Vice-President. The APC leader’s comments were contained in a book titled ‘Against the Run of Play,’ written by the Chairman, Editorial Board of ThisDay, Olusegun Adeniyi. Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos State, said his opponents persuaded Buhari to look for another running mate on the grounds that Christians in the North would not embrace a Muslim-Muslim ticket, and as such, could jeopardise the party’s victory. The former governor said the a...

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar says Nigeria is currently at a crossroads as poverty, unemployment, inflation, infant mortality and other social vices are on the increase. He, therefore, called on Nigerians to unite in the demand for true federalism. Atiku said this while delivering his speech at the formal public presentation of the Daily Stream newspaper in Abuja on Thursday. He said, “A huge pall of pessimism hangs over a section of the citizenry, and the ranks of those who harbour real doubt about the future of the country swell by the day. “The country is truly at a crossroads, and things are made worse by the cocktail of economic, social and political problems which we have had to contend with, and which add to the abysmally low estimation of our country even by its own citizens.” The former Vice-President recalled that life was better in the First Republic because each region was allowed to grow at its own pace while the Federal Government was weaker....

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered an investigation into the allegations of violations of law and due process made against the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr David Babachir Lawal, in the award of contracts under the Presidential Initiative on the North East (PINE). The President has also directed the suspension of the SGF from office pending the outcome of the investigations. In a related development, the President has ordered a full scale investigation into the discovery of large amounts of foreign and local currencies by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in a residential apartment at Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos, over which the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) has made a claim. Femi Adesina, special adviser to the President,  media and publicity, said in a State House press release that t he investigation is also to enquire into the circumstances in which the NIA came into possession of the funds, how and by whose or whic...

Nigerian journalists are facing fresh threat reporting conflict in the country.  Following a string of ethnic  conflicts  in some parts of the country, journalists reporting the events are being threatened with death and arson, the Journalists for Democratic Rights, (JODER), a media rights group said yesterday.  JODER in a release on Tuesday signed by its Assistant Programme Office, Mr. Akinwale Kasali said free speech which is one of the principles of democracy is facing renewed threat from masked individuals probably backed by some organized interests. The group said it recorded another major threat against media institutions and peaceful coexistence on March 24, 2017  while monitoring media coverage of conflict in some selected radio and TV stations. The group said “We call on the Nigerian Police to investigate what appeared as an organised threat against peace and some media institutions for wrongly perception of media role in the coverag...

President Muhammadu Buhari just resumed work today. He submitted a letter to the National Assembly notifying the legislature of this development. According to a press release by Femi Adesina, the special adviser to the President, media and publicity, the president resumed official duties this morning after his vacation, "in compliance with Section 145 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended)," adding, "The President has formally transmitted  letters to the Senate and the House of Representatives, intimating the National Assembly 'that I have resumed my functions as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria with effect from Monday, March 13, 2017, after my vacation.' "  This development cancels rife speculations that the president is yet unable to resume official duties but would return to UK where he has been receiving treatment over the weekend .  

President Muhammadu Buhari just resumed work today. He submitted a letter to the National Assembly notifying the legislature of this development. According to a press release by Femi Adesina, the special adviser to the President, media and publicity, the president resumed official duties this morning after his vacation, "in compliance with Section 145 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended)," adding, "The President has formally transmitted  letters to the Senate and the House of Representatives, intimating the National Assembly 'that I have resumed my functions as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria with effect from Monday, March 13, 2017, after my vacation.' "  This development cancels rife speculations that the president is yet unable to resume official duties but would return to UK where he has been receiving treatment over the weekend .  

The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Monday presided over a meeting of the Presidential Task Force on Rice and Wheat as part of the Federal Government’s efforts aimed at enhancing food security. Those who attended the meeting included four state governors — Abubakar Bagudu (Kebbi); Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano); Badaru Abubakar (Jigawa); and Dave Umahi (Ebonyi). The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun; Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh; and the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, also attended. Bagudu later told State House correspondents that the meeting reviewed the government’s wheat programme and what could be done to increase production. He said, “This is the meeting of the Presidential Task Force on Rice and Wheat and we reviewed the wheat programme and what we can do more to support states in order to increase production of wheat. “We also want to ensure that our farmers who have responded to the call are supported in terms of g...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said results of the series of medical checkups he carried out in the cause of his medical vacation had shown that he needed longer period of rest. He said this necessitated his staying back in London, United Kingdom longer than initially planned. The President said this in a four-paragraph made available to journalists by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina. Adesina did not disclose how long the President’s “longer period of rest” will take. He however thanked Nigerians for their prayers and good wishes while assuring them that there is no cause for worry. The statement read, “President Muhammadu Buhari thanks millions of Nigerians who have been sending good wishes and praying for his health and well-being in mosques and churches throughout the country.   “The President is immensely grateful for the prayers, show of love and concern.   “President Buhari wishes to reassu...

Just as Tonto, her name means warrior, the beautiful Nollywood actress channels being a warrior queen in latest pictures she released to celebrate her son's first birthday anniversary. The profoundness of the symbology is underscored by the rocky relationship she currently is embroiled in with her husband. Tonto Dikeh moved out of her husband's house recently following allegations of infidelity and domestic violence by Oladunni Churchill, her hubby. The two former lovebirds have been  battling it out on social media.

President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has said President Muhammadu Buhari, who he met with at the Abuja House in London on Wednesday night, is healthy. According to him, there is no cause for alarm. Saraki, in a statement he personally signed, which was sent to  The PUNCH  through the Media Office of the Senate President, said Buhari was “himself” when he met with the President. The statement read, “Delighted to see that President Buhari is doing well; was cheerful and in good spirits. “The President I saw today is healthy, witty and himself. “The President’s absence and imminent return shows that there is no vacuum in government and our system of democracy is working with all organs of government fulfilling their mandate. And let me use the time-tested cliché, there is no cause for alarm!” Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, had travelled to the United Kingdom on Wednesday to meet with Buhar...