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Politics  House of Reps :Dogara’s Faction Concedes House Leader to Gbajabiamila’s Faction Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email Share on gmail Share on pinterest_share Share on favorites Share on reddit More Sharing The All Progressives Congress, APC may have resolved the house of representatives crisis as members of the House loyal to Speaker Yakubu Dogara have agreed to concede the position of House Leader to the group loyal to Femi Gbajabiamila. 08/08/2015 The All Progressives Congress, APC may have resolved the house of representatives crisis as members of the House loyal to Speaker Yakubu Dogara have agreed to concede the position of House Leader to the group loyal to Femi Gbajabiamila. According to PREMIUM TIMES, the concession follows a meeting, which held Tuesday evening between Mr. Dogara and some members of the House, with the immediate past Speaker and current governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal in Abuja. 

Bailout: Workers, others warn govs against wasteful spending   ADVERTISEMENT Workers from across the country have welcomed the news of the approval by President Muhammadu Buhari of a special bailout package for the three tiers of government to settle outstanding salary obligations. However, the workers and other analysts have warned government officials, especially state governors, against spending the money on frivolous things instead of paying civil servants and public service employees. Presidency sources had disclosed on Monday that Buhari had approved a comprehensive relief package worth N713.7bn to pay federal workers and bail out cash-strapped states, many of which had been unable to pay their employees. The package includes the sharing of $1.6bn dividend and $500m tax by the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Limited paid between the federal and state governments. Besides, the Central Bank of Nigeria is to set up a special in...

July 07, 2015 TRAGEDY: 20 Men & Women, 25 Cows Killed in Kogi Accident No fewer than 20 persons were killed on Monday in an early morning crash around Irepeni, along the ever busy Abuja-Lokoja-Okene highway. About 25 cows were also killed in the unfortunate incident. The accident was caused by a road block mounted by armed robbers along Irepeni axis of the highway. The robbers were said to have fled the scene afterwards. An eyewitness said a luxury bus with number plates KRD 799 LC, which was heading to Abuja from Lagos, suddenly ran into the road block mounted by armed robbers. As the bus was trying to avoid the blockade, a truck, with number plates KTN 711 YZ, loaded with cows, reportedly rammed into it, killing several people on the spot. Vanguard was told by eyewitness that the impact of the accident caused the truck to separate from the trailer and compressed the front section of the bus with passengers and driver inside the wreckage. He said scor...

July 08, 2015 SCARY: Bus With Passengers Inside Falls Into Lagoon This scary accident happened on the Ijebu-Ore highway, as a speeding passenger bus plunged into a lagoon. Passengers sustained injuries but the good news is that no life was lost. Lucky escape!

APC hails Buhari for ending workers’ mystery • President Buhari The All Progressives Congress (APC) has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari for coming to the aid of the long-suffering Nigerian workers with a multi-billion-naira package. The party aid the aid  will not only ensure that all arrears of salaries owed by many states across the country are immediately paid, but will also make it easier for the states to meet their monthly salary obligations henceforth. In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the APC said it was particularly delighted that the President has shown that he is truly the father of the nation by eschewing partisanship in approving the intervention fund for all the states, irrespective of which parties they belong to. ”We say this because when states were financially handicapped during the tenure of the last federal government, opposition states were hung out to ...

 <!-- Begin BidVertiser code --> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.1" SRC="http://bdv.bidvertiser.com/BidVertiser.dbm?pid=677044%26bid=1692090" type="text/javascript"></SCRIPT> <!-- End BidVertiser code --> July 07, 2015 See the Bad Guys who Robbed Ikorodu, plus their possessions As fresh facts begin to emerge about the Ikorodu banks robbery operation where N80m was reportedly carted away a fortnight ago, one of the suspects has revealed that they planned the entire operation at a meeting that lasted just about 30 minutes. It was also discovered that 12 members of the gang were recruited from the Niger Delta region. This is just as the four suspects arrested in connection with the operation, which lasted close to two hours, have confessed that their gang was responsible for similar operations: At Ijede road three weeks before that of Ipakodo also in Ikorodu and Lekki where five persons, including three policemen, w...

Very Hairy Nigerian Woman, Queen Okafor Brags About Having 100 Suitors Per Day [PHOTO] FRIDAY OLOKOR writes about Queen Okafor, popularly known as Nigerian Queen of hairs In Africa, traditional beliefs cannot be wished away, even though it is generally believed that change is constant. Some tribes in Nigeria view women with excessive hair as a taboo. But this belief does not strike a chord in Queen Okafor, a native of Nnobi in Idemili South Local Government Area, Anambra State. Seeing her for the first time evokes mixed feelings about her gender. This is mainly because of the hairs which adorn her breasts, chest, face and other parts of her body. This special feature stands her out in public and wherever she goes. For some of her fans, Queen, a graduate of Environmental Health Science, is the most hairy woman in Nigeria, although no competent source has verified the claim. Little wonder she describes herself as “Nigerian Queen of hairs.” In an interview with S...