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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J ‘There was serious exchange of gun shots between d DSS, policemen and Govt assassins. DSS I thank u for saving my life after God’ said Senator Dino Melaye on his twitter handle. No fewer than five persons were reported to have been shot at at the gate of Kogi State polytechnic, Lokoja where Senator Dino Melaye was holding a protest against the state government. //storify.com/Adekunle2/dino-escaped-another-assassination-in-lokoja/embed?border=false //storify.com/Adekunle2/dino-escaped-another-assassination-in-lokoja.js?border=false [ View the story “Dino escaped another assassination in lokoja” on Storify ] The post Just escaped another assassination in Lokoja – Dino Melaye appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2s2WiJx via Blogger http://ift.tt/2sUdkti

http://ift.tt/2reGUwx Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, Federal Public Complaints Commissioner of the Federation, overseeing Benue state has written to President Muhammadu Buhari, accusing Gov Samuel Ortom of “executive recklessness” and privatisation of the state. The 10-page letter dated May 16th titled ” Whistleblowing: Stagnation of Benue State” was addressed to Gov Ortom and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Makurdi. Copies were also sent to all the anti-graft agencies in the country. Tsav in the letter accused Gov Ortom of “corruptive nepotism and executive recklessness” by placing his family business, Oracle Business Limited above the state. He said this represents a conflict of interest. “On 12th July, 2015, your brother who is the CEO, Oracle Business Ltd, Mr. Michael Ortom wrote a letter congratulating you on your electoral victory as Governor of Benue state. “In the same letter he presented a proposal for the supply of thi...

http://ift.tt/2rOLCzK US President Donald Trump makes his way to board Air Force One before departing from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on June 9, 2017. Trump is heading to his Bedminister, New Jersey, golf club to spend the weekend. MANDEL NGAN / AFP US President Donald Trump on Sunday accused James Comey of cowardice by leaking accounts of his meetings with the president, days after the ex-FBI director testified that Trump sought to derail the Russian probe. “I believe the James Comey leaks will be far more prevalent than anyone ever thought possible,” Trump wrote in an early morning tweet. “Totally illegal? Very ‘cowardly!’” Sacked FBI chief Comey delivered his bombshell allegations at a Senate hearing Thursday, saying in his sworn testimony that he had asked a “friend” identified as a Columbia University law professor to release a memo of his conversations with the president to the press. Comey said he had hoped releasing the information via the media would prompt...

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Alhaji Saidu Isa, Pro-Chancellor, Kwara State University (KWASU), has said that the university has assumed the status of a debtor institution following its recent financial constraints. Isa made the statement on Saturday in Malete, Ilorin, during the 5th convocation ceremony of the university. He said that the university had in the last two years, depended on its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) to pay staff salaries and offset some recurrent expenditure. The Pro-Chancellor, who is also the Chairman of the university`s council, appealed to the state government to revert to status quo by giving monthly subvention to the university to augment its IGR. ”This is because our IGR has been overstretched beyond capacity and it is now difficult to pay salaries. ”The management, having found no alternative, has resorted to going cap-in-hand to borrow from banks in other to meet some obligations,’’ he said. Isa disclosed that the loans so far taken by management was ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said the unemployment rate in the country rose from 13.9 per cent in the 3rd quarter to 14.2 per cent in the 4th quarter of 2016. The NBS made this known in the “Unemployment/Under-employment Report for 4th Quarter of 2016’’ made available on the bureau’s website on Tuesday in Abuja. The report said that the period under review showed that population, unemployed was 27.12 million in 3rd quarter, compared to 28.58 million persons in the 4th quarter. It said that this showed an increase in the number of unemployed labour force by 351,015 persons. According to the bureau, the percentage increase in both the 2nd and 1st quarter of 2016 were slightly lower at 13.4 per cent and 12.1 per cent, respectively. It showed that 26.06 million persons were unemployed in 2nd quarter and while 24.5 million were unemployed in the 1st quarter in the year under review. The report however showed that the underemployed in the labour fo...