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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J More than 40 migrants from Nigeria and Ghana have died in the Sahara Desert after their truck broke down in arid northern Niger. The Red Cross said the migrants, most of whom have not been identified, died this week. According to Reuters, six survivors walked to a remote village where they said that 44 people, mostly from Ghana and Nigeria and including three babies and two other children, died of thirst, said Lawal Taher, the department head for the Red Cross in the Bilma region. Taher said  a search for the bodies was underway. The number of migrants who cross the Sahara has increased in recent years as impoverished West Africans risk their lives to try to reach Europe. In one of the most perilous parts of the journey, thousands of migrants each week are crammed into pickup trucks for the days-long ride from Niger into Libya, often with only enough room for a few litres of water. Authorities and aid organisations are able to keep track of the thousands...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, on Thursday faulted calls by some politicians on President Mohammed Buhari to resign over his ill-health. George faulted the calls while speaking with some journalists in Lagos, describing them as wrong and inflammatory. He said it was inhumane of anyone to pressure the president to step down from office just because he was having some health challenges. George pointed out  that it was only the president and his managers who could decide when he was incapacitated, adding those making the calls are taking politics too far. He said though he had always been in different camps with the president, he was always praying for his quick recovery,  urging all Nigerians, irrespective of political allegiance, to do the same. “You see, I don’t support the call by some people that the president should resign because of his health. “Even though I have always been on different camps with the ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA – THE immediate past President of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, Comrade Chibuzor Asomugha Tuesday escaped being lynched by some suspected hoodlums who were enforcing the sit-at-home order declared by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to honour the Biafran fallen heroes and fifty years of declaration of Biafran Republic. Though Comrade Asomugha was lucky he escaped from the mob that blocked the road at Onitsha, Anambra state, the windscreen of his car was damaged when he attempted to escape from the mob who were without any identification. Narrating his ordeal to Vanguard Tuesday, the former ASUP President said, “I was coming from Onitsha to Asaba, along spare parts side in Onitsha, there were no policemen on the road which was empty. “Some hoodlums without identity and any uniform took over the road. Because there was no security presence, they attempted to collect my phone when they stopped my car. “Sensing...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Nigerians have hailed the 8 th  Senate led by Seanor Bukola Saraki for its passage of the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB), an aspect of the Petroleum Industry Bill which had lingered for 17 years. Speaking on the achievement of the 8 th  Senate in the last two years, they said that the upper legislative chamber had fared very well even with much heated antagonism. A cross section of Nigerian who spoke to our correspondent in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) said that the President of the Senate Bukola Saraki had indeed kept to his words to pass the PIB and other relevant bills that woukd help businesses. After the inauguration of the 8 th  Senate on June 9, 2015, the President of the Senate Dr Bukola Saraki had promised to pass the PIB, make National Assembly Budget public and see to the passage of bills that will support local businesses. A media practitioner Mr Owede Agbajileke said that the Senate under the leadership of Senator B...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State has commended Gov. Abiola Ajimobi for his commitment to good governance and repositioning of the state in spite of daunting challenges. The APC in a statement issued on Sunday in Ibadan by its Director of Publicity and Strategy, Mr Olawale Sadare, said the Ajimobi administration in six years had ensured the restoration, transformation and repositioning of the state. It stated that the sterling performance of the governor, which facilitated his re-election for a second term, was still fresh in its memory. “From 2011 to 2014, the state witnessed restoration of peace and security, massive facelift of social infrastructure as well as improved welfare package for workers and the citizenry as a whole. “The nation’s economy, which took a downward turn under the Jonathan administration, took its toll on Oyo State. “ But Ajimobi weathered the storm by bringing to bear his wealth of experience, doggedness and patriotic z...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, representing Lagos Central Senatorial District, says this year’s Democracy Day is a time for sober reflection, reviewing performances and creating frameworks and action plans to make up for any shortcomings. Tinubu said this in a message  entitled ‘Half-year Review’ to mark Democracy Day, commemorated every May 29, and to review her performance in the last two years as a Senator. She noted that this year’s Democracy Day commemoration marked the mid-term of the present democratic dispensation and administration. Tinubu commended Nigerians for being resilient, as the previous year had been economically difficult, assuring that better days are here ”I congratulate the Nigerian government and citizens on the celebration of the inception of the Nigerian Democracy. ”The 2017 budget of Economic Recovery and Growth which was recently passed is positioned to consolidate the benefits of the 2016 Budget of Change and set us on the right path to ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The police in Osun on Sunday said unknown assailants strangled to death an elderly couple in Gbongan area of the state. The spokeswoman of the police in the state, Mrs Folashade Odoro, said in a statement on Sunday that their bodies was found at about 11 am at their residence in Gbongan. Odoro said the son of the couple, Caleb Akanbi, reported the death of his parents to the police after he found them strangled. “When police got to the scene of the incident, Mr Reuben Akanbi, 70, and Mrs Victoria Akanbi, 68, who lived in an isolated house were found dead with violence marks on them. “The crime is suspected to have been carried out overnight and the body of the deceased couple had been removed and deposited at LAUTECH Teaching Hospital for autopsy. “Police special detectives had, however, been deployed to fish out the killers, ” she said. The post Unknown assailants strangle elderly couple in Osun appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://i...