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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Prays God to help govt pass 2017 budget  By Azu Akannwa C omrade Joseph Evah, Coordinator of Ijaw Monitoring  Group, IMG, and former Publicity Secretary of Ijaw National Congress, INC, is best known for his fire-spitting human and environmental rights for the Niger Delta and the masses in general. Here, Evah spoke to Saturday Vanguard on the Quit order handed to Ndigbo by Northern youth groups and other issues. How will you describe the recent quit notice given to the Igbo by the Northern youths? The Northern youth’s declaration was an action against all other Nigerians, not just the Igbo. We are still waiting for their elders to apologise to the rest of the country. Their action is condemnable. The action of the Igbo when they declared sit-at-home protest as special day for their fallen heroes during the civil war was not provocative. Since God created the Igbo nation, this last sit at home day was the second significant day in the life of the Igbo...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Prays God to help govt pass 2017 budget  By Azu Akannwa C omrade Joseph Evah, Coordinator of Ijaw Monitoring  Group, IMG, and former Publicity Secretary of Ijaw National Congress, INC, is best known for his fire-spitting human and environmental rights for the Niger Delta and the masses in general. Here, Evah spoke to Saturday Vanguard on the Quit order handed to Ndigbo by Northern youth groups and other issues. How will you describe the recent quit notice given to the Igbo by the Northern youths? The Northern youth’s declaration was an action against all other Nigerians, not just the Igbo. We are still waiting for their elders to apologise to the rest of the country. Their action is condemnable. The action of the Igbo when they declared sit-at-home protest as special day for their fallen heroes during the civil war was not provocative. Since God created the Igbo nation, this last sit at home day was the second significant day in the life of the Igbo...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Ibadan – The founder of the One Love Family sect, Ibadan, Satguru Maharaj ji, on Friday called for a law stipulating a 25-year jail term for any public servant caught diverting workers’ salaries to personal use. Maharaj ji made the call in Ibadan while addressing newsmen on activities marking the 24th anniversary of his declaration of Nigeria as the new holy land of the universe. He said some public servants often divert salaries of workers to banks with the intention of reaping monetary gains in interest. “ Such officials should be jailed 25 years with hard labour and should also be stopped from holding public office. “ Doing this would deter would be offenders as well as reduce the level of corruption in the public service and in Nigeria in general,’’ he said. Maharaj ji said God had blessed the country with the All Progressives Congress (APC) government which initiated change, adding that the administration must be supported in the anti-graft campaign. Th...

http://ift.tt/2rRt2Fq By Chris Ochayi ABUJA: The Pan Niger Delta Youth Leadership Forum, PANDYLF, yesterday, condemned in strong term, the quit order issued by Arewa youths to the effect that all the Igbos living in the 19 Northern States should leave the region before October 1, warning that the notice was an invitation to anarchy in the country. National President of PANDYLF, Mr. Famous, Daunimeghe while reacting to the quit notice during an interview with Vanguard, in Abuja, described the threat as callous, insensitive and unnecessary distractions. Mr. Daunimeghe, however, called on the security agencies to take immediate action by hunting down and arrest the signatories to the statement and their sponsors with a view to charging them before the competent court of jurisdiction. The leader of Niger Delta youth body, who noted that the notice if not urgently addressed would connotes serious threat to the peaceful co-existence in the country, said no person or group has any right ...

http://ift.tt/2rYykBh In this photo taken on September 15, 2016 women and children queue to enter one of the Unicef nutrition clinics at the Muna makeshift camp which houses more than 16,000 IDPs (internaly displaced people) on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. AFP PHOTO / STEFAN HEUNIS Nigeria said it will feed 1.8 million people in the country’s northeast where a militant insurgency has wrecked the local economy and pushed the population to the brink of famine. The federal government will distribute 40,000 metric tonnes of food including rice, maize, sorghum and soya beans to displaced persons, the office of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who is acting leader while President Muhammadu Buhari is on sick leave in the U.K., said in a statement on Wednesday. Officials want to give each family about 50 kilogrammes of grains every month and estimate that the operation will cost about N8 billion ($25 million). “The new plan is expected to correct many...

http://ift.tt/2qVX2yT A logo of Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) is seen in Manila on June 7, 2017. A wave of unauthorised transactions have hit a major Philippine bank, triggering fears of hacking even as company officials said on June 7 it was an internal computer error. / AFP PHOTO / TED ALJIBE A major Philippine bank shut down online transactions and cash machines on Wednesday after money went missing from accounts, triggering fears it had been hacked even as company officials said it was an internal computer error. Customers of Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) were shocked on Wednesday morning to see unauthorised withdrawals and deposits from their accounts. BPI said in a statement the problem was caused by an “internal data processing error” that had been identified. But it had to close its automatic teller machines (ATMs) and told its eight million customers they could not do online transactions on Wednesday as the bank scrambled to fix the problem. “Please ...

http://ift.tt/2qZasO2 South Korean special envoy Lee Hae-chan (L) meets China's President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 19, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / JASON LEE Chinese President Xi Jinping told a South Korean envoy on Friday he was willing to put relations back on a “normal track” amid tensions over a US anti-missile system deployed on the Korean peninsula. In an apparent fence-mending move, South Korea’s new President Moon Jae-In dispatched his envoy Lee Hae-Chan to China after his election victory last week. “We’re willing to work with South Korea to preserve the hard-won results, properly handle disputes, put China-South Korea relations back onto a normal track,” Xi said as he greeted Lee in Beijing. “Your visit to China to step up the communication on important issues related to bilateral relations… shows President Moon and his administration have attached high importance to our ties,” Xi said. For his part, Lee said Moon asked him t...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Britain’s Prince Philip, the 95-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II, will retire from public engagements later this year, Buckingham Palace said Thursday. The decision was taken with the full support of the monarch, the palace said in a statement. Vía The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper http://ift.tt/2pB9iGI

http://ift.tt/2qgIH2K Britain's Anthony Joshua celebrates in the ring after his victory over Ukraine's Wladimir Klitschko in the eleventh round of their IBF, IBO and WBA, world Heavyweight title fight at Wembley Stadium in north-west London on April 29, 2017. AFP PHOTO / Ben STANSALL The Federal Government says it will soon invite, Anthony Joshua, the newly crowned unified World Heavyweight Boxing Champion to the country. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed disclosed this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Lagos. He said the government has congratulated Joshua, the British professional boxer of Nigerian descent who recently defeated Ukranian Wladimir Klitschko to become the unified World Heavyweight Champion. Mohammed said Nigeria is proud to be associated with the new champion, whose Nigerian heritage he has publicly acknowledged. ”My heart is in Nigeria, My heart is in Britain. I am a Nigerian man by blood, yes,” the Minister quoted Josh...