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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has commended Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State for appointing largely young people into the State Executive Council. The state Chairman of the council, Mr Henry Atigwe, revealed this while speaking with newsmen on Monday in Enugu. According to Atigwe, young people have never had it so good in the history of governance in Enugu State, with about 90 per cent of youths in the State Executive Council. He further applauded Ugwuanyi for his youth-friendly policies and programmes as well as youth inclusion in various decision making bodies in the state. “Gov Ugwuanyi has given us a sense of inclusion in governance. “The governor’s disposition to issues that affect young people in the state has given us a sense of belonging and confidence in his administration.’’ He gave an assurance that the youth body would continue to liaise with the government and relevant agencies in the campaign against drug abuse and illicit tr...

http://ift.tt/2raxReu  Chelsea Clinton. Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte angrily hit back Wednesday at Chelsea Clinton for criticising remarks he made about rape. Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte angrily hit back Wednesday at Chelsea Clinton for criticising remarks he made about rape, using vulgar language while referring to her father’s infidelities as American president. Duterte on Friday told soldiers they could rape up to three women, in a speech aimed at reassuring them of his full support as they enforced his newly imposed martial law on the south of the Philippines. “Not funny. Ever,” wrote the daughter of ex-US president Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton on her Twitter account. In a second post she wrote: “Duterte is a murderous thug with no regard for human rights. It’s important to keep pointing that out & that rape is never a joke.” At the end of a long speech to naval officers and their families on...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Enugu – The Enugu State Police Command on Wednesday advised residents to disregard rumours of bomb explosion in the state and assured citizens to go about their normal businesses without fear. The Command’s spokesman, SP Ebere Amaraizu, gave the advice in a statement on Wednesday in Enugu. Amarizu said Tuesday’s loud explosion in Enugu came from leftover of fireworks hidden in a cluster of firewood which was mistakenly used in cooking by a woman. He noted that on receiving reports of the alleged explosion from the community members, the command deployed operatives from its anti-bomb unit to the area. Amaraizu said: “The command’s anti-bomb unit collaborated with other police operatives, led by the officer-in-charge of explosive ordinance department, to comb the community. “The operatives discovered that it was the leftover of fire-work/knock-out in the firewood of a groundnut fryer that allegedly exploded when contacted with fire, which also produced some noi...

http://ift.tt/2njx8CD Abuja – A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Wednesday ordered that Ibrahim Bala should be given six lashes of cane for stealing a gas cylinder. The judge, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq, who ordered the punishment, warned the convict to desist from committing crime. Bala of no fixed address was charged with theft. He had admitted committing the crime and prayed the court to temper justice with mercy. He claimed that he was under the influence of bad friends. Earlier, the prosecutor, Florence Auhioboh, had told the court that one Baba Umar of Ministry of Defence, Abuja, reported the matter at the Gwarimpa Police Station on May 4, 2017. According to her, the complainant said that Bala criminally entered into their compound and stole a gas cylinder. Auhioboh said that he was arrested in the process, and that during police investigation, the cylinder was recovered. She told the court that the offence was punishable under Section 288 of the Penal Code. The post Man ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Kaduna – As the month of Ramadan approaches a group of 20 Muslim and Christian clerics, have commenced a campaign in local markets across the Northern states to appeal to traders to bring down food prices. The clergymen, working under the Peace Revival and Reconciliation Foundation, said they would visit markets, interact with traders and their leaders to halt the sharp rise in the prices, especially during the Muslim fasting period of the Ramadan. “We have organised 10 pastors and 10 Imams for the campaign and we will visit markets, interact with traders unions and individual traders in some part of Northern Nigeria. “It is to open talks with the traders, appeal to them, and discuss the various roles they will play toward cutting down prices of goods and services during Ramadan,” Yohanna Buru, Coordinator of the foundation said in Kaduna. He said, “it was observed that each and every year, marketers take advantage of the holy month to extort the public. “Thi...

http://ift.tt/2pXzKIQ The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says the Federal Government is delivering on its election promises and that only “a few vocal minority are not seeing what the government is doing.’’ The minister stated this when the leadership of the National Association and Nigerian Students (NANS), paid him a courtesy visit in Abuja Tuesday evening. Mohammed said “the administration is on course in the delivery of the three major electoral promises it made before coming to power. That are: to fight corruption, fight insecurity and fix the economy. He said in less than two years, the government had restored peace and territories that were taken over in the troubled North-East and defeated the Boko Haram insurgents. “Our success in fighting insecurity is there for everybody to see. It is not just fighting insecurity but consistently restoring peace to every part of Nigeria’’, he said. The minister said the administration deserved credit for secu...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Mr Taidi Jonathan, former Chairman, Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Minna chapter, on Monday said the release of the 82 Chibok school girls demonstrated the commitment of President Muhammadu Buhari to the welfare of all Nigerians. Taidi said in an interview in Minna that the gesture was also a clear demonstration of the Buhari administration to secure the release of all those in captivity. “It shows that the Federal Government and its partners have the capacity to release the remaining girls. “The release would help to check the emotional trauma the parents of the girls might be facing in the last three years.” Jonathan, therefore, called on Nigerians irrespective of religious and political differences to support the government in its efforts to provide security and set the nation on the path of prosperity. The former NBA chairman urged Nigerians to seek God’s intervention on the challenges facing the nation, stressing that with fervent prayers, all the challe...

http://ift.tt/2pRnARW A handout picture provided by the office of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on April 30, 2017 shows him (C) arriving for the opening of the Setareh Khalij Fars (Star of the Persian Gulf) refinery in the Gulf port city of Bandar Abbas. HO / IRANIAN PRESIDENCY / AFP Iran’s armed forces warned President Hassan Rouhani against discussing the country’s defence programme after he criticised the anti-Israel slogans written on the side of ballistic missiles, local media reported on Saturday. During an election debate on Friday, Rouhani took the rare step of criticising the elite Revolutionary Guards for the provocative messages they wrote on ballistic missiles before testing them. “We saw how they wrote slogans on missiles and showed underground (missile) cities to disrupt the JCPOA (nuclear deal),” he said during the debate, which comes ahead of the May 19 election. Armed Forces spokesman General Masoud Jazayeri responded that the missile programme had “no c...

http://ift.tt/2qh7Nea Isiaka Adeleke The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Osun state on Monday said it had canceled the Workers Day celebration in honour of Sen. Isiaka Adeleke who died on April, 23. The State NLC chairman, Mr Jacob Adekomi told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Osogbo, that the body took the decision to honour Adeleke who was the state’s first civilian governor. Adeleke was the governor between 1992 and 1993, before the coup by General Sani Abacha on 17 November 1993. Adekomi said the Fidau (prayer) for Adeleke also falls on Workers’ Day. He said that in line with the call by the national body of the NLC for better welfare for civil servants, “Osun NLC is also pressing home and making demands for the payments of all outstandings from the state government. “We are demanding from the government the payment of outstanding balance of over 20 months half salaries the workers are being paid. “We are also asking the government to pay workers their leave allow...

http://ift.tt/2oqEFA6 The NUT, in a communique signed by its Chairman, Mr Kala-Ama Tonpre and Secretary, Mr Johnson Hector, said the union took the decision after its Executive Council meeting held on Saturday in Yenagoa. The Bayelsa chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), on Sunday threatened to commence a three-day warning strike from May 2, over unpaid nine-and-a-half months salary backlog. The NUT, in a communique signed by its Chairman, Mr Kala-Ama Tonpre and Secretary, Mr Johnson Hector, said the union took the decision after its Executive Council meeting held on Saturday in Yenagoa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the NUT in Bayelsa had embarked on a strike which shut public schools in Bayelsa for six weeks at the beginning of the 2016/2017 academic session in September 2016 over unpaid salaries. The union said it also resolved that the state government should urgently pay the salaries it owed primary school teachers to bring them at par with ot...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Bayelsa chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), on Sunday threatened to commence a three-day warning strike from May 2, over unpaid nine-and-a-half months salary backlog. The NUT, in a communique signed by its Chairman, Mr Kala-Ama Tonpre and Secretary, Mr Johnson Hector, said the union took the decision after its Executive Council meeting held on Saturday in Yenagoa. Newsmen recall that the NUT in Bayelsa had embarked on a strike which shut public schools in Bayelsa for six weeks at the beginning of the 2016/2017 academic session in September 2016 over unpaid salaries. The union said it also resolved that the state government should urgently pay the salaries it owed primary school teachers to bring them at par with other civil servants in the state. The NUT also called on the government to take over the funding and management of primary education without attaching conditions to it. The union further asked the State Universal Basic Education Board...