Return of 'Looted' Funds: Buhari is a liar, he should stay at home to govern - Fayose

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Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has carpeted President Muhammadu Buhari’s claim that many of those who looted the public treasuries in the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan had started returning the stolen funds to the government, saying the President should rather stay at home to govern the country instead of junketing around the globe and acting like a saint before the international community.

The governor challenged the President to tell Nigerians how much was returned and the looters who returned the stolen funds, adding that “Since the purported looted funds belong to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, it ought to have been paid into the Federation Account and shared by the Federal, State and Local Government.”

2 Nigerian pilgrims abscond in Isreal

Two members of the Plateau pilgrimage contingent are missing, the Acting Secretary of the state Pilgrims Board, Mrs Hassana Ayika, has confirmed. Ayika in Nazareth, Israel, on Wednesday said that the two persons, a man and a woman, were said to have gone missing at about 2 a.m. on Tuesday,Vanguard reports .

President Buhari departs for for Malta today

President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Abuja today, Thursday, November 26 for Malta to participate in the 2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting which begins in the island nation on Friday.

APC may declare Yahaya Bello as Audu’s replacement

Ahead of the historic decision to be announced by the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress in Abuja today, strong indications have shown that Yahaya Bello may be declared as the candidate of the party ahead of the December 5 supplementary poll of the party. A member of the National Working Committee who craved anonymity confided in Vanguard that the decision to field Yahaya Bello was informed by his status as the runner-up up in the governorship primaries of the party, held on August 29 at the Confluence Stadium, Lokoja.

Fire razes118 shops in Kabong Market, Jos

A raging night inferno razed 118 shops at the Kabong market in Jos North on Thursday morning. Newsmen who visited the market, could not access the burnt section as some shops were still in flames. Others also had thick smoke billowing from them, making visibility very difficult.
The actual cause of the fire could not be ascertained, but Mr Christopher Jama, Chairman, Kabong Market Traders Association, who briefed the governor when he visited the scene said the fire started by 4:00 am. Jama claimed that the fire was caused by an electrical spark when public power supply was restored in the night.

Hundreds of people attend funeral prayer for Inuwa Wada in Kano

KANO – Former Defence minister in the first Republic and veteran parliamentarian Alhaji Inuwa Wada Wednesday joined his ancestors at 98.
The first Republic politician died peacefully at his Durumin Iya quarters residence of Kano municipal after a protracted illness.
Born in 1917 to a respected family in Kano, his grandfather was Chief Alkali during the early twentieth century and his father worked as a surveyor for the Kano Native Authority before his death in 1924. Inuwa Wada attended Shuhuci Elementary School and in 1938, he graduated from the Kano Middle School.

Northern Lawmakers kicks against birth control, says it is anti-Islam and a direct attack on their religious beliefs

A member of the lower chamber of the National Assembly, Babatunde Gabriel Kolawole on Tuesday, November 24, moved for the motion titled "Need for the federal government to curb population explosion in Nigeria." Kolawole in his arguement urged the Federal Government to come up with a policy to check the alarming rate of population growth and to educate Nigerians on the importance of family planning through the National Orientation Agency (NOA).