AFRICAN NEWS FLASH

The governor of kogi state has just arrived london to see president Buhari again after his first visit few days ago with some APC governors, national chairman of APC john oyegun and the minister of transport.yahaya bello is accompanied with some state governors. The visit is to brief president Buhari on the decisions taken at an APC meeting two days ago with the national chairman on some urgent issues which include the national convention of the party and the anambra state governorship election .more details coming.

 All the intrigues and power play surrounding the announcement of new management team for the central bank of nigeria will come to an end next week when the federal government announce names of the new team to be headed by the former managing director of unity bank, mr Henry james semenitari. Semenitari the 2019 political calculation has delayed the list since last year.the power play between forces in support of the second term bid of president Buhari also contributed to the delay. Another major issue is that of south east zone that did not vote for APC in the 2015 presidential election.some stakeholders of the party are against the former director general of security and exchange commission aruma otteh who will be named a deputy governor in the long awaited list of the new cbn team. Aruma  Otteh Sources confirmed to us that some forces prefer a former deputy governor of cbn mr Kingsley  moghalu to the former d g of Sec. Kingsley Muoghalu  Moghalu was the deputy gover

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — This small American city has four schools and five churches, an Arby’s, a Taco Bell and a Burger King. The grocery store is offering a deal on Budweiser as the temperature soars, and out front there’s a promotion for Ford Mustangs.  But for all its invocations of the American heartland, this growing town is in the middle of the South Korean countryside, in an area that was famous for growing huge grapes. “We built an entire city from scratch,” said Col. Scott W. Mueller, garrison commander of Camp Humphreys, one of the U.S. military’s largest overseas construction projects. If it were laid across Washington, the 3,454-acre base would stretch from Key Bridge to Nationals Park, from Arlington National Cemetery to the Capitol. “New York has been a city for 100-some years and they’re still doing construction. But the majority of construction here will be done by 2021,” Mueller said. (New York was actually founded nearly 400 years ago.) The U.S. mili

The six students kidnapped in Igbonla, Epe, Lagos State in May have been released, our source can report. One of the mothers of the students who spoke with our source Friday afternoon said the students are on their way to Lagos. “They have been released. The deputy governor of Ondo state called me and I spoke with my son. They are on their way to Lagos.”

NO fewer than six judges, kicked out of office in 2016 and another one since 2011, have escaped full sanctions due to the failure of the Presidency, the police and some state governors to implement key recommendations of the National Judicial Council against the affected judicial officers, our source has learnt. Our source' s  findings revealed that the judges, who were either compulsorily retired or dismissed, have yet to be visited with the full weight of the NJC’s recommendations. The NJC, in its response to a letter dated June 28, 2017, by our source , requesting information on the status of the implementation of the recommended sanctions against the affected judges, confirmed that the executive arm of government, at both the federal and state levels, failed to act on the recommendations. The request by the newspaper was anchored on the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2011. The affected judges include Justice Mohammed Tsamiya of the Court of Appeal; Justice Moh

Osinbajo inaugurates two ministers.

Two ministers appointed by president Buhari to be sworn in tomorrow.

Checks on the south west nominee for new cbn management team completed.

O. J. Simpson , the former football hero and actor whose good-guy image vanished when he was accused of murdering his ex-wife and her friend, will go free after serving nine years in a Nevada prison on charges stemming from an armed robbery, a state parole board ruled on Thursday. Mr. Simpson, who turned 70 this month, went before the board as a man convicted of taking a group of accomplices, two of them armed with guns, to a cheap Las Vegas hotel room in 2007 to take hundreds of items from a sports memorabilia dealer. But it is the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, for which he was acquitted after the most-watched trial in history, that have cast the longer, darker shadow over his life and reputation. After his conviction in 2008, a judge sentenced Mr. Simpson nine to 33 years in state prison, meaning that he becomes eligible for parole for the first time on Oct. 1. Based on his age and the fact that he has been a model prisoner, the Nevada Board of Parol

 Argument over the religion of bode Agusto delays announcement of cbn management team. The announcement of new cbn management team will be delayed following issues about the religion of Bode Agusto. The announcement would have been made since last week but was delayed. Insider sources revealed to us that for balancing purposes the management team will not be seen as all Christian affair. The new management team will now be announced on friday if the checks on Bode Agusto is completed by tomorrow

Business activities were on Tuesday paralysed at the headquarters of the Corporate Affairs Commission following an industrial action by members of staff of the commission. The industrial action led to the closure of the premises of the commission in Abuja thus preventing members of staff as well as well as the general public from conducting any time of business transaction. The workers are protesting the non payment of allowances as well as poor welfare condition Our correspondent who visited the commission observed that posters with various inscriptions were displayed at the gate of the commission.

Fayose threathens to sue Osinbajo, demands report on suspended sgf , nia DG Details coming

At least two persons have sustained life threatening injuries when armed youths attacked Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, representing Delta Central at the National Assembly, his wife and some top members of the All Progressives Congress during an empowerment programme in Effurun, Uvwie council area of Delta State. The attack which occurred on Saturday is believed to be an assassination attempt on the senator when he visited the Effurun Market located along the popular PTI road during the second phase of his constituency empowerment programme in Effurun, Ekpan and Ugberikoko areas of Uvwie. The incident created panic as market women and motorists left their vehicles and scampered for safety when the gunmen opened fire on the senator’s entourage. Recounting details of the incident, Senator Omo-Agege said, “There is Igho Majemite. There is Wilson Oki. These are all known thugs in Uvwie.  I don’t know who sent them to assassinate me.  But I was lucky because the bullet grazed through my rig

 Supreme Court declares makarfi pdp national chairman.

Federal executive council to be dissolved soon. Eighty percent of the ministers to be sacked.

Breaking. Acting president off to london to see president Buhari.

Anxiety in abuja as Nigerians await the announcement of new cbn management team.

The Southern Leaders Forum has called on Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to, as a matter of urgency, address the nation on measures being taken by the federal government to protect the Igbo and other southerners from attacks by Arewa youths, who weeks ago, gave the Igbo up to October 1, 2017, to leave the North. Rising from a meeting held in Lagos at the residence of Chief Albert Korubo Horsfall, the leaders expressed concern that no action appeared to have been taken by the government on the quit order. They also insisted that the country must be restructured along the 1963 Republican Constitution that gave the federating units a leeway over their affairs. The leaders also said Nigeria must be restructured by December 2017. In attendance at the meeting were leaders of thoughts from the South-west, the South-east and the South-south. A communique read by Senator Bassey Henshaw at the end of the meeting reads: “The leaders noted with gratitude the statement by the Acting President th

In confirmation of its withdrawal from Nigeria, the Abu Dhabi-based Etisalat Group announced Monday that it had terminated its management agreement with its Nigerian arm and gave Etisalat Nigeria three weeks to phase out the brand in the country. The decision of the Abu Dhabi-owned network operator, which once held a 45 per cent stake in Etisalat Nigeria and 25 per cent of its preference shares, arose after its $1.2 billion loan talks with 13 Nigerian banks collapsed. Chief Executive of Etisalat International Hatem Dowidar said Monday that there was no need for the brand in Nigeria after the collapse of the loan talks. However, he was silent on the loan repayment to the Nigerian lenders. Nigerian regulators had intervened last week to save Etisalat Nigeria from collapse after talks with its lenders to renegotiate a $1.2 billion loan had failed. However, Etisalat Nigeria, in a statement issued three weeks ago, had claimed that it had repaid 42 per cent of the loan, leaving an o

Breaking. Cbn new management team to be announced any minute from now List to be forwarded to Nass as soon as announcement is made.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun State has described the victory of its candidate, Ademola Adeleke, in the Osun West senatorial bye-election, as an act of God. The party’s Chairman, Soji Adagunodo, in his reaction after the votes were announced, thanked the electorate for standing by the party and voting for its candidate. “I want to thank God and the people of Osun West Senatorial District for voting the candidate of our party,” he said. “This is the hand of God, it is not the act of any man but it is of God.” Our source provided a live update of the election that showed how Mr. Adeleke floored his closest challenger, Mudashiru Hussein of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state. The PDP candidate won nine of the ten local governments in the district and had over 30,000 more votes than his opponent.

All arrangement for change of Barton at the central bank of nigeria is concluded as the former managing director of unity bank is set to replace the incumbent governor Godwin emefiele. Insider sources has confirmed to us that president Buhari few days ago directed the acting president prof Osinbajo to announce a new management team for the central bank of nigeria. Other members of the team include the immediate past director general of the security and exchange commission aruma otteh Aruma Otteh and a one time director of the budget office bode Augusta among others. Bode Augusta  The delay in the appointment of a new management team was as a result of some forces in the presidency who preferred the former deputy governor of the cbn mr George moghalu to aruma Otteh.the search for a moslem deputy governor from the north also delayed the announcement . Again opposition to the emergence of seminitari as governor by some APC members in rivers state and south south contribut

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday said nobody can remove Ibrahim Magu as the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Speaking in Kaduna while commissioning a zonal office of the EFCC, Osinbajo, who was represented by the state governor, Nasir el-Rufai, described Magu as a “nightmare for corrupt people”. “Mr Chairman, two weeks ago, I discussed the EFCC and your appointment with President Muhammadu Buhari and he told me he has every confidence in you and every confidence in the commission and the work that you have been doing, and as long as he is president you remain the chairman of the EFCC,’’ he said. El-Rufa’ also told the gathering that the Acting President was also solidly behind Magu. “Last night, I spoke with the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, who reconfirmed the position of the President and told me that as long as he remained the Acting President or Vice President, Ibrahim Magu would remain the chairman of the EFCC. “T

First Lady, Aisha Buhari, landed in London today, July 5, 2017, to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari who is on medical leave. The First Lady left the country on Saturday, July 1, stopping over in  Addis Ababa, Ethiopia , for the  Organization of African First Ladies against HIV/AIDS (OAFLA)  meeting on Monday 3rd July, 2017. The meeting was a celebration of the 15th anniversary of the organization where she read the communique.

Breaking . Supreme Court to deliver judgement on pdp crisis July 12.

Former m d of unity bank Henry j semenitari to replace emefiele as governor of cbn this week. All arrangement for the change of Barton concluded. Details coming

Dr. Doyin Okupe said on Sunday that he has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party. Okupe was the Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to former President Goodluck Jonathan.