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An official of the Federal Pay Office, Abeokuta, is currently assisting investigators from the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, to recover over N100m meant for the use of three government colleges in Ogun State, which he diverted for personal use. The suspect, Olusegun Lawal, stole the funds budgeted for students’ meal subsidies and also payment of contractors carrying out developmental projects in the three schools. The schools affected are Federal Government College, Odogbolu, Federal Government Girls College, Sagamu, and Federal Science Technical College, Ijebu-Mushin. The suspect, over a two-year period, carried out an elaborate scam, whereby funds channelled to the three schools were diverted through the use of companies operated by him and his cronies. Between February, 2014, and March, 2015, Mr. Lawal allegedly diverted the monies sent to the three schools via the Zenith Bank account of the Pay Office and another Central Bank ...

Google in partnership with equipment manufacturer Infinix, mobile operator MTN and online retailer Jumia, today launched the Android One program in Nigeria starting with the Infinix HOT 2-X510. This is part of an on-going initiative to bring high-quality smartphones to millions of people in Asia, Africa and other parts of the world. These phones are now available for purchase in Egypt, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Morocco and Nigeria. Google launches Android One in Nigeria: New OS set to make things easier The Infinix HOT 2-X510 smartphone, which is the first device to run on Android One in Africa, is available from today via online retailer Jumia and at select retail outlets at a recommended retail price of N17,500. The Infinix HOT 2 phone offers a high-quality experience, running the latest version of Android (5.1 Lollipop). It will also get the new Android M release — an update that will offer Google’s new material design, improved battery life, enhanced secur...

Taylor Swift is well-known for wearing her heart on her sleeve, which often means her heartbreak is a public event. But now that Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris are dating, it looks like she may have found the one … and she is moving fast! Couple that with Jamie King naming Taylor the godmother to her newborn son Leo and you’ve got a perfect combination for baby fever!!! Swift is ready to have babies soon with Harris.  The 25-year-old has even claimed that she wants two kids with him by the time she is 30. Any girl can attest to the fact that if you mention a baby around your boyfriend, they cower in the corner. But not Calvin. The 31-year-old DJ is also ready to have children with his girlfriend of six months, according to insiders claiming intimate knowledge of the situation.

Students of the Kaduna Polytechnic have emerged champions in the Enactus Nigeria 2015 championship. By the victory, the school will represent Nigeria in the forthcoming Enactus World Cup 2015 scheduled for Johannesburg, South Africa later in the year. The Nigerian representatives will meet contestants from 35 other countries in the fiesta. ADVERTISEMENT In the final contest held in Lagos on Thursday, Kaduna Polytechnic students beat their counterparts from the University of Agriculture, Markurdi, Benue State to the second position. The third position went to the Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti. The contest, which centred on “Enabling progress”, allowed the participants to highlight the impact Enactus in different parts of the country. The initiative challenges students to proffer solutions to the socio-economic challenges in their host communities and neighbourhood. Meanwhile, the United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr, James Entwistle, has called for a...

The NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, said Mr. Buhari should note that he was elected based on his integrity and promise to clean the rot in the system, adding that he should not cave in to any pressure from anybody or group to stop the anti-corruption war. “One person who will serve as good example for all Nigerians is the president and he must be ready to lay a good example. “We are aware that some people are persuading him not to go ahead with the probe, but he should not allow any pressure from anybody. He should go ahead with it and even prosecute whoever is found guilty”, he said. Wabba said organized labour was planning a rally in support of the probe. “We are planning a rally and we will continue to support him if he continues to stand on the basis of the truth”, he said. The NLC chief noted that June allocation was increased by about 13 per cent, pointing out that the increase would have ended in private pockets had President Buhari not taken some meas...

A total of N77.18bn has been paid to the next of kin of 27,321 deceased workers as pension benefits of their breadwinners under the Compulsory Pension Scheme. The amount, which was paid as of the first quarter of this year, showed an increase of N25.9bn over N52bn.9bn recorded as of the first quarter of last year. ADVERTISEMENT These figures were contained in the latest report of the National Pension Commission on pension matters obtained by our correspondent on Friday. NAICOM said the amount (N77.18bn) represented what had been paid to the beneficiaries of the deceased employees from the inception of the scheme to the end of the first quarter of 2015. Experts noted that more relatives of deceased workers were now coming out to demand for the benefits of their breadwinners following the reform of the pension administration, which had simplified the claim and entitlement process. The Pension Reform Act 2004 was amended last year as part of the reforms ...

Inspector General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase, yesterday unveiled a wide scope of strategies for curtailing crimes, saying the police will henceforth work with communities and social groups. Speaking at a national security summit, organised by the Nigeria Police, in collaboration with The Sun Publishing Limited, Arase said the police would use traditional rulers, youth organizations, community-based associations, the media, women bodies and religious associations to tackle crimes in the society. The IGP noted that these groups that had been grossly underutilized were very strategic assets to the nation’s security. He said: “If properly engaged, the citizen-driven policing model will free police’s human, financial resources which are deployed to the management of low-level crimes and ensure that police assets are optimally deployed to manage high level crimes.” Inspector General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase, yesterday unveiled a wide scope of strategies for ...

The lawmaker member representing Ohaozara/Onicha/Ivo Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Linus Okorie, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to quickly call Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state to order on the purported appointment of two foreign forensic audit firms to look into federal government revenue generating agencies from 2010 to 2015. In a statement in Abakaliki, Mr. Okorie observed that neither the Mr. Oshiomohole-led National Executive Council Adhoc Committee on Excess Crude Accounts and Remittances to the Federation Account nor the NEC itself has the power under the constitution to make the purported appointments. He also stated that even if they had the legal authority, the said appointment is contrary to the clear provisions of the Public Procurement Act 2007, adding that the NEC created under the part 1 of the third schedule 1999 constitution (as amended) is merely an advisory body to the President and has no authority to enter ...

In the continued onslaught against terrorism in the North East, Nigerian Air Force pilots smoked out Boko Haram elements from their fortified bunkers deep inside Sambisa Forests at the weekend.

Jean Gough, Country Director, United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that no fewer than 10.5 million Nigerian children are out of school. Gough stated this on Tuesday in Bauchi while exchanging views with Gov. Mohammed Abubakar of Bauchi State at the Government House. She said that UNICEF was collaborating with some stakeholders to strengthen the newly-introduced Quranic School System to reduce the number of out-of-school children. She disclosed that the fund had concluded plan to tackle the issue of child malnutrition in the state as it had discovered that 90 per cent of child diseases was as a result of malnutrition. Gough also announced that UN body would curb public defecation, especially with more than 2,000 communities in the state defecating in open places. “We intend to ensure that before I leave the country, at least one local government area in Bauchi state is public-defecation free. “We will also work in collaboration with th...

President Muhammadu Buhari assured officials of the Ministry of Women Affairs that part of the money his administration would recover from looters would be used to fund the ministry. He gave the assurance when ?the  Permanent Secretary, Ezekiel Oyemomi, led officials of the ministry to brief ?the President on its activities and challenges at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He assured that the resettlement and comfort of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) remains a top priority of his administration. This is even as the President said no amount of intrigues would make him relent in the war against corruption. Oyemomi  told State House correspondents that they briefed Buhari on all its activities at the end of which he realized that his ministry was demanding. He said, “when you look at what the ministry is set up to do, we cut across 70 per cent of the population dealing with the issues of women, children, the vulnerable, people with disabilities, the d...

THERE are indications that the United States government is sending arms to the Nigerian military in its efforts to crush Boko Haram. Facts that the US might start sending arms to Nigeria came on the heels of the US Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle’s revelation in an interview with one of our correspondents that the US government never placed arms embargo on Nigeria. “There’s been a lot of misunderstanding on this issue before, during and after President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Washington. Let me be clear about a couple of things. One, we had worked very closely with Nigeria on the Leahy Amendment….The second piece of misinformation, which has been bandied about in (newspapers’) headlines, is that the US has lifted its arms embargo on Nigeria. There was never an arms embargo,” Entwistle said. According to  Radio France Internationale , the US Defence Security Cooperation Agency records show that the country’s Department of Defence is set to transfer ...