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*BVP MEDIA STATION NEWS HEADLINES* Sunday, 21st April, 2019. Easter: *Atiku, PDP* urges prayers for national rebirth. Gov. Akeredolu greets Christians on Easter celebration. Buhari speaks on violent clashes in Taraba, Adamawa. Nadal crashes out to Fognini in Monte Carlo semi-finals. Drug abuse responsible for kidnapping, dangerous driving, other ills in Nigeria NAFDAC. Why we are taking headcount of victims of Nasarawa attacks - NEMA. Robbers kill Jigawa imam after robbing him of N400,000 land proceeds. Love, tolerance will end killings, APC tells Nigerians at Easter. Stockpile of foreign currency found in ex-Sudan president Omar al-Bashirs house. Sudan protest leaders to meet military rulers. Parma draw stalls AC Milans Champions League push. Igbo yet to learn Nigeria's political arithmetic ' Sen. Okadigbo. APC leaders are impostors ' Buba Galadima. 9Th NASS leadership: APC lawmakers defiant. Bazaar war: Incoming govs battle incumbents over last minute app

Lagos-Ibadan rail’ll ready in June – Amaechi April 20, 2019 TheNation Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has assured that by early June this year, the rail transport system would ready for use between Lagos and Ibadan. The Lagos-Abeokuta rail had been completed earlier in the year as passengers were offered a three-month free ride. The period of free ride was however later shortened. Amaechi who spoke to some journalists over the weekend noted that his commitment to the full take off of rail transportation in Nigeria is aimed at making life easier and better for Nigerians. He undertakes rail inspection trips at least twice in a month. The Ghanaian government recently sent a team led by its Minister of Rail Development, Hon. Joe Ghartey, to come and understudy the progress being made in Nigeria’s rail projects. The Lagos-Ibadan rail project is being executed at the cost of $1.6 billion, which is being funded from the loan from the Chinese government. He explained that t

Power Outages Are A Thing Of The Past In Zambia — And Supply Could Even Become Surplus Soon Zambia’s electricity progress will be a subject of jealousy back in Nigeria, the self-styled Giant of Africa, where decades of electricity outages has still not been resolved despite the supposed investment of billions of dollars. BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKAPR 20, 2019 The African Development Bank Group has celebrated the success of Zambia in eliminating frequent power outages, which used to be a regular feature of the southern African country. ‏Using its verified Twitter account @AfDB_Group, the bank tweeted on Saturday: “Power cuts are now a thing of the past in #Zambia! A major boost in electricity production - thanks to a robust hydraulic and solar power generation industry - means the country is now self-sufficient in energy.” Power cuts are now a thing of the past in #Zambia🇿🇲! A major boost in electricity production - thanks to a robust hydraulic and solar power generation

I Challenge Buhari To Swear With Quran, Bible That He Did Not Rig The Election — Galadima 20/4/2019 Spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential campaign organization, Buba Galadima, has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari, openly to come out and swear with the holy Quran and Bible that he (Buhari) and members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, did not rig the February 23 presidential election. Galadima who believed that the PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar won the election, noted that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, colluded with APC to rig the election in favour of Buhari. He also submitted in an interview with The Sun, that the president knew he was going to rig the election and removed Ex-Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen and replaced him with Tanko Muhammed. His words, “Buhari and the APC leadership knew they were going to rig the elections, and that was why Buhari refused to sign the Electoral Act, and that was why he a

The recent violent clashes between Jukuns and Tivs in Taraba State, and the Fulani, Genjon and Bachama in Adamawa State are needless and saddening. Violence cannot be the solution to the resolution of misunderstandings among people. Once we abandon reason and good judgement, we‘re giving violence the chance to take over and make a bad situation more complicated,and difficult to resolve. The primary initiative for ending violence once and for all must originate from the local actors involved in these clashes. The military has restored calm to the affected areas, and will not relent. The National Emergency Management Agency and the National Commission for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons will also scale up their efforts in bringing succour to all the displaced people.

Why Ekiti can't pay N30,000 new minimum wage - Fayemi "For Ekiti State to pay the new N30,000 minimum wage, it would need an additional N2 billion in addition to the current wage bill of N2.6 billion, totalling N4.6 billion."

Vanguard News 70% of drugs in Nigerian markets fake — NAFDAC, NDLEA, NOA Emmanuel Okogba Emmanuel Okogba 2 days ago By Chimaobi Nwaiwu Nnewi—The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA, National Orientation Agency, NOA, and Christabell International Organisation, CIO, have unanimously agreed that about 70 percent of all the drugs in Nigerian markets are fake and substandard. Alcohol NAFDAC DG, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye They also agreed that all criminalities and societal ills raving Nigeria are linked to sales and consumption of hard drugs and illicit substances. In addition, they observed that production and importation of substandard drugs in Nigeria are major causes of high mortality rate, morbidity, and loss of public confidence in the health sector. Court sentences commercial driver to 30 years’ imrisonment for defiling child Speaking during a sensitisation workshop organised by Christabell Internatio

BREAKING: Buhari extends appointment of acting CJN by three months.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa has described the death sentence passed on eight Nigerians in United Arab Emirate (UAE) as unfortunate. National News, Nigeria. Eight Nigerians were sentenced to death on Wednesday in Sharjah, UAE for a string of robberies at money exchanges and cash machines (ATMs) across the emirate in December 2016. Dabiri-Erewa said this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja The presidential aide who expressed concern over the development, however said the incident was not an actual description of personalities of people of Nigeria. ”It is an unfortunate incident, but it is not an incident that defines who we are as a people.”If a few Nigerians have committed a crime for which they are being punished, thousands of Nigerians are doing great in that same country and are being appreciated and celebrated. ”Mr President, who meets Nigerians every time he

Massive Workers Sack Looms In Osun As 769 Caught In Certificate Scandal April 20, 2019 Massive Sack in Osun, News Alert, Osun news No fewer than 769 workers employed by the Osun State Government are enmeshed in a certificate scandal. This was contained in a statement signed by the supervisor for the Ministry of Information and Strategy, Adelani Baderinwa, and made available to journalists in Osogbo, the capital of the state on Friday. The statement highlighted that a consultancy firm, Captain Consultants, engaged five years ago by the Osun government to validate the credentials submitted by its workers, has completed its assignment and submitted its report. The report indicted 769 workers at various sectors. Mr Baderinwa made it known that the verification of the workers credentials became important after series of reported forgery of results by some workers allegedly used to secure jobs in the state civil service, emanated. He said all civil servants in 2015 were asked to

Death sentence on 8 Nigerians by UAE is unfortunate, says Dabiri-Erewa. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa has described the death sentence passed on eight Nigerians in United Arab Emirate (UAE) as unfortunate. Eight Nigerians were sentenced to death on Wednesday in Sharjah, UAE for a string of robberies at money exchanges and cash machines (ATMs) across the emirate in December 2016. Dabiri-Erewa said this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja The presidential aide who expressed concern over the development, however said the incident was not an actual description of personalities of people of Nigeria. ”It is an unfortunate incident, but it is not an incident that defines who we are as a people.”If a few Nigerians have committed a crime for which they are being punished, thousands of Nigerians are doing great in that same country and are being appreciated and celebrated. ”I

Kano, Zamfara, Kwara, Edo, Kogi Ready to Pay 30,000 National Minimum Wage

Severance allowance: Okorocha, Ambode, others to earn N2.06bn

Ondo Govt Reacts As APC Suspends Akeredolu April 20, 2019 Akeredolu, APC, News Alert, ondo news The Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has been reportedly suspended by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) Over alleged anti-party activities during the just concluded February 23, 2019 Presidential and the National Assembly elections. The party’s NWC had on March 1, 2019 issued a query to the governor over what it described as glaring anti-party activities. In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Lanre Isa-Onilu, after a meeting presided over by the National chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, the party had said the governor’s anti-party activities “greatly affected the fortunes of its candidates in the recently conducted presidential and National Assembly elections in the state.” President Muhammadu Buhari of the APC lost to the PDP’s Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar while two of the three APC Senators lost t