*BVP MEDIA STATION NEWS HEADLINES* Good Morning to our Cherished Readers. Saturday 18 May 2019 **NIGERIA* Northern Governors Forum decries lingering security crisis in region. Emefiele promises economic saboteurs hell. FG may shut Enugu Airport over deplorable runway. Sacked Ekiti workers protest, beg Fayemi for re-absorption. Atiku vs Buhari: Bulkachuwa is wife, mother of APC members, PDP insists. Defection: Saraki, Dogara, 51 others guilty of political iniquity — Court. Onnoghen’s suspension stands, S’Court rules. Alleged $9.8m Fraud: Court dismisses ex-NNPC GMD’s no-case submission. EFCC arrests ministry officials over e-yellow fever card racketeering. Nigerian university suspends student for calling vice chancellor ‘foolish’ on Facebook. Rights group backs Buratai’s claim that embittered politicians are sponsors of bandits. South East Commission bill passes second reading at House of Reps. @cenBank Sets Up Committee to Revive 50 Textile Firms in 4 Years. DSS warns
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*BVP MEDIA STATION NEWS HEADLINES* Good Morning to our Cherished Readers. Saturday 18 May 2019 **NIGERIA* Northern Governors Forum decries lingering security crisis in region. Emefiele promises economic saboteurs hell. FG may shut Enugu Airport over deplorable runway. Sacked Ekiti workers protest, beg Fayemi for re-absorption. Atiku vs Buhari: Bulkachuwa is wife, mother of APC members, PDP insists. Defection: Saraki, Dogara, 51 others guilty of political iniquity — Court. Onnoghen’s suspension stands, S’Court rules. Alleged $9.8m Fraud: Court dismisses ex-NNPC GMD’s no-case submission. EFCC arrests ministry officials over e-yellow fever card racketeering. Nigerian university suspends student for calling vice chancellor ‘foolish’ on Facebook. Rights group backs Buratai’s claim that embittered politicians are sponsors of bandits. South East Commission bill passes second reading at House of Reps. @cenBank Sets Up Committee to Revive 50 Textile Firms in 4 Years. DSS warns
Daddy Showkey Begs EFCC To Show Naira Marley Mercy “Temper justice with mercy. This is just a young man growing up, lets not use his mistakes to spoil his career we all went through so many things growing up. We can use him as a spokesman to young people against crime. BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKMAY 16, 2019 Veteran Nigerian singer, John Asiemo better known as Daddy Showkey has sent out a plea to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to temper justice with mercy in the case of Naira Marley who is currently in their custody for his involvement in cyber crime popularly called “Yahoo Yahoo”. Naira Marley was arrested alongside Zlatan Ibile; Adewunmi Adeyanju Moses and Abubakar Musa on the early hours of Friday May 10. However, while Zlatan Ibile and two others have been released on conditional basis, Naira Marley is still cooling his heels at the anti graft agency’s office. In light of this, Daddy Showkey who became popular for making 'ghetto' music has called o
NYSC To Pay Corpers New Minimum Wage “It could be a flat amount or a proportion, but the other aspect that is clear is that there would be an increase for the National Youth Service Corps as well because, by the Act, they should earn at least the minimum wage and the NYSC also has to increase to that N30, 000. BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKMAY 17, 2019 Zainab Ahmed, the minister of finance, has said that National Youth Service Corps members will now receive the new minimum wage as allowance. While speaking to the press on Thursday, the minister revealed the government's effort to work on the modalities of the new minimum wage. “Apart from the increase of the minimum wage from N18,000 to N30,000, there is also a consequential adjustment that we have to negotiate with the labour unions,” she said. “The total implication of that would be worked out only after the negotiations and that would involve determining how much increase every other employee above the minimum wage
NANS Vows To Engage In Showdown With Akeredolu Over Hike In Tuition Fee “How can we explain that a supposed progressive government increased arbitrarily the school fees of Adekunle Ajasin University from N33, 000 to N150, 000, while that of the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo was increased from N63,000 to N108,000, and the students of the Ondo State University of Science and Technology are to pay N200,000 instead of N70,000 they were paying before the Governor Akeredolu assumed office. BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKMAY 17, 2019 The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has rejected the increment of the tuition fee of Ondo State tertiary institutions by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu. The students' group also said it would resist any form of intimidation or threat against any tertiary institution student in the state. Danielson Akpan, National President of NANS, in a press statement on Thursday, describing the increase as commercialization of education said, “we condemn
Says Dino Melaye His tweet reads: "I am afraid of the revenge of the poor, It happened in Russia, France and recently in Sudan. BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKMAY 17, 2019 Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District has expressed fear of an imminent revolution against Nigeria's ruling class. Melaye who is infamous for his ostentatious lifestyle expressed his concern while tweeting @dino_melaye on Friday morning. His tweet reads: "I am afraid of the revenge of the poor, It happened in Russia, France and recently in Sudan. "It can happen in Nigeria. Housing segregation put us the elite in jeopardy. Ikoyi, Banana, Maitama, Asokoro, etc. Our leaders + me beware of violent revolution. Perilous times loading".
Goodluck Jonathan Promised Us N100bn In 2015', Says Miyetti Allah “So, part of that money was, I think, used by state governors under the committee chaired by the then Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam. But I don’t think the bulk of the money has reached the pastoralists, the herders. BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORKMAY 17, 2019 Miyetti Allah group Salah Alhassan, the National Secretary, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, has admitted that the group demanded N100 billion from the Federal Government of Nigeria. The admittance from the group is coming after the federal government denied it had a conversation about money to end incessant herdsmen attacks around the country. The group made the admittance in an interview with The Punch on Thursday. Alhassan said former President Goodluck Jonathan promised to give them the money and that was what informed their decision to support his re-election in 2015. On if the money was meant to be hush money from the Federal Government
THE OSOGBO WAR OF 1840 After the Fulanis systematically captured and made Ilorin their territory, they sacked the old Oyo Empire in 1835/1636 . They were still not satisfied with their victory; they wished to extend their rule deep into the heart of Yoruba land. Thus in 1840, they set to capture Osogbo , a Yoruba town. The Fulanis, under the command of Ali , the Balogun Fulani of Ilorin, laid siege on Osogbo. When the king of Osogbo realized that the Ilorins were too strong for the Osogbo army, he summoned the Ibadans for help. Ibadan immediately sent some auxiliaries to Osogbo under the command of Obele alias Mobitan , and Alade Abimpagun. As this force could not stop the Ilorins, another contingent was sent to Osogbo under a more experienced leader. But still the Ilorins won every battle and gained more ground. When Ibadan realized that the Ilorins were becoming more threatening to Yoruba land, they sent a large and stronger force under Balogun Oderinlo to crush the intruding
#Breaking: Rep remove age limit in employment The House of Representatives on Wednesday abolished age discrimination against job seekers in Federal Government Ministries, Agencies and Departments (MDAs). This followed the passage, by the lawmakers, of a “Bill for an Act to Eradicate the Age Discrimination against Job seekers in Federal Government Agencies,” sponsored by Sergius Ogun (APC, Edo) and Babajimi Benson (APC, Lagos). The bill, which was read for the second time in 2018, subsequently passed third reading after unanimous adoption by the lawmakers and Speaker Yakubu Dogara. Ogun, moving a motion for a third reading of the bill, said the new law seeks to ensure that no Nigerian job seeker is disqualified from government employment on the basis of age. He noted that the bill, when enacted, would first take effect in Federal Government MDAs with the hope that private employers of labour would follow suit later. “It is a key responsibility of we parliamentarians, as representa