What The Senate Said After Reading Buhari’s Letter To Extend HIs 10-days Medical Vacation

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiunlWDf7SUDjoLHVOQf6Po69CXu9-nYnOvaM4suRr5fBreADyaMZvFKmRL4v47GCA8lyd78jcUlcqD0m7M212ac-i0I3qy68h7FOOBBig2s695LYFRRW4I2wxeIBFI-d3CxlzcVIvGyThJ/s1600/The-Nigerian-senate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiunlWDf7SUDjoLHVOQf6Po69CXu9-nYnOvaM4suRr5fBreADyaMZvFKmRL4v47GCA8lyd78jcUlcqD0m7M212ac-i0I3qy68h7FOOBBig2s695LYFRRW4I2wxeIBFI-d3CxlzcVIvGyThJ/s1600/The-Nigerian-senate.jpg" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Spokesperson of the Nigerian House of Senate, Aliyu Sabi said that the Senate on Tuesday confirmed the receipt of President Muhammadu Buhari’s letter to extend his 10-day vacation in UK</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> He made this known on Tuesday that the letter did not specify when the president would return to the country.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “You will recall that we received a letter from President Muhammadu Buhari before suspending plenary to attend to the budget.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “In the letter dated January 18, he informed the senate that he was proceeding on a 10-day vacation and for medical checkup.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “He also stated very clearly that in his absence, the Vice President will be in charge of the affairs of the country.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “We are also in receipt of a second letter informing us that he is extending his vacation because in the course of the routine checkup, his doctors recommended more checkups-octors recommended more checkups,“ he said.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The spokesman said that the senate would deliberate on the letter upon resumption on February 21.</div>

What The Senate Said After Reading Buhari’s Letter To Extend HIs 10-days Medical Vacation

The Spokesperson of the Nigerian House of Senate, Aliyu Sabi said that the Senate on Tuesday confirmed the receipt of President Muhammadu...

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"After Being Paid N200 To Detonate Bomb, I Was Told I Would Go To Heaven" – Amina

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWUPdFbtE7MBWRoAmhB0ADPkHT6FrX5pIY-oYEGYN0ysv-uHl6Nrw-WOeg74HALBF6kabvuyDD3PwdmIOylfi_8_jAUm_HqgeYhkvoE2sr3OOeJMKWAOsMdycWiv6yRQHsQx78i8fx5nDA/s1600/Amina-600x297.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWUPdFbtE7MBWRoAmhB0ADPkHT6FrX5pIY-oYEGYN0ysv-uHl6Nrw-WOeg74HALBF6kabvuyDD3PwdmIOylfi_8_jAUm_HqgeYhkvoE2sr3OOeJMKWAOsMdycWiv6yRQHsQx78i8fx5nDA/s1600/Amina-600x297.png" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The men of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps on Tuesday in Maiduguri captured an 18-year-old Boko Haram suicide bomber, Amina. According to Amina, she was given N200 for the mission.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> According to her, she was abducted two years ago by the sect in Madagali, Adamawa, and taken to Sambisa forest.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> She said, “They gave us N200 each which they said we should use to buy food for ourselves.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “It took us three days to come to Maiduguri on a motorcycle. We were directed by the sect members to detonate our explosives anywhere we saw any form of gathering.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “They said if we press the button, the bomb would explode and we will automatically go to heaven.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “I was scared, so, I told them that I could not detonate any explosive. So, they said if Zainab detonated her own, it would serve the purpose.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “On our way to Maiduguri, we encountered the military and they were shooting. I was very scared and the people that brought us ran away.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “I am from Imam Shekau’s faction of Boko Haram, even though I have never seen Shekau. But I hear about him in Gobarawa.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> She said that her father, mother and younger brother, Umar, were all killed when they tried to escape from the Boko Haram enclave where they were held hostage.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> She said, “We came from Gobarawa along Damboa, Madagali and Algarno axis, in a community where a lot of us were held hostage and married off by the sect members.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “I am also married to a Boko Haram Commander known as Amir.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Commandant of the corps, Ibrahim Abdullahi, said that the incident occurred at about 6.45 a.m.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> He said, “Our personnel at the NNPC station intercepted two female suicide bombers who were targeting motorists on the long queue at the NNPC mega petrol station at about 6.45 a.m.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “One of the bombers got scared and threw away her bomb and was instantly arrested, while the other one began to run after people with her explosive but luckily, she was shot on the leg by our personnel after he chased her to a safe place.”</div>

"After Being Paid N200 To Detonate Bomb, I Was Told I Would Go To Heaven" – Amina

The men of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps on Tuesday in Maiduguri captured an 18-year-old Boko Haram suicide bomber, Amina. Acc...

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Police Recover N110m From INEC Officials Bribed During Rivers Rerun

<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglqTTP6DKQ-W8_yF8JVze9R7rsNveK7hoCHX4UTjIhtekoRzBqipMjYQWVQEJleo-t-GBbCvAu_yiPUlkwa3BqpLuo6-w4syv8LQ6fFoGi8bp7pe8UJe_O15DGtX2NSy5kXcUkwl_43lBK/s1600/The-Bribe-600x303.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglqTTP6DKQ-W8_yF8JVze9R7rsNveK7hoCHX4UTjIhtekoRzBqipMjYQWVQEJleo-t-GBbCvAu_yiPUlkwa3BqpLuo6-w4syv8LQ6fFoGi8bp7pe8UJe_O15DGtX2NSy5kXcUkwl_43lBK/s320/The-Bribe-600x303.png" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), have been recovered by the Nigeria Police Force over N111m, alleged to have been the bribe given by Rivers state government to rig the December 10, 2016 legislative rerun elections in the state.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv9NCRy9ZoVR-pjTk2qiASH-NNftD9DAKuPcLKGbDDK3H-g_dAAYGtrGGgt3d92c_J7CqagssB3_3BHtAcfmaacyEB9qZhWKyCNqKzSJvQ0lrwwbUr7h2bZTal4_Dxuo_2jkW6Hno73ON-/s1600/Photo-13-450x600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv9NCRy9ZoVR-pjTk2qiASH-NNftD9DAKuPcLKGbDDK3H-g_dAAYGtrGGgt3d92c_J7CqagssB3_3BHtAcfmaacyEB9qZhWKyCNqKzSJvQ0lrwwbUr7h2bZTal4_Dxuo_2jkW6Hno73ON-/s320/Photo-13-450x600.jpg" width="240" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> An investigative panel set up by the Inspector-General of Police which presented its report in Abuja today said the money was recovered from 23 suspects allegedly bribed to rig the polls.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The chairman of the panel, DCP Damian Okoro disclosed that,” the sum total of N111.3 million was recovered from 23 electoral officials out of N360m.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> He said that some got N15 million each while three senior electoral officers got N20 million each.</div>

Police Recover N110m From INEC Officials Bribed During Rivers Rerun

Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), have been recovered by the Nigeria Police Force over N111m, alleged t...

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Buhari’s Wife Opens Up On His Health Status And Why He Visited The UK

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaaaDX0aEOFF6d9LdJIQzyf8vvG5mjrPPzaYs7h7-SDr08H-CyVK65uvDW6UUyQjtJm4bWPGyORXhB89ki-WR296wqzA45GHBn0Orw58NDzwttSoyzauC7vOsRpbMUDRGyfF6SGuaiicAv/s1600/First-Lady-Aisha-Buharis-Official-Portrait-BellaNaija.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaaaDX0aEOFF6d9LdJIQzyf8vvG5mjrPPzaYs7h7-SDr08H-CyVK65uvDW6UUyQjtJm4bWPGyORXhB89ki-WR296wqzA45GHBn0Orw58NDzwttSoyzauC7vOsRpbMUDRGyfF6SGuaiicAv/s320/First-Lady-Aisha-Buharis-Official-Portrait-BellaNaija.png" width="262" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The wife of Muhammadu Buhari, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "open sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Aisha Buhari,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "open sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> The President of the Federal Republic Of Nigeria, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "open sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC has debunked rumours that her husband is ill and being hospitalized in a London hospital; DAILY TIMES reports.</span></div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif;">Speaking to newsmen at the Westminster Plaza Hotel, in Waterloo, Mrs Buhari said, ”He’s just come here to rest. He’s just here to have a rest, at least a few days rest before he goes back to business”. ”When asked if her husband was in hospital, she said, ”I’m hearing it for the first time”.</span></span>

Buhari’s Wife Opens Up On His Health Status And Why He Visited The UK

The wife of Muhammadu Buhari,  Aisha Buhari,  The President of the Federal Republic Of Nigeria,  presidential candidate of the All Progre...

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