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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has renewed his commitment to denuclearisation but warned that he may have no option but to seek an alternative course if the United States does not take corresponding measures and maintains sanctions. Kim made the comments on Tuesday during his annual New Year's Day address laying out Pyongyang's top priorities for the 12 months ahead. In a 30-minute speech broadcast by the North's state television, he said there would be faster progress on denuclearisation if Washington took corresponding action. North Korea would have "no option but to explore a new path in order to protect our sovereignty" if the US "miscalculates our people's patience, forces something upon us and pursues sanctions and pressure without keeping a promise it made in front of the world", Kim said He was referring to his landmark summit with US President Donald Trump in Singapore in June, when he said he had "fruitful talks" and "e

Dear compatriots, 1.It is my utmost pleasure to rejoice with all Nigerians as we enter the year 2019, which will be a very significant one for our country. 1. At the turn of every year, we often use the opportunity to look back at the past and forward to the future. To review the outgoing year, its high and low points, successes and failures, and be fully thankful to God. 3. We Nigerians are a religious people, and we believe that God reigns and rules in the affairs of men. A time like this offers precious opportunity for thanksgiving, stock taking and reflection on goals and targets set for the receding year, and how much was accomplished. The ones not done can then be rolled over into a new year. 4.The dawn of a New Year is also a time to look forward. To consider new prospects, unfold our plans, and prepare for landmark dates and events. 5.2019 will be an election year for us. In about two months, the polls are due, and we will elect leaders into various offices, at national

Fayose, in his new year message by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, criticize the continuous unprecedented suffering under the watch of Buhari and his cohorts Read as follows “I urge Nigerians not to lose hope, in spite of the biting hardship and pervading disillusionment in the land which of course was occasioned by the misrule, insensitive, militarised, greedy and selfish administration of the APC led government “You hold your destiny in your hand and can decide against the currently reigning tyranny and poverty. I tell you, you can do it. Don’t lose hope. The word of the Lord says that: ‘ this Pharaoh you see today, you will see them no more by February, 2019’. “PDP will bring back reasonable fuel pump price, lower prices of many commodities especially rice which has now gone up three times what it was during former President Goodluck Jonathan’s reign. “As the new year rolls in in few hours time, my prayer for you is that this Pharaoh of APC that has tormented you for

UPDATE ON POLICE OPERATIVES’ WAIT AT THE RESIDENCE OF SENATOR DINO MELAYE SENATOR DINO MELAYE IS WANTED BY THE POLICE FOR CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY AND ATTEMPTED CULPABLE HOMICIDE, COMMITTED ON 19th JULY, 2018, WHEN SENATOR DINO MELAYE AND HIS ARMED THUGS ATTACKED POLICE PERSONNEL, SHOT AND WOUNDED SGT DANJUMA SALIU ON STOP AND SEARCH DUTY ALONG AIYETORO GBEDE, MOPA ROAD IN KOGI STATE. · POLICE OPERATIVES DEPLOYED TO ARREST SENATOR DINO MELAYE IN HIS RESIDENCE WILL NOT RETREAT UNTIL SENATOR DINO MELAYE SURRENDERS HIMSELF FOR ARREST AND INVESTIGATION. Senator Dino Melaye is wanted by the Police for a case of Criminal Conspiracy and Attempted Culpable Homicide, committed on 19th July, 2018, when Senator Dino Melaye and his armed thugs attacked Police personnel; shot and wounded Sgt. Danjuma Saliu, attached to 37 Police Mobile Force (PMF) on stop and search duty along Aiyetoro Gbede, Mopa Road in Kogi State. 2. The Police operatives with a duly obtained Warrant of Arrest deployed to arrest

attention has been drawn to a statement by President Muhammadu Buhari accusing the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Atiku Abubakar of planning to smuggle in looted funds into the country just before the February 2019 elections. “This new accusation, like their previous allegations, is another infantile outburst that tells more about the ac cuser than Atiku Abubakar. “For the avoidance of doubt, history shows that rather than smuggle in looted cash, Waziri Atiku Abubakar has a record of preventing looted funds from being smuggled into Nigeria. “In 1984, it was Atiku Abubakar, as head of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Command of the Nigerian Customs and Excise Department, that stopped the ADC of the then Military Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, from smuggling in 53 suitcases of looted money into the country. “Young Nigerians and Millennials who may not be aware of this incident, will do well to Google it. Only the guilty are afraid. It is Presi

PRESS RELEASE BY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI CAMPAIGN ORGANISATION: WHEN THE THIEF IS SHOUTING “THIEF”: THE CASE OF ALHAJI ATIKU ABUBAKAR A few days ago, the Presidential Candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, called out President Muhammadu Buhari over certain allegations of “corrupt practices” which the President allegedly condones in his government. Whilst we have repeatedly addressed each and every of the instances cited by him to show the transparent nature of the government, it is shocking that the Presidential candidate of the main opposition has refused to issue a personal statement up till this minute clarifying in details his record of crass corruption and abuse of office. He is clearly taking Nigerians for a ride and hopes to distort the ethical revolution in public office that Nigerians clearly desire to his own philosophy of abusing public office to promote private interests. By his subliminal messages, he wants Nigerians to accept that becoming wealthy by abusing pu

the country’s first Executive President, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, who passed away on Dec. 28 has been laid to rest. At the event, Nigeria's current president made himself visibly available Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari, (February 25, 1925 – December 28, 2018) was a Nigerian politician who served as the first and only president of Nigeria's second republic (1979–1983), after the handover of power by General Obasanjo's military government. Shagari also served seven times in a ministerial or cabinet post as a federal minister and federal commissioner from 1958–1975.

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has been able to come out loudly to condemn the continuous resistance by the federal government and ASUU to arrive at a reasonable conclusion so as to take students back to the class room and that higher education is part of the right of all citizens. Read below. “The obligations of the Nigerian government to create the conditions necessary for the enjoyment of the right to education include to take preventive measures to address the root causes of strike action by ASUU and to take steps to end any strike action in a timely manner when it occurs.” It is the responsibility of the government to preserve and strengthen education as a public good and a matter of public interest. Without the urgent intervention of the Special Rapporteurs, the ongoing strike action by ASUU would continue and this would continue to impede access to university education for the poor and marginalized.” “SERAP is concerned that Nigerian students in public

Saraki in a statement signed by his Special Adviser (Media and Publicity), Yusuph Olaniyonu, Saraki condemned the manner in which this arrest is been carried out, If there was an offence allegedly committed in July and the police waited till now, we do not see the urgency in the need to arrest him about six weeks to the election in which he is a candidate. This simply means that this arrest is rather political. “The general belief now is that the Police action against Senator Melaye was aimed at keeping him out of circulation so that he would not participate in the general elections coming in February. The manner of invasion on his house is highly suspicious. This same man has been charged with sundry and needless allegations and he has attended the various court sessions. He is also a candidate in the coming elections and therefore have no reason to run away from the country. “He was also present in the Senate for plenary, committee meetings and oversight functions till the Senate

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All Progressives Congress, APC, earlier appointed Aliko Dangote and Femi Otedola as members of the Special Advisory Committee to President Muhammadu Buhari. Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo is the chairman of the committee, while other members are: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Senator Ahmed Lawan (Senate Leader), Femi Gbajabiamila ( Leader of the House ) and APC Party National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomole. In a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adenine, he said the APC has released the names of members of its Presidential Campaign Council for the 2019 elections.

TINA Magazine Kenya Miss World 2013 To Be Killed Today See Why (Pics) By Editor It will be a sad day today for many Kenyans and beauty pageant fans. Ruth Kamande is a beauty queen in Kenya. She won Miss World Kenya Beauty Contest in 2013. In September 2015, she stabbed her boyfriend Farid Mohammed 22 times and killed him.

The death of Shehu Shagari was announced by his grand son.

Uyo Rally: APC Diverted N478m NDDC Fund To Rent Crowd for Buhari – PDP. …Says heads of ministries, parastatals in Buhari’s Campaign Council Are Conduit Pipes The PDP Presidential Campaign Organization (PPCO) accuses the Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) of secretly drawing over N478 million from the coffers of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to rent a crowd and offset bills in President Muhammadu Buhari’s expensive re-election campaign rally going on in Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State The PPCO also accused President Buhari of directly appointing serving ministers and heads of government agencies as members of his campaign council so as to continue to use them as conduit pipes for the diversion of public funds to finance his 2019 campaign. Our party is also aware of the protests by some eminent Nigerians, including foremost businessmen, who were named as members of the APC Campaign Council without their consent, in a desperate bid to showcase an impression

Saudi Arabia's King Salman has already appointed a new foreign minister as part of a major cabinet shakeup, according to Saudi state media. A royal decree named Ibrahim al-Assaf as new foreign minister, demoting outgoing chief diplomat Adel al-Jubeir to the position of minister of state for foreign affairs. Thursday's shake-up is the first major cabinet reordering since the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in October by a Saudi hit and run squad. and the search for a guinea pig continues, even when it is clear that such attack was rather within planned and executed by the crown prince MBS.

The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), a Fulani Socio-cultural group, has endorsed President Muhammadu Buhari as the sole presidential candidate of the association in the 2019 general election. The National President of the Association, Alhaji Muhammadu Kirowa, announced this at the 2018 Annual General Meeting of MACBAN, held at the International Women Development Centre, on Thursday in Abuja. Kirowa explained that the group decided to unanimously endorse Buhari because of the numerous achievements recorded by his administration in the areas of Infrastructural development, youth employment and security. He, therefore, urged leaders and members of the association from Local, State and National levels to mobilise support and ensure that Buhari was re-elected. The National Secretary of MACBAN, Alhaji Baba Ngelzarma, commended the Federal Government for the robust measures taken by the military in eliminating cattle banditry and wanton killing of herdsmen and f

“It’s not Baba (Buhari) that is slow but it is the system . this is another message by Buhari to Nigerians He (Buhari) said, his approach towards fighting corruption is slow because the system is slow. The president said this when he received the Federal Capital Territory natives, who paid him Christmas homage at his official residence on Tuesday in Abuja. He said, We are watching the Independent National Electoral Commission very seriously and we are going out very soon; we will go from geo-political zone to geo-political zone, to remind the people of our promises in 2015. “These three fundamental things include security, because you have to secure the country before you can govern it and talking about what we have done regarding securing the country, the people of the North-east know better. “The three fundamental things we campaigned with are still very relevant. “On improving the economy, which we are still going to explore, we have done well in agriculture, and those who embr

A sound reminder of a free and fair 2019 election and a hopeful and better Nigeria. In the message signed by him, Buhari said: “We must not also forget that what lies ahead of us as a nation is better than whatever we must have experienced in the past” For the umpteenth he promised Nigerians that his administration would deliver a free and fair election next year, saying his word is his bond. “My avowed commitment to free, fair, credible and violence-free polls is not a ruse or yet another vain political promise. My word is my bond. “It is a sworn declaration on the advancement of Nigeria, the future and safety of our young and unborn generations. “Let us tell the world that, indeed, ‘‘something good’’ can come out from Nigeria. And it will happen, as we all team up to make it happen”, Buhari said. Read the President’s full message: I felicitate with all Nigerians, particularly our Christian brothers and sisters, on the joyous occasion of this year’s Christmas, which commemorates t

Speaking with Atiku and some other civil society groups in Abuja yesterday. Saraki disclosed that the 2019 budget presented by the president isn't workable Saraki in his opening remark, argued that the budget proposal presented by Buhari on Wednesday has no future because the statistics does not indicate the financial model by which it will be funded. He said, “Yesterday (Wednesday), we all heard the 2019 budget. That is a budget that has no hope for anybody because if you look at the statistics and the figures there’s poverty, if you look at the figures based on revenues that are coming in, there is nothing left. So where’s the future? “There must be an alternative and that is what we hope that by this evening speaking to our candidate and vice presidential candidate, not based on sentiments. We are not voting on sentiments, we are voting on what is the need for you. “How is your life going to be better? Which party offers you a better future because we see you as those who are

Badeh and Two of his aides were reportedly kidnapped after he was shot. The Nigerian Air Force confirmed the death of the former Defence chief in a statement by its spokesman,Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola. The statement, tagged:”Death of former CDS Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh,read thus:”It is with a heavy heart that I regretfully announce the unfortunate demise of former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Sabundu Badeh, who died today, 18 Dec 18, from gunshot wounds sustained when his vehicle was attacked while returning from his farm along Abuja-Keffi Road.‬ “On behalf officers, airmen and airwomen of the Nigerian Air Force, the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, commiserates with the family of the late former Chief of Defence Staff over this irreparable loss.  Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/12/breaking-ex-chief-of-defence-staff-alex-badeh-shot-dead/

Abuja – Vice President, Prof.Yemi Osinbajo, on Friday said that the foreign policy of the All Progressives Party (APC) would remain the economy and security. Osinbajo, at the Vice Presidential candidates debates in Abuja, said that the government was working on improving the trade process of the nation. “We just set up a trade office and this accounts for some of the work we have been doing"  “Also, some economic partnerships are being entered into with the European Union and we are looking at policies that will benefit Nigeria. “This is because we are looking at the economic interest of Nigeria in the partnership.” Osinbajo said that one of the points was that the government would cooperate with Nigeria’s neighbours and that was currently going on to secure the nation’s borders. He said that a multinational joint task force was in place with the nation’s neighbours to combat insurgency, to allow for free trade and other beneficial activities. Mr Peter Obi, Vice Presidential cand

Britain's Anthony Joshua has said he wants to fight WBC Heavyweight Champion Deontay Wilder in April. Earlier this month, Joshua watched on as Wilder and Fury fought a thrilling draw in Los Angeles.  MySportDab report the WBC have since sanctioned a direct rematch.  Speaking on American show First Take, Joshua said: "April 13, in London. I don't know what more I have to do to get that message across.  "He's (Wilder) more interested in fighting Tyson Fury - Tyson Fury holds no world titles. "I can't control what Deontay Wilder does, what Tyson Fury does, or what they say. What I can do is control what I do and say. "I made sure with the negotiations I booked the date in advance, the venue inadvance, and am making my point clear for everyone, I am willing to fight any one of these guys, especially the champion Deontay Wilder, at Wembley, April 13."