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A few weeks to May 29 handover date, the transition committee set up by outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan has yet to meet its counterpart committee set up by the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari.   Reports have it that the handover notes, which the Buhari team is to study and ask questions on, are yet to be ready. It was gathered in Abuja on Thursday that the argument between the two teams over terms of reference of  the Ahmed Joda-led Buhari Transition Committee is largely responsible for the deadlock. Mohammed, confirmed this in a statement he made available to newsmen. Mohammed, who is a member of the Buhari Transition Committee, explained that while the Jonathan Inauguration Committee had been meeting with its equal in the Buhari team,  “its transitional committee has yet to even meet with ours.” The APC spokesman also blamed a political adviser to President Jonathan for attacking the APC over the issue. It described as offensive and ill-intentioned t

LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron and his Conservative Party won a surprisingly solid victory in the British general election on Thursday, with nearly complete results Friday morning showing the party close to an overall majority in Parliament. The result defied pre-election polls that suggested a tight race between the Conservatives and the opposition Labour Party. It returns Mr. Cameron to 10 Downing Street for a second term, possibly with enough seats in the House of Commons that he will not have to rely on support from smaller parties to enact his agenda. He was expected to travel to Buckingham Palace on Friday to be invited by the queen to form a new government. The vote was a stunning disappointment for Labour and its leader, Ed Miliband, who had shifted the party away from the more centrist strategy it pursued in the late 1990s and early 2000s under Tony Blair. Mr. Miliband was widely expected to step down as leader and open up a new debate over the party’s

The governor of Nasarawa state Gov.Tanko Al-Makura  promised automatic employment to any newly deployed corps member who marries an indigene of the state. He made the pledge while addressing 2015 NYSC Batch ‘A’ corp members, during their swearing in- ceremony at Magaji Dan Yamusa permanent NYSC Orientation camp in Keffi Local Government Area of the state. He said that inter-marriage by corps members would not only foster unity, also promote peaceful co-existence among the people of the state and others states of the federation. He congratulated the corps members for the successful completion of their academic programmes at their various institutions of learning. “I urge you to use the lessons and experience you gained during this orientation course to develop yourselves, your host communities, the state and the Nigeria at large. “You should see yourselves as agent of positive change in the society. “I want to advise you to discharge your duties without fear or favour, and rela

The Harvard University Hutchins Centre for African and American Research in the United States has said that it will release the video of the lecture delivered by Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, within a week. Some online media had quoted Soyinka as saying Igbo were politically naive while delivering a lecture titled, “‘Predicting Nigeria, Electoral Ironies,” at the institution. He was quoted as saying “The Igbo are probably the only group of Nigerians that you can predict with great accuracy whom they will vote for in an election, because they tend to put their votes where their stomachs take them; suffering as it were, from incurable money-mindedness, as they would stop at nothing in their quest for personal financial gain.” However, Soyinka said in a statement on Tuesday that it was unfortunate that people could tell lies against him. The playwright described those who believe the report as morons.

The Presidency has finally confirmed that the First Lady, Patience Jonathan is currently not in the country. According to a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja by the media assistant to Mrs. Jonathan, the First Lady has traveled to Congo. Adewuyi added that Mrs. Jonathan has gone to the country to join her colleagues from Africa for the celebration of the 30th anniversary of a Non-Governmental Organisation, Congo Assistance Foundation, established by the Congolese First Lady, Madam Antoinette Sassou-Nguesso. He was however silent on when she is expected back in the country. It will be recalled that Mrs. Jonathan has been absent from all public events inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja, since President Jonathan lost his re-election bid in the March 28 presidential election. This has fueled speculations over her whereabouts with the presidency keeping sealed lips. The statement reads: “First Lady, Dame Patience Faka Jonathan, is in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, joi

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