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The National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun on Tuesday said the eventual removal of fuel subsidy is inevitable. According to him, the gradual removal of subsidy is necessary in view of emerging and current realities. Odigie-Oyegun said this when he received a delegation of the APC National Coalition for Peace and Mobilization which paid him a courtesy at the Party’s National Secretariat in Abuja. He explained that the current administration inherited an “infected system of subsidy” run by corrupt cartels. In one way or the other, subsidy must go.” He noted that a situation where government spends almost a trillion Naira yearly on the corruption-tainted subsidy regime is unacceptable and can no longer be sustained. The APC Chairman said oil cartels and their cronies resisting change have continued to blackmail and sabotage government on the issue of subsidy, a development that has resulted in the lingering nationwide fuel scarcit...

A group of Muslim jihadist attackers who on Monday stormed a bus in Kenya were prevented from attacking Christian passengers on board by a group of Kenyan Muslims, the BBC has reported. According to the report, the gunmen were said to have ambushed the bus, attempting to divide those on board based on the passengers’ religious affiliations. However, the Muslim passengers reportedly refused to split. At least two people were killed. Speaking to members of the Kenyan press, a local government official said Muslim passengers on board the Makka bus line told the terrorists “to kill them together or leave them alone,” according to Kenyan news outlet the Standard. Following the terror attack, Kenya’s Interior Cabinet Secretary, Joseph Nkaissery, praised the Kenyan citizens who risked their lives in the attempt to protect the non-Muslims passengers. Nkaissery said, “We commend the Muslims who stood by the Christians when the gang attacked. “They showed the terrorists can...

A midnight fire engulfed a bungalow in Ilasamaja area of Lagos yesterday, just as a gas cylinder exploded in Ogba metropolis injuring two persons. The incidents brought to the fore 23 fire incidents that occurred in Lagos within two days. The Ilasamaja fire, which was said to have raged for about twenty minutes before the arrival of fire fighters, was said to have been caused by a high voltage. When Vanguard arrived the scene at about 7am yesterday, the affected occupants were seen bemoaning their fate . One of the tenants, a businessman simply identified as Okudiri, said he lost N2.5 million cash in the inferno. He said: “I brought N2.5 million home for business three days ago only for me to return yesterday and discovered that the money and other valuables had been burnt. What do I tell the owner and where do I get such money to pay back?”, he asked in tears. Another occupant simply identified as Iya Alami, a graduate from the Kwara State polytechni...

According to the President at the Presentation of the 2016 Budget on Tuesday, December 22, Petrol will remain at the current rate of N87 per litre.   President Buhari said yesterday while presenting the 2016 Appropriation Bill to the National Assembly that the price of petrol is subsidised in Nigeria because the country imports refined products even it is Africa’s biggest producer of crude oil.   Buhari said he had directed the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) to adjust its pricing template to reflect competitive and market driven components.    “We believe this can lower input costs and attain efficiency savings that will enable PPPRA to keep the selling price for all marketers of petrol at N87 per litre for now”, the president said.    He noted that the current fuel scarcity “with long queues at petrol stations all over the country causing social dislocation” was very unfortunate.    He, th...

ISIS has threatened the reigning Iragi beauty queen the group or risk facing a situation too terrible for her to withstand. Miss Iraq 2015, Shaymaa Qasim has been warned by terrorist group ISIS in a spine chilling phone call that she will be abducted unless she joins them.   According to the Jerusalem Post and Kuwaiti daily al-Watan, Student Shaymaa, who is Iraqi's first beauty queen since 1972 was told to join the caliphate or face being kidnapped. But Shaymaa says she's not scared of the threat.    

A teenager, Gary Hillon has been placed on the S*x Offenders Register after begging police officers to r*pe him, UK Mirror reports. He also repeatedly asked a woman if she would sleep with him. The 19-year-old now faces being locked up for making the bizarre remarks. Details emerged at Paisley Sheriff Court as Hillon sat in the dock having pleaded guilty to three charges. He admitted making s*xual remarks to the woman, who can’t be named for legal reasons. Hillon also admitted to making sexual comments to the police officers and assaulting one by spitting on his body. Fiscal depute Saud Hassan told the court that Hillon, of Kintyre Avenue, Linwood, started speaking to a 40-year-old woman as she was in the town’s Stirling Drive on the evening of Saturday, September 5. The prosecutor explained: “She became aware of a male, the now accused, standing outside a garden gate. “He walked towards her and said, ‘can I ask you a question?’ “She replied saying that he could ...

    Nollywood actor, IK Ogbonna’s Colombian wife, Sonia Morales who is currently 26 is one of the hottest wives of Nigerian celebrities. The beauty queen and mother of one was born January 19, 1991, to a family of three, as an only girl and the oldest child. She is currently studying at University of Belgrade in the Republic of Serbia, in the Faculty of Political Science – Department of Social Policy, to be more specific.   She is on a scholarship and busy with her Masters programme at the moment which she revealed in an interview with the Encomium. The highly endowed woman is working with a non-profit organization for education of women and children in Third World countries. She also works as a translator.   ''I fluently speak five languages (including pidgin). I am ambassador of DFNG’ fashion line from London. From time to time I do modeling jobs, but I really don’t take them too serious. Not my priority'' she revealed in a rec...