I NEVER SAID PETROL’LL SELL FOR N40 PER LITRE –TAM DAVID-WEST

                                        

A former Minister of Petroleum Re¬sources, Prof Tam David-West, has denied newspaper reports, Daily Sun not included, that Buhari will crash the price of petrol to N40 per litre.

The Professor of Virology who spoke to Daily Sun in a telephone interview at the weekend, said at no time did he ever made such com¬ment, regretting that he must have been misquoted.
Rather, he said, he only canvassed that some 14 items currently listed in the petrol pricing template be re¬moved as that would help crash pet¬rol price to N40.

105 die during Hindu new year party in India

A temple in the southern Indian state of Kerala was gutted by fire on Sunday, killing no fewer than 105 people.

At least, 500 others were injured in the inferno, which broke out from a fireworks display, marking Hindu new year celebration.
The explosion at the Puttingal temple killed at least 105 people and injured more than 500, CNN quoted Indian authorities as saying.
It was learnt that the building was crowded with thousands of devotees celebrating the Hindu new year when the explosion happened at around 3.30am local time.

2016 Budget palaver: Presidency gives fresh conditions for assent

The Presidency has confronted the leadership of the National Assembly, NASS, with details of  distortions orchestrated by the lawmakers in the 2016 budget and asked them to urgently address them in the interest of the nation. The Presidency handed down the plea at a crucial meeting summoned by President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday night with the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo; Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and the House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, and ministers in attendance. Sources close to the meeting, which took place at the

‘Arresting Jonathan’ll spell doom for Buhari govt’

The umbrella body of Ijaw youths, the Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide, has alleged that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is laying a foundation for the arrest of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

The IYC, however, advised the anti-graft agency to shelve any plan to “persecute” the former President, insisting that such a move would spell doom for the Muhammadu Buhari administration.
Speaking at a news conference on Saturday to mark the burial of a former Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, the IYC President, Mr. Udengs Eradiri, said most of the close allies of Jonathan had been arrested by the EFCC.

Falae Guard’s Murder By Herdsmen: OPC wants Buhari’s intervention

Sequel to the killing of one of their members in Ondo State, the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, weekend asked President Muhammadu Buhari to speak out and check the continued assault on Yoruba people by Fulani herdsmen in the country. Falae The Coordinator of OPC in Akure North area of the state, Ayodele Ige, who was deployed with others to secure the farm of the former Secretary to the

Recover $200bn loot, shelve $2bn loan plan, Falana tells FG

A human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has advised the Federal Government to shelve its plan to obtain $2bn loan from China.

He said instead of “plunging the nation into more indebtedness” the Federal Government should intensify efforts to recover some funds totalling about $200bn which were either not remitted to the Federation Account or stolen from the nation’s treasury.

Buhari rejects N’Assembly’s peace deal on budget

There were indications on Sunday that the National Assembly’s  peace moves with the executive over the 2016 budget crisis had flopped.

Ashiwaju.org  learnt that as part of the peace moves, the National Assembly had, on Saturday, reached out to the executive and asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the document and then send a supplementary budget to the lawmakers.
 It was gathered that the President did not accept the suggestion against the backdrop that the distortions in the budget discovered in the document transmitted by the National Assembly were too many.

SARS Man Uses Me To Rob For Him --- Roobbery Suspect

A 21-year-old suspected robber, Akeem Popoola, says a police inspector attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, uses him to swindle unsuspecting victims.

He said he had worked for the policeman, identified as Inspector Festus, aka Ijaya, for about four months before he was arrested.

Alhaji Baraje Scores Performance of APC, Poor

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Kawu Baraje, on Sunday described the party’s performance since taking office close to one year ago as unimpressive.

He also warned the party against repeating the mistakes made by the Peoples Democratic Party which led to its electoral defeat in 2015.

A case for Igbo customs and values

                                             Written By R M Odegbo

It is fairly evident that Igbo customs and values are on the highway to extinction. Their fleeting existence, already stark, shows very slim chance of surviving the ferocious erosion of modernity. Sadly, very little effort is being made by the people to forestall the progressive decline. Everybody, it would seem, acquiesces to the decay.   

From the hallowed to the mundane - nothing is spared the buffet of the cruel fate. Coronation, title-taking, burial ceremony, marriage ceremony, breaking of kola nut to the least of these customs and values has lost the touch of tradition. All are now in acute struggle against eroding influences that appear decided to lay them waste. Nobody is sure where the development is headed, but it certainly does not lead to any cultural flourish.