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If the recent advice by the coalition of Northern youth groups is anything to go by, President Muhammadu Buhari might remove former Rivers state governor, Rotimi Amaechi, from his ministerial nominees’

President Muhammadu Buhari has on Monday sent the second batch of the ministerial list to the senate for screening. There have been several indications on the social media that the following individuals will make the new ministerial list:

President Muhammadu Buhari has forwarded a second batch of ministerial nominees to the Senate. Mr. Buhari sent the list on Monday afternoon.

Former Power Minister Prof. Chinedu Nebo has attributed the nation’s improved power supply to efforts of former President Goodluck Jonathan. He argued that it would be wrong for Nigerians to attribute the improvement in power supply to President Muhammadu Buhari’s body language and his anti-corruption stance. The former minister, who served as the pioneer vice chancellor of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE) before he was appointed minister, said Jonathan did his best to transform the power sector, but was frustrated by saboteurs.

Odion Ighalo (right) scored Nigeria’s third goal in the 3-0 defeat of Cameroun…last night.Nigeria recovered from Thursday’s 0-2 loss to Congo DR to thrash eternal rivals, Cameroun, 3-0 last night in an international friendly that looked like anything but a test game for both teams in Brussels, Belgium. The Nigerian team were roundly condemned by their compatriots after a shambolic performance that made Congo DR look like Germany on Thursday.

Russia’s counter-terrorism agency says it has arrested a group of people who were preparing to carry out an attack in Moscow. The National Anti-Terrorism Committee said in a statement that homemade explosives were found in an apartment in the capital where the group were arrested. No details about the number or identity of the suspects were given, reports Sky News.

There can be many reasons why women may find themselves needing to urinate more often than usual. There are two main reasons why you need to urinate frequently — either your kidneys are making a lot of urine and your bladder fills up quickly, or you might have an urge to go to the bathroom often even though there is only a small amount in your bladder.

Bayern Munich forward, Thomas Muller, has admitted that he might move to the Premier League in the future, because of the “very tempting” wages on offer. The 26-year-old was heavily linked with a move to Manchester United in the summer and Bayern confirmed they rejected a “very high” bid for the Germany international. Although the Bundesliga’s CEO, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, this week insisted that the player is not for sale at any price, Muller himself says it is possible.

Severe thunderstorms lash southern Italy before heading towards Greece and the Balkans. The clear-up operation is now underway as the worst of the wet and windy weather moves into Greece and the Balkans [EPA] It's been a very busy week for western and central parts of the Mediterranean. It all began after a cluster of thunderstorms left North Africa and made their way into southern Italy. This system dumped 25mm of rain over Algiers on Thursday. That's almost a third of the entire average October rainfall of 79mm.

 The Central Naval Command (CNC), in Yenagoa, on Sunday destroyed 50 illegal oil refining camps and 150 drums of locally refined diesel at Asiagbene in Delta. The CNC conducted the operation in collaboration with Nigeria Navy Ship (NNS), in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta. Real Admiral Apochi Suleiman, the Flag Officer Commanding (FOC), Central Naval Command, Yenagoa, accompanied by Commodore Sule Aliyu, NNS chief in Delta, said that the largest illegal refinery in the region was discovered during the raid.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has announced a loss of N378.49 billion in its operations for the first eight months of the year. One of NNPC’s subsidiaries, the Products and Pipeline Marketing Company Limited, PPMC, accounted for majority of the losses, as it spent over N300 billion on subsidy and in the repairs and management of its pipelines between January and August. In the figures presented by NNPC’s Monthly Financial and Operations Report for August, obtained over the weekend, NNPC posted a loss of N60.669 billion and N51.714 billion for the months of July and August, respectively.

Olu Falae Six of the suspected Fulani herdsmen, who kidnapped the former Secretary to the Federal Government of Federation and Finance Minister. Chief Olu Falae, have been arrested and an unspecified amount of the N5 million ransom recovered from one of them. Vanguard gathered that the six abductors, were apprehended at separate locations in Niger, Ondo and Ekiti states, by a team of Special Intelligence Squad, deployed by the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Solomon Arase.

The Chief Executive of Dangote Industries Limited, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has said the firm would build cement plants in 18 African countries, including Nepal in Asia to make the continent import-dependent free. A statement by the company on Sunday said Dangote made the announcement at the commissioning of 3.0 million metric tonne per annum (MTPA) cement plant at Mgao Village, Mtwara, Tanzania. He said the entire Africa firms, which would produce more than 80MTPA of cement, was to make Africa an export continent rather than import-dependent .

Millions of Guineans voted peacefully on Sunday in the West African country's second free election since the West African country's independence from France nearly 60 years ago. Guinea - Africa's leading producer of bauxite, the raw material for aluminium - has a history of election violence linked to ethnic tensions, including in a 2010 vote that brought President Alpha Conde to power after military rule.

FILE - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma gestures during a media briefing. South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party said Sunday it has told President Jacob Zuma’s government to withdraw South Africa’s membership from the International Criminal Court (ICC). South Africa and the ICC have been at loggerheads since South Africa failed to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir during the African Union summit in South Africa last June. Just last week, the ICC asked South Africa to provide an explanation of why it did not arrest Bashir.