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Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, is set to sack top officials of the Federal Government for inflating the 2016 National budget to the tune of N1.7tn.

Oliseh is concerned that taking connecting flights to Kaduna which does not have an international airport will be too much for the players   Sunday Oliseh rejects Kaduna as host of AFCON qualifiers against Egypt (Twitter/NFF) Coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria, Sunday Oliseh has rejected Kaduna as host of the crucial 2017 African Cup of Nations qualifiers against Egypt as proposed by the Nigeria Football Federation. The NFF has proposed the for the March 2016 clash with Egypt but Oliseh has rejected the proposal preferring the Adokiye Amasiemaka Stadium in Port Harcourt.

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Thursday urged corps members to remain calm over delay in payment of their January allowance.   Buhari-NYSC This is contained in a statement signed by Mrs Bose Aderibigbe, Director Media and Publicity of the corps, and made available to newsmen in Abuja. It attributed the delay to discrepancies in planning figures for 2016 from the NYSC, Ministry of Budget and National Planning, and the Ministry of Finance, respectively.

  A middle-aged man, Prince Agina, yesterday told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos that his wife, Obianuju, has been poisoning his meals since 2008. The union which was consummated on December 24, 2006 in Anambra had been blessed with three children. Obianuju was also accused of frequent fighting and infidelity by her husband. Agina said: “Since 2008, I have noticed that my food was being laced with poison, which has resulted to my deteriorating health; as I am standing here, I’m sick.

The biggest trade deal in history was signed Thursday, yoking 12 Pacific rim countries in a US-led initiative aimed at wresting influence from booming China. The ambitious Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) aims to slash tariffs and trade barriers for an enormous 40 percent of the global economy — but pointedly does not include Beijing. “TPP allows America — and not countries like China — to write the rules of the road in the 21st century,” US President Barack Obama said after the pact was signed in New Zealand. The deal — whose birth was fraught by domestic opposition in the US and in other key players, such as Japan — is a key plank of Obama’s so-called “pivot” to Asia, as he seeks to counter the rising power of China.

The Presidency has countered claims in some quarters that President Muhammadu Buhari has not achieved anything in the seven months of his administration. The Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, in a statement on Wednesday highlighted some achievements of President Buhari who took over on May 29 last year. Shehu was reacting to a recent report by the Centre for Democracy and Development which claimed that Buhari had only achieved one out of his 222 tracked electoral promises, representing 0.5 per cent of the promises.

THE Supreme Court yesterday restored the elections of Governor Emmanuel Udom of Akwa Ibom State and his Abia State counterpart, Okezie Ikpeazu, both of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) This was after the apex court held that their appeals against the judgment of the Court of Appeal was meritorious. This is even as there was tension in Taraba State yesterday as Governor Darius Ishaku and his challenger, Senator Jummai Al-Hassan, now Minister of Women Affairs await their turns at the apex court.