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President Muhammadu Buhari • President opens 48th Commonwealth parliamentary confab • Canvasses African leaders’ democratic co-operation • FG promises to address infrastructural deficit in varsities President Muhammadu Buhari has regretted the situation Nigerians have found themselves in their impatience for dividend of democracy in the country.

Nigeria will remain on the board of EITI and ownership transparency train because they align with our national priorities. He also advised against, hidden ownership and underhand business practices, which He said will erode profitability and shareholders value. Masked or hidden corporate ownership is deeply implicated in the sad story of our underdevelopment. Because secrecy provides a convenient cover for the criminal and the corrupt. It is important to underscore the fact that opacity in one section of the globe undermines openness in the other. To Receive Alerts for more news; sign up now and make your comments @: iykerom.blogspot.com Whatsapp: +2347084045060 For Sponsored Advert Share your story with us: SMS: +2349066092265 Or Email Us: allegiance.gc@gmail.com

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has again asked the Federal Government to produce their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, or they will be forced to cause violence. IPOB, in a statement signed by its spokesman, Emma Powerful, insisted that the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government knew Kanu’s whereabouts.

Saudi Arabia on Sunday denied that any of its officials had visited Israel , after Israeli media reported that a senior prince had made a secret diplomatic trip there .

The reformist inclination of President Muhammadu Buhari has never been helped by what has become an historical perception of sectionalism in the direction of his leadership .

  Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday presided over a meeting attended by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu; and the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr.Maikanti Baru, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Both Kachikwu and Baru were in the limelight lately over a letter the minister wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari on the NNPC boss. Kachikwu later told State House correspondents that the meeting discussed issues relating to oil fields as well as opening of escrow accounts and cash call issues. The minister said, “ Is a meeting on upstream , a normal typical meeting . It was largely AGIP bringing some information to the Vice President on where they have been in terms of Okpai, in terms of Zabazaba Deepwater oilfield field, in terms of the cash call exit which they are doing with NNPC . “ It was basically updating him, asking for areas where they need some assistance from government officials to sort of...

          President Muhammadu Buhari                           has arrived Turkey . He touched down on Wednesday at the Esenboğa International Airport, Ankara, Turkey. He was received by Nigeria’s Ambassador to Turkey; Governor of Ankara , and other officials .

    A former President , Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has vowed never to return to the Peoples Democratic Party . He said he would rather remain a statesman, working for the interest of the nation .

Tragedy struck in Owerri , the Imo State capital , on Monday after yet -to -be identified gunmen shot dead a serving corps member , Ekene Uwaoma . This is just as a graduate of Electrical Engineering , University of Ilorin , Miss Taofeeqah Oloriegbe, died on Monday – five days to her convocation .

…Adjourns case till Nov 20 …As FG applies for warrant of arrest …Abaribe requests for time to produce Kanu ..Court orders Abaribe, Jewish priest to produce Kanu or face jail …If Kanu is with you, please release him ABUJA- The Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, ordered Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, a Jewish High Priest, Emmanu El-Shalom Oka BenMadu, and an accountant, Tochukwu Uchendu, to appear before it on November 20 to explain the whereabouts of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.

                        Speaker Dogara ABUJA- Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara, has warned that any of the government Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, that disrespects the resolutions of the National Assembly stood the risk of having zero budget allocation.

              Buhari and the Governors Govs demand 50% balance of Paris Club refund Meet with Buhari, seek to use funds in their 2018 budgets. ABUJA — Governors of the 36 states of the federation, yesterday, met President Muhammadu Buhari, demanding payment of the 50 per cent balance of Paris Club refund as agreed in 2016.

A businessman, Augustine Anyia, yesterday, told an Agege customary court that his wife, Nneka, asked for N5 million, a car, N100,000 monthly allowance as pay off; as he begged the court to dissolve his seven-year-old marriage due to lack of care, lesbianism and threat to his life.

THE total value of capital imported into Nigeria in the first quarter of 2017 (Q1’17) was estimated to be $908.27 million, according to a report released, yesterday, by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

The Acting President , Yemi Osinbajo, on Wednesday , said no amount of prayer and fast by Nigerians could move the nation forward without hard work.

• Six state govs , Federal Govt team to negotiate with Labour • says 2017 budget undergoing analysis Olalekan Adetayo , Abuja The Federal Government on Wednesday approved a 29 - member tripartite committee on a new minimum wage being clamoured for by the workers .

Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has contracted by – 0.52 per cent in the first quarter of 2017. This was revealed on Tuesday in a report from the National Bureau of Statistics.  More Images 

Emeka Ephraim Ugwuonye, Nnamdi Kanu's lawyer Emeka Ephraim Ugwuonye, Lawyer to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu has been temporarily banned from legal practice in Nigeria.

Activities at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso were on Wednesday, May 24, paralysed as hundreds of students of the institution took to the streets of Osogbo, the Osun State capital to stage a public protest against non-payment of lecturers and other workers of the university for the past nine months.

By July this year, six winning teams from Middle East and Africa, MEA, will fly the continent’s flag  at the world wide finals of the 2017 Microsoft Imagine Cup competition.