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Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has said that Buhari’s entire APC government is under threat ofcorruption.VP Yemi Osinbajo and founder of ABUAD, Aare Afe BabalolaHe said the Federal Government would employ a new strategy to fight the dangerous dimension that corruption appears to be assuming in the country.Osinbajo made the declaration, in an address delivered at the 7th Founders Day and 4th convocation Ceremony of Afe Babalola University of Ado Ekiti(ABUAD) on Friday.According to him, higher institutions, such as ABUAD are great places to be used, ina national re-orientation programme being contemplated to fight the menace.He said none of the arms of government is immune from the scourge of corruption.He however said the Buhari government is ready to combat it, right from the school level.“All institutions of government are under the threat of corruption“You will please recall that President Muhammadu Buhari, had himself warned on several occassions that if we don’t fight corruption, c...

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political EditorFinance minister Kemi Adeosun has dismissed insinuations of President Muhammadu Buhari being a hater of women even as she Friday said that the administration has pumped inthe last four months pumped an unprecedented N720 billion to boost infrastructure.Mrs. Adeosun who disowned dates attributed to her on when the nation would come out of recession said economic growth would depend on global oil prices and how the economy responds to the spending stimulus fashioned out by theadministration. Among the spending plans she enumerated was the Affordable Housing Programme aimed at boosting home ownership in the country. She said the contractors for the programme moved to site this week.Mrs. Adeosun spoke on a BBCprogramme Friday evening.Asked if the president was a misogynist, she said:Kemi Adeosun“I think the fact that he has appointed women into very senior positions says his viewabout women. I work with him very closely and I don’t see any misogynistic ...

Tragedystruck in Ijebu-Ode when a -23-year-old lover, Omolara Abosede reportedly stabbed her husband-to-be Sodiq Dauda  to death over disagreement.Omolara stabs loverto deathThe incident occured on Tuesday,  October 18,2016 at no 10, Onirugba street,  Ijebu-Ode when Dauda reportedly beat his lover for alleged misappropriation of family fund.The Police Public Relations Officer in the state,  AbimbolaOyeyemi  who confirmed the incident said  Abosede has been arrested.Saturday Vanguard gathered that the lover stabbed her husband-to-be as a reprisal  to the beating she had received from the deceased on Tuesday,  but, he gave up the ghost the following day atthe hospital.According to Oyeyemi, the  incident happened when the couple whose wedding was slated for December this year had minor disagreement which emanated from non rendering of  proper account of the gas business , the late husband-to-be  entrusted to his lover .“According to t...

Mr Dan Bature, an Assistant Inspector-General (AIG) of Police in Charge of Zone 11 comprising Oyo, Osun and Ondo states, says any policeman checking vehicle particulars on the highways is on illegal duty.Bature said this on Wednesday in Ibadan during a two-day familiarisation visit to Oyo State.He said that the duty of the police was not to check vehicle particulars but to ensure safer roads.Bature warned policemen against blocking high ways, saying police patrol vehicles were not supposed to be toll gates.He said the Inspector General of Police (IGP) was committed to changing the negative image of the police and supporting the anticorruption warof the Federal Government.Bature advised officers unable to key into the laudable initiatives of the IGP to resign from the force.He said that a lot was expected by the publicfrom the police, adding that this informed the monitoring of officers.“The Inspector General of Police is determined to improve on your welfare and pursue the increment o...

File photo: Three policemen have been reportedly killed by unknown gunmen along Plateau-Kaduna road.Investigations revealed that then 3 mobile police officers on patrol were shot dead in the early hours of Monday, October 17.Premium Times reports that the incident occurred at Hawan Kibo, the boundary between Plateau and Kaduna states.Although the police spokesperson, Terna Tyopev, could not be reached at press time, a police source who confirmed the attack said the officers’rifles were also taken away.READ ALSO:2 sons of policemen killed over robbery, kidnap offencesThe source said the incident occurredat the same spot where two police officers attached to the special task force on Jos crisis were shot and killed earlier in the year.Monday’s killing occurred about 24 hours after gunmen raided Godogodo community, a settlement in Jama’ar Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Several residents have since abandoned the community while travellers on the Jos-Kafanchan-Abujaroad have also d...