US imposes visa restrictions on Ghana over refusal to take deportees.

The United States has imposed visa restrictions on Ghana, accusing the African country of not cooperating in accepting its citizens who have been deported from the United States.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “has ordered consular officers in Ghana to implement visa restrictions on certain categories of visa applicants,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement.

“Without an appropriate response from Ghana, the scope of these sanctions may be expanded to a wider population. Ghana has failed to live up to its obligations under international law to accept the return of its nationals ordered removed from the United States.

We hope the Ghanaian government will work with us to reconcile these deficiencies quickly,” said DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said.

Davido, Cardi B, Meek Mill, others to perform at Belgium Festival

Nigeria’s popular singer Davido has been scheduled to perform with other international artistes at the 2019 VestiVille Festival in Belgium.

The ‘Aye’ crooner recently had his first show at O2 Arena, London. VestiVille is a brand new music festival in Lommel, Belgium. The festival is positioning itself to become the premier hip hop and urban music experience in Europe.

Tell Lagosians why Ambode should go, Agbaje challenges lawmakers.

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State, Jimi Agbaje, has urged the Lagos State House of Assembly to reveal the motivation behind their attempt to impeach Governor Akinwunmi Ambode.

In a statement issued by Agbaje’s Directorate of Media and Publicity on Thursday, he alleged that the Lagos lawmakers were using the issue of delayed presentation of the 2019 budget as an excuse to carry out an ulterior motive. He said, “Of course, the way Lagos politics has been structured over the last two decades, government actions are often dictated by open and covert objectives.

That the legislators are hinging their action on the purported delay of the budget is simply a smokescreen for a very shameful undertone that the honourable assembly members will not want to make open.

If Buhari didn't win in 2015, we would have thought by now that Nigeria would have been like London - Senstor Sani Sheu

Thank God he won for everyone to know that he can't perform magic. Buhari said he does not know anything called subsidy. You clapped. He later paid subsidy. You clapped again. He said he would never devalue the Naira. You clapped. He devalued the Naira. You clapped. He said he will make N1 equals to $1.

You clapped. $1 is officially equal N360. You are still clapping. He said he will make petrol price to N40, you clapped, Now petrol price is N145, you clapped and do protest in support.

He said he would turn all presidential jets to national carrier. You clapped. Today, he and his family are cruising on all presidential jets. You are clapping.

He said he would build one new refinery each year. You clapped. Its getting to three years, no refinery has been built. You are still clapping. When he cancelled Military road blocks, you clapped.

When he asked them to go back, you clapped. When PMB promise to end medical tourism, you clapped. When he spent months in the UK hospital and allowed local doctors on strike, you clapped. And as i am typing now some are still clapping at the fuel station, you need a brain reset

Osun herbalist’s son remanded for stealing lady’s pants .

One Olasunkanmi Yekini, was on Thursday, arraigned before an Osun State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo for the alleged theft of three pants belonging to a lady.

The 19-year-old herbalist’s son, it was gathered, allegedly stole the pants and a Tecno mobile phone in Osogbo. PUNCH Metro gathered that one of the stolen pants had a blood-stained sanitary pad.

The police prosecutor, Inspector Muslim Jafani, said Olasunkanmi broke into the room of one Folashade Ganiyu at No.12 Ibokun Road, Oja Oba, Osogbo, on January 28, 2019, around 10am.

The accused was said to have stolen the pants and a Tecno phone valued at N5,050, an offence the prosecutor said was contrary to and punishable under the Laws of Osun State of Nigeria, 2003.

Angry constituents beat Ondo federal lawmakers during Osinbajo’s visit.

The Senator representing the Ondo-South Senatorial District, Yele Omogunwa, was on Thursday allegedly assaulted by some residents of Okitipupa, the headquarters of Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State during a visit by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo to the palace of the monarch of Idepe town, Oba Michael Adetoye.

Similarly, a member of the House of Representatives, representing the Idanre/Ifedore Federal Constituency, Mr Bamidele Baderinwa, was allegedly beaten by some youths in Idanre on Wednesday during Osinbajo’s visit to the traditional ruler of Idanre town.

It took the intervention of the security details of the Vice-President, who whisked the lawmaker away from the scene, to save the situation. Omogunwa, who is the senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the forthcoming general elections, was said to be in the vice-president’s entourage when the incident happened.

It was gathered that angry youths carried out the attack. . One of the youths, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, “He (senator) was beaten because he neglected us in the senatorial district; he carried out no constituency projects for the over three years we have elected him.

“He does not have any constituency office in this town; he was not accessible, we couldn’t reach him for over three years; so what does he want here? Election is coming now, so he wants to cajole us again, that will not be possible.” . The vice-president had in the last three days visited the traditional rulers and market women in Akure, Ondo, Okitipupa, Idanre, Ileoluji and the Akoko area of the state.

During Osinbajo’s visit to Ondo, the Osemawe of Ondo, Oba Victor Kiladejo, appealed to the VP to expedite action on the process of upgrading the Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo to a university of education and to dualise the Akure-Ondo-Ore road. . In his response, Osinbajo said all the requests of the traditional ruler would be looked into.

Buhari is fit to continue in office - APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has rubbished comment by the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) that President Muhammadu Buhari was not fit to re-contest the presidency.

Malam Lanre Issa-Onilu, the APC National Publicity Secretary, told newsmen on Thursday that the president was as fit as a fiddle. “I will not honour the so-called CUPP with any response because they don’t exist,” he said. 

According to him, the members of the CUPP are looking for space to team up with Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate, as he has promised, so that when he gets to power, they will continue where they stopped. 

The APC spokesman maintained that the coming elections would be a disaster for the PDP. He, however, added that all efforts of the PDP to scuttle and blackmail INEC, the institution responsible for the conduct of elections and smear the image of President Muhammadu Buhari, had failed.

“The president is hale and hearty, they started by saying the president will pass on his responsibility to campaign to the leader of the party Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, that he was not fit enough to go round the country to talk to the people.

“But we have been doing well, more than their so called healthy presidential candidate, the President is still going round the country, as I am speaking, he is in Kano before a massive crowd never seen before. “He has gone to lands where ordinarily you never expected anybody to come out, he got massive welcome, so we can understand where this is coming from,” he said.

He said the President had insisted that he would visit the 36 states of the federation because he was strong enough. Issa-Onilu added that if this was a miracle to the CUPP, they should understand that when God is involved, things worked differently.