Vice President YEMI OSINBAJO has assured that the federal government will do everything possible to reduce the sufferings of Nigerians displaced by flood due to days of massive rainfalls.

OSINBAJO made this comments yesterday when he visited Zungeru, Niger state to commiserate with victims of the flood that recently ravaged the state.

He later inspected areas affected by flooding in the state.

The Vice President who was accompanied by the Niger State Governor, ABUBAKAR SANI BELLO also interacted with displaced victims at Zungeru primary school, Niger.

The Director General of NEMA, MUSTAPHA MAIHAJIA was summoned to brief the Federal Executive Council on the issue of flooding ravaging some states of the federation

Niger state was one of the four states in the country where NEMA has declared a national disaster as heavy seasonal rains have caused the Niger and Benue rivers to burst their banks.

The Chairman, Special Presidential Investigation Panel on the Recovery of Public Property, OKOI OBONO-OBLA has denied reports that he was under pressure to resign, saying the “purported report is false, baseless and wicked”.

OBONO-OBLA who came out with this in Lagos said that the matter in question that necessitated the report was in court.

OBONO-OBLA, a senior special assistant to President BUHARI, is alleged to be in possession of an “invalid” Ordinary Level result, according to findings by the House of Representatives ad hoc Panel.

The panel had said in the course of its primary assignment, it discovered the presidential aide might have forged his way into the University of Jos where he studied and subsequently, the Nigerian Law School.

OBONO-OBLA said that some people were after him for daring to investigate and expose assets hidden abroad by some powerful people in the National Assembly.

President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has met for the first time, with the newly appointed Director-General of the Department of State Services, YUSUF MAGAJI BICHI, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

When BICHI was ushered into the president’s office by protocol officials, he was asked by the president if they had met before.

The new DG, however, `confessed’ that he was seeing President BUHARI face-to-face for the first time in his life.

The meeting of the president and the DSS boss later went into a closed door session.

President BUHARI on September 13 appointed BICHI, as new Director-General of the Department of State Service (DSS).

BICHI, replaced LAWAL DAURA, who was sacked following the invasion of the National Assembly by his men on August 7.

Another Minister serving in President MUHAMMADU BUHARI’s cabinet has been found to have skipped the mandatory National Youth Service scheme, an offence that may see him lose his position and sent to jail.

It has been revealed that the Minister of Communications, ADEBAYO SHITTU, failed to participate in the NYSC scheme despite graduating from the then University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) at age 25.

This is coming about a week after Mrs. KEMI ADEOSUN resigned her position as Minister of Finance after she found that her NYSC Exemption certificate was fake.

ADEBAYO SHITTU is currently eyeing number seat in Oyo State.

Months of discreet checks at the NYSC headquarters showed that the Minister for Communications did not present himself for service after graduation and is yet to do so till date.

When contacted, the Minister admitted that he did not serve but claimed he thought his first political post after graduation could suffice as national service, a claim lawyers and NYSC insiders consider as ludicrous and untenable.
Skipping the compulsory national service is an offence under the NYSC law, punishable with up to 12 months imprisonment.
However, those who graduated after their 30th birthday, persons with national honours and individuals who serve in the military and intelligence organizations are exempted.