About 20 bodies of people believed to have been killed for ritual purposes were discovered, yesterday, in Soka, Oluyole local government area of Oyo State. . Also, 18 men and five women, believed to have been bewitched and bound with fetters in a dungeon, were found and rescued. . One of the rescued victims believed to have been bewitched and bound with fetters in a dungeon, in Soka, Oluyole local government area of Oyo State. . The rescued victims looked emaciated. One of the women was said to have been delivered of a baby who was sold to a waiting…
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At least 17 people have been killed by an explosion in a village market in Borno State in an attack blamed on Boko Haram Islamists, a local police chief said on Sunday. . The deadly blast struck a busy marketplace late on Thursday in the remote village of Nguro-Soye, injuring many more, said police chief Lawan Tanko. . News on the attack was slow to emerge after insurgents destroyed nearby telecom towers, shutting down communications in the area. . “An explosion in the market in Nguro-Soye killed 17 people,” Tanko told AFP, adding that police were investigating the source of…
President Goodluck Jonathan has arrived Amsterdam, Netherlands, ahead of the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) scheduled to hold in The Hague on Monday. . This was contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday by the President’s Senior Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati. . The president, according to the statement, had earlier travelled to Namibia and the Vatican on other official engagements before his arrival in Amsterdam. . The statement said the president was being joined at the summit by more than. 50 other world leaders including United States President Barrack Obama and the Chinese President, Xi…
The Consumer Protection Council (CPC) has said that consumer’s right is not observed in the country. . Head of CPC, Lagos Office, Mr. Tam Tamunokonbia, said this at the World Consumer Right Protection Day held in computer village with the theme: “Fix your phone right.” . Tamunokonbia said, “Consumer right is not observed in Nigeria where there should be value for money on every product purchased or service rendered.” . He said that the literacy level in the country is not encouraging, given that so many people who come to complain do not have e-mails. . According to him, “Our…
FOR going ahead with the competency test for secondary and primary schools in the state, despite a court order stopping same, counsel to Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools, ASSUS, Mr. Olayiwola Afolabi, is to file contempt proceeding against Edo State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Henry Idahagbon. . Meanwhile, Edo State Commissioner for Higher Education, Mr. Washington Osifo, has described the assessment test conducted in the state by the Prof. Denis Agbonlahor- led Assessment Committee as a success, saying that teachers who absented themselves from the test will have themselves to blame. . Although the exercise was…
The Registrar of a Magistrate’s Court in Enugu State has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for demanding bribe in the course of discharging his official duty. . Anikwu Ifesinachi was convicted and sentenced by Justice A. A. Nwobodo of Enugu High Court without an option of fine. . The convict was arraigned by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, on a two-count charge of demanding and receiving bribe. . Ifesinachi was acused of demanding a bribe of N80,000 from the relation of a suspect before he would process the warrant of release. . The relation…
Senate President, David Mark last Thursday escaped death as his convoy was allegedly attacked by yet to be identified gunmen in Orlu, Imo State. . The Senate Present who had just retuned from Switzerland where he attended the International Parliamentary Union, IPU, conference, went to Nkwere, Imo state to attend the burial ceremony of late business mogul, Sir John Richard Anyaehie.  . In a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Senate President, Paul Mumeh Friday night, though no life was lost, the attack occurred in Orlu Senatorial Zone of the state. . Mark lamented that the attack…
The joint meeting of the National Council on Privatisation (NCP) and the Board of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC)yesterday ratified the results of the financial bid opening for seven out of the 10 power Generating Companies. . The Governor of Delta state, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, who briefed State House Correspondents after the meeting, explained that the Federal Government would generate an optimal sales value of $4.2billion from the preferred bidders while the least total sales value from the Reserved bidders is $4.089billion Minister of Power, Professor Chinedu Nebo who explained the approval of the bids result said three…
President Goodluck Jonathan rounded up his state visit to Namibia yesterday where he was conferred with “Order of Welwitschia”, the Namibia highest national honour, by President Hifikepunye Pohamba. . The ceremony took place at the Independence Stadium, Windhoek, and was attended by the founding President and the father of the Namibian nation, Dr Sam Nujoma. . Over 35,000 persons witnessed the ceremony at the stadium which was full to capacity. . President Jonathan who arrived the stadium in company of his wife, Dame Patience, was greeted with a loud shout of “Igwe!’ (King) popularised by Nigerian Nollywood film that is…
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Kenneth Minimah, says the Army will not rest until peace is restored in communities affected by Boko Haram insurgents. . Minimah made this known during the farewell ceremony in his honour by the Infantry Corps Centre, Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC) Jaji, Kaduna State, on Friday. . “We shall not rest until peace is restored to all affected communities. As we forge ahead, we will refocus our priorities to training, equipment, welfare and motivation of our troops,’’ he said. . He said the current security situation affecting most parts of the…
Nigerian police said Saturday they had raided a home near Lagos where eight pregnant girls were staying with plans to sell each of their newborns for nearly two thousand dollars. . “Following intelligence report, we discovered and stormed on Friday a baby factory in Akute district of Ogun state,” a police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, told AFP. . In the home they found the suspected operator and eight pregnant girls, most of them under the age of 20, he said. . It is the latest discovery of a so-called ‘baby factory’ and the first known case in southwest Nigeria. . The…
The Management of National Hospital, Abuja, has released five more bodies of those who died during Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment to their family members. . Only one out of the seven bodies deposited at the National Hospital mortuary on March 14 was earlier claimed after proper identification. . The hospital’s spokesman, Dr Tayo Haastrup, said on Saturday that: “we had earlier released only one body but in the last two days, we have released five more bodies to family members of the deceased. . “We are left with one body and it will be released to the family members after…
As the world marks the 2014 World Water Day today (Saturday), many Nigerians have renewed the call for the erection of more pumps to ensure steady supply of pipe-borne water to the citizenry. . A cross section of people in some parts of the country expressed their views in separate interviews with reporters on Saturday. . While some noted the efforts of some state governments in the provision of water, others called for the phasing out of indiscriminate drilling of boreholes and unwholesome well water. . Mr Sampson Ebine, a resident of the FCT, said many satellite towns depended solely…
A former governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayo Fayose, was on Satuday declared winner of the PDP governorship primaries in the state. . Reports have it that Fayose emerged winner with 462 votes out of a total of 477 votes cast. . Leader of the PDP panel which conducted the primaries Dr Peter Odili announced that immediate past Minister of Police Affairs, Navy Capt. Caleb Olubolade scored 7 votes. . Odili said that Mr Dayo Adeyeye came third with 3 votes while Mrs Modupe Ogundipe came fourth with one vote. . He said a total of 544 delegates were accredited…
Public secondary schools in northeast Borno state have been closed indefinitely following deadly attacks blamed on Boko Haram Islamists, teachers and parents said Saturday. . The closure reportedly affects 85 secondary schools, catering to some 120,000 students across the troubled state, a stronghold of the militant sect waging a five year insurgency in Nigeria. . The murderous group, whose name means “Western education is sinful” in the Hausa language, has vowed to stop children attending school. . “We reported to school on Friday last week (March 14) but to our shock the principal of the school told us he had…
Mr Kingsley Kuku, the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, said on Friday that N35.83 billion would be spent in 2014 for the reintegration of ex-militants enrolled in the Presidential Amnesty Programme. . Kuku disclosed this in Abuja at a budget defence session with the House of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta. . He told the committee that a total budget proposal for the Presidential Amnesty Programme in the 2014 was N63.28 billion, of which N35,83 billion would expended on the reintegration component of the presidential amnesty. . He said another N23.62 billion was required for the payment…
MEN of the Delta State Police Command have arrested a 71‑year‑old man involved in duping women under the guise of empowering them through the wife of the President, Dame Patience Jonathan’s empowerment programme. . The suspect was arrested with another member of the syndicate while his wife, who is said to be a key player in the scam, is said to be on the run. . Parading the suspects at the premises of the Police ‘A’ Divison, Asaba before newsmen, yesterday, the state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Celestina Kalu, said that: “The run‑away wife of the 71‑year-old man (names…
Malam Muhammad Nafi’u, the Chief Imam of Nupe Road Central Mosque, Kaduna, on Friday, urged Muslims to continue to pray for peace and stability to end the security challenges threatening the country. . He made the call in an interview after the Friday prayer in Kaduna. . He said “the country is in need of prayers for peace and stability and to end the present bloodshed in some parts of the country.” . The cleric condemned the spate of attacks in parts of the country, saying no religion allowed the killing of innocent souls. . “Islam is against this devilish…
Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State Friday escaped death by the whiskers when he was attacked by gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect at Shuwa, Madagali local government area of the state. . Madagali has witnessed series of terrorists attacks recently and the governor had gone to the area to commiserate with the people when unknown gunmen fired gunshots into the air as the governor was addressing the people. . Eyewitness account said that moments after the Governor had received the microphone to address the people, two gunmen in military uniform emerged from the crowd and…
A 54- year- old Estate agent, Femi Adewumi and two others, were Friday arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate Court, for allegedly obtaining the sum of N168million, under false pretence of selling a land. . The other defendants, are Bamiji Taiwo 34, and Tobi Ajibola 33. . They were arraigned, before Magistrate Eniola Fabamwo and they are facing eight count charge, bordering on conspiracy, forgery, obtaining and fraud, preferred against them by the police. . The prosecutor, ASP Barth Nwaokoye, said that the defendants and others at large, committed the alleged offences between 2012 and 2013, at 15BB, Roxton Road Ikoyi…