A teenage girl said to have been locked up in a wooden cage for about 30 months by her parents over alleged strange ailment attributed to witchcraft has finally been released by members of a foundation. . The rescued victim, a twin, identified as Blessing Olokumo, an indigene of Ayibatari quarter, Opokuma, in Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, according to investigation conducted by the group, was diagnosed with a strange illness. . According to the acting President of the foundation, Comrade Tonyon Ebitei Robert, the strange illness led to the isolation of the girl by her parents due…
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The seven months old strike by Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, took a dramatic dimension yesterday at a meeting to resolve issues at stake as the union and Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, got entangled in a verbal war over invitation of students and the media for the talks. . While ASUP accused the minister of inviting students to the meeting to undermine it, the Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom, said the students and media were invited to know how far government had gone in resolving the lingering crisis. . On his part, National President of National Association…
Former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, yesterday, called for the arrest and prosecution of ex- President Olusegun Obasanjo, alleging that he started active corruption in Nigeria’s political circle. . Speaking at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, Dr. Kalu pointed out that he wonders why former President Obasanjo was still walking the streets free, stressing that after the reply of his letter by President Goodluck Jonathan, he (Obasanjo) should have been arrested and prosecuted. . According to him, the $16billion power sector fraud was done under ex-President Obasanjo, affirming that he could not even show good leadership…
OGONI area of Rivers State is the new theatre of war in battle for the soul of the state between Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s camp and those against him. . Weekend’s advertised rally by by the two camps was another reason for the latest news of violence that visited the state. Uncomfirmed reports said that two people lost their lives in the shootings that dazed the residents. . While the rally organised by the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, at Degema in the state was peaceful, that of the Save Rivers Movement, SRM, was aborted by suspected thugs and ceaseless shootings from…
17 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP senators are to quit to the All Progressives Congress, APC, within days after resumption tomorrow, Senator Bindowo Jibrilla, one of the senators defecting, has said. His assertion was, however, countered by the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, who in an interview said the PDP was bent on defending its majority in the Senate and winning back what it lost in the House of Representatives. . Senator Jibrilla, PDP, Adamawa North, who talked about the defection plans in a BBC Hausa Service interview at the weekend, said the defecting senators will communicate their…
Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola of Lagos State, in Benin City, Edo State, weekend, stated reasons behind his disagreement with the planned country’s centenary celebration by the Federal Government, just as the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr. Samson Osagie, alleged plans by the Federal Government to present a bogus budget in the name of centenary celebration with a view to squandering the money. . Governor Fashola and Osagie said what was on his mind on the proposed centenary celebration in Benin City, during a youth summit organised by the Edo State Government. . Osagie said: “We have heard…
Strong indications have came through in Abuja that ousted former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has been penciled down by President Goodluck Jonathan as the next Minister of Defence of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. . While announcing Tukur’s retirement and displaying the envelope containing the letter last week, President Jonathan, who is the leader of his party, revealed that he was going to reward the former chairman with a very tough and good appointment. . Security sources told Theinfostrides, yesterday, that tackling those that believe Tukur was asked to resign as PDP chairman because…
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has called the bluff of chairman, Mobilisation and Organisation of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the South-West, Buruji Kashamu to continue with his plan to go to court over his comment that he is wanted in the United States of America. Obasanjo through his lawyer, Wale Ajayi in his reply to a letter written to him by Kashamu through his counsel, Alex Izinyon (SAN), alleged that Kashamu had no moral and clean name worthy of any protection. . According to the former President: “The portion of his letter which referred to Kashamu in his open letter…
The Peoples Democratic Party who has President Goodluck Jonathan as a leader has appointed a former Governor, Bauchi State, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, as its new party chairman. Mu’azu is to replace the former chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, whose resignation was announced President Goodluck Jonathan. . According to a report published today in one of Nigeria’s national newspapers, Mu’azu was said to have been selected as the consensus candidate after a meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan and the governors of the party at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, yesterday. . At the meeting which was reported to have ended at 1:22…
A middle aged yoruba individual, Tunwase Kabiru, serving life sentence, Saturday, graduated with 4,308 students who bagged various degrees at the third convocation of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) in Lagos. . Kabiru, who came in company of the prison officials, was awarded a Bachelor’s degree (BA) in Human Resources Management. . Reports reaching Theinfostrides is that he narrated that he was currently serving a life sentence at the Kirikiri Maximum Prisons, Lagos, after being found guilty of murder. . He said: “I want to thank God for what he is doing in my life. I have always…