Author: Wale Adebayo

Chelsea has already completed the signing of Abdul Baba Raman from Augsburg. The deal for the 21-year-old Ghana international is reportedly worth £20million, but the Premier League champions have yet to disclose the actual figure. Rahman told the club’s website: “I am very happy to sign for Chelsea, one of the biggest clubs in the world, and I can’t wait to train with my new team-mates and very much looking forward to working with them and Mr Mourinho. “I am also looking forward to having the opportunity to meet the fans as soon as possible.” Baba Raman Joins Chelsea from Augsburg.…

The ranks of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State was on Saturday further depleted with the defection of over 3,400 members of the party to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The defectors are loyalists of the former candidate of the PDP in the 2012 governorship election in the state, Chief Olusola Oke. Oke had earlier this year defected to the APC. At the event to mark the defection held in Igbokoda, headquarters of Ilaje Local Government Area of the state, the defectors said they took the decision to leave the PDP because of the mismanagement of the country…

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose on Sunday advised President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) to heed to the wise counsel of the National Peace Committee led by former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, which has advised him to tread cautiously on the ongoing anti-corruption campaign. According to a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Fayose noted that the National Peace Committee tactically told President Buhari to tread cautiously and be mindful of the fact that Nigeria is not under a military regime. The governor, who said he was not unaware of the sinister…

Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has declared that those planning to truncate the lifespan of his administration will be disgraced by God at the end of the day. He said that his administration by virtue of strategic planning, had confounded those who claimed that road construction could not take place at the height of the rainy season. In his address to a congregation at the Lord’s Chosen Renewal Charismatic Ministry in Port Harcourt on Sunday, Wike said that his victory at the governorship elections was ordained by God and made possible by the prayers of clerics, including pastors of…

President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) on Sunday sent a presidential delegation to Maiduguri, Borno State capital, to commiserate with the government and people of the state on the death of the State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Zannah Umar Mustapha. According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the delegation was led by National Security Adviser, Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno (rtd.). The Borno deputy governor died in his sleep in Yola, Adamawa State on Saturday while on official assignment. Shehu, who is also a member of the delegation, said Buhari, in a tribute read on his behalf…

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has described as “fake”, his side’s 3-0 beating at Manchester City on Sunday. Goals from Sergio Aguero, Vincent Kompany and Fernandinho helped Man City maintain their 100% start to the new season. The Blues have now failed to get a win from their first two games of a Premier League season for the first time since 1998. Despite an outstanding start from Bosnian Asmir Begovic, who deputised for the suspended Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, Manuel Pellegrini’s men went into the break 1-0 up via Aguero’s opener right after the half-hour mark. The Argentine striker’s deft control…

Popular Nollywood actress and producer, Mercy Aigbe has warned her fans against paying any Facebook account using her name. The actress said she’s not on Facebook and scammers keep using her name to scam people on the site. According to Aigbe: – “I have received calls from different sections of the public that I run a film school and a modeling agency where people have to pay to be part of. Some unsuspecting members of the public have paid large amount of money to these fraudsters who are only bent of swindling them of their hard earned cash,” “A young lady recently walked…

Nigerian indigenous rappers, Phyno and Olamide, have renewed their endorsement deal with Guinness. The two superstars signed the deal yesterday August 15, 2015 at the company’s head office. The excited Phyno wrote on instagram: – “Second year running with #Guiness MADE OF BLACK AMBASSADOR #MADEOFBLACK #MADEOFMORE”

Sokoto government will introduce a state version of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has said. According to him, any policy that will ensure universal access to healthcare is commendable and should be supported to success. Tambuwal made this known weekend when he received officials of the National Health Insurance Scheme who visited him in Sokoto. He said the consultations become necessary so as to mobilise all stakeholders, and the people of the state, in order to ensure the success of the project. Tambuwal disclosed that some aspects of state laws will have to be amended to…

Senator representing Bayelsa East in the 8th National Assembly, Ben Murray-Bruce has spoken against the recent success recorded by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) which had led to the interception and subsequent destruction of contraband goods in the country. The senator, in one of his regular tweets, advised that such goods would have been put to better use by giving them to the poor. “Rather than destroy seized contraband, is it not better to give them out free of charge to the poor?” This came in reaction to a recent report that the NCS destroyed 600 cartons of poultry products…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alerted Nigerians and the international community that all is not well with the nation’s democracy following a thorough review of the political developments in the country since the All Progressives Congress (APC) took over power. PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, in a statement on Sunday said despite claims of being a converted democrat, President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) has allowed incessant violation of sections of the nation’s constitution, a development which poses a huge threat to democracy and the stability of the nation. “For instance, how can this government explain the fact that…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as mind-boggling the massive looting of the nation’s treasury by public officials. It noted that the government would be doing Nigerians a great disservice if such funds are not recovered. In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party thanked Nigerians for their overwhelming support for the Buhari Administration in its tough but important task of tracing and recovering the loots. “It is absolutely gratifying that Nigerians are vehemently opposed to the few who would rather have the government of the day turn a…

A former Senator representing Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District, Aloysius Etok, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) to introduce what he termed “self-amnesty programme” for looters of the nation’s treasury. Etok, who was Chairman of the Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service Matters in the 7th National Assembly, said the idea is to enable those who stole from the public treasury in the different sectors to willingly return what is left of their loot. He also commended President Buhari’s efforts in tackling corruption. Etok recalled that as a senator, he initiated the anti-graft war with pension fund managers…

At least three persons have been confirmed dead with several others receiving treatment at various hospitals in Zaria, Kaduna State following the demolition of their houses. Governor Nasir El-Rufa’i had ordered the demolition of structures illegally built on lands owned by the state government, especially, those within education institutions. According to Daily Trust, the dead persons were among those whose houses behind the Alhudahuda College in Zaria were demolished by the Kaduna State Urban Property and Development Agency (KASUPDA). One Ali Yayo, a resident of the community behind Alhudahuda, whose house was demolished, was said to have suddenly slumped and…

Some British security experts are currently in the country to provide expertise training for men and officers of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) across the country. Speaking at the opening ceremony on Special Weapon and Arms Training (SWAT) for the first set of policemen at the Mobile Police Training College, Ila-Orangun in Osun State, yesterday, the Commandant of the College, Dankwara Mohammed, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, said the programme was timely, particularly with the federal government’s renewed efforts to put a total end to Boko Haram insurgency and other security challenges facing the nation. According to the commandant, the…

A former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has ascribed the emergence of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the centre to the peoples’ quest for alternative to a failed party. He said, “Democracy is government of the people by the people for the people. So, if the PDP fails to deliver on its promises, people will go to the alternative. Change is always good, provided it is going to bring better alternative”. Tukur stated this while featuring on a political programme of Kaduna-based Liberty Radio, ‘Guest of the Week’, yesterday. He also blamed the…

The Convener of the Coalition of Northern Politicians, Academics, Professionals and Businessmen, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, has dismissed the statement credited to a former Governor of Anambra State in the short-lived third republic, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife that the Igbo have not been treated fairly in the governance of Nigeria. The former governor had argued that President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointment of Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, who hails from the Igbo-speaking part of Delta State, as Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, was not enough to appease the South-East. “It is not atonement for the many neglects and insults…

In its renewed commitment to clampdown on “super civil servants”, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has seized various landed properties and several cars belonging to three senior staff of the Federal Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs. The three are being investigated according to the commission for possessing properties which are “excessive, having regards to their present emoluments and all other relevant circumstances”. In a notice of seizure dated August 11, 2015 and signed by the ICPC Chairman, Mr. Ekpo Nta, the commission said that the movable and immovable properties seized from the affected staff were…

The lack of respect for human rights by some bad eggs in the Nigerian Armed Forces came to the fore yesterday when 39 soldiers from the Nigeria Army School of Military Engineering (NASME), attacked a community in north bank area of Makurdi, the Benue State capital. The soldiers, who reportedly went berserk, vandalised over 100 vehicles and made away with mobile phones, TV set, radio and other personal effects belonging to the residents. The rampaging soldiers also beat up the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Samuel Attah while the windshield of his new Toyota Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV), was smashed. According…

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operation Unit Zone C, on Saturday destroyed 600 cartons of smuggled frozen turkey and chicken in Benin, Edo State. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the NCS Comptroller of the zone, Mr Victor Dimka said the items were seized on Friday, Aug. 14, 2015, along the Benin-Ekiadolor road in Edo State. “The duty paid value (DPV) of the items are N5.76 million and the items were destroyed at customs house destruction site, in compliance with Federal Government policy on importation of frozen products (chicken and turkey),” Dimka was quoted to have…