The Kano State Hisbah Board said it has arrested 22 beggars for violating the state Anti-begging Law. The Public Relations Officer of the board, Malam Mohammed Yusuf, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Kano on Thursday. “Our men were able to again arrest 22 street beggars who are violating the law banning street begging in Kano metropolis,” Yusuf said. He said out of the 22 beggars, 11 were females while the other 11 were children who engaged in begging in hotels and brothels along Katsina road. According to him, the board has screened those…
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FILE PHOTO About 481 elite troops drawn from the Nigerian Army, Air Force, Navy and Police Force, completed a Special Forces training before they were deployed to fight Boko Haram in the North East. The Director, Army-Public Relations, Colonel Sani Usman, who made this known during a monthly press conference at the Army Headquarters in Abuja Wednesday, stated that they were deployed within the last month of the ongoing counter terrorism operation. He noted that successes in operations against Boko Haram are manifestations of Nigeria Army’s huge investment in personnel and material resources within the period. According to Usman: “the…
Mr Femi Fani-Kayode says he cannot be intimidated by threat of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to discipline him for calling for their sack. Fani-Kayode, the Director of Media and Publicity of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, stated this while speaking to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday. He spoke shortly after the resignation of the National Chairman of PDP, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu. According to him, “I am vindicated by Mu’azu’s resignation”. He, however, insisted on total overhauling of the party with the resignation of other members of the NWC for the party to…
The Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih, yesterday stepped down from the position. His resignation came some few hours after the national chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, also resigned on health grounds. Anenih, however, said he was stepping down to allow President Goodluck Jonathan to assume the position of the BoT chairman. He also cited the current state of affairs in the party as a major factor for his stepping down. Anenih, in a May 20 one-page letter to President Goodluck Jonathan titled the “Notice of my decision to…
Outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan has called on Nigerians and the international community to support the administration of the incoming President, Muhammadu Buhari, to enable him deliver on his promises. President Jonathan made the call on Wednesday when he received at the Aso Rock Villa, members of the African Ambassadors Group, who were on a farewell and solidarity visit. Jonathan will hand-over to Buhari on May 29, 2015. “The President-elect is not new to governance in Africa so I want you to show the same commitment to him as you have to me. The President-elect knows that our commitment is always…
A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode George, has described the resignation of Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu as national chairman of the party as “the best thing to have happened to us”. George, a member of PDP’s National Caucus, said Mu’azu’s resignation has proved that “PDP is made up of people with integrity”. He also described the setting aside of zoning by the incoming All Progressives Congress (APC) government for national offices such as Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives as “dangerous” for the polity. “It is in our party’s interest. It…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has ordered the immediate probe of one of its members, and former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, for criticising the party’s leadership and calling for its resignation. The party advocated sanction on Mr. Kayode, who was the Director, Media and Publicity of President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign organization, for launching a media war against its leadership. Mr. Fani-Kayode, alongside the Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose, and some other PDP members, have blamed the leadership of the party for leading PDP to its worst outing in 16 years. The party not only lost national elections, the number…
Chairman of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Alhaji Grema Terab, yesterday said there was no hunger or distress in any of the 20 designated internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Maiduguri. The SEMA boss was reacting to media reports which claimed there was hunger at a camp where thousands of people that fled from Bama at the height of the Boko Haram conquests are taking refuge. Mr. Terab, while acknowledging that the resources of Borno State are being overstretched by the demands of the IDPs, stressed that relevant agencies have never abdicated their responsibility of feeding, providing shelter,…
The Defence Intelligence Agency is leaving no stone unturned in ensuring it tracks the sources of funding for Boko Haram and terrorism in the country. The Chief of Defence Intelligence, Rear Adm. Gabriel Okoi, said the DIA was taking steps to track the funds being used to perpetrate acts of terrorism in spite of the challenges inherent in the system. Okoi said while the banking system made it difficult for such funds to be effectively traced, efforts were being made by the agency in that regard. The Defence Intelligence Chief made this known while speaking with journalists shortly after the…
The Traditional ruler of Onigbongbo in Ikeja, Lagos Munirudin Yusuf, has denied confronting the government with his directive on water bills. On Monday, Yusuf in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), directed every household in his community to disregard water bills from the Lagos State Water Corporation. The traditional told NAN yesterday that after the publication, some members of his community, including some of his chiefs, accused him of confronting government with the directive. Yusuf said: “I’m not in any way trying to revolt against the government. I gave the directive based on several complaints from my subjects on…
The British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, has said a story it ran last week about a restaurant in Anambra State, Nigeria, where human flesh is served as meat has been discovered to be false and inappropriate. In the report, BBC had said suspicious residents in Anambra told police about rumours that the restaurant was serving cooked human flesh as meat to its customers. It also said when police raided the restaurant, fresh human heads, still bleeding were discovered in a refrigerator just as blood found in the restaurant were in the process of being drained into a plastic bag before the…
The Kano State government has dropped murder charges against 14-year-old girl, Wasila Tasi’u, who had been on trial for killing her 35-year-old husband. Wasila allegedly thumb-printed a confessional statement while in police custody that she killed her husband, Umar Sani by putting rat poison in his food after she was forced to marry the deceased against her wish. According to lead prosecutor for the state, Lamido Abba Soron-Dinki, if Wasila can be proven guilty, the charge is “punishable with death” and the state would seek the maximum penalty. However, Soron-Dinki made an oral application before the Gezewa High Court, Kano,…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has welcomed the promise by Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to make details of the disbursement of Excess Crude Account (ECA) fund for the last four years public. This came following the request on Tuesday by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum for an explanation on how $20 billion that allegedly accrued to the ECA was disbursed. SERAP, in a statement by its executive director Adetokunbo Mumuni, urged the minister “to release without further delay as full details as possible not only on the disbursement of the ECA…
At least 27 persons have been killed in Barkin Ladi Local Government Council of Plateau State in attacks by people suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on Monday and Tuesday nights. The Council Chairman, Dr. Emmanuel Loman, who attended the mass burial of the 27 victims of the attacks told Thisday on phone, that the massacre started in Ninji village where the Fulani rustled cows belonging to the natives which was promptly reported to the police after they had killed seven people. According to Loman, the police traced the Fulani where they were loading the cows into a truck and arrested…
Former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair has asked the incoming president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari to overhaul the Nigerian National Petroleum corporation (NNPC) as it was one sure way of tackling corruption and saving more money for infrastructural development. Blair spoke at a two-day policy dialogue themed “Implementing Change: From Vision to Reality”, organized by the Policy, Research and Strategy Directorate of the APC Presidential Campaign Council in Abuja on Wednesday. He stated that Buhari and the APC must be true to their words at all times, saying that the action of the incoming government within the first 100 days…
What I really don’t understand is why Davido would be denying his baby? Anyways, yesterday was the first time pictures of Davido and his baby mama, Sophie Momodu appeared online. The pictures taken at Sophie’s baby shower were shared on Instagram by Sophie’s cousin Chief Dele Momodu. Today, May 20, 2015 more pictures from the baby shower have emerged. In these new photos, Davido and Sophie are looking more like a couple. The 22 year old singer and 28 year old Sophie look comfortable with each other in the pictures.
Nigerian superstar pop singer, Wizkid has decided to add another tattoo to his long growing collection. This time, he added the famous image of late Afro-beat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti on his inner arm. Wizkid got the tattoo earlier in the week and decided to show the body art to fans and followers on Instagram. In the early hours of Wednesday, May 20, 2015, Wizkid displayed the new tattoo which also include an image of a lion on his other arm with the caption, ‘Forever!!’ The tattoo was gotten in Los Angeles, United States of America, where the actor currently…
Everyone knows, Nkem Owoh aka Osuofia, as one of the funniest Nollywood actors; but what about his family. He surprised fans and business associates when he recently appeared a business meeting accompanied by two of his daughters. Sources disclosed that after several years of keeping his immediate life – wife and children- out of public glare, the actor stepped out with his daughters during the week. The teenage looking daughters accompanied the hilarious Nollywood actor on a meeting to renew his MTN endorsement deal.
The Egberi Papa 1 of Bayelsa, has decided to join the fitness club too. The very consistent dance-hall singer is definitely working hard in the gym to gain some muscle. The ‘Ukwu’ crooner shared a photo of himself in the gym trying to keep fit.
It seems like every male celebrity in Nigeria these days, is dating a foreigner. Dance-hall singer, Ketchup is in South Africa and pictures of him acting all cozy with ex Big Brother Africa contestant Mirah Miguel. The model shared a selfie of her and Ketchup on her Instagram account on May 15, 2015; four days later she shared another selfie of her with the ‘Show Me Yuh Rozay‘ singer. Today, Ketchup posted a picture of him and Mirah in a fast food restaurant in South Africa. It’s obvious that the two have been spending lots of time together. Mirah Miguel…