The Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, has directed Commissioners of Police and Divisional Police Officers in Benue, Rivers, Cross-River and Akwa-Ibom to arrest and prosecute rampaging cultists and other criminal gangs in their states. Arase took exception to violent activities of the delinquent youths, which he described as a security threat. The acting IG, in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday by the Force Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Ojukwu, directed the CPs and DPOs in the aforementioned states to be on the lookout for the cultists and to bring them to book. Mr. Arase also advised parents and…
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Petite singer, Yemi Alade has opened up on how she misses her late father and has taken to connecting with him via her hair. The controversial pop singer lost her Dad, on January 16, with the funeral planned for tomorrow (May 7) and the day after (May 8). Her dad was an officer in the Nigeria Police Force. The singer who is deeply affected by his passing, shared a picture of her new hairstyle, and likened it to her late father’s official beret. She drew the comparisons with the touching caption: “Today i wear my hair like MY DAD’S BERET ..#tillWeMeetAgain…
Na wa oooh, some people just want to go and kill themselves. A Ghanaian boxer named, Braimah Isaac Kamoko also known as Bukom Bukom has come out to say he wants a match against Floyd Mayweather. Bukom is also an undefeated champion who won all his 27 fights. The boxer took to Facebook to let the world know what he’s up to. Bukom, 35, wrote “i want to meet mayweather face to face. the way i am mean that boy, is too know too much. if i am fight him i am discipline him small…”
Chris Brown who is trying so hard to be a good father has gotten the best birthday gift ever from his 10-month-old baby girl, Royalty as he clocked 26 on May 5. Because he’s shown so much love, admiration and attention to his daughter lately, his baby mama, Nia Guzman and Royalty teamed up to gift the ‘Beautiful People’ singer a treasure for his big day. A source close to Nia tell HollywoodLife: ”Nia has so many pictures of Royalty it’s insane. She found one when Royalty was a little tiny baby, around 26 days old. In the picture, Royalty‘s wearing all white and her eyes are…
‘Gold Digging’ star Rukky Sanda has decided to get herself a tattoo like most of her fellow Nollywood actresses. The not-so-talented Nollywood star shared her new ink o her 68,000 followers on her Instagram last night, May 5 posting a photo of herself admiring the large drawing on her back while sitting on her dressing table. Sanda captioned: ”I Looked Back In The Mirror & Guess Who I Saw??? #me…? Rotfl… Nnyte…x”. While some of her fans described her new tatts as ‘hot’ ‘sexy’ and ‘pretty’, others were too distracted with the countless bottles of fragrances behind her b*tt that…
The Lagos State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on Tuesday granted Jimi Agbaje leave to inspect all polling materials and documents used in the April 11 governorship election in the state. Mr. Agbaje was the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the election in which the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Akinwunmi Ambode of the All Progressives Congress as winner. The three-man tribunal, led by Justice Muhammad Sirajo, gave the order while ruling on a motion ex-parte filed by Mr. Agbaje’s counsel, Clement Onwuenmunor. The tribunal also ordered INEC to provide certified true copies of all polling documents, including…
As the jostle for Senate Presidency continues, the Deputy Minority Leader, Ahmad Sani, has said that senators may flout the zoning arrangement of the All Progressives Congress (APC) if the Senate Presidency is not given to the appropriate region. Mr. Sani told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja that the National Assembly was now made up of more independent minded individuals who hold national interests above that of the party. He recalled that Aminu Tambuwal was not the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for Speaker, but he was elected by members all the same.…
The Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayo Fayose, has insisted that his call for the dissolution of the Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu-led National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party was in good faith, and in the overall interest of the party, saying, “I have no apology on my position on the NWC because their responsibility as a party does not take away their failure in the last general elections”. The governor, who also challenged the NWC to provide evidence of money released to him to prosecute the last elections, argued that, “only N30m was received for the last two elections…
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha, says the House will commence consideration of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) next week. Ihedioha, who presided over the plenary on Tuesday in Abuja, disclosed this to the lawmakers. He said that copies of the report from the ad hoc committee on PIB were circulated to lawmakers for perusal. It will be recalled that the Chairman of the Ad hoc Committee on PIB, Rep. Ishaku Bawa, (PDP-Taraba) submitted the report of the committee’s assignment to the House in March 2015. The committee had scrutinised 363 sections and annexure of the original…
The Kwara State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, on Tuesday pleaded with the national leadership of the party to keep faith with the zoning arrangement, which ceded the position of the Senate President to the North-Central geo-political zone. This formed part of the resolutions of the state working committee of the party at the end of its meeting in Ilorin, the capital. The party also organized a special prayer session to seek divine intervention for the aspiration of its leader, Dr. Bukola Saraki, to become the Senate President in the 8th Senate. The Kwara APC insisted that the number…
The Senate on Tuesday, passed Violence against Persons (Prohibition) Bill, which seeks to prohibit female circumcision or private part mutilation, forceful ejection from home and harmful widowhood practices. The bill also prohibits abandonment of spouse, children and other dependents without sustenance, battery and other harmful traditional practices. The Bill was sponsored by the Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN). It is also intended to eradicate violence in private and public life and provide maximum protection and effective remedies for victims of violence, and punishment of offenders. The bill equally prohibits economic abuse, forced isolation and separation from family and friends, substance…
Nigeria’s president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday met with one of the journalists jailed under the draconian Decree 4 in 1984 when he was a military Head of State. The journalist, Tunde Thompson, who alongside his colleague, Nduka Iraboh, at the Guardian newspaper, became one of the faces of the Buhari military junta’s iron-fisted rule, had prior to the March 28 polls, said that he had forgiven the then All Progressives Congress candidate. He later worked as part of the former head of state’s media team. Hosting members of his Media Team and Social Media Influencers at the Defence House, Abuja…
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has denied describing Igbos as people who vote based on their stomach and suffer from incurable money mindedness. Some online news media platforms had quoted the Nobel Laureate as saying Igbo were politically naive while delivering a lecture titled ‘Predicting Nigeria, Electoral Ironies’ at Harvard University Hutchins Centre for African and African American Research in the United States last week Wednesday. He was quoted to have said: “Igbo remained unrepentant and resolute towards their strategic objective of secession at worst; or a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction at best”. The report went viral and resulted…
Award winning Nigerian artiste, Davido, recently stunned a lot of his fans on Instagram. The pop singer who has been at wrong side of the media in recent times, shared a picture of a restaurant named after him. He expressed sadness over the use of “Mama Davido Restaurant and Bar” by a fan of his. Taking to Instagram to show his displeasure, Davido posted the picture of the restaurant “Mama Davido Restaurant and Bar” that left many of his fans entertained. See picture below; The Omobaba Olowo crooner was also spotted on Sunday partying with American rappers, 50Cents and Nicki…
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The Minister of Finance and Co-ordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday, said the government has not removed fuel subsidy from the 2015 budget, as she confirmed that N145.2 billion provision was made for it. “I want to clarify that there has been some misinformation that has gone around in the media about the fact that the National Assembly passed the 2015 budget without provision for fuel subsidy. It is not true,” she told newsmen in Abuja. “It is important that you note that the National Assembly approved provisions of N100 billion for PMS (Petroleum Motor Spirit, otherwise…
President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari says he does not know how to tell Nigerians that he will not be able to turn the economy around quickly as promised. “The expectation is too high and I have started nervously to explain to people that Rome was not built in a day. For this to be corrected, please, give the incoming government a chance,” said Buhari when governors under the All Progressives Congress (APC) paid him a congratulatory visit on Tuesday. He noted that the outgoing government has battered the economy so much it will be hard to hit the ground running. “Here, I…
Although his country recently killed three Nigerians convicted of drug charges by firing squad, Nino Wawan Setiawan, Indonesia Trade Promotion Center’s Director sees no impediment to stronger ties between Nigeria and his country, as he supplied new ideas that could help to strengthen Nigeria-Indonesia bi-lateral relationships, especially in the key sectors of both economies. “In 2014 total trade relation between Indonesia and Nigeria hit US$ 3.9 billion. This is a 7.45% increase if we compare with 2013. But the trade relation is still deficit for Indonesia, and that is why we are here to encourage Indonesian Export to Nigeria,” said…
Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governors, Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, yesterday said that the outgoing government has ruined the economy. He noted that the fact that the Federal Government was yet to pay April salaries showed how unhealthy the economy was. “One of the issues that became of concern to all of us is the state of the Nigerian economy which is really in bad shape. We have come to notify the incoming president of the challenges ahead of him,” Okorocha said when the governors visited President-elect Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja. “As it stands, most states of…
As President Goodluck Jonathan intervened in the open war between his aides and the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a retired Police Commissioner, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav has said that the situation the PDP has found itself was caused by Jonathan’s wife and some aides who took over the party and were speaking for it everywhere. “When the PDP was formed with pomp and pageantry some years back, its members boasted that it was the largest party in Africa. Some at a point boasted that it would rule for 60 years and beyond. Things went right,…