People’s Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO) has slammed former President Olusegun Obasanjo for tearing his membership card, saying that such action was not only provocative, but also unacceptable. The Director, Media and Publicity, Femi Fani-Kayode, in a statement, said that Obasanjo has burnt all the bridges with his action. He added that while the former president was free to leave, “he did not have to spit in their faces by publicly tearing the party card. “Watching our party membership card being torn up whilst President Obasanjo was standing there and smiling was painful and tragic. “This is a party…
Author: Wale Adebayo
The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Lai Mohammed says the postponement of the election, which he claimed was effected by the presidency, has only postponed the evil day for the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP). “Clearly, the intention of the Jonathan administration in postponing the election is to create chaos and create an atmosphere where elections would not hold at all, but we thank God that they are disappointed. I think the reaction of our party and our presidential candidate appealing for calm above all must have shocked them immensely,” Mohammed told Vanguard in an interview.…
Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested Prophet Michael Raji, the resident minister of Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim, Agodo-Egbe, Ikotun branch, Lagos, for allegedly attempting to export narcotics with a street value of N609 million to South Africa. The 60-year-old suspect was arrested following the interception of the drugs at the cargo section of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, during pre-shipment examination. Raji told the NDLEA officers that he received the drugs from a friend and had kept them in his church since October 2014. The seized drugs, which weighed 174 kilogrammes,…
The Presidency, yesterday, described the launch of a countdown for the Chibok girls to regain freedom, by the by BringBack Our Girls group as mischievous. A statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, said President Goodluck Jonathan in his media chat never promised that the abducted girls would be freed within six weeks. The count-down by the former minister and her group was therefore unnecessary. “Our attention has been drawn to a statement credited to former Minister of Education and a leader of the Bring Back our Girls Group, Dr Oby Ezekwesili, to…
The South-West Presidential Contact Committee Group of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Monday, called for the removal of Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), for gross dereliction of duty and deliberate partisan complicity. The group made the call in a communique issued at the end of its meeting in Lagos, signed by Chief Olabode George, Senator Seye Ogunlewe, Maj.-Gen. A. T. Olanrewaju, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, Chief Ebenezer Babatope and others, where it also described the intervention of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in the current national challenges as distorted, unstatesmanly, too personalised and provocative. Following deliberations on the state…
Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola, Monday, announced the appointment of Mrs. Folashade Jaji, as the 18th Head of Service, HOS, effective immediately. Jaji was appointed 48 hours after the former HOS, Mrs. Josephine Williams, retired, following the completion of her statutory 35 years in service. Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Lateef Ibirogba announced the appointment at a media briefing in Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja on Monday. “Jaji is the 18th Head of Service in the state and she is the most senior of all the serving Permanent Secretaries in the state,” said Ibirogba. Although Jaji’s appointment has been criticised because she…
Former Governor of the Central Bank, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, who is now the Emir of Kano, owes President Goodluck Jonathan, the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke and the country’s senate a public apology over allegation that $49 billion of oil revenues were not remitted to the Federation account. This motion was moved by a civil society group, Move on Nigeria, which cited the audit report on the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, indicating that only $1.48 billion was yet to be remitted. “As a group, which was in support of the call for a probe, we…
The new thing for men this era is to grow their beards and side-burns really rough and bushy. According to a poll taken, it seems like most females prefer the Kukere master better with more beards and hair. Iyanya also keeps fit by hitting the gym regularly and his biceps are even bigger now. People think the new look defines how mature he’s becoming both with his life and his music.
Everyone seems to be changing up their fashion style and Ice Prince has followed through. The Nigerian rapper has decided to dye his beards blonde and is feeling good about his new look. He flaunted his new look and also held a bottle of customized MOET in the photo.
She has been in the business for a while and her age tells you all you need to know. The Nigerian talking drummer Ara celebrated her 40th birthday recently, and she had a chat with Encomium magazinew. She talked about her milestone age, her career, politics in Nigeria and much more. She also opened up to the magazine about some of the highlights of her life so far. Read excerpts from her Interview below: – On what she wants for her new age: I want God to give us a better Nigeria, where we will not need to complain about…
His the rave of the moment and is definitely Glo mobile’s leading man now. In a recent chat with Pulse TV, Lynxxx revealed that he’ll lose all his female friends if he shave his beards. He said: – “Constantly shaving meant I’d get darker and more bumps so I just decided to leave my beards to grow. So it wasn’t really intentional or a fashion movement. But now I can’t shave my beards anymore else I’ll lose all my gyal dem”he joked.
He’s currently one of my favorite entertainers in Nigeria. The funny singer has already diversified his business by doing something other than music. The fast rising Nigerian rapper Falz is set to launch his own line of T-shirts in collaboration with Jay Osbie as he announced on Twitter this morning. The designer Jay Osbie is actually the brains behind the collection, as he produced a special line of shirts for Falz. Falz has joined the likes of rappers 2Shotz and Ruggedman who also have clothing lines that consist of urban cool T-shitts. Falz whose real name is Folarin Falana is…
A mammoth crowd of supporters on Monday in Maiduguri overwhelmed the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, making him to abandon several efforts to address them. It took the convoy of the candidate more than an hour from the Maiduguri International Airport to arrive the Ramat Square, venue of the rally. The APC candidate, who was accompanied by his running mate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and other party leaders, had to abort all efforts at addressing the crowd which kept shouting “Sai Buhari”. Thousands of party supporters, mostly youths, had lined up along major roads in Maiduguri as…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustees Chairman, Chief Tony Anenih, on Monday said former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s exit from the party was not a loss to PDP elders. He said the former president would not be missed. Anenih spoke with State House correspondents shortly after attending a meeting of party chiefs with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. It was learnt that the meeting with President Jonathan was ongoing when news filtered in that Obasanjo had publicly tore his PDP membership card in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, while announcing his retirement from partisan politics. Anenih, who…
Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State on Monday urged the courts to properly address the status of political office holders, who defect to other political parties, stating that this would help restore sanity to the political arena. Aliyu said this in Minna after receiving the 2014 Hajj Report from the leader of the state delegation to Saudi Arabia, Prof. Sheikh Abdallah. “We need morality in politics. We need the courts to properly interprete the section of the constitution on defection. I believe that you cannot go to another party with the mandate given to you by a political party. “If…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised the alarm over a strange directive ordering Customs, Immigration and other security personnel to withdraw from the country’s border posts in Kebbi and Katsina States, wondering what purpose such a directive was meant to serve. In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the verbal directive led to the total withdrawal of the stated personnel from the border posts in the two states, leaving the posts unmanned and prone to illegal entry in light of the prevailing security situation. It wondered who…
Few hours after he dramatically announced his exit from partisan politics to become a statesman, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has been expelled by the Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The expulsion came on the heels of Monday’s incident when the Owu Chief asked that his PDP membership card be torn by the Chairman of his ward 11 Ita-Eko, Sumonu Oladunjoye. Speaking with journalists at his Abeokuta residence earlier today, the former president exposed the plot to expel him from the party. “They said they want to expel me from PDP”, he said. “Although I have not…
The Ogun State Police Command has paraded three Fulani herdsmen arrested for armed robbery. The State Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, who disclosed this on Sunday to journalists in Abeokuta, said some exhibits were recovered from the suspects. According to him, the suspects subjected residents of Atoba Estate in Sabo area of Abeokuta, as well as commuters and other road users along Igboora and Ayetoro Roads to hell by their nefarious activities. He said the suspects were arrested some days after a robbery operation at the estate when some of their victims, who were able to identify them while…
The Nigerian Army have completely secured Monguno, Marte and other communities in the North of Borno State from Boko Haram occupation. It would be recalled that Boko Haram fighters had launched an offensive on Monguno from different directions and eventually captured the town on January 25, 2015. A statement issued Monday by the Director of Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, said that a combined operation spearheaded by the Air Force, had completely cleared Monguno, Marte and other towns in the general area of terrorists’ presence. Olukolade added that some terrorists with arms and ammunition were captured by troops during…
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Monday said it had not extended the service year of outgoing corps members listed to participate in the rescheduled general elections. The NYSC Director of Press, Mrs Bose Aderibigbe, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. She said that contrary to insinuations, the outgoing corps members would participate in the elections as ad hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Aderibigbe said their completion of the national service would not affect their participation in the elections, stressing that INEC had already trained them…