Nigeria will not be able to rescue the abducted Chibok girls unless it negotiates with Islamist sect Boko Haram according to the group’s terms, civil rights activist Shehu Sani, has said. “I can tell you that the best deal till date is the prisoner swap offer. I don’t know what else is on the table for the government because if we say we shall use force, we shall be endangering the lives of the girls,” said Sani, who has been very active in the government’s negotiation efforts. In an interview with Thisday, Sani noted that if the American and Israeli…
Author: Wale Adebayo
Written by Femi 1) They Recruit Fighters at a prime age Human rights watch dog revealed that the Islamic group recruits young children from age 11 above, and they undergo clandestine Military training in unknown camps. 2) Group despises Christians- Although their primary aim is to create a Muslim caliphate, the terrorist organization are also against practicing Christianity. The group’s leader Abubakar Shekau, described this hatred in an undated YouTube video. “Either you are with us, I mean, we are Muslims who are following solid footsteps, or you’re with Obama, Francois Hollande, George Bush … Ban Ki-moon and his people…
A couple of weeks ago, I reported about a competition that Timi Dakolo organized in which the winner walks away with $1,000 cash prize money. Well, just a few days ago, Kolly Dee (Kolade Alade) emerged the winner of Timi Dakolo’s singing competition, earning himself a $1,000 cash prize. According to Timi Dakolo, all the fans had to do was sing, record and upload a rendition of the chorus of ‘Great Nation’, his special Independence song, with the video with highest votes on his timeline winning the cash prize on offer. A number of his fans got involved in the competition, with Timi’s Instagram timeline awash with videos…
Balotelli has always wanted to stand out among the rest and he is creating quite a reputation for that. Every other person keep dogs, cats, and other kinds of animals as pets but the Liverpool striker, Mario Balotelli is a proud owner of a pig. The former Manchester City and AC Milan striker, named the female pig ‘Super,’ a nickname that has been ascribed to him variously by journalists. The pig is currently in Italy as it’s yet to be imported to England to join the player. The Italy striker moved to Liverpool for the sum of £16million from AC Milan in August 2014.…
Popular handsome Nollywood actor and model — Bryan Okwara has said his relationship with Ghanaian actress, Juliet Ibrahim is nothing more than good friendship. In an interview at the after party of the recently concluded reality show ‘Star The Winner Is,’ the former Mr Nigeria said: ‘Me and Juliet Ibrahim are just good friends, we have been friends for a long time, anytime we are on location, we just go out have fun, encourage ourselves in what we do best.’ Bryan Okwara emerged winner of the Mr. Nigeria edition in 2007 and went on to reach the semi-finals in the Mr. World competition in which…
Juliet Ibrahim, who is recognised as one of the sexiest and prettiest actresses in Nollywood and Ghollywood, recently divorced her husband, Kwadwo Safo Jnr., however, she is ready to tie the knot again sometime in the future. The actress, who was recently seen on location of a movie produced by Chioma Okoye starring Harry B, Ebele Okaro, Frederick Leonard, Daniel Lloyd, Nkiru Umeh and some other people, in an interview with Potpourri the Ghanaian beauty said some interesting things about herself and her future. Answering question ‘Which actor do you have chemistry working with on set?’, Juliet Ibrahim said: “A lot of them; it depends…
A former Niger State gubernatorial aspirant on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, Engineer Zakari Inuwa, has dismissed fears expressed that the insecurity situation in some parts of the North will threaten the 2015 general elections in the country. He said instead, northerners were ready for the elections and have vowed to see to its success. “I do not see any threat to the 2015 general elections now and even in the future especially with what I saw in Zamfara State during the local government congresses of the PDP which I conducted recently”, he said. Zakari, who was Chairman of the…
A governorship aspirant in Delta State during the 2007 general elections, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has condemned the All Progressives Congress (APC) for using the media to launch attacks on President Goodluck Jonathan and other notable chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Onuesoke, in a statement yesterday, alleged that the main opposition party had been using resources meant for the development of states controlled by it to castigate, discredit and ridicule Mr. Jonathan and PDP officials. He argued that instead of making its viewpoints devoid of negative activities, the APC had resorted to diversionary tactics of propaganda, blackmail and falsehood…
Ahead of the governorship primary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which has been slated for November 29 across the country, Kaduna State governor, Ramalan Yero, has made a bold move to seek a fresh mandate in 2015 by picking the Expression of Interest and Nomination forms. Yero, who picked the forms yesterday at the national secretariat of the PDP in Abuja, was accompanied by his deputy, Ambassador Nuhu Bajoga, the Speaker of the State Assembly, Tahir Usman, and all PDP members of the Kaduna State House of Assembly. Yero, who emerged as governor following the death of his boss,…
The media aide to the chairman of Rivers State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Jerry Needam, narrowly escaped death as gunmen numbering about four, stormed his residence in Port Harcourt between 4am and 5am Saturday morning. Rivers has witnessed fever-pitched political activities in recent times as the clamour for who succeeds Governor Rotimi Amaechi has pitched politicians against each other. The gunmen were said to have escaped in a speed boat when police arrived the scene. Confirming the development, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Ahmad Muhammad, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), said the Command had…
A former Inspector General of Police (IGP) and Chairman of the pan-northern socio-political organization, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Alhaji Ibrahim Ahmadu Coomassie, has expressed the optimism that power could shift to the North in 2015. The ACF has been in the fore front of the agitation for power to return to the North following the death of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in 2010. Fielding question from newsmen in Katsina yesterday, Coomassie said the agitation for power shift to the North by 2015 was realizable, stressing that once there was credible election where people are allowed to freely choose who they…
The worsening state of insecurity in the country reared its ugly head in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, following the abduction of the immediate past President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Okey Wali. The unfortunate incident was disclosed by the NBA in a press statement Saturday, signed by its current president, Mr. Augustine Alegeh (SAN). The umbrella body for Nigerian lawyers said it received the “shocking news” of Mr. Wali’s kidnap by unknown persons on Saturday, October 11, at about 9 p.m. Mr. Wali, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and an indigene of Rivers State, was elected the NBA’s 26th…
Following violence at the Ekiti State High Court last month, Senior Advocates of Nigeria Quakers and M.J. Onigbanjo have dragged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Ekiti State governor-elect, Ayodele Fayose, to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)over alleged violation of their right to practice as lawyers. Suspected political thugs allegedly loyal to Fayose had on September 22 and 25 attacked the Ekiti High Court. The lawyers alleged that their lives were threatened by the attack and their rights were infringed on. Quaker and Onigbanjo, who are lawyers to the litigants challenging Fayose’s eligibility to contest in the June…
The Osun State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has challenged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state to produce a Certified True Copy (CTC) of the pronouncement of the Federal Court of Appeal in Akure that purportedly nullified the election of state and federal legislators in the state yesterday. The APC asked Nigerians to ignore the claims that the elections of legislators conducted by the state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Ambassador Rufus Akeju have been declared invalid until the PDP produces the CTC. The party, in a statement by its Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Barrister Kunle Oyatomi,…
Youths from Ibeju-Lekki Local Government area of Lagos State have threatened to work against the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2015 general elections if the party fails to replace the current political office holders from the area. The youths, who gave the warning under the aegis of Concerned Youths of Ibeju Lekki Local Government, alleged that public office holders elected from the area have woefully failed people of the area. They said: “We like to remind the party leadership that the recent history of Ibeju Lekki is one that is politically threatened by the opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party…
Leader of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Ibrahim Ahmadu Coomassie, says there is the possibility of power shifting to the North in 2015. According to Coomassie, who is also a former Inspector General of Police (IGP) the agitation for power shift to the north by the ACF is realizable, provided election can be free and fair. Answering questions from newsmen in Katsina, Coomassie if people are allowed to freely choose who they want, power will shift from the South back to the North. “… the important thing is that people should be allowed to cast their votes and let their…
Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State has said whoever would succeed him in office come 2015 must be a leader with the fear of God. He also listed other traits such a successor must possess to include strong character, Wisdom of Solomon and interest of people of the state at heart. Above all, the governor said such a successor must be able to avoid the pitfalls his administration made the last seven years. Jang, in a letter to the people of the state said: “Regardless of where my successor will emerge from, our search for a leader in 2015 and…
The national President of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has described President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a total failure. In an interview with Vanguard, Oyegun described Nigeria as one of the worst places on earth, noting that nothing has changed for the better in 16 years of PDP leadership. “We will be stupid to say we are going to continue with a party that has failed us for 16 years now because nothing has changed for the better. Security is down, education is down, health facilities. We are one of the worst…
The Police in Delta State on Saturday confirmed the killing by armed robbers of Frances, the daughter of a former NFA Chairman and ex-MILAD of Kano State, Brig General Dominic Oneya (retd.) in Warri on Friday. The spokesman for the Delta State Police Command, Celestina Kalu, disclosed that Frances was attacked and shot by her assailants as she left a bank at JW Junction along Ovie Palace Rd, where she had gone to withdraw some money for her father. Kalu, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said though the robbers escaped with a box of cloths in the booth of the…
All seems not be well in the body of Christ at the moment as the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has advised the founder of Household of God Church, Pastor Chris Okotie to remove the log in his own eyes before attempting to remove the speck in another’s. The association was reacting to the demand by Okotie that CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, ought to have resigned his position over the alleged involvement of his aircraft in the controversial $9.3m smuggled into South Africa by two Nigerians and an Israeli for arms purchase. Okotie, had in a statement posted on…