A military court-martial sitting in Abuja early hours of Tuesday sentenced 12 Nigerian soldiers to death by firing squad after they were found guilty of mutiny, disobedience and attempted murder in Maiduguri, Borno State last May. The court also sentenced a soldier to one-month jail term with hard labor while freeing five others. It would be recalled that on 14th May 2014, a group of soldiers fired shots at Maj-Gen Ahmadu Mohammed, the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 7th Division of the Nigerian Army, at Maimalari Barracks, Maiduguri. The soldiers threw caution to the winds and fired shots at the official…
Author: Wale Adebayo
LMAO…ok bro I think she’s had enough; you can just take a girl to the mall on a date and all you do is bury your head on your phone chatting the moment away I mean c’mon which Lagos babe wouldn’t snap? Me I will snap o, seriously. This spy shot of a thug-of-war between two supposedly lovebirds have been trending online for a while now. Those who really know the full story said that the not-so-fortunate dude owe his girl friend a long overdue explanation for his divided attention and mischievous laughters while chatting with his phone. His girlfriend…
The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, yesterday, accused all former Nigerian leaders of northern origin as well as incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan of being responsible for the past and present economic, social, security and political problems of Northern Nigeria. In a communique issued yesterday, after an emergency meeting of all northern groups, called by the ACF, in Kaduna on Sunday, the groups said that it was time for the north to defend itself against the security challenge facing its people. The communique signed by the ACF Secretary General, Colonel John Ubah (rtd) reads: “A meeting of leading Northern groups and Associations…
A man has been found electrocuted in Lagos, while trying to vandalise a power transformer in Lonlo area of Iju-Ishaga, Lagos. According to reports, the deceased who was wearing a blue shirt and blue jeans trousers, apparently hid under the cover of darkness and power failure to remove the steel covering of the power equipment. But while he was it, power was restored and there was reportedly a spark from the transformer. Passers-by who initially assumed he was an official of the Ikeja Power Distribution Company, later on close observation found out he had been electrocuted. Police sources at Iju…
Energy firms are owing banks in Nigeria about N2.644 trillion as at end-December 2013, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has stated. The amount, according to the CBN in its recently released Financial Stability Report for December 2014, represents 24.21 percent of the total private sector credit in the period under review. Specifically, the CBN report revealed that oil and gas firms borrowed N2.45 trillion from the banks, while power and energy firms borrowed N193.98 billion, representing 1.93 percent of the total. Generally, total bank loans and advances to the various sectors of the economy stood at N10.043 trillion, rising…
A 50-year-old trader, George Daramola, and a 36-year-old student, Saturday Mekuleyi, were yesterday arraigned before a Tinubu magistrate’s court, for stealing goods worth N22.2 million. Docked before Magistrate Yetunde Phinero, the defendants, who reside at 7, Babafemi Osora Crescent, Lekki Phase I and 2, Admiralty Close, Lekki Phase I off Babafemi Crescent respectively, are facing a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy, burglary and stealing. The prosecutor, Inspector Ignatus Okeke, told the court that the defendants and others at large conspired to commit the alleged offences. He said the defendants on June 27 between 9 and 10 am broke into a…
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Ademola Amosu has said that the Air Force has promised to provide credible information on where the Alpha Jet which crashed while on a mission in North-eastern part of the country may be before the week ends. An Air Force jet with two pilots on board, while on a mission from Yola to Maiduguri, disappeared from radar since Friday and a search and rescue operation has been dispatched to locate and rescue the pilots. Speaking with State House correspondents after meeting with Vice President Namadi Sambo, the Air Force chief said the inclement…
Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun has lost his Special Adviser on Environment; Abimbola Lanre-Balogun to the opposition party in the state. Lanre-Balogun, who resigned, Thursday, explained that she resigned her appointment and defected to the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) from the All Progressives Congress (APC), because Governor Amosun ran government of “myself, for me and my family.” Speaking at the stakeholders’ meeting of the PDP at the Goodluck Jonathan Political Centre in Ijebu-Igbo, the former Special Adviser claimed many top members of Amosun’s cabinet would defect to the PDP in the state very soon. Lanre-Balogun was received by PDP’s National Auditor,…
Kano State Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso has described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as “haven for criminals.” The governor said that it was as a result of the “misdirection, lack of focus” that made him leave the PDP for the APC. Kwankwaso said this during a live programme of a television station in Benin, Edo State, after he visited the 250 students of Kano State origin at the Igbinedion University, where he also felicitated with Chief Gabriel Igbinedion on his 80th birthday celebration. He also slammed President Goodluck Jonathan as lacking the political will to tackle the Boko Haram insurgency in…
Outgoing Commissioner of Police in the FCT, Mr Joseph Mbu, has described himself as a Lion who tamed every Leopard that cross his way. Mbu said this as he urged his successor, Mr Wilson Inalegu, to be firm and sustain the current low crime rate in the territory. “It is only lion that can tame leopard. Each time the leopard remembers my face, it makes noise, but if it knows I am around, it cannot make noise. A lion is a lion,” he said. Mbu, who is now the AIG Zone 7, further advised the incoming commissioner to act like…
Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN), a group that has been campaigning around Nigeria for President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election, Monday slammed the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), describing the opposition party as a product of political nincompoops. “TAN does not really have all the time to waste on beings the late Rt Hon Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe described in 1978 as the political nincompoops and scallywags of contemporary Nigerian politics, but spur them not just to take their message to the South East, South West, South South and the North Central geo-political zones, but the remaining two zones,” said…
In what might seem as a break in the norm of the catholic church, Pope Francis has presided over the marriage of 20 couples at the Vatican, including some who were cohabiting. According to BBC News, one of the couples married was a man whose previous marriage was annulled and a single mother with a daughter from a previous relationship. During the two-hour ceremony, Pope Francis told the couples that marriage was “not an easy road, it’s sometimes a contentious trip, but that’s life.” Very slowly, the church under the guidance of Pope Francis is facing the fact that many Catholic…
It seems like the veteran Nollywood actress has mended fences with her former …………………. This is the second time the actress would be getting a public appointment under his government. As part of measures to promote the identity and cultural heritage of the Igbos, the Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has disclosed plans to set up a befitting Film Academy in Owerri. Owelle Okorocha made this known when members of the Imo Chapter of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) paid him a courtesy call at the Government House, Owerri. Governor Okorocha had announced the provision of office accommodation…
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has disbursed N10 million to traders of Aleshinloye Market, Ibadan, whose shops were gutted by fire recently. The governor, while presenting the cheques to the traders at the weekend, said that the gesture was in fulfilment of his earlier promise to assist the affected traders to cushion the effect of the losses they suffered as a result of the fire disaster. He commended the traders for their immense contributions to the socio-economic development of the state, adding that his administration would not relent in its efforts at ensuring improved living conditions of the people…
Ahead of the October 16 hand-over date in Ekiti State, the outgoing Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has named a 19-member transition committee saddled with the responsibility of organising a hitch-free inauguration ceremony. The 19-member transition committee is made up of top functionaries of the Fayemi administration in the state and nominees of the governor-elect, Ayodele Fayose. According to a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Olayinka Oyebode, the inaugural meeting of the committee holds in Ado-Ekiti on Monday. The Secretary to the State Government, Ganiyu Owolabi, is the Chairman of the committee, while the Permanent Secretary,…
DR. SAMPSON PARKER The Rivers State Government has said it is yet to receive any monetary assistance from the Federal Government following the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in the state. But the Lagos State Government, which first recorded the outbreak of the deadly virus in the country over two months ago, had acknowledged receiving N200m from the Federal Government. The Rivers State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Sampson Parker, who made the disclosure in an interview with journalists on Saturday in Abuja, however, stated that the state government had received a budget of N1bn from Emergency Operation Committee to fight…
So, yesterday when I announced the news on the casualties involved in the building collapse at T.B. Joshua church, I also told you all about the airplane that the head Pastor believes was behind the building collapse. Read the report below on what really happened and also watch the whole incident below, including the mysterious airplane that circled the building: – As recorded from T.B. Joshua’s Christian station Emmanuel TV, below is the raw security footage of a strange plane flying low over a building at The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations four times in the space of an hour…
The little princess has finally been brought into the world!! It’s with great joy that Caroline Danjuma gives birth to her 3rd child, a baby girl. The baby girl was born on the 13th of September 2014 at about 7 PM. Caroline Danjuma, her daughter as well as her dad Musa Danjuma and excited big brothers are in a joyous mood after the good news. Expect exclusive photos of the little bundle of joy soon.
]\ Truth is I knew the relationship would never last, it takes a superman to have and keep a relationship with a Kardashian female. The 29-year-old rapper has separated from the ‘Keeping Up With The Kardashians’ star after eight months together. In a chat with People Magazine, he said: – ‘I’m feeling great. Feeling great and looking even better.’ Meanwhile, the music artist has revealed he still has a few problems that need sorting out, he explained: ‘[I am] working on movies and my album and making sure all my artists are straight. And definitely try to get rid of all these problems I got.’ When…
No fewer than 400 members of the All Progressives Congress in Omagwa, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State, on Saturday dumped the party for Peoples Democratic Party. Receiving the defectors, the state chairman of the party, Mr. Felix Obuah, urged them to embrace the ideals of the PDP. The state secretary of the PDP, Chief Ibibia Walter, who received the defectors on behalf of Obuah, urged them to be disciplined. He promised that the PDP would accommodate them, but added that the newcomers must shed all toga of indiscipline. “Today, you are admitted, not to come to make trouble…