Dance-hall king — Timaya, opened up to us months ago that he has a daughter and since then, it has been continuous love and show-off of photos of his cute daughter. The Egberi 1 of Bayelsa, Timaya’s daughter marked her birthday yesterday, she turned 2 years old. ead his lovely message to her below: –
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Residents of Ajegunle area of Lagos were, yesterday, thrown into shock, after a bird was said to have transformed into an old woman who confessed to being a witch. The dark-complexioned nonagenarian with tribal marks, who spoke in Yoruba, told a bewildered crowd that she was on her way back to Ibadan, Oyo State (as a bird) when she missed her track. She was also said to have told the mammoth crowd that her mystical powers disappointed her because it was dawn. Eye-witnesses told Vanguard that three black birds were seen at about 7am, flying side‑by‑side along Old Ojo Road.…
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, yesterday, mandated the Public Accounts Committee to commence an investigative hearing on the alleged N10 billion air charter services scam involving the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke. Apparently angered by reports that the House had jettisoned the probe, the Speaker directed members of the committee to commence hearing on the issue. Tambuwal gave the directive barely five minutes after plenary resumed yesterday. The directive was greeted with about three minutes of silence before other matters were tabled before the House. The House had in March 27 plenary mandated the accounts…
The Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, yesterday, ordered the closure of all schools nationwide in protest against the abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls and the killing of 170 teachers from Borno State and three from Yobe State by the insurgents. National President of NUT, Mr. Michael Alogba, who gave the directive while addressing journalists in Abuja, said the union was depressed and sad over the continued incarceration of the Chibok girls by insurgents. He urged the Federal Government and governments of Borno and Yobe states to exhibit true concern for the families of the 173 teachers. “The NUT has resolved…
The University of Jos was, yesterday, thrown into mourning when news hit the campus that a yet to be ascertained number of students, including seven 500 level medical students died in the bomb blasts on Tuesday. According to Christiana Paul, a 500-level Medical Laboratory Science student of the University of Jos, said seven of her course mates died in the blast. She said five of the corpses had been found, two at the Plateau Specialist Hospital Mortuary. “The seven of them are my course mates, we are in 500-level. They went to Terminus to shop and the bomb caught up…
At least nine suspected Fulani herdsmen yesterday stormed Tse Ikyuer, Yandev, Mbagwen in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State and allegedly gang-r*ped a 15-year-old girl and two housewives (names withheld) at gunpoint. Narrating their ordeal in Markurdi, the sate capital, two of the victims told Vanguard that after beating and r*ping them, the herdsmen also made away with their N60,000 and two phones. “One of us (the teenage girl) was r*ped repeatedly, after being thoroughly beaten by the herdsmen. At the moment, she is neither able to walk nor talk,” one of the victims said. Another added: “The men…
Human Rights Watch, (HRW), yesterday opposed to the idea by the government to station security personnel in schools at the troubled north eastern states of the country. At a world press conference addressed by HRW European media director, Andrew Stroealein, and its Nigeria counterpart, Mrs Mausi Segun, the group said, the idea may eventually make those schools a target for Boko Haram who may want to hit at the security personnel. Rather, the organization suggested a community led protection, whereby people of the community provide ring for the school children by giving information to security operatives of probable attacks as…
The United States has deployed 80 military personnel to Chad to help regional efforts to rescue more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in neighboring Nigeria, President Barack Obama said Wednesday. “These personnel will support the operation of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft for missions over northern Nigeria and the surrounding area,” Obama said in a letter to Congress. “The force will remain in Chad until its support in resolving the kidnapping situation is no longer required.” Last month, Islamist militants from the Boko Haram extremist group seized more than 200 Nigerian girls from school dormitories in the northeastern community of Chibok,…
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr M.D. Abubakar, has ordered command commissioners of police to immediately commence security audit and threats analysis of all boarding schools nationwide. Abubakar gave the order as part of the force’s efforts towards bolstering security network around boarding schools and as a way of ensuring safety and security of students and other stakeholders in the nation’s secondary schools. In an email by Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), CSP Frank Mba, he said the outcome of the exercise would assist the police authorities and other security agencies in the task of designing security strategies that…
Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima, has said his administration has earmarked N150 million for the rehabilitation of the 53 schoolgirls, who escaped the Boko Haram terrorists, who had abducted them on April 14 in Chibok. According to him, the Boko Haram terrorists, despite claiming to be fighting the cause of Allah, had neglected the dotcrines of the Holy Quran, while at times even trying to change the ordained translation of its verses. “To every Muslim, a verse of the Holy Quran clearly said that there was no compulsion in religion, but to these men of violence, there was compulsion, not…
Two Nollywood actresses Genevieve Nnaji and Chika Ike have picked one and the same day to release beautiful photos of themselves on social media. One of the most renowned, beautiful and admired Nigerian actresses, who also demonstrated her social awareness joining the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, took to her Instagram page to say good morning to her followers today and posted the following work-out photo: The same day another not less admired and socially responsible Nollywood diva Chika Ike, who was appointed the Brand Ambassador for National Commission for Refugee and displaced persons, also used her Instagram page to wish her fans a…
Two attacks by Boko Haram gunmen killed 30 people near Chibok, the northeast Nigerian town where the Islamists kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls last month, witnesses said on Wednesday. The first attack on Monday afternoon killed 10 in the village of Shawa, some seven kilometres (4.3 miles) from Chibok, a number of residents told AFP on condition of anonymity. Gunmen then stormed the nearby village of Alagarno late Tuesday and stole food, razed homes and fired on fleeing civilians. “It was a sudden attack,” said resident Haruna Bitrus, in an account supported by other locals. “They began shooting and set…
The Abuja Division of Federal High Court yesterday ordered the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) to henceforth stop imposing new drivers’ and vehicle licence on car owners whose vehicle registration papers are still valid. Justice Ademola Adeniyi, while delivering his judgement in a suit filed by an Abuja-based legal practitioner, Mr. John Musa, declared as “unconstitutional and a clear example of an act of executive recklessness” threat by FRSC to start arresting car owners across the country for failing to obtain the new driver’s licence, notwithstanding the validity of their present licence. The plaintiff had instituted the action last year…
First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, in conjunction with women groups and faith-based organisations, Monday converged on Abuja on Monday to pray and fast for the release of the girls abducted by Islamist sect group Boko Haram in Chibok, Borno State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that the prayer session was organised by Mrs. Jonathan’s pet project, the Women for Change Development and Initiative (W4CDI). “The seven-day event is part of the first lady’s vision to seek God’s face and intervention for the nation,” said Rabi Ibrahim, National Coordinator of the project. “As the President of the African First…
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has concluded plans to relocate the people of Garki village to Apo within the next two months. “Resettlement has not received the level of funding that is necessary. We are hoping that by the end of the year we will finish the resettlement relocation of Garki village and move it to Apo,” said Minister of State for FCT, Ms. Olajumoke Akinjide in Abuja yesterday, at the inauguration of projects and presentation of vehicles to the Nigerian Police, AMAC division. “You know I set up a committee and we have White Paper and an Implementation…
The Senate yesterday approved the extension of emergency rule sought by President Goodluck Jonathan on May 13, in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States for another six months. The approval which was accompanied by a resolution that full military operation be deployed to the affected states with the aim of combating prevalent insurgency in the area, was predicated on adoption of eight conditions. The extension which was unanimously approved without a dissenting voice, laid to rest Northern senators’ threat last week to shut down further move by the president to extend the emergency rule. The lawmakers decided to endorse the extension…
Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State has described sponsors of terror attacks in the country as “enemies of humanity and democracy”. “The sponsors of these attacks on humanity stand condemned now and in the hereafter. We must all mobilise to check the carnage”, Jang said on Wednesday in a statement signed by his Director of Press Affairs, Mr. James Mannok. The Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, factional chairman, who was reacting to the twin explosions that rocked the popular Terminus Market, Jos, on Tuesday afternoon, condemned the “headless destruction of lives and property by these elements”, and urged security agencies to…
Crisis crooner African China has revealed that his colleagues have rejected joining him to fight the Boko Haram menace through music. He said that he had a new song called Boko Haram, but his fellow colleagues refused to join him and be the voice of the people. African China, who has given his life to Christ and might soon be a gospel singer also said the government is at fault for the Boko Haram crisis. When told to explain his song Boko Haram He said: The evil in mankind. If Nigerians wanted President Goodluck Jonathan to resign, trust me, it…
54-year-old Wazobia 95.1 FM journalist, Pius-Junior Opute a.k.a OPJ was on Tuesday charged before a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court, Lagos for allegedly urinating in a drainage and resisting arrest. The accused, who lives at 41, Adeba St, Lakowe, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State, is facing a two-count charge of urinating in a drainage and resisting arrest, and was reported to have committed the offence on May 12 at about 8.00 p.m. at Marwa Bus Stop, Lekki. The prosecutor, Sgt. Daniel Ighodalo, told the court that Opute resisted arrest and obstructed a free flow of traffic around the Lekki Toll Plaza. Ighodalo said the…
Chineke!!!!!!!!! They say the heart of man is wicked, but i guess the saying also includes women……hehe The Owner of Monaco football club Dmitry Rybolovlev who is going through a divorce from his wife of 24years Elena Rybolovlev has been ordered by Judges in Switzerland to settle his ex-wife with a whooping sum of 4.5 billion Swiss francs and 20 centimes, which is over 2.6 billion pounds for a divorce settlement. This follows a six-year legal tale in which Mr Rybolovlev, who made his billions through a successful fertilizer business, resentfully contested Ms Rybolovlev’s claims to two of the most…