A South-West delegate at the ongoing National Conference, Salvador Adegoke Moshood, has accused the North of using Boko Haram attacks to destabilize the President Goodluck Jonathan administration with a view to reclaiming the Presidency. Moshood, who made this known in an exclusive interview with Vanguard, noted that the declaration by certain northern leaders to make the country ungovernable for Jonathan was almost becoming a reality with the raging war being waged by the North’s Boko Haram insurgents. The delegate, who represents Ethnic Nationalities at the confab and a former House of Representatives member from Lagos State, warned the president not…
Author: Wale Adebayo
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State said yesterday that grievances expressed by some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state will soon be resolved. His comment came on the backdrop of speculations that top APC members in the state were in talks with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, with a view to finalizing their defection. But the governor, who was at the presidential villa, Abuja, on Tuesday to confer with President Goodluck Jonathan, told State House correspondents that the aggrieved members were still in APC. According to him, the fact that there were issues among members showed…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate in the 2012 governorship election in Edo State, Major General Charles Airhiavbere (rtd), has said that no amount of distraction or intimidation from the Boko Haram insurgents or any other group can stop President Goodluck Jonathan from contesting the 2015 general elections. General Airhiavbere, who is Chairman and the National Coordinator of the Goodluck to Goodluck (G2G) 2015 project, in Benin, Edo State, made this known yesterday when he played host to over 4,500 ex-militants from Ijaw communities in the state at the group’s secretariat in Benin. The PDP chieftain stressed that Jonathan needed…
The battle for the soul of Taraba State has taken a new dimension with the Senator representing Taraba South, Emmanuel Bwacha, declaring that the state would be better off in the hands of a primary school leaver than allowing Acting Governor Garba Umar continue on the seat. Bwacha, who is a staunch loyalist of recuperating Governor Danbaba Suntai, disclosed that Umar swore to Suntai that he would not contest the 2015 governorship elections, vowing to stop him if he goes ahead and contest. The senator, in an open letter on Tuesday, accused the acting governor of stoking the flame of…
Security AGENCIES AT A JOINT PRESS BRIEFING IN Abuja ON MONDAY (ENLARGED PHOTO OF AMINU OGWUCHE ARROWED) The efforts by Nigeria’s security agencies led by the Department of State Security Services (SSS) to apprehend those behind the April 14 bomb blast at a motor park in Nyanya, Abuja, paid off with the arrest of a co-mastermind of the dastardly act, Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche in faraway sudan. The DSS had on Monday during a joint press briefing with other arms of Nigeria’s security agencies, declared Ogwuche, a military deserter and one Rufai Tsiga, still at large, wanted for the first, in…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA have arrested a 51-year-old man for attempting to smuggle 3.870kg of suspected Methamphetamine to Nairobi, Kenya. The suspect, Odeyemi Ademola Ayodeji, was arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos during the outward screening of passengers on a Kenyan Airways flight. During investigation, Ayodeji disclosed that he expected to realise N2.4 million had he succeeded in the illicit deal, adding that he attempted to carry the drug to generate money to clear his debts. According to the Osun State-born suspect, his inability to cater for his family forced one of his…
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has described the alleged conversion of the abducted school girls by Boko Haram insurgents as an act that has no basis in Islam. In a statement issued by the Executive Director of the organisation, Professor Is-haq Akintola, MURIC stated that such conversion does not hold water in Islam because a non-Muslim can only be converted on his or her own free will. “We have no iota of doubt that the girls ‘converted’ under duress. Such ‘conversion’ is null and void under the Shari’ah. “We reject the purported conversion of the kidnapped girls. It is cowardly,…
Seventy-seven of the over 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist sect Boko Haram from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State by Boko Haram terrorists, a month ago, have been identified from the video released by the sect on Monday. Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima had ordered a mass production of the video released by the leader of the sect, Mallam Abubakar Shekau showing scores of the girls wearing hijabs and reciting the Holy Q’uran, so the parents could watch and identify their children. Following the identification exercises, which Shettima said, yesterday, was on-going, he confirmed that 77 of the girls…
Niger Delta youth leaders has described the recent call by a Northern leader, Mr. Junaid Muhammed, for a reduction of the current 13 per cent derivation to five per cent, scrapping of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and Ministry of Niger Delta, as an invitation to war. The youth leaders, Austin Ozobo, National President of Ijaw Peoples Development Initiative, IPDI; Musa Biayeibo, President of Niger Delta Youths For Positive Change, NDYPC; Ebi Wayas, President, National Association of Izon-Ebe Law Students, NAILS, and Jude Asiayei, President, Coastal Heritage and Economic Watch, CHEW, told newsmen yesterday in Warri, Delta State. “Except…
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius Tuesday denounced what he called the “mass r*pe” of Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamic militant Boko Haram group. “Sometimes in France we talk about ‘forced marriage,’” the French diplomat told a press conference during a visit to Washington. “But that term is totally inadequate. It’s really a mass r*pe of young girls,” he said, when asked about more than 200 schoolgirls snatched from their boarding school in mid-April. These girls “have been the kidnapped and then enslaved, and it’s a mass r*pe that must be prosecuted and punished as such.” France is hosting a…
The Nigeria Police Force said it had issued international red alert on one of the masterminds of the Nyanya bomb blast, who is currently on the run. Frank Mba, Spokesperson of the force, who spoke in Abuja said the step became imperative following revelations by other suspects in the custody of the security agency. “Interpol red alert is an international request for corporation. It is issued by the interpol general secretariat of national bureau of any of member state. “Interpol red alert of an international warrant of arrest and consequently it mandates security forces of the 190 membership to join…
Religious bodies were yesterday warned to desist from turning the recent abduction of female students in Chibok, Borno State, into religious matter. The Coordinator of National Information Center on the abduction of Chibok’s abducted girls, Mr Mike Omeri gave the warning, while briefing newsmen on the update on the rescue efforts in Abuja. Omeri, who is also the Director General of National Orientation Agency, called on the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and the Jama’atul Nasril Islam, JNI, to ask their members, to stop making inflammatory statements capable of aggravating the situation on ground. “The federal government appeals to religious…
Northern delegates at the ongoing National Conference, under the aegis of Northern Delegates Forum, NDF, has commended the international community for joining Nigeria in her efforts to rescue over 200 female students of Chibok, Borno State abducted by Boko Haram terrorists about three weeks ago. Anthony Sani, spokesman of the NDF, who made this known rubbished claims by some Nigerians that the involvement of foreign countries in search for the missing girls amounted to their meddling into the nation’s internal affairs. According to him, there is no need to politicise the matter of security challenges or even disagreement in view…
A member of the Committee on Political Parties and Electoral Matters at the ongoing national conference, Mallam Dani Zoro, said yesterday that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)’s Direct Data Capture Machines, DDCM, are currently on sale in the open market in the country and neighbouring Niger Republic. Zoro, former National President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, raised the alarm when the INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega appeared before the committee. The delegate, who shocked the INEC chairman when he brought out a battery of the DDCM with INEC logo on it, told committee members which has former…
The Limpopo master has boldly denied for the second time his alleged wife and the story is getting more interesting. Anyways, KCee boldly claims that he is not married, but even Ebube Nwagbo, his ex, admits he is married. An article emerged months ago that wrote about Ebube moving into KCee’s home, comprehensively reveals from very reliable sources that the Limpopo master was married to Ijeoma and they have two kids together. The source revealed this and pleaded that Ebube needs her privacy and needs the world to know she is single so she could get a man to settle…
In an attempt to clear their name, the Nigerian Immigration Service has denied Davido’s recent claims that officials allegedly extorted him and caused him to miss a flight to London last week. Reacting to the pop singer’s claims, the NIS Public Relations Officer Emeka Obua said Davido couldn’t travel out because he did not provide his Nigerian passport to Immigration officers at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport. According to Obua, Davido only presented his US passport and was asked to present his Nigerian passport to convince them he legally travelled into Nigeria. But Davido said he forgot it at home.…
Alleged racist — Donald Sterling went on CNN to apologise for his racist comments ann looked as remorseful as the word could get, however it seems like all that was an act. Donald has found himself in a negative light again for blasting Magic Johnson for having AIDS while defending his racist comments during his interview with Anderson Cooper on CNN. Read what he said: – “What has he done? He’s got AIDS,Did he do any business? Did he help anybody in South LA? … What kind of guy goes to every city and has s*x with every…
While millions of people round the world are conducting the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, having protests on the streets; ex Niger-Delta militant — Asari Dukubo has started his own campaign, only in the opposite direction. Less than 24 hours after Boko Haram released video of the abducted girls, ex Niger-Delta Militant leader Asari Dokubo who has described the abducted school girls story a scam, led a group of #anti-BringBackOurgGirls protesters who insists that Chibok is a scam. More photos below: –
By now, you must have all heard about the battle between business mogul Jay Z and his sister in-law Solange. Nobody ever saw this coming and the topic was the subject of the day since it dropped. Jay Z was viciously attacked by his wife Beyonce’s sister Solange as the trio left the Met Gala after party in New York last Monday. Solange was caught on camera screaming at Jay-Z in the elevator before kicking, spitting and throwing punches at him. Eventually a bodyguard separated them. All Beyonce could do was watch. See video below: – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWdhX9c_7FA
The smart and very charismatic Minister of finance — Mrs Ngozi Okojo-Iweala has stood up to defend herself concerning the video where she fielded questions from an ABC reporter about the Chibok girls as she left the World Economic Forum in Abuja on Friday April 9th. The video which has gone viral alleges that the finance minister told the reporter ‘she was tired of talking about the same issue’ which has been interpreted as ‘she’s tired of talking about the abducted Chibok girls.’ Here’s a press statement released by Special Adviser to the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Paul…