Governor Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State has advised those criticising his Adamawa State counterpart, Murtala Nyako, over his memo addressed to Northern States’ Governors Forum, accusing the Federal Government of genocide in the region, to leave him alone. In an exclusive interview LEADERSHIP on Saturday night, Gov. Wamakko insisted that Nyako spoke on behalf of millions of Nigerians, who are frustrated over the ongoing insecurity in the country. He said, “Nyako is speaking the minds of millions of frustrated Nigerians who are genuinely seeking a holistic change in the way the issue of insecurity and insurgency are being addressed in…
Author: Wale Adebayo
The women wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State has called on women in the country to pick a day to stay at home in protest of the school girls, who were abducted by the Boko Haram sect from their school in Borno State. At a press conference in Lagos, the state APC women leader, Chief Kemi Nelson charged mothers and women in every state to pick a day each week to stay at home to demand the release of the over 200 abducted school girls. According to her, “We must demand accountability from those voted into…
The sole-financier of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the South West, Prince Buruji Kashamu has vowed that the party would ‘chase out’ governors in the region on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Kashamu made this known on Friday at Atan, Ijebu North East Local Government Area of Ogun State, while receiving 1, 500 defectors to the PDP. According him, the APC-led government in his home state of Ogun, as well as in other parts of the zone, had disappointed the people. His words: “the people can see clearly that there is no other party better than the national…
Governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC, have expressed concern over incessant killings of Nigerians by Boko Haram insurgents. The governors, who made this known in a statement signed by Imo State governor and chairman of Progressive Governors Forum, Rochas Okorocha, said they were disturbed about the growing state of insecurity and the volatile nature of bus parks across the nation that seem to have become an attraction for the insurgents’ mass murder tactics. The APC governors further dismissed the insurgents as blood thirsty group with no real purpose and no clear target. The statement reads in part “Our heart and prayers…
President Goodluck Jonathan has given a marching order to all the security agencies and Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, for all the abducted female students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State to be rescued alive. About 234 girls sitting for the West African Examination Council (WAEC) in the school were abducted by Boko Haram gunmen 19 days ago. However, the president gave the directive on Sunday after a meeting with Governor Shettima at the Presidential Villa. The meeting which begun late Saturday and lasted till the early hours of Sunday, also had in attendance the Deputy governor…
Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam has slashed his salary by 25 percent and also proposed a five percent cut in the salaries of civil servants to enable the government meet the demands of striking primary school teachers. The governor said this, yesterday, after swearing in two newly appointed members of the state executive council, in the state capital, Makurdi, stating that the new policy would affect only officers on levels seven and above. Susam said further that political appointees would also forfeit 25 percent of their salaries. He therefore urged workers to support the decision of government in the interest…
Rivers State COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, TUNDE OGUNSAKIN The general state of insecurity in the country was again brought to the fore when the chairman of Ahoada West Local Government Council of Rivers State, Mr. Awori Miller, was kidnapped along Rufus Ada-George Road in Port Harcourt, the state capital on Saturday. As at press time, the council chairman’s whereabouts remained unknown while no demand for ransom had been made by his abductors. Family members at Mr. Miller’s Port Harcourt residence on Sunday morning confirmed the incident but declined giving further details. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Grace Iringe-Koko, ASP, while…
More than 50 houses have been razed at Ibrede in Ndokwa East Local Government Area of Delta State, after an intra-community squabble over ownership of fish ponds hit the town. Soldiers and policemen were deployed in the community, at the weekend, to quell the uprising between the Ugbo family and other members of the community. Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Celestina Kalu, yesterday, told Vanguard that she heard there was fighting, but had not been briefed by the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, in the area. The Ugbo family, which claimed to be the rightful owner of the fish…
Four killed in well trying to retrieve bucket ONE after another, Four men have drowned in Cross River State after entering a well to retrieve a bucket. The incident, which happened along Ogoja Road, Ikom in the Central Senatorial District of the state left the area in apprehension, with some attributing the tragedy to a spiritual force. The first person to enter the well, John Ushie, according to a resident of the compound who gave her name as Janet, was preparing to go to work that morning and wanted to take his bath. Ushie decided to fetch water from the well…
A-20-year-old man, Segun Ogunleye, has appeared before an Abeokuta magistrate court, sitting in Isabo, for attempted murder of a police officer. The suspect was reported to have attacked one Constable Bolorunduro Mayegun with a cutlass in a bid to evade arrest. According to the investigating police officer, George Ikhuoria, the injured police officer was on an assignment to arrest the suspect for assaulting his wife. “The wife and the officer went to the man’s house to make the arrest but the accused refused to follow them. On their way back to the station, the accused followed them and suddenly attacked the officer with a cutlass on…
Popular singer, songwriter and now to some extent an athlete Banky W took to Instagram to tell his fans that he continues working out. Banky Wellington, who has been recently seen as the best man at Tiwa Savage and Tee Billz’s wedding held in Dubai, UAE, is obviously enthusiastic about exercising and the results he gets from it. The EME boss shared this gym photo and accompanied it with the following caption: @uzikwendu is on vacation but the work continues.#teamAllOfUsMustOffShirt #workOut #uziBurnOut Right approach! So everyone now looking for the “OffShirt” times!
Nigerian singer-songwriter Chidinma Ekile (known as Chidinma) yesterday, May 2, celebrated her 23rd birthday. On her Instagram page, Chidinma shared photos of several birthday cakes. One of them she shared with her friends at MTN office. We hope that she didn’t gain much weight after eating all three birthday cakes.Chidinma born on May 2, 1991 is also a recording artist, stage performer, and brand ambassador for MTN Nigeria. She became the first female musician to peak at number 1 on the MTV Base Official Naija Top 10 chart, after releasing the music video for her “Emi Ni Baller” single. In 2011,…
Half Of A Yellow Sun author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, reacted the decision by the Nigerian Video Films and Censors Board to halt certification of the movie based on her respective book. The celebrated author tagged the recent actions by Nigerian censors as unreasonable and disappointing. Chimamanda shared her views in an article, ‘Hiding From Our Past’, which was published in The New Yorker Magazine. She was surprised that the censors delayed the release of the movie motivating their decision that it “might incite violence in the country”. “I find this absurd – security operatives, uniformed and alert, gathered in a room watching…
I’m glad to see that a lot of celebrities are joining the #BringBackOurGirls badnwagon P-Square‘s Peter Okoye, wife Lola Omotayo-Okoye and their son, Cameron, have also speakon up on the issue. P.S In unrelated news, Lola is missing her boo who is currently filming the video for Testimony. She shared this photo on Instagram. With the caption “Missing My Boo @peterpsquare” Yomi Black also shared this sad image of himself crying
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) says cloudy conditions will be experienced on Sunday, with chances of localised thunderstorms over eastern highlands in the morning. This is according to a report issued on Saturday in Abuja by NiMet Central Forecast Office (CFO) as the weather outlook for Sunday, May 4. “The central states will also experience prospects of localised thunderstorms over the western parts in the afternoon and evening. “The northern states will experience partly cloudy conditions with slim chances of localised thundery activities over Potiskum axis in the morning. “The southern coastal areas will experience cloudy conditions with prospect of localised rain over the western coast…
First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has promised to stage a protest march to Chibok, Borno State, if the abducted schoolgirls were not released. Mrs Jonathan said this in Abuja after a meeting with governors’ and ministers’ wives, female senators, commissioners and more than 200 women from various groups at the State House in Abuja, which was convened to seek the actual whereabouts of the kidnapped girls. According to her, a committee will be inaugurated to include wives of all relevant stakeholders at a meeting scheduled for May 4. She said that refusal of any of such relevant stakeholders to be…
Unfortunately, Nigerian are still going to wait couple of weeks more to see Chiwetel Ejiofor, Genevieve Nnaji, Onyeka Onwenu and Thandie Newton in the “movie of the year” at the cinemas. Last week, it was announced that the screening date of the movie adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‘s best selling novel – “Half of a Yellow Sun” was moved from Friday 25th April 2014 to today Friday 2nd May 2014. Due to the fact that it is yet to be certified, the screening has been postponed. Read the press release below: – Shareman Media, the Nigerian producers, and FilmOne Distribution,…
I came across this article written by singer — Etcetera and decided to share Enjoy: – Some days ago I was at a friend’s place and was asked by his sisters if I was traveling abroad for the wedding of a colleague that is still being talked about on blogs and on all social networking sites in nigeria and I said no I wasn’t. But what struck me as odd was when one of them asked me “is she getting married to a BRAND NEW husband or a 2ND HAND husband”? I stared at her in shock and confusion…
This is quite weird, didn’t she know her due date? And it’s shocking that a woman would leave London to come to Nigeria to have a child. Anyways, a Boeing 777 with 296 passengers aboard, en-route to London from Abuja had to make an emergency landing on a Spanish island when a woman gave birth in business class. The woman in question was a 30-year-old Nigerian woman and she went into labour 36,000 feet up, causing the pilot of the British Airways plane to divert to Palma de Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands. The plane touched down and she was…
Famous American actress has welcomed her first child with her Nigerian bobo but the couple decided to be quiet about the news for 2 weeks. Hollywood star Kerry Washington and her hubby, Nigeria’s former NFL cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha have reportedly welcomed a baby girl. The child was called — Isabelle Amarachi Asomugha and was born on April 21 at Cedars Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles. Kerry and Nnamdi got married last year June.