The Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, in the Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, has embarked on a week warning strike, demanding the unconditional release of their colleague, who was kidnapped by unknown persons. Mrs Elizabeth Urevbu was reportedly kidnapped five weeks ago at Awhire Secondary School, Awirhe-Agbarha-Otor during school hours alongside an engineer. The engineer, who sources claim does not want his name in print, was released few days after the incident. In a communiqué at the end of its emergency meeting, the union said: “The branch council in session, equally frowned at the way and manner the…
Author: Wale Adebayo
First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, yesterday, urged Nigerians to support the federal, state and local governments to address the issue of insecurity in the country, saying “terrorism can defeat anyone including my husband, President Goodluck Jonathan, if he fights alone, because terrorism cannot defeat us collectively.” Mrs. Jonathan made the appeal at the 44th Birthday celebration of the National Coordinator of the Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, Mr. Gani Adams, held in Ikeja, Lagos. Represented by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Youths and Student matters, Mr. Jude Imagwe, the Firt Lady said that addressing the insecurity in the country…
Four more girls surfaced, Wednesday, after escaping from their Boko Haram abductors. Wednesday’s escape brings the list of the girls that have gained their freedom to 48, with 230 schoolgirls believed to still be held hostage by the terrorist group. The new escapees were said to have been sighted around Monguno in the northern part of Borno State. Despite the promise made by Chief of Defence Staff, Air Vice Marshal Alex Badeh that the military was committed to rescuing the abducted girls, four more of the abducted girls were reported to have surfaced yesterday after escaping from their captors without…
Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Sanni Sidi disclosed that yesterday’s bomb blast happened when a parked car with explosives exploded. Sidi, who spoke to journalists at the Asokoro General Hospital, Abuja, noted that the blast was not as intense as the previous one, stressing that yesterday’s blast happened fifty metres away from the last one, but the same Nyanya, outskirts of Abuja. Also speaking with Journalists at hospital, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Senator Bala Mohammed described the incident as unfortunate especially coming barely some weeks after the last one. He however assured residents of the…
Today makes it exactly 17 days since the Boko Haram members raided Chibok secondary school and abducted over 200 girls. Veteran Nollywood producer who usually talks on entertainment matters has turned his attention to the issue. Charles Novia questions why no pictures of the missing girls have so far been released. Remember former Aviation minister & PDP chieftain, Kema Chikwe also raised doubts over the missing girls during a prayer session held for national security at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja. She asks: – “How did it happen? Who saw it happen? Who did not see it happen? Who…
It not news that the P-Square brothers are die-hard Chelsea fans and they always flaunt it. However, what is news is that Peter Okoye had to part with a huge sum of money after the Blues were beaten 3-1 by Atletico Madrid at Stamford Bridge, dumping them out of the Champions League. Peter made a bet with fellow singer Phyno and lost a hefty $5,000 to Phyno and had to painfully part with the dollar bills afterwards. Double jeaopardy!!!
I came across this report online and decided to share. The report was carried by ‘The Punch’ and it reads as follow: – A 29-year-old man, Henry Ogu, has been arrested by The Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police Force, Ikoyi, Lagos, for allegedly defrauding an American citizen (name withheld) of N52.5m ($350000). His accomplice, 42-year-old Yunusa Okonkwo, was also arrested in connection with the fraud. A statement by the SFU Police Public Relations Officer DSP Ngozi Isintume-Agu, said the unit had received a petition via email from Ogu’s victims… “The victim, a US citizen resident in…
Charming singer and clothier — DJ Zeez seems to be love struck as she shared tons of photos of himself and his beautiful girlfriend. He even shared photo of him grabbing the pretty lady’s behind, by the way, her name is Nikky. The photos have been making waves on IG and the lady — Nikky is always quick to tell her IG followers, ‘the yummy is all mine,’ More photos below: –
Just two weeks after a bomb blast in Nyanya, Abuja killed over 70 commuters at the motor park, another bomb blast has occurred today opposite the Nyanya Motor Park, Abuja. According to unconfirmed sources, four persons were killed in the blast, while six were injured. It was learnt that the bomb blast followed a the same pattern of the April 14 attack as it was detonated in a car. Sources say officials of the Nigeria Emergency Management Authority (NEMA) who were at the scene have evacuated the injured persons. Other sources said 16 corpses have been counted at the Emergency…
The warring communities of Jukuns, Fulani and Tiv in Wukari, Taraba State, have agreed to henceforth live in peace with one another. The peace deal came following the delivery of additional eight trucks of relief materials to the victims of the violent clashes in the area. The peace agreement, which was signed yesterday after a series of peace meetings, was brokered by the acting Governor of the state, Alhaji Garba Umar and a non-governmental organisation, Taraba Peace Initiative, headed by Bishop Charles Yohana. The agreement was signed on behalf of the Jukuns by the state Chairman of Jukun Cultural Association,…
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) yesterday, expressed doubt at the Federal Government’s capacity to end insurgency by the Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram. National President of the association, Chief Okey Wali, SAN, while speaking at a valedictory court session in honour of a retiring Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Christopher Mitchell Chukwuma-Eneh in Abuja, observed that the Federal Government has only been reacting to attacks by the violent group, rather than being proactive. “The pity of it all is that government appears helpless on how to stop these attacks, being reactionary all the time and not proactive”, the National…
Workers in the state and civil liberty organisations in Borno State as well as other interest groups today staged a peaceful procession in Maiduguri to protest the inability of the Federal Government to rescue abducted schoolgirls two weeks after they were taken by members of the Boko Haram sect. Clad in black apron, the protesters were led by the Borno State Chairman of the NLC, Comrade Titus Ali Abana in the march from the NLC secretariat to the Maiduguri Government House where they registered their displeasure that the girls were yet to be rescued. Comrade Abana said the workers were…
FILE PHOTO The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP), has called on the Federal Government to take drastic measures against security challenges threatening the corporate existence of the nation. The Chairman, Kebbi State chapter of the CNPP, Alhaji Usman Abubakar, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Birnin Kebbi on Wednesday. He said the interest of the nation must be beyond the interest of some unidentified group of people, no matter how highly placed. Abubakar noted that peace was paramount to human progress and its absence paralyses everything. He advised the federal government…
Charles Okah, who is charged with treason for his role in the October 1st, 2010, explosion in Abuja, has sued prison authorities to court for alleged infringement of his right to life. He is asking the court to grant him N500million compensation. Okah based his claims on the ground that the prison authorities, without thinking about his safety, him inside a solitary cell while the cell was being fumigated. According to him, as a result of the chemicals he inhaled from the fumigation, he became nauseous, weak and was finding it difficult to breath. Okah said despite his state of…
Workers in the Plateau State Civil Service have used the opportunity of Workers’ day celebratIon, popularly known as May Day to complain about the way the state government had been treating the workforce. The workers, who were at the 2014 Workers’ Day celebration at the Rwang Pam Stadium, Jos Thursday, complained bitterly that not only have they not been promoted in the past eight years, their salaries which the administration of Governor Jonah Jang promised to pay before the end of every month have now not been paid in the past two months. “For over eight years, workers in the…
FOR the kidnap and murder of a one and half-year-old infant an Akure High Court, weekend, sentenced three men to death by hanging. They are Olusegun Obaro, Jonah Lase and Theophilus Friday. The presiding judge, Justice Olusegun Odusola, said the first and second accused persons were guilty of kidnapping and murder, while the third accused person was only guilty of murder. The accused persons were brought under a two-count charge of kidnapping and murdering the infant, contrary to and punishable under Section 3 of the Ondo State Anti-Kidnapping and Abduction Law 2010, and murder contrary to Section 316 and punishable…
A 45-year-old man has been remanded in prison by an Iyaganku Chief Magistrate’s court, Ibadan, after allegedly defiling and impregnating his daughter. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Kehinde Durosaro-Tijani, gave the order pending the duplication of the case file by the Directorate of Public Prosecution, DPP. She, therefore, adjourned the case till May 11. Prosecutor Oluyemi Eyiaromi told the court that the accused unlawfully had carnal knowledge of his 16-year-old daughter. Eyiaromi said that the girl was carrying a three-month old pregnancy for her father, Ahmed Akintola, who resides in a one-room apartment with her mother and other siblings. He told…
The Registrar of a Magistrate’s Court in Enugu State has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for demanding bribe in the course of discharging his official duty. Anikwu Ifesinachi was convicted and sentenced by Justice A. A. Nwobodo of Enugu High Court without an option of fine. The convict was arraigned by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, on a two-count charge of demanding and receiving bribe. Ifesinachi was acused of demanding a bribe of N80,000 from the relation of a suspect before he would process the warrant of release. The relation went to ICPC and…
Nigeria may lose $31 million, about N4.96 billion as Mr. Mustafa Chike-Obi, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, yesterday, admitted that it was a mistake on the part of the corporation to have acquired a private jet as part of its debt recovery efforts. He stated this while speaking at the Board of Directors Association of Nigeria, BDAN symposium on ‘The impact of AMCON on the Nigerian Economy’ in Lagos. Indications emerged that AMCON might have difficulty in recovering the $31 million spent in the acquisition of the jet, as Chike-Obi disclosed that AMCON…
The stunningly beautiful former Miss Nigeria UK — Dabota Lawson took to her Twitter page to speak on the missing girls controversy currently disturbing the nation. On the matter of the 234 girls abducted from their school at Chibok on April 14, the beauty queen has a different perspective from most See her tweets below: –