This should be sad but i don;t even know why i have a wide grin on my face as i write this, LOL. I was just complaining about the negligence of the Nigerian security agents and i come across this. It is yet another revealing video from Sahara Reporters. A community as well as commuters along expressway on the outskirt Akure in Ondo State held some four bribe-seeking policemen to ransom until they signed an undertaking promising to pay damages for vehicles affected in accident they caused while chasing a truck for a N50 bribe. Watch video below: – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19nqUgyml1Q
Author: Wale Adebayo
Famous billionaire Okoya’s daughter — Hadiza Okoya wedded another billionaire’s son — Akala; days ago and the couple are still on cloud 9. Though presently enjoying their honeymoon, Hadiza has been posting pictures of herself and her husband with captivating captions on her Instagram page. See photo and caption below: – She also posted the picture above with the caption ‘I pray we continue to smile like this as the years unfold’.
Famous Nollywood screen goddess and reality TV star — Omotola Ekeinde says she has suffered enough for refusing to party with politicians and turning down their million naira and dollar bribe. She is begging people not to make her suffer the more by mentioning her name among those who wine and dine with politicians. Speaking as a guest at the just concluded Nigerian Entertainment Conference (NEC), the actress said: – “Somebody on a blog a few days ago wrote that there are Nollywood personalities who are friends with politicians, sharing the national cake together. I, Omotola, have never campaigned or…
No fewer than 2,100 members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Labour Party, LP, on Saturday defected to the People Democratic Party, PDP, in Auchi, Edo State, the News Agency of Nigeria, has reported. Onasa Momoh, Edo North Senatorial Chairman of LP, who led defectors from the party, said they were joining the PDP because it was an all-inclusive party. Mr. Momoh said that the entire structure of the LP in the senatorial district had been collapsed to enable the members join the PDP. He explained that the LP had in the past worked in alliance with the…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan and other members of his government to borrow a leaf from the recent resignation of South Korean Prime Minister, Chung Hongwon, over his government’s poor handling of the April 16 passenger ferry disaster that left over 300 dead or missing. The opposition party advised that Nigerian leaders should conduct themselves in higher standards as a way of ensuring good governance and winning global respect for the country. In a statement issued in Lagos over the weekend by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, APC said the resignation…
A former Aviation Minister and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, at the weekend shed more light on why he exposed plots by some leaders of his party to field a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket for 2015 elections. He stressed that the alarm was raised for the matter to be quickly resolved to avoid disastrous confusion within the APC. Speaking with journalists in Kaduna where he attended a wedding ceremony of the son of former LEADERSHIP Group chairman and APC presidential hopeful, Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, the ex-minister noted that he raised the issue because he wanted the…
The Supervising Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, has said that his number one priority was to ensure the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 and not the succession scramble in Rivers State. Wike, who spoke on Saturday when he visited an ex-militant leader, Chief Soboma Jackrich (aka Egberipapa) in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State, lampooned Governor Rotimi Amaechi, describing his former boss as a drowning politician. The minister also urged members of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state to work come together as one and ensure President Jonathan’s reelection. “A house divided against itself cannot stand. My priority is to ensure the re-election of the president in 2015 and…
REP. UZOMA NKEM-ABONTA Member representing Ukwa East/West Federal Constituency of Abia State in the House of Representatives, Mr. Uzoma Nkem-Abonta, on Sunday called for the imposition of a “full emergency rule” in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states. Nkem-Obonta, who is a lawyer, explained that the full emergency rule implied suspending the governors of the affected states and other democratic structures like the House of Assembly to give way for the military to assume total control of the administration of the states during the emergency period. The lawmaker noted that so long as there was conflict of interest between the governors…
The Nigerian military is satisfied with the pace of its operations against Boko Haram extremists in Borno State, Director of Defence Information, Chris Olukolade, has said. Major General Olukolade said security forces have sustained the momentum of their onslaught against the terrorists, notwithstanding the reactions from the insurgents. Officials of the military high command conducted tours on formations in Maiduguri Saturday, according to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN. “The bases we visited are part of the responses to the terrorist offensive and that is an achievement; the military had moved close to where the insurgents are”, Mr. Olukolade said.…
The family of Vice President Namadi Sambo was thrown into mourning yesterday when his younger brother, Captain Sabo Yusuf Sambo (rtd), a pilot, died in a lone car crash along Bill Clinton Drive, Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja in the morning hours of Sunday. The vice president, had flown in from Tanzania, Sunday afternoon, where he represented Presented Goodluck Jonathan at that country’s 50th independence anniversary celebrations, upon receiving news of Captain Sambo’s demise. President Goodluck Jonathan was first to commiserate with him over the death of his younger brother. The president, who received the news while on his way…
It’s indeed a season of love, proposal and weddings for the Okoye family as the younger sister of the popular music duo P-square got engaged over the weekend. Mary Okoye’s long time boo who is a Nollywood actor, Emma Emordi proposed and she said yes.Last week, April 24, Jude Okoye, the elder brother and manager of P-Square got engaged to his girlfriend, Ifeoma Michelle Umeokeke. Paul Okoye recently tied the knot with his baby mama, Anita Isamah in March while his brother Peter Okoye is married to Lola. Congrats to the newly engaged lovebirds!
Northern delegates to the ongoing National Conference have welcomed the intervention of the United States and the United Kingdom in the move to rescue the remaining school girls abducted from their school in Chibok, Borno State. They slammed the federal and state authorities for their lackadaisical attitude towards salvaging the security situation in the country. The Northern delegates said that the news of the agreement between the president and governors to join forces to defeat the insurgency came to them as a surprise. In a statement issued by their spokesman, Mr. Anthony AZ Sanni, the delegates nevertheless called on the…
Women all over the country will on Wednesday stage a one-million-women protest march in Abuja to press for the release of the girls abducted by suspected Boko Haram gunmen at Government Secondary School, Chibok. Prof. Hauwa Abdu Biu disclosed this, yesterday, during an emergency meeting convened by the First Lady of Borno State, Hajiya Nana Kashim Shettima on the way forward for the release of the school girls. She spoke last week on behalf of coalitions of Borno women during which they called for the release of the school girls and offered to go to the Sambisa Forest in search…
The military disclosed, yesterday, said their major offensive to rescue the remaining 190 abducted students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State was yielding fruit, as they have moved closer to the abductors’ den. The Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade, who spoke with newsmen, yesterday, on the sideline of media tour of military operations in Maiduguri, said the military was satisfied with the ongoing operations in Borno. According to him, the troops had sustained momentum in terms of the offensive against the terrorists, notwithstanding the reactions from the insurgents. “The bases we visited are part of…
Aggrieved youths, weekend, attempted to set a Mobile Policeman’s apartment on Olufowobi Street in Ikosi area of Ketu, Lagos ablaze following the discovery of an eight-year-old missing girl in his room. The girl identified as Amarachi, who was unconscious, had her hands, legs and mouth tied. She also had a deep cut on her skull when she was rescued. Vanguard gathered that Amarachi was last seen at about 4pm on Thursday, after going on an errand for the Mobile Policeman identified as Corporal Gbuchenge Augustine, with Force number 400823. The Policeman lives in the same compound with parents of the…
Delta State governor, Mr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has challenged leaders not to be afraid of allowing independent assessors to take critical look at their activities while in office, saying that same was why he took what he described as a “bold step” by inviting the United Nations, UN, to assess his administration. The governor said this while speaking at a preparatory workshop for the UN assessment of key sectors of the Delta State economy in Asaba, adding that such assessments will enable leaders to know their achievements, challenges and areas they can improve upon. “We have taken a bold and courageous…
The Julius Berger-Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, NSIA, consortium, the contractors handling the 2nd Niger Bridge, has promised to complete the project on schedule. In a statement signed by the Managing Directors of Julius Berger and the NSIA, Messrs Wolfgang Goetsch and Uche Orji, respectively, in Abuja, yesterday, they described as false reports that there were plans to abandon the project, which was launched by President Goodluck Jonathan recently. They denied reports that work on the project was suspended due to non-compliance with environmental laws . “Julius Berger-NSIA consortium wishes to clarify that reports suggesting that work on the bridge has…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has entered into a partnership with the National Directorate for Employment (NDE) as part of efforts to increase public enlightenment and education in the anti-corruption campaign in Nigeria. The Executive Chairman of the commission, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, while speaking during a sensitisation programme for the NDE in Abuja recently, said the EFCC is working to also prevent commission of economic crimes. The strategy, which has informed similar campaigns with Nigeria Customs Service, National Airspace Management Agency, Nigeria Liquefied Gas, and other agencies, is a cheaper option to fighting the crime itself, he said.…
Four persons yesterday died in an auto crash which occurred on Ibadan-Oyo Expressway. 10 other people were injured in the accident which occurred when one of the rear tyres of an 18-seater bus with number plate XC 104 YYY burst, at top speed. The driver of the bus was said to have sustained a very deep cut in his head and was gasping for breath when officials of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) arrived at 12.02 p.m. An eyewitness told Vanguard that the accident occurred at Motunde Village area, along Ibadan/Oyo Expressway. Sympathisers reportedly stormed the scene immediately it happened about 11.40 a.m, to lend…
The Borno Government has denied allegation by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) that healthcare services have collapsed in the North-East, due to the activities of insurgents. The state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr Salma Kolo, told newsmen on Saturday in Maiduguri, that the allegation was untrue. Kolo said that no health facility had been closed down in the state due, to the Boko Haram insurgency. “I wish to state categorically that no healthcare facility had been closed down in the state, in spite of the insurgency. “All the four general hospitals at the state capital are working effectively, so also…