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Peter Ayodele Fayose Fayose had reportedly accused Buhari of plotting to islamize Nigeria while speaking during a ceremony in Rivers State on Friday, February 26, 2016. The Ekiti APC issued its reaction via a statement released by its Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun on Sunday, February 28, 2016. The statement reads: “We know Fayose as a devious schemer in the game of subterfuge with uncanny capacity to stoke public rage against his innocent opponents.” “He is deliberately engaging the President relentlessly in his uncouth outbursts so that when the Nigerian law is being applied to take care of his many crimes against the state, he can then start his propaganda that he is being haunted for criticising the President.” “If anyone is guilty of religious bigotry, it is Fayose who did not deem it fit to consider Muslims for appointments in his administration whereas he gave Christians almost 98 per cent of the appointments into the State Executive Council, parastat

Nigeria’s Minister of Information, Mr Lai Mohammed, says the fight against corruption in Nigeria looked one-sided because the indicted persons on trial are connected to one transaction that is currently being investigated.    Mr Mohammed told Channels Television on Sunday that the persons facing trial were all connected to the investigation of how the fund meant for the purchase of military equipment was used. He claimed that some members of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) were also being investigated for other corruption cases which he did not mention. “If you go to the EFCC today and ask them who are the people that are facing charges before them, you are going to find as many APC and as many PDP [Peoples Democratic Party]. “However, what gives the impression that the fight is one sided is the fact that it is simply one issue that is being investigated now. That is money meant to buy arms which was diverted for other uses and unfortunately, everybody involved

Sunday Oliseh has shockingly resigned as coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria after just seven months in the post. Sunday Oliseh Mr. Oliseh made this known in a tweet from his official Twitter handle. He wrote: “I feel fortunate, blessed and eternally grateful for having had the honour to Play,Captain & Coach this great Nation of ours, Nigeria” “Due to Contract violations, lack of support, unpaid wages, benefits to my players, Asst. coaches & myself, I resign as Super Eagles Chief Coach.” Oliseh was appointed in July 2015 as the country’s coach in place of sacked Stephen Keshi. However, the relationship between Oliseh and the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has soured since the country failed to go past the group stage of the recent African Nations Championship in Rwanda.

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that all those involved in the killing of innocent Ogoni people and residents of Ogoniland will be brought to justice, saying that nobody will be allowed to play politics with the lives of Rivers People. The governor declared that the military must subject itself to civil authority, pointing out that as Chief Security Officer of Rivers State, he was not informed of the operation that led to loss of innocent lives of Ogoni people and residents of the area. He accused some politicians of deliberately instigating crisis in the state to create room for ‘the evil declaration of state of emergency plotted by enemies of Rivers People.’ Governor Wike spoke on Thursday when led by the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Musa Kimo, and top police officers on a fact finding mission to Yeghe community in Gokana Local Government Area, affected communities in Bori and mortuaries where those killed by soldiers were deposited. He said

  THE Supreme Court yesterday explained its January 29 judgment in relation to the leadership dispute in the Anambra chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The court said the judgment did not resolve the question relating to the legitimacy or otherwise of the list of candidates submitted for the National Assembly election by the factions of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State, because the issue was not before it. By implication, the Supreme Court ruled that Senators Stella Oduah and Andy Uba, and other PDP lawmakers in Anambra State are to retain their seats. It said although it upheld the judgment of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, to the effect that the Ejike Oguebego-led Executive Committee of the Anambra PDP was the authentic body to run the party’s affairs, it did not say the Oguebego Exco could assume the responsibilities of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC). Justice John Okoro, who read the lead ruling of a five-man bench, sai

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested the immediate past acting chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus. The party’s director for new media, Adeyanju Ayodeji, said the EFCC accused Mr. Secondus of receiving buses illegally, and demanded he returned them. Mr. Secondus’ tenure as acting chairman of the party ended last week Monday, with the selection of Ali Modu Sheriff as the party’s new national chairman. In a statement by the party’s national legal adviser, Victor Kwon, the PDP said lamented “the oppressive and unfair treatments against its key leaders by the Federal Government”. “The party alerts the nation that the arrest and detention of its Deputy National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is part of the grand script by the APC-led Federal Government to decimate the opposition,” the party said. The party said it was also aware of plans to “arrest and detain the Deputy Senate

“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” Every once in year there is that special day in the lives of everyone. The day we commemorate our grand entries into the world, that reminds us the day we took our first breaths,the day we began our great sojourn, the day our loving mothers travailed in labour and prevailed. The day our tiny crying voices wiped away every pain of delivery our mothers suffered and brought laughter and happiness to everyone around us. The day we mark our birthdays. You would agree with me that birthdays are considered one of the most important days in a person's life. Little wonder people attach so much relevance to it,(some probably more than others).There are plenty relationships that have been strained because one party forgot the birthday of the other or did not mark it in a way that was expected of them. I do not blame them much, a birthday is special and the celebrant ought to be tre

A woman charged with stealing a newborn baby 18 years ago appeared briefly in a South African court Monday, in a case that came to light only when school pupils noticed a startling resemblance between a student and a new girl. The case in the Cape Town High Court was postponed until Tuesday by Judge John Hlophe after prosecutors said they needed time to formalise agreements on a number of admissions by the defence. The accused 50-year-old woman has been on bail since March last year after DNA tests confirmed that the new girl at the school and a 17-year-old final-year student were in fact biological sisters. The new girl was the daughter of Celeste and Morne Nurse, whose first child was snatched as a three-day-old baby named Zephany in April 1997 from Cape Town’s Groote Schuur hospital. Police were alerted after Zephany’s parents became convinced the older girl was their missing baby. The parents looked on from the public gallery as the alleged kidnapper sat emotionless in

Pau Vilanova Vila-Abadal, director of business and member of FC Barcelona management board, disclosed this during a visit to Akinwunmi Ambode, governor of the state, on Monday. Vila-Abadal said FC Barcelona decided to establish its academy in Lagos due to the impressive population of the state, and the opportunity to share the philosophy of the team with the state. Oscar Grau, worldwide director of Barcelona Academy, said “it was indeed a big honour for the club to establish its Academy in Lagos, as many of the big names in the team started from such Academy”. He recalled that players like Messi, Iniesta, Sergio Busquet, Pique, among others, all started from such academy, and that the club has a unique methodology of instilling great virtues in footballers, apart from footballing skills and education. He added that through the academy, the club also aims to raise excellent players for Nigeria. Responding to the team’s plan on the academy, Ambode expressed readiness of

Ibrahim Coomassie   The Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, and Ex-Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Coomassie, said the current agitations for a new Republic of Biafra by Igbo youths were based on “long emotions,” which he declared were “short on logic.” According to him, “While I am not trying to put any one on the spot, you will agree with me that these allegations (of marginalization against the North) have been around for many years. Yet, like all allegations made by angry people, they are long on emotions and short on logic. Coomasssie spoke at Nsukka while accepting the conferment of Honourary Doctor of Public Administration, DPA, on him, by the University of Nigeria, UNN,Saturday. “The problem of Nigeria has nothing to do with its size, diversity or attempt by any group to marginalise other nationalities. As was succinctly put by the late great literary giant, Chinua Achebe, the trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely the failure of leadership.

Former militant commander in the Niger Delta region, Government Ekpemupolo, popularly referred to as Tompolo, has denied giving President Muhammadu Buhari any ultimatum to withdraw soldiers from the region. The Niger Delta warlord had reportedly given the president an ultimatum to withdraw his soldiers from their region or they would continue blowing up oil pipelines in the area. A reports had also surfaced where Tompolo allegedly asked his boys to blow up pipelines if the soldiers remained on his heels following a court order to ensure his arrest. But Vanguard reports that Tompolo, on Monday, February 22, denied issuing any ultimatum to President Buhari to withdraw military from the region or he would blow up oil pipelines. Paul Bebenimibo, who spoke on behalf of the former militant, said the purported statement was trending on social media, adding: “We wish to state categorically that the said publication is not from Tompolo, rather it is the work of those that

Fani-KayodeChief Femi Fani-Kayode has reacted to Senator Ali Modu Sheriff’s threat that he will be dealt with. The former Aviation Minister, in a statement made available to Channels Television, said he is amused by the Senator’s threat and he is waiting with baited breath for his actions. Mr Fani-Kayode who is a member of the PDP and one of the party leaders who are unhappy with the process which brought Senator Ali Modu Sheriff as the new PDP national chairman, criticised the emergence of the former governor of Borno State as the new PDP Chairman, raising allegations of a link of the new party leader with the Boko Haram sect, a terrorist group which has killed hundreds of innocent Nigerians since it began its operations few years ago. The former minister says “we are more than ready to meet Senator Ali Modu Sheriff in court. It would be a pleasure to expose him for what he is. The days of intimidating, silencing and threatening others are long over. “If sheriff is a Goliath,

The Consumer Advocacy Foundation of Nigeria (CAFON) and the Coalition of Nigerian Consumer Protection Associations have set aside Tuesday, March 1, 2016 as No Banking Day. In a publication signed by the president of the association, the action is to protest the increased bank charges imposed on bank costumers. The notice reads:  Dear Nigerian Banks Consumers.  For many years now, consumers of banking services have been subject to series of poor and unsatisfactory transaction and relationship terms. We have endured excessive charges, illegal fees and unfair contracts that only protects the bank but does not protect the consumers. Banks debit our accounts at will for charges we never agreed to or were not aware of; they charge us for every little service; we pay for getting our statements; introduction letters; and now, some banks are charging N200 for the use of deposit and transfer forms! Under the current CBN management, abolished fees are being reintroduced. ATM withdra

Femi Adesina, special adviser to the president on media and publicity, announced the president’s trips to Saudi Arabia and Qatar in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday. “Before going on to Doha, the president will also visit Medina and Mecca to pray for greater peace, prosperity and progress in Nigeria,” the statement read. “President Buhari, who will be accompanied by a high-powered Federal Government delegation, including the Minister of State (Petroleum) and Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC), Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, will first fly to Riyadyh for talks on Tuesday with King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and senior officials of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Ongoing efforts by Nigeria and other members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to achieve greater stability in the price of crude oil exports are expected to be high on the agenda of discussions between President Buhari and the Saudi Monarch. “Crude oil price

As at that time, Guvnor made it a daily routine flaunting his unshakable love for his wife and how it was never going to die despite an international outcry. Fast forward to today, Guvnor Ace’s 68 year old wife is now crying out that Ace has dumped her for a younger Ugandan woman. A heart broken Mona-lisa Larsson took to Facebook yesterday to vent her anger in broken English and call her estranged husband ” a cheap  and poor bush man after money” . She said he tricked her by asking her to go shopping, only to come back and find him gone. He allegedly fled with a Ugandan Woman to Norway. Aged Mona-Lisa accuses Gurvnor of having planned with the Norway based girlfriend to dupe her  into marriage in order to gain entry to Europe and then abandon her. She alleges Guvnor is now seeking political asylum in Europe. Below is what she shared on Facebook:

    About three weeks ago, 27-year old Olajumoke Orisaguna was a complete unknown on the streets of Lagos, hawking bread. A loaf of bread is about N100, and even with a full tray such as she carried in her first public embrace of fame, her whole ware for a day may not be more than N3,000, with daily profit between N300-N700. She had trained as a hair stylist, got married but had to leave her husband and a daughter back home in Ire, Osun state, to “hustle” as it were in Lagos. The life of a bread seller in Lagos is easily imaginable: exposure to the elements, to sundry abuse, including the possibility of being raped by unruly artisans and bachelors, who will offer to buy bread and something else along with it, if the hawker is willing.  This was Olajumoke Orisaguna’s reality until she ran into TY Bello and Tinie Tempah and her life changed. Today, she has been enrolled as a model. Her story has appeared in all newspapers, on CNN, Huffington Post, and virtually everywhere

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal has lost the confidence of several of the club's senior players and former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho is their preferred option as his replacement. The Old Trafford club's executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward is believed to have contacted Mourinho's agent on Friday to see if he will take over before the end of this season. Woodward made the move after fearing that Inter Milan were about to offer Mourinho his old job back. Van Gaal is clinging to his role at Manchester United as Woodward is told to stop dithering over whether to sack him. The Dutchman has three games to save his career, starting with Monday's FA Cup tie at Shrewsbury.

Ahmed Mansour Karni, a 4-year old child, will be spending the rest of his life in prison following a court ruling in western Cairo on Tuesday. The little boy was convicted in absentia for several charges, including murder. Going by the timeline of events that led to the alleged crimes the youngster is being convicted for, Karni was about 2-years old at the time, as they occurred two years ago during the riots and demonstrations of January 3 2014. But his name was on a list of over a hundred people “wanted” for murder, disturbance of the peace and damaging state property. Prior to the ruling, a defense attorney, Faisal al-Saud, who said that Karni’s name ended on the list by mistake, presented the child’s birth certificate to the court, but it appears the material was not transferred and that the presiding judge did not review the case. “The child, Ahmed Mansour Karni’s birth certificate was presented after state security forces added his name to the list of accused, but the

  Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, says the current administration will not “abandon the good ideas” of previous governments, including that of former president, Goodluck Jonathan. Amaechi said this at Idu, Abuja, on Thursday, while inspecting the Abuja-Kaduna Rail project along with the contractors, China Civil Engineering Construction Company. He said N150 billion would be used to execute the national rail project, with another N60 billion for the Lagos-Kano standard gauge and yet another N60 billion for the Lagos-Calabar project. “What we are doing is implementation of what we met in office. We are not among those who will abandon good ideas,” he said. “If we see an idea that is good, we will adopt it. The Lagos-Kano project was awarded by former President Olusegun Obasanjo and we are flying with it. “The Lagos-Calabar project was awarded by former President Goodluck Jonathan and we are also flying with it. What we are doing is implementing those projects tha

    A rumoured death of the Minister of Labour, Dr. Chris Ngige, shook the National Assembly on Thursday. But investigations showed that the former Senator and former Governor of Anambra State, did not visit the National Assembly complex on Thursday. Ngige is said to be in Zambia for an official assignment. However, a around midday on Thursday, rumour spread in the National Assembly that Ngige had come to the House of Representatives to defend the 2016 budget of his ministry but collapsed in the process. The minister, in a terse reaction, quickly dismissed the rumour of his death. His Personal Assistant, Mr. Nwachukwu Ngige, relayed the minister’s Facebook post in which he dismissed the rumour. He wrote, “Dear friends , please disregard the wicked tissue of lies, contained in an online publication about an unfortunate incident said to have taken place today (Thursday) at the National Assembly and in which I was said to have been involved. "I am currently not in th

A Facebook video goes viral as a man strips himself to his boxers in protest for certain amount of money that was moved from his account and not refunded. The Nigerian man allegedly hit the GT Bank hall to vent his anger, the money that was said to amount to about 150,000 naira was withdrawn without the customer’s notice and was not reverted back to the account. The frustrated customer started calling out abusive words in Yoruba language as he rolled on the floor to vent his anger. As at the time of this report we can’t say the exact branch where this incident occurred, but an eye witness of the ugly scene recorded it and shared it on Facebook. Watch Video

By Lesley Chimezie One of the many promises President Muhammadu Buhari made to Nigerians during his presidential campaign was to bring Boko haram terrorism to an end. Considering the security challenges this group posed, many Nigerians voted him, believing he would keep his promises with his pedigree as a military man. He told the world in an interview at the Chatham House,UK that he would lead the war from the front. He also said. “Our soldiers have neither received the necessary support nor the required incentive to tackle this problem. Let me assure you that if I’m elected president, I vow to change that". “We will give them adequate modern arms and ammunition, we will improve intelligence gathering… we will be tough on terrorists and tough on its root causes… in the affected areas.” “No inch of Nigerian territory will ever be in the hands of the enemy." Read more These statements brought hope to a lot of Nigerians. Especially when he reiterated his com

In the face of growing Agitation for the State of Biafra, the  Commanding Officer of 14 Brigade  Nigerian Army, Ohafia,  Abia State, Brigadier General Lawrence Fejoku has  decided to move his tactical headquarters from Ohafia  to Aba. Lawrence Fejoku  who  disclosed  this to newsmen in Asa, Ukwa West local government area of Abia State during his first visit to the 144 Brigade located in Asa yesterday  said he was concerned that Aba has continued to be a hot spot essentially because of kidnapping and other sundry crimes and the activities of MASSOB and IPOB. “To that effect I have decided after due clearance from my boss based in Enugu to relocate my tactical headquarters from Ohafia to Aba to see how far we can go in trying to curb this menace”.

It has to be Jonathan's fault. Always. Since Buhari became President on May 29 2015, he has worked tirelessly to bring the promised change to Nigerians. But all his efforts have met with failures. Because of Jonathan. Today N1 would have been worth $1 if not for the sabotage of Jonathan's men. Prices of petrol would have reduced to less than N40. But Jonathan's men sabotaged the efforts. Nigeria would have been generating over 10000 Megawatts of electricity today. But we're still rationing power because of Jonathan. Investors are running away and others are afraid of coming to invest in Nigeria because Jonathan's men sabotaged Buhari by telling the world that Nigerians are criminals. The budget went missing, Jonathan's men stole it. It didn't end there. They always planted rats that ate part of the budget. As if it wasn't enough, Jonathan's men also prepared, submitted, signed and presented the budget to National Assembly without

  The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has called for the sack of all heads of agencies and parastatals appointed by Jonathan. The party stated this the  yesterday when it said heads of agencies and parastatals appointed by former President Goodluck Jonathan are sabotaging President Muhammadu Buhari.  The party’s national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun said this in an interview with State House correspondents yesterday shortly after the leaders of the party met   Buhari at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja.    President Buhari had Monday sacked heads of 26 agencies and parastatals appointed by his predecessor.  Oyegun said that internal sabotage was going on in many federal agencies currently headed by members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).  He also alleged that sabotage was happening in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and other government institutions at the moment; the situation, he said, has been of concern to the APC.

  Authorities rejected Dmitry Kozhukhov, 25, who just change her name to Alina davis, plea to serve in a women's prison because she is still registered and ‘physically’ a man. They insisted she should serve her two month sentence for driving with a fake licence in a male prison. A police spokesman said: "Kozhukov aka Davis is a man according to his documents and as a result he was sent to a male prison." Dmitry before transgender operation When she asked if it was possible to at least get a single cell in the jail she was also refused, with the prison service saying they did not have any. She is now sharing the jail cell with four male prisoners in the city of Egorievsk in western Russia’s Moscow region. When she was arrested over the drugs charges, police decided not to keep her in custody because they could not work out which type of cell to give her, but now after the second offence they have acted and told her she will go to a male prison.

HRM Eze Israel Okwu Kanu is the father of one of Nigeria’s controversial detainees, Nnamdi Kanu. He is the traditional ruler of Isiama Afara, a community in Umuahia, Abia state. In an interview with Ihuoma Chiedozie of The Punch newspaper, HRM Kanu senior talks about the personality of his son, the reasons behind his involvement in the struggle for the actualization of Biafra and many more. Below are excerpts from the exclusive chat; As a child, was he troublesome, considering his activities with Indegenous People of Biafra and Radio Biafra? No, he was not a troublemaker. In fact he went out of his way to avoid trouble. If anything would cause a quarrel between him and anybody, he would rather avoid such a matter. He was actually peace loving and gentle. Also, he was not a person of many words, he was reserved. But what I noticed about him, as he was growing up, was that he detested injustice. He did not like to see a fellow human being victimised. He would never be part