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President Buhari’s Son in-law, Ahmed Indimi, who was busy comparing heaven and earth while others were mourning the loss of lives in recent Lagos explosion, was called out by a lady for not using his platform to speak out against wickedness and injustice going on in Nigeria. @toniaero took to his comment section and wrote:- You are busy comparing heaven and earth Mr Ndimi! Are you aware of the fire incident that happened in Lagos that has miserably taken the lives of people ?? Are you not aware of the killing of innocent citizens of Plateau state and many others ? 😢. Have you seen your father in-law in nothing but a darkness to this nation?? People are dying on daily basis, yet nothing is being done about it. Can’t you use your platform to speak out against wickedness and injustice going on in Nigeria?! There’s God! Buhari’s son in-law reacting to the comment wrote:- What happened in Plateau is quiet unfortunate, I agree with you. May the soul of the departed rest in p

There is a tanker explosion at Otedola/Ojodu Berger this evening and over 20 cars were reportedly  burnt . The number of casualty in the incident is not yet ascertained but at the moment efforts are already in place to put out the fire as The Lagos Fire Service officers are already spotted at the scene. And calls have been made to other appropriate authorities to intervene in the sad incident to avert a break down of law and order. More reports coming.. See photos below:- Watch the Video below:- Video Player

Saidu Abdullahi, Account General of Niger State, has told Justice Yalim Suleiman Bogoro of the Federal High Court sitting in Minna, Niger State how a former governor of the State, Babangida Aliyu, ordered the disbursement of over N1.6billion from the State’s statutory account for no reason. While being led in evidence by Ben Ikani, counsel to the EFCC, as PW10, Abdullahi, told the court all he knew about the ecological funds, stating that the disbursements were made in three tranches. His words: “On February 8, 2014, the State received N2billion through the State’s statutory account, domiciled in Zenith Bank, from the office of the Accountant General of the Federation, from Central Bank of Nigeria. “Thereafter, three disbursements were made to the Ministry of Environment in May, July and November, 2014 respectively”. According to him, “the first disbursement made in May was in the sum of N1 billion while the second and third disbursenents were in the sums of N366 million and

After many hours of rigorous hunting, a hippopotamus met its death in River Niger, Jebba, Niger state, yesterday. The hunt for it allegedly started in the early hours of Wednesday and was killed at about 4 pm on Thursday, after six gunshots and numerous arrows. It was said to have been killed to avert tragedy in the area. Four local boats were destroyed in the process.

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said phase four of the second Niger Bridge will be completed next month. The minister, who disclosed this, on Wednesday, in continuation of his ongoing tour of Federal Government projects across the country, declared that the bridge will be ready for use in 2020 and expressed satisfaction at the pace of work on the bridge. He said: “I am very excited. The thing about this project is that, because of the alignment, people travelling on the old bridge will say nothing is going on because they cannot see it, but you have come here and you can see the amount of work that is going on, so, I am very very excited,” the minister told the journalists who accompanied him on the tour. Mohammed, who inspected construction work at the Asaba and Onitsha ends of the bridge, said when completed, the bridge will ease traffic congestion on the road as well as change the socio-economic landscape of the South East and South South geo-p

19-year-old Nigerian, Deandre Ayton was selected as the first overall pick by the Phoenix Suns at the 2018 NBA draft on Thursday, June 21 at a glamorous event held at the Barclays Center in New York. Deandre was born to British-Nigerian, Edward Egerue who is also from Imo State, Nigeria. His mother, Andrea is a Bahamian of Jamaican descent. Deandre was 12 when he was scouted by the All Bahamian Brand who were visiting Bahamas Academy High School, a tiny private school then located on Wulff Road in Nassau. In his opening speech while fielding questions from the press right after the Draft ceremony, Deandre said, “Having my name called being the first pick for the Phoenix Suns was mind-blowing. Having all that confidence leading up to that point when I saw Adam Silver come out, I was just waiting for my name. He just called it and my mind went blank. I just did the routine everyone else is supposed to do and I just soaked in and enjoyed the moment. I saw the reaction on my

The Social Democratic Party, SDP, Wednesday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to sack all the service chiefs and save Nigerians from imminent genocide. The party said the security chiefs look confused and have no new strategy to save the worsening state of insecurity in the country. It also affirmed that for Buhari to watch the daily killings of Nigerians by armed Fulani herdsmen was inexcusable because he is the only chief security officer of the country. The Social Democratic Party, SDP, Wednesday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to sack all the service chiefs and save Nigerians from imminent genocide. The party said the security chiefs look confused and have no new strategy to save the worsening state of insecurity in the country. It also affirmed that for Buhari to watch the daily killings of Nigerians by armed Fulani herdsmen was inexcusable because he is the only chief security officer of the country. SDP national publicity secretary, Princess Goldba Tolofari made t

Vice president, Yemi Osinbajo has stated that the federal government is working to deal with the atrocities of operatives of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigerian Police Force. The VP said this while fielding questions from young Nigerians at a Town Hall meeting, on the sideline of the launch of the National Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Clinics in Ibadan on Tuesday. He stated that the Federal Government’s commitment to addressing the concerns raised about SARS operations is reflected in President Buhari’s directive for an immediate review and restructuring of the unit. Osinbajo said:- “Many people are complaining about the atrocities of SARS, people are saying there should be no more SARS. SARS as you know is anti-robbery squad but several members of the squad have gone rogue and are doing things that are contrary to the very reasons for which they were set up. But it is not enough to just say, ‘end SARS’. You know it is an anti-robbery squad. W

A Nigerian returnee said she was gang raped while in Libya and is now pregnant. The victim, Titi was assisted to return to Nigeria with IOM last charter flight from Libya. Read her story:- I finished my National Diploma but there was no work. Then, i learnt photography but still there was no money to buy a camera. I did different odd jobs like BRT, sales girl, ticketing and more. I eventually left Nigeria in April 2018. I was told by a certain woman that there was work in South Africa and that she would settle my travel experiences. I was expected to work for one year and 6 months. I wanted to help my parents so i decided to take the offer. I was so desperate for a better life, I left my 4 years old daughter at home to go look for a better life abroad. However, instead of taking me to South Africa like she promised, my madame took me to Kano, then Aghadez and Saba in Libya. At Saba, we were sold to Arabs, who in turn sold us to a brothel. One night, in the room where 8

The Oyo State Government has shut down Bodija market, Ibadan, as police and butchers clash on Thursday. According to the verified twitter handle of the Oyo State Government, @oyostategovt, it was shut after gunshots were heard in the market. The state government had directed that the butchers should relocate to a new abattoir outside the town but the butchers did not agree with the directive. On Tuesday, the butchers staged a protest at the state secretariat in Ibadan over the demolition of the abattoir in the market by the government over the weekend. Our correspondent learned that Thursday’s clash began when some of the butchers accused their leaders of taking gratification from the government to support the relocation order. The clash led to the closure of shops in the market while traders vacated the market because of the commotion. When contacted, Public Relations Officer of the Oyo State Police Command, Adekunle Ajisebutu, said he would come up with a statement on

The Plateau State Government has asked the Federal Government to release N10billion from the Victims Support Fund (VSF) to the state. Commissioner for Information in the state, Mr Yakubu Dati, made the request on Wednesday during his interview with Channels TV. The request is coming days after herdsmen attacked on some villages in Barkin-Ladi Local Government Area of the state, where at least, 200 persons were killed by suspected herdsmen. Recall that suspected armed herders on June 24, 2018, killed 86 persons during an attack on Razat, Ruku, Nyarr, Kura and Gana-Ropp villages of Gashish District in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State. The commissioner explained that the fund would help in the compensation of residents rendered homeless in the aftermath of the attack. He said: “ VSF is needed so that those who have been affected will be supported or compensated to reduce the human suffering and also feel that justice has been done to a level because, sometim

A depressed man has decided to end his life by taking rat/insect poison in Bauchi state in an apparent suicide. According to reports, the man who had been troubled, took the poison and started to vomit white substance from his mouth few minutes later. The man gave up the ghost before he was rushed to the hospital by his neighbors after noticing what he had done. His corpse was later evacuated from the area and taken to an undisclosed place considering the manner he died. Just few days ago, a man identified as Cruz Henry allegedly killed himself after he was found hanging from a ceiling in his residence in Lagos.

The federal government plans to borrow $2.8 billion offshore to finance its 2018 budget and would explore all options to lower costs, the Director General, Debt Management Office (DMO), Ms Patience Oniha, disclosed in an interview with Reuters Wednesday in Abuja. The government, according to her, has laid out plans to borrow abroad even as interest rates are rising in the United States, raising fears that the country could pay a higher premium than its most recent debt sale in February. The country, which left recession last year, approved a three-year plan in 2016 to borrow more from abroad so that 40 per cent of its loans would come from offshore to lower borrowing costs. It now has around 23 per cent of its debt from abroad, up from 16 per cent when it approved the plan. The debt office has sent a request for a proposal to banks for an international bond offering, Reuters disclosed. “We will explore all options, keeping in mind our twin objectives of extending the tenor o

One Emeka Chukwuemeka who operates a laundry shop at oregun, Lagos state, has revealed that a pastor gave him blood to drink to become a millionaire. Chukwuemeka disclosed this when operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Lagos State, arrested him. It was gathered that neighbours alerted the Police after a stench of blood from his shop enveloped the community. The suspect said: “I was in my shop, working one fateful day when my friend, Pastor Johnson, came to me. He said that he noticed I had been working as a dry cleaner for long, but had made little or no money. “That was how the conversation started. The pastor told me that there were young boys, not up to my age, who made it through the work they did, but also with the support of rituals. He said that I should face reality. “The pastor promised to assist me to overcome all my challenges. “He asked me to get N5,000 ready. I rallied round and got the money for him. “I didn’t know that what he was going

A 14-year-old JSS 1 student has been crushed to death by a truck in Ibadan area of Oyo state. According to reports, the student was knocked down by the truck driver while trying to cross the road as the pupil was crushed to death in the process. The accident and the pupil’s untimely death was said to have caused tension in the area. Just last month, a driver of Oyo State-owned mass transit bus killed a secondary school pupil in Ibadan. The accident, which attracted other pupils, resulted in a mob attack on the bus, popularly called Ajumose. People vandalized the vehicle by smashing the windscreen and side mirror. The mob attacked the driver, a middle-aged man, who was injured. The driver was said to have also injured pupils. Photo-credit; Splash FM

A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the temporary forfeiture of a parcel of land in Lekki, Lagos State, linked to a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, to the Federal government. The land valued at N325.4 million, is located at Plot 13, Block II, Oniru Chieftaincy Private Family Estate. Justice Babs Kuewumi made the order for the forfeiture yesterday June 27th following an ex-parte application by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) counsel, Mr. Anslem Ozioko. Ozioko told the judge that the land was suspected to have been acquired with proceeds of crime. He told the court that the land was discovered while the antigraft agency was investigating an ally of the former minister, Donald Amamgbo. Justice Kuewumi also directed the anti-graft agency to publish the temporary forfeiture order in a national daily to put interested parties on notice. He adjourned till July 14, for anyone interested in the property to appear before him to s

24 hours after fire outbreak ravaged 100 lock-up shops in Akure, the Ondo State capital, two siblings were roasted to death by another mysterious fire that gutted their home located at Edo Lodge in the metropolis. The siblings, two-year-old ltunu and four-year-old Damilare Omolere, were left in the care of their 11-year-old elder sister, while their parents went out. While their father, Bode, travelled out of the state, their mother, Blessing, was equally not at home on the sad day. The eldest child equally left the toddlers alone in the house only to return later to find the house engulfed in flames. Sources said the fire may have been caused by a candle that was left on the table by their sister before she left the house. Similarly, the President of the Association of Office Documents and Computers, Elizabeth Aina, 52, whose shop was among the 100 lock-up shops gutted by fire last week has died of heart attack four days after the incident. The husband, Jacob Aina who confi

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has urged Ekiti people not to vote for the All Progressives Congress in the July 14 governorship election. He said voting for the APC during the election was an invitation to chaos, killing, raping of people’s wives and daughters by the killer herdsmen which the APC harboured. Fayose urged them to learn from daily killings by herdsmen in the APC-controlled states of Benue, Plateau, Zamfara, Kaduna and Nasarawa. Fayose stated this during a meeting with teachers, civil servants and local government workers in Ado Ekiti. In a press statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, on Wednesday, the governor called on the Ekiti people to reject the APC and its candidate, Dr Kayode Fayemi, to avert Ekiti becoming another state where killings by herdsmen would start. The governor said since the killings started, the Federal Government had not been able to stop them and the APC governors were being careful not to offend the

An inmate of the Kirikiri Maximum Prison, Lagos has enrolled for a doctorate degree (PhD) at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Prof. Abdalla Adamu NOUN’s Vice-Chancellor says. Adamu disclosed this in his remarks at the opening ceremony of the 1st International Conference of Social Sciences –ICOSS’ 2018– held on at NOUN’s headquarters on Monday in Abuja. The theme of 3-day conference is “Imaged or Imagined: Africa and the Contemporary World—Issues in Security, Governance, and Sustainable Development.’’ Adamu said that NOUN had transformed into a more credible institution than it was previously perceived. “We emphasise quality assurance, due diligence, due process and most importantly, we emphasise academic excellence and leadership. “We have over 420,000 students and about 135,000 about to take their examinations; last Saturday, we matriculated over 16,000 students. “We are the only institution that provides opportunities for those who cannot afford educatio

A Nigerian PR and Marketing strategist, Olumide Lawrence has surprised his girlfriend after he proposed to her at the exact spot they met five years ago in Ogun State. Olumide who works at Media Panache, one of the Nigerian leading PR agencies, took to Facebook to narrate how he execute plans to get his girlfriend to Ogundele Block, Ijoko Ota, Ogun state, where they first met physically in 2013 after meeting on social networking App. “Where are you now?” Dammy asked for the umpteenth time, growing impatient. “I’m close. Just two bus stops away.” I responded, not wanting her to panic. The truth was that I had arrived the spot I wanted her to be, along with Mummy Mo and Ozone. We just needed one more person to complete the plan – Dammy’s brother, Ola. So, I called and asked him to quietly leave the house without telling anyone. In a few minutes, he had arrived and the plan was for him to call Dammy and say he had just been arrested by The Police and that she should come q

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday faulted those who accused him of being silent on killings being carried out by suspected herdsmen in parts of the country. He said there was injustice in such aspersions. According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President spoke during an interactive session with stakeholders in Jos, Plateau State, over the recent attacks that left scores of people dead. Buhari said people were blaming him for not talking to the herdsmen probably because he looked like them. He appealed to Nigerians to avoid inflammatory utterances that could endanger peace or promote conflicts. The President said, “Whatever is being given to the media, we have to be very responsible about it. ‘‘Take for instance the situation in Benue. The Benue subsistence farmer knows that the Nigerian cattle herder that he knows doesn’t carry nothing more than a stick, occasionally sometimes something to cut grass to feed hi

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has accused Governor Ayodele Fayose and officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission of plotting to compromise the July 14 governorship election. Fayemi, who raised the alarm through Kayode Fayemi Campaign Organisation, alleged that four officials of INEC were neck-deep in the new plot. Addressing journalists on Tuesday in Ado-Ekiti, the Deputy Director-General (South) of KFCO, Bamidele Faparusi, said the INEC’s team was led by a former official, Ishaku Abbo, who he claimed had been living with the governor in the Government House since January. He revealed that a secret meeting had held with three top officials of INEC from the national headquarters in the Government House. The organization gave the names of the officials as Egharevba John, Festus Aisien, Igidiogu Kelechi, and Abbo. Faparusi said, “Curiously, these three top officials hold strategic positions in election manage

A 32-year-old man, Abdul-Azeez Haruna, has been arrested by men of Ogun State police command for impersonating as a military officer at Ifesowapo Community of Ijako in Sango Otta. The suspect who had been terrorizing residents of Ijako with military camouflage was seen in a show of force, at about 2:00 pm, removing a television set from the house of a resident. His action aroused the suspicion of members of the community who accosted him, held him hostage and thereafter, sent a distress call to the police at Sango-Otta Division. Upon the arrival of policemen, Haruna still insisted that he was an Army personnel, but had to debunk that claim, on sighting soldier guarding the Otta Unit of the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC).

The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Ibrahim Idris, has deployed Special Intervention Force to Plateau to restore peace in Barkin-Ladi, Riyom, Jos South local government areas and other flash points in the state. Many people were killed by gunmen on June 24 in Barkin-Ladi, Riyom, Jos South local government areas of plateau. A statement by the Force Spokesman, acting DCP Jimoh Moshood, on Monday in Abuja, noted that two police aerial surveillance helicopters, five Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs) and three Police Mobile Force Units (PMF) were deployed. He said that two Counter Terrorism Units (CTU) and Police Intelligence Unit and conventional police personnel from other states have also been deployed to the affected areas. Moshood added that the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of operations had relocated to Plateau on the directive of the I-G to coordinate and supervise the operations. He noted that “the I-G has directed the Commissioner of Police in cha