President Muhammadu Buhari and the Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar today joined other candidates to sign the second 2019 National Peace Accord in Abuja.
Buhari and Atiku called for free, fair and non-violent elections.
The Presidential election comes up on Saturday 16th of February, 2019.
Ghanaian actress and Television show host, Joselyn Dumas has advised women to stop milking men and empower themselves too. Joselyn says if a man loves you, the little you can do is to appreciate him and not walk out of the relationship because he lacks the ability to financially sort all your needs. She then asked women to get a job to help themselves instead.
According to Ghana Web, Joselyn says;
"Dear sisters, if you have a man who loves you and cares about you with the little he has, appreciate it and be content with it.
Stop getting into relationships because you have a lot of demands and wants and you want your man to take care of them all.
You should stop making your man a goldmine or consider him as your father that he has to take care of everything of all his Daughter's Needs. Your man also has a life to live and his own demands to fulfill.
In addition to that, also stop getting into relationships with high expectations. High expectations will kill you and you will get disappointed for nothing.
If you are with someone and they are unable to provide everything you want yet you adore them, then find a job and cater for yourself.
If you can’t find a job or you are handicapped then walk out of the relationship instead of cheating and find someone capable or an organization for disabled people to support you. Otherwise cease getting into relationships and marriages for wrong reasons.
Money can’t buy love and happiness. If it did then most rich people wouldn't have been single, they wouldn’t have been crying for love and they wouldn’t have been divorcing every now and then. Money just sustains life but it can’t complete everything! Be Wise
A female suspected kidnapper was yesterday apprehended and beaten to pulp after she was caught while allegedly trying to abduct three children in Ibadan, Oyo state.
It was gathered that the suspect identified as Tawa, met the children on the street at Mokola, when she attempted to kidnap them.
According to an eyewitness, the woman touched the children with a charm and they lost control. She was about taking them out of the vicinity, not knowing a petty trader by the roadside saw her and what transpired.
The trader approached her and asked her what she was doing with the children, but she couldn’t give an answer.
An alarm was immediately raised as neighbours and residents including the children’s parents trooped out and descended on the suspected kidnapper. She was stripped n-ked, beaten before she was handed over to the police.
Unknown gunmen, yesterday February, 12 abducted Mr Monday Aighobahi, the Director General (DG) of the campaign organisation of the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate for the Ovia Federal Constituency of Edo, Mr Dennis Idahosa.
Idahosa, former council Chairman of the area, said the abducted DG of his campaign organisation was at Ofosu, Ogbogui Ward to canvass for votes.
He said the director general was kidnapped shortly after a campaign rally at Ofosu.
“I was at the rally at Ofosu with him and left shortly after for other places in continuation of my campaign.
“He was left behind to sort some things out after which he was to join us at another campaign location afterwards,” he narrated.
Idahosa alleged that the abduction was politically motivated as Aighobahi has a strong hold of the ward.
“Politically, Aighobahi has a strong hold of the ward and my opponent knows this. I am not out to see bloodshed; so I will urge all to go about the electioneering in a very peaceful way.
“While urging the abductors to release their captives unconditionally, I appeal to my supporters and the people of Ovia to remain calm,” he said.
Idahosa, however, said he remained resolute in his quest to win the seat for the Ovia Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives.
Nollywood veteran actress, Joke Silva is bereaved. The actress lost her younger sister, Bisi Silva who is the founder and Artistic Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) to cancer yesterday, Tuesday, 12th of February.
A suspected female kidnapper was given the beating of her life after she was apprehended while allegedly trying to abduct three children in Ibadan, Oyo state.
It was gathered that the suspect identified as Tawa, met the children on the street at Mokola area of Ibadan, the state capital, when she attempted to kidnap them.
According to an eyewitness, the woman touched the children with a charm and they lost control.
She was about taking them out of the vicinity after the hypnosis, not knowing a petty trader by the roadside saw her and what transpired. The trader approached her and asked her what she was doing with the children, but she couldn’t give an answer.
According to Abiodun Adewole of Splash FM, an alarm was immediately raised as neighbours and residents including the children’s parents trooped out and descended on the suspected kidnapper.
She was stripped and beaten mercilessly before she was handed over to the police.
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has said President Muhammadu Buhari and his party, the All Progressives Congress, can no longer be trusted because they have not kept the promises they made to Nigerians while soliciting their votes four years ago.
Atiku said this on Tuesday during the party’s presidential rally at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos.
He said the PDP would provide adequate security, jobs and turn around the economy, noting that the APC had made situations worse than they met them after deceiving Nigerians to vote for them.
Atiku promised the Lagos crowd that he would create jobs and tackle other problems confronting the nation if voted into power on Saturday.
He said Lagos State was dear to him, adding that with the PDP in control at the centre the myriad of problems confronting the state would be effectively tackled.
Atiku said, “The APC promised to create jobs for us, today there is massive unemployment. The APC promised security, but today, there is high level of insecurity in Nigeria. The APC promised us economic revival, today Nigeria is the poverty capital of the world. These are people that cannot be trusted.
“I promise you that I will create jobs; I have been doing it and I will turn this country around if you vote for me.
“I am a Lagosian, I came to Lagos before most of you here. Let me assure the people of Lagos and the South-West that I will address their problems. I have said I will restructure this country and I will do it.”
The vice presidential candidate of the party, Mr Peter Obi, and the governorship candidate of the PDP in the state, Mr Jimi Agbaje, urged the people of Lagos to troop out on Saturday and vote for the PDP.
Agbaje said the Saturday polls should be used to put an end to slavery, terror and ineffective government.
On his part, Saraki said Atiku will create Jobs and make the lives of Nigerians more better, urging the people to come out and vote for the PDP's presidential candidate on Saturday.
The National Chairman of the PDP, Uche Secondus, said the opposition party was confident of winning the presidential poll, while accusing the ruling party of planning to rig the election. He called on Nigerians to vote for Atiku and other PDP candidates in the February 16 and March 2 elections, saying the party would return Nigeria to the path of economic development and security.
Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Imo State Police Command have arrested a female undergraduate of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Chitere Okoronkwo, for allegedly killing her boyfriend, Johnmark Osigwe.
The state Commissioner of Police, Dasuki Galadanchi, said the 20-year-old lady was nabbed on
Monday at Ama-Wire Urratta in the Owerri North Local Government Area of the state. According to him, she allegedly masterminded the killing of her estranged lover at Nkwo-Orji on August 8, 2018.
The CP said, “Chitere Okoronkwo, 20, of Umualumaku village in the Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State, was arrested at Ama-Wire Uratta in Owerri, Imo State by SARS operatives on Monday.
“She was arrested in connection with the murder of one Johnmark Osigwe, 24, at Nkwo-Orji in Owerri on August 16, 2018. It is important to note that the deceased was a boyfriend to the suspect.
“When their relationship got sour and ended, the girl demanded compensation. The deceased, due to persistent threats to life before being assassinated, had paid N1.8m for shop rent and N2m for interior decoration of the shop to the estranged girlfriend.
“Not done with the threats, she demanded N3m, which the deceased gave through a lawyer. Before the money was finally paid to the lady, he was murdered inside his Mercedes SUV. After his death, the lady fled to South Africa.
"Okoronkwo has confessed that she told a guy that she wanted the victim dead due to their misunderstanding.”
CP Galadanchi said the lady would be charged to court at the end of investigation.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has stated that those who believed his administration wasted $16 billion on power project implementation with nothing to show for it lacked proper understanding.
In a reply to queries on what happened to the $16 billion power sector funds under his administration, Obasanjo said it was wrong for anybody to reply on what he called “unsubstantiated allegations against him by the then leadership of House of Representatives over the project”.
President Buhari vowed yesterday to probe the power project.
Obasanjo, who responded through his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, blamed the query on lack of proper understanding.
He said: "It has come to the attention of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo that a statement credited to President Muhammadu Buhari, apparently without correct information and based on ignorance, suggested that $16 billion was wasted on power projects by a former President.
“We believe that the President was re-echoing the unsubstantiated allegation against Chief Obasanjo by his own predecessor but one.
“While it is doubtful that a President with proper understanding of the issue would utter such, it should be pointed out that records from the National Assembly had exculpated President Obasanjo of any wrong-doing concerning the power sector and has proved the allegations as false.
“For the records, Chief Obasanjo has addressed the issues of the power sector and the allegations against him on many occasions and platforms, including in his widely publicised book, “My Watch” in which he exhaustively stated the facts and reproduced various reports by both the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which conducted a clinical investigation into the allegations against Chief Obasanjo, and the Ad-Hoc Committee on the Review of the Recommendations in the Report of the Committee on Power on the Investigation into how the Huge Sums Of Money was Spent on Power Generation, Transmission And Distribution between June 1999 and May 2007 without Commensurate Result.
“We recommend that the President and his co-travellers should read Chapters 41, 42, 43 and 47 of My Watch for Chief Obasanjo’s insights and perspectives on the power sector and indeed what transpired when the allegation of $16 billion on power projects was previously made.
“If he cannot read the three-volume book, he should detail his aides to do so and summarise the chapters in a language that he will easily understand.
“In the same statement credited to the President, it was alleged that there was some bragging by Chief Obasanjo over $16 billion spent on power. To inform the uninformed, the so-called $16 billion power expenditure was an allegation against Chief Obasanjo’s administration and not his claim.
“The President also queried where the power generated is. The answer is simple: The power is in the seven National Integrated Power Projects and eighteen gas turbines that Chief Obasanjo’s successor who originally made the allegation of $16 billion did not clear from the ports for over a year and the civil works done on the sites.
“Chief Obasanjo challenges, and in fact encourages, anybody to set up another enquiry if in doubt and unsatisfied with the EFCC report and that of the Hon. Aminu Tambuwal-led ad-hoc committee.”
Fourteen persons on Tuesday lost their lives at the end of the presidential campaign rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Amiesimaka Stadium in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
The persons died in a stampede around the gate of the stadium as the crowd attempted to leave the venue of the campaign in a rush.
Eight other persons were critically injured as they were marched on as people rushed to go home after listening to President Muhammadu Buhari, who was the last speaker at the APC event.
Those who were seen lying lifelessly on the ground include three middle-aged women and a man.
The incident happened around 4pm after the President and his entourage had left the stadium.
A private vehicle owner, who tried to rush one of the victims, a middle aged woman, to a medical facility to save her life, returned her corpse and dumped it on the road after noticing that she had died.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Nnamdi Omoni, confirmed the incident, adding that four persons were receiving treatment at a hospital.
Omoni said, “I can confirm to you that four persons died as a result of a stampede at the stadium on Tuesday. Four other persons are currently receiving treatment in a hospital.”
But the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, confirmed that 14 dead bodies were brought in on Tuesday.
The Public Relations officer of UPTH, Kem Daniel-Elebiga, told The Punch this on the telephone.
“Yes, 14 dead bodies were brought to the hospital this evening from the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium. I cannot ascertain the number persons at the Accident and emergency Ward,” he added.
A 29-year-old man, Rasaq Iyanda, has been arrested by operatives of the Osun State Police Command for allegedly removing the pants of his co-tenant’s teenage daughter (name withheld) while she was sleeping.
The incident, according to the police, occured on Wednesday, February 6, 2019, around 2am at the Dalegan Compound, Osogbo. The father of the victim, simply identified as Mr Raheem, while narrating how the incident happened, said the teenager chose to sleep outside the room because of heat.
He said the girl’s cry woke the occupants of the house and on getting to where she was sleeping, it was discovered that her pants had been taken off.
Raheem stated that in order to get to the root of the matter, he consulted an herbalist, who told him that the perpetrator of the act was living in the same house with him.
He added that after he left the herbalist’s place, a co-tenant, who had suspected that Iyanda was the perpetrator of the act, called and warned the suspect that dire consequences awaited him if he did not confess. Iyanda, it was learnt, owned up to the crime and took Raheem to where he hid the pants, claiming that he did not know what came over him while carrying out the act.
Appearing before an Osun State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo, on Tuesday, Iyanda pleaded guilty to the one count of indecent assault preferred against him.
His counsel, Mr Tunbosun Oladipupo, applied for bail on his behalf and promised to ensure that the suspect would be available for trial.
The police prosecutor, Inspector Joshua Oladoye, however, objected to the bail application.
Magistrate Mary Awodele ordered the accused to be remanded in the Ilesa Prison and adjourned the case till March 12 for ruling.
President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to probe the $16bn spent on power projects by the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, despite several official documents indicating that their equipments were bought as expected.
He said his government would recover the money.
President Buhari, who spoke on Tuesday in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, during the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign rally, said he was unrelenting in his pursuit of those who looted the nation’s resources.
The President, who landed at the government helipad, was received by the Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, before he proceeded to pay a courtesy call on the traditional rulers in the state.
Addressing the crowd, Buhari said his administration despite the daunting challenges had been able to curtail the security issues in the North-East while the economy was on the way to becoming self-reliant.
Although he did not mention Obasanjo, Buhari said, “The previous government mentioned on their own that they spent $16bn on power but you are better witnesses than myself. Where is the power? Where is the money? We will follow them, eventually God willing, we will catch them and get our money back.”
The Federal Government was reported to have spent between N10bn and N12bn on power projects between 1999 and 2007 when Obasanjo was in government, and the equipments were used for most of the power plants generating power in the country today.
After he was caught on camera flinging the flag of the APC during the fracas at the Ogun state rally, rumours have been all over the media that a national leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu plans to quit the ruling party.
So what's the current position of things with APC and Tinubu?
The APC chieftain’s Media Adviser Tunde Rahman said Tinubu remained unshaken in the ruling party.
The clarification put to rest speculations that the former Lagos State governor was through with the APC because of the disruption of the presidential campaign rally in Abeokuta, Ogun State on Monday.
The rumour followed a video clip showing Asiwaju Tinubu at the APC Presidential Campaign rally in Abeokuta, Ogun State, throwing the party’s flag to National Chairman Adams Oshiomhole.
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had latched on to the clip and interpreted it to mean that the APC leader threw away the party.
Rahman claimed that Asiwaju was passing the flag on to Oshiomhole for presentation to the party’s governorship candidate, Prince Dapo Abiodun.
In the statement, Rahman said the claim that Tinubu threw away the party's flag was false.
Agreeing that an incident did occur at the Ogun State APC rally, Rahman said it was not what the PDP concocted.
The statement reads: “The true incident that should be reported and condemned is that people who furtively oppose the party and the President tried to infiltrate and disrupt this rally. The attack by these operatives was disrespectful of the office of the President and could have potentially harmed the person of the president.
“With but a few precious days until the election and with its chance of victory running out even faster than the time, the PDP now grasps at the most nonsensical and desperate tactics to salvage its falling enterprise.
“However, a drowning man cannot toss himself a lifeline. Nor can the PDP succeed in turning the innocuous attempted exchange of a flag between the national leader and national chairman into a rift in the APC’s successful campaign.
“Such antics have no place in our political discourse. The author of these misdeeds should desist before real harm is done. Now to the crux of the opposition’s latest antics, if the issue of the flag has become the hotspot of the PDP campaign, then they are in serious trouble.
“During that portion of the Ogun rally, the national chairman and others were looking for a party flag. Asiwaju Tinubu spotted one within his reach. He picked it up and attempted to toss it to Oshiomhole so that the chairman could present it to the party’s gubernatorial candidate Prince Abiodun.
“If you want to fault Asiwaju for anything in this matter, your critique can only be limited to the accuracy of his toss. Any attempt to enlarge the episode beyond this is fiction and mischief writ large.
“As the National Leader, Asiwaju Tinubu is thoroughly faithful and committed to the APC. It is unthinkable that he would leave the party. Moreover, there is no reason for him to do so. He has been hard at work for the victory of the APC and all of its candidates in the upcoming election.
“Asiwaju understands the bigger picture. He knows what is at stake in this election. Either the nation moves forward along the progressive path of the APC or it will be forced to retreat into the ills of the past created by the PDP. With the nation’s future hanging in the balance, Asiwaju will not allow himself to be deterred by petty mischief.”
The statement advised those spinning the matter to make better use of their imaginations.
It stressed: “Asiwaju is not going anywhere. He remains gidigba (solid) in APC. And after the election, he will be there celebrating the APC’s and this nation’s victory over those who would prevent us our rightful future.”
Four foreign nationals, who were allegedly carrying 6.492kg of cocaine, worth ₹38.95 crore, concealed in the rings stitched on curtains for it to pass through the rod, were arrested from Andheri (West) on Saturday. They have been remanded in police custody for seven days.
Police had got a tip-off that three Nigerian men and a Brazilian woman were carrying narcotics in their bags, but on intercepting them, they only found curtains in the bags.
“Our team grew suspicious on finding so many curtains,” said Manoj Kumar Sharma, additional commissioner of police, west region.
The team, headed by police inspector Daya Nayak, then started to check the curtains. On opening the rings, they found thin tubes containing white powder fitted around it. Each of the 78 curtains had eight rings carrying cocaine.
The police seized the substance and arrested the four accused – Niras Okhovo, 35, Simon Agobata, 32, Michael Hope, 29, and Brazilian national Karle Iris, 41 – who were on their way to meet a fifth accused, after which they were to send it via courier.
Police have also retrieved the machine which the accused used to roll the tubes.
A raid at the Koparkhairane residence of the accused led the police to multiple passports, but none of them is in their names.
“The fifth accused is absconding. We will arrest him soon. We are also tracking the courier companies that sent the consignments in the international market. We are enquiring whether they have any role in it or not,” said Nayak.
The Law enforcement officer made the warning again after revealing an 80-year old man is now in trouble after standing surety for his 65-year old brother.