The Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has vowed to demolish houses in the state housing kidnappers and revoke their certificates of occupancy.
The governor assured that with the inauguration of the reinvigorated Security Trust Fund, the full architecture for internal safety of lives and property had been fully put in place.
Speaking at the inauguration of the “reinvigorated” Ogun State Security Trust Fund on Saturday, Abiodun said he had fulfilled yet another promise to provide good governance to the people.
“Ogun State will never be home for criminals, whether big or small. For such people, hell will be a child’s play, we will smoke them out, arrest them and hand them over to the swift hand of justice.
“And, for anybody, landlords or tenants, this is a very strong note of warning. Any property found to be serving as hideouts for criminals will not only be taken over by government, but such facility will also be demolished. Whoever is found to be harbouring such criminals will be arrested and handed over for prosecution,” he said.
The Rivers State Police Command has issued three weeks ultimatum to all operators of hotels and luxury apartments in Port Harcourt, Rivers to install Close Circuit Television Cameras, CCTVs or risked closure.
This is sequel to killings of two women in hotels in Port Harcourt by unknown persons.
Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Nnamdi Omoni said the Commissioner of Police, Mustapha Dandaura, had warned after a meeting with the hotels and hospitality business owners in State that the there was the urgent need to curb the recent wave of serial killings using the hotels to hide to perpetrate crime in the state.
He said “I can assure you that this incessant killing in hotels will be a thing of the past, we have put measures in place to ensure that we don’t record such incidents in the command again.
“Yesterday, the CP invited hotels owners to a meeting where he sounded it loud and clear that they should install CCTVs in all their hotels in strategic places.
‘’Now what that means is that if that is done, we would be able to monitor all inflows and outflows of persons in and out of the premises, so if that is being put in place, it will go a long way in assisting us in our investigation,” he said.
The CP went further to constitute a Seven-man Panel and Task-force that will enforce his clear directive.
“The Hoteliers have been given three weeks within which to install these cameras in their hotels, otherwise if the enforcement team goes around and sees that a hotel has not complied or there’s no compliance, that hotel will be sealed,” he added.
The killing of Jennifer Nwokocha in a hotel on Woji road, GRA, Port Harcourt recently, followed the same pattern in the killing of the late Precious Ewuru in a D/Line Hotel about three weeks ago.
The Federal Government on Saturday promised to address housing deficit by delivering one million houses per year to close the 17 million shortfalls by the year 2033.
The Minister of State, Works and Housing, Mr Abubakar Aliyu, disclosed this in Abuja on Saturday during an inspection of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) mass housing project in Zuba, Federal Capital Territory.
Aliyu said the government had decided to improve on current construction of 100,000 houses per years in order to meet the basic needs of the people.
“The production now is low; we are constructing 100,000 houses per year and we hope to improve it by constructing one million houses per year in order to close the gap of 17 million to 20 million housing deficits by the year 2033.
“That is the target of government, we are committed to doing that and to ensure that the programmes, policies are accomplished.
“We will provide enabling environment to attract investors into the sector to help solve the problem of housing deficit in the country and to achieve the government’s goal by 2033,’’ he said.
Aliyu also said that the problems associated with acquisition of lands would be addressed.
A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos State, has given the order to remand nine suspected internet fraudsters in Ado-Ekiti prison pending the hearing of criminal charges filed against them.
Justice Nicholas Oweibo, the presiding judge and designated vacation judge for the Federal High Court in the Southwest, gave the order on Thursday, August 22, 2019 when the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan zonal office, arraigned the suspects before the court.
The suspects are Jejelowo Blessing, Charles Ilesanmi Omobolade, Adelanke Adesola Abiodun, Jejelowo Samson Olanrewaju and Quadri Adewale Ayuba.
Others are Raphael Sunday, Omoniyi Ifeoluwa Ajayi, Adebola Kazeem Adeyemi and Adeyeye Rasheed.
They were charged for sundry internet related offences including obtaining money by false pretence, impersonation and being in possession of forged and fraudulent documents to defraud unsuspecting foreigners.
The accused persons were arrested during a raid carried out in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State by operatives of the Commission on July 8, 2019.
They pleaded not-guilty to their respective charges when read to them.
Ayodeji Temitayo Fatunmbi, a 47-year old Nigerian, has been sentenced to 46 months imprisonment in the United States for his involvement in a health care fraud.
According to the US Department of Justice, Fatunmbi was found guilty of a Durable Medical Equipment scheme in which more than $8m was fraudulently billed to medicare for DME that was not necessary.
US District Judge, Christina Snyder, of the Central District of California, convicted and sentenced him accordingly.
He was also ordered to pay $1,076,893.15 in restitution.
In a statement by the Department of Justice, Fatunmbi pleaded guilty on May 8, 2019 to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
The statement reads, “Fatunmbi was charged along with Olufunke Fadojutimi, 47, of Carson, California, and Maritza Elizabeth Velasquez, 44, of Las Vegas, Nevada.”
Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested two brothers, Sunday Durosinmi Onikoyi, 29, and Felix Durosinmi Onikoyi, 20, for allegedly defrauding unsuspecting members of public with fake currency.
The arrest of the duo who reside at 30 Akala Street Idi-Oro Mushin Lagos followed a complaint by one Moses Nwese of Gas-line area of Ijoko in Sango- Ota, who claimed that two men came to his shop to buy two bags of rice and gave him the sum of N29,000 (Twenty Nine Thousand) in one thousand Naira denomination.
He stated further that they left his shop hurriedly and while counting the money, he discovered that all the one thousand naira notes were fake.
Police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said that a police patrol team went after the suspects and caught up with them in an Honda Odyssey car with registration number LSR 504 AZ.
“On searching them, N78,000 (Seventy Eight Thousand Naira) fake one thousand naira notes were recovered from them. Also recovered from them were one unregistered Bajaj motorcycle and 10 bags of rice,” he said.
Oyeyemi said the suspects would be arraigned before a court of competent jurisdiction as soon as investigation is concluded.
The wife of an Anglican Bishop of Ikeduru Diocese, Emmanuel Maduwuike has been abducted. She was abducted on Thursday by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers in Imo Sttae.
The victim Mrs Anuri Maduwuike was abducted while she was going home from Owerri, the State capital.
Accordig to report, Maduwuike’s wife was waylaid at Ekemele and taken away to an unknown destination. Police say the abductors are yet to contact her family. We pray they do not kill her and may God rescue her. AMEN!
Forty-eight human rights groups and press freedom organisations have petitioned the United Nations and the African Union over the continued detention of rights activist and convener of the RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore, by the Department of State Services.
The groups described the arrest and detention of Sowore as a threat to press freedom and investigative journalism in Nigeria, while calling for an urgent intervention by the UN and the AU to secure his immediate release.
The statement by Idowu Olalere on Friday quoted the COO of Sahara Reporters, La Keisha Landrum Pierre, as saying, “The organisations, assisted by Ms Nani Jansen Reventlow, from the London-based internationally renowned law firm, Doughty Street Chambers, are calling upon the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, UN Special Rapporteurs on freedom of expression, freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, the situation of human rights defenders, and African Commission Special Rapporteurs on freedom of expression and human rights defenders to intervene urgently to secure the immediate release of Mr Sowore and declare his arrest and continuing detention a gross violation of his human rights.”
The statement listed the rights groups to include Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, Centre for Constitutional Rights, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, Women Agenda, ARTICLE 19 Senegal/West Africa and Global Voice Sub-Saharan Africa.
IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu has dared President Buhari saying the members of his group in the Republic of Japan had received orders from him to disgrace and arrest the President when he arrived the Asian country on Sunday.
According to Kanu, President Buhari must be arrested and handed over to Japanese authorities to enable him to answer for his alleged mass murder and crimes against humanity, which he allegedly committed in Nigeria between 2015 and 2019.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, had earlier on Friday informed Nigerians that the President would leave Nigeria for Japan on Sunday to participate in the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development, holding in the City of Yokohama from August 28-30, 2019.
But in a statement on Friday evening, the pro-Biafra leader urged its members in the country to mobilise and ensure that they arrest President Buhari, saying they were ready for the legal aftermath of the action.
MMMG boss Ubi Franklin has said he is def going to write a book in the nearest future, considering he wants to evolve more. But truth is, if Ubi Franklin writes a book now, HE WOULD SELL OUT..
He will give the likes of Toke Makinwa, OloriSupergal, Juliet Ibrahim a run for their money.
At the moment, many are interested in Ubi’s private life, so if he decides to write on it, it will be a blockbuster. Many wants to know how he manged to have 4 women hanging on him (Ubi only accepts 3 though), not just ordinary women, women who are successful at their chosen fields, women who can stand alone... how he managed to take them to bed, despite them knowing there are other babymamas and all.
Aside that too, people would love to know how he managed to build his empire. A successful record label, what actually made him and Iyanya fall apart, how he has succeeded in his property business and more. Ubi’s book will be sold out in hours, if at all he decides to make it about his OWN LIFE. Lol.
Speaking with Saturday Beats, the music executive spoke on his future book and said;
“I have a book or two that I want to write but I have really not got things in place. Though there are a lot of things I would love to write about, I feel my life is still evolving. I think I should evolve a lot more before I start anything. But I would write a book when God says it’s the right time.”
On his feud with Nollywood actor, Alex Ekubo, Ubi says the actor has apologized, after he jumped the fence to make a joke of his post. Speaking about the feud, and Alex’s apology, Ubi said;
“He (Ekubo) was only joking, but I didn’t get the joke. He has already sent a message to apologise. It really wasn’t that serious. Whenever I go for speaking engagements, I always let people know that entrepreneurship is not easy. Because we don’t post our failures online doesn’t mean that a lot of us don’t fail. So, for me, I didn’t get his joke but he has already sent me a message, and I don’t have any issue with him. When you have a friend that you see all the time and things like that come from him, you would expect him to have called you and you both would discuss it. I honestly didn’t know it was a joke until he sent me a message that he regretted doing that. Before we knew it, everybody had already seen the post, but he had already apologised, so it is really not an issue.”
Though a lot of artistes, these days, prefer to be independent instead of being signed to a record label, Kennis Music signee, Joel Amadi, thinks otherwise.
Listing the benefits he enjoys being signed to a label, Amadi told Saturday Beats, “The advantage I have, being under a record label, is that I don’t think there is anything this industry would bring that I wouldn’t be able to face. Frustration is out of it, and depression is also cancelled because I have been through a lot. At a point, I thought I was going to die, as things weren’t working anymore. But right now, I think I am competent enough to face any challenge life throws at me.”
Disputing the notion that record labels don’t promote artistes as much as they should, the Hold On singer said, “Record labels are promoting people. I just shot a video for my single, and Kenny Ogungbe foot the bill. I didn’t pay a dime for it. Don Jazzy also signed some artistes and he is promoting them. I just feel a lot of artistes don’t want to be controlled. They feel that being with a record label is like being in prison. At the end of the day, it all depends on the individual. I have seen an artiste spend over N30m, yet his neighbours don’t even know his songs. It depends on one’s destiny.”
Amadi also maintained that being independent doesn’t guarantee success for an artiste . “It all depends on the individual. If you have what it takes to be independent then why not? However, being independent without experience is dangerous. As an artiste , if you have N50m to spend in the entertainment industry but lack the proper experience, you wouldn’t put the money to good use. It is important to have people who would put you through and guide you. There are so many things in the entertainment industry beyond having money and being talented. One needs to be disciplined and have the right orientation.”
One of the wives of the Alaafin of Oyo, Olori Badirat Olaitan is currently doing her compulsory one year National Youth Service. Sharing photos of herself in her NYSC uniform, she wrote;
''NIGERIA WE SERVE.. 🇳🇬 Alihamdulilahi for the journey so far..🙏
#corperunusual..👌
The Kogi state national assembly/state assembly election tribunal has sacked Dino Melaye as the senator representing Kogi west district.
In a judgement delivered on Friday, the tribunal led by A.O. Chijiok ordered a fresh election in the district.
Smart Adeyemi, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the February 26 election, on the grounds that there were cases of irregularities including over-voting and non-compliance with the electoral act.
Melaye has reacted to the ruling saying there would have been a fresh election in the axis since he was assured of winning the gubernatorial election scheduled to hold later in the year.
“On Tribunal judgement. No cause 4 alarm at all. Even if it went my way they will still go to the Appeal Court. Our mandate can not be taken. We will get judgment at the Appeal Court. There will be a fresh election in Kogi West bc I will be Governor. For my Senate mandate no shaking,” Melaye tweeted in reaction to the judgement.
On Tribunal judgement. No cause 4 alarm at all. Even if it went my way they will still go to the Appeal Court. Our mandate can not be taken. We will get judgment at the Appeal Court. There will be fresh election in Kogi West bc I will be Governor. For my Senate mandate no shaking
Former Beats FM OAP and MTV Shuga actress , Maria Okan has welcomed her first child. The media personality confirmed she welcomed her daughter, Asaiah Monifé Maria on August 16.
She shared the good news on her in stagram page writing;
''I can’t stop crying. Look at what I made! Asaiah Monifé Maria. 16th August 2019, 12:56am. 6.6 lb. Word is born! Thank you God.''
N.B: Musician Olamide is alleged to be the father of her child.
Nollywood actress Rukky Sanda is 35 today. And she has shared stunning new photos of herself to celebrate her special day. Captioning one of the photos, Rukky wrote;
THREE AND A HALF DECADES…… Only By God's Grace & Immense Love, i AM here, i AM present, i Am Living Proof Of a Divine ExtraOrdinary Boundless LOVE. And i feel the Energy All Around Me. #Grateful♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
They have been enjoying time together as a family during their luxurious breakaway to Italy.
And David and Victoria Beckham looked happier than ever as they cosied up to one another onboard a yacht as they continued to document their idyllic trip to Puglia on Thursday.
The fashion designer, 45, posed with a wine glass in hand as she wrapped her other around her husband of 20 years, who was captured laughing animatedly.
The former Spice Girls singer looked effortlessly chic in a black swimsuit with a pair of ripped denim hotpants for the trip and opted to cover her brunette locks with a black baseball cap.
Looking equally ready for a day at sea, David, 44, displayed his plethora of intricate inkings as he sported a pair of dragon-printed swim shorts and a black bandana around his head.
Captioning the shot, Victoria cheekily wrote: 'Again... Who knew I was so funny?!?!x'.
