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President Muhammadu Buhari has received with sadness and an immense feeling of great national loss, news of the passing away of the highly revered traditional ruler of Benin Kingdom, Omo  n'Oba n'Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Erediauwa. On behalf of the Federal Government, President Buhari extends sincere condolences to Governor Adams Oshiomhole,  the people of Benin Kingdom and Edo State on the passage of the beloved monarch who had ruled over his people since his ascension to the throne in 1979. The President extends  special  commiserations to  Crown Prince Eheneden Erediauwa and other members of the late Oba's immediate family. President Buhari assures them of the fullest sympathy and solidarity of the Federal Government and all Nigerians as they mourn Oba Erediauwa who will always be remembered as one of the most outstanding traditional rulers of his era. As the late Oba goes to join his very illustrious royal ancestors, President Buhari believes that his place ...

The EFCC has declared the Ex Chairman of INEC Maurice IWU wanted over N23bn Election bribe Scandal perpetrated by the former Oil Minister Deizani. IWU whose tenure as INEC Chairman presided the worst election in the history of Nigeria, Was the Oracle who allegedly marshaled on how the N23bn Deizani Loot could be used to bribe some INEC officials with a Mandate of altering the Results of the Election in which President Buhari defeated Jonathan through the People's Power.

The Federal Ministry of Transportation is to partner the World Bank on the development of a comprehensive Land Transportation Policy in the Country. Hon. Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi while receiving a team from the World Bank, Washington, Dc, United State of America, led by Senior Transport Engineer, Africa Region Transport Unit, Tesfamichael Nahusenay Mitiku said the Federal Ministry of Transportation is ready to work harmoniously and partner with he World Bank team on the development of  a comprehensive Policy guideline that will promote and galvanize Land Transportation  in the Country. “I will be glad if you can work with us and develop a comprehensive Land Transportation Policy”, he said. The Minister reiterated that the Ministry of Transportation has not been able to take full charge of Land Transportation due to lack of relevant and appropriate Policy guidelines for necessary Administrative Management of the Sector. He regretted the gap c...

Abnedgo Don-Evarada, a former media aide to Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa, has been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The suspect was arrested on Monday in Port- Harcourt, Rivers State for allegedly offering a bribe of N10million to the EFCC’s Zonal Head, Ishaq Salihu. Mr. Don-Evarada ran into trouble when he approached Mr. Salihu over a case involving the Senior Special Assistant to the Bayelsa’s state governor on Millennium Development Goals, Apere Embelakpo and his wife, Fiene Beauty. Mr. Embelakpo is being investigated for alleged diversion of N800million, being funds meant for MDGs, while his wife is being investigated for alleged money laundering, forgery and suspicious transactions to the tune of N200million. Mr. Don- Evarada allegedly offered the bribe ostensibly to compromise the EFCC investigation but his overture was turned down and was arrested. He is being kept in the custody of the EFCC and would be charged to court as soo...

Gina was shot 5 times and left to die in Aluu (University of Portharcourt) Rivers State allegedly by police men in the guise of accidental discharge during the school's violent protest earlier this month. She was the only child of her parents. Her dad is late also. She was buried two days ago and her cousin shared pics from the burial along with a heartbreaking note from her wounded and broken mother. VIEWER'S DISCRETION IS STRONGLY ADVISED Mother wrote: "Yesterday my beautiful daughter was put to rest.. The heaviness in my heart can't be eased, knowing that no one is taking responsibility of your death. The police killed you and never showed remorse for your death. Nigeria is as messed up as its leaders. May you rest in peace my angel. Your death has paint everything in my life into a different shades of remorse, I keep regretting sending you there, I feel guilty Gina..The sorrow I feel to lose you Gina is the price I have paid to have you in my life, your memories is...

Bayelsa & Rivers State APC Supporters Expose, Blast Preye Aganaba, For Insulting Sylva on Facebook and falsely dragging THE name of Amaechi into the resolved Bayelsa APC crisis PREYE AGANABA, THE GREEDY DISRESPECTFUL CHAMELEON: Where is Mr Preye Aganaba's sense of decency, respect, loyalty and humility?  Did he store them inside a trash can?. You don't disparage, blackmail and point faulty fingers at our leaders: Rt Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the Ajana  1 Chief Timipre Sylva, the Bayelsa State APC leader and the National Coordinator of the Niger Delta People's Movement, Dame ibifuro Thompson Tatua without a strong fight from their loyalists. Maybe, you have forgotten this: if you insult my boss, you equally insult me. An injury to one, is injury to all. When a stubborn child sets to expose his father's manhood before the public, he goes blind at the sight of it. This is simply the law of natural justice. Preye Aganaba, is an ingrate who has resorted to outright bl...

President Muhammadu Buhari has made good his threat to deal with those blowing up oil installations in the Niger Delta like Boko Haram terrorists are being dealt as he has dispatched the nation’s service chiefs to the oil-rich region to confront the resurgent militancy and secure the area from economic sabotage and other acts of criminality. It would be recalled that Buhari had while in China, warned those behind unlawful activities in the region to either desist from any criminal acts and economic sabotage or be ready to be treated like terrorists operating in Nigeria’s North-east. In line with a presidential directive, a team, led by the Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, Gen. Gabriel Olanisakin, accompanied by the Chief of Naval Staff, CNS, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ette Ibas yesterday stormed the headquarters of the Operation Pulo Shield in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.

Unpalatable news is coming from the Bayelsa State Government House situated in Yenagoa, the state capital. It was reported that the edifice, affectionately referred to as Creek Haven, was a few days ago turned into a boxing ring. What was shocking to the residents of the oil rich, riverine state is the pedigree of the combatants. Sources revealed that the combatants were no other than the two major occupants of the edifice – Governor Henry Seriake Dickson and his deputy, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha John Jonah. The slugfest, said to have been witnessed by some of their aides and domestic staff, was allegedly triggered off when the deputy governor advised his boss to pay civil servants in the state the three months salary arrears to bring peace and tranquility to the state. Annoyed by what he considered his deputy’s effrontery, Governor Dickson was alleged to have thrown the first punch. The deputy governor, a retired naval officer, allegedly countered with a deadlier punch which staggered ...

THE Rivers State Police Command on Thursday declared an ex-militant leader, Solomon Ndigbara, wanted for alleged arson. Ndigbara, who hails from Yeghe in the Gokana Local Government of Rivers State, was said to have ordered the burning of a building. The command disclosed this in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Wednesday by its Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ahmad Muhammad. Solomon is also the suspect who allegedly assassinated an APC Chieftain and a lecturer yesterday in Rivers for writing a letter against him. See the letter written by late Vincent; A LETTER WRITTEN BY LATE DR. VINCENT EEBEE AGAINST SOLOMON INDIGBARA                                                                   Nukpor Village, Bua-Yeghe, Gokana Local Government Area, Kpor. 11th March, 2016. The State Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC), Sta...

It has come to the knowledge of the Defence Headquarters that Boko Haram terrorists have now devised another means of recruiting unsuspecting youths into their fold.   In this clandestine dispensation, Boko Haram terrorists have resorted to providing loans to young entrepreneurs and artisans in the North East as a way of inducing them for recruitment. The major targets of the unholy business engagement are youths in the North East, especially the butchers, traders, tailors, beauticians and other vocational entrepreneurs who could be easily enticed with such loan without paying attention to sundry inherent dangers associated with the acceptance of such goodies from this satanic group or unfamiliar source.  After such loans, the beneficiaries are given the option of either joining the group or risk being killed if they fail to pay the loan as at when due, whereas the payment has been surreptitiously programmed to fail by the benefactor, the Boko Haram. It is pertinent to state t...

Researchers in a new study reported on Tuesday at the American Society for Nutrition annual meeting in San Diego that people who consume a lot of processed carbohydrates, think snack foods and sweets and sugary drinks may face heightened risks of breast and prostate cancers. According to Webmd, given that breast and prostate cancers are two of the most common cancers in the United States, the connection gives more reason for people to cut processed foods from their diets, a lead researcher Nour Makarem has said. Makarem, a Ph.D. candidate in nutrition at New York University said, “The carbohydrate quality of your diet matters for a number of reasons.” In general, health experts already recommend limiting sugary drinks and processed carbohydrates, and eating more fruits, vegetables, legumes, fiber-rich whole grains and “good” unsaturated fats. Makarem added that the new findings, though considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed medical journal adds more weight to that ad...

The Senate on Wednesday dropped the amendment of the Code of Conduct Bureau/Tribunal Act and the Administration of Criminal Justice Act. It shelved it for further legislative business. The Senate took the decision after a closed door session, which started by 11:05am and ended at 1:43pm, on Wednesday. The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, who presided over plenary, also called off the summon issued to the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Justice Danladi Umar. The lawmakers, however, expressed their resolve to stand by the embattled President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, during his trial by the CCT. Ekweremadu also set up a committee of two of each geopolitical zone to resolve the remaining issues dividing the Senate.

Department of State Services, DSS, yesterday arraigned the Secretary to Rivers State Government, SSG, Mr Kenneth Kobani and a chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Azubuike Wanjoku, before a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, over alleged conducts during the last re-run elections in the state that constituted threats to public peace. The SSG, Mr Kobani and others now at large were, among others, charged with alleged offences punishable under the Terrorism Prevention Act of 2011. Kobani pleaded not guilty to the three-count charge read to him. The charges read in part: ”That you Kenneth Kobani, with others at large, on or about March 3, 2016, at a meeting held in your residence at Bodo community, Gokana Local Government Area, Rivers State, did conspire to carry out activities that could cause a breach of the peace and break down of law and order on March 19, 2016, and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 516 of the Criminal Code Act. Count two: “That you,...

A house located at 17, Egberonbe Street, Ladylak bus stop, Bariga in Lagos was gutted by fire, Tuesday morning. Lagos State Emergency Management Agency said it received a distress call on the incident at about 9:45am. “Upon receipt of the distress call, the Agency activated her response team and also coordinate rescue/recovery operations with relevant stakeholders at the incident scene,” its spokesman Adebayo Kehinde told Newsmen. He explained that while the cause of the inferno could not be immediately ascertained, neighbours said some area boys living in the building stored PMS (fuel) in their apartment. Continuing, “4 rooms in the first floor, 3 rooms in the BQ and a mini flat were affected in the inferno. No lives lost, 1 victim who sustained minor injuries has been taking to the hospital for further treatment.” “The combined efforts of Fire Services and Lasema ERT were able to curtail the fire from spreading to other buildings. 4 rooms were salvaged on the ground floor as the fire...

China will soon begin to import goods from Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor has said. It is expected that the move will help narrow the very wide trade gap between the two country. Emefiele said the federal government is “talking with China” so it would also be “importing some of its own items from Nigeria”. Speaking at a press conference at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, on the last day of the 2016 World Bank/IMF spring meeting, he also said part of Nigeria’s deal with China is that the country becomes the Asian country’s trading hub in West Africa. “China has appointed South Africa as its trading hub for Remnibi transactions in the south African region, has appointed Kenya as its trading hub for east and central Africa,” he said. “And Nigeria, the mandate that we signed is for us to be appointed as the trading hub in the West African sub region. In all, we expect that it is going to be mutually beneficial. “We are talking to China so that i...

The Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu, yesterday said the commission had uncovered 37,395 ghost workers on the payroll of the federal civil service. Magu, spoke in Abuja yesterday during an anti-corruption sensitization programme held at the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing. “The EFCC has uncovered 37,395 ghost workers in the federal civil service. Our investigations have so far revealed that the federal government has lost close to N1 billion to these ghost workers recently. The figure will definitely increase as we unravel more ghost workers buried deep in the federal civil service payrolls,” he said. The EFCC chairman said apart from the widespread procurement frauds in the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), the issue of ghost workers was a source of serious concern for the commission. He noted that the commission had established a procurement fraud unit to handle the increasing number of petitions relating to violations of t...

The Senate yesterday announced that it had rejected the N872 million car loan voted for the 109 lawmakers in the apex lawmaking body. It also admitted that it bought only 36. Chairman of the Senate Committee on Services, Ibrahim Abdullahi Gobir who disclosed this at a press conference in the National Assembly, also denied claims that the 109 Senators had collected loans to purchase their official cars. He said no lawmaker was given any car loan, contrary to media reports. Also, the Senate denied having a bill before it seeking to establish National Grazing Commission either as private bill or from the Executive arm of government. A statement by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Business, Senator Babajide Omoworare (APC, Osun East) said members of the public have been making inquiries concerning the pendency of a national grazing bill in the Senate. Explaining that the lawmakers were not insensitive to the economic realities, Gobir said they decided to opt for only 36 cars. He...

The Guards Brigade of the Nigerian Army yesterday paraded 36 armed herdsmen who were intercepted by troops of the 117 Guards Battalion Keffi along the Abuja-Keffi road on Sunday. Another group of 56 herdsmen were also arrested at the Dantata check point between Kuje and the Abuja airport. The 36 herdsmen were arrested by troops at the Keffi check point at about 4:30 pm Sunday in a Diana Truck and a Toyota Camry Salon car, the spokesman of the brigade, Captain Bashir Jajira, told newsmen yesterday. He said during interrogation by troops at the check point, they said they were going to Nasarawa LGA of Nasarawa State. Jajira said after a thorough check of the vehicles, the troops discovered one pump action gun, 19 cartridges of dane guns, 118 cartridges of ammo, 28 cutlasses, three jack-knives, 14 sticks, seven torches, assorted charms and hard drugs. He also said the other group of 56 herdsmen were arrested at the Dantata check point between Kuje and the airport in the Gwagwalada area of...

According to an Eyewitness who shared the information, a young man’s life was wasted through Jungle Justice today. He and his gang stole a Generator & Television this morning, somewhere in Mararaba, Abuja. An alarm was raised and the thieves made an attempt to run away. Two escaped, however, one wasn’t lucky enough. He was beaten & burnt to death. See more photos after the cut…

Ala Mathias wrote; The one and only Opu Abadi-1 who swept out begging and hunger in Bayelsa State, the only governor who always pays workers on the 20th of every month with their arrears and bonuses without suffering or cutting of their salaries, because you really care about the Stomach Infrastructure of Bayelsans. Timipre Sylva never owed workers salaries intentionally as Dickson is doing now, Bayelsa State miss you the AJANA-1. We now have a governor who slaps aids in government house for questioning him on why his suffering Bayelsans with hunger without salaries when the money is there. Bayelsa state we are fully behind you your Excellency CHIEF TIMIPRE SYLVA former Governor of Bayelsa state and the incoming Governor of Bayelsa State. God bless you my boss Sir for always putting Bayelsans first before every other thing. #SylvaIsBetter ~~ Uncle Ala Mathias Nyenye

President Buhari receives Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Minister of Budget and National Planning Senator Udo Udo Udoma in Statehouse on 19th April 2016. See another photo..

This is why it’s advisable for ladies to use protection -that’s if one can’t totally abstain to avoid this kind of horrific act. A two-day baby was thrown in a trash can by her mother and was found alive, under a pile of garbage recently in Cameroon. The baby girl which was immediately taken to a hospital in the region -is now healthy and already bouncing back to life.