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October 26, 2015 – Multi-talented Nigerian musician and award winning music producer, Don Jazzy has unveiled his wife to be which will likely be the talk of town for a very long time. The lucky lady by name Peace Hyde appears pregnant and got what she has looked forward to all her life from the billionaire musician when he proposed to her. We gathered that the lovely lady, a television personality did not waste any time in telling the toast of ladies that she was willing to spend the rest of her live with him. They both went on the…
October 26. 2015 – An Akure Chief Magistrates Court has sentenced a security guard, one Onoja Abel to seven year jail for defiling a nine-year-old girl. Abel allegedly lured the girl into his room and raped her three times, between September and October 2015. The suspect pleaded guilty and was sentenced to seven years in a ratio of five years for rape and two years for assault. The prison term will run concurrently. “I regretted my action because I have a child of 10 years, my second child”, Abel told the court in tears.
October 26, 2015 – The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has summoned an emergency meeting of the party’s national caucus to discuss the current onslaught against the party and its candidates in the last general elections, by the APC-led Federal Government. PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh in a statement on Monday said the caucus, which will meet this Thursday (October 29, 2015) will focus on the unrelenting schemes by the APC and its Federal Government to use some unpatriotic elements in the judiciary to advance their plot to take over states won by the PDP,…
By Our Reporter October 26, 015 – An Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Nosirudeen Ajara has called on the political office holders in the country to be sincere with the populace that voted them into power and desist from sectionalism in sharing dividend of democracy to the people Sheikh Ajara made the call during the annual general meeting and general election to vote in new executive officers for the Emirate Descendants Progressive Union, Western Zone held at Bola Ahmed Tinubu hall, Ojo road Ajegunle, Lagos at weekend. The cleric who is the Chief Zonal Missioner of the union warned that failure by…
October 26, 2015 – Head Coach of the Golden Eaglets, Emmanuel Amuneke has admitted that their FIFA U-17 World Cup Chile 2015 Round of 16 opponent, Australia would be a hard nut to crack on Wednesday at the Estadio Sausalito in Vina Del Mar. The Aussies showed some remarkably tenacity to advance from the tournament’s supposed group of death (Group D) where they lost 4-1 to Germany, drew goalless with Mexico and edged out Argentina 2-1. “We have been looking forward to the team we are going to play and today (Sunday), we realized it would be Australia. At this…
October 26, 2015 – The victorious home –based senior national team, Super Eagles B, had more reasons to smile on Sunday night after the leadership of Nigeria Football Federation approved that players and officials be paid extra amount of money as performance/qualification bonus for the 4th African Nations Championship. For the drawn game against Burkina Faso’s Etalons at the Stade August 4 on Sunday, which sent Nigeria into the draw for the Rwanda 2016 African Nations Championship, each player was entitled to the sum of $1,000 with each of the coaches earning more. However, NFF 2nd Vice President/LMC chairman, Shehu…
Achiever Peterson October 26, 2015 – President Muhammadu Buhari may be plotting a dangerous game of taking over governments in three key Niger Delta states of Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa, it has been revealed. The objective, sources said, is to muzzle huge financial resources required in rebuilding the Northern zones ravaged by insurgency and the attendant need to rehabilitate the people in the affected areas. It is also an exigent step, it was learnt that, in the aftermath of failure by the United States, Britain and other European countries to redeem their respective pledges to release funds to support…
ACHIEVER PETERSON October 26, 2015 – Re-election bid of Governor Seriake Dickson received a boost on Monday as over 400 coalition of Non Governmental Organizations and civil society groups mobilized support for him at a mega rally tagged: ‘Operation Reject Sylva and APC’ in Bayelsa. The groups with over 5,000 membership from all the eight constitutionally recognized local government areas of the state converged on the popular Peace park in Yenagoa, to demonstrate their support and readiness to ensure that the governor is re-elected for another 4-year term. Commending the efforts of the Governor Dickson led administration, especially in the…
Emmanuel Thomas, Lagos October 26, 2015 – The Federal Government today constituted a presidential committee that would recommend to President Muhammadu Buhari membership and chairmen of boards of parastatals, agencies and commissions. In a statement, Secretary to the government of the Federation, Engineer Babachir David Lawal, the committee is headed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation while Senior Special Adviser to the President, Mr. Gideon Sammani is secretary. Other members are Alh. Mai Mala Buni (North-East Zone), Alh. Zakari Idde (North-Central Zone), Alh. Inuwa Abdulkadir (North-West Zone), Chief Hillard Etagbo Eta (South-South Zone), Chief Pius Akinyelure (South-West…
By Yinka Odumakin October 26, 2015 – In a replay of the sordid episode of 2000 when Arewa leaders rudely stormed the office of then Oyo state governor, Alhaji Lam Adesina on behalf of nomadic cattle rearers,former Kano state governor and serving Senator,Rabiu Kwakwanso came with verbal daggers to the same city at the weekend asking the age mates of his father to “shut up”. It is another sad day for the clash of civilizations within the Lugard cage when a man who has occupied all the offices Kwakwanso has held opens his mouth in a people’s domain and all…
