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Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, finally regained his freedom around 6:40pm on Friday after he perfected all the bail conditions that were handed to him by trial Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja. Kanu who arrived the high court premises around 6:20pm in a black Toyota jeep with registration number ABC-46-MU, was formally released to Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, a Jewish High Chief Priest, Immanuu-El Shalom and a Chartered Accountant residing in Abuja, Mr. Tochukwu Uchendu. Kanu’s lawyer, Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor and the three sureties were at the high court registry earlier in the day to sign the necessary bail documents.

A Lagos-based woman slumped and died minutes after arriving Uyo from Lagos, reports say. According to an eye witness, a co-passenger revealed that the woman’s husband brought her to the motor park in Lagos looking weak and sick. The eye witness identified as Ab Isong speaking further said “I went to Item Park long distance bus terminus where i was expecting a parcel from Lagos. On arrival I saw an unusual crowd and I decided to get close. Only to find this woman dead and laid beside the young shall grow bus which transported her to Uyo.

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, today, fulfilled the bail conditions granted by the Federal High Court, Abuja. The bail condition was perfected through the presence of the Chairman, South East Senate caucus and former Deputy Governor of Abia State, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, a Jewish High Chief Priest, Immanuu-El Shalom and a Chartered Accountant residing in Abuja, Tochukwu Uchendu. Vanguard 

Residents and motorists that use the gateway to the nation’s major ports, the Oshodi-Apapa expressway, are back to the days of horrifying gridlock that makes their lives miserable. Traffic robbers are back, dispossessing trapped motorists of their belongings. It is pitiable that Governor Akinwunmi Ambode and his predecessor, who happens to be the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, despite assuring Lagosians of readiness to solve the perennial problem by completing the rehabilitation of the dual carriageway in good time have jettisoned the rehabilitation work. It seems the scenario stopping the rehabilitation of Oshodi-Murtala Airport road is also playing out on this all-important expressway.

Obasanjo pointed out that there were certain things Jonathan did that fell below his expectations as a former president. “There were certain decisions taken by Jonathan very early in his administration that pointed to the fact that the office was bigger than him and one of them was the appointment of a petroleum minister,” he said.

Moon sighting committees in Saudi Arabia and Egypt confirmed that Shaban, the last lunar month before Ramadan, will start on Thursday evening. The Muslim holy month of Ramadan will thus begin either on Saturday, May 27 or on Sunday, May 28, depending on moon sighting on the eve of May 27. Muslim lunar months last between 29 and 30 days, depending on sighting of the moon on the 29th night of each month. If the moon is not visible the month will last 30 days.

  The United States of America has replied former President Goodluck Jonathan, insisting that President Muhammadu’s victory at the 2015 presidential election was the will of Nigerians. The US Government stated this while responding to an allegation by Jonathan, that former American President Barack Obama, was responsible for his loss.

The police on Thursday returned all the documents taken from the house of Senator Danjuma Goje to the National Assembly. This was as a result of the directive by both chambers of the National Assembly to the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, that the documents be returned.

A 22-year-old man, Subaru Folawiyo, who allegedly gang-raped a 25-year-old girlfriend with others still on the run, was on Thursday brought before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos. Folawiyo, who resides in Surulere area of Lagos, pleaded not guilty to a two-count charge of conspiracy and rape.

Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Engineer David Babachir Lawal The embattled and suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Engineer David Lawal Babachir Thursday snubbed the Senate by again, refusing to appear before the Senate Ad-hoc Committee on humanitarian crises in the North East.  Babachir Lawal was yesterday summoned by the Committee to appear before it for questioning over his alleged involvement in the misappropriation of funds allocated to take care of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in the North East.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed says the report that he has 1.2 billion dollars (about N400 billion) in his imaginary bank account is “fake and vicious’’.  The minister stated this on Thursday in Ilorin at the Annual National Conference and General Meeting of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) with the theme; “Communicating Values for Development and Sustainability’’.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed says he “never said that President Muhammadu Buhari is to work from home henceforth”. In a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, the minister said the reporting in a section of the media of his post- Federal Executive Council (FEC) briefing that the President is to work from home henceforth is erroneous.

There is anxiety in Abraka, Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, following the beheading of a welder and native of Urhuoka-Abraka, Mr. Solomon Ejoor, by herdsmen. Reports said villagers seized the decapitated body from police and took it to the palace of the Ovie of Oruarivie-Abraka, where it was kept for over four hours. They threatened to lay siege to the Government House, Asaba, if Governor Ifeanyi Okowa does not break his silence on the Abraka killings. The protesters destroyed cars and air conditioners at the palace, saying the monarch and his council of chiefs are not doing enough to stem the herdsmen attacks. It took the intervention of Army personnel to save the palace from being torched.

Indian actor Vinod Khanna, who starred in dozens of hit Bollywood movies including “Amar Akbar Anthony” and “Mere Apne”, died aged 70 from cancer Thursday, a Mumbai hospital said. Hindi screen icon Khanna has died after a years-long battle with cancer, Indian media reported. Tributes poured in from the world of Hindi cinema for the award-winning actor, who was lauded for his roles playing angry young men in the 1970s. Khanna was also an MP in the northern state of Punjab. “Veteran actor and Member of Parliament Mr. Vinod Khanna, who was admitted to the Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital, breathed his last at 11.20 am due to advanced bladder carcinoma,” it said.

Jiranuch mother of the lady that was murdered on Facebook live by her boyfriend said she harboured no ill will towards Facebook. “I don’t blame Facebook. They are not part of the problem, we can choose to broadcast happiness or sadness,” she said. The family has been sleeping at the temple where Natalie’s coffin lies since her death to attend daily funeral prayers chanted by Buddhist monks and nuns. The distraught Thai mother of a baby girl killed by her boyfriend in a murder he broadcast on Facebook Live has described the harrowing moment she stumbled across the video and rushed to alert police.

As the 100-day mark of Donald Trump’s presidency approaches, a new CNN/ORC poll finds the President reaches this milestone holding on to the lowest approval rating of any newly-elected president at this stage, amid sharp partisan divides and a failure to capitalise on post-election strengths. US President Donald Trump Overall, 44% say they approve of Trump’s handling of the presidency, 54% disapprove. That’s about the same as in each of the two previous CNN/ORC polls taken after his inauguration. That 44% marker puts Trump last among approval ratings for newly-elected presidents at the 100-day point since modern polling began, a trendline that runs back to Dwight Eisenhower.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that former President Goodluck Jonathan from his first days as President showed he   was too small for the office, saying he, Obasanjo, acted more as an opponent of Jonathan than a supporter of Muhammadu Buhari ahead of the 2015 presidential poll. Obasanjo, who said Jonathan deceived him that he would not give Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke the petroleum portfolio in his cabinet was deceived into believing that he could use money to buy the 2015 presidential election.

Abdulfattah Ahmed  The Kwara Government on Wednesday denied owing salaries and pension arrears. The Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Demola Banu, made the denial in a statement issued in Ilorin while reacting to a media report.  Banu stressed that the government was up-to-date with payment of salaries and pensions to workers and retirees.

The minister of information, Lai Mohammed, says ‎President Muhammadu Buhari will now work from his residence at the presidential villa. He was speaking to state house correspondents at the end of the meeting of the federal executive council (FEC) chaired by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo in Buhari’s absence. This is the third consecutive time that President Buhari will be absent at FEC meeting.

Singer David Adeleke, the O.B.O (Omo Baba Olowo) crooner is expecting his second daughter with his US based Girlfriend and according to him, the bundle of joy is arriving in a forthnight as announced by him on his snap chat. 

The father of leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, His Royal Highness, Eze Israel Kanu, his wife Ugoeze Sally Kanu, have rejected the bail conditions given by Justice Binta Nyako of the Abuja High Court to free his son, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, saying Kanu should be released unconditionally. In fact, both the father and the mother, Ugoeze Sally and their daughter Chinwe, faulted Justice Binta Nyako for the bail condition given to Nnamdi to be freed. Speaking to reporters at Isiama Afaraukwu, Umuahia North Council, Eze Israel Kanu said while the family was happy over the bail granted their son, they rejected the bail condition, saying that the conditions attached to it was not necessary.

Despite conceding the 2015 presidential election, former President Goodluck Jonathan was not comfortable with how it was handled by Prof. Attahiru Jega, former chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. In an advance copy of Against the Run of Play, a book written by journalist and author, Segun Adeniyi, to recount how an incumbent lost a presidential election in Nigeria, and seen by online portal, TheCable, Jonathan said Jega disappointed him.

An Osogbo high court, Osun State, yesterday, sentenced four persons to death by hanging for conspiracy and robbery. The convicts, Joseph Moses, 24; Samuel Job,19; Gideon Ode, 25, and Daniel Abraham, 24, were charged with a four-count charge of robbery, conspiracy among others. The prosecutor, Mrs Idiat Temitope, told the court that the convicts committed the offence on October 14, 2013 at about 8p.m. along Kajola Expressway in Osogbo. Temitope, the State Counsel in the Ministry of Justice, said the convicts conspired among themselves to rob one Abubakar Rauf of his motorcycle, with number plates BDG 896 QB.

Mushin Idi-Oro Market and other adjourning markets affected by Monday clash between rival hoodlums, which left scores of persons injured and some houses destroyed, have been temporarily shut. This is just as sponsors of the crisis have been discovered to be some Lagos socialites, who live outside Mushin.

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos State, have apprehended two Brazilians for unlawful importation of cocaine. The suspects, who claimed to be tourists, had allegedly smuggled the drug weighing 23.9 kilogrammes in sealed cans into the country.  The narcotic, which was estimated at N310m, was found in their luggage during the screening of passengers on arrival at the airport.

A 31-year-old female Constable, Peace Agbemafo has killed herself after her fiancée jilted her. Agbemefo was said to have killed herself using an AK47 Assault rifle at about 6:30am on Monday.  Confirming the incident yesterday to NewsGhana, the Garu-Tempane District Police Commander, Ghana, ASP Alexander Tieku said Agbemafo killed herself because she was jilted.

A catholic priest who has been soliciting for s*x from Kenyan ladies and turning them into s*x slaves has been exposed. Instead of doing missionary work, he is busy satisfying his thirst for s*x.

Popular Churchill show comedian, Emmanuel Makori Nyambane, who is popularly known as, Ayeiya, is dead. The talented comedian died on the spot after being involved in a grisly road accident near Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) on Friday, 14 April 2017.

A cloud of sorrow has covered the home of a former prominent government official The city billionaire has lost his only son who was found dead in their Karen home. The family of former top civil servant and Kenyan billionaire Jeremiah Kiereni is mourning the death of his only son, Githae who was found dead in their Karen home. Former government official and City Billionaire Jeremiah Kiereini’s only son found dead in their Karen home. The late Githae,42 was discovered by a worker who alerted the police.

A Kenyan tycoon whose name cannot be ascertain as at the time of filing this report, has been buried while seated in his car as per his will. The incidence has left the people shocked with others describing the event as sign for the end of the world.

World No 1 Serena Williams has branded Ilie Nastase's alleged comments against the tennis player's unborn child "racist". The 70-year-old coach, a former No 1 himself, was heard to have said "Let's see what colour it has. Chocolate with milk?" ahead of Romania's FedCup tie with Great Britain.

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has condemned the expulsion of State House Correspondent, Olalekan Adetayo, from the Presidential Villa, Abuja, describing it as “sign of what is to come from a dictatorial government that desires that the media must only tell Nigerians what it wants them to hear and nothing more.” The governor, who noted that he warned Nigerians of the emerging dictatorship of the President Muhammadu Buhari led All Progressives Congress (APC) government, said; “Even though the Punch Correspondent was recalled yesterday, owing to public outcry, the dangerous message of intolerance to freedom of expression and of the press was passed loud and clear.”

A journalist, Mr Yomi Olomofe, has told a Federal High Court, Lagos, how he was almost killed at Seme Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NSC) for inquiring into smuggling activities. Giving oral evidence in a fundamental rights suit against the NCS, Olomofe gave graphic details of how he was brutalised at Seme border customs command on June 25, 2015. The Lagos branch of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) had filed the suit on behalf of the Badagry-based journalist, seeking enforcement of his fundamental rights to life, freedom of expression and the press.

It might be surprising but definitely interesting to know that lies actually have classifications and not all lies are the same; there are indeed different kinds of lies. Read the seven different kinds of lies people tell. White Lies This is often believed as the least serious kind of lie. These type of lies are told to avoid burdening an individual with the weight of the truth. An example is showing appreciation for an undesirable gift. These lies are indeed quite harmless but the problem is over time the white liar loses credibility and is dismissed as an insincere person.

Lagos Head of Service, HOS, Mrs Olabowale Ademola who was acquitted by the court of corrupt charges along her husband, has resumed office. Ademola stepped down as HOS in December 2016 as she was battling a case of corruption along with her husband, Justice Adeniyi Ademola.

Coordinator of the 2015 Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential campaign organization in Enugu state, Chief Rex Onyeabor, has defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Until his defection to the APC, Onyeabor was a member Board of Trustee, BOT, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and at one time an acting National Secretary of the party. During his official defection at his country home, Ugbawka,‎ Nkanu East local government area of Enugu state, Onyeabor said he was cross carpeting to the APC because‎ the PDP was not likely to survive it’s present leadership crisis.

If her husband becomes France’s next president, Brigitte Macron will be the most unusual first lady the country has ever seen. While French first ladies have a chequered history — making headlines for excessive spending, extra-marital affairs, treason and even murder — they’ve never been as central a figure in the formative years of their husbands’ lives as Brigitte has been for front-runner Emmanuel Macron. Brigitte Macron, who is 24 years older than the candidate, has been his guide and coach since he was 15, and is playing an active role in his campaign, advising him on speeches and effectively helping set his agenda.

The Presidency has ordered the recall of the correspondent of Punch newspapers, Olalekan Adetayo, attached to the State House, Abuja, barely 10 hours after his expulsion from the beat. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, confirmed this development in a message addressed to the Chairman of the State House Press Corps, Malam Ubale Musa. The presidential spokesman revealed that the recall of Adetayo followed the intervention of the Director-General of the Department for State Services (DSS), Lawal Daura.

One Dr. Ade, who treated Senator Isiaka Adeleke, when he complained of leg pain early Sunday morning has been arrested for interrogation by the police.   One of his aides made the confirmation to newsmen on Monday. He said the doctor was arrested on Monday, following the report that Adeleke died as a result of an overdose of medications he administered on him. Isiaka Adeleke and Osun state Deputy Gov. Titi Tomori at a function on Saturday April 22 before his death on Sunday April 23, 

A federal high court in Abuja has granted bail to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Binta Nyako, justice of the court, granted Kanu bail on “health grounds”. He must have 3 sureties. Including; One senator. One jewish leader   N100m bail bond each and  Landed property in Abuja Not allowed to grant press interviews or make statements capable of causing public disturbances.

An 18-year-old sex worker, Aisha Idris, has been arrested by the Katsina State Police Command for allegedly selling her three-month-old baby for N200,000. The Commissioner of Police, Katsina State Command, CP Usman Ali Abdullahi, disclosed that Aisha Idris conspired with a nurse, Ogugua Oko, working with the Federal Medical Centre, Katsina, who linked them up with the buyer of the baby.

No fewer than 12 states are still owing their workers a backlog of salaries and allowances, despite double bailout funds from the Federal Government, with Kogi State owing as many as 15 months, Vanguard investigations have revealed. Also on the list of heavily indebted states are Osun, 12 months; Kwara, 11; Bayelsa, 7; Ondo, 7; Ekiti, 6; and Oyo, 6.

Residents of Solar Power Drive, Igbo Olomu, in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State are in shock after a landlord in the community, Omolaja Sodipo, allegedly stabbed his wife, Titilayo, killing her. Sympathisers, friends and family members of the mother of four, trooped to their bungalow on Monday, where Titilayo laid in a pool of blood. The husband was said to have fled the scene. Community leaders reportedly alerted policemen from the Owutu division, who removed the corpse and deposited it in a mortuary.

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a suspected Internet gangster, Abiodun Joseph, who impersonated the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, on Facebook. Joseph had successfully duped two Nigerian ladies of various sums of money.  The suspect met his waterloo on Wednesday at Ilese, in the Ijebu North East Local Government Area.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has charged the immediate past Governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu, and the 2015 governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state, Umar Nasko, with an alleged N3bn fraud. It was learnt that the charges had been filed before a Federal High Court in Minna, Niger State. Nasko also served as Chief of Staff and Commissioner for Environment under Aliyu’s administration between 2007 and 2015.

  The Chief Security Officer to President Muhammadu Buhari, Bashir Abubakar, on Monday, expelled PUNCH’s State House Correspondent, Olalekan Adetayo, from the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Abubakar had earlier summoned Adetayo to his office and questioned him on two reports he considered uncomplimentary to Buhari and his administration.

The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, says his commission recovered over N17 billion in the last four months. He said the anti-graft agency recovered N521,815,000.00, $53,272 747.00, £122,890.00, and €547,730.00. The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, says his commission recovered over N17 billion in the last four months.

Former Edo state governor, Adams Oshiomhole and Ex Lagos House of Assembly Speaker cum former Senator, Olorunnibe Mamora, both men are said to be on a shortlist that is currently before President Muhammadu Buhari, as the Osinbajo panel kicks off the investigation into the management of funds meant for humanitarian assistance in the North-east. Lawal and the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Ayo Oke, were sent home by Buhari last week over their respective involvement in the alleged mismanagement of the funds allocated to the Presidential Initiative on the North-east (PINE) and the discovery of N13.3 billion in an apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos, penultimate week.

The billionaire brother of the late Isiaka Adeleke, Mr. Deji Adeleke arrived the country home, Ede, Osun state to play host to political dignitaries and sympathisers that came for the burial. Adeleke's remains which was sent to Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo for autopsy and was brought in today for the final rites. Among the political dignitaries at the residence of the late Adeleke is a former Governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, Gov. Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun, Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo, and Ayo Fayose of Ekiti, other political figures in Osun like, Hon. Adejare Bello, Ayo Omidiran, Kayode Oduoye, Fatai Akinbade, Lere Oyewumi among others. Viewers discretion strongly advise: The remains of Late Isiaka Adeleke Isiaka Adeleke and Osun state Deputy Gov. Titi Tomori at a function on Saturday April 22 before his death on Sunday April 23,