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The Presidency has offered reasons why the presidential jet, Air Force (NAF 001) used by President Muhammadu Buhari has remained idle in the United Kingdom, debunking allegation that it was raking up at least £4,000 a day payment in demurrage at the airport. According to a statement issued by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Thursday, not more than £1,000 daily was being incurred as presidential jets enjoy waivers.

The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has dismissed reports that President Muhammadu Buhari was on life-support at a London hospital, saying though it could not categorical say when he would return, but that he was recovering very robustly.  President Muhammadu Buhari National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, disclosed this shortly after a meeting between the party`s National Working Committee NWC and its forum of 24 state governors. Despite claims of the president’s “robust recovery”, the APC leader was however emphatic that only Mr. Buhari’s doctors could determine his return date.

Veteran journalist, former Managing Director of Monitor Newspapers., Alhaji Liadi Tella has charged Muslim journalists to be courageous in the dissemination of Islamic stories and expose the anti-Islamic tendencies of some reporters. Alhaji Tella also challenged wealthy Muslims to raise media houses in order to present undiluted message of Islam, lamenting that more than 70 per cent of the media houses in Nigeria are owned by non-Muslims. Also, the President of Nasrul-Lahi-l-Fatih Society, NASFAT, Engr Kamil Bolarinwa said that his association is the face of Islam in Nigeria. The duo stated these while speaking with newsmen during a special Iftar/dinner with the Press organised by NASFAT on the last day of Ramadan.

Governors elected on the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, tackled Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State on his allegation that President Muhammadu Buhari, who is on medical vacation in London, was on life support. The APC governors also stated that all the apparatuses of the nation’s government had been handed over to the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, pending the return of the President. Chairman of APC Governors Forum, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, in an interview with State House correspondents in Abuja, advised Nigerians to disregard Governor Fayose’s comment on Buhari’s health, describing the comments as baseless.

A housewife, 33-year-old Seliat Abeeb, yesterday, in Omu-Aran, Kwara State, offered to pay the bride price of N120,000 demanded by her husband as a condition for dissolving their five-year-old barren marriage. Seliat, who lives at Ago Olushola area in Otun, had, on June 14, approached an Omu-Aran Area Court, seeking the dissolution of her marriage to Abeeb.  The money represents her bride price and other expenses incurred on Seliat as claimed by Abeeb while their union lasted. Seliat had, in her petition, told the court that she was no longer interested in the union that had yet to produce a child. She said: “I was forced to marry him against my will.

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has directed that the budget support loan facility to states be extended beyond a year. Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun announced this yesterday while briefing the National Economic Council meeting presided over by Osinbajo. The conditional budget support loan facility was designed by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2016, to provide financial relief to state governments. The loan facility is based on the implementation of a comprehensive 22-point Fiscal Sustainability Plan (FSP) that was unanimously agreed upon by state governors during the NEC meeting on May 19, 2016.

  United Progressives Party (UPP), Thursday accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of defrauding and trying to divide Nigeria as a nation. National Chairman of the party, Chief Chekwas Okorie, who spoke in Awka at the National Convention of the party, insisted that the ruling party had failed to make good its promises of bringing change, thereby, defrauding Nigerians who gave it votes based on that promise.

Bedmate Furniture Company, Magboro, Ogun State, has compensated its worker, William Ekanem, who was crippled with Kung fu kicks by his immediate Chinese boss, Master Wan. Our correspondent learnt on Thursday that the firm paid Ekanem N3m. With the development, the earlier scheduled meeting among representatives of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, the Chinese company and the major actors in the incident was called off.

The wife of a Lagos State University (LASU) lecturer, Mrs Kafayat Oyekunle, who revealed that she was pregnant for her bricklayer lover, Fatai Alimi has given birth to a baby girl. According to reports, Mrs Oyekunle, was also living with Alimi as his wife in their one room apartment in Igando area of Lagos despite the comfort of the home of her embattled husband. This was confirmed by Kafayat who said that her embattled husband has left them alone after he discovered that she was pregnant for her lover. Fatai Alimi was arraigned in court for allegedly snatching her from her husband, Suraju Oyekunle in Lagos, Nigeria. The 36-year-old woman made the revelation when she went to the court to bail Alimi from custody and met her embattled husband there.

  There was pandemonium in Oke-Odo area of Woru Estate in Egbedore Local Government Area of Osun State when an undisclosed middle aged man allegedly beat his wife to death. An eyewitness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the man pounced on the wife and beat the hell out of her until she dropped dead for failing to give him food on time when he returned home from work.

Kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike a.k.a. Evans, has dragged the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris and three others before the Federal High Court in Lagos over alleged illegal detention. EVANS Joined as respondents in the suit are the Nigeria Police Force, Commissioner of Police, Lagos State and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Lagos State Police Command. In the rights enforcement suit filed on his behalf by a Lagos-based lawyer, Olukoya Ogungbeje, Evans is praying for the order of court to direct the respondents to immediately charge him to court if there is any case against him in accordance with Sections 35 (1) (c) (3) (4) (5) (a) (b) and 36 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

A woman reportedly killed her father-in-law by squeezing his testicles during a hot argument. The old man, identified as Gau Kerketta, died from excessive bleeding after his daughter-in-law, Anima Kharia, lunged at him and grabbed his genitals. It is understood that Gau had been trying to mediate in an argument between his daughter-in-law and his son, Bhairaw.

Some policemen attached to the Sabon Gari Police Division, Kaduna State Police Command, have been accused of torturing a 27-year-old undergraduate of the Kaduna State Polytechnic, Kaduna, Benjamin Wankaa, to death. The victim, who was returning in his car from a party, where he had performed as the master of ceremony, was reportedly stopped by the policemen at a checkpoint at Magangi Gari, in the Sabon Gari area of the state. Things went awry when a cousin of the victim allegedly insulted the cops. Benjamin, aka MC Cedar, was said to have defended the cousin. While the Benue State indigene was detained at the checkpoint, the cousin and other occupants of the car were whisked away in a patrol van.

An investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Tosin Owobo, narrated on Wednesday how the anti-graft agency discovered a multi-million naira diagnostic centre established with funds allegedly looted by a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (retd.), from the Nigerian Air Force. According to Owobo, the diagnostic centre is located in the Ikeja area of Lagos. The investigator said this at the resumed trial of Amosu and 10 others for an alleged N22.8bn fraud before the Federal High Court in Lagos. Standing trial alongside Amosu are a former Chief of Accounts and Budgeting at the Nigerian Air Force, Air Vice Marshal Jacob Adigun; and a former Director of Finance and Budget, Air Commodore Olugbenga Gbadebo.

One of the issues that dominated the just concluded 106th session of the International Labour Conference, ILC, in Geneva, Switzerland, was the Green economy. Director General of Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association of Nigeria, NECA, Mr. Segun Oshinowo, who led a team of employers’ representatives to the conference, had a chat with a cross session of Nigerian journalists at the conference on Green economy among others, and declared that while Nigeria is not ready for the green economy, the unemployment situation in Nigeria is worse than the statistics presented by National Bureau of Statistics, NBS.

Three mothers, who were arrested in Badagry, Lagos, for using their houses as hideouts for the sale and smoking of cannabis, have told operatives of Seme Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, that they take care of their respective families with the business. L-R: Sade, Adesola and Kadijat. The arrest of the suspects, identified as Adesola Kolawole, 30; Sade Oyewale, 44, and Kadijat Mojeed, 36, reportedly followed report of the illicit sale of drug by residents, who lamented that their patrons constituted nuisance in the area. Explaining how they were arrested, the agency’s Seme Commander, Mr. Udotong Essien, said “Adesola Kolawole was caught with 2.750kg of cannabis fermented in alcohol, Sade Oyewale, was caught with 300 grammes of cannabis, while Kadijat Mojeet was found with 1.1kg of dried cannabis.

The Executive Director of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Awwal Musa Rafsanjani said the proposed law is an attempt by the Nigerian elite to legitimize the looting of public treasury. While describing the draft law as ‘self-serving and anti-people,’ Rafsanjani called on Nigerians to rise against such laws. “This bill that is proposed in the House clearly shows the desperation by people that looted the country to hide. It is an attempt to legitimize stolen funds. This is a calculated attempt to further deepen and institutionalize corruption in Nigeria, whereby you can steal as much as you want then come and declare whatever you deem fit.

Looters of Nigerian treasury may get “full and complete amnesty” based on a proposed law currently being considered by the House of Representatives. The proposed law seeks to give the looters leeway to escape any form of probe, inquiry or prosecution after fulfilling certain conditions. Besides, such looters shall not be compelled by any authority to disclose the source of their looted funds. The scheme is to last for three years, but it could be extended at the instance of the Federal Government, the bill provides.

A former Minister of Health, Prof. Eyitayo Lambo, a former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Chief Bayo Ojo (SAN), Mr Tunde Ipinmisho (FNGE) and retired Maj-Gen. Julius Oshanupin have distanced themselves from a statement which purportedly claimed they have endorsed Senator Dino Melaye. They made their positions known in a statement jointly signed by all of them and made available to newsmen in Lokoja yesterday.

 Joy Abiagan A middle-aged man, whose wife was rescued from his grips, while he was beating her, has said that he was provoked by her ill-treatment of his sick mother. Joy Abiagan, the housewife At the moment, his wife, Joy Abiagan, is nursing an injury in her right eye in a hospital in Ogun State. The victim, who also complained of body pains, accused her husband of striping her naked in public at their Ifo home, Ogun State.  When contacted, her husband, Francis Abiagan, accused his wife of being disrespectful to his ailing mother. According to him, “I have been married for 10 years.

The chairman, Board of Trustees, of the newly registered Action Democratic Party, ADP, Chief Alani Bankole, has said that the party would not field people above 65 years of age for elective offices ahead of 2019 election . Bankole, a seasoned politician, and the father of former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, said the elders have no business in governance ,but, could only played advisory roles. He said this in Abeokuta, in his speech during a special prayers organised by the Freelance and Independent Broadcasters Association of Nigeria (FIBAN), Ogun State chapter.

No fewer than 38 universities across the country have increased their tuition fees as a result of poor funding by the federal and state governments. ASUU President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi Chairman of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, University of Ibadan Chapter, Dr Deji Omole, made this known in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja, yesterday. The statement which assessed the two years of President Muhammadu Buhari in office, lamented that the current government had made Nigerians poorer. Omole said public education was not taken seriously because most children of the rich and those in high offices do not attend school in Nigeria.

  Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, yesterday, expressed deep concern over the recourse of National Assembly’s spokesperson to name calling over his observations on the 2017 budget. Fashola in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr Hakeem Bello, said he was worried that the National Assembly scribes failed to address the fundamental issues relating to cut in the allocations to several projects under his ministry and other ministries. NASS had, through Senate’s spokesperson, Senator Sabi Abdullahi, accused the minister of attempting to instigate Nigerians against them by raising an alarm over cuts in allocations to his ministry and others.

An unidentified middleaged man abducted a 10-year-old boy, who was on an errand for his mother, and exchanged him for three bags of rice in Ijegun area of Lagos. The suspect, now on the run, reportedly accosted the victim (names withheld), weekend, at Prince Bus Stop, Isheri Oshun, while on the errand for his mother.  He was said to have introduced himself to the unsuspecting boy as a relative. In an apparent move to convince the boy, the stranger, followed him to the shop where he was sent to buy a bottle of groundnut oil and thereafter, took him to a shop where he collected three bags of rice. He convinced the salesgirl, identified simply as Deborah, that he was going to get the money, while his brother remained with her. However, that was not to be as the salesgirl waited endlessly without seeing the stranger or the money for the bags of rice, which totalled N48,000.

Governor Fayose and President Buhari The Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government of “dividing Nigeria”, adding that this disposition of the government is responsible for various agitations across the country. Speaking on some national issues, he advised the federal government to be equitable, fair and just to all sections of the country, especially the Igbo people, whom he said had been grossly marginalised.

The controversial picture Assistant Commissioner of Police in-charge of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team , IRT, which arrested the most-wanted notorious kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans, yesterday, dismissed criticism by Nollywood actress, Kate Henshaw, on him and his team for posing with Evans in a shot that has gone viral, saying he was too busy to respond to such. Henshaw took to her Twitter handle to express her disappointment over the photos of some plain-clothes policemen, posing for photos with Evans, saying “If these are policemen, shame on you! What is the meaning of this?”

The Director of the National Orientation Agency in Plateau State, Bulus Dabit, has said bad governance and injustices by some military and political leaders led to various agitations across the country. The Director made the statement in a lecture during Community Development Charter (CDC) learning workshop organised by Community Action for Popular Participation (CAPP) at Crest Hotel in Jos yesterday.

Two lovers who were having sex in the back seat of their car, which was parked near a river, have drowned.  Reports say the couple could not escape from their car as it sank, and they tragically drowned while trapped in their vehicle’s back seat. They were reported missing by their families after they failed to return home from an outing.

Women and men from all walks of life, artisans, civil servants, Okada riders, drivers, mechanics, market women, students, youths, old and young and even the crippled and others with several disabilities joined the governor to march through the capital city. Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose addressing the crowed during the Road Walk to Commemorate the 3rd Anniversary of June 21, 2014 victory at the Poll, in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday. They were clad in several campaign attires with had several inscriptions such as ‘Fayose leads, we follow, ‘, support continuity, 2018, Fayose witness and The mammoth crowd who displayed their voters’ cards, sang songs and danced profusely in the hot sun t in support of a man they believe in. The huge turn-out was as a result of an earlier successful grassroot mobilisation of the people ahead of the 2018 gubernatorial poll several months ago.

  Constituents of Kogi West Senatorial District on Wednesday submitted a petition to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) demanding the recall of Dino Melaye from the Senate. But reacting to the action, Dino Melaye said the move to recall him from the upper legislative chamber will land many people in jail. His constituents of on Wednesday submitted a petition to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) demanding the recall of Dino Melaye from the Senate.

An Agege Customary Court, Lagos, on Wednesday approved the dissolution of the 10-year-old marriage between Adebisi and her husband, Olatunji Abiodun, over constant battering by the husband and his audacity to give their daughter tribal marks. Adebisi had on March 31, 2016, approached the court praying for the dissolution of the marriage, alleging that the husband was unfaithful and irresponsible.

  A chieftain of the APC, Senator Shehu Sani, who represents Kaduna Central at the National Assembly, has said that the state Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, is the Judas of Buhari's 'Change' agenda.  Chairman of the Senate Committee on local and foreign debt, Senator Shehu Sani (APC, Kaduna Central) has said that Journalists in Kaduna are under siege occasioned by the state Governor, Nasir El-Rufai.

Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo As controversy continues to trail the alleged removal of Christian Religious Knowledge, CRK, in the Basic Education Curriculum by the Federal Government, Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, yesterday, said there was no truth in the allegation. Christian Religious Knowledge not removed from curriculum. Education Minister According to him, the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, was deceived to believing that CRK has been removed from the curriculum. The minister’s declaration came as Director-General of Nigerian Education Research and Development Council, NERDC, Prof Ismail Junaidu, clarified in a statement, Tuesday night, that CRK was still being taught in schools, contrary to speculations.

There was pandemonium in a church in Imo state after the former Chairman of National Union of Road Transporter Workers (NURTW) Imo State chapter, Chief Adolphus Asomugha, popularly addressed as “Mayor” reportedly slumped inside church and died. According to Iheanyi Daniel Enwerem, an owerri-based journalist, the former NURTW boss slumped and died last Sunday 18, June,2017, while in church as attempts to revive him failed.

The marital crisis between Tonto Dikeh and her estranged husband, Oladunni Churchill has taken a new twist following revelations by the actress that she paid her own bride price and caught her husband touching his own mother inapprioprately. This was revealed in a leaked chat between Tonto Dikeh and her mother-in-law published by Pulse.

A total of 188,588 constituents from Kogi West Senatorial District have reportedly signed for the recall of Senator Dino Melaye (APC, Kogi West) from the Senate. the recall process of Senator Melaye began two weeks ago across the seven local government areas that make up his Senatorial district. Senator Melaye had since fingered Governor Yahaya Bello as the man behind the recall move; an allegation that had been disputed by those close to the governor.

Marriage is a very delicate issue and partners needs to be open to one another when its decision making time. I use to say it that: "Love is not enough in Marriage. Marriage compatibility matters: Understanding, Tolerance, patience and above all, God's grace. So many partner doesn't like to discuss vital issue like sex.

The public is often critical of the remuneration of federal lawmakers. Can you justify it? All I can say is that whatever we are paid is not up to what we pay to and what we do for our people (constituents) back home. We are paid peanuts compared to the expenses we incur daily. We pay their (constituents) school fees, rent, funeral expenses and even bills of child delivery. They expect us to do everything. If you don’t do it, they will say you are a bad senator. What is the biggest challenge you have faced as a senator? My privacy – (there’s) no more private life (for me). What I could do as a private citizen, I can’t do anymore. I am no more in control of my time. I can’t just wake up and decide that I am going somewhere; I must carry my office along to make sure that I leave no vacuum. Lanre Tejuosho 

Nemesis caught up with a rapist, Bishir Yau, 30, as his manhood was cut off by his victim, a 14-year-old girl (names withheld), in Katsina State. The incident was said to have occurred in Kankara Local Government Area of the state, when Yau allegedly lured the girl, who resides in the same compound, with him into a nearby uncompleted building, and “forcefully had unlawful sexual intercourse with her.”  It was, however, gathered that while struggling to rescue herself, the teenage girl reportedly slashed off the attacker’s manhood with a razor blade.

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo (L); Speaker House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara (M), and others during Father’s Day Church Service at Aso Villa Chapel in Abuja on Sunday (18/6/17) Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo Sunday stated that greed by those placed in leadership positions who loot the nation’s treasury was the root cause of the problems facing Nigeria. Prof. Osinbajo who stated this in his remarks at the 2017 Fathers Day Celebration at the Aso Rock Chapel, Abuja, also advised Church leaders and Ministers of God to always uphold the spirit of integrity and reject any money that was not gotten in a genuine way. The Acting President admonished Church leaders to teach more about integrity, honesty and thanksgiving, stressing that when the ill-gotten wealth is rejected in the Church it would make those with the habit of stealing what belongs to others to have a re-think. According to him, “Every time that we come to church, we are told about giving.

Col. Sambo Dasuki rtd. The federal government has disclosed why it would continue to hold on to Colonel Sambo Dasuki and El-zakzaky despite the fact the court has ordered their release. Recall that there has been agitation over their continue detention by the federal government‎ despite the order of their release by the courts. Minister of information,Culture and Tourism,Alh Lai Mohammed made the revelations in his home town,Oro in Irepodun local government area of kwara state on saturday during an interview with journalists after his annual Ramadan lecture for his people. Lai Mohammed said,Dasuki has bluntly refused to disclose the where about of 1.2B Dollars traceable to him and unless he does that, he would not be released by the federal government.

Notorious kidnap kingpin, Chukwudubem Onwuamadike, a.k.a Evans, who was arrested, recently, by the police for coordinating several high profile kidnappings and armed robberies within Lagos, Anambra and Enugu States, yesterday, led police operatives to two houses in Ejigbo and Igando areas of Lagos state, where he kept some of his victims for months. Evans revealed during the visit to his Igando hideout, located at Green Street, that he kept five persons including Chief James Uduji and Francis Umeh at the Igando den. He stated that he vacated the den when people started suspecting his activities in the area. He further disclosed that he rented the apartment in 2014 stating that he kept Francis Umeh for five months in that apartment before he moved to the other house in Ejigbo. The kidnap kingpin also took detectives to a bungalow at Orisunmbare by hospital junction in Jakande estate, Lagos where he had another hideout. The heavy presence of armed policemen who led him to the hideout sho...

The corpse of a construction worker has been found dangling from a rope tied to a mango tree at Isoto, Ajasa Command, in the Alimosho area of Lagos State. The victim, identified as Walter, was said to be among those working on the construction of the Command-AIT Road. The corpse was said to have been found opposite the Alade Stadium end of the road. The deceased was reportedly sacked recently, which residents claimed could be the reason for the suicide. The corpse was spotted around 2pm on Sunday by a resident, who raised the alarm.

A Benin High Court has ordered that a former bank manager, Mrs. Florence Odior; her husband, Sunday Odior, and two others be remanded in prison custody for allegedly defrauding a customer of the sum of N55,840,000. The accused persons were on June 8, 2017 arraigned before a High Court in Benin, Edo State, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on 19 counts bothering on fraud, stealing, conspiracy and converting the said amount to personal use.

Why ask Allah for Consolation When you can actually get the Best? (Ya Wahab)  This is actually a sermon from the Jummat service. The Imam challenged us as Muslims/Muslimat to always pray for the best, he did put the clause that we can't all get the best, but we should at least strive and be among those that will get the best. He made mention of the Political class, that those that rule us doesn't have two head or four legs. It is Just a favour/preference from Allah!

An All Progressives Congress aspirant in the Osun-West senatorial district, Chief Ademola Adeleke, may have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party to contest the July 8 senatorial by-election. A chieftain of the PDP, who pleaded anonymity, said this while speaking with our correspondent on the telephone, on Tuesday. The PDP chieftain said Adeleke would contest on the platform of the opposition party.

Fuel subsidy appears to have returned, as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, said it recorded ‘under recovery’ of N49.86 billion between January and March 2017. Under-recovery in downstream petroleum marketing parlance, is when the expected open market price of PMS, which includes the cost of importation and distribution of the commodity, such as marketers’ margins, landing cost and freight cost, is below the approved official retail price at the pump. Giving a breakdown of the figures, the NNPC in its latest financials, the March 2017 Monthly Financial and Operations Report, stated that it recorded under-recoveries of N37.26 billion, N6.3 billion and N6.3 billion for January, February and March 2017 respectively. Though the NNPC did not state the amount per litre, the total amount was charged from proceeds of its domestic crude oil and gas sales.

The kidnap kingpin, Chukwudubem Onwuamadike, a.k.a Evans, who was arrested last Saturday by operatives of Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT, for coordinating several high-profile kidnappings, armed robbery and murder within Lagos, Edo, Abia, Enugu and Anambra States, yesterday, revealed that his father’s decision to disown him was the reason he took to crime.  Evans, who received millions of dollars as ransom from his victims, during his reign as an ingenious kidnapper in the country, told Vanguard exclusively that he was forced to drop out of school while in Junior Secondary School Class 2, when his father, Steven Onwuamadike, drove his mother, Chinwe, away and got married to another woman. Driven away from home Evans in his disclosure, explained that his father, who is a businessman asked him to join another business man, a spare parts dealer, also in Nnewi, who he served for five years without settlement because the man later accused him of...

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council, OYC, has declared that the South East zone will not accept anything other a president of Igbo extraction in 2019, saying that it is the only panacea to Biafran agitation raging in the zone. Rising from its meeting in Enugu, the group said it has activated all machineries towards the actualization of the project. In a communiqué issued after the meeting and signed by the Secretary General of OYC, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, the group said Ndigbo would no longer play second fiddle in Nigeria politics. According to the Ohaneze Youths “it is Igbo president 2019 or Biafra 2020”. The group described as a “sheer injustice and hatred, a situation where no Igbo has been allowed close to the seat of power for decades of years, whereas other geo-political zones have been taking turns either as military or civilian presidents.

Suspected kidnap kingpin Chukwudemeje George Onwuamadike alias Evans is not finding it funny in police custody. He is weeping that he is being held among “common poor criminals”, The kingpin, who was arrested on Saturday at his 3, Fred Shoboyede Street, Magodo, Lagos home, is being kept in a maximum security cell.