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The police have said that making phone calls at filling stations is a criminal offence which could land the offender in jail. The Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood, stated that an offender could be prosecuted and jailed for attempted arson. He noted that police officers have the authority to arrest anyone found making phone calls or smoking at filling stations.

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has called on the Federal Government to end the current fuel scarcity in the country rather than buying time and passing blame. Soyinka stated this on Saturday in a statement titled, “Blame passing: The New Year Gift to a Nation.’’ He also cited the clipping of the 1977 edition of the Daily Times when President Muhammadu Buhari, then a minister of petroleum and natural resources, was quoted as saying, “Fuel crisis may be over next year.”

The struggle for the governorship ticket of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State ahead of the 2018 governorship election is gathering momentum. Assistant Editor, Dare Odufowokan, reports that the lingering intra party crisis and the entrance of a couple of new aspirants into the race may be unsettling permutations in the race to determine who flies the banner of the opposition party in 2018. Permutations in some quarters within the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun state seem to be crumbling as the 2018 governorship election in the state draws nearer. The opposition party, which has left no one in doubt of its desire to oust the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the government house during the forthcoming election, already parades a number of aspirants working hard to take over from outgoing Governor Rauf Aregbesola.

Dozens of Muslim faithful from the Ya Lateef Islamic Society on Sunday during concluded forty-days of Muslim fasting to usher members into the new year in Ibafo land, Ogun State in southwest Nigeria.   Muslim faithful from the Ya Lateef Islamic Society sit as they pray into the New Year at Ibafo, Ogun State in southwest of Nigeria on December 31, 2017. Dozens of Muslim faithful of the Ya Lateef Islamic Society concluded forty-days of Muslim fasting to usher members into the new year in Ibafo land, Ogun State in southwest Nigeria ./ AFP

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige has assured Nigerians that the government is doing everything possible to stem job loses, while creating new ones in 2018. The National Bureau of Statistics recently said that about four million Nigerians lost their jobs in 2017, an information that has led to wide criticism of the Buhari led APC government that promised to create three million jobs per annum. In his new year message, Ngige asked Nigerians not to worry over the recent statistics on job losses released by the National Bureau of Statistics(NBC) as the development is effectively modulated by a similar release by the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) which indicates over a Seven Million job growth in the Agricultural sector during the year.

Just two days after losing her Iphone, actress Omotola Jalade Ekehinde, revealed that it has been found and returned back to her.  Few days ago, the sexy mother of four made a public plea about her phone which went missing at the Eko Hotel and Suites during the Miss Nigeria event. Omotola who clearly couldn’t contain her excitement took to her Instagram page to share the update and prophecize into the lives of her fans.

Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi has lauded the sacrifices of civil servants who endured financial constraints during the recently concluded state’s civil service reforms. Bello gave the commendation in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Petra Onyegbule, in Lokoja on Sunday to mark the New Year celebration. Bello noted that 2017 had been a challenging year for the state as they all tried to put the effects of the civil service reforms behind and consolidate on the gains that were recorded.

A train traveling to Kano state from Lagos state has developed faults in a forest outside Osogbo, capital of Osun State, leaving passengers stranded. Majority of the passenger on the train were going to Kano to celebrate the New Year with their family members and that there was no hope for them to continue the journey. One of the train passages who is a member of the National Youth Service Corps told our correspondent that since the train developed the fault, the officials of the Nigerian Railway Corporation in the train did not act in a responsible manner and that the passengers were exposed to danger in the bush.

A 31-year-old man who won an incredible £1,000,000 in 2014 has gone on spending and partying sprees, even as he confessed to having bedded a whopping 150 women in three years. Metro reports that Matt Myles embarked on a globe-trotting trip with his brother and friends in 2014 after scooping an incredible £1,000,000 on the EuroMillions win in April that year. He splurged an eye-watering half a million pounds in 18 months, spending money on champagne, clothes and living a party lifestyle in 22 countries.

The Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, has urged Nigerians to keep alive their hope in the ability of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to restore the economy and bring it to a remarkable height. In his New Year message, which was signed by his Special Adviser on Communication and Strategy, Mr. Yomi Layinka, Ajimobi admitted that the country experienced social and economic challenges in 2017, stressing however that the various programmes and policies of the Federal Government would bring the needed succour to the people in 2018. Ajimobi said, “Although the challenges we are currently facing appear daunting, it is my utmost belief that, with the commitment and sincerity being exhibited by the Buhari-led government, we shall overcome them.

Garba Shehu The presidency has said there was no big deal about the controversy being generated by the inclusion of dead persons' names on the list of appointees into the boards of agencies and parastatals. The federal government had on Friday evening, announced the appointment of 1,468 Nigerians into the boards. But checks revealed duplication names, inclusion of names of dead persons and individuals who are no longer in the ruling All Progressives Congress.

The Buhari government released a list of 17 of its greatest achievements a few hours ago and after reading it, I was embarrassed for the regime. The Buhari administration counts exiting a recession that it put Nigeria into as its greatest achievement of 2017!  This government is the definition of cluelessness! We exited recession by growing at 0.5% meanwhile our population grew by 2.6%. Do the math and pray that 2019 is the end of this nightmare! And going further they go on to list stabilizing the Naira as one of their achievements! 

As the year 2017 remains two days to go, the federal government on Friday listed its achievements called ’17 Highlights from 2017’ newsmen report. Among the achievements include, Nigeria’s exist from recession, naira stabilising against dollar, bumper harvest especially in rice, payment of pension among others. However, the report was made known to newsmen through Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity. Read the full achievements listed by Femi Adesina: 1. Nigeria exited its worst recession in decades. After five quarters of negative growth, the economy bounced back into positive territory. Agriculture was one of the stars of 2017, posting consistent growth levels even throughout the recession. Also, Inflation fell for ten consecutive months during 2017 (February to November). 2. The Naira stabilised against the dollar, after the Central Bank introduced a new forex window for Investors and Exporters. The stability has attracted billions o...

Popular Lagos club owner, Pretty Mike, is in the news again for another controversial reason. A few weeks ago, he decided to get himself a new pet and opted for a python. After he acquired the snake, he took pictures of himself bathing with the reptile and also announced the name of the snake as Toke Makinwa. Many people took to his Instagram page to express their displeasure over the naming of the snake after a popular on-air personality and author. However, in a chat with Saturday Beats, the popular socialite explained why he named the python, Toke Makinwa.

A woman, Adenike Bello has approached Oja Oba/Mapo  Court  C Customary Court, Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State, seeking the dissolution of her 11-year-old marriage to her husband, Sheriff Bello. Adenike in her suit alleged that her husband was irresponsible and indifferent to their welfare. She added that he was a brute who sought every opportunity at beating her. The plaintiff stated before the court that she has had enough of her husband’s maltreatment and thus prayed it to terminate their union and grant her custody of their three children. Sheriff admitted claim but disagreed that his wife should have custody of their children.

Hon. Essien Okiemute, a former member of the Delta State House of Assembly, spoke with Polycarp Orosevwotu in Isoko on why President Muhammadu Buhari should be re-elected in 2019 poll. What is your assessment of the Buhari administration in the last two and half years? President Muhammadu Buhari, has performed credibly well, personally I will score him excellent, because within the two and half years of his government, the president has achieved a lot, particularly the reshaping of Nigeria’s image and integrity in the international community. Virtually, every Nigerians are very much aware that Buhari practically inherited a collapsed economy, a very rotten and corrupt system. Resources of the country were looted and mismanaged without considering the poor masses and the future of the country. It got to a point where few corrupt individuals were becoming richer than Nigeria as a country.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday approved the constitution of the Governing Boards of agencies and parastatals, under some ministries. According to a statement from the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, the President also appointed some Nigerians to fill the board positions, including 209 chairmen and 1,258 members. The statement read, “Mr. President considered the approval for the constitution of the boards as well as the appointments, very necessary, so as to provide a proper governance and oversight structure for government agencies and parastatals.

The police in Louisiana has arrested an American advance fee fraudster posing as a Nigerian prince. The police in a facebook post said the fake Nigerian prince has duped hundreds of people across America using emails. According to The Sacramento Bee anyone with an email address has likely gotten a message from the so-called Nigerian prince or two offering hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars in secret inheritances or, in some cases, payment for assistance laundering ill-gotten gains from mining conglomerates or royal treasuries. Police in Slidell, Louisiana, say they finally caught up with one of the people behind some of those emails. He’s not exactly Nigerian royalty, either, police wrote in a Facebook post.

Members of the House of Representatives will be approaching the New Year, 2018, with a lot of vigour and hope. However, they have many challenges which they must attend to, including the battle for return tickets from their various political parties. Our correspondent looks at the issues. The year 2017 has been one full of activities for members of the House of Representatives who partake in various political activities in the country. As they get set to usher in 2018 there are a number of issues that are on their tables, which they must clear. Based on observations by our correspondent, the most important thing that the lawmakers will grapple with is the fight for return tickets.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday was back at the Cedar Crest Hospital, Gudu District, Abuja, where his son, Yusuf, who was injured in a motorbike accident, was hospitalised. The President, who got there around 6pm, had on Thursday alongside his wife and Yusuf’s mother, Aisha, visited the hospital. But the security situation around the hospital remained tense, as policemen screened those gaining entry into the medical facility. Archive Photos

Late Senator Francis Okpozo is not the only dead person, President Muhammadu Buhari appointed onto governing boards of agencies and para state agencies on Friday, checks show. The president  named "eminently qualified Nigerians" to fill the board positions, numbering 209 chairmen and 1,258 members.   Among them is Okpozo, who died December 26 last year in Benin City, now appointed to chair the board of the Nigerian Press Council.

Shade Tinubu-Ojo, first daughter of the National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has welcomed her first baby, a boy, through surrogacy. According to  Wikipedia, Surrogacy is a method or agreement whereby a woman agrees to carry a pregnancy for another person or persons, who will become the newborn child’s parent after birth. PM News investigation revealed that the baby was born on 25 December, 2017 through surrogacy to the Tinubu-Ojo family, who have been expecting a baby several years after marriage. Tinubu-Ojo with her new baby

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday signed six bills including the Compulsory Treatment and Care for Victims of Gunshot Act, 2017 and the Niger Delta Development Commission (Establishment) Amendment Act, 2017 into laws. Sen. Ita Enang, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), made this known to State House correspondents in Abuja on Friday. According to him, the Gunshot Act specifically stipulates that a person with gunshot shall be received for immediate and adequate treatment by any hospital in Nigeria with or without initial monetary deposit.

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) bears the cost of fuel subsidy and not the federal government. NAN reports that the vice-president clarified this on Monday while answering questions from journalists after visiting the Oando and Total depot in Apapa, Lagos. “NNPC is trading in fuel; the federal government is not, at the moment, paying for any subsidy. NNPC is trading,” he said.

Minister of information and culture,  Lai Mohammed,  says the federal government spends N15m daily to fuel the fighter jets used in the Boko Haram war. Mohammed said this in defence of the approval of $1bn from the excess crude account (ECA) for the war against insurgency. He said the aircraft consume 64,021.08 litres of fuel per day amounting to N15.153m daily.   The minister said N20.19 million was spent on spares for the aircraft between January and November.

Yesterday (Tuesday, December 26, 2017), the minister of information, Lai Mohammed, gave a press conference saying that ‘$1 billion is not too much to fight insecurity’.  What Lai Mohammed does not know is that he has just indicted his own boss and exposed him to be an hypocrite who has no moral authority to pontificate on others. On the 25th of July, 2014, Muhammadu Buhari gave an interview to APC Television, a media arm of the All Progressive Congress. In that video he criticized then President Jonathan for seeking $1 billion to fight terrorists of the Boko Haram radical Islamic sect. 

She's princess Damilola Adekoya, popularly called 'Princess'. The Queen of laughter is wishing all her fans and loved ones 'Compliment of the season'.

Lilian Esoro is a Nigerian actress, an event planner, and also the CEO of Goldie Locks hair salon situated in the capital city of Abuja Nigeria. The Imo State-born beauty is the youngest in a family of seven. Her marriage to Music promoter and owner of TripleMG music label, Ubi Franklin hit the rock almost immediately after their wedding, even before Lilian welcome their first son together. Lilian in this beautiful photos pose with her son, Jayden.

Nollywood actress Iyabo Ojo, born on December 21, 1977 turned 40 last week Thursday. She had photoshoot session to celebrates the day. 40 hearty cheers to Fashionista screendiva IY-Sexy.

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, stirred up a fresh controversy over his real age when he said he thought he was 74 but was told he was 75. Buhari spoke when the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Muhammed Bello, led a delegation to pay him Christmas homage at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The President, joined by some state governors and other top government officials, celebrated his 75th birthday penultimate Sunday. He was said to have been born on December 17, 1942, in Daura, in present day Katsina State.

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki Members of the Kwara South Unity Forum in Kwara State have initiated a recall process against the senator representing the Kwara South Senatorial District, Dr. Rafiu Ibrahim. According to a photocopy of the acknowledged copy of the petition, made available to journalists in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on Sunday, the petition had been sent to the Independent National Electoral Commission and the office of the President of the Senate. The letter, dated November 13, was received and acknowledged at INEC on November 14 and the office of the President of the Senate on November 17.

A housewife, Dausiya Abdulmuminu, 15, arrested by the Katsina Police Command for allegedly poisoning her husband, Samilu Usman, said she put rat poison in the 27-year-old husband’s food because she never loved him. The husband died alongside an eight-year-old, Mohammed Abdulmumini.  The teenage wife, who was paraded by the police on Saturday, told newsmen that she was forced into a marriage with Usman by her uncle. According to her, the late husband was involved in a car accident two weeks after the wedding, a development, she claimed, made him to suffer mental imbalance.

The Queen will pay tribute to the Royal Family during her 60th Christmas speech as she poses next to photos of her and Prince Philip and her great-grandchildren. The couple will feature in a black and white image from their 1947 wedding, and in a colour photo released to mark their 70th wedding anniversary celebrated in November. Photographs of the Queen's great-grandchildren, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, will also be on display.

Madam Victoria A. Samson; The woman behind the smile of an average Nigeria today who couldn't afford N500 per litre black market. All Bovas filling stations as I write sells at N143 per litre across Nigeria. (Still less than the official N145 maximum fixed by government), even here in Osogbo. You’ll see long queue at Bovas because they are the only one selling at the Normal price. Madam Victoria A. Samson has been proving severely for years and of course still proving that indeed Nigeria still has some God fearing people who are not dubious, egocentric, greedy and money drunk.

Petrol is being subsidised to the tune of N26 per litre, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Managing Director Maikanti Baru said yesterday. According to him, the landing cost of petrol (PMS) is N171 per litre;  it is being sold at the pump at N145 per litre – a difference of N26. Baru told reporters in Abuja that the consumption of PMS had risen to over 50 million litres per day, due to hoarding and diversion. He said the product was being smuggled across the borders because of the price disparity that exists between Nigeria and the neighbouring countries.

Anita Ekpeyong Mrs Anita Ekpeyong narrowly escaped death after she was beaten comatose and thrown inside a well by a man that she said refused to pay her the N3,000 bargained for sex. Tthe woman, who lives in an uncompleted building at Aladura Mosque Street, White Sand, Isheri Oshun, Lagos, with her husband, Ifeanyi, and their two children, left their abode two weeks ago, after informing her family that she was going to charge her mobile phone.  According to her, on the way to charge her phone, a man she identified as Isaac requested to take her home for sex, with an agreement to pay her N3,000. Trouble, however, started for the mother of two following Isaac’s refusal to pay her the agreed sum after having sex with her in his one-room apartment at 4, Kilanko Street, White Sand, Isheri Oshun.

Heidi and Ed Savitt, 26, from London, had no idea about their fateful meeting aged six until Heidi's mother mentioned a 'holiday romance' with a boy called Ed and found the long-forgotten photos. He said: ‘'I never believed in fate - clearly we're destined to be together!' The couple, who live in London, met in 2011 at Newcastle University(top) and married at Haddon Hall in Derbyshire in August(bottom, Ed and Heidi exchange rings; right, they kiss in the Elizabethan gardens after the ceremony).

Huge crowds are lining the streets of Sandringham in a bid to catch a glimpse of the Royal Family as they head to their traditional festive church service. Prince Harry's bride-to-be Meghan Markle is set to join them at Sandringham today, becoming the first fiancee to spend Christmas with the British royal family - a move that has been hailed as a sea change in the monarchy's traditionalist attitude. Leading the charge this morning was Prince Philip, who is pictured centre with Viscountess Serena Linley, Sophie the Countess of Wessex and her daughter Louise. 

An Abuja-based couple, Ayo and Khadijat Yahaya, are cooling their heels in the custody of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and other related offences for allegedly burning the private parts of their two-year-old son in the Kuje area of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. NAPTIP operatives told our correspondent on Sunday that the couple would spend the Christmas holidays in the cell, after which they would be arraigned in court on Wednesday. Our correspondent learnt that the couple, 43-year-old Ayo and Khadijat, 30, were nabbed by the NAPTIP’s Rapid Response Squad in the early hours of Saturday after a tip-off.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has traced 38 choice houses to a former Chairman of the Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Dr. Ngozi Olojeme. Mrs Olojeme, Deputy Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Goodluck Campaign Organisation in 2015, is being investigated by the EFCC for alleged diversion of $48,485,127 from the accounts of the NSITF. Of N62.3billion fraud discovered in NSITF, $48,485,127 is allegedly credited to Mrs. Olojeme.   The anti- graft agency has secured a court order to place the assets under interim forfeiture, pending Mrs. Olojeme’s trial.

Umaru Al-Makura  Mr Abdullahi Sani-Oseze, the Director-General, Nasarawa State Pension Bureau, has said that the State Government, had increased the minimum pension of retirees to N5, 000. Sani-Oseze made this disclosure in Lafia on Saturday in an interview. He said that the government made the adjustment in order to make life more meaningful for pensioners, in view of the prevailing economic realities in the country. The Director-General said some workers, who retired from active service before the implementation of minimum wage in the state, were receiving as low as N1, 000 as their monthly pension.

For berating reggae maestro, Majek Fashek with reckless abandon on Tuesday, for performing at Commonwealth of Zion Assembly’s Christmas Concert, popular radio presenter, Ifedayo Olarinde, also known as ‘Daddy Freeze, incurred the wrath of Majek’s manager, Omenka Uzoma Day, who threatened   to deal with him if he ever dares to repeat such a statement.  In a chat with Showtime, Uzoma said Majek performing in a church is not out of place, but rather a welcome development. Majek Fashek, “Music is supposed to preach love and peace; don’t you like the idea of Majek going to sing in a church? 

The eldest wife of the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Adetunji, Chief Mrs Kudirat Aduke Adetunji is dead. She died at the age 71. A statement issued by the media aide to the monarch, Mr. Adeola Oloko said the wife of Olubadan died this morning. 

T he Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Thursday in Abuja says fuel queues will `normalise’ by Friday and disappear by weekend. Mr Ndu Ughamadu, the NNPC spokesman, said this in Abuja that there was an increase in the number of incoming trucks of petrol into the FCT to curb the queues in the city. According to him, the NNPC Group Managing Director, Dr Maikanti Baru, has met with the heads of Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO) and Petrol Tanker Drivers (PTD) to nip the problem in the bud.

A 19-year-old woman has narrated to operatives of Lagos State Police Command how her ‘Madam’ assaults her daily, while the husband sodomises her at night. The Lagos-based couple is currently being investigated by the Police over physical and sexual abuse of the maid at their Aunty Toyin Street, Kodeibo Estate, Isheri-Oshun, Lagos. The victim, Blessing Joseph, who has been working with the couple for six months, hails from Imo State. Throughout her stay with the couple, Blessing was subjected to different forms of physical abuse from her madam, Isioma, and sexual abuse from the madam’s husband, Chigozie Ezeafor. It was gathered that whenever Isioma was away or asleep in the night, her husband sneaked into the victim’s room and raped her through her anus.

One of the leaders of the Christian Charismatic Ministries, Mr. Innocent Nwangwu, has told an Enugu Magistrate Court that the General Overseer, Pastor Sabinus Onuigbo, forged documents to change the church’s Board of Trustees after he was suspended for alleged misconduct. Onuigbo, the General Overseer of the Christian Charismatic Ministries, is facing trial before the magistrates court for alleged forgery. The GO and five senior pastors of the church – Tony Chukwu, Chukwuma Orji, Nick Nwoye and Tony Ike – were accused of conspiring to commit forgery, an offence punishable under Section 495 (a) of the Criminal Code, cap. 30, Vol. 11, Laws of Enugu State of Nigeria 2004. According to the charge sheet in the suit numbered CME/56C/2017, Onuigbo and the other accused persons, on or about July 16, 2014, and August 10, 2014, allegedly used forged documents to apply to the Corporate Affairs Commission to change the trustees of the church.

While thousands of Nigerians were singing and praising God at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos State, during the House on the Rock’s sponsored gospel concert, ‘The Experience,’ a man, Lateef Nurudeen, had a different plan. According to the police, Nurudeen, who pretended to be a worshipper, was arrested with seven mobile phones belonging to some participants at the event. The 19-year-old, who was said to be in company with six other persons, was arrested by men of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command with a bag where the stolen phones were found.