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A criminal simply known as Luckman who allegedly led his gang to Senator Dino Melaye’s house at Ayetoro-Gbede in an assassination attempt in April has been killed.
The said Luckman had been on the wanted list of the Kogi State Police Command after some of his members were arrested.
It was gathered that the notorious criminal from Obeiba in Ihima, Okehi area of Kogi State was killed on Sunday afternoon during an exchange of fire with the police.
According to Punch sources, the heavily armed policemen who stormed Obeiba town at about 3pm on Sunday came with three Hilux Vans and headed straight for the house of Luckman.
Coalition of Northern youths under the auspices of Arewa Youth Assembly, AYA, have threatened to protest for the sack of the National Security Adviser, Inspector General of Police and Director of State Security Services for not being able to arrest the signatories of the quit notice handed down on Ndi Igbo in the north and the pro-Biafra agitators.
Recall the quit notice declaration was made by the President of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF, Shettima Yerima in a meeting of a coalition of Northern youths, in Kaduna, a state governed by Nasir El-Rufai
The Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo and Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai had, following the declaration which took place on the 6th of June, 2017, ordered for the arrest of signatories to the quit notice as well as their sponsors to serve as a deterrent to others.
The president of Nigeria Economic Society and a World Bank consultant, Olu Ajakaiye has stated that the economic growth recorded from 2010 to 2014, under the leadership of Goodluck Jonathan, was fictitious in nature.
He further stated that the Muhammadu Buhari-led government and subsequent Nigerian governments must develop the country, even if it means stealing from other countries.
Ajakaiye, who was the keynote speaker at the 2017 edition of The Bullion Lecture organised by the Centre for Financial Journalism, said many first world nations have stolen their way to development.
I am sure you have all heard about the accusations against a man of God, Apostle Suleman, by a Canada-based stripper who says she feels short-changed because Pastor Suleman reneged on his promise to marry her.
You may also have read the response of the Omega Fire Ministries of Apostle Suleman to these allegations.
Not that I agree or disagree with Omega Fire Ministries allegation that the Kaduna State governor, Malam Nasir Elrufai is behind Apostle Suleman’s accuser, but there are many coincidences and it begs questions.
Nigerian award-winning author, Chimamanda Adichie, has been called out by some members of the transgender community in the United States, over her comments about transgenders in a BBC interview on Friday.
Chimamanda was asked;
“ a trans woman who grew up identifying as a man, who grew up enjoying the privileges of being a man, does that take away from becoming a woman? Are you any less of a real woman?”
The Nigerian writer responded;
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday asked Prof. Yemi Osinbajo to continue as the country’s acting President, pending his official resumption on Monday.
Buhari in a statement by Femi Adesina, his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Osinbajo was doing a fantastic job while he was on a medical vacation abroad.
The President said that he “came back towards the weekend, so that the vice president will continue and I will continue to rest”
The armed robbery incident yesterday at Skye Bank in Ogbagi Akoko, Akoko North West Local Council of Ondo State, has left at least 3 people dead, a security man, a police Sargent and a blind man.
According to reports, the gang of armed robbers who invaded the bank situated at Uko around noon, gained entrance into the bank by using explosives to blow up the security door of the bank to access the room housing the Automated Teller Machines (ATMs).
The leader of Boko Haram’s main faction, Abubakar Shekau, has admitted killing the group’s purported spokesman over an apparent plot to oust him, he said in an audio recording obtained by AFP. In the 50-minute tape of a meeting with the inner circle of his militant Islamist group, Shekau said he killed “Tasiu” — also known as Abu Zinnira — who appeared in several video messages.
Members of the House of Reps expressed shock, on Tuesday, that the Presidential Committee on North-East Initiative budgeted N60m to cut grasses this year in communities ravaged by the Boko Haram insurgents.
This is coming when controversies surrounding a similar contract worth over N200m, awarded by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, has yet to be settled.
Students of the University of Abuja yesterday morning blocked the Abuja - Giri highway, which serves as one of the main expressway into the capital city as they protested against the killing of their colleague.
The students, who alleged that a reckless driver killed a colleague and ran over four others, prevented motorists from plying the highway but allowed passengers to disembark from vehicles and walk pass them.
The Nigerian Community in South Africa has confirmed attacks and looting of Nigerian-owned businesses in Pretoria West on Saturday.
Ikechukwu Anyene, president, Nigeria Union, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on telephone from Pretoria, South Africa, that the attacks began at 4.00 a.m. He said the union had reported the incident to the Nigerian mission and South African police.
“As we speak, five buildings with Nigerian businesses, including a church have been looted and burned by South Africans. One of the buildings is a mechanic garage with 28 cars under repairs, with other vital documents, were burned during the attack.
Also, the pastor of the church was wounded and is in the hospital receiving treatment,” he said. Mr. Anyene said the union had informed Nigerians in South Africa to be vigilant in the face of renewed xenophobic attacks.
US President Donald Trump on Monday afternoon spoke with President Muhammadu Buhari in a telephone conversation.
Trump invited Buhari, who is currently in London on vacation, to come to Washington DC at a “mutually convenient” date, presidency sources informed newsmen.
President Muhammadu Buhari has said he would only return to Nigeria when his London doctors certify him well enough to do so.
“… I am extending my leave until the doctors are satisfied that certain factors are ruled out,”
Mr. Buhari said in a February 5 letter to the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, informing the National Assembly of the extension of his vacation.
Two soldiers who allegedly brutalised a crippled man in New Market Road, Onitsha, Anambra State have been identified and arrested, the Nigerian Army has said.
In a statement released by late Wednesday, the Army said the soldiers had also been charged by their commanding officer.
The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Monday said only President Muhammadu Buhari would disclose his health status to Nigerians at the appropriate time.
He also said he was not in any way under pressure to resign.
Osinbajo spoke with State House correspondents shortly after meeting behind closed doors with the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun.
While saying the President is hale and hearty, Osinbajo said he spoke with him earlier in the day to keep him abreast of developments regarding the 2017 Budget and the protests embarked upon by some Nigerians
OGYPEDI
6th Feb,2017
Buhari: NASS "send a delegation to London now"- OGYPEDI
A front line youth group the Organisation For Global Youth Peace,Empowerment And Development Initiative (OGYPEDI) has called on the National Assembly to send a delegation to meet with President Buhari in London.
This call was made in Lagos on behalf of the group by its national coordinator Mr Japheth Omene in responds to the numerous rumors surrounding the President's health condition which has further been brought to fore by the President's extension of his vacation in London. According to Mr Omene 'Mr President's indefinite extension of his vacation has further created doubts and uncertainties in the minds of Nigerians concerning his true state of health so therefore,the right thing to do would be for the National Assembly which is the representative of the people to send a delegation to London to ascertain the President's condition and brief Nigerians accordingly'.
The group also advise that while we urge all Nigerians to pray for the safe return of Mr President,the laws/constitution should be respected by allowing Prof Osinbajo to continue to function as the acting President without undue interference pending the return of President Buhari as anything contrary to this could lead to constitutional crisis and a total collapse in the machinery of government and that would ultimately affect governance as a whole.
Michael Ipheghe
National PRO
The presidency has given its words that it would not infringe upon the rights of Nigerians by stopping them from holding peaceful protests following adamant threats from the Police in Lagos State that it would stop the 2face Idibia led march on February 6.
The assurance was given by the Special Adviser to Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande who tweeted the government’s position on the matter.
Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has advised the people of South-East, to forget contesting for the presidency in 2019.
Okorocha, who was at the presidential villa on Monday, where he met with Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, behind closed door, said it was proper for the Igbo’s to support the North in its eight-year rotational tenure.
Speaking to State House Correspondents, Okorocha said: “What I do know is that Ndigbo should talk about presidency after President Muhammadu Buhari.
Over 80 Nigerians were reportedly deported to Nigeria from the United Kingdom for various reasons.
It was gathered that those deported were residents whose documents had expired and prisoners whose terms of imprisonment were nearing completion.
Speaking on the issue, The spokesperson for the National Emergency Management Agency, South-West Zone, Ibrahim Farinloye, said the deportees arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport at 7:40 am today.
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has alleged that Department of
State Services (DSS) has perfected plans to detain and prosecute Apostle
Johnson Suleiman of the Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide and the General
Overseer of Living Faith Church Worldwide International (Winners’
Chapel International), Bishop David Oyedepo.
Fayose, who is the chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, warned that
the alleged plan could throw the country into an unprecedented religious
crisis.
