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When I saw this tweet I shook my head in amusement. The complete irony of it all is very amusing. Lmao! Our problems as human beings is the fact that we don't take our own advice. It looks like he was prophesying into his own life: he just didn't take the prophecy serious. So who's laughing now, David? Anyway sha, we learn everyday

Abia Election: Appeal Court Declares Alex Otti Of APGA Winner Channels Television. Updated December 31, 2015 129 An Appeal Court has declared the candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, Mr Alex Otti, the winner of the Abia State Governorship election. The court in its ruling on Thursday ordered the swearing in of Mr Otti, as governor of Abia State and asked Mr Okezie Ikpeazu to vacate the office. Mr Ikpeazu of the Peoples Democratic Party was declared winner of the election held in April by the Independent National Electoral Commission. Freedom @ last............. Going back to my state. God purnish PDP, Orji Uzor Kalu, T. A Orji etc

Nigeria’s government will not release two prominent detainees despite several court orders for their release, and will not comment on the situation of a third, wounded detainee, President Muhammadu Buhari said Wednesday. Buhari, a former military dictator who calls himself a born-again democrat, did not discuss the propriety of defying court orders when he spoke on national TV. “If you see the atrocities these people committed against this country!” Buhari said in justification. “We can’t allow them to jump bail.” A Federal High Court set no bail conditions and ordered the unconditional release of Biafra separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu on Dec. 17. Kanu was detained Oct. 17 on charges recently escalated to terrorism and financing terrorism. His cause led to a civil war that killed 1 million people in the 1960s. Former national security adviser Sambo Dasuki was detained Nov. 4 after intelligence agents surrounded his home for days to prevent him from leaving the country af...

A man, Abubakar Ibrahim, 25, has reportedly choked his two-month-old child to death. The Tuesday incident occurred after the man failed to take care of the baby and the woman who delivered the child for him out of wedlock. The sad incident occurred at Unguwan Yandan in Jalingo, Taraba State. It was gathered that suspect the child’s mother, Karshe Harmuel, also 25, were living together as lovers before she got pregnant. It was also learnt that when Karshe was closed to the Expected Day of Delivery (EDD), she left Ibrahim to live with her uncle, which is not far from her lover’s house. After she gave birth to a baby boy, Karshe’s family members said Ibrahim ended the relationship and left her to take care of the baby. Karshe told our correspondent that when she woke up on that fateful day, she had no soap to bathe the child. According to her, she decided to go and meet Ibrahim for money to buy soap and baby lotion. She said: “When I met him in the room, I asked him ...

The Chief Judge (CJ) of Lagos State, Justice Oluwafunmilayo Atilade yesterday called on the state’s Office of the Public Defender (OPD), the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and Non-Governmental Organisations to take up cases of awaiting prison inmates to ensure speedy dispensation of justice. The Chief Judge made the appeal during her periodical visit to the Ikoyi Prisons in Lagos, where she released 10 awaiting prison inmates. According to Justice Atilade, steps have been taken by the judiciary to facilitate speedy trials and dispensation of cases to ensure a drastic reduction in the number of awaiting trial inmates. The Chief Judge also pointed out that the newly introduced Bail Information Management System  (BIMS) is a ground breaking innovation which would improve the administration of criminal justice in the state. She said, “Aside guaranteeing ease of access to relevant information as may be required for effective bail management, it is intended t...

ABUJA, Nigeria –   Nigeria's government still is open to negotiating with Boko Haram extremists for the release of 209 schoolgirls kidnapped in April 2014, President Muhammadu Buhari said Wednesday. He said they are ready to negotiate without preconditions but only if they can identify a credible leadership. Other attempts under the previous administration failed because officials apparently were talking to the wrong people in the fragmented group. Hundreds of captives have been freed in recent months as Nigeria's military has driven the Islamic extremists into a northeastern forest enclave. But none of the girls abducted from a school in Chibok town were among them. There is "no firm intelligence on where those girls are physically located and what condition they are in,...

The Lagos State House of Assembly on Thursday passed the N662. 588 billion budget for the 2016 fiscal year in the state. The approval by the lawmakers followed the adoption of the recommendations of the House Committee on Budget and Economic Planning during the plenary session. Mr Rotimi Abiru, the Chief Whip, moved the motion for adoption, while the Chairman, House Committee on Environment, Mr Dayo Saka-Fafunmi, seconded it. The House approved the sum of N275. 655 billion from Consolidated Revenue for recurrent expenditure, as against Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode’s proposed estimate of N278. 90 billion. It also approved the sum of N386. 933 billion from Development Revenue for capital expenditure, as against N383.67 billion proposed by the governor. The approval showed a reduction of N3.3 billion in the governor’s proposed recurrent expenditure and an increase of the same amount in the capital expenditure. In his comment, Saka-Fafunmi commended the committee for its s...

An Asaba High Court has dismissed an application filed by Udeme Nwaje against the Obi of Ogwashi-Uku, Chukwuka Okonjo and others to grant him reliefs on the grounds that he was installed by one Felix Izediunor as an Ogwashi-uku titled chief. While the court restrained him from parading himself as a titled chief in Ogwashi-Uku kingdom, Justice Jeremiah Obi, said the court recognised that the overall Obi of Ogwashi-Uku kingdom is Obi Chukwuka Okonjo, father of the former minister of finance and coordinating minister of the economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Justice Obi said, “The court has refused your application and your request subsequently struck it out; I grant all reliefs in the counter-affidavit which impact is for a perpetual injunction restraining Nwajei from ever parading himself as a chief in Ogwashi-Uku or carrying out any action that pertains to a titled chief”. The court said that over the years, Nwajei was alleged to have been parading himself as a tit...

Angry mob in Irri Isoko south local area of Delta State yesterday allegedly striped two women (names withheld) naked for suspected witchcraft activities. The women were being accused of sorcery after a middle- aged man, Joseph Akpore, took ill and allegedly died shouting witchcraft attacks. It was reliably gathered that in a footage, the women were threatened with machetes including other dangerous weapons by the angry mob numbering over two thousand youths. Investigation revealed that there have been alleged witchcraft crises and other related acts rocking the community; an allegation dispelled as untrue by one of the leaders of the youths, Tobore Ejiro saying, “We don’t know who are the witches in this community, but when it is established, we will take action against the persons and possibly banish them from the community.” But the police public relations officer in the state, Mrs Celestina Kalu, confirmed that some of the youths who took laws into their h...

Strong indications have emerged to prove that the detained leader and founder of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, truly apologised to President Muhammadu Buhari, former President Goodluck Jonathan and Igbo elders for his alleged hate remarks and statements against them. READ ALSO: Biafra: Nnamdi Kanu Denies Apologising To Buhari, Jonathan And Igbo Leaders This is coming on the heels of a contrary report by the lawyer of the embattled Kanu, who recently denied media reports that his client apologized to President Buhari. READ ALSO: Nnamdi Kanu, Apologises To Presidents Buhari, Jonathan and Igbo Leaders However, in a new twist to the apology drama,  Sahara Reporters   has obtained what may possibly be the letter of apology, written by Nnamdi Kanu. Below is a pictorial transcript of the text. Below is a copy of a handwritten statement obtained. Nnamdi Kanu, Male Igbo Christian, aged 48 (i.e. born 1967, the year Biafra was announced), of Afaraukwu-Ibeku (Umuahia-N...

The Rivers Police Command said it had rescued two persons kidnapped by gunmen at Ogbakiri in Emohua Local Government Area of the state, in the early hours of Wednesday. The command`s Public Relations Officer, Mr Ahmad Muhammad, a DSP, said in a statement in Port Harcourt that the rescued victims are: Mr Jackson Sunday and Mrs Mary Monday. The statement said the victims were safely rescued during the operation. It said an Ak-47 assault rifle; one locally made pistol; 20 rounds of ammunition and a Nissan Jeep were recovered, while three suspected kidnappers were fatally wounded during the operation. It said the operation was carried out by the command`s Tactical Unit at about 4.30 a.m. on Wednesday and that the Jeep belonged to one of the rescued victims, Jackson Sunday. The statement also said that the victims were kidnapped on different days at Rumuodara and Rumuigbo areas of Port Harcourt, respectively. The command, according to the statement, enjoined the peo...

Frozen food sellers in Asaba and its environs recorded high patronage in spite the availability of live chickens and turkeys during Christmas celebrations, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Some of the frozen food sellers told NAN on Wednesday in Asaba that patronage was very high compared to sales last year. They said that they had never recorded such patronage in the last three years as customers started trooping in to buy frozen chicken and turkey as early as Dec. 23. Mrs Linda Azubuike, a frozen food seller at the Asaba Modern market, said: “Sales have been very encouraging this year and I did not expect the quantity of sales I got this year despite the influx of live chicken in the market. “Customers starting coming since Dec. 23, and up till now they are still coming and each day I make bold to say that I sell as much as 20 cartons of chicken and turkey. “This has never happened in the last three years and I am very happy that patronage increas...

A renewed cult war on Sunday claimed the lives of two persons with 10 vehicles destroyed as rival cult groups in Warri, Delta State, fought. It was gathered that the clash of the two rival cult groups (Eiye and Ake confraternities) reared its ugly head during night fall on the faithful Sunday, leaving scores of persons allegedly wounded and stores looted. It was further learnt that the cultists were armed with dangerous weapons including guns, cutlasses, battle axes and iron rods as they allegedly harassed unsuspecting passersby including residents of Ejeba Quarters in Warri where the major fracas took place. An eye witness, Mrs Mabel Ejiro, said that the cultists from Warri/Sapele road and Ginuwa area of Warri Metropolis spread their fight to other parts of Warri before security agents moved in to arrest the situation. According to Ejiro, “People were afraid to come out to stop the fight because the cultists were heavily armed with dangerous weapons, they attack...

Unknown gunmen yesterday kidnapped a member of the caretaker committee for Degema local government area of Rivers State, Mrs Elekima Patson, and her two-year old son, in Bukuma community of the area. LEADERSHIP learnt that the gunmen, who stormed the community in three speedboats, shot sporadically, killing two members of the community before abducting their victims. Chairman of the caretaker committee for Degema, Hon. Tonye Tyger, who confirmed the incident in a chat with newsmen in Port Harcourt, said one of the suspected kidnappers has been arrested by members of the local vigilante, and handed over to the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID). Meanwhile, the Rivers State police command has announced the arrest of the policemen in a patrol van that killed a final year engineering student of the University of Port Harcourt, Oghenekevwe Edah. The victim was said to have been knocked down while on his way back from Church on Sunday. He was stand...

. In this week’s Backlash and Lashback, the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh and that of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Uche Ekwunife for the Anambra Central Senatorial contest locks hands of the verdict of the Court of Appeal which nullified the latter’s election and ordered that a fresh election be conducted in the zone. The candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Victor Umeh for the Anambra Central Senatorial seat has warned his major opponent and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Ekwunife not to make further moves ahead of the fresh rerun election ordered by the Court of Appeal Court in the senatorial zone. Umeh stated this, following as fresh indications emerged that the Enugu Appeal court barred the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Senator Uche Ekwunife from taking part in the rerun. In a full text of the certified true copy of the Appeal Cour...

The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Solomon Arase, on Wednesday called on senior police officers to monitor strictly the use of firearms and ammunition by officers under them. The Force Police Public Relations Officer (FPPRO), ACP Olabisi Kolawole, disclosed the I-G’s order in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. Kolawole said the order was sequel to some alleged killings by drunken and trigger-happy policemen in different parts of the country. He said that Arase expressed sadness over unlawful killings and restated the need for Assistant Inspectors-General, Commissioners and Area Commanders of various commands and units to monitor strictly the usage of firearms. According to him, police personnel are supposed to account for arms and ammunition signed out to him or her to the supervisor. “No pol...

Former Nigerian permanent representative to the United Nations, Alhaji Yusuf Maitama Sule has attributed the country’s wasted opportunities to bad leadership. Ambassador Sule said the country started off very well at the same time with Brazil but lost it midway because the leaders mismanaged the nation’s resources. He recalled that Nigeria used to be at par with India and Brazil, but unfortunately, the two countries are today poles ahead of Nigeria in terms of technological advancement and economic prosperity. “If we had used proceeds from oil very well, Nigeria would have been another Dubai; if not a better country. Unfortunately, oil has brought us some curse”, Ambassador Sule lamented. Delivering a keynote speech at the 8th annual forum of the Nigerian National Order of Merit Awardees in Abuja recently, the elder statesman re...

Campus cults have constituted a major threat to academic programmes in the nation’s tertiary institutions. These cults encourage moral ruin, murder, terrorism, sexual harassment, rape, armed robbery and prostitution. Consequently, the campus, which ought to be a centre for knowledge acquisition has become devil’s nest for cult activities. There are intimidations, tortures and murders. Morality seems to have gone to zero degree and academic pursuits, which should be of primary importance, has been relegated to secondary priority. In a chat with Abuja Metro, 29-year-old Evangelist Levi Chirkpi, a self- confessed cultist, robber and murderer, who had killed and robbed on the highways, streets and banks, said he has turned a new leaf and  now has a foundation where he preaches against the vices in the society. His Foundation Ev...

The Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has finally bowed to popular demand and protests by Nigerians against payment of fixed tariff for services they did not enjoy from electricity distributors. Meanwhile, no electricity distribution company is allowed to connect new customers without metering the customer first. This is to close the wide metering gap of over 50 per cent and reduce high incidence of collection losses in the Nigeria Electricity Supply Industry (NESI). Since electricity distribution was handed over to private firms about two years ago, consumers across the country have been subjected to paying fixed charges ranging from N220 to N750 or even more depending on the location. The development had pitched the nation’s electricity regulator, NERC, against Nigerians who felt cheated because only the companies...

The Igbozurume Cultural Centre in Enugu  recently came alive as the crème de la crème of Igbo nation comprising the Igbo intelligentsia, traditional rulers and others converged to discuss the way forward for the Igbo nation. But  governors of the South-East states were absent and the people blamed them for  not showing significant interest in what the people of the region was doing. The gathering, which was on the invitation of the Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF) was the second of its kind this year as it came on the heels of a similar one held in May. Tagged the First Business Conference of Igbo Leaders, it was part of the three-day event organized by the foundation as part of efforts aimed at developing the Igbo nation through effective economic policies and actions. Long before the commencement of the progr...

On December 13,2015 President Muhammadu Buhari  urged Nigerians to prepare for tougher economic policies in the New Year. The message was delivered through his Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun. Speaking at the opening of the 7th annual Bankers Committee retreat in Lagos, Adeosun noted that Nigeria was faced with some fairly significant micro-economic challenges that required what she called, “fiscal housekeeping”, an euphemism for austerity measures. She had declared: “It is going to be tough and we are going to have to make extremely tough decisions. We have got the resilience and space to do that.” For an anxious electorate that voted for change and craved for a departure from the agonizing misery and squalor they were subjected to under the immediate past administration, their joy of a new dawn was turned into ashes in thei...

32 year-old trans-border robbery has confessed that robbery operation is easier to carry out in other West Africa countries than in Nigeria, owing to what he described as less security consciousness in those countries. The suspect, Wasimi Dannies, 32, an ex-convict was arrested by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, in Agbole area of Orile, Lagos, weekend. Recovered from the Delta state born suspect was a laptop he confessed to have stolen in one of his operations in Ghana, and three machetes which were concealed inside the walls of the hideout”, In his confessional statement, Dennis said “I was released from prison about a year ago. I am an expert in break-in-robbery; I operated in Ghana, along West Africa Coast. I broke into people’s houses and make away with their properties and personal effects like mobile phones, laptops, jewellery and other personal effects. I used to bring the stolen items to Nigeria to sell”. Dennis, a...

Former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has expressed sadness and shock over the death of Prof. Foluke Ogunleye, elder sister of Mr. Femi Adesina, special adviser on media and publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari. He described her death as a tragedy. Prof. Ogunleye died in a motor accident in the early hours of Sunday, December 27 at Ogunmakin village along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Kalu said Mrs Ogunleye was an outstanding scholar and a renowned author, who contributed immensely to the academia in different capacities beyond the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) community. In a statement by his Special Adviser, Kunle Oyewumi, Kalu said: “I was destabilised and heartbroken on hearing the news of the passing of Femi’s sister.  She was humble and easy going despite her intimidating academic cred...