The Julius Abure-led Labour Party has cancelled the automatic ticket it previously reserved for the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi and Abia State governor, Alex Otti, for the 2027 election.

This was made known in the resolution of the Abure faction of the part after its National Executive Council meeting held on Monday in Abuja.

The party said that it has thrown open all its tickets, from the presidency to the House of Assemblies to all qualified Nigerians.

This is coming after some leaders of the Labour Party, including Obi, Otti, some elected Senators and House of Representatives members of the party met in Umuahia, Abia State last week to appoint a 29-man care-taker committee to lead the party in the interim.

The Committee which is to be chaired by former Minister of Finance, Nenadi Usman, will midwife an election of new leadership in 90 days.

However, in a communique signed by Abure, and National Secretary, Umar Ibrahim, the NEC nullified the decision taken at the stakeholders meeting convened by Otti in Umuahia.

The Abure-led NEC maintained that there was no vacuum in the leadership of the party after “conducting its National Convention in line with its constitution, the Electoral Act and Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on March 27, 2024, at Nnewi Anambra State.”

It consequently called on the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmud Yakubu, “to stop aiding and abetting the Governor of Abia State Alex Otti to further cause damage to the party.

“NEC in session also note that His Excellency Alex Otti have constantly quoted the INEC Chairman as saying that the tenure of the officers of the party has expired, which His Excellency Alex Otti said has necessitated his calling of the meeting and setting up a Caretaker Committee.

“On the basis of the foregoing therefore, NEC in session hereby call on all teeming members, supporters and members of the general public to kindly disregard the so-called meeting and its outcome.”

The NEC also reimposed confidence in the leadership of Abure led National Working Committee and urged all party members to continue to respect the leadership of the party and obey its lawful directives.

It also delegated its powers to fill vacant positions in the NWC and also approved the conduct of State, Local Government and Ward Congress as may be schedule by the National Working Committee in line with party’s Constitution and other Extant laws.

“NEC In session also approved the composition of the diciplinary committee as provided in Constitution.

“NEC in session also approved the review of some disciplinary actions taken against some members in the spirit of reconciliation.”

September 8, 2024

PRESS STATEMENT
ILLEGAL PRODUCTION, SALE AND ADVERTISEMENT OF UNREGISTERED, SUSPECTED UNWHOLESOME MIRACLE WATER AND OTHER BRANDS OF THE WATER, AND MIRACLE SOAP BY CHRIST MERCY LAND DELIVERY MINISTRIES, KM 5 EFFURUN, SAPELE ROAD, DELTA STATE.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) wishes to alert the public on the activities of a faith-based organization - Christ Mercy Land Delivery Ministries - that uses NAFDACs name to deceive unsuspecting public.

Recently, NAFDAC have been inundated with petitions from concerned citizens about Senior Prophet Jeremiah Omoto of Christ Mercy Land Delivery Ministries, KM 5 Effurun, Sapele Road, Delta State on a Miracle Water and Miracle Soap being advertised with healing and miracle claims and sold to unsuspecting members of the public by the Spiritual Ministry.

The Minister showcased the use of Miracle Water and Miracle Soap on social media to heal barrenness. He claimed that the women would carry twins if they used the soap. He openly told his congregation that the Soap is NAFDAC registered. Thus, the public began to visit the office to confirm the claims.

The petitioners also submitted the following products from the Spiritual Ministry to NAFDAC to verify the bogus claims. The products are:
1) Miracle & Healing Water

2) River Jordan Water

3) The Miracle Water from The Pool of Bethsaida

4) A new beginning Mount Camel

5) Miracle Water

6) Water of life

7) Miracle Water from The Pool of Bethsaida (1L)

8 ) A New Beginning Pool of Bethsaida Water

9) Father Smelled Perfume.

Upon receipt of the petitions, NAFDAC, through the Director Post Marketing Surveillance (PMS) NAFDAC, contacted the Delta State Coordinator to ascertain the existence or records of any transaction with the Christ Mercy Land Deliverance Ministries and the products in Delta State Office.

The Coordinator was also directed to visit the Ministry to establish the veracity of the claims in the petitions and take necessary regulatory action on the production facility in the Ministry where the Miracle water and other products are produced.

The Delta State Coordinator covertly bought the Miracle Water (25cl) for 3000 naira from the Ministries and took the pictures.
On Wednesday 14th August 2024, the State Coordinator Delta State visited the Mercy Land Ministry and met the Head of Service (HOS) - Mr. Ogunleye Fufeyin and the Chief Security Officer (CSO).

The officials denied producing Miracle and Healing Water or Soap even with the evidence of the receipt of purchase. He claimed that only the Logo and address on the label were theirs but not the product. The HOS added that they only have a pool of Bethsaida water which is spiritual and artificial. The HOS requested time to meet with other staff and returned. He returned after 30 minutes and refused to cooperate, asking them to see the CSO.

On 27th August 2024, a team of Investigation and Enforcement NAFDAC and Federal Task Force on Counterfeit and Fake Drugs and Unwholesome Processed Foods visited the Ministry, to commence investigation on the place of purchase or the manufacturing site for possible sample collection, for laboratory analysis, but the officials did not cooperate with the team. Letters of invitation was issued to the officials to report on 28th August, but it was not honoured.

The company instead submitted a Legal document at NAFDAC Headquarters Abuja on 28th August 2024 and asked to come back on the 3rd September 2024 to organise their document before coming. The Agency then gave the Prophet till 29th to report at investigation and Enforcement NAFDAC Office Asaba for further necessary investigation.

Investigation and Enforcement Asaba waited for the Christ Mercy Land Delivery Ministries officials based on their earlier request to report for commencement of investigation, but they still refused to show up. On 3rd September 2024, they forwarded some documents instead asking for more time to report.

In a document, made available to NAFDAC Office in the evening of 3rd September, the faith organization claimed to have entered into a production contract agreement with Globod Table Water Km 4, DSC Expressway, Otokutu, Delta State without the knowledge of NAFDAC State Office in Delta State. This act is illegal according to the extant rules and regulations on commercial production.

In continuation of our investigation NAFDAC Investigation and Enforcement has sealed Globod Table Water factory for aiding and abetting the production, sale and advertisement of unregistered and unwholesome Miracle Water under the pretext of Fake NAFDAC Registration Number.

At this point, it is very clear that Christ Mercy Land Delivery Ministries, KM 5, is not ready to present itself for investigation of production and advertisement of suspected falsified, unwholesome, and unregistered Miracle products.

NAFDAC wishes to inform the public that none of these products being advertised and sold are registered with NAFDAC. The public is also being advised to stop patronizing any of these Miracle products. NAFDAC is scientific organization that is guided by verifiable scientific facts before registering any product.

In the meantime, we will continue with our investigation into the activities of this faith organization with regards to products within our mandates that have been reported to be manufactured and sold by them. I want to use this opportunity to warn either faith organizations against illegal production of regulated product without requisite regulatory requirements.
I want to assure Nigerians of our resolve to continue safeguarding health of the citizens.

Prof Mojisola Christianah Adeyeye,
NAFDAC Director-General

gidgiddy:
As we have told Nairaland many times, this Okechukwu Isiguzoro who parades himself as an Ohanaeze leader, has nothing to do with Ohanaeze

Nobody even knows what this Okechukwu Isiguzoro looks like

Don1987:
He wants his government to succeed, he should do whatever it takes to address this issue of hunger now because what is coming is bigger him. I'm just a man of little words. He should take this advice because I saw an interim government taken over

Mbanda:
Is that the reason for the below

yarimo:
May God bless Simon ekpa for successfully caging them like dogs 🤣 🤣 from Finland 🤣

Some protesters reached out to me, complaining of their inability to afford food after protesting for the day, even if it is just a meal.
Others complain of their inability to transport themselves to
designated protest venues closest to them.

Can we jointly transport and feed some genuine protesters daily for the remaining 8 days here on Twitter?

If you are in support of this initiative, and you wish to feed or transport some random protesters, please send me a DM.
You can feed or transport as many as 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 50, or even 100 persons, depending on your capacity. Transportation of 1,500 naira per person, and food of 2,500 per meal.

If you are a genuine protester, and you want food or transportation, then wait for my next post. If the public is willing to support you, i will definitely inform you guys.

Please don't send me any DM for now, if you are a protester in need, until i put out a post requesting for such. The only DM i am expecting should be that of those willing to support.

If they are interested, then we can jointly feed and transport as many protesters as we could for the rest of the protest days.

Hunger in the Land.

The response from the public is huge and encouraging. Some good spirited Nigerians are willing to transport as much as 60 persons to different protest venues in the next 8 days, while some are willing to feed as much as 20 persons.
But we have a small clause, before anyone could benefit from this noble initiative. We have to separate genuine people in need, from the fake ones.
We can only support those genuinely in need of food or transportation, if they meet up with these little conditions.

First.

You must take yourselves to the protest venues, do a video from the protest ground. Mention date, year, state and venue you are protesting from. You don't necessarily need to show your face. But let your voice be audible enough in the crowd.
Tell us what your need is in the video. If it is transport or food.
Send it to
@PIDOMNIGERIA
, as well as your bank details.
If you are genuine and lucky, someone will credit you.

Secondly.

This support is not for everyone, and not everyone will benefit.
You might be lucky to benefit once, or twice depending on your genuineness and seriousness to our cause of protest in the next 8 days.
The process for support can be changed or altered at any point without notice, with addition of new ideas and plans to make it seamless.
Only those who find themselves at the protest ground will benefit from this initiative.

We have raised 1,500 naira for transportation for 40 genuine indigent protesters, to enable them participate in today and tomorrow's protest.

We have also raised 3,000 naira for 20 genuine protesters, to support them in getting at least a plate of food after today or tomorrow's protest.

Total is 120,000 naira.

We know the protest is organic, hunger and poverty driven, but at the moment, we all must be our brother's keeper in any little way we could. Most especially for those without any means to carry on for so long.

This is
@PIDOMNIGERIA
's initiative, and my own way of supporting the ongoing protest.
Others should come up with other ideas to keep the protest tempo up.

For those who genuinely need this food or transport support, find your way to any protest venue and participate, do a video live from the protest venue.
Mention the state, location, date and time. Say what you need. Transport or food support, and send to
@PIDOMNIGERIA
via DM, including your bank details.
You don't necessarily need to show your face, but including your face is an added advantage.
If you are lucky, you will chosen and credited. The number is limited as indicated. So it is not for everyone.

Kindly do us a favour by posting the alert you received, for accountability sake.
We also will most likely post receipts of transfers from our end here on Twitter.

Repost massively for awareness.

If you are a water vendor, and you are sure you can send 30 bags of sachet water to the closest protest venue near you before payment, please send
@PIDOMNIGERIA
a DM.

We will pay you after delivery, including your transport separately.

We want to give out 500 bags of sachet water today, to help in quenching taste.

After today's #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protest, and the low turnout of protesters, Even the Nigerian Police
@PoliceNG
in this secret memo acknowledged that our tempo has really died down.
What do we do to get protesters back on the street massively?

Make do of this information, with what you can.

They are planning for Next week Monday and beyond. We need to return to the drawing board immediately.

Thewrath:
Only people who are sad are the northerners whom the SW betrayed!

keymatt:
The world is identifying with Nigerians angry at the rotten state of Nigeria.

OneCandleAway:

You're a fool. You think everyone that criticises govt is Igbo. I'm yoruba Catholic and we are the ones that have suffered most killings from boko haram. Look at the killings of priests. Imagine losing 50 lives in a Catholic Church in ondo and you expect me to support APC when they brought in the killers just to frustrate Jonathan and now the killers say they are not returning.
I don't think you people are humans.

OneCandleAway:

If these Kenya youths were in nigeris they'll set RCCG on fire.

Two kidnappers who killed their victims after collecting ransom from their families have been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command.

The operation, by the Anti-Kidnapping Squad of the Command, had led to the recovery of the corpses of the victims.

The squad, The Eagle Online learnt, made the breakthrough in cracking the case of the kidnapped victims barely five days after the Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, commended them for their achievements.

According to information available to The Eagle Online, two of the seven kidnappers who abducted several persons last year: Chukwuma Bartholomew and Igwe Monday, were arrested through technical investigations on June 28, 2024 at about 6:20pm.

The arrest came six months after the last operation in which their victim, 71-year-old Sunday Adekunle Ifelaja, popularly known as Adeife, did not return home after his kidnappers collected ransom.

However, it was not as if the gang did not carry out any kidnap for ransom after that of Adeife, who was taken on December 31, 2023 and Femi Ogunyemi, whom they abducted on November 23, 2023.

Indeed, according to information available to The Eagle Online, they were behind the recent kidnap of some Chinese and Nigerians on the Sagamu-Benin Expressway.

The gang was, however, forced to release the Chinese and others they kidnapped following the pressure on them by the hard working Anti-Kidnapping Squad of the Ogun State Police Command.

The search for the members of the seven-man gang by the Anti-Kidnapping Section of the Ogun State Police Command began last year after they killed Oluwaseun Oworu, who they kidnapped at about 2:30am on July 29, 2023 at his residence, 38, Odesina Street, Odosenbadejo, Ojowo, Ijebu-Igbo.

They robbed Oworu of his properties, including a Point of Sale machine issued to him by Monie Point.

They stormed the house of 34-year-old Ogunyemi at Abusi area of Ijebu-Igbo on November 23, 2023 at about 10:10pm.

After abducting him, the criminal elements made a video of him and sent it to his family via WhatsApp to demand a ransom.

However, after collecting the ransom, with the PoS stolen from Oworu, they refused to release him.

They did the same to 71-year-old Ifelaja, who they kidnapped in his farm house on December 31, 2023 at about 10pm.

After collecting the ransom, with the PoS taken from Oworu, they also did not release him.

However, on June 28, 2024, the Anti-Kidnapping Squad made a massive breakthrough in the hunt for the kidnappers when through technical-based investigation, they discovered the hideout of the criminals in Ijebu-Igbo.

On storming their hideout, the operatives arrested Bartholomew and Monday, who then led them to the shallow graves where they buried their victims on July 12, 2024 inside Ijebu-Igbo forest.

According to information available to The Eagle Online, the detectives, from the State Criminal Investigation Department, are not relenting in their bid to arrest the remaining members of the gang.

Meanwhile, it was learnt that the Command’s Commissioner, CP Alamutu Abiodun Mustapha, has visited the crime scenes in Ijebu-Igbo.

Mustapha was said to have stormed Ijebu-Igbo on Saturday as a part of the ongoing investigation into the case.

The spokesperson of the Command, Omolola Odutola, confirmed the developments to The Eagle Online.

Odutola, a Superintendent of Police, said those arrested would be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded while the manhunt for the fleeing members of the gang is ongoing.

A yet-to-be-identified woman and her son, known only as Chukwuemeka, have allegedly beaten a 14-year-old boy named Testimony to death at their home on Delta Street, Ayanre, off Ibiye bus stop, Badagry, Lagos.

Our correspondent gathered that the deceased was reportedly beaten for allegedly misplacing N1,000 note given to him by one of the suspects to buy items at the market.

Multiple sources who spoke with our correspondent said that the deceased teenager was allegedly beaten for several hours starting at 11 pm on Wednesday, before succumbing to his injuries around 1 am on Thursday.

One of the neighbours who spoke with our correspondent on Friday said, “This young boy was beaten to death by his guardians, who were not his biological parents. The neighbours tried to intervene, but the doors were locked from the inside.

“Around 6 am this morning (Thursday), he (the deceased) wasn’t responding to his name, so they rushed him to a nearby hospital. The hospital didn’t have oxygen therapy, so they brought him back home, which aggravated the boy’s condition.

“The woman then called her prayer partners in the church to start praying for miracles to happen before the boy finally gave up the ghost. The police came exactly around 5.10 pm on Thursday to pick up the woman, who was the main suspect in the brutalities shown to the deceased.”

Meanwhile, Benjamin Hundeyin, the spokesperson for the state police command, said he could not confirm the incident when our correspondent inquired about it.

"I cannot confirm that now,” Hundeyin wrote in response to our correspondent inquiry on Friday.

However, a one-minute and 32-second video shared with our correspondent by another eyewitness, who chose to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the matter, showed the lifeless body of the boy with severe bruises, covered with a cloth in the apartment.

One of the men suspected to be behind the camera was heard saying, “This is the dead boy with bruises,” while others were screaming in disbelief.