Music they say elevates your soul and gives definition to life. Music to some set of people is a form of livelihood i.e some sing just to make a living out of it.

But on the other hand, some sing because they are gifted in it and they do this well, to the extent that you wonder if they were ever from this world.

To every positive thing, there is a Negative side of it. When some set of people sing Music, you wonder why they ventured into singing. Jokes aside we have lots of them in the Nigerian Music Industry.

With the likes of 2face, Olamide AKA Baddo sneh, Davido AKA OBO, Wizkid AKA Star Boy, Yemi Alade AKA Mama Africa and a host of other Nigerian Musicians that give us quality songs, there are also some sets of the so called “Nigerian Musicians” that give us sub-standard songs.

Now the Big question is ;
What Is The Worst Song You Have Heard From A Nigerian Artiste This Year ??

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An officer with the Federal Road Safety Corps, Ondo Sector Command, Seinde Abolusoro, has been killed by a driver in Akure, the Ondo State capital.

The late FRSC officer was said to be on duty on Saturday when the incident occurred.

Abolusoro was said to be at the FUTA North Gate area of Akure when the car driver veered off the road and hit him.

The victim died on the spot.

According to a source, the driver, Sola Olagunju, who was reported to be heading towards Akure from Ilesa, had tried to avoid hitting a parked articulated truck on the road when he knocked down the FRSC officer, who was standing by the roadside.

The source said the driver was immediately arrested and handed over to men of the Ondo State Police Command.

Efforts to get the reaction of the sector command of the FRSC in the state were unsuccessful as the telephone line of the sector commander, Mr. Vincent Jack, was not reachable as of the time of filing this report.

However, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr. Femi Joseph, confirmed the incident, describing it as sad and unfortunate.

He said, “The suspect is in our custody and we have commenced investigation into the matter. He will be charged to court after investigation has been concluded.”

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The People Democratic Party, PDP, National Caretaker Committee Chairman, Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi, has refuted insinuations going round that he was presently nursing presidential ambition.

Speaking in Liberty radio programme on Guest of the week in Kaduna Sunday, he said, “I have not solocited to anybody to talk on my presidential ambition. My focus is the PDP national convention that is coming, let’s get over the convention.”

Senator Makarfi said that after the PDP national convention, he was free like every other Nigerian to determine how his future would look like.

He assured Nigerians that after the party’s convention, those who left the party for one reason or the other and those who are not members of the party would have no reason but to embrace the party as a result of the transparency of the convention.

Commenting on the problems associated with PDP in its 16 years of leadership in the country, he explained, “Some problems facing the country could be traced as far as during the amalgamation of the country and at other stages of leadership of Nigeria before the coming of PDP in 1999.”

He acknowledged that the ruling party has tried in fighting insurgency but added, “Today we are witnessing more kidnapping in all nooks and crannies of the country and other social vices that were not known during the PDP era.”

Speaking on dislodging APC in 2019, he noted that the party was hopeful and working hard to ensure its realization, adding, “Nigerians know the situation they have found themselves under the present dispensation and the need for them to do the needful in the coming general elections.”

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A former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, has described the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as Nigeria’s greatest politicians alive.

Obanikoro said this on Saturday in Lagos while formally announcing his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party to the APC.

In his speech, ‘The Exigency of Time and the Dynamism of Politics’, made available to SUNDAY MC EBISCO, the former PDP chieftain said defecting to the APC was a homecoming for him.

“To me and to all my associates, it is a return to our natural habitat. This (APC) is my home. My political voyage started from this association and I am proud to have learnt under our great leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. The late Chief Obafemi Awolowo is the greatest politician of all time and I make bold to say the greatest politician of our time is Tinubu.

“At this stage of my life, it is important for me to return to my original base and be part of the giant strides being achieved in Lagos State which would not have been possible without the sagacity of the architect of our modern democracy – my indefatigable boss, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu,” Obanikoro said.

Speaking on why he joined the APC, he said, “I am already fulfilled. I have traversed the length and breadth of this country and I believe that Lagos stands tall among other states in Nigeria. Today, we are the fifth largest economy in Africa and Governor (Akinwunmi) Ambode is working assiduously to make Lagos the third largest economy and transit from a megacity to a smart city.

“I want to be part of this project. I’ve re-dedicated myself to the progress and prosperity of Lagos.”

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The Peoples Democratic Party has said its National Caretaker Committee Chairman, Ahmed Makarfi will contest the 2019 Presidential election under the platform of the party.

Abdullahi Ibrahim Jalo, former National Deputy Publicity Secretary of the party made the disclosure while addressing newsmen in Gombe, on Thursday.

Jalo, who is also an adviser, Hausa Media Services, to Makarfi disclosed that the former Kaduna State Governor personally informed him of his decision to contest for the presidential ticket of the PDP in 2019.

According to Jalo, “Let me make it abundantly clear, Makarfi is contesting for the presidential ticket of the party. Makarfi is like any other Nigerian and he has all the qualities to contest. If my party wishes to make him its presidential candidate, so be it. We shall support him.

“Makarfi told me vividly that he’s contesting and that could not be linked to a fallacious and misleading assumption that he’s supporting (former acting national chairman of the party, Prince Uche) Secondus.”

The former deputy spokesperson of the party also alleged that some powerful forces within the party have planned to scuttle the PDP’s upcoming National convention in December.

Jalo noted that if the PDP fails to conduct a credible national convention in December, the party may collapse.

“If PDP fails to put it right by allowing governors to impose a candidate, not what the people want, not in the people’s interest, certainly PDP will scatter. The political class will move to form a new party,” he said.

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Abdulrasheed Maina, embattled former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, has signified interest to appear before the House of Representatives if his security is guaranteed.

The former Pension boss said he was ready to appear before the committee and provide more details on the controversy that led to his sack if lawmakers can ensure that no security agency arrests or harasses him.

He said this through his lawyer, Mohammed Sani Katu on Thursday during the committee’s investigative hearing into his reinstatement back into the Civil Service.

He said, “We ask that you give Maina protection so that no security agency will interfere or arrest him so that he’ll appear in person.

“If that is done, we can assure you that Maina will come. We want you to give Maina a cover to appear.”

Katu had earlier insisted that his client was still on the payroll of the Federal Government.

Maina is currently on the run for allegedly committing fraud to the tune of N2.1 billion while in office.

Despite been declared wanted, reports had it that the Attorney-General of the Federation and Justice Minister, Abubakar Malami had directed the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC) to reinstate Maina.

Displeased by the report, President Muhammadu Buhari had in October ordered the immediate disengagement of Maina.

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The Emir of Kano, Mallam Muhammadu Sanusi II, on Thursday stated that Nigeria’s economic growth and development, is being hindered by the emergence of those he tagged as “briefcase billionaires”.

Sanusi said this while speaking at the end of a three-day Northern Regional Conference on Security, Justice and Development: Effective implementation of intervention measures’.

The former apex bank boss said when people get wealth they did not work for, “what follows would be disastrous for the nation.”

“When people just get wealth they didn’t work for, what that signifies was that, many injustices were permeating round many quarters of the society, meaning there is something wrong in the system that was put in place for a very long time of our national history.”

He added: “How many of our briefcase billionaires can show you their business plants and the number of people they employ in their companies? The companies are non-existent in the first place. So, what are we talking about?”

Sanusi made it clear that the more the society produces briefcase billionaires, the more the masses would get more impoverished.

“We need to build an economy that looks at people; not that which further creates gaps, unimagined gaps between people. You cannot call this capitalism either. It is through such kind of arrangements that end up in creating an insecure society. We all created the insecurity we are suffering from. Justice is one of the key and fundamental issues that can address our predicaments,” he said.

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Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has presented a budget estimate of N181, 886, 056, 555.00 for the 2018 Financial Year.

Laying the budget before the lawmakers at the State House of Assembly yesterday, Governor Ahmed said the proposed budget reflects an increase of N15,781,009,150 or 9.5% compared to the 2017 Revised Appropriation.

Tagged “Budget of Sustained Growth and Prosperity”, the sum of N75,204,257,902 representing 41.3% is for recurrent expenditure, while total sum of N106,681,798,630 which represents 58.7% is earmarked for capital expenditure.

Under the recurrent expenditure, N46,567,379,761 representing 62% is allocated as overhead cost which includes subventions to parastatals, support grants and contributions including overhead cost of tertiary institutions in the state. Personnel cost is expected to gulp N13,918,001,894 or 18.5% of the total recurrent expenditure.

Governor Ahmed explained that the 2018 budget proposal is formulated using the zero-based budgeting approach and its projections were based on the federal government adopted assumptions of oil price benchmark of $45 per barrel and oil production estimate of two point three million barrels per day.

The economic affairs sector has the highest allocation of N53,744,166,521.00 which represents 54.4% of the total capital expenditure, while the health sector is allocated N23,918,380,992.00 representing 22.4%.

The Education Sector has an allocation of N12,628,47,156 which represents 11.8%, while general public services has N7,550,770,62.00 representing 7.1% of the total expenditure.

Governor Ahmed said the government recorded 71% implementation of the 2017 budget with modest achievements in key sectors despite the economic challenges.

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Electrifying and multi-gifted , and various honor winning Gospel serve – Favour Lights reemerges with yet another splendid religious tune titled “I See Your Face”.

In this soul filled tune, Favour Lights enrolls Gospel songbird

Download: Favour Light – I See Your Face.

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Nigerian dancehall star, Burna Boy has denied involvement in robbery attack on Mr 2kay.

Tunmise Omotore, gang leader of the suspected robbers, had opened up on how they disguised as room service to rob their victim at Eko Hotel and Suites.

On Monday, Damini Ogulu aka Burna Boy, was declared wanted by Lagos police over the incident.

On Tuesday, his record label insists their artiste is innocent.

“The management of Burnaboy (Spaceship entertainment) hereby makes an official statement regarding the news that Burna Boy has been declared wanted by the police”, a statement by the company read.

“We use this medium to categorically state that Burna Boy is not in any way involved with the robbery and beating up of Grafton records artiste Mr 2kay on the 22nd October.

“The first and only invitation burna boy has ever received from the police was issued yesterday Nov 20th 2017. This invitation was honoured yesterday and it has been made clear that he is happy to cooperate with the police as best as he can.

“It is pertinent to note that he was never served an arrest warrant nor has he been declared wanted

“We are confident that the Nigeria Police with deal with this fairly and professionally.”

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Arsenal forward, Alex Iwobi has revealed the reasons behind the fine form of the Super Eagles.

According to Iwobi, the team’s success is largely due to the tactical abilities of coach Gernot Rohr and also the unity in the team.

The young Arsenal playmaker told AOIFootball.com after Nigeria defeated Argentina that the team can only get better with more games next year.

He said, “As you can see, we played collectively in all the six games in the qualifiers; we fought together, the chemistry was good, and our tactics were spot-on all through the qualifiers.

“I must admit the qualifiers were a bit difficult, but I will say the underdog card propelled us to victory at the end of the day.

“We are not a one-man team. You can see the competition in the squad is so strong.

“It shows that we are not just about a few players, we are a very good side collectively and it stood out for us all through the qualifiers.

“The World Cup is still a couple of months away and I believe with quality of friendlies and adequate preparations, Nigeria will shock the world come 2018.”

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Former aide to the immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe has reacted to the mass movement of Igbo political leaders from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

According to the former Presidential aide, all the noted leaders in the South East have dumped the main opposition party, adding that they were only three or four notable major political personalities of significance that were remaining in the PDP.

In a post he shared on Facebook entitled “2019 in View” Okupe listed Senator Hope Uzodinma, Chief Alex Ekwueme, Nwuayanwu and Peter Obi as the only once still standing.

He wrote, “The movement of the Igbo elites from PDP to APC is nearly complete. Only 3 or 4 major political personalities of significance remains: namely Chief Alex Ekwueme, Chief Nwuayanwu, former Governor Peter Obi and Senator Uzodima.

“This is a major political shift in our landscape and has very significant implications on 2019.

“I must add though that the elites have a lot of work to do to carry the populace along with them. But the Igbos are presently speaking and loudly too.”

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Post-mortems examinations have revealed the cause of death of the 26 teenage migrant girls found dead in the Mediterranean Sea.

The autopsy carried out in Salerno in southern Italy, revealed that 25 of the girls died of asphyxiation in the water while the remaining one suffered a wound to her liver.

It was earlier reported that the girls between the ages of 14-18 may have been sexually abused and murdered as they attempted to cross the sea.

Italian security operatives had arrested an Egyptian and a Libyan in connection to the deaths of the 26 Nigerian females.

But the results have revealed that 2 of the deceased were pregnant and none of the girls suffered physical or sexual violence.

The bodies of some of the victims have been identified by their families; and funeral services would hold for the deceased on Friday, November 17, in Salerno where a day of mourning has been declared.

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A five year old boy, simply described as Chidera Takon has drowned while swimming in a river in Ikom, Cross River State central senatorial district.

The incident, according to DAILY POST investigations occurred in the morning of Wednesday at the Atimaka stream, a tributary that emptied into the Cross River in Ikom.

Chidera accompanied his mother to the river but walked some distance away from the mother, swimming. He was suddenly swept away.

An eye witness who gave her name simply as Bessy said that “the mother of the deceased, Helen Takon, an Ikom resident had gone to the river with her son when the incident occurred.”

She said the mother makes living by scooping and selling sand from the stream.

“When the boy sauntered off with his playmates, his mother did not know that he had gone a little away from her even as she was still scooping the sand.

“By the time she was alerted, the stream’s current had swept the child away. Frantic efforts made by sympathizers to rescue the boy yielded no positive effort as he was drowned before help could reach him”, the source said.

The mother of the deceased is a widow with two kids.

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Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:

1. Lawmaker representing Borno South Senatorial District, Senator Ali Ndume, resumed on Wednesday from his nearly 7 months suspension. Ndume, however, addressed journalists after plenary, recalling the incidents that happened while he was on suspension. His first point of order was, however, ignored by the senators.

2. The government of Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe was on Wednesday overthrown by the military. Consequently, the military said it was holding President Robert Mugabe and his family safe while targeting “criminals” supporting him. Different African countries including Nigeria and South Africa have responded to the development, calling for calm in the South African nation.

3. Former President, Goodluck Jonathan has challenged a former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mrs. Farida Waziri, to name the person who allegedly asked her to stop investigating while in office or further hold her peace.
Jonathan was responding to the claim by Waziri that the EFCC was stifled under the past administration.

4. No fewer than 18 persons were killed on Wednesday following a bomb blast at Muna garage area in Borno State. This happened when some suicide bomber attacked a mosque during magrib (sunset) prayer. Police in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital said those killed included four suicide bombers. It was gathered that twenty-nine others were injured.

5. The Comptroller-General of Immigration, Muhammad Babandede, has revoked the residence permits of the expatriates working in six companies, including Intels Nigeria Ltd owned by former Vice-President , Atiku Abubakar. The affected workers have been directed to leave the country on or before November 30, 2017, otherwise, they would be deported.

6. Veteran comedian, Moses Olaiya, popularly known as Baba Sala, is down with stroke and has pleaded with Nigerians to help him financially. He pleaded with well-meaning Nigerians for him to be able to take care of his health. He appealed that since he is still alive, it’s better to help him to keep his life.

7. The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, Wednesday, relaxed the orders it made directing the 19 commercial banks in the country to freeze all accounts without the Bank Verification Numbers, BVN. Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, while modifying part of the order that granted the Federal Government interim ownership of funds in all the non BVN-linked bank accounts, said it was important to revise the earlier orders in view of the fact that it had been posing some practical problems.

8. Awka, the Anambra State capital was Wednesday literally shut down for over six hours, following the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari. The president during the visit drummed support for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Saturday’s governorship poll, Dr Tony Nwoye. He said the State will benefit more from an APC governor.

9. Relatively, Emeka Ojukwu jnr, son of the founder of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, has dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC). Ojukwu jnr made his declaration on Wednesday in Awka, at the campaign of the APC candidate for the Anambra 2017 governorship election, Dr Tony Nwoye, which was attended by President Muhammadu Buhari.

10. The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, yesterday announced that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) which measure inflation rate declined to 15.91 per cent Year-on-Year, YoY in October, 2017. Inflation cartoon This is 0.07 per cent points lower than the 15.98 percent recorded in September 2017, making it the ninth consecutive decline in the Y-o-Y inflation since January this year.


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The Sokoto State government has confirmed three deaths, including two students, following a strange illness that occurred in two neighbouring houses at Mabera in the state.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a mechanic and father of five, one Malam Abdullahi Lawal, 58, died as a result of severe headache, convulsion and bleeding from the eye on Nov. 11.

NAN reports that two students, who were neighbours to the deceased, Bello Aminu, 15, and Nasiru Kamba, 14 also died after at Usmanu Danfodio University Teaching Hospital in Sokoto on Monday after exhibiting similar symptoms.

Addressing newsmen on Wednesday, the Deputy Director Public Health in the state Ministry of Health, Alhaji Abbas Aliyu, confirmed the three deaths noting that preliminary investigation conducted by some doctors, suspected malaria as the cause for the deaths.

Aliyu said a team of specialists were deployed to the area and people were sensitized to report any suspected case immediately to obtain samples for onward diagnosis.

He regretted that no sample was extracted from all the deaths as they were buried same day adding that at present, no such case had been reported again.

The director said government was determined to combat and address any form of outbreaks in the state.

He said similar incidents were recorded last year and affected victims were diagnosed with viral haemorrhage, fever which required high degree of treatment.

He acknowledged the receipt of cautionary information from the Federal Ministry of Health alerting the state on possible occurrence of some strange diseases.

NAN reports that Aminu was a student of a day secondary school while Kamba was an Almajiri student serving as a house help at Aminu’s family house.

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Suspected hoodlums on Tuesday hacked a middle-aged man, identified as Osasu Omoruyi, to death in Oredo Local Government of Edo State.

The deceased, was abducted by the armed men from a popular bar along Sakponba Road in Benin, the state capital.

It was gathered that Omoruyi was taken to Uwa Street, off First East Circular road where he was said to have been gruesomely killed.

It was also learnt that some policemen were later invited by sympathizers to remove the lifeless body, which was subsequently deposited in a morgue.

The Police Public Relations Officers in Edo, Moses Nkombe, confirmed the incident.

Nkome, who is also the Deputy Superintendent of Police said, “The police had begun a manhunt for the suspects.”

He, however, called on residents to assist the agency with useful information that could lead to the arrest of the perpetrators of the crime.

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A former President of the Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide, Udengs Eradiri, has identified those fueling the militant group, Niger Delta Militants in the oil rich region.

Eradiri revealed that some external forces were behind the activities of the militant group.

He made the revelation when he addressed reporters in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital on Tuesday, claiming that even the Federal Government was aware of the whole scheme.

He said that agitations in the region arose from long years of underdevelopment, neglect, lack of equity, insincerity, among other challenges.

He said to solve the agitations in the region, the government had to show more commitment and seriousness in addressing the causes of agitations.

Eradiri stated, “The government is not serious. All they want to do is blackmail some persons politically and dent people’s images. I am from this area and I know how it works. All I want is for everything here to be better.

“I believe and I know that all this Avengers’ stuff and threats are external. They are fuelled by external forces; people who just want to disrupt things are behind it. Their thinking is that money will come out it through negotiation. Even the government knows about it. It is all about destabilising things and stealing money from system.

”My advice to the youth is that they should continue to agitate. Yes, the only language that they understand is constant agitation. If they did not agitate, the Amnesty budget, you remember I was shouting, it was N20bn, from N56bn.‎”

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Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has given insight into the amount recovered by the agency in the last two years.

He spoke at a meeting with Dr. Nassar Abaalkhail, Head of International Collaboration, National Anti-Corruption Commission, Saudi Arabia.

The meeting was sequel to a paper delivered by Magu on Wednesday, November 8, 2017, at the ongoing 7th Session of Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption holding in Vienna, Austria.

In his presentation, Magu who was a panelist at the Implementation Review Group attended by over 100 delegates, detailed the Nigerian efforts in asset recovery, including the progress ​in​ cases related to Abacha loot, Malabu Oil, Diezani & Associates and the Arms procurement scandal.

He said the efforts cut across Switzerland, USA, UK, UAE, Jersey Island and Panama.

According to him, EFCC monetary recoveries from May 2015 to October 20, 2017 was in excess of N738.9 billion which is equivalent to over $2.9 billion.

“This does not include smaller currencies in other currencies like Durham and CRA”, he added.

“Within this year alone, the Commission recovered stolen assets running into several millions of US Dollars and billions in naira.

“This include the sum of $43 million recovered from Deziani Allison-Madueke, Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum and N2 billion spread in seven accounts within three Nigerian banks laundered from the Federal Capital Territory Police Command Salary Accounts”, he explained.

In his recommendations, Magu sought for improved coordination and cooperation among State parties in asset recovery through the consideration and adoption of measures that will remove traditional ‘barriers such as bank secrecy consistent with Article 46( and dual criminality Article 46(9) as well as simplify legal technicalities in the recovery and repatriation of stolen funds.

​He further sought for measures to reduce cost of recovery of assets for developing countries and ensure speedy return of all stolen assets to victim States in line with the current resolution sponsored by Nigeria.

​Magu also urged for sanction and prosecution of any financial institution that violates AML/CFT measures and the maintenance of a public register on beneficial ownership​.​

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Eleven people were Tuesday night shot dead by gunmen along Rim, Riyom Local Government Area of northern Plateau State.

According to the Police Public Relations Office of the Plateau State Police Command, Terna Tyopev, the victims were returning from a village market in Makera when they were attacked by the gunmen.

Tyopev added that police were on the trail of the attackers.

“Eleven people who were returning from a weekly village market of Makera were shot dead at about 7:30 p.m., four others are injured.”

“No arrest yet, but investigation are ongoing, and we shall definitely get to the roots of this,” the spokesperson said.

At the moment, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack and there were no immediate suspicions on the identity of the attackers.

Few days back, two persons were killed and two others injured in a fresh attack on Jol village in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State.

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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has refuted claims in some quarters that President Muhammadu Buhari was planning to gag the Nigerian media, especially the social media circle.

The minister said there was nothing of such, stressing that Nigeria media was acknowledged as one of the freest in the world.

Speaking at the 39th Session of the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation in Paris on Tuesday, Mohammed said that the freedom of the media had been further enhanced through the Freedom of Information Act, adding that government would continue to make efforts to further enable the media to serve the people better.

Contributing to a debate on the “UN Plan of Action on Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity’’, the minister said the “Nigerian Government does not engage in impunities against journalists and will never tolerate such.”

“This effort is intended not only to produce a robust and healthy media, but for the journalism profession to continue to thrive under a conducive environment.

“The right to Freedom of Information, commonly understood as the right to access information held by public offices, is now widely recognised in Nigeria as a fundamental human right.

“By this act, the Nigerian Government is doing its utmost best to ensure accountability, transparency and openness,’’ he said.

Few days ago, Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari as planning to censor social media in Nigeria


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Femi Fani-Kayode, former Minister of Aviation, on Tuesday lambasted the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo for saying the immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan withdrew the sum of N100bn and $289m two weeks to the 2015 presidential election.

The former Minister described the Vice President as a “pernicious liar and a sanctimonious, self-serving dwarf” for making such statement.

In a tweet via his official Twitter handle, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain dared the Vice President to “leave Jonathan alone” and clean up their mess.

“There is nothing worse than a pernicious liar and a sanctimonious, self-serving dwarf.

“Leave Jonathan alone and clean up ur filthy mess!,” he wrote.

Osinbajo had recently said the massive looting of the nation’s resources by the Jonathan’s administration is responsible for the economic crunch the country suffers from under the present administration.

He specifically said that seeks before the 2015 elections, the government of Goodluck Jonathan, ostensibly doled out N100billion and $295million in cash within two weeks.

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President Muhammadu Buhari is trying to do new things. He has announced payment of pensions for ex-Biafran police officers who were granted presidential pardon in 2000. This is very commendable, given the backdrop of his leadership. In fact, it sounded too good to be real and I had personally done some checks to ensure I wasn’t hooked to fake news when the copy came to my desk.

It was real! I tried to create an imagery to underscore the development. It was like defying all the psycho-motive variables and learning to be right-handed at 75. It was also forceful enough to question the fundamentals of nature and conclude that the snake can indeed transform both in skin and character. Folks who would not associate Buhari with any level of national broadmindedness would have been thoroughly disappointed. Buhari has become a born-again, even at 75. Truly, it is never too late to make paradise.
Payment of the pension reportedly commenced in Enugu on October 20 to 162 officers and 57 next-of-kins of deceased officers after due verification. I shall not exceed the given circumstances to invent a motive for this sudden love of Ndigbo by Buhari. Some people have said that the President who is facing increasing opposition to his re-election bid even within the APC has 2019 in mind. I sincerely do not know about that. If every kind gesture is selfishly motivated, the word ‘philanthropy’ will automatically lose its meaning and may have to be redefined.

And so, whether it has become expedient or not for President Buhari to act nicely at this point in time, I have decided to congratulate him on his newly acquired spirit of one Nigeria. Congratulations Mr. President! He could choose to be nasty, and as we all know, nothing would happen. When people do well and they are told so, they tend to do more. And so it is with Buhari. Earlier, on October 12, while meeting with political leaders from the Southeast, comprising governors, ministers, the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and Ohaneze leadership at the Aso Rock Villa, President Buhari had promised to complete the second Niger bridge, east-west road and the east-west coastal rail project before 2019.


I will modify that to mean before May 29, 2019, which is about 19 months away. On a different date and occasion but same venue, President Buhari had also told a delegation of Niger Delta leaders that the east-west road, which former President Goodluck Jonathan, a son of the Niger Delta (emphasis is mine) failed to deliver would be completed by him, Buhari, before 2019. These are very huge promises. What they effectively mean is that close to N2tr about the cost of the projects and about the budgets of all the 19 Northern States put together in 2016 will be graciously spent in the Southeast and Niger Delta before the next general election.

And nobody is shouting: Hosanna! Hosanna! Blessed is he that comes in the name of the savior of the Southeast and South-south! That is not all. The President at some other setting had told Ambassador Michael Zinner of Germany that: “We are studying the instruments of the Amnesty Programme inherited from previous administration with a view to carrying out commitments made that have not been delivered.”


What else are Nigerians or more specifically Southern Nigerians looking for in a statesman? At this juncture, kindly permit the cliché, people saying Buhari is only the President of Northern Nigeria on the basis of alleged lopsided composition of his government of which 81 of 100 key government appointments including the service chiefs are said to be Moslems from the North, should shut-up and remain so. Enough is enough! We cannot continue to hit at an old man who is struggling to learn new tricks, in spite of himself, to please others including even his enemies.

If still in doubt about the new Buhari, consider the follow-up to the earlier gesture of payment of pension to ex-Biafran police officers. The President became uncharacteristically law abiding and great respecter and believer of court processes. To the chagrin of critics, the federal government, which is the same thing as President Buhari, has agreed to pay, wait for it, a whooping N88b in these hard times as compensation to 493 identified civil war victims following a judgment of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) court.

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I don’t think you people understand what Buhari has done! He has just made 493 Igbo families or even individuals multi-millionaires with each carting home about N180 million. Actually, my father told me that an uncle of mine who was living in Abagana, in present day Anambra State, in the time of the civil war was tortured and killed in cold blood by federal troops allegedly led by Muhammadu Buhari who was then a lieutenant in the Nigerian Army. Nothing is intended; I am only trying to put that vital piece of information in the public space just in case something like a search for next of kin crops up. I am the next of kin. My father also added that we (the OGBODOs) are somehow connected to Nsukka in Enugu State.

Kindly note too that the Buhari who is now obeying court orders and accepting consent judgment like an obedient school boy is the same as the Buhari who had blatantly and serially flouted the orders of the same ECOWAS court and courts in Nigeria regarding bail for incarcerated former National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki. There is nothing God cannot do. We only need more prayers and fasting concerning other things like the nationalistic prosecution of the anti-corruption war and the will, even if it is half as strong as the will to deploy python dancers and smiling crocs, to tackle decisively the Fulani herdsmen and give farmers in the middle belt and elsewhere the peace of mind to produce food to feed the nation.

It is not all praises. There is yet an area where Buhari is lagging. Critics say as President, he has visited more cities in Europe, (especially in the United Kingdom, where he has spent almost equal number of days in London as he has spent in Aso Rock), America, Asia, the Middle East and even in Africa than he has visited cities in Nigeria. Except to Daura, many of his scheduled visits to locations within the country including Lagos and Port Harcourt had been cancelled in the last minute.

The good news, however, is that I have heard from the grapevine, not through any of his spokesmen anyway, that the President is working seriously to redress this copious deficit in his presidential operations. And that very soon, he will be afield and everywhere in Nigeria talking to stakeholders, including IPOB members and Niger Delta militants, to build a national consensus that will make the clamour for the restructuring of the country sound stupid.

It has taken time and energy to move Buhari to this point where he is seeing far beyond Daura and clearly too. I am not too sure if he has been successfully pushed to the point where he cannot return to old ways. This is exactly why we must not relent. The GOs and Imams must sustain the prayers and fasting to create a statesman out of Buhari. The man can simply refuse to move any further or more disturbingly, relapse into old ways, where, like a scorched snake, he will become more dangerous.

God will not allow that to happen. If anything, the mood is good for more miracles and something tells me that another batch of the kidnapped Chibok girls shall be secured from Boko Haram captivity in the weeks ahead. Somebody should shout a big amen to that!

We have all done well in getting Buhari to this glorious point. It remains to add that the prayer and fasting warriors should understand when to apply the brakes so that Buhari’s case is not over pleaded before God. I don’t think too many people would want him to unite Nigeria beyond 2019.


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Justice Raheem Siyanbola of the Osun State High Court has sentenced one Mr. Olaniyan Isaah to five years imprisonment for biting his neighbour’s ear.

Olaniyan was first arraigned before the court on October 10, 2016, on three count charge, which included attempted murder.

The prosecution counsel, Mr Bamidele Salawu said the offence was committed contrary to sections 320(1), 335, and 338(1) respectively, of the criminal Code, Cap 34, Vol 2 Law of osun State of Nigeria 2002.

He informed the court that on 27th of July, 2015, at No1 Bolaji Olufunmi Street, Ipetumodu, Osun State, the accused forced his way into a room occupied by one Mr. Alonge Emmanuel, who he assaulted with an iron rod, over an alleged illicit affair with his wife.

According to the prosecution counsel, the accused further pursued Emmanuel to a location where he bit-off his ear.

The victim thereafter lodged a report at Divisional Police headquarters Ipetumodu where he was informed to go for medical treatment first, because of the severity of the injuries sustained.

Justice Siyanbola in his judgement thereby sentenced the accused to five years imprisonment for grievous harm.

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The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye has predicted that Nigeria’s legal tender, Naira, will become a powerful currency in the world again.

This is even as he said that those responsible for the devaluation of the Naira in the past few years will be arrested.

Adeboye made the declaration, weekend, at the November Holy Ghost Service with the theme: “Victory Ahead” held in Shimawa community, Ogun State.

The cleric said: “I told you that when we were building the first auditorium, the one by the expressway, and it was time for roofing and the roofing was going to cost N17, 000. We had no money for the project.

“Naira was powerful those days and Naira will be powerful again in Jesus name.

“Mighty auditorium, 100×50 metres, and you want to roof it with N17, 000!

“The tide will turn in favour of the naira,” Adeboye declared.

He added: “For all those who are deliberately devaluing the Naira, as my God lives, they’ll be arrested.”

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Head, Humanitarian Assistance, Resettlement and Rehabilitation of the Presidential Committee on North-east Initiative (PCNI), Dr. Sidi Ali Mohammed, has attributed the increasing rate of HIV/AIDS in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in the North-east to rampant cases of rape.

Ali Mohammed spoke on the sidelines of a PCNI meeting in Abuja.

He, however, assured that the security sub-committee of PCNI is working round the clock to ensure more places that are liberated were getting the humanitarian assistance they need.

“The major challenge for us in the health sector especially in the north east is that of human resource for health. Don’t forget, at the beginning of the insurgency, the first people that were attacked are the teachers and the health care workers”, Thisday quoted him as saying.

“They were killed, and naturally they are the first set of people to run away from the communities. Even before the insurgency, the north east has the worst maternal mortality, not only in Nigeria but the world over.

“I also admitted the fact that our camp coordination and management for now is very weak and therefore those people who are in the camp now are taking advantage of the people. So we intend to get it right by developing a humanitarian response plan for 2018 and 2019.”

“In that document, we need to capture aptly, what we think we need to do, to be able to bring a stop or put a stop to this situation of rape cases we see and increase in the rate of HIV/AIDS, that we are also noticing.

“Now as we speak, we have a lot of people coming to us to say we want to renovate your primary care center, we want to put drugs. But the people, the health workers that will work in these facilities are not there. For example, if you need to achieve reduction in maternal mortality, the group of health care workers that you need are the mid-wives.

“I can tell you, using Adamawa for example, Adamawa will need about three thousand plus mid wives today as we speak to be able to get to the minimum number they have. But what do we see in their school of nursing. Their school of nursing can only graduate fifty students at a time, in a year.”

“if you divide that by three thousand plus, you are going to get thirty something years, it will take Adamawa state assuming their population is static. But dont forget, the population will continue to increase, because even the North is unfortunately has the highest fertility rate again in the world, one of the highest fertility rate in the world, about 4.5%.

“So we need to get those people into those facilities, if at all our women would stop dying because they want to bring a baby into this world. Pregnancy is a thing of joy and therefore no woman, I repeat; no woman should die because she wants to bring a baby into this world.”

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The Police in Enugu State have described as untrue rumour making the rounds that at least two persons lost their lives during today’s local government election in Enugu State.

Spokesman of the command, SP Ebere Amaraizu in a statement made available to journalists said nobody died in any part of the State during the election.

He said, “against the backdrop of the rumours making round that some persons were killed in Oji River Local Government Area of Enugu state today 4/11/17, the state command of the Nigeria Police Force wishes to make it categorically clear that there was no loss of lives in Oji River and throughout the entire state.

“We wish to state that there was an issue in which some electoral officials and materials were held hostage by some group of persons who had insisted that there will not be election in Oji River and its environs and those group of persons also threatened to burn down the local government secretariate should the election go on.

“The situation lasted until the arrival of the state commissioner of police, Danmallam Mohammed and his entourage who had been on visitations of polling stations and booths monitoring security situations.

“Following the group’s resistance, the issue was professionally handled as they were dispersed and consequently, normalcy returned and there was commencement of distributions of electoral materials to centres and wards within Oji River and its environs. No loss of life and injury was recorded.”

In a related development, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has commended the Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission (ENSIEC) for organizing peaceful Local Government Elections in Enugu State, in spite of some failed plots to undermine the exercise.

Speaking after monitoring the elections in the state, the National President of NANS, Comrade Chinonso Obasi, told journalists that they were pleased with the conduct of the elections, applauding Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for providing an enabling environment, which he said gave the electorate the opportunity to exercise their franchise.

NANS President explained that despite the complaints by the oppositions over the alleged late arrival of election materials, which they intervened by making suggestions to ENSIEC, their observations from the polling units visited showed that the exercise was successful, peaceful and in accordance with the commission’s guidelines.

He, had however, requested the ENSIEC to extend the voting time to accommodate willing voters, a suggestion which the electoral body complied with by extending the polls till 5pm.

“We are so glad for the peaceful conduct of this Local Government Elections in Enugu State and we thank the governor for this feat, at least the people are voting and the process is ongoing and we will continue our independent monitoring to enable us give a comprehensive report”, the NANS President said.

Also speaking, the state chairman of NANS, Comrade Chidi Ilogede, accused those he described as “opponents of the Peoples Democratic Party of being behind some of the challenges encountered during the exercise in a failed attempt to discredit the elections”, calling on the security agencies to investigate and fish out those behind the explosions.

The ENSIEC had organized Local Government elections across the 17 Local Government Areas and 260 electoral wards in the state to elect those who will be at the helm of the council areas as chairmen and councilors, and the results are being awaited.

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