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23/01/2024

In a bid to tackle the rising security challenge in the country, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered the posting of Assistant Commissioners of Police (ACPs) to head the Intelligence Department of the Force at Zonal and State Commands nationwide.

In a statement on Tuesday, the IGP said the development is to further upscale the intelligence department of the Police Force.

The posting, Politics Nigeria understands, is premised on the zeal of the IGP to improve and enhance the effectiveness of the Intelligence Department.

According to him, the department plays a crucial role in addressing the crime rate in the country, in line with his vision statement of the Police Force.

“IGP has, however, tasked the newly appointed Senior Officers to deploy all intelligence-based assets in combating crimes and criminality in their respective areas of responsibility,” the IGO said.

“He has further charged them to entrench professionalism and apply their wealth of experience in the course of discharging their duties towards strengthening the already existing intelligence architecture of the Force”.
According to the statement, the posting takes immediate effect.

23/01/2024

BREAKING: The Speaker of Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo, has reportedly been impeached from his position over alleged gross misconduct.

In his place, Hon Oludaisi Elemide has been appointed as the new speaker.

23/01/2024

BREAKING: EFCC will arraign the immediate-past governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, on Wednesday, January 24, before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, over alleged money laundering to the tune of N4BN.

The development comes over a week after the EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede vowed to review all abandoned high-profile cases, especially those involving former Governors and Ministers.

A source revealed, “We found that Obiano moved N4,008,573,350 from security votes into different accounts. The money at various times was changed into dollars and returned to Obiano by cash.”

EFCC’s lead counsel, Slyvanus Tahir, SAN, will lead eight other lawyers in the trial of the former governor
Some of the charges against Obiano include, “That you, Chief Willie Maduabuchi Obiano, whilst being the executive governor of Anambra State of Nigeria between March 2014 – March 2022, sometime between 7th February, 2018 to 18th February, 2019 in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, indirectly transferred through Mr Willie Nwokoye, your then principal private secretary, the sum of N156,800.00 only from the Anambra State Government Security Vote Account No: 5030050875 domiciled in Fidelity Bank Pic into the Fidelity Bank Ple Account No: 6060018819 belonging to C.I. Patty Ventures Nigeria Limited (an entity that had no business relationship with the Anambra State Government), which funds were dissipated for purposes unrelated / unconnected with the security affairs of Anambra State, which you reasonably ought to have known that such funds formed part of the proceeds of your unlawful act, to wit: (Stealing and Corruption) and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15 (2) (b) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended) in 2012 and punishable under Section 15 (3) of the same Act.

“That you, Chief Willie Maduabuchi Obiano, whilst being the executive governor of Anambra State of Nigeria between March 2014 — March 2022, sometime between 9th August, 2017 to 4th March, 2020 in Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, indirectly transferred through Mr Willie Nwokoye, your then principal private secretary, the sum of N261,268,585.00 only from the Anambra State Government Security Vote Account No: 5030050875 domiciled in Fidelity Bank Plc into the Fidelity Bank Plc Account No: 5600062873 belonging to Easy Diamond Integrated Link (an entity that had no business relationship with the Anambra State Government), which funds were dissipated for purposes unrelated / unconnected with the security affairs of Anambra State, which you reasonably ought to have known that such funds formed part of the proceeds of your unlawful act, to wit: (Stealing and Corruption) and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15 (2) (b) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended) in 2012 and punishable under Section 15 (3) of the same Act.”

23/01/2024

SAY NO TO INJUSTICE NO MATTER WHO IT IS DONE TO!
Nine Months In Illegal And Inhuman Detention For Being Igbo


Who would have believed that Frederick Nwajiagu the self-acclaimed Eze Ndigbo of Ajao Estate in Lagos State, who is being detained at the State Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Department, SCIID, Panti, Yaba, over threats to invite members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to help secure the property of Ndi Igbo living in Lagos is still in detention since 9 months ago?

What is wrong with the country called Nïgeria?

We were all here when Oba of Lagos threatened he would throw Ndi Igbo to the Lagoon should they refuse to vote for the candidate he is supporting. And no one arrested him or even questioned him.

We were here when MC Olomo threatened to beat up Ndi Igbo in Lagos and lots of Igbo people were brutalized. No one questioned MC Olomo.

But this man in his 60s has been in jail for 9 months over a mere comment.

Yes, I don't support any Eze Ndi Igbo anywhere nor his statement, but many people have made worse comments.

This man talked about protecting Igbo properties in Lagos, he never called for harm on anyone, but today he is in jail while those that threatened the lives of Igbo people are walking free.

Have you seen how these guys are treating Igbo people? Same thing they are doing to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and every Igbo out there. Ndi Igbo are treated like 3rd class citizens in Nigeria.

Nïgeria is an evil empire that has vowed that they will keep marginalizing ndi Igbo and treating them as slaves.

Every Igbo man and woman of good conscience should start campaigning for the release of this man.

How can they arrest him and dump him in jail just like that?

Why are we this cold? We must not forget that whatever goes around comes around.

Today it's Nwajiagu, tomorrow it may be you. Anyone who Cherishes injustice and evil should receive it in double portion.
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23/01/2024

Reactions trail Ebuka Obi’s controversial advice to his members on how to stop their wives from cheating

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23/01/2024

Respect

23/01/2024

Breaking: Mazi Nnamdi Kanu gives condition for dropping Biafra agitation

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23/01/2024

Dangote Petroleum Refinery are to be sold in naira and not in the United States dollar as speculated in some quarters, oil marketers clarified on Monday.

Dealers in the downstream oil sector also stated that the registration process for marketers at the refinery was still ongoing, as many operators had continued to register with the plant.

It was further gathered that officials of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority were meeting with the management of the refinery to perfect the pricing template for products produced by the facility.

23/01/2024

Actress Joke Silva reveals why celebrities leak their $3x videos

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22/01/2024

The chairman of Ikwerre Local Government Area in Rivers State, Samuel Nwanosike, has accused Governor Sim Fubara of orchestrating the incessant kidnappings in the Federal Capital Territory

Nwanosike said Mr Fubara’s alleged move was to discredit and force the immediate past governor of Rivers and current FCT Minister Nyesom Wike out of office.

“He is paying people to go and tell Abuja that Wike is playing politics in Rivers state that they are doing kidnapping in Abuja,”

“It means that Fubara is part of those supporting the kidnappings in Abuja because he wants Nyesom Wike to leave office. Nyesom Wike will not leave office. Foul!” Mr Nwanosike told his supporters, who responded with excited screams of “foul.”

22/01/2024

“Thank you but you missed something”– Tunde Ednut Tells Peter Obi Over His Birthday Message To Him

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22/01/2024

Speed Darlington Reveals How He Is Related To Theresa Onuora, Says She Is Not His Mother

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22/01/2024

Former General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1 Division of the Nigerian Army, Maj Gen Danjuma Ali-Keffi (rtd), weekend, called on President Bola Tinubu to probe the air crash that killed former Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Ibrahim Attahiru.
He alleged that the crash was linked to terror sponsors.

He lamented that no less a person than the chief of army staff and 11 senior officers died in a “suspicious” plane crash and the matter was swept under the carpet, as the full report of the crash investigation was not made known.

Ali-Keffi said Attahiru devised the strategy to end terrorism in the North, part of which was infiltration of terror groups and the instigation of crisis among terror leaders, which culminated in the elimination of Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, by a rival terror group, Islamic State for West African Province (ISWAP).

Part of the strategy was to also cut off the oxygen of terrorism, including funding and logistics, and to take down terror financiers, Ali-Keffi stated.

Attahiru and 11 senior military officers died in a plane crash in Kaduna, when the aircraft was preparing to land at the Kaduna International Airport. The crash also killed the crew members.

Ali-Keffi, who had been billed to receive the late army chief, as GOC 1 Division in Kaduna, pointed to the sudden change of time for Attahiru’s trip to Kaduna, the change of aircraft, change of airport of landing, from the military airstrip to the Kaduna International Airport, his landing in a turbulent, stormy weather, and the ear-shattering explosion that occurred before the crash.He also pointed to the fact that there was no crater or impact on the crash area, noting that the bodies of the passengers were flung out of the aircraft and burnt beyond recognition long before the aircraft came down, a strong indication that there was an “explosion”.

22/01/2024

Why Lagos state government banned the use and sales of take-away in the state

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22/01/2024

How I invented the slogan "No Gree For Anybody" - Yul Edochie

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21/01/2024

The Lagos State Government has announced a ban on single-use plastics and Styrofoam packs, popularly called 'takeaways', with "immediate effect."

21/01/2024

Alex Otti Demolishes Kidnappers' Tunnel in Lokpanta

"We will not surrender an inch of our territory to criminals". Those were the words of Governor Alex Otti during the launch of the Abia State Joint Security Taskforce (Operation Crush)

To walk the talk, Governor Otti ordered security agencies to ensure that all criminals, especially kidnappers making life hellish for the people of Umunneochi and other parts of the state were brought to justice and that their criminal infrastructure and architecture would be destroyed.

Following the massive onslaught carried out by men of Operation Crush against kidnappers and other criminal elements at Lokponta in Umunneochi LGA of the state, the criminals, I mean those who managed to survive, fled the area, leaving behind traces of atrocity.
One of such is the tunnel captured in the attached picture here.

Information from security agents has it that this tunnel served as the most effective but hidden channel through which they dropped off their victims after collecting ransome, that's if such a person was still alive.

The tunnel which was hidden is now visible because earth-moving equipment were deployed by the government to clear the place after the formidable criminal cartel succumbed to the superior fire power of the government-backed Operation Crush.

There have been exciting testimonies from the people of the area, especially those who returned home for Christmas which indicate that they celebrated their Christmas in peace.

While the people of Umunneochi are excited that their Governor stood up for them when they needed him most, the criminals who held them by the jugular have since gotten an unforgettable message from the Governor that the era of lips service is over, and that Abia cannot serve as an abode of comfort for criminals.

21/01/2024

Open letter to Mr Wole Soyinka❗

Men like you sir are the problem of the world. They look the other way when crime and injustice don't affect them directly, they insult anyone or group they don't agree with and expect everyone to respect them. Wole, you went as low as body shaming the wife of the most powerful man in Africa, the Nigerian First Lady, you called her sheppopotamus and you wonder why millennials and Gen Z don't respect you.

Professor, this is not the 1980s, wake up Wole, we are in the 21st century. You can't bully people you disagree with into silence or destroy their reputations by calling them unprintable names as you have always done on MS Media. You damaged the reputation of a president you don't like by calling him drunk, a terrorist etc. That strategy don cast thanks to Social media, no single man can control the narratives anymore.

A word of advice Mr Soyinka, when you call people names, it mirrors back at you. For instance, only a fascist will stop the announcement of an election result with a gun because he believed the election was rigged. Only a barbarian will think of forming a cult group. Only a Gbajue elder will insult and protest against President Jonathan and become meek and mute under Buhari and Tinubu when Nigerians are still suffering, government officials are still looting and insecurity and youth unemployment is at an all-time high.

Lastly Wole, respect is earned and it's also reciprocal. If you respect other people's opinions and speak with dignity without trying to sully anyone's reputation as you did to Sen Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, people will in turn respect you at least for your grey hair.

Until next time, have a self-introspection and mend your ways before it's too late.

Regards,
Ocular Priest 🎱

21/01/2024

*Podcaster Madame Joyce Shares Her Opinion About Some Married Men*

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21/01/2024

“Mama Try Dey Use Your @ Button While Cooking.” – X User Tells BBNaija Venita

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21/01/2024

Five Kidnapped Abuja Sisters Regain Freedom

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21/01/2024

Moses Bliss Narrates How He Met His Wife, Marie Wiseborn

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21/01/2024

A new book on former President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed how prominent pastors vigorously campaigned and prayed for him to lose the 2015 election and progressed from there to pray against him and his government after he won the poll and assumed office as Nigeria’s leader.

The book, written by Buhari’s former Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, chronicles the hordes of vicious rhetoric and hate campaigns which the men of God orchestrated against Buhari and his government right from the time he signified interest in contesting the election.

The book recalls how former President Goodluck Jonathan opened the floodgate of church mobilisation against Buhari by visiting and speaking in many churches ahead of the 2015 election so as to win against Buhari, thereby setting the tone for many pastors to use and attack Buhari.

“Before the 2015 presidential poll, the then President Jonathan went church-hopping. He visited most major congregations, secretly campaigning for votes and generating hatred for the APC candidate. In fact, there is one Pastor Emmanuel who recorded a widely circulated audio tape, describing the APC as a Muslim/Jihadist party, and its candidate a precursor of the anti-Christ. Horrendous!” the writer notes.

“Buhari still won the election, but a disgruntled army had been mobilised against him. Another mass of Armageddon. Prejudiced preachers and congregations with scant knowledge of the word of God. They just follow their leaders unquestioningly, not like the Bereans Christians as mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles in Chapter 17.

“A good number of preachers displayed blatant hostility against the Buhari government. Even when they went prophetic, and hit the crossbar, they still continued to parade themselves as somebody, instead of suiting in sackcloth and ashes.

“Bishop… had arrayed himself against Buhari before the election. Indeed, he was on tape as instructing members to kill any Fulani they saw near the church. Jesus sure wouldn’t say that, would He?

“There is a story, on good authority, of a meeting convened of top Christian leaders by Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye at the Redeemed Christian Church of God Campground, off Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. It was shortly before the 2015 presidential poll.

“A renowned pastor at the meeting told me that Pastor Adeboye asked the preachers if any of them had a word from God on the forthcoming election. Bishop O… was said to have stood up, and pontifically declared that God told him President Goodluck Jonathan would win. Another pastor was said to have indicated support for the then President Jonathan, as government was going to do bid rounds for oil blocs soon, and he needed one for works of the kingdom. Fine. The election held, and you know the rest of the story. The pro-Jonathan pastors never forgave Buhari and the APC.

“Many times, one of the most prominent pastors reportedly cursed President Buhari and his government. In fact, there was a time in the first term that he declared Buhari’s time as over, that God had rejected him.

“The President not only won re-election in 2019, he also completed his second term. So much was the top pastor’s antipathy toward Buhari, that he publicly identified with former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the PDP in the 2019 election. He forgot that Atiku was also Fulani, the breed he had asked his members to lynch, if they saw any near the church. Of course, Buhari trounced them all together.

“In June 2022, he declared the Buhari government as the most wicked and corrupt in the history of the country. Without any shred of evidence. In the process, he mixed up his facts. Months earlier, he had proclaimed seven days of fasting and prayers for the fall of Buhari, in which had been joined by two of his acolytes of Dunamis Church and Salvation Ministries. They failed because God was not in the enterprise.

“In August 2020 Bishop O had publicly rained curses on the president of his own country. He said judgment was closer than ever. None of malediction came to pass. In December 2018 Bishop O deeply embarrassed himself, when he said the Buhari that returned to the country after the health challenge of 2017 was a clone. He didn’t understand satire, and was gleefully reading a piece done by Dr. Olatunji Dare in The Nation Newspaper.

“He did not know that the piece was a caricature of those who had sold the story of Jubril of Sudan, as the man occupying A*o Rock Villa. In April 2018, he said God was angry with Buhari, and that his days were numbered. But the Almighty smiled at the man till he handed over power on May 29, 2023”.

Adesina, who is a member of the Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria, also recalls how he temporarily left the church when the Abuja Pastor of the church started using the pulpit to attempt to denigrate Buhari and his administration.

21/01/2024

Mercy Aigbe Reveals Why She Would Not Get Pregnant For Her Second Husband, Kazim Adeoti

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20/01/2024

DEAR MEN, sometimes I wonder where you draw your strength from. You stay months without buying clothes for yourself all because you want to put food on the table. You stay hungry so that your family can eat and survive.

Sometimes you leave home with no direction but still be able to come back home with money. I know how you have derived yourself basic education so that your kids can have it. Your parents look up to you for survival whether you have a job or not. You just have to provide.

You pay huge bride price to marry a woman you love and end up taking care of her family, her siblings and even your very own.
You have to fight tirelessly for your mother, wife and kids.

May God bless us with long life and courage to go through each day.👏🏾👏🏾 Amen.

20/01/2024

Unilever Nigeria stops production, sale of Omo, others

Unilever Nigeria Plc says it has stopped the production and sale of home care and skin cleansing products. This is coming about 10 months after it announced plans to exit both markets.

The company disclosed this in its unaudited interim financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2023, sent to the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) weekend.

In another statement, the company disclosed that it has appointed an interim Board Chairman for Unilever Nigeria Plc.

This was contained in a letter sent to the NGX and obtained by Vanguard by Mrs Afolasade Olowe, Senior Counsel and Company Secretary, Unilever Nigeria.

It stated: “Mr Michael Ikpoki has been appointed as interim chairman of the Board of Unilever Nigeria Plc, pending the appointment of the substantive chairman of the Board.

“Ikpoki replaces His Majesty, Nnaemeka A. Achebe, Obi of Onitsha, who retired from the Board effective 31st December 2023.”

20/01/2024

Cristiano Ronaldo Bags Multiple Awards At Globe Soccer Awards

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19/01/2024

Lagos Residents Hand Over Imam, Four Others Caught With Human Skull To Nigerian Police

Residents of Adamo area of Ikorodu, Lagos State have handed over a popular Chief Imam in the community identified only as Babalola and four of his men to the police after they were allegedly caught with a human skull and other parts of a human body.

A resident and eyewitness who confirmed this to SaharaReporters on Friday said that one of the Islamic clerics was caught with the human skull and he confessed that he was working for his principal, Imam Babalola.

The resident added that the suspects were detained by the anti-kidnapping and cultist Police Unit at Araro Adamo of Lagos State on Thursday.

“I have known the Imam for more than 5 years and this is a man the whole community is standing behind to pray, someone that most of us are looking up to,” the source told SaharaReporters.

“People caught off his men with the head and some human parts, he confessed that he was holding them for the Imam. This was when the people stormed the Imam house and arrested him together with four of his men,” the source added.

SaharaReporters had recently reported how the Ogun Police Command arrested a man, Kehinde Oladimeji, and his wife, Adejumoke Raji, over alleged possession of fresh human parts.

The suspects were arrested following a report lodged at Kemta Divisional Headquarters by one Chief Moshood Ogunwolu, the Baale of Leme community.

Ogunwolu had told the police that a certain Pastor Adisa Olarewaju, who is a co-tenant with the suspects, informed him that offensive odour was coming out of the suspects' room

19/01/2024

Cameron's Rigobert Song and Senegal's Aliou Cisse have a striking resemblance.

Both were former captains and are now coaches of their nations. Legends.

19/01/2024

Discontentment