Deputy Governor of Niger State, Alhaji Ahmed Ibeto defects to APC with more than 200 supporters

Alhaji Ahmed Ibeto, Deputy Governor, Niger State today with over 200 political office holders and supporters defected to the All Progressive Congress from the PDP.

Announcing his defection to newsmen in Minna, Ibeto said, “I am on my way to welcome our party leader and presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, at Minna Airport for his campaign rally in Niger State.”

 

Do you find these adverts sponsored by Governor Ayo Fayose distasteful?

Governor Ayo Fayose is at it again!

 

If you have been out today, I am sure you would have seen several adverts placed on major Nigerian news prints by the governor of Ekiti Stte, Ayo Fayose.

 

The adverts placed on front pages of major news prints like Punch, The Guardian and others is titled ''Nigerians be warned" with a quote from the Deuteronomy 30 verse 19 which states, '' .....I have set before thee LIFE & DEATH. Therefore choose LIFE, that both thee and thy seed may live''.

 

The advert then featured pictures of dead former Heads of State  and Muhammadu Buhari's photo was placed as 4th with a question mark placed on his photograph.  Then the advert reads;

 

Check out Eddie Murphy and girlfriend Paige Butcher as they get their morning fix from Starbucks in LA

The Beverly Hill Cop star was seen at the Starbucks coffee shop in LA with girlfriend Paige Butcher for their early morning fix of Starbucks coffee.

The 53-year-old was positively percolating as he and Paige left the chain with their beverage while heading for their car. 

Eddie wore a burgundy and black Adidas tracksuit with black trainers.

 

Jennifer Lopez once again displays chiseld abs for the world to see!

Just check out those abs!  45-year-old with two children!  She is really a bad mama!  I wonder how many hours of hard work at the gym gives one a ''belly'' like that!  damn!

On Friday ''Jenny From the Block'' displayed an incredible fit figure in a pair of grey and black comfy suede slack and a long sleeve turtleneck crop top.

 

The mother-of-two accessorised her look with a black and gold wedge sneakers and oversized sunglasses.  He hair was held up in a high ponytail and she completed her style with diamond jewels.
 

 

Boko Haram kidnapped 80 people including 50 children from Cameroon

Suspected Boko Haram Islamist fighters have kidnapped around 80 people including children in a cross boarder attack on villages in Northern Cameroon.

 

This particular kidnapping is said to be the largest so far as neighbouring Chad deployed troops to support Cameroon forces in the area.

 

A senior army officer stated, ''According to initial information around 30 adults most of them herders and 50 young boys and girls aged 10-15 years were abducted''.

 

He said the early morning attack had targeted the village of Mabass and other villages along the porous border, while soldiers exchanged fire with the Islamist for almost two hours.

 

 

 

Cherif and Said Kouachi, brothers behind the Charlie Hebdo massacre buried in unmarked graves

Both brothers behind the Charlie Hebdo massacre have been buried in unmarked graves.

 

Cherif Kouachi was interred just before midnight in a cemetery in Gennevilliers, a suburb in North West Paris, a day after his older brother Said was discreetly buried in the northeastern city of Reims.

 

Cherif's family, including his widow, kept away from the funeral and the grave was left anonymous to avoid it becoming a 'pilgrimage site' for Islamists.

 

Cherif Kouachi

 

Said Kouachi

US built Ebola treament centres sit empty in Liberia

Several treatment centres built by the U.S. and meant to receive Ebola patients are said to be sitting empty or near empty in the West African country of Liberia according to reports.

 

The reports also stated that the worst of the deadly outbreak appeared to have passed before the first treatment  centres were even completed.  A Liberian government official said the centres were built too late.  ‘’ If they had been built when we needed them, they wouldn’t have been too much,’’ the official, Moses Massaquoi said.

 

On-going construction of the Ebola centres in Liberia

FG summons Indonesian Ambassador over the execution of two Nigerians for drug trafficking

A Nigerian, Daniel Enemuo, and four foreign nationals were on Sunday executed by Indonesian authorities for drug trafficking-related offences.

Another Nigerian, Mr. Solomon Chibuike Okafor, was also executed. He was however being classified as a citizen of Malawi because he was arrested using a Malawian passport bearing Namaona Denis.

An Indonesian national was also executed for the same offence after they had all been convicted between 2000 and 2011.  It however did not carry out any execution in 2014.

 

 

Daniel Enemuo

Shocking! Nollywood Actor Muna Obiekwe is dead!

Talented Nollywood actor, Muna Obiekwe is dead. The actor, whose demise hit the movie industry like a shock wave yesterday, was said to have died of kidney failure in an undisclosed hospital in Lagos.

 

According to a source close to the actor, Muna has been battling renal related ailment but has kept it secret for a long time before informing the president of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, Ibinabo Fiberesima who has since been in touch with him.

 

60-year-old bricklayer rapes 14-year-old Primary Six pupil

A 60-year-old bricklayer, Segun Benson, has been accused of raping a primary six pupil on Mommoh Street in the Agege area of Lagos State.  In the course of the rape, the victim’s private parts were said to have been damaged.

 

Benson, who has an aged mother, and has never been married is said to have turned down several attempts by his mother to get him a wife.

 

After he allegedly ravished the victim, he was said to have sent her out, despite the flow of blood from her private parts.

 

A teenage girl who eloped with her male lover gives her reasons

A runaway teenage girl, Taiwo Olakunle, who was believed to be hiding at a lover’s place, resurfaced last week Thursday at her family church on Taju Bello Street, Oke Aro Road in the Iju area of Lagos.

 

Olakunle, 18, had fled home since Wednesday, November 12, 2014.  Until her disappearance, she was staying with her guardians at Adeosin Street, Balogun Bus/stop, Iju.

 

Sources stated that Olakunle came back to her church area the following day after PUNCH featured her disappearance on their newspaper, and requested to see her grandmother, who also lived in the area.

 

Nigerian banks stops ATM card usage in USA, China and some other countries

Some Nigerian banks have decided to stop the usage of their electronic cards from working in the US, China and some few other countries.  This is as a result of rising cases of electronic frauds, especially Automated Teller Machine-related scams, which have made Deposit Money Banks to lose billions of naira in recent times.

 

It was gathered that the banks took the action following the huge amount they were spending in refunding customers who had lost money in payment cards related frauds.

 

 

“A number of banks decided to deactivate their payment cards from working in the USA, China and a few other countries that are still using magnetic stripe instead of the chip and PIN,” a top bank official familiar with the situation said on Sunday.

 

“The decision was caused by the rising cases of fraudsters using cloned Nigerian ATM cards to make shopping transactions malls in the USA and China,” he added.

 

Apart from fraudsters using cloned payment cards issued by Nigerian banks to buy goods abroad, it was gathered that some of the payment cards had also been used to withdraw money from ATMs in foreign countries, especially in the US.

 

“This scam has been on for a very long time but it has reduced drastically since some banks decided to deactivate their payment cards from working overseas. However, what we have done as a bank is to tell our customers to inform us whenever they are travelling overseas so that we can activate their payment cards to work overseas. Once they tell us, we will activate it,” the banker explained.

 

According to the Central Bank of Nigeria statistics, banks lost N40bn to electronic frauds in 2013 alone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gunshots Fired outside US Vice President Joe Biden's Home

A drive-by shooting occurred outside US Vice President Joe Biden’s home in Delaware on Saturday night, Jan. 17 according to security reports.

 

Luckily, the politician and his wife were not home at the time of the incident.

 

According to 'TMZ,' a car rolled by the house around 8:25 p.m., and someone inside the vehicle fired off several shots "hundreds of yards from the Secret Service's perimeter."

 

Mali declared Ebola Free

Mali's Health Minister, Ousmane Kone, has declared the West African nation free of Ebola on Sunday following a 42-day period without a new case of the deadly virus.

Mali recorded six deaths from Ebola, which, according to World Health Organization data, has killed more than 8,400 people in neighboring Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia in the worst epidemic of the viral hemorrhagic fever on record.

 

Nigerian Printers to visit China Printing Trade Fair in March

Exhibition and Trade Fair Limited, a leading Nigerian company with an expertise experience of more than 10 years in leading delegations to visit trade fairs worldwide will in March 2015 lead more than 70 Nigerian printers to the forth coming Printing South China Exhibition taking place in Guangzhou China from March 9-11, 2015.

 

According to the Managing Director of Exhibition and Trade Fair Limited, Printing South China 2015 will present the best in machineries, equipment, accessories, spare parts and services of approximately 900 exhibitors who will occupy a total exhibition space of 63,000sqm and will welcome more than 64,000 visitors.

 

''Mad'' rams attack grandmother and son in Ekiti State, detained by the police

A 65-year-old grandmother, Iya Oyo and her son were attacked by stray rams as they made their way to a bank in Okesa Area of Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital. 

The two rams, said to be owned by the manager of a filling station located in the area, were described by residents of the neighbourhood as notorious and troublesome.

Some of the residents, who didn’t want to be named, said the rams were known to be too notorious and always ready to attack people at sight.

 

Suicide bomber abandons vehicle at police check point after bomb refused to detonate

A suspected bomber yesterday, abandoned a bomb-laden pick-up vehicle at a police check point on the Gombe-Biu road.

The suspect fled to an unknown destination after a failed attempt to detonate the improvised explosive devices at the check point.

An eyewitness who was at the scene on Friday stated that the suspected bomber had concealed the devices with bags of maize, house utensils, beddings and other items.  He was said to be driving from Gombe to Dadin Kowa-Biu.

 

Police check point

Rihanna and other stars design own bags for Fendi

Rihanna and other star like Sarah Jessica Parker, Leandra Medine, Rachael Feinstein and Model Jourdan Dunn have designed bags for Fendi.

The designs will be unveiled during a cocktail party that will be hosted by Karl Lagarfeld, Silver Venturini Fendi at Fendi's new flagship store on New York's Madison Avenue on February 13, and will be on display for  a full one month.  During this period, the items can be purchased online from end of January.

Grand-mother, grand-daughter killed by drunk driver

The family of 60-year-old Olawunmi Omoyajowo are still reeling from the tragedy that befell them last Saturday when she was crushed alongside her pregnant daughter and granddaughter on their way back from a church vigil at Ikeja, Lagos.

 

The three of them were reportedly hit by a car driven by a group of drunk youths said to be coming from a club in the wee hours of Saturday. Omoyajowo’s 26-year-old pregnant daughter survived with a broken leg and other injuries.

Dead: Granddaughter and grandma, Omoyajowo

Ogun State Disaster - Man beheads wife, daughter, commits suicide

Tragedy struck on Wednesday at Onigbedu town in Ewekoro Local Government area of Ogun State when a 46-year-old farmer, Sunday Olubusayo, beheaded his wife, Oyewole and their three-year-old daughter, Esther, before committing suicide.

 

The police spokesman in the state, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi, said no one could tell the police what could have led Olubusayo to murder his family members and commit suicide.