Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State served impeachment notice by the State House of Assembly

The governor of Ebonyi State, Martin Elechi was today served impeachment notice by the State House of Assembly.

The house accused the governor of huge financial misappropriation, undermining the integrity of the house and as such he is no longer fit to rule the state.

The motion to serve him the notice was moved by Hon. Odefa Obasi Odefa and was seconded by Hon. Valentine Okike.

Hehehe! Patience Jonathan - APC", We are not bus conductors that ask for Change"

Dame Patience Jonathan at the PDP women for change initiative Presidential  Rally in Delta Stat yesterday, mocked the APC slogan “”Change”; when she charged the women to vote for President Jonathan and not the APC who keep asking for change because the PDP members are not bus conductors who ask for change. 

 

She said, “The PDP is a party that talks less and does more, unlike the APC that tells new lies every week. When you catch them today, they will tell another lie tomorrow. We (PDP) do not tell you about change because we are not bus conductors that ask for change.  

Angelic face of school boy who turned into blood thirsty IS Jihadi John

with fellow school mates at St Mary Magdalene Church of England Primary school

 

Yesterday, the media revealed the face behind the masked Jihadi John as Mohammed Emwazi.  In this picture, all you see is a young boy smiling at the camera with his church school friends, there is nothing to link this middle-class schoolboy to the merciless terrorist butcher Jihadi John.

 

Kuwaiti-born Mohammed Emwazi arrive in Britain with his parents when he was six-years-old. He quickly embraced the western life, playing football in the affluent streets of West London while supporting Manchester United.

ISIS allegedly planning to radicalize Nigerian youths schooling abroad - FG

The Federal government, yesterday, alerted a plan by Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) to radicalize Nigerian youth, who were schooling abroad, calling on parents and guardians to monitor their wards closely.

 

The Coordinator of the National Information Centre (NIC), Mr Mike Omeri stated this while briefing newsmen on security situation in the country, in Abuja, said the call became imperative based on intelligent report at the government’s disposal.

Bizman brutalize by Air Force men, as Patience Jonathan visits Delta

The victim, Larry Otu

A Warri-based businessman, Mr. Larry Otu, has called for investigation and justice into the brutality allegedly meted out on him by men of the Nigerian Air Force at the Osubi Airstrip, Warri, where security was beefed up over Dame Patience Jonathan’s visit to Delta State, yesterday.  

Mr. Larry Otu Narrating his ordeal to Vanguard, Otu, Chief Executive Officer of LYM Consult, said he was at the airstrip to receive his technical partners from Canada when men from the Warri Air Force Unit stationed at the facility attacked him.

SYNAGOGUE: Structural defects not responsible for building collapse - Contractor

The contractor, who built the collapsed Synagogue Church of All Nations’ six-storey guest house, Mr. Akingbola Fatiregun, said during the coroner’s hearing yesterday that from his observation the building was brought down symmetrically as If it was guided.  He also said best practices were followed during the construction of the structure.

Fatiregun also added that though the foundation of the building was meant for a six-storey building, it was constructed in such a way that it could have conveniently supported four additional floors.

There is hope for baby without arms - Surgeon

An orthopaedic surgeon with the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Dr. Babajide Saheed, has said there is hope of artificial arms for the baby boy who was born without them at a private clinic in Ogun State.

It was reported on Thursday that one Mrs. Taiwo Sheriiffdeen, was delivered of a baby boy who had no arms.

But Saheed said depending on the severity of the condition, the baby might have to undergo surgery in a few months, when the artificial prosthetics would be given to him.

A Father's cry: Police should confess if they have killed my son!

 

The father of Aliu Oladeni, the 17-year-old teenager said to have been detained by the Igando Police Division for more than eight months, has pleaded with the police to tell him if they have killed his son so he could accept his fate.

 

Sixty-four-year-old Sunday Oladeni, on Thursday said he had become bankrupt because the police had continued to collect money from him with the promise of releasing his son, adding that he had also not stopped borrowing with the hope his son would return alive.

Robbers attack pastor, family on way from church

 

The long arms of law has caught up with three members of a robbery gang for allegedly attacking a cleric, Pastor Sylvester Anso, his wife and son while they were going back home from their church located on Amaku Segbor Street in the Ijanikin area of Lagos.

It was learnt that the suspects ─ Ibrahim Toheeb (20), Adam Morenkeji (18), Sodiq Ganiyu (20) ─ and others at large, descended on the family members while they were trying to cross to the other side of the road at Alaisa bus stop in the area.

Toheeb, it was learnt, had earlier been arrested sometime in November, 2014 for being a member of the Eiye confraternity before he was later released.  The incident occurred on Sunday, January 11, 2015 at about 5.30am.

Man in police net for selling son for N300,000

A middle-aged palm tree harvester, George Maduabuchi, from Owerrinta in the Isiala-Ngwa South Local Government Area of Abia State is in the police net for allegedly selling his 14-month-old son for N300,000.

The father of four was said to have connived with another suspect, Obinna Erondu, now at large, to perpetrate the act.

The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Joshak Habila, who paraded the suspect along with other suspected criminals on Thursday, said, “Luck ran out on Maduabuchi when the wife alerted the police on his questionable role when the baby fell ill and he took him out and did not return with him.”