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After the Police sealed the proposed venue of the PDP Convention in Port Harcourt this morning, Former Minister of Aviation, Femi-Fani-Kayode, reacted via Facebook, saying the imposition of Ali Modu Sheriff as National Chairman of the party, even though he warned them against it, was PDP's mistake, as the APC led government would not allow the convention to hold, especially since Sheriff is allegedly working for them.  Former Media aide to former president Jonathan, Doyin Okupe then reacted via his own page, stating that APC and President Buhari are not to be held responsible for the failed National Convention slated for today in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. Rather the blame should rest squarely on the failure of internal conflict resolution machinery of the PDP, the surprising naivety and desperation of many to seize power and control the party, and the gullibility of majority of the followership. FFK has now politely replied Doyin Okupe, insisting th...

Some of the 38 officers compulsorily retired by the Nigerian Army have sought redress, after they complained authorities breached Nigerian laws in laying them off. Apart from relying on the Paragraph 09.02(e) of the Harmonised Terms and Conditions of Service for Officers to petition President Muhammadu Buhari, affected officers, who feel arbitrarily forced out of service, have also approached the National Industrial Court to seek reinstatement. Multiple sources – including the affected officers, spokespersons of the Army and the Defence Minister – confirmed this to PREMIUM TIMES. According to documents seen by this newspaper, one of the affected officers, Abdulfatai Mohammed, petitioned the President on June 20, within the 30 days prescribed by the law. “I want to respectfully state that I was not in any way involved in any of the 2 issues stated as reasons for compulsory retirement of 38 officers of which I was among,” Mr. Mohammed, a retired Lieutenant Colonel, wr...

Ruggedman shared the photo above of woman whose cleavege was on display in a strapless wedding gown and slammed it as inappropriate for a wedding. His caption read,  "So her husband and family allowed this? Smh!! Shame on them all. Which church did she enter looking like this? Which Pastor allowed her stand in front of him like this?" When actress Cossy Ojiakor and musician Eldee intervened, asking him not to judge, he said this was an exception as it was supposed to be a day of holy matrimony. Does anyone agree with him?

Three Nigerian Muslim pilgrims from Kwara state have been arrested in Saudi Arabia for alleged possession of substance suspected to be cocaine. According to the Executive Secretary, Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, Fatima Abolore-Jimoh, the pilgrims were arrested in Madinnah by Saudi Arabia security operatives. She however did not disclose the names of the pilgrims. Abolore-Jimoh said they were still in the custody of Saudi Arabian authorities and that the country's law would certainly take its course.

Team Nigeria captain and Chelsea FC of England midfielder John Obi Mikel has revealed that Nigeria beating Brazil at Atlanta 1996 was what inspired him to become a professional footballer. And Mikel feels if the Under 23 team wins gold in Rio it'll inspire another generation of young footballers in Nigeria. “I remember a little . I remember that day I was sleeping , my father woke me up. I remember the goals,” Mikel told TV Globo. “This inspired me to take the game seriously and to be who I am today . I hope we can now win gold again to inspire young children in Nigeria.” Mikel, 29, has won the Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup, Champions League, Europa League and African Cup of Nations, but no Olympic gold. “It is something missing in my career. I never played the Olympics, this is my first . My goal here is to win the gold medal, it is what moves me. Coming here I spoke to the coach, we are all here walking in the same direction, me, him and the...

Former Media aide to former president Goodluck Jonathan, says that APC and President Buhari are not to be held responsible for the failed National Convention slated for today in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. He said this in a statement he released this afternoon. Read below The failed PDP convention cannot and should not be blamed on our political adversaries. Rather the blame should rest squarely on the failure of internal conflict resolution machinery of the Pdp, the surprising naivety and desperation of many to seize power and control the party, and the gullibility of majority of the followership, who have become entrenched in the cesspool of pervasive impunity of our leadership over the years. However it is commendable that the NEC threw sentiments aside and extended the tenure of the controversial caretaker commuter by one year and allowed for future expansion of the membership of the committee. The import of this is that the party has now officially jetti...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission today re - arrested the former  governor of Imo State Achike Udenwa in connection with alleged  campaign scandal at the last presidential election. Udenwa as a State Co-ordinator for The Presidential Campaign Organisation in Imo State was said to have collected the sum of N350,000,000 (Three Hundred and Fifty Million Naira Only) from the former senator representing Kaduna South and Director of Finance for the PDP presidential campaign organisation, Nenadi Usman. The suspect, in his statement to the Commission admitted receiving the money via Diamond Bank account No.0058805692 and 005950791 respectively on the 14th and 28th of January 2015 in three separate instalments. He added that the money came from a company named Joint Trust Dimension Limited. This same company was charged alongside Mrs Nenadi Usman and the Media Director of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani Kayode before Fe...

Niger Delta Avengers, on Wednesday, denied agreeing to enter into dialogue with the federal government for a possible ceasefire in the region. The militant group which has claimed responsibility for major attacks on oil facilities in the region in recent times also denied knowing the self-acclaimed spokesman for the Dialogue Group, Mr. Ballantyne Agiri. Agiri had in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja claimed that the group had agreed to enter dialogue with the FG. But the spokesman for the group, Mudoch Agbinibo, while replying to an enquiry by our correspondent, dismissed the idea saying there was no iota of truth in Agiri’s claim. It stressed that “we are not going into any peace or dialogue talk.” It added, “That report is not from us. We are not in any form of dialogue agreement with anybody. It’s like the Government wants to dialogue with themselves.” The group later went on to their twitter handle, operated by the spokes...

Controversial Nigerian Prophet, Johnson Suleiman of Omega Fire Ministries has said an imminent deadly explosion is set to ravage a town in Cameroon.  Suleiman, who is said to be known for making false prophesy, made the latest one during a televised church service on Sunday, August 14th, at his ministry's headquarters in Auchi, Edo State, adding that the explosion would lead to several deaths. "Cameroon, please pray. What I am seeing now…we have to pray for Cameroon so that the country will not cry…I see something exploding with so many people sitting around the place, I see something exploding…so many people will die. Please take note," Suleiman prophesied. He however, did not give details of the nature of the explosion such as town/city or date. Instead he urged his members and Cameroonian citizens to pray in order to avert the "impending tragedy" Cameroon has since 2013, been under threats of insurgency fro...

A woman, Deanna Carter publicly confronted and slammed a man for allegedly masturbating on a train, which then forced the man to get off at the next train stop. The woman launched the verbal attack on the man, publicly shaming him in front of other commuters after claiming she saw him rubbing his penis. The woman, who shared the video on Facebook and has gotten close to 2million views can be heard asking the man “what are you doing” several times at the start of the video before she launches into a rant. The man, who is sitting with a backpack on his lap, wearing a cap and sunglasses, sits motionless on the train, believed to be in New York, during the two-minute tirade. Carter yells: “What the f*** are you doing? “You want to do that freaky s*** you do it off the mother-f***ing train. “Do we understand each other?” The man then nods slightly, hoping Carter will stop yelling at him, but the loud lecture continues. Shouting loudly, ...

The corpses of two boys suspected to be twins who were reportedly left in the canal last week Friday, were recovered from the canal beside a filling station in the Ajangbadi area of Lagos by the State Police Command, and they have already begun investigation into the death of the two newborn babies. According to Punch Metro, a crowd of residents who were drawn to the scene, was reported to have started taking snapshots of the babies before the arrival of policemen from the Ilemba Hausa division who later called the attention of the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit that removed and deposited them in a mortuary. While wondering why the residents did not act immediately when they saw the babies, a police source said that the twins were dead by the time they arrived at the scene. “A resident alerted us to the scene. By the time we got there, the babies were already dead. There was a crowd of onlookers, some of them were taking snapshots. It ...

A 27-year-old pregnant woman suffered burns to 45 per cent of her body after she set herself aflame over herhusband’s alleged extra-marital affair. Cythia Njoki sustained injuries in her hands, abdomen, thighs and face after attempting to commits suicide in her house at Langalanga estate using Kerosene after her husband failed to explain where he spent the Saturday night, August 14. Ms Njoki said her husband, a mechanic, failed to return home that night and when he came on Sunday evening, he kept on calling a woman she suspected was having an affair with him. In anger, she went into their bedroom, poured kerosene on her body and set herself alight. “I had an issue with my husband after he failed to report home and on coming, he continued to call a woman he was having a relationship with. I was angry and burnt myself,” said Njoki who was in deep pain at Rift Valley Provincial Hospital. Nursing officer in charge of the ward, Jenipher Mathenge said the ...

The teenage cultists were apprehended and handed over to the police A local vigilante group has apprehended some teenage cultists with a locally-made gun, bullets and masks while on their way to rob a house near New GRA in Enugu state. They were caught by vigilantes in the area who were tipped off by a security man. The teenagers alleged that they were running away from cultists who were after their lives and used the gun for protection. They were handed over to the police.

Al Baldasaro, a New Hampshire state representative and member of Donald Trump's GOP veterans' coalition has repeated calls for US Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to be executed and says reporters misunderstood the type of harm he wishes her. According to Al, Clinton's use of private e-mail servers while she was secretary of state could be seen as treason, to which the punishment is death. In a radio show , Al Baldasaro, an army veteran said “This whole thing disgusts me. Hillary Clinton should be put in the firing line and shot for treason.”. But after the US Secret Service said they have started investigations into Al Baldasaro's comments, for his encouragement of violence, Baldasaro now claims that he is the victim. "The liberal media took what I said and went against the law and the Constitution and ran with it, and they said that I wanted her assassinated, which I never did,” Baldasaro told MassLive.com  on Tuesd...

THE People Democratic Party has extended the tenure of the Senator Ahmed Markarfi-led Caretaker Committee of the party by one year. Delegates of the party, who gathered at the Rivers State PDP Secretariat on Wednesday, took the decision as a result of the seal-off of the Sharks Stadium, Port Harcourt; venue of the party’s botched National Convention. The extension of the tenure of the Makarfi-led Caretaker Committee of the PDP also came on the heels of the suspension of the election of national officers of the party. Motion for the extension of Makarfi’s Caretaker Committee’s tenure was moved by the Deputy Senate President, Mr. Ike Ekweremadu. A member of the party and the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr. Leo Ogor, had earlier moved a motion for the suspension of the election of national officers of the party. The motion was, however, seconded by Yunusa Suleiman, who is the Chairman of the 36 State Chairmen of the PDP across the c...

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi-Fani-Kayode, shared this on Facebook in reaction to Police sealing the proposed venue of the PDP Convention in Port Harcourt this morning. Read below. "When I warned our people about Buhari and what he would do with power no-one listened. When I warned Pdp Nigeria and particularly our PDP governors about the dangers of making Ali Modu Sheriff National Chairman they would not listen. I also told them that the government would NOT allow the convention to hold because Sheriff is working for them. Now look at what they are doing in PH in collusion with some corrupt judges just to destabilise, destroy and silence the opposition. Governors put under house arrest. Convention venue sealed off. It is shameful. Let me make a another prediction: this is just the beginning of their tyranny. It will get far worse. That is "mai chanji" for you! The sooner the leaders of the PDP wake up, smell the coffee and appreciate the kind...

A source shared this interesting info and calls it CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele’s Report:  “It is either I do not understand economics and how exchange rates work or a vast majority of us Nigerians still don’t get how we have wrecked our country with our own curious choices. Just this morning, I was listening to the radio and the lady on air went on and on about how she thought CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele was incompetent and should be sacked because the Naira was now exchanging at 309 or so to the USD. That view pretty much echoes the sentiments expressed by many people I know and it amazes me that there are Nigerians who actually think there is some magic POLICY that can make the Naira strong in the near term. If my economics and my understanding of the way the world works are right, then that is as far from the truth. The simple fact of the matter is that apart from oil that accounts for over 90% of our revenues, we really don’t have much of an economy....