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Channels TV has shared a video showing Charly Boy collapsing at the anti-Buhari protest that took place in Abuja earlier today. Some police officers fired tear gas canister and water cannon to disperse the protesting group who are demanding the immediate resignation or return of President Buhari who has been in the UK for 92 days.  Watch the video below

T he FCT Police command in the early hours of today 8th August, 2017 intervened and prevented breakdown of law and order, and disturbance of public peace in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja by dispersing some miscreants, hoodlums and other criminal elements that have infiltrated the protest being carried out by a group of concerned Nigerians under the auspices of Our-Mumu-Don-do Movement at Unity Fountain, Maitama, Abuja. 2. It will be recalled that “Our-Mumu-Don-do Movement” carried out their protest on Monday 7th August, 2017 at the same venue and were accorded necessary Police presence to safe guard public safety and public peace, and protect their rights to freedom of expression, rights to peaceful Assembly and Association, and right to freedom of movement as provided for in sections 39, 40, and 41 of the 1999 constitution as amended. 3. However, today 8th August, 2017 the same group assembled at the same venue but allowed miscreants, hoodlums and other unru...

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A cting President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has expressed surprise at the news report quoting Chief Ayo Adebanjo as saying he described those agitating for restructuring as political jobbers. In a statement released by his media aide, Laolu Akande today, Osinbajo said that at no time did he say that those asking for restructuring were political jobbers looking for appointments. The video, audio tapes and full text of his speech at the National Security summit organized last week by the Department of State Services, DSS are publicly available. The statement in part reads "While several newspapers and media outlets reported Prof. Osinbajo’s said speech last Wednesday, not one of the publications made such a blatantly inaccurate claim that he said those asking for restructuring were political jobbers. Besides, the debate on restructuring is an important one and the calls for restructuring cover a wide range of legitimate and constitutionally valid issues. Indeed all Nigeria...

T he Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has impounded 37 brand new exotic vehicles estimated at N1.3billion after bursting a smuggling ring. Addressing reporters at the Customs Training School in Lagos, Tuesday, the Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC) Col. Hamed Ali (Rtd) said the seizures were made by officers and men of the Federal Operation Unit (FOU) Zone ‘A’ Ikeja and the CGC Compliance Team in Lagos. The vehicles, according to the CG, include eight Lexus Jeep -LX570, 2017 model; 12 Land Cruiser Jeep-GXR, 2017 model and 17 Toyota Hilux of 2016, 2013, 2012, 2012, 2011 and 209 models respectively, Customs, Col. Ali said, also seized 12,081 bags of smuggled parboiled rice with a Duty Paid Value ( DPV) of over N149million. Findings revealed that some of the smugglers used the number plates on some of the new vehicles as a decoy to beat Customs’ checks. But unknown to them, Customs officials had been monitoring their movement for days before swooping on them. S...

T he National Assembly made amendments to the Bill that governs Local Government Activities In Nigeria. This Bill seeks to strengthen the administration of Local Government in Nigeria The new amendment will ensure Local Government councils go through a well conducted election that will be recognized and gets its entitlements as enshrined in the constitution. The Local Government Council tenure by the new amendment will last for a duration of 3 years from the swearing-in date. The Local Government elections will be conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission which will reduce discrepancies and ensure transparency. With the Passage of the #Nottooyoungtorunbill , the age requirement for the Local Government Council Election is 25years. The new amendment ensures the funds are properly channeled to the area of concerns with the State House of Assembly carrying out oversights. As amended, the LG autonomy will ensure dividends of democracy suc...

T he convoy of the National Chairman of APGA High Chief Dr Victor Ike Oye arrived the No 41b Libreville Close Wuse II National Secretariat of All Progressives Grand Alliance “APGA” National Secretariat Abuja at exactly 2pm on Monday 7/8/2017. On arrival, High Chief Oye was received by all the members of the National Working Committee of APGA led by the Deputy National Chairman South Chief Uchenna Okogbue & that of North along side the National Secretary of APGA H.E Labaran Maku & the National Youth Leader of APGA Anselem Chinedu Nebeife. Addressing news men at the party’s National Headquarters Abuja, High Chief Dr Victor Oye lampooned Martin Agbaso for breaking into the National Secretariat of the party illegally. In his words, Oye described Martin Agbaso thus “a broke criminal who has stolen the 19 million naira kept in the party’s safe for the processes involved in the forth coming guber election in Anambra State, he called on the Inspector General of Police to a...

N igeria Police Force, NPF, has revealed some of the steps it has taken to get the masterminds of the Anambra church attack living abroad arrested. The police said it had asked for the assistance of Interpol for the arrest of the South African-based masterminds of the killings. The decision was reached after preliminary investigations showed that the attack was caused by business disagreement between two drug lords living abroad. While Interpol would carry out the international aspect of the arrest, the NPF would see to the arrest of the local collaborators and perpetrators of the attack. The Anambra State Commissioner of Police had earlier told DAILYPOST that some of the suspects had been arrested. The INTERPOL I- 24 /7 system is located at the National Central Bureau at the Force headquarters, Abuja. Confirming that Interpol would be involved in the matter, the Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood, told Punch that the police had already sought ...

T he massacre of 12 people by gunmen on Sunday at St. Phillip’s Catholic Church, Ozubulu in Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State was the climax of a drugs-related gang war that started four years ago, INDEPENDENT learnt on Monday. According to an Uzubulu source, more than 30 sons of the community have died in South Africa as a result of the raging war. Professor Linus Amobi Ilika, former Commissioner of Health in Anambra State and pro-life activist, confirmed to INDEPENDENT that there had been frequent killings of indigenes of Ozubulu community living in South Africa and their corpses conveyed home for burial before the shooting of worshippers at St. Phillip’s Catholic Church, which he described as an abomination against the land. However, Ilika said there is no evidence that High Chief Aloysius Nnamdi Ikegwuonwu, who built the church where the lone gunman shot worshippers, was involved in drugs trade, describing him as a philanthropist. INDEPENDENT ha...

T he Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has said that the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, is sowing the seed of discord in the country. In a statement issued after its town hall meeting in Kano on Monday, CNG claimed that his recent orders that have grounded movement in the South East, have “foreclosed the avenues for an expected peaceful resolution” with regards to the quit notice issued by Arewa Youths to Igbos in the North. According to the statement, “his (Nnamdi Kanu) recent action of forcefully grounding movement of people including those from other regions by shutting down most South-East cities notwithstanding the mild and ineffective condemnation by some Igbo political, cultural and religious leaders has foreclosed the avenues for an expected early peaceful resolution. “It is further justification of our concern expressed in the Kaduna Declaration and subsequent correspondences with the Acting President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria an...

The high expectations of members of the Re­deemed Israel Commu­nity of Nazarene Association (RICON) on a possible ances­tral link between Igbo and Jews have been dashed. The international President of Jewish Voice Ministries, Rab­bi Jonathan Bernis, announced that the result of saliva samples taken in Nnewi had shown that the Igbo were not Jews. Members of the group had gathered at Uruagu-Nnewi to collect what would be the con­firmation/ Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) test result of Ndig­bo’s claims that Igbo are descent of Israel got to the venue as ear­ly as 9.00am on Saturday for a result that was to reshape the relationship of Igbo and Israel. Rabbi Bernis who read the report from a laboratory based in Houston, Texas, the United States of America (USA) said that the result of the samples taken from Nigeria random­ly on some people in Igbo­land bear no semblance with the ones in the data base of the laboratory. The Israeli in company of three of his compatriots s...