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J imoh Moshood, spokesman of the Nigeria Police Force, led at least 30 armed policemen to Zankili Medical Center, Mabushi, Abuja, where Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west, is being treated. Melaye was admitted into the hospital after he attempted to escape from police custody. There was tension in the hospital as the policemen arrested two persons — a man and a woman — said to be members of staff for unknown offence. The policemen summoned the official of the hospital and demanded to know where Melaye was. It is not yet clear if they have located the place the senator is at the moment. Anyone seen walking around is asked to identify themselves by the fierce-looking policemen or risk getting g picked up. The road leading to the hospital is barricaded by the gun-wielding security operatives. Source: TheCable

S enator Dino Melaye Allegedly Jumped off a Police Vehicle in Abuja Conveying him to Court in Lokoja, Kogi state. He is currently at Area one district of Abuja making a scene according to sources. Senator Dino Melaye brought into Zankli hospital in the Mabushi district of Abuja. He was injured while allegedly jumping off a police vehicle around Area One that was conveying him to court in Lokoja, Kogi state. Source: TVC On twitter/ Sumner Shagari Sambo

T he World Bank, through the FADAMA III Additional Financing (AFII) Programme, will soon disburse N8.6 billion to 5,916 youth across the country in the Graduate Unemployment Youths Support Scheme (FADAMA GUYS). Kwaji Daguru, the Chairman of FADAMA GUYS Implementation Committee, disclosed this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Tuesday. Mr Daguru, who is also Procurement Specialist for FADAMA III (AFII) Programme, said that the programme targeted 5,916 youth in 23 states to improve the country’s agricultural production. The states are Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Ebonyi, Ekiti, Jigawa, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Niger, Ogun and Ondo States. Others include Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Sokoto, Taraba and Zamfara states as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). He said that the involvement of youth in the agricultural programme would contribute significantly to the country’s efforts to achieve food security and boo

S enator Dino Melaye, who was arrested Tuesday morning by operatives of the Nigeria Police drawn from its Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS,is at present being moved to Lokoja. The embattled senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District under the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, is expected to be paraded later this evening among other hardened criminals who implicated him in the crime that necessitated his arrest. Vanguard learnt that the senator who was taken into SARS detention facility, located opposite the old Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN junction along the Area 1 expressway, Abuja, was moved out around 12 noon today in police vehicle heavily manned by SARS operatives. The detention facility is where hardened criminals arrested for theft, murder, cultism and other criminal acts are kept. Vanguard source in the police said the parade of Melaye and other criminal suspects among them the re-arrested suspects who had escaped from prison cell, is to be c

N gozi Okonjo-Iweala, former minister of finance, says there was a plan to confine her to a wheel chair and force her out of office during the time she served under ex-President Goodluck Jonathan. She said some oil importers and marketers whom the federal government owed money were behind the plot. According to the world-renowned financial expert, a friend to one of her brothers attended a meeting where the discussion held. She said the friend advised her brother that security should be beefed up around her. Okonjo-Iweala revealed this in her book titled: ‘Fighting Corruption is Dangerous: The Story Behind the Headlines’. “My mother’s ordeal was not the end of frightening events that occurred in late 2012 and early 2013. A few months after my mother’s escape, I had just wrapped up a meeting late one afternoon when my cell phone rang. It was again my brother Onyeama,” Okonjo-Iweala wrote. “My first thought was that something else had gone wrong in the fa

P resident Muhammadu Buhari had earlier written to House of Representatives explaining the reason for his actions stating that he was expecting "anticipatory approval" for $496mn hence his decision Source:  Sumner Shagari Sambo

H ouse of Reps. is currently in a rowdy session over calls for impeachment of Pres. Muhd Buhari by Member Kingsley Chinda over illegal withdrawal of $462 million to pay for 12 Tucano jets without NASS approval. Source:  Sumner Shagari Sambo

B ig Brother Naija finalists arrived the country Monday night, with controversial first runner-up, Cynthia Nwadioha, popularly known as Cee-C, receiving a dummy cheque of N2m from her fans. “Team Cee-C”, as her fans called themselves, proved that they were, indeed, lovers of the ‘drama queen,’ and they remain loyal, no matter the odds. Cee-C had the second highest votes in the Big Brother Naija reality TV show, but she did not go home with any monetary reward. Unlike other finalists and some housemates, she did not win any of the sponsored tasks that could have earned her monetary gifts while she was in the house. However, to make sure that their favourite housemate did not go home empty handed, the fans declared her their ‘BBNaija 2018 Winner’ and rewarded her with a N2m cheque. They dotted on Cee-C amid jubilation, took photographs with her and handed her the sum which was rallied for her by her fans, before she met with her father. The five finalists o

T he alleged victim of sex-for-mark, Monica Osagie, is currently appearing before the committee raised by the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, to probe the allegations against Prof. Richard Akindele. The committee is sittng at the Pro-Chabellor’s Lodge on the campus but only Osagie and her lawyer were allowed into the venue which is manned by the OAU security personnel. Journalists and some members of the National Human Rights Commission were barred from attending the sitting. Read also: Sex-for-mark: Protest as panel denies victim legal representation The Vice Chancellor of the OAU, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede, confirmed to our correspondent on the telephone that the lady is appearing before the committee. The VC said, ” The lady is appearing before the committee. Members of the committee told me that the lady came and she is appearing before them.” The university had suspended Akindele following the recommendation of the committee in their interim rep

T he police have arrested Senator Dino Melaye ((APC, Kogi) after a 24-hour siege to his home in Abuja. Checks indicated that the embattled lawmaker has been taken to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad facility where he would be grilled for allegedly arming some thugs to disrupt Kogi State. The police had claimed that Melaye was being sought for not honouring the summons extended to him. Melaye had earlier said that he would make himself available to the police today. The senator representing Kogi West disclosed this via his Twitter handle some minutes ago, shortly before he was arrested and forcefully taken away by the police. “I will make myself available to the police today. My resolve to speak the truth and defend the poor masses of NIGERIA is Total. We shall overcome!!!,” he posted. The police had laid seige to his Shanga, Maitama, Abuja residence since Monday afternoon. They also barricaded the street and prevented visitors from entering the lawmaker’s