Appeal court confirms Nwoye as PDP guber candidate

The Court of Appeal, sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has upturned the Federal High Court ruling of September 17, 2013, which ordered the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to recognise Nicholas Ukachukwu, as the legitimate candidate for the November 16, 2013 governorship election in Anambra State.

PDP a lifeless body – Nyako

Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State on Thursday said the Peoples Democratic Party may be buried as a lifeless body because of the flagrant abuse of power by its national leadership.

2 die of exhaustion at Onitsha Bridge traffic gridlock

Two persons yesterday died on top of the Niger Bridge, Onitsha in Anambra State following a heavy traffic jam on the bridge.

The victims, a middle-aged man and a little child, allegedly died due to exhaustion arising from the long hours spent in their vehicles while trying to cross the Niger Bridge which passage has for some time now remained a nightmare to both transporters and their passengers.

‘ASUU distributing pamphlets abusing me in mosques’

The Federal Government yesterday advised the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to end its four-month old strike by rethinking its “take-it-or-leave-it approach to negotiation”.

Jang disagrees with Jonathan over national dialogue

Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang on Monday told the Senator Femi Okurounmun-led Presidential Advisory Committee on the Convocation of a National Conference to ensure that the outcome of the conference reflect the wishes of Nigerians.

ASUU protests hit Ile-Ife, Calabar, Osogbo, Ibadan

From seminar halls and boardrooms where talks seem to have collapsed, university teachers have moved their battle for better education to the streets.

But, the police are stopping them from holding rallies and marches to convince the public that their four-month old action is right.

INSECURITY: Army begins massive recruitment

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Azubuike Ihejirika, yesterday disclosed that the Nigerian Army has commenced massive recruitment of soldiers to fight the ongoing security challenges in the country. He said about 9,000 soldiers have been recruitment so far. 

Ngige attacks Obi on performance

 … Says 70 per cent work still undone

The All Progressives Congress, (APC) Governorship candidate in the November 16 governorship elections in Anambra State, Senator Chris Ngige has carpeted Governor Peter Obi on development since inception of his administration.

ANAMBRA ELECTION:Lagos stands still for APGA

All the major markets in Lagos yesterday closed shop to receive  the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) campaign train led by Governor Peter Obi and Chief Victor Umeh, who introduced the APGA candidates – Dr. Willie Obiano and his running mate, Dr. Nkem Okeke to them.

How syndicate lures patients to purchase kidneys illegally

A syndicate that specialises  in  organising the illegal sale and purchase of donor kidneys in India to patients of end-stage kidney diseases and end-stage renal failure, is currently operating in Nigeria.

The sale and purchase of human kidneys  is being carried out  in violation of the Indian Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994.

Boko Haram insurgents kill 20, injure 10 in Borno

MAIDUGURI— No fewer than 20 persons were killed yesterday, while 10 others were injured when gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram insurgency group launched an attack on Logomani village in Dikwa Local Government Area of Borno State.

Stella Odua to resign on Wednesday, to be quizzed by EFCC

Princess Odua

Barring any last minute changes or maneuverings Nigeria’s embattled aviation minister Princess Stella Odua will be attending her last (FEC) Federal executive council meeting this Wednesday as indications emerged that President Goodluck Jonathan has asked her to resign to save His Administration.

Governor Suntai goes fishing

RECUPERATING Governor Danbaba Suntai of Taraba State shook off officialdom yesterday.
He drove out of Government House Jalingo to go fishing.
The hunting ground was his fish pond located near the School of Nursing at Jalingo Bye-pass in the state capital.

Kano Pillars emerge champions of Nigeria Football League again

Kano Pillars on Sunday have been crowned champions of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) for the second season on the bounce.

Jonathan to sack Aviation Minister Stella Odua and recover the N255m

 Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has come under intense pressure from some powerful men to sack a “corrupt” and “reckless” Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah, over the N255m bulletproof car scandal. President Jonathan has met with his close associates and they have concluded that Stella Oduah is a baggage that is too heavy for Jonathan to carry.

N12.8 bn was left in Anambra treasury when I left as a Governor – Ngige

The Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Anambra gubernatorial election, Senator Chris Ngige, said Monday in Enugu that whereas he inherited a paltry N35000 in the coffers of the government as well as over N35 billion debt as governor in 2003, he was able to leave about N12.8 billion when he left office in 2006. Sen.

MADAM FLORENCE ENWEGBARA'S FINAL HOME CALL

OBSEQUIES

SERVICE OF SONGS

Thursday/Giovedi 1st August,2013

@The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG)

House of Victory, Vovara –Italy

C/so Della Vittoria NR. 109E, 28100 Novara.

Time/Ore 19.30

Tributes@ www.florenceenwegbara.com

 Friday 16th August, 2013

@Late I.I. Enwegbara’s Residence, Umuebike

Ubahuekwem, Ihiala (Anambra State)

Time: 6.00 PM

FUNERAL SERVICE

Saturday 17th August, 2013

@Late I.I. Enwegbara’s Compound, Umuebike

Ubahuekwem, Ihiala (Anambra State)

Time: 10.00 AM

Interment Follows

RECEPTION OF GUESTS

At No. 1 Lord’s, Vineyard Drive, Umuebike.

                       Tributes@ www.florenceenwegbara.com

NANS accuses Jonathan of complicity in Rivers crisis

The National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS) yesterday accused President Goodluck Jonathan of being the brain behind the Rivers State crisis.

It described Jonathan’s earlier denial of involvement in the crisis as false.

Five governors are patriots, says Babangida (THE NATION)

Five Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors yesterday took their save-democracy crusade to Minna, the Niger State capital.

They met with two former Heads of State Gen. Ibrahim Babangida and Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar.

Royal Baby: William, Kate welcome baby boy

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and husband Prince William on Monday welcomed their first child, a son.

The baby boy was born at 4:24 p.m., weighing 8 pounds, 6 ounces. A name has not yet been announced for the child, who is now third in line to the throne.

Dame Patience Jonathan’s mother dies in crash (PUNCH)

THERE was anxiety in Port Harcourt on Monday as news of the death of Mrs. Iwari-Oba, the mother of the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience,  spread in the Rivers State capital.

The mother of Mrs. Jonathan was said to have been involved in a ghastly motor accident along Elele Road in Rivers State.

Hawker, three others killed in Lagos building collapse

Four persons, including a 15-year-old hawker identified only as Sukurah, lost their lives on Sunday after a two-storey building under construction, collapsed in Surulere, Lagos State.

President running a ‘one-man show’ in PDP – Amaechi

Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi  has accused President Goodluck Jonathan of turning the Peoples Democratic Party into a “one-man show” and of condoning “impunity and authoritarianism” in an effort to ensure re-election in 2015.

Emenike scores first league goal

Returning from injury after months of lay off, the Nigerian international, Emmanuel Emenike Sunday  afternoon registered his first league goal in the Russian Premier League to announce his return to scoring form.

Nigerians knock Senate over ‘child marriage’ law (PUNCH)

Massive protests have continued to trail the Senate’s passage of a resolution to retain the provision of Section 29 (4) (b) of the 1999 Constitution. Under the section, a married underage girl is deemed to be an adult.

Prominent Nigerians and human right organisations took to the social media to protest what they described as legalisation of sexual abuse of underage girls.

I’ve learnt from my mistakes – Funke Akindele (PUNCH)

Popular Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele, has said she bears no grudge against her estranged husband, Almaroof Oloyede. She said also she has learnt from her mistakes in her crashed marriage to him.

Why we kept mum’s corpse in wardrobe for 10 years – Satguru Maharaj Ji devotees

The embalment of the remains of a 78-year-old Madam Lucy Osigwe by one of her children, Dr. Chimezie Osigwe, a devotee of the founder of One Love Family, Satguru Maharaj Ji, since 2003,  continues to generate  ripples. The incident has launched the serene town of Ejemekuru, Imo State into public discourse. The allegation against Dr. Osigwe,  currently in police detention, is that he used the remains of his mother for ritual and that two other members of the family had also been used.

I’ll make Nigerians know how honest Amaechi is –Wike

For Governor Chibuike Amaechi and his friend, Chief Nyesom Wike, the die is cast at last. It is time to bare all and go for the kill. As Wike, the Minister of State for Education spoke to Saturday Sun, he spared no word or effort in his vitriolic attack on his political ally who has been in a running battle with him in the past months over the soul and spirit of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State.

Tanker crushes father, mother, two kids to death in Edo

A family of four has been crushed to death by a tanker at Egba junction along the Benin-Auchi express road.

Witnesses said the family consisted of the father, mother and two children.

Boko haram burn 30 students alive in Potiskum boarding school in Saturday morning attack

Islamic extremists killed 29 students and an English teacher Mohammed Musa, who was shot in the chest.

Islamic militants attacked a boarding school in northeast Nigeria before dawn Saturday, killing 29 students and one teacher. Some of the pupils were burned alive in the latest school attack blamed on a radical terror group, survivors said.

PDP shuns Tambuwal’s visit to Edo

The Peoples Democratic Party leadership in Edo State, on Friday,

shunned the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, when he visited the state.

There was the conspicuous absence of  Edo PDP leadership at the Benin Airport to receive Nigeria’s No. 4 citizen, hours after a large crowd, including the Edo State Deputy Governor, Dr. Pius Odubu, had gathered at the airport, awaiting his arrival.

NGF crisis was planned –Aregbesola

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has said that the crisis in the Nigeria Governors’ Forum was orchestrated.

He said the scenario that played out after the NGF election was premeditated.

 He said, “Some people deliberately wanted to discredit a process that had been proven to be very organised, peaceful and without rancour.

Amaechi free to quit pdp –Presidency

The Presidency on Friday said Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, was free to resign from the Peoples Democratic Party, if he was no longer ready to respect President Goodluck Jonathan and the leadership of the party.

PDP, ACN fight dirty

 THE Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday fought dirty calling each other names.

While the ACN described the PDP as a ruling party with a failed presidency, the other described the ACN as a party peopled by deceitful hypocritical leaders who pretend to be democrats.

We Won’t Leave PDP – Tambuwal, Amaechi

The speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, yesterday dispelled growing rumours that he was on the verge of leaving the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for an opposition party.

Zenith leads 12 other Nigerian banks in world top 1000

Zenith Bank tops Nigerian banks in this year’s Top 1000 World Banks Ranking of The Banker Magazine of the Financial Times Group, London, United Kingdom. The 13 banks that made the ranking are Zenith Bank, First Bank, Guaranty Trust Bank, Access Bank, United Bank for Africa, Ecobank, Fidelity Bank, First City Monument Bank, Skye Bank, Diamond Bank, Stanbic IBTC, Union Bank and Standard Chartered Bank.

Police parade 11-yr old boy, 12 others for ritual murder, kidnapping

The Nigeria Police, Kogi State Command, has paraded 13 suspects for  various criminal activities in the state. Among them is one Mudi Ibrahim, who was nabbed while trying to enlist into the Army and Yahaya Isah, a serving councillor and an 11-year-old boy  in connection with the killing of a 17-year-old girl for rituals.

I am Following God’s Law With Death Sentence Oshiomhole Says

The governor of Edo State; Adams Oshiomhole has defended the signing of the death warrants on two armed robbers that were condemned to death in Edo state recently.
He warned citizens in the state that his administration will not fail to hand down the capital punishment to anyone found culpable.

Vatican Approves Sainthood For John Paul II, John XXIII

Pope Francis gave the go-ahead on Friday for John Paul II to be made saint and granted a rare exception for canonisation at the same time for John XXIII, who had the same reformist views and personal touch as the current pontiff.

Fake ‘Youth Corper’ To Serve In Prison

The fake NYSC member, Opeyemi Ajala

A suspected fake National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, member, Opeyemi Ajala, 34, has been remanded in prison custody after he was arrested by the police at Dolphin Division, Ikoyi, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, and charged to court.

Lagos State sets world record in tooth-brushing

Nigeria’s Lagos State has shattered the Guinness Book of World in tooth brushing previously set by India by getting 300,000 students from 600 public secondary schools in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria to brush their teeth simultaneously at different locations.

I’ll contest 2014 gov election, Bamidele dares Tinubu, ACN

The Chairman of House of Representatives Committee on Legislative Budget and Research, Mr. Opeyemi Bamidele, has said the endorsement of Governor Kayode Fayemi by the national leaders of the Action Congress of Nigeria can not stop him from pursuing his ambition in 2014.

Tinubu Endorses Fayemi For Second, Tell Bamidele To Shelve Ambition

The national leadership of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has endorsed the candidacy of Governor Kayode Fayemi for the 2014 governorship election in Ekiti State.

The ACN national leaders also told a House of Representatives member from the state, Mr. Opeyemi Bamidele, to shelve his purported governorship ambition and support Fayemi’s second term bid to consolidate on the achievements recorded so far by the ACN-led government in the state.

His Majesty, Obong of Calabar dethroned By Appeal Court

The Court of Appeal Court in Calabar, Cross River State yesterday nullified the appointment of Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi –Otu (V) as the Obong of Calabar and declared the stool vacant.

The appellate court also held that a former Minister of Finance, Chief Anthony Ani, who is also a contender to the throne, is not traditionally qualified and eligible to vote and be voted for as the Obong of Calabar.

Kogi councillor contracted us to cut off girlfriend’s head for rituals - Suspects

 •It’s not true - Councillor 

BARELY two months after he was declared winner of the recently conducted LG election in Kogi State as a councillor, Yahaya Isah allegedly asked three of his friends, Suleiman Yunusa (35) Isiaka Yunusa (23)  and Alifa Maha (17) to bring the head of his girlfriend, 17-year-old Igbere Ogbadu.

Doctors advise family to turn off Mandela’s life support machine

DOCTORS treating Nelson Mandela have advised his family to turn off his life support machine, since according to them, he is in a “permanent vegetative state.”

Also, a legal filing related to a family dispute over reburying the remains of Mandela’s three children indicated on Thursday that Mandela “is in a permanent vegetative state and is assisted in breathing by a life support machine.”

5 S/Court workers sacked over leaked judgment

CJN:Aloma Mukhtar

Justice Aloma Mukhtar

Justice Aloma Mukhtar

Justice Aloma Mukhtar

THE Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC) has dismissed five workers of the Supreme Court and a staffer of the Court of Appeal, Abuja division, for their involvement in the leakage of an undelivered judgment in the case of SC 179/2012 involving Senator Alphonsus Uba Igbeke and Lady Margery Okadigbo and three others.

Police arraign innocent man for murder

Shock pervaded the quiet atmosphere of the Ebute Meta Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, after an investigating police officer, Corporal Alagbe Olumide, admitted that he was forced to arraign a murder suspect, Ayodimeji Alegbeleye, for the crime he never committed.