Sunday, June 30, 2013

175 Prisoners Escape in Ondo Prison Break

The Medium Security Prison of The Nigeria Prisons Service located in Olokuta, along Ondo Road Akure, Ondo State Capital has been broken into leading to the escape of about 175 inmates.

According to the Controller of Prisons in Ondo State, Tunde Olayiwola the attackers arrived at about 12:05 armed with guns and explosives which they used to break the prison wall, which led to the escape of the inmates.

Former Super Eagles midfielder, Thompson Oliha is dead. A member of the 1994 African Nations Cup winning squad died Sunday morning. Until his death, Oliha was one of the coaches at the Kwara State Football Academy in Ilorin. Late Oliha was aged 44.

SENATOR Pius Ewherido is deadhe died of stroke, Sunday evening. Pius Ewherido a Nigerian politician, born on May 4, 1963 who was a member of the Delta State, Nigeria House of Representatives between May 1999 and May 2007.

PDP Calls For The Cancellation Of Oguta Re-Run Election

Voting at the Oguta state constituency rerun election has ended with a massive turn out of voters in the area who came out en masse to exercise their voting right.

The Joint Task Force in Yobe said on Saturday that it had smashed a Boko haram group in Fune, recovering two vehicles, arms, ammunition and other materials.

JTF spokesman, Lt. Lazarus Eli, said this in Damaturu while displaying the items to newsmen, News Agency of Nigeria reports.

THREE corps members were in the early hours of Saturday kidnapped by gunmen in Ogonokom Community Secondary School, Abua/Odua Local Government Area of Rivers State.

The corps members (two males and one female) were taken away by their abductors from the Corpers’ Lodge around 12am.

Northern governors, and other senior politicians in the region, may form a new political party.

A source who is part of the move to ensure that the region recaptures power in the 2015 general elections disclosed this to one of our correspondents in Abuja, on Friday.

Following threats of reprisals, Special Forces in Borno State have intensified their cordon-off and search operation in the last 72 hours leading to the arrest of 20 top leaders of Boko Haram.

The troops are also combing Maiduguri, Baga, Bama and Gwoza to fish out the insurgents.

But the Defence Headquarters has also put a control mechanism in place to check volunteers in Maiduguri trying to assist in trailing the insurgents.

•We’ve seen God at work, says Acting governor

Ailing Taraba State Governor, DanbabaSuntai, will today celebrate his 52nd birthday in the Sea View Hospital Rehabilitation Centre and Home, New York United States of America, where he is recuperating.

•Says: If they suffocate us in PDP and we need to move, we move.

Hours after embracing President Goodluck Jonathan at Port Harcourt Airport, Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi yesterday evening raised the stakes in the crisis rocking the state branch of the party by threatening to dump the ruling People’s Democratic Party(PDP).

BREAKING NEWS:Pres. Jonathan Embraces Gov. Amaechi in PortHarcourt

Amaechi met President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan at the Port Harcourt International airport today

Just a few days after Jonathan’s bodyguards prevented governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State from shaking hands with him at a presidential dinner;

The Deji of Akure kingdom, Oba Adebiyi Adesida, on Wednesday said the fact that he had been actively involved in the celebration of the traditional festivals of the town did not affect his faith as a Christian.

The embattled Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi might have found a new home with the members of the leading opposition party in Nigeria, the Action Congress of Nigeria, since his party, the Peoples’ democratic Party, PDP has tagged him a ‘bad boy’. It was earlier reported that the Rivers State governor paid a visit to the National leader of Action Congress of Nigeria, Asiwaju bola Ahmed Tinubu to commiserate with death of Tinubu’s mother, Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji.

Despite the protests against the visit of President Barrack Obama to South Africa by coalition of trade unions and civil society groups in the country, the proposed Town Hall Meeting with youths from African countries went ahead as scheduled.

A Vatican official already under investigation for money laundering was arrested after Italian police said they caught him and two other men plotting a scheme that would bring in €20m in cash into Italy from Switzerland on a jet.

Guardiola Will Strengthen Bayern Squad– Messi

Barcelona’s four-times World Player of the Year; Lionel Messi says about former Barcelona coach now Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola that with his presence the squad will be strengthened.

Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party from the North are set for a showdown with Vice-President Namadi Sambo over the sharing of two senior party offices allotted to the region.

The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has announced a newly adopted strategy that would ensure that any person caught using the mobile phone while driving, would no longer be fined but immediately taken to court and jailed.

Rivers state Governor and chairman of Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), Mr Rotimi Amaechi during a condolence visit to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in Lagos, on the death of his mother, Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji, on Friday said voters should guard their votes, if democracy must live on in Nigeria.

• Terrorists Sack Seven Hill Communities, Hide in Caves
• Shettima Urges Fleeing Elders To Return
MEN of the Borno Youths Vigilance Group (BYVG) Friday in Maiduguri, the state capital, arrested four suspected Boko Haram members, including sect’s operations commander said to be close to the sect’s leader, Sheikh Abubakar Shekau. They recovered arms and ammunition near the Sanda Kyarami Park.

(CNN) -- U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in South Africa on Friday for the second leg of a trip overshadowed by the deteriorating health of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela.

The Federal Government has thrown its weight behind Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State on Monday’s execution of four inmates.

THERE is anxiety in Ondo State with only 48 hours to the deadline for the delivery of judgment by the Appeal Court on the election petition on the last governorship race in the state.

• Sold for N400, 000 • Abductor dies after confession

Two years ago, the peace of the Winners Chapel, headed by Bishop David Oyedepo, was figuratively broken, when a two-year-old baby was stolen during Sunday service.

The Imo State House of Assembly re-run election slated for today between Chief Eugene Dibiagwu, the candidate of the main opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Mr. Walter Uzonwanne of the ruling All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), is seen as battle of supremacy between the two parties fully mobilised to out do each other.

The plan by the Chairman, of the PDP Governors Forum, Mr. Godswill Akpabio, to reconcile Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State with the leadership of the party appears doomed.

The Presidency is said not to be favourably disposed to any such reconciliation and has thus not given Akpabio the green light to proceed with the plan.

Former Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Professor Tam David-West, has attributed lack of focus and strong will to the crises facing President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Friday said controversial Nigerian actress, Tonto Dikeh, risks a minimum of 15 years in jail for encouraging the consumption of hemp.

Dikeh had on Friday posted photographs of a wrap of hemp and grains of the weed formed into the letters, ‘Happy birthday POKO.’

Capital Oil Boss, Uba Joins Labour Party

Capital Oil boss, Patrick Ifeanyi Uba, who declared for the 2014 Anambra governorship race in February this year joined the Labour Party in his state today.

About 15 suspected members of the Boko Haram sect have been arrested in Lagos by security agents. They were arrested at various parts of the metropolis, with most of them arrested at Ijora Badia and Kotankowa areas, it was gathered.

The Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu, has given reason for stopping the people who were coming to pay solidarity visit to the state Governor, Chibuike Amaechi, on Tuesday.

The Senate, yesterday, launched an investigation into the alleged mismanagement of over $27million accruing from the sale of federal government properties by the officials of the Nigerian Embassy in the United States of America.

The police in Lagos State have commenced investigations into the kidnap of a 43-year-old trader, Mrs. Christiana Gbadamosi.

P.Metro learnt that the victim was kidnapped on her way to her shop in Ikorodu area of the state.

According to police sources, the victim, who has four children, was kidnapped on Saturday.

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 59-year-old man for allegedly raping an eight-year-old girl in Ketu area of the state.

According to the police, the suspect, identified as Soneye, raped the victim at his home located at Badejoko Street, Ikosi, Ketu.

Convalescing governor of Taraba State, Mr. Danbaba Suntai is a living miracle and should be able to resume his duties very soon, Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State declared yesterday. Governor Suswam also confirmed that Suntai spoke with Vice-President Namadi Sambo on Tuesday in his presence. Suswam visited Suntai in New York, United States where he is recuperating following last October’s air crash of a private plane that he was piloting.

The scale of the massive destruction carried out by Boko Haram in Yobe State was laid bare yesterday.

The government said it had spent over N4billion battling the insurgents. Yobe, Borno and Adamawa are under a state of emergency declared by President Goodluck Jonathan last month.

Thirty-One people were killed yesterday when suspected Fulani gunmen attacked Bolgan, Karkashi and Magama villages in Langtang South Local Government Area of Plateau State.
The suspected Fulani gunmen allegedly invaded the villages in the early hours of yesterday, setting several homes ablaze.

The baby delivered in the toilet of Moremi Hostel by a 400-level student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Oyinlola Rotimi, has been named Nifemi, Okikiola.

Rotimi, who gave birth last Tuesday, was initially accused of attempting to flush her baby boy down the septic tank.

•The suspects, Olusola and Olatunji

Two patent medicine sellers accused of buying blood from students in Agege area of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, have been arrested by the police at Elere Station.

The suspects, Olusola Opeyemi, 23 and Adeagbo Olatunji, 35, were accused of collecting blood from students of Oyewole High School, Agege.

GOVERNOR Kashim Shettima shocked everybody present at the inauguration of a 10-man committee on drug abuse at the council chambers of the Borno State Government House on Thursday, when he declared that some of his cabinet members were drug addicts and asked one of his commissioners if he knew them when he (commissioner) burst into laughter.

THE Federal Government, on Thursday, gave Dana Air six months ultimatum to pay the claims of the families of the victims of the June 3, 2012 plane crash or face sanctions.

Minister of Aviation, Mrs Stella Oduah, gave the ultimatum at the 2013 ministerial platform in Abuja.

She said the airline had paid up to 60 per cent of the claims to the families, but experienced a delay due to double claims that needed to be clarified.

Etisalat forgo Saka; offers D’banj N250m Deal to Port To Etisalat

Another indication that D’banj, the Kokomaster, is the king of Nigeria’s new generation musicians has again emerged as the Oliver Twist hit maker just hit a mouth watering deal with leading telecommunications firm, Etisalat as a “super” brand ambassador.

A former Ogun State Governor, Gbenga Daniel, has been suspended by his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over alleged anti-party activities.

Mr. Daniel’s sack emanated from his ward 12, Sagamu Local Government of Ogun East Senatorial District. Twelve other persons were sacked for the same offence.

President Goodluck Jonathan has written to congratulate Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State as he celebrates his 50th birthday tomorrow, June 28, 2013.

US President Barack Obama and his Senegalese host, President Macky Sall, expressed sharply divergent opinions over same sex marriages, whose legality the US Supreme Court cleared in a landmark ruling this week.

A total of 22.5 million euro has been recovered by the Federal Government from the confiscation on money laundered by General Sani Abacha.

Speaking at the ministerial platform in Abuja, the Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke said a total of 175 million euro was also recovered from the family of the late head of state following a confiscation order by the Supreme Court of Liechtenstein.

Armed robbers who wrote residents of New Oko Oba last Friday telling them to prepare for their visit carried out their threat five days later when they struck early on Wednesday morning 26 June, 2013, at Church Street, off Olaniyi Street, New Oko-Oba Lagos state, southwest Nigeria.

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A total of 22.5 million euro has been recovered by the Federal Government from the confiscation on money laundered by General Sani Abacha.