Plateau: Niger Delta Militants Blow Hot, Reveal What’ll Happen In 21 Days

A coalition of Niger Delta militants, yesterday, gave the Federal Government a 21-day notice to end killings in the country.

The group lamented the recent killing by herdsmen in Plateau State.

The militants, who met at Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State during the weekend, also tasked the Federal Government on protection of lives and property of Nigerians.

The militants warned the Federal Government that there’ll be doom if it failed to forestall anarchy and further bloodshed.

They declared a

Monkey pox: Delta State commissioner for health visits suspected victims

Delta state residents have been urged not to panic with respect to the report on the suspected cases of monkeypox in the state.

The honourable commissioner for Health Delta State, Dr. Nicholas Azinge, said this yesterday, during his visit to patients who had symptoms similar to the virus at the Federal Medical Centre, Asaba, and Owa-Alero in Ika North East LGA.

Aisha Buhari calls for the enforcement of rape laws in Nigeria

Wife of President Buhari, Aisha Buhari has called for the enforcement of rape laws in Nigeria. Mrs Buhari made the call at a meeting she had with Ministry of Women Affairs, UNICEF and National Population Commission, led by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Dr Ezekiel Oyemomi at the state house Abuja yesterday September 14th.

T.B Joshua Reportedly Purchases $60 Million Private Jet

According to Sahara Reporters, Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) pastor, T.B. Joshua, reportedly purchased a ‘nearly brand-new’ Gulfstream G550 aircraft in April 2015, a few months after the church’s building collapse that killed over 100 people.

The report further states:

Obasanjo made Jonathan President to rubbish me – Alamieyeseigha

Alamieyeseigha says former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, picked Jonathan, his former deputy as Vice President to late President Umaru Yar’Adua, in an attempt to embarrass him.
He revealed to Sun Newspapers, that the move was part of Obasanjo’s grand plan to kill the ambition of Atiku Abubakar, to succeed him in 2007.
He said: “For Goodluck, I knew that Jonathan was going to be vice president of Nigeria as far back as August 25, 2005.  Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, told me that since Atiku and I wanted to take his job, that it would be over his dead body; and that unless he died, Atiku cannot be president of Nigeria.
“Obasanjo said since Atiku had picked me as his running mate, he would make sure that

Electricity Tariff Hike Set For October – FG

Despite resistance from Nigerians, the Federal Government, yesterday, insisted that the proposed increase in electricity tariffs would commence from October.
Speaking at the Powering Africa Nigeria conference in Abuja, Mr. Godknows Igali, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Power, further stated that Federal Government is committed to

US resumes crude oil imports from Nigeria

A few cargoes are said to be heading to US refineries from Nigeria, trading sources said at the weekend.
Two Nigerian grades, including at least two cargoes of flagship crude Qua Iboe as well as Bonga, were said to be heading to US east coast refineries as well potentially down to the US Gulf Coast, traders said.
“It is bits and pieces, not massive flows,” one crude trader told US-based energy publication, Platts.
Exports of Nigeria’s major crude grade, began declining rapidly from July 2014 to zero level by the end of last year following increased shale oil production by the US.
India and Europe have emerged as the largest markets for Nigerian crude, while the OPEC member still struggles to dispose of its oil to the US leading to a growing overhang of unsold Nigerian cargoes but there seems to be changing fortunes for the country’s

Photos: 2 armed robbers arrested after attacking a bank customer in Benue

 

 These two robbers were arrested yesterday afternoon at about 1pm after they and three of their other robbery gang members snatched a bag containing N2 million from a bank customer who just stepped out of a bank at the North Bank area of Makurdi, the state capital. Residents of the area and some motorcycle riders immediately alerted police officers stationed at Balcony Parks and Gardens junction. After a 30 minutes gun battle, two of the robbers were arrested while three of them escaped.

President Jonathan Launches Online Recruitment And Entrepreneurial Portal

President Goodluck Jonathan has  launched a recruitment initiative "The Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy" (YES) to run side by side with the SURE-P program.. The portal - Nigeria Youth Entrepreneurship Network (NYENET.COM)‎ - is a government’s collaboration with the the entrepreneurial portal called Empower Nigeria.

The launch was held at the Banquet Hall,  Presidential Villa. The GEJ initiative is a public-private platform and is designed to accelerate the already fast-moving train of young entrepreneurs by  creating 1.4 million additional jobs in the country..

Bomb Blast Rocks Gombe Park

A bomb blast has reportedly occured at the Central Park in Cross, Gombe State. The incident occured around 9:30am today, October 31, 2014.
An official of the State Security Service (SSS) reportedly said:
“They left the bomb inside one of the vehicles at the park,” “The blast went off at about 9:30am.
Up till now we don’t know the number of people, but it’s a very busy park so many people will have died in such a bomb blast.”
An employee of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) is also said to have confirmed the incident to The Cable saying that 30 casualties had so far been recorded.
Rescue operations are currently ongoing at the site of the explosion.

Disease Cases Reducing In Liberia - WHO

WHO Assistant Director General, Bruce Aylward stated on Wednesday, October 29, that the spread of the disease may be slowing down in Liberia

It seems that there might finally be good news as regards the fight against Ebola in Liberia as the World Health Organization has said that there has been a decline in the number of cases.

WHO Assistant Director General, Bruce Aylward stated on Wednesday, October 29, that the spread of the disease may be slowing down after a reduction in the number of burials and a plateau in laboratory-confirmed cases was noticed, Reuters reports.

He said:

STUPID: US Company Makes Ebola T-Shirt Mocking Nigeria

Ebola is ravaging across West Africa leaving destruction and death in its wake but one American company thinks the disease is a ‘hip new craze’ and has decided to profit from it by selling a “Nigerian Ebola souvenir tee.”

The offending T-Shirt carries an inscription that reads:

"I went to Nigeria, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt and Ebola."

It was designed By MentalPoo of Salem, New Hampshire and is being sold by Zazzle Apparel for $25.95(N4289.53).

The product description reads:

Nigeria and Boko Haram Reach Ceasefire Agreement

The Nigeria Government on Friday (today) reached a ceasefire agreement with Boko Haram in Saudi Arabia. According to BBC Africam the ceasefire agreement will also see Boko Haram set free Chibok Girls.

More details later

BREAKING : Another Fire Outbreak in Unilag

A shop in the premises of the famous Unilag Yem Yem shopping complex is currently on fire. According to some sources,though it can’t be currently verified as at the time of filing this report, the fire started from a dustbin close to the shop.
Interestingly some boys who went to help put out the fire, could be seen vandalizing Yem Yem supermarket and going away with sweets, chocolates e.t.c.
This is the second fire incident this week, with the first taking place at the popular Madam Tinubu Hall, and there was delayed response by the fire service as only one truck could be seen.
More concrete and verified information will be given as events unfold.

A Youth Corper by name Abayomi Isaac Oyebukola is being accused of absconding with about N2.3m  given to him to share among 144 corp members in Osun State.

According to sources who sent the info,he is a Batch ‘C’ corp member,serving in Iwo Local govt.Area of Osun state.His NYSC code no is Os/13c/1402.He is the corper liason officer(CLO) as chosen by the NYSC local government inspector(LGI).Abayomi is a graduate of the department of English from the prestigious University of Ibadan.
He has since been ‘at large’ with $14,400 given to him on the 9th of August 2014 by political parties participating in the Osun state gubernatorial election as a largesse to the 144 corp members of the local government that participated in the election.i.e $100 per person.

Aliko Dangote sues Zambian Labour minister over bribe claim

Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote’s company in Zambia, Dangote Industries Zambia is suing the country’s Labour Minister, Fackson Shamenda, for defamation.
According to AFP, the company initiated the lawsuit after the mr Shamenda claimed that a senior company official of Dangote Industries tried to bribe him.
The company is now seeking unspecified damages for slander and libel as well as special damages in the sum of 112,042.84 kwacha ($17,728), according to documents filed in the High Court.
On September 15th, a local newspaper, Namibian Post, carried a story with the headline “Dangote offers Shamenda a bribe” where the labour minister claimed that a Nigerian human resources manager from the company offered him a bribe which he rejected.

T. B Joshua To Be Arraigned In Court Over Church Building Collapse

Prophet TB Joshua will be arraigned before a court in Lagos next week over the collapse of a six-storey building in his church at Ikotun, Lagos state Western Nigeria.
Prophet T.B Joshua, The founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), made news headlines after the collapsed building in the church premises claimed over 90 lifes while over 100 were rescued from the debris, most of whom were South Africans. Following the incident, the Lagos State government set up a judicial panel to look into the cause of the collapse building. The panel is scheduled to start sitting on Monday 13 October at the Lagos State Hight court at Ikeja, Lagos. Our correspondent gathered that all the parties involved have been summoned to appear before the panel when it begins sitting.

KIRIKIRI PRISON BREAK: Was it Realy a Prison Break?

Pandemonium broke out at Kirikiri Medium Prison in Lagos on Friday as a riot by inmates led to 12 inmates sustaining varying degrees of injuries while unconfirmed eyewitness reports said scores died. An eyewitness told newsmen that some inmates were shot by soldiers stationed at the prisons who moved in to quell the riot which followed a protest against an alleged seizure of a fan belonging to an inmate by a prison official. “Someone brought in a fan for an inmate referred to as the ‘general-overseer’ of the prison’s Christian denomination. But the fan was seized by the officer in-charge of the prisons, who also allegedly ordered the inmate detained.

“The inmate said he was the owner of the fan and only sent it out of the prison for repairs. The inmate was later released after protests by his colleagues who felt he was being unjustly punished. But the situation soon

ABIA SPEAKS: Say No to National Honour for T.A. Orji

How can any right thinking administration in Nigeria ever imagine that it should confer one of the supposedly revered Nigerian National Honours, Commander Of the Order of the Niger (CON) on the governor of Abia State, T.A. Orji, who has been under fire from well meaning stakeholders in the state for many weeks now, on account of his shoddy performance in office? If I may ask, what “good” has Goodluck Jonathan and his men seen in the maladministration by Abia’s T.A Orji, which should attract a National Honour? This is a governor who epitomizes “misgovernance” by all standards; a tyrant at the helm of affairs in the state that now hosts the dirtiest and most dilapidated city, and Umuahia, the pathetic excuse of a state capital in Nigeria.
Why honour a vindictive man under whose watch, Aba, once the commercial pride of the South-East region and nicknamed “Japan Of Africa”, became the pigsty of Nigeria, simply because Aba traders and residents pelted him with sachet water, because of his lacklustre governance of the state and negligence of Aba city?

$9.3m smuggling scandal: Oritsejafor has dragged Christianity into the mud – Bishop Kaigama

The Archbishop of Jos, Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama, has accused Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor of denting the image of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), over his recent involvement in the recent “arms deal” in South Africa.
Speaking on the BBC Hausa Service in Kaduna yesterday, Archbishop Kaigama, said they had been watching with sadness how Oristejafor had been hanging out with the Presidency for long.
He accused the CAN President of dragging Christianity into the mud.
Kaigama, who doubles as President, Catholic Bishop Conference of Nigeria also faulted the way Pastor Oritsejafor was running the Christian union like a political party.
He called on relevant authorities to investigate the matter objectively and ensure that those found guilty are punished accordingly.