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Nigeria President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has commiserated with the government and affected communities in Plateau State over a recent attack in the state, which left no fewer than 15 people dead. He called on the security agencies in the country to intensify efforts to protect the people and nab criminals perpetrating violence across the country. Saraki in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, called for calm and an immediate investigation, apprehension and prosecution of all those involved in the attacks, saying that “such senseless and malicious violence must have no place in Nigeria.” “My prayers are with the government and people of the communities in Plateau State that have been affected by the recent spate of violence that has led to the killing of many innocent people. “I am immensely saddened to hear that one family alone lost nine people in these reprehensible attacks. I pray that the affected family and communit

Thirty six out of the 40 members of the Lagos State House of Assembly on Saturday endorsed an aspirant in the Lagos All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial primaries, Jide Sanwo-Olu. According to a statement by the Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Strategy and Security, Adefunmilayo Tejuoso, the decision was taken at a parliamentary meeting of the lawmakers which took place at Lateef Jakande auditorium of the House on Saturday, a day before the governorship primaries of the party. “The lawmakers stated that they were in agreement with the leadership of the party and the Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC) which had earlier endorsed Sanwo-olu for the governorship ticket,” the statement said. The meeting was chaired by Mudashiru Obasa, the House Speaker, and the lawmakers duly signed the statement announcing the decision. Musbau Razaq, the media aide to Mr Obasa, also confirmed the development to PREMIUM TIMES. Mr Sanwo-Olu is believed to be the favourit

Is Not A Sin If Your Wife Cheats On You, You Should Be Happy & Learn - Revrend Lutterodt If not for my openmindedness, I would have said this counsellor should be brought to the market place and flogged mercilessly. But who am I to say that. Controversial Ghanaian marriage counsellor and reverend minister, Counsellor George Lutterodt has dropped another bombshell with respect to marriage issues. According to him, cheating behind your married partner should not be seen as a sin because it’s not. The renowned counsellor made this statement on the Thursday, September 20, 2018 edition of Adom TV’s popular morning show 'Badwam.' He advised all married men not to blame their wives when they allow other men to sleep with them but they should rather use that as an opportunity to work extremely hard on their love making. In his words; “Cheating is not a sin. If you are a man and your wife cheats or you catch your wife red-handed, just thank God because it is an opportunity to

Adams Oshiomhole, the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, has debunked insinuations that a deal involving money and political concessions were made with Sen. Iyiola Omisore of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) to support the party. Oshiomhole, while addressing newsmen on Friday in Abuja, said the people of Osun made their free choice by voting the APC candidate, Gboyega Oyetola, at the election. He, however, added that the APC had some agreements with Omisore which bothered on policies and the welfare of the people of the state, but certainly did not give him money as was being speculated. The APC national chairman also gave reasons the Minister of Women Affairs, Hajiya Aisha Alhassan, was not cleared to contest the party’s ticket in its governorship primary on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the minister was in the race to contest Taraba governorship in 2019. Oshiomhole said the party could not tolerate those who played anti-party activiti

..As Bamgbola, Alli pledge loyalty to party, Tinubu’s decisions By Olasunkanmi Akoni Barely, less than 24 hours to the conduct if All Progressives Congress, APC,           Ambode, Tinubu and Sanwoolu Gubernatorial primary, the National leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is billed to address stakeholders and party faithful over issues of endorsement of aspirants and other sundry issues. Meantime, the APC, Lagos State chapter has debunked claim making the rounds that it has suspended some party bigwigs over anti- party activities and urged the public to disregard the report. Also, the former Acting Secretary of the party in the state, Hakeem Bamgbola and former Mushin Odi-Olowo council boss, Yemi Alli have described the report as “untrue” and reiterated loyalty to party supremacy on issues. Debunking the report, APC Publicly Secretary in the state, Joe Igbokwe stated, “The news flying about that APC, Lagos State Chapter, has suspended Lagos State House of Assembly former

In recent times, a number of Nigerian entertainers have openly confessed that at a point in their lives they suffered depression. In a chat, delectable gospel music artiste, Oyenike Laoye, popularly known as Nikky Laoye, told Showtime that she has also had her fair share of the bitter emotional trauma. “I have certainly had my moments of depression. Losing my father in my arms in 2011 was one of the biggest blows I ever had to deal with. It knocked me completely off my feet because we were a very close knit family. After his demise, I fell into deep depression, I locked myself away from the world for a long while musically and even from friends. It certainly took prayers, God and personal decisions to fight for my mind to get myself out of that dark hole of excruciating despair”, she said. Speaking on how best to deal with depression, she said;“Depression is real and it creeps up once in a while, especially during moments of loss but you have to fight, talk to people about it an

When 2face bestrode the Nigerian music scene likea colossus in the 90s, one thing was uppermost in his mind – to rule the world with his music. And today, 2face, born Innocent Idibia, has not only conquered with his music, he has set a new record that generations yet to come may find difficult to surpass. Over the years, the ‘African Queen’ crooner has exhibited a steadfast passion to reinventing the wheel and strength of creativity that has come to define the genius that he is. Like a gold fish, the Idoma, Benue State-born superstar has no hidden place. He has remained as constant and formidable force as a northern star in the Nigerian entertainment industry. As a member of the defunct Plantashun Boiz, who alongside groups like The Remedies, kick-started the Afro hip hop revolution of the late 90s that gave birth to what is today known as the Nigerian contemporary sound, 2face has paid his dues. In the past 43 years of his life of excellence, the songster has perfectly inspired ma

The Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, on Thursday met some labour leaders at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, to try and resolve the issues that led to the ongoing warning strike by workers. Labour unions, had on Wednesday directed workers to go on strike over the failure of the Federal Government to reconvene the tripartite committee on the new minimum wage. The workers are demanding between N45,000 to N65,000 minimum wage. Currently, N18,000 is the minimum wage in the country. Kyari said on Thursday that he called the meeting to ascertain what stalled the negotiation on minimum wage. He said his interaction with the labour leaders showed that “it is the process of arriving at figure (for minimum wage) that got stalled.” The National President of the NLC, Ayuba Wabba, who led the delegation, said the outcome of the meeting would be taken to the relevant organs of the union. He said, “The Chief of Staff tried to give us detail of government’s position which we will c

The Niger State Police Command has apprehended one Shuaibu Abdullahi, 22, for allegedly kidnapping Bello Umar of Vunu Village in the Lavun Local Government Area of the state. The suspect was trailed and arrested by the police detectives attached to Lemu Division on a tip-off. The suspect had sometime in August invaded the village in collaboration with three members of his gang who are now at large and kidnapped Umar for ransom. It was gathered that the suspect alongside the three fleeing members of his gang, who were armed with weapons abducted their victim and took him into a nearby bush. The suspect told Northern City News that luck ran out of his gang as the victim escaped from captivity. “I never knew that my victim will escape otherwise we would have made our money but unfortunately I ended up in the police net. “We slept off and our victim took advantage of that and ran away . He later reported the matter to the police who arrested us,” he explained. The Police Public

What kind of nonsense corruption fight is President Buhari still talking about? The government is accusing Governor Ayo Fayose and Iyiola Omisore of collecting money from ex-NSA Sambo Dasuki for election in Ekiti and Osun in 2014. EFCC has placed Fayose on watchlist. But less than 48 hours after Buhari's SGF, the number 3 man in his government, visited Omisore at night and described him in glowing terms, Mr President has started his talk about Corruption again. What nonsense corruption? President Buhari said yesterday that the Federal Government is committed to winning the war against corruption in Nigeria. The President spoke in New York at the African Union High-Level Dialogue with the theme: “Winning the Fight against Corruption: A Sustainable Path to Africa’s Transformation.’’ Nigeria needs help from hypocrites in power. We bring the news to you as it comes.....

The PDP has described the supplementary election held in Osun State on Thursday as the most brazen assault on democracy and biggest robbery ever witnessed in the history of the State. It described the supplementary election as “open robbery perpetrated by the APC aided by security personnel will be resisted by the party.” The State Chairman, Hon Soji Adagunodo stated this in a statement issued to journalists in Osogbo on Thursday. The PDP chairman disclosed that thousands of eligible voters were chased away from their homes in Orolu, Ife North and Ife South areas in the early hours of Thursday. “Scores of our supporters in those local governments were shot and matchetted on their way to polling centres and in the full glare of security men. Hundreds of people holding PVCs from other polling units were accredited and allowed to vote in Osogbo and Ife South Local Governments. “PDP agent in Olode was axed and abducted at about 7am today. Media men and election observers were denied

Senator Ben Murray Bruce has reacted to the Thursday rerun election that held in Osun state after the governorship election on September 22nd was declared inconclusive. The lawmaker said reporters from his Television station were on ground to monitor the process and they captured ‘brazen acts of intimidation of People’s Democratic Party(PDP) agents. The PDP had hoped to clinch the governorship in Osun state after it took the lead in last Saturday’s election but the election was cancelled by the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) because the margin between Adeleke Ademola of PDP and Gboyega Oyetola of APC was only 353. Speaking via twitter on Thursday, the Senator dismissed the process as ‘daylight robbery’. He alleged that thugs of the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) were seen giving instructions to security agents. According to Mr Bruce, the international community must not turn a blind eye to this ‘theft’. He wrote: Ben Murray-Bruce @benmurraybruce What

Wizkid was also accused of copyright infringement by Osagz who alleged that Wizkid stole MayD's songs and melody buy knocking him out with drugs. Nigerian singer, Mr May D has come out to clear the air on several comments made by Osagie Alonge and his co-hosts on a recent episode of their LooseTalk Podcast. The matter began with Wizkid who their main talking points of discourse on the episode themed ‘What’s your shoe size’ . They by their comments sided with the star artiste’s baby mamas who had called him a deadbeat father while making some other weighty allegation against him. In the podcast which has now been deleted, edited and re-uploaded, Osagie alleged that Wizkid was older that 27 years that he claims to be, he was deeply involved in drug abuse and once assaulted one of his ex managers. In the same Podcast, Osagz also alleged that Wizkid had forgotten his day one friends- Piper and Rotimi Rude-boy, who actually began Wizkid’s music career with him in 2007. Accord

…Used stolen phone to threaten Atiku, wife, daughter …Speaks fluent English, Ibibio, Russian and Portuguese languages The Nigeria Police Force on Wednesday paraded a 43 year old man suspected to have made scary threats asking former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to either withdraw from the 2019 presidential race or have his plane blown up mid-air. According to police spokesman, Jimoh Moshood, an Acting Deputy Commissioner of Police, the suspect named Augustus Akpan allegedly used a stolen phone to explicitly threaten wife and daughters of the former Vice President with rape. Akpan who hails from Edemaya village, Ikot Abasi LGA, Akwa Ibom State was arrested while fleeing to Lagos was also said to have extorted huge sums of Naira and foreign currencies from unnamed high profile citizens, with false claims of being a US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) operative. The police spokesman further said that the suspect who speaks fluent

The Lagos State Governor , Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday expressed readiness to participate in Saturday ’s governorship primaries of the All Progressives Congress during which the governorship candidate of the party would emerge . It was gathered , however , that Ambode ’s declaration came after he met with the 22 - man Governor Advisory Committee , the highest decision -making body of the Lagos APC . Although the outcome of the Tuesday meeting was still sketchy as of 6pm on Wednesday , a source said the governor was “ making progress towards realising his second term ambition ; but the coast is not clear yet .” However, in a statement by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Kehinde Bamigbetan , on Wednesday , the governor reiterated his readiness for the direct primary in line with the choice of the Lagos APC and “ the validation given to the direct primary preference by the Governor’ s Advisory Council .” The statement read in part , “ As our great party approac

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State says Nigeria is in need of a highly educated and competent President . Dickson noted that the time had come for Nigeria to be led by a visionary leader , a nation builder and a democrat . A statement by the Special Adviser , Media Relations to the Governor, Mr Fidelis Soriwei , quoted the governor as making the comment while playing the host to a presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party and Governor of Sokoto State , Aminu Tambuwal , and members of his campaign team at the Government House , Yenagoa. Dickson stressed that time had come for Nigeria to produce a detribalised consensus builder as President with a consciousness that he had a responsibility to all Nigerians. The governor also said that those in leadership positions in the county had a key responsibility to rescue the country come 2019 . He said , “ Nigeria needs a competent leader , an educated leader . I know you all ; all your certificates are genuine . Nige

As As meeting meeting with with FG FG deadlocked deadlocked Everest Everest Amaefule Amaefule , , Adelani Adelani Adepegba Adepegba , , Ade Ade Adesomoju Adesomoju , , Olaleye Olaleye Aluko Aluko , , Tony Tony Okafor Okafor and and Ogbonnaya OgbonnayaIkokwu Ikokwu The Nigeria Nigeria Labour Labour Congress Congress has has directed directed all all its its members members and and affiliate affiliate unions unions to to commence commence a a nationwide nationwide strike strike on on Thursday Thursday ( ( today today ) ) . . The The organised organised labour labour had had held held a a meeting meeting with with the the Minister Minister of of Labour Labour and and Employment Employment , , Chris Chris Ngige Ngige , , in in Abuja Abuja on on Wednesday Wednesday , , which which did did not not produce produce the the expected expected outcome outcome . . The The NLC NLC President President , , Ayuba Ayuba Wabba Wabba , , said said the the industrial industrial action action would w