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The life of an aspiring young man has been turned around for good after he summoned courage to visit the office of Niger State Governor. Madaki Moses from Tafa LG approached the gates of Niger State Government House, asking for a direction to the Office of the Chief of Staff (CoS), Hon. Mikail Al-Amin Bmitosahi. According to Niger State Media, the young man who had been standing in front of the Government House Minna, summoned courage and approached the Security Guards, informing that he had been offered admission to study medicine at Near East University in Cyprus on Scholarship. He told them all expenses relating to the scholarship had been covered except for air fare to Cyprus. The security guard upon seeing the documents backing the young man's claims and knowing the importance of his desires, allowed him entry and directed him to the office of the Chief of a Staff (CoS) to the Governor where he knew such privileges are offered. At the office of the CoS, he met one ...

Reports have it that Bilyamin Muhammed Bello, son of a former PDP chairman, Haliru Bello, has been murdered. The deceased was allegedly murdered by his wife last night. His wife, Maryam Sanda, daughter of embattled former Aso Savings boss, Hajia Maimuna Aliyu, is said to have stabbed him to death. Maryam, allegedly stabbed her husband following claims of him cheating on her. She reprotedly stabbed him 3 times in the back; and severally on his private parts, at their home in Maitama, Abuja. Part of his ear, was also bitten off before the knife attack and Bilyaminu was said to have been treated at a hospital before returning home.  People advised that he leaves the house but he refused. Maryam allegedly drove him to the hospital after stabbing him but he later gave up the ghost. The couple had a child together. Bilyaminu will be buried today.

MASSOB has reacted to President’s Buhari’s decision to pay the pensions of police officers who served under the defunct Biafran police, describing the move as ‘medicine after death’ The pro-Biafra group stated that the time for negotiation is over, stressing that Igbo people and Biafrans cannot be bought over with money MASSOB declared that President Buhari and the chief of army staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Burutai, must face criminal charges for their involvement in what they described as the genocide committed against Ndi Igbo Pro-Biafra group, Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign state of Biafra (MASSOB), has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to approve payment of pension to police officers who served under the defunct Biafran police during the 1967-70 Civil War. According to reports, the group made its position known in a statement released by Samuel Edeson, its national director of publicity, on Thursday, October 20. Onlinenigeria.com notes that the ...

Dr. Doyin Okupe a Former Presidency official during the tenure of President Goodluck Jonathan has given reasons why an influential figure like Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, “is reduced more or less to a Southwest leader,” of the party. In a recent Facebook Post, Okupe said that though a staunch Muslim, Tinubu has been reduced to nothing in the APC because of ethnicity. He also maintained that there is no opposition party in the country because of ethnicity, adding that religion, though also a big issue, is not as bad as ethnicity. He said,  I have read many articles and posts including that of my brother Segun Adeniyi, wondering out of frustration whether any opposition party exists in Nigeria today. As a matter of fact I can say it openly and without any equivocation whatsoever or fear of reasonable contradiction that there is no opposition party in the country. The reason is very obvious and it is the very foundation of our national malaise. Its simply ETHNICITY. This mo...

The Battle of might between the Rivers State Government led by Governor Nyesom Wike and the Rivers State Command of the Federal Special Anti Robbery Squad has entered another dimension as the Governor has Directed men of SARS to Vacate the Obio-Akpor International Market Rukpokwu. The Rivers State SARS Commander Mr Akin Fakorede and the Rivers State Government had in the past One Year engaged in what could be called a battle of Might following allegations by Governor Nyesom Wike that the SARS Operatives in the state are working with the All Progressive Congress(APC). A Letter with the Title NOTICE TO VACATE AND DELIVER UP POSSESSION OF THE PROPERTY/PREMISES YOU OCCUPY INSIDE THE OBIO-AKPOR INTERNATIONAL MARKET RUKPOKWU TOWN OBIO-AKPOR RIVERS STATE and Signed by Barr Victor Owhonda Wokem,Legal adviser to Obio-Akpor Local Government Area,the SARS Command in Rivers State were given One Month Notice to vacate the Market on or before November 30th 2017. “I am Directed by the Local G...

Former National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki (rtd) has sent out words to his family members, relatives, associates and prominent Nigerians who are his friends not to beg President Muhammadu Buhari over his ongoing trial. ​This​ revelation was made ​to our correspondent​ by a source close to Dasuki. ​Speaking on the ex-NSA as he nears two years in government custody, the source replied: “Well, you all know what is happening. He has been granted bails by four differen​t ​hight ​court​s​; ECOWAS court also ordered his release but they won’t allow him go”. “The question we are asking them is: W​hy keep a man even when courts said let him go home. His lawyers even said government can keep as many security operatives around him to monitor his movement, visitors etc. “The general believe around the country is that there is more to this matter than government is letting us know but they should remember we will all die one day. Those fighting a personal course should have this a...

The Oluwo of the Iwo Kingdom, Oba Abdul Rasheed Akanbi, has revealed he was captured two times by ritualists and he was let go both times. He said he went missing for 4 months. The Flamboyant king in a recent interview with City People, went back memory lane, as he discussed his relationship with the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi who he said he grew up with in Ibadan, Oyo State. Speaking during the interview, Oba Akanbi disclosed that he was captured two times by Ritualists in 1981 who later rejected him because he was a chosen king. ‘Oh, yes! But I like to talk more about my life. I want people to learn from my own life, my own experience. In 1981, something happened and I had to leave Iwo. I left home and I was lost for 4 months. I was captured 2 times by Ritualists and both of them rejected me’ ‘.The 2nd one said let him go ooo. He is an Oba ooo. He is a king. Lets leave it at that.’ ‘All I will say is that, I am from Iwo. I grew up in Iwo. The last time I left Iwo w...