Nigerian Cows, Worst Milk Producers Globally - Ogbeh

Chief Audu Ogbeh

 

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has said cows raised in Nigeria are the worst milk producers in the world.

 

He said an average cow in the country produces less that one litre of milk per day compared to those from other countries where a cow could produce 100 litres per day.

 

Ogbeh said this at the 79th anniversary of Ikoyi Club 1938 in Lagos on Thursday.

 

According to the minister, an average cow in Holland produces a minimum of 50 litres of milk per day, while in the United States, milk production per cow can rise to over 100 litres.

 

He said moving cows from place to place was a major problem affecting meat and milk production in Nigeria, stressing that the earlier farmers started developing ranches for cows, the better it would be for the cow market and its entire value chain.

“An average cow in the US drinks an average of 100 litres of water per day; but in Nigeria, I doubt whether a cow can get two litres of water per week,” Ogbeh added.

 

The minister also stated that the country accounted for 67 per cent of the world’s yam production, adding that there were more opportunities for Nigeria to grow its share of the market, valued at $12bn, given the over 50 million hectares of land lying fallow in the country.

 

To give the agricultural sector a major boost, he said the Bank of Agriculture would soon be restructured so that every local government in the country would have at least a two-room branch.

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Exposed: Hidden Assets Of Serving Nigerian Governor Uncovered In Offshore Tax Havens

Harvey Lodge, Admiral Walk, London. [Photo Credit: https://onthemarket.com]

 

Secret assets belonging to the current governor of Niger State, Abubakar Bello, have been uncovered in offshore tax havens, including the notorious British Virgin Islands.

 

The discoveries were made as Premium Times Times continues to scrutinize the over 11 million Mossack Fonseca documents contained in the sleaze dossier now known worldwide as the Panama Papers.

 

At least two offshore companies were traced to the governor, one of which was used to acquire a property on Harvey Lodge London.

 

One of the companies, Best International Holding Limited, was registered in 1999 in the British Virgin Islands. The company was registered on May 26, 1999 with $50,000 as shares capital.

 

The company, with registration number 314717, has the governor and his son, Shehu Bello, as directors.

 

Governor Bello himself is the son of Sani Bello , a retired colonel and military governor of Kano State between 1975 and 1978.

 

Tax authorities the world over view the British Virgin Islands with a certain level of notoriety and suspicion.

 

Offshore company structures are sometimes marketed to rich businessmen and politically-exposed individuals to avoid or evade tax obligations in their home countries or conceal ill-gotten wealth.

 

While the two directors of Best International Holding Limited gave their Nigerian address as 17A Wurno Rd, Off Katuna Rd, Kaduna, Nigeria; a Lagos address was used for the registration of a second offshore company.

 

Another set of Mossack Fonseca documents seen by PREMIUM TIMES showed that Governor Bello is the sole shareholder of a secret offshore entity by the name Eyre Investments Incorporated.

 

This company, located in Hitchin, Herts, was incorporated on September 3, 2007 and had Ajibola Raphael Oluyede as director with Abubakar Sani Bello as sole shareholder.

 

Mr. Oluyede, a senior advocate of Nigeria, is one of the lawyers who defended Senate President Bukola Saraki in his recent corruption trial before the Code of Conduct Bureau.

 

Investigations revealed that for all his offshore dealings, the governor was using the services of Mr. Oluyede, the principal partner at TRLP LAW, as his legal front.

 

In one of the documents, it is stated that the registers of Best International Holding Limited are kept at D96 Landbridge Ave, Victoria Island Ext, Lagos, Nigeria. An online search of this address leads directly to TRLP Law office.

 

Governor Abubakar Sani Bello

 

Yet another Mossack Fonseca document reveals the minutes of a meeting of the board of directors of Eyre Investments Incorporated. The minutes claimed that the meeting was held on September 3, 2007 and that in attendance were Mr. Oluyede and Mr. Bello.

 

A letter from UK lawyers on behalf of the Niger governor to Mossack Fonseca hinted that business relationship between Mr. Bello and his lawyer, Mr. Oluyede, was not all smooth sailing. The letter came at a time when the governor was having apparent difficulties in selling off a property he had acquired using his offshore company Eyre Investments Incorporation.

 

The difficulties arose when the front director either refused to cooperate or was nowhere to be found. It took the UK lawyers, the certificate of incorporation and other documents to have the offshore company returned to Governor Bello.

 

The letter from Shaima Jillood of the firm Charles Russell LLP to Mossack Fonseca, dated July 3, 2007, reads in part:

 

“I am the property solicitor acting on behalf of Eyre Investments Inc in respect of the sale of a property Flat 18 Harvey Lodge, Admiral Walk Harrow Road, London W9 3TH. In order to exchange contracts with the buyers and sell this property, we need to establish who is authorised to sign the contract and sell this property on behalf of Eyre Investments.”

 

Mossack Fonseca was at the time administering Eyre Investments Incorporation after it was transferred to it from ILS Fiduciary Limited (British Virgin Island) on June 7, 2000.

 

The UK lawyers requested from Mossack Fonseca evidence of the list of authorised signatories, directors, certified copy of passport and the shareholder so as to establish who was legally authorised to sign the legal sale documents. The letter further explained that:

 

“My client, Mr Abubaker S Bello, has advised us that he is the shareholder of this company but has lost the documentation and has only provided me with the Memorandum and Articles of Association & Certificate of Incorporation but no mention of who the directors or shareholders are and who the authorised signatories.”

 

When contacted on the propriety of a public office holder holding secret offshore accounts, Jibrin Ndace, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Bello said that before his principal became the governor of Niger State, he had been for years an international businessman of repute doing legitimate businesses across the world.

 

“The governor was a well-known international businessman just like Donald Trump was before he became the President of America. It is like if Dangote becomes President tomorrow; you would see their footprints everywhere because they were once international businessmen,” he said.

 

Mr. Ndace insisted that Niger State is benefiting from Governor Bello’s international business exposure given the foreign investors he has attracted to the state. He however did not provide details of the investments the governor has attracted to the state.

 

“The difference between this governor and others is that he is a professional in politics not a professional businessman,” Mr. Ndace said.

Violation of Nigerian law?

 

There is no evidence that Governor Bello is no longer involved with the shell companies. There is also no evidence that the governor declared his interests in the offshore entities to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) as required by law.

 

The governor’s spokesperson was evasive when asked whether his boss included the shell companies (with which he has dealt in properties) in the assets declaration form he filed at the CCB. Mr. Ndace merely insisted that the governor’s imprint as an international businessman cannot be easily erased.

 

While not all owners or operators of such offshore entities are criminals, participating in the running of private companies while serving as public officials is against Nigerian laws.

 

Section 6(b) of the Code of Conduct Act says a public office holder shall not, “except where he is not employed on fullâ€�time basis, engage or participate in the management or running of any private business, profession or trade.”

 

The companies are also believed to own bank accounts. Yet Nigerian public officials owning foreign accounts, either individual or through their corporate interests, is a contravention of the code of conduct for public officials, which prohibits the holding of foreign bank accounts.

 

The code states: “Any public officer specified in the Second Schedule to this Act or any other persons as the President may, from time to time, by order prescribe, shall not maintain or operate a bank account in any country outside Nigeria.”

 

This revelation makes Governor Bello the sixth serving Nigerian official who has been shown to own shell companies in offshore tax havens in clear violation of the country’s law.

 

The others include President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki; former Senate President, David Mark; Senator Ibrahim Gobir (All Progressives Congress, Sokoto East); Senator David Umaru (APC – Niger East); Senator Andy Uba (APC, Anambra South).

 

The Nigerian government claimed it was investigating the officials as well as other former public officers who popped up in the Panama Papers to have violated Nigerian Nigerians by owning undeclared assets abroad. But the report of the investigation has not been made public and no one has been charged to court.

 

The former officials the government claimed it is investigating include former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Abubakar Yar’Adua; former Delta Governor, James Ibori; late former Bayelsa Governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha; and late former Minister of National Planning.

 

Another former NNPC GMD, Funsho Kupolokun, appears to have acquired his offshore assets after leaving office office in 2007.

 

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Culled fro, PREMIUM TIMES

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Deadly Gunmen Kill Traditional Ruler in Plateau

A gun man (File photo)

 

Unknown gunmen at midnight attacked Gyangyang village in Jhar Chiefdom of Kanam Local Government area of Plateau killing the acting village head, Alhaji Mohammed Suleiman.

 

A family source told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos that the gunmen invaded the house of the deceased at about 1:00 a.m on Friday and killed the traditional ruler.

 

The source said that the gunmen who carried sophisticated weapons stationed some of their men outside the house to ensure that nobody interfered with their operation.

“We heard when they shot him and when we made efforts to come out, the gunmen stationed outside started shooting sporadically,” the source said.

 

The Chairman of Kanam Local Government area, Mr Hamidu Bale, confirmed the incident to NAN.

 

“I have spoken with the Divisional Police Officer and other security agents and they have moved to the area.

“They will tell us after their investigation exactly what happened,” he said.

 

However, when contacted, ASP Terna Tyopev, the Plateau Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, said that he was yet to be briefed about the incident.

“I will call the DPO in the area and I will get back to you,” Tyopev told NAN.

 

-NAN

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Nigerian Man Reportedly Gets New MacBook Pro and IPhone as Gift After Meeting a UK Lady on Facebook (Photos)

Kwankwason Mohammed shared the photo on Facebook

 

A Nigerian man by name Kwankwason Mohammed has shown that social media can be used for good after it turned out to be a blessing for him. 

 

Mohammed who shared his encounter with a woman based in the United Kingdom named Pretty Jenny, revealed how she blessed him after meeting on social media. 

 

In a report by NationalHelm, few minutes after accepting the Facebook request, she chatted him up and from there, their friendship started. After some days, she wanted to do video call with him but he told her it was not possible due to the type of phone he was using.

 

 

The lady who is based in England decided to acquire some expensive gadgets for the young man such as iPhone and Apple MacBook Pro which she sent to him via British Airways including some cash to sustain himself with.

 

According to the young man, the lady who claims she likes him very much – disclosed that her husband died long time ago and she will like to marry him. The young man revealed that he has been excited about the gifts but is worried about how to repay her.

 

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Biafra: U.S. Slams Military Option in Resolving Nigeria's Conflicts

Chief of Army Staff, Lt Col, Tukur Yusuf Buratai

 

The United States (U.S.) yesterday urged Nigeria to look beyond a military option in resolving internal conflicts.

 

The appeal was made under the auspices of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington DC when the agency convened a gathering of U.S. officials, diplomats and Nigerian leaders .

 

The conference as monitored by The Guardian, focused on “Peace in Nigeria: How to build it, and America’s role” and explored possible options beyond military operations. The symposium agreed on the need for the Nigerian government to strengthen the responsiveness of state institutions, address grievances and perceptions “before they become reality and improve accountability and transparency.”

 

Thomas Hushek, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Conflict and Stabilisation Operations, U.S. Department of State, in his concluding remarks said “durable peace” in Nigeria “will require a painstaking dialogue.”

 

Apart from the 15-year Boko Haram issue in the Northeast, Nigeria’s military is grappling with widespread conflicts within the country’s borders, the most current being the second phase of its “Operation Python Dance” in the Southeast that has put soldiers in direct confrontation with the self-determinist Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Military authorities have also proscribed IPOB and declared it a terrorist organisation following which they announced imminent operations in South-West and South-South regions — a decision that has drawn the ire of civil society groups and human rights activists.

 

Re-echoing General Martin-Luther Agwai’s introductory remarks on centrality of the country to potential peace in Africa, Hushek describes Nigeria as a vey critical U.S. partner on the continent, but added that the President Muhammadu Buhari government must in its pursuit of peace first identify the options that citizens want implemented.

 

The country is warming up to charged elections in two years and the U.S. assistant secretary believes the “2019 election will be critical to Nigeria’s continued prosperity and stability.

“Achieving stability or building political peace is a political endeavour,” he said, just as he explained that responsiveness to people’s needs would “build trust and encourage durable peace.”

 

General Agwai, former Nigerian Chief of Army Staff and former commander of the combined United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, Sudan is one of the members of the Nigeria Senior Working Group that participated in the conference on peace in Nigeria. In his opening remarks, Agwai described himself as a simple old soldier humbled by the presence of the State Department and the U.S. and “privileged to stand and talk to learned people across the world about what we are doing.”

 

His submissions on peace in Nigeria equating peace in Africa kicked off the first panel discussion involving Pauline Baker, President Emeritus of the Fund for Peace and Senior Advisor, Creative Associates International as moderator; Yau, Yunusa Zakari, Director, Centre for Information Technology and Development, Kano, Dr. Jibrin Ibrahim, Senior Fellow, Centre for Democracy and Development -West Africa; and Ambassador Fatima Balla, former Nigerian diplomat, civil servant, and politician.

 

While declaring the discussion open, Baker made specific reference to agitations in the South-East and urged discussants to be informal. “We tend to look at the outside without looking at the inside,” she remarked, adding that it would be important to think of the fact that Biafra agitation still thrives many years after.

 

The conference agreed that “Nigeria under President Buhari has made military gains against the extremist fighters of Boko Haram” but observed that Nigeria’s varied conflicts have kept more than two million people displaced and weakened stability in the Lake Chad Basin and the Sahel region. “Peace and security will not be achievable purely through armed force,” the USIP said.

 

It further noted that peaceful Nigeria is vital to long-term U.S. interests as well as to a reduction in the world’s refugee crisis, and to the stability of Niger, Chad, Cameroon and other nations of the Sahel.

 

“Fortunately, President Buhari’s election in 2015 marked an advance for democracy as the country’s first peaceful transition of power to an opposition candidate. U.S. policy has supported his government’s campaign to push back Boko Haram.

 

The conference also built on what the organisers said was months of USIP-coordinated dialogues among the governors of northern states and civic leaders, including diplomats, retired civil servants, and scholars. “These dialogues join government officials and civil society in shaping more inclusive policies that can help prevent violent conflicts.”

 

The highlight of the event was a conversation among three of Nigeria’s most noted figures—Cardinal John Onaiyekan; Dr. Usman Bugaje, a senior advisor to the Sultan of Sokoto; and Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, a former vice president for Africa at the World Bank, a former Nigerian cabinet minister, and co-founder of the anti-corruption group Transparency International and the Bring Back Our Girls Movement.

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Senator Abaribe Finally Speaks on Nnamdi Kanu, Possible Arrest Over IPOB Leader's Disappearance

Enyinnaya Abaribe

 

While speaking in an exclusive interview with Arise News on Thursday, the senator representing Abia South, Enyinnaya Abaribe, who is one of the sureties of Nnamdi Kanu, stated that he cannot be held responsible if the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) fails to appear in court on October 17.

 

The influential politician said prior to the intervention by the military, Kanu had always assured him that he would be in court on the said date.

 

He said; “He was supposed to appear in court on October 17. It was our job as sureties to produce him in court. We have been speaking with him. I spoke with him around August 23. I had to invite him to a meeting with the South-east Senate caucus in my home at Obingwa, in Abia.

“We discussed and we told him what we felt and where he was going out of bound and we told him to confine himself to the laws of the land. Now, I spoke to him on September 11, and it was same day that the military moved into his place.

“So, he was supposed to be in court on October 17; on September 11, the military were doing exercise around his home and since then, nobody has seen him.”

 

The senator said he hasn’t been able to speak with Kanu since the incident occurred, because the number he used to use in reaching him (the IPOB leader) is off, adding that nobody knows Kanu’s whereabouts presently.

“The real question is why will you go one month before his appearance in court to effect an arrest, to kill him or whatever? So, we felt that you cannot hold me responsible if you didn’t wait for the date he was supposed to be in court.”

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Why I Divorced My Nigerian Actress Wife - Ghanaian Actor Chris Attoh Reveals

Nigerian actress Damilola Adegbite and ex-husband Chris Attoh

 

Following confirmation early this week that his marriage to Nigerian actress, Damilola Adegbite has crashed, Ghanaian actor Chris Attoh has revealed the true reason why he called it quit.

 

Chris Attoh, in an interview with Bola Ray on Starr Chat said the reason why his marriage crashed was because his wife was not submissive.

“A woman who does not submit to the husband and trust his instincts is not going to be successful in marriage.

 

"I think that we have forgotten about the fundamentals of marriage. When you love someone, it’s important to be able to forgive, respect and submit.” he told Bola Ray.

 

“As a woman you need to trust the captain of the ship. It’s truly important if you want peace in your home.

 

"If you are a Christian, it is your bible that will take you through your wedding days.

 

"Everything happens for a reason. I have a beautiful baby boy, a wealth of experience and a lot of work to do”, Chris explained.

 

The couple have a baby boy from the marriage.

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Arabic Teacher Allegedly Strangles Son to Death in Minna

Dead man (File photo)

 

A Minna Magistrates’ Court on Friday ordered the remand of a 38-year-old Arabic teacher, Bashiru Isah, accused of strangling his own son.

 

Isah was arraigned on a one count charge of culpable homicide, punishable under Section 221 of the Penal Code Law.

 

The Police prosecutor, Insp. Emmanuel Danladi, told the court that one Aisha Bashiru, wife to the accused person, reported the matter at Lapai Police Division on Sept. 19.

 

Danladi said the complainant alleged that on the same date at about 1:15 am, her husband, a resident of Ebbo village in Lapai, took their son into his room and strangled him to death with his hands without any reasonable excuse.

 

He said Isah admitted committing the crime during police investigation.

 

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that when the charge was read to the accused person, he pleaded guilty. However, the Magistrate, Maryam King, said the court would not record the plea of the accused because it lacked jurisdiction to try the case.

 

King therefore directed the police to forward the case file to the State Director of Public Prosecution for legal advice.

 

She adjourned the matter till Oct. 26, for further mention.

 

-NAN

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2,143 Drivers Undergo Mental Test for Traffic Offences

File Photo

 

The Federal Road Safety Corps on Thursday said it had in the last three months referred 2,143 drivers to specialist hospitals to ascertain their mental health status.

 

It said the motorists were among 2,360 arrested for various traffic offences in Abuja as part of its Operation Cobra, an initiative for the arrest and prosecution of motorists found to have violated traffic rules towards restoring sanity to the nation’s highways.

 

The Corps Marshal, FRSC, Mr. Boboye Oyeyemi, gave the figures in Lagos on Thursday at a press briefing to mark the beginning of the 10th ‘Don’t Drink and Drive Campaign’ co-sponsored by the Nigerian Brewery Plc to improve road safety nationwide.

 

Oyeyemi, who spoke through the Corps’ Public Education Officer, Mr. Bisi Kazeem, also said between February 1, 2017 and September 20, 2017, 66,774 vehicles were found to have speed-limiting devices out of 165,040 commercial vehicles stopped by the FRSC patrol teams for routine checks, translating to 40.5 per cent compliance.

 

According to the corps marshal, the result of the psychological evaluation enables the FRSC “to take appropriate action in line with extant law.”

 

He said traffic offenders were stopped and “issued referral notes to visit designated hospitals for psychological evaluation to ascertain their mental health status.”

 

 “As an intelligence-driven government agency, corps’ findings at the early part of the year identified some road vices such as traffic light violation, route violation, use of phone while driving and reckless driving as the most prevalent among other causative factors of road crashes,” Oyeyemi added.

 

The FRSC chief executive said since October 1, 2016 when the corps received the presidential directive to commence a nationwide advisory enforcement of the speed- limiting device installation, non-compliant drivers were not issued fine tickets but only “advised to install this device.”

 

The Nigerian Breweries, in a speech delivered by its Corporate Affairs Adviser, Mr. Kufre Ekanem, said the DDD campaign involved enlightenment rallies for drivers in various cities, media messages with free medical checks and eye test for motorists.

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Alleged lesbianism, Two declared wanted

 Hell where let losses in the ancient city of Bini kingdom some few weeks ago, girls ranges from the age's of about eighteen/thirty years old where caught in the act of sacrilegious of lesbianism in the city centre of Edo state capital, the sacrilegious act which is forbidden in the kingdom, also carried spiritual Cleanse, According to the chief priest of the shrine of the locality in oredo local government area where the act was committed took the adion's N'sonorho in the ancient city, chief priest Obawengie Idiamudia maintained that the act which has already claimed the life of four during and after the police Reid in their hideout some few weeks ago is a sacrilege in the land, speaking to newsmen, including the Nigerian Observer the chief priest said our patron deity is angered and vehement in it's commitment to bringing those who defiled the spirituality and sanctity of the gods of our land to face the consequence of their profanity, which they committed some few weeks ago in our locality. We are aware of their identity and they were caught in the very act of repulsive lesbianism; but somehow, two at of six managed to escaped from the few policemen who accosted them at first on their routine alerts. "For the avoidance of doubts, we know happy otote and Irene Nosa because their parents once lived in the locality, he said the matter is already before the authority, he appealed to them to make the necessary investigation that will led to the arrest of the escapees for the cleanse to avoid calamities in the kingdom he concluded. Meanwhile the state police command as declared the life's of happy otote and Irene Nosa wanted to face prosecution for the crime against the Nigeria state of act lesbianism, the unfortunate incident that happened on March 4, 2016 where two at of the gang died before taking them to court, two where sentenced to 14years in imprisonment but later also died in the custody for the injuries sustained during the operation, while two are still at large. an handsome reward awaiting for anybody with useful information that could lead to their arrest should please report to the nearest police stations or the state command. It should be recalled that the Federal government of Nigeria has signed into law in 2014 Bill of prohibition of act of homosexuality/lesbianism which carried 14years jailed term, as at press time the whereabout of happy otote and Irene Nosa is unknown

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Breaking News: Commotion as Suicide Bomber Blows Up Himself Outside Mosque

File photo used only for illustrative purpose

 

Police have revealed that a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Shiite mosque in Kabul on Friday.

 

According to Agence France Presse, AFP, the sad incident occurred as Muslims prepare to celebrate one of the holiest dates in the Islamic calendar.

 

“A suicide bomber who was grazing sheep has detonated himself outside” the mosque, General Salim Almas, criminal investigative director of Kabul city, told AFP.

 

Almas did not have any information about casualties.

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57th Independence Celebration: Police Assure Nigerians of Adequate Security

Men of the Nigeria police

 

The Police Command in Niger has says it is ready to provide adequate security before, during and after the 57thIndependence celebrations of the country in the state.

 

The Commissioner of Police for the command, Mr Austine Agbonlahor, gave the promise in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna on Friday.

 

Agbonlahor said that the command had mobilised all needed manpower and logistics that would enable it provide a secured environment for the peaceful conduct of all celebrations in the area.

 

He said that operational order on how to provide conducive atmosphere across the state had been worked out for implementation by officers and men of the command.

“We have deployed sufficient personnel to all public buildings and recreational centres for well coordinated, physical policing against any form of security threats,” he said.

 

He advised residents to be security conscious always while attending public functions, assuring them that the command would intensify efforts in feasibility policing to safeguard life and property.

 

“We need intelligence information about miscreants to enable us come out with plausible security measures to arrest and prosecute them.” 

 

-NAN

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I will Only Leave the Senate When I Die - Ex-Governor Ibrahim Declares After 3-Term Tenure

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Ecology and Climate Change and former governor of Yobe State, Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim, said on Thursday, that he will be in the Senate for life.

 

According to DailyTrust, Ibrahim had served as Yobe governor three times before he went to the Senate in 2007. He was re-elected in 2011 and for the third time in 2015, while his wife, Khadija Bukar Ibrahim, was at the House of Representatives also for the third time until President Muhammadu Buhari made her Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in 2015.

 

Speaking while contributing to a debate on the 57th anniversary of the country, the former governor said only death will take him away from the upper chamber.

 

Bukar, who read his profile starting from his nursery, secondary and university education; as well as political career as commissioner, state governor and senator, said he would be 68 on Sunday when the country would be marking its 57 anniversary.

 

He said; “We are very grateful to God and to all Nigerians. Let me categorically say, Mr. Senate President, that I will stay in the Senate until death do us part. Everybody tells me that I’m Senator for life. I’m going to be in the Senate for life.” 

 

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, while responding, jokingly asked the Senate Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan and Senator Mohammad Hassan, who were all from Yobe State to take note.

 

A lawmaker familiar with Yobe politics said the senator made the statement in response to the Yobe state governor, Ibrahim Geidam’s move to unseat him come 2019.

“He made the statement because Yobe State governor is planning to come to the Senate on expiration of his second tenure in 2019,” the lawmaker said on condition of anonymity.

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Omg: Woman Declared Dead and Buried Wants to Dig Up 'Her Own Grave' to Prove She Is Still Alive

Juana Escudero

 

Juana Escudero, a 53-year-old woman who was incorrectly declared as dead in 2010 is going to extreme lengths to finally end her bureaucratic nightmare.

 

According to a report by Metro UK, despite the fact that Juana Escudero, who lives near Serville in Spain, is very much alive, the state has believed she is dead since a clerical error seven years ago.

 

In May 2010 a woman with the exact same name and date of birth as Escudero died, which revealed a glitch in Spain’s Social Security information as both women were declared as dead, rather than just the one who actually died.

 

Since learning of the error after being told by an emergency-room physician that she was registered as deceased, Escudero (the living one) has been unable to renew her driving license or even visit the doctors.

 

The family haven’t seen the comedic side of the mix-up, with Escudero saying she has ‘suffered for more than six years’.

 

She is quick to point out that to the government she is dead, but to the banks she is still ‘alive and kicking’, and still needs to make her mortgage payments.

 

Despite trips to the court house and the Treasury, it appears the Spanish government cannot be convinced that Escudero is alive.

 

One doctor agreed to see her when she needed urgent care, however Escudero now plans to take drastic measures to prove she is still in the land of the living.

 

She is filing a petition to dig up what the government considers to be her grave (but actually belongs to the other woman who actually died) to conduct a DNA test and prove finally that she is not the person who died.

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Akon Gave Me a Fake Wrist Watch as Birthday Present - French Montana

French Montana

 

In a recent interview with Funkmaster Flex, French Montana has revealed how he discovered that singer Akon gave him a fake watch as a birthday gift. French who was once signed to Akon for a "six month thing" revealed other interesting details involving his association with Akon which he is very grateful for.

 

Flex wanted to get the record straight on a watch story, so he jumped right in and asked French to tell what really went down with the alleged fake watch gift.

 

“We can’t tell the watch story, don’t tell it now,” said Flex.

“Oh, Stop! Shouts to Akon, he gave me a fake watch for my birthday, I’m heated. I'm still waiting for my other watch Akon," French said laughing.

French did make it clear that he has love for Akon, but you know Flex still had to instigate the situation. 

“Akon I need you to fix this up. Keep it a buck. Listen, we gonna go on the ‘gram, we gon’ tell fake watch busters to leave you alone, they not gonna post this up. But, we gotta clear this up,” said Flex.

 

French went on to explain the story,

 

Singer, Akon

 

 

“It was my birthday too. He was like, ‘Close your eyes, I got a present for you. Then he put a fake watch on my wrist, I’m heated," said French.

Flex asked French if he knew it was fake at the time to which French replied saying,

“Nah, I didn’t know it was fake.”

 

French said he took the watch to a jewelers to be be cleaned and the jeweler asked where he got the watch from. When French told them Akon, the jeweler laughed in disbelief because he knew Akon.

 

It's been 10 years Akon, and French is still waiting on his watch! However, it could be actually that Akon didn't know that the watch he got him was fake.

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Police Intercept Cars Carrying AK-47 Rifles, Pistols, Others In Zamfara

Zamfara State Police Command, yesterday, intercepted two vehicles carrying arms in different parts of the state.

Spokesman of the Command, Mr. Muhammad Shehu, told newsmen in Gusau, yesterday, that items recovered from the vehicles were three AK-47 rifles, an automatic pistol, locally-made pistol, magazines and live ammunition.

According to him, other items recovered include N103,435, ATM card, three voters’ cards, military camouflage and a stamp of the Cattle Traders Associa-tion of Nigeria in the Bukuru Local Government Area of Plateau State.

 Shehu said the drivers of the two cars, a Honda Civic marked Sokoto State, BDN358AA, and another marked Kano State, KMC 321AA, were arrested and are assisting the Police investigations.

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Bayelsa: Pirates Strike Again, Hijack Passenger Boat

Barely 48 hours after launching an ambush that killed three passengers on Tuesday, gunmen suspected to be sea pirates on Thursday hijacked a passenger boat along Nembe-Brass waterways.

Militants had on August 28 ambushed a military houseboat and killed a soldier and civilian crew. Again, last Friday, the bandits attacked an oil services vessel killing three security men on board.

It was gathered in the latest onslaught by the elusive pirates, that they trailed the boat after it had dropped off its occupants in Brass from Nembe before hijacking the boat.

Community sources who witnessed the incident said the suspected pirates armed with sophisticated weapons shot sporadically into the air before seizing the boat.

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Flood Sacks 12 Cross River Communities, Destroys 3000 Farmlands

Many residents in 12 communities in Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State have been rendered homeless with over 3000 farmlands destroyed by devastating flood following two days of heavy downpour.

The incident which occurred between September 18 and 19 has also left properties worth millions of naira and thousands of economic trees destroyed.

The disaster which affected bridges that connect some communities to other parts of the local government also polluted the only stream which serves as the source of drinking water in the area.

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FG Approves Immediate Retirement Of NAFDAC DG

The Nigerian government has approved the retirement of the acting director general of the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Yetunde Oni.

The directive for Mrs. Oni’s ‘immediate retirement’ was granted by the R.P. Ugo, a Permanent Secretary in the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.

The directive, dated September 28, was in response to a letter written to the SGF by Mrs. Oni over the worker’s unrest in the regulatory agency.

NAFDAC workers commenced an indefinite strike last week demanding among others the immediate removal of Mrs. Oni, whom they said was already due for retirement.

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Gunmen Kidnap ACP, Family Members, Demand N30m Ransom

Commissioner of Police, Emmanuel Adeniyi, and three of his family members.

Adeniyi is the Officer-in-Charge of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Zamfara State Police Command.

Punch Metro learnt that Adeniyi and his family were travelling back to Zamfara from Kaduna on Wednesday when the gun-trotting men flagged down their Toyota Hilux.

The gang reportedly dragged them from the vehicle and whisked them away in another vehicle.

The identities of the family members had yet to be ascertained.

Punch correspondents learnt on Thursday that the kidnappers had communicated with their relatives, demanding N30m ransom for their release.

Apart from the ACP and his family, it was learnt that a police officer and three others on a bus were abducted the same day on the road.

It was gathered that several police units, including the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Unit and Anti-Kidnapping unit, had been deployed to rescue the victims.

A source told Punch Metro that the Toyota Hilux had been recovered by the police, adding that the kidnappers were criminals dislodged from Niger State.

“The ACP was returning to his duty post in Gusau, Zamfara State, on Wednesday with his family members when the gunmen struck along the Birnin-Gwari-Funtua Road and whisked them away. He is the OC, SCIID of the state police command. Only the vehicle has been recovered.

“Another police officer was abducted with three others while travelling in a bus to Birnin Gwari on Wednesday. A police patrol team got information that some travellers on the bus had been abducted, they chased the kidnappers, but I do not know whether the victims have been rescued or not.

“A popular businessman from Birnin Gwari, known as Danhaza, and his driver were also abducted three days ago while travelling on the same road to Kaduna,” the source said.

A police source disclosed to one of Punch correspondents that the kidnappers of the ACP and his family members had demanded a ransom.

The officer said the Force had got some leads on the abductors, noting that the victims would soon be freed.

 The source said, “The police have information on the abductors, but I can’t tell you much for now so as not to jeopardise rescue operation. They are criminals we dislodged from Niger State. They are demanding about N30m ransom, but I can assure you that we will rescue the ACP and his family safely.

As of the time of filing this report, the Kaduna and Zamfara states Police Public Relations Officers, Muktar Aliyu, and Shehu Muhammad, could not be reached for comments as their phones indicated that the lines were not available.

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Man Lands In Prison For Impregnating Neighbour’s Daughter

A forty-year-old man, Yahaya Idris, has landed in prison for allegedly raping and impregnating his neighbour’s 15-year-old daughter.

Hajiya Falile Dikko of the Katsina State Senior Magistrates’ Court on Thursday directed that Idris should be remanded in the prison custody till November 6, 2017 when his case would come up for mention.

The prosecuting counsel for the police, Inspector Sani Ado, had told the court that Idris resided in the same house with the victim’s father, Lawal Abubakar, at Gawa Village in the Bindawa Local Government Area of the state where the offence was allegedly committed.


Ado said Abubakar reported the incident to the police on September 23, prompting Idris’ arrest.

The prosecutor said by deceiving and raping the victim, who ended up being impregnated, Idris “committed an offence contrary to Section 283 of the Penal Code.’

The prosecutor however said investigation into the incident was in progress and requested for an adjournment.

The magistrate told Idris that the offence he was accused of was only triable at the high court, adding that he was only arraigned before the Magistrates’ Court “for cognisance purpose.”

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Woman Dies During S*x Romp With Married Man

A man simply identified as Tolu has landed in trouble after he had sex with an epileptic woman and she died in his room during a sex romp in Lagos.

The incident happened at Oke Odo area of Lagos where both the woman and the man reside. The man has been arrested and detained at Oke Odo Police Division and he is now being charged for murder.

P.M.Express gathered that the suspect secretly invited the deceased when his wife was not around and engaged her in sex romp that lasted for hours.


However, during the romp, the lady started breathing heavily and became unconscious on the bed. The suspect quickly wore his clothes, came out and raised alarm which attracted the neighbours.

She was rushed to a hospital. However, before the doctors would attend to her she passed on. The doctors only certified her dead and her corpse was deposited at the morgue for autopsy report. The incident was reported to the police and the suspect was arrested and detained at the police cell.

P.M.Express gathered that the deceased’s family was contacted, they confirmed that she had epilepsy and she might have died due to suffocation during the romp. However, the police insisted that the suspect was culpable until the report proved otherwise.

Meanwhile, both the police and the suspect were waiting for the report to know the next line of action. When our reporter visited Oke Odo Police Division, the suspect was still detained there.

The DPO was said to have gone to the State Command at Ikeja for CP briefing. However, a police source said the matter will be transferred to SCID Panti for further investigation.

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Nigerian Man Roasts Huge Python on Fire to Use it for Pepper Soup (Photos)

The python being roasted

 

A Nigerian man by name Ben Bobo has attracted attention of social media after posting photo of a huge python he caught. The man showed the huge python on fire as he roasted it for peppersoup. 

 

He wrote: "The pepper soup don set. Join me if you don mine."

 

 

But, people have reacted saying it in an abomination. Some asked him not to eat the animal. 

 

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IPOB Supporters Protests with Coffin as They Storm the British Embassy in Australia (Photos)

The IPOB members protesting with a coffin at the British Embassy in Vienna (Photo: Abia Breaking News)

 

Some supporters of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have staged a protest while calling for the sessesion of Biafra from Nigeria at the British embassy in Vienna.

 

The foreign-based Nigerian protesters said they were not happy with the alleged recent killing of some Igbo people by the Nigerian security operatives under the Operation Python Dance 2.

 

They also kicked against the invasion of Nnamdi Kanu’s home in Abia by security officials which led to the disappearance of the leader of IPOB.

 

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PDP Can't Stop Me From Becoming President, Only Nigerians Can- Fayose

Governor Fayose who made his Presidential Declaration yesterday in Abuja has said PDP can not stop him from becoming President, but only Nigerians can. Fayose stated this while speaking to Channels Tv. He said;

'Let me say to you very expressly that it is not the national working committee of PDP that will determine, it is the people of Nigeria.  May I say to you very clearly that some of the people in the working committee have ambition, they must be threatened by what I’ve done today and I will say to you again if anybody has ambition in the north, let him come straight and tell us'.

'In another one year, parties will be doing primaries, let them come out; this party must not die. If anybody is afraid, I am not.  There are two legs to life some are afraid of incarceration, some are afraid of death, I am not afraid of any. In America, when they want to campaign, they campaign in upward period of two years, they sell themselves; you want to tell us to have a president that will come out three months to the election and come and tell us you want to be president of Nigeria?', he further stated.

He also mentioned that, he is a governor of the people and almost everyone in his state has his phone number and can communicate with him directly.

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