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Thursday 31 August 2017

Getting my Nigerian Visa has been, genuinely, the easiest visa process I've ever gone through - CEO of RIIS, South Africa, Davis J Cook says

Davis J Cook, the CEO of Research Institute for Innovation and Sustainability (RIIS) in South Africa, has praised the Nigerian Embassy in his country after he went through a stress-free process to secure his visa.

27-year-old suspected murderer simply identified as Amadi pictured above, who fled home after he stabbed someone to death during a fight on December 19th 2016 at Aker Base water-front in Rumuolumeni, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, says his recent arrest by the police was because of the way he was dressed.

At least 16 people have died and 24 others have been rescued after a residential building collapsed in Mumbai, India this morning making it the third building collapse in Mumbai in less than a month.

A 30-year-old Russian woman Maria Dapirka, accused of being a cocaine mule is facing the death penalty in Vietnam.

Dapirka was caught with two nylon bags packed with cocaine in her hand baggage, and more wedged inside a magazine, at Ho Chi Minh City's Tan Son Nhat International Airport in August 2014.

The Nigerian Army in a joint operation with the Nigerian Air Force has killed five top Boko Haram commanders in the North-east region.

In a statement issued by Sani Usman, who is the spokesperson of the Nigerian Army, he confirmed that a large number of the terrorists were killed, including five commanders of the group.

Kim Kardashian In an exclusive interview for the September issue of Harper’s Bazaar Arabia , attacked US President, Donald Trump , saying her 4-year old daughter North West would make a better president.

It has taken Irish born fighter, Conor McGregor 5 whole days to make his first social media post after his Saturday night fight against retired boxer, Floyd Mayweather.

McGregor lost the fight in the 10th round in what judges called a 'Technical Knock Out '. In his lenghty post on Instagram a few hours ago, he congratulated Floyd on a well fought match, thanked every member of his team and reflected on how he could have fought better in the bout.

A young model, who was offered money to sleep with wealthy men, has come out to expose what goes on within the fashion industry.

London-based model Jazz Egger, 20, claimed prostitution is rife in the industry. She said that "big agencies" and "established models" are involved in seedy underground dealings, with young women paid up to $2million to spend the night with male clients.

The police in Lagos on Thursday said that five persons have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the lynching of two suspected ritualists in Mushin area of the metropolis.

The spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command , ASP Olarinde Famous - Cole, who confirmed the arrest , said the suspects would be charged to court for jungle justice once the investigation was concluded.

Governors of the South - East states, on Wednesday , held talks with leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra , Nnamdi Kanu, in Enugu , the Enugu State capital.

The meeting held at the Enugu State Government House.

It was the first time the governors are meeting Kanu, who is championing the pro - Biafran agitation in the South- East and parts of the South- South.

A 50 - year - old, Okon Etim, who allegedly defiled two minors of ages eight and nine years , was on Thursday granted reprieve by a Surulere Chief Magistrates ’ Court in Lagos.

He was released on N300 , 000 bail.

The accused pleaded not guilty to a four- count bordering on defilement , unlawful treatment and unlawful detainment.

Britain and Japan on Thursday said they would cooperate in countering the threat posed by North Korea, two days after it fired a missile over northern Japan , and will pledge closer ties in defence , cyber security and counter-terrorism.

A 44 - year old British man has been arraigned for watching the “ worst variety ” of child pornography , despite the fact that he ’ s actually blind.

Andrew Shaw whose wife is also blind in support of her husband were helped into the Blackpool Magistrates Court by their guide dogs.

A 35-year-old Indian, Sunil Kuchakurni has been arrested by Indian police for allegedly stabbing his mother to death over the deceased refusal to give him money for alcohol.

Kuchakurni was alleged to have cut out the deceased, Yelava’s heart and intestines before eating them “with pepper and chutney,” Daily Mail reports.

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a Suya seller simply identified as Abdullahi for allegedly attempting to slaughter a four-year-old girl for Suya.

Abdullahi, who abducted the four-year-old in an open field at White sand, Ebute Meta area of the state, took her to a secluded area where he had attempted to slaughter her with a knife.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s Personal Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie has said the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu is notorious and not popular.

A Niger Delta Group under the aegies of the Foundation For Human Rights And Anti-Corruption Crusade, FHRACC, has warned that any moves by the Federal Government of Nigeria to re-arrest the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, will not only be counter productive but will jeopardize the existing fragile peace in the country.

FHRACC National President, Alaowei Cleric, Esq, handed down the warning in statement signed.

The President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, has said Nigeria is passing through a difficult phase of nation building, economic recession, rising insecurity and threat to its corporate existence as a nation due to actions of some citizens.

In view of this, Saraki called on Nigerian pilgrims currently performing this year’s hajj to pray for the nation.

Comrade Moses Olafare, the Director of Media and Public Affairs to the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, on Wednesday said the official reaction to his crashed marriage to former Olori Wuraola, would be made public soon.

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s latest comment that he was pleased with Nigeria’s economic situation as another pointer to the fact that the President has lost touch with the economic realities in the country.

Fayose said “It is strange that a President will say that he is pleased with sufferings being experienced by his people.”

Another ritualist’s den has been discovered in a tunnel at the Challenge area of Mushin, Lagos State.

One of the suspected ritualists was burnt alive, while two others were rescued by the Police from being lynched on Wednesday.

The founder of Zara, Amancio Ortega, has beaten Bill Gates in the number one position of the world’s richest man.

In a new release by Forbes on Wednesday, Ortega beat out Bill Gates to become the richest person on Earth.

He currently has a $200 million edge over Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, due in part to a particularly good week for the stock of Inditex, Zara’s parent company.

Chairman, National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has enjoined party members to be guided by the principles of mutual accommodation and the knowledge that power comes from God.

Makarfi stated this yesterday while inaugurating caretaker committees for Lagos and Kwara states at PDP national secretariat, Abuja.

Sen. Aliyu Wamakko, representing Sokoto North Senatorial District, on Thursday secured the freedom of 21 inmates of Sokoto Central Prison after paying their N2.1 million fine.

The Nigerian Army said on Thursday it had neutralised several Boko Haram commanders and many of their foot soldiers in the ongoing operation against the insurgents in the North East.

Army spokesman, Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, said in a statement that the operation was conducted jointly with the Nigerian Air Force.

Unknown gunmen, suspected to be militants, have killed four soldiers and a civilian in an ambush along the creek of Letugbene in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

Five Nigerian Pilgrims Die in Saudi Arabia

Five Nigerian pilgrims to this year’s hajj in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, have died.

The Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), Abdullahi Mohammed, announced the passage of four of the pilgrims yesterday in Makkah, Islam’s holiest city.

Two organs of the United Nations (UN) have denounced an ultimatum issued by members of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum for demanding that Igbo resident in all parts of northern Nigeria vacate the area by October 1, 2017. The two UN bodies also condemned death threats targeting members of Nigeria’s Igbo ethnicity.

Ovation Magazine publisher, Chief Dele Momodu, has reacted to crash of the union between Olori Wuraola and Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi.

Momodu penned a message to the Ooni via his Instagram page.

The wife of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Queen of Ife, Olori Wuraola, has spoken about the reported breakup of their marriage, admitting that she is no longer with her Oba Adeyeye.

The ‘Queen’ had remained quiet ever since the news of the crash of the marriage hit the social media, but has now come out to debunk the news of her alleged infidelity, saying it was falsehood perpetrated by some persons.

The Lagos State Government has asked the Supreme Court to quash the judgment of a Lagos Court of Appeal that acquitted Maj. Hamza al-Mustapha, Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha and Alhaji Lateef Shofolahan in the murder of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola.

Lagos had prayed the apex court to uphold the death sentence awarded against Mustapha and Shofolahan by Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos State High Court on January 30, 2012.

The Muslim Students of Nigeria (MSSN) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to address the ongoing calls for restructuring of the country.

MSSN while felicitating with the President over his return to the country, tasked him to be more dogged, resolute and focus more on the war against corruption and threat to the national unity to which the calls for restructuring and resource control is among.

A condemned murderer, Jeremy Morris from Atmore Alabama has reportedly eaten 1200 pages of the Holy bible he requested from a prison guard.

The 33-year-old and murderer of two catholic nuns requested the bible as his last meal.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday commiserated with victims of the recent Hurricane Harvey in Houston, USA.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, who issued a statement on behalf of the President and people of Nigeria specifically commensurate with Nigerians who are living over there, describing the incident as unfortunate.

Second Republic lawmaker, Junaid Mohammed, says the Federal Government should have quietly approach the Federal High Court Abuja which granted leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu bail to revoke same.

The victorious female national basketball team has been received by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa.

Saudi Arabia on Wednesday officially started the Hajj pilgrimage in 2017 with more than 2 million pilgrims, including 1.8 million foreigners, expected to participate.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in in a telephone conversation on Wednesday, agreed to work together to seek stronger UN Security Council sanctions against North Korea.

On Tuesday, North Korea test fired an intermediate-range Hwasong-12 ballistic missile. Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said that the missile flew over Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido before falling into the Pacific Ocean 1,180 km east of the island.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday called on China to exert a greater amount of pressure against Pyongyang, and emphasised Beijing’s critical role in the international efforts to curb North Korea’s nuclear provocations.

“China has, I think, a very key role to play in terms of the pressure it can bring … I have said this to President Xi [Jinping], others have as well.

The former South Korean spy agency chief was on Wednesday sentenced to four years in prison for ordering the National Intelligence Service (NIS) officials to meddle in the 2012 presidential election.

The Seoul High Court sentenced former NIS head Won Sei-hoon, who led the spy agency from 2009 to 2013 under former President Lee Myung-bak, to four years in jail.

Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has said that the demands of striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), presented in a new letter to government would be submitted to the Federal Executive Council (FEC) at its meeting today (Wednesday), in Abuja.

The presidency has said it was high time the Abuja Federal High Court sent the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu back to jail and the “key dumped in the middle of Atlantic Ocean” for flouting his bail conditions.

The Personal Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social media, Laurretta Onochie, gave the call on Tuesday in a statement on her Facebook wall.

Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has revealed that the plots to remove former President Goodluck Jonathan from power during the 2015 presidential election were mainly planned, hatched and perfected in Sokoto, the seat of the Caliphate.

Amaechi made this revelation when he paid a courtesy visit on Governor Aminu Tambuwal, at the Government House.

Suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, also known as Evans and five others were on Wednesday hauled up before an Ikeja High Court in Lagos.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Evans was arraigned alongside Uche Amadi, Ogechi Uchechukwu, Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu, Chilaka Ifeanyi and Victor Aduba pleaded guilty to the two-count charge of conspiracy and kidnapping slammed on them.

Only African leaders travel abroad for healthcare – Minister mocks Buhari, others

South Africa’s Minister of Health, Aaron Motsoaledi, has mocked African leaders who seek medical attention outside the continent, a category President Muhammdu Buhari falls under.

He said the practice has become a major drain on their countries’ health expenditures.

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has expressed Nigeria’s gratitude to United States government for approving the sale of 12 A-29 Super Tucano aircraft to Nigeria.

As part of the deal, thousands of bombs and rockets will also be shipped to the country.

Osinbajo on Tuesday via his Twitter handle, said the decision would aid Nigeria’s fight against the insurgency in the North-east.

Suspected billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike aka Evans will be arraigned before an Ikeja Division of the Lagos State High Court on Wednesday.

The alleged kidnap kingpin would appear before Justice Hakeem Oshodi.

The Niger State Police Command has said that two notorious ritualists: Abdulrashed Aminu (22) and Ismaila Mohammed (27), who were in possession of a fresh human head said to belong to an 8-year-old boy, have been arrested along Minna-Paikoro road’s junction during a stop and search operation.

According to the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Babalola Olanrewaju Adewole, the arrest was a product of a sustained monitoring of the syndicate which specialized in beheading their victims for ritual purposes in some parts of Niger State.

He stated that the beheaded boy was later, identified as Hassan Abubakar of Bakajeba village in Paiko Local Government area of the state.

Adewole added that the two suspects have confessed to the crime during interrogation at the Homicide section of the State Criminals Investigations and Intelligence Department {SCIID] Minna.

“The suspects said they cut off the head of the deceased little boy with the use of two sharp knife.

“The third member of the syndicate, one Ibrahim, escaped arrest by the police. The two arrested suspected ritualists are from Lupa and Makera respectively while Ibrahim who is currently at large hails from Paiko Local Government of the state,” the Police spokesman said.

He further disclosed that the suspects have taken the police to the spot where the headless body of the 8 year old boy was buried in a bush path very close to where the culpable homicide was committed.

Meanwhile, the bereaved father of the 8 year old boy, Mallam Abubakar Shuaib, said that his son was last seen on Saturday August 26, while taking a kettle of water from the house to give an unknown person who was said to have been waiting outside his house on the fateful evening.

He stated that all effort to get the boy failed until he heard that the police had arrested a suspect with human head, and he later identified the victim to be his son.

8 dead, 7 injured as bus falls off Onitsha-Delta bridge

No fewer than eight persons have lost their lives while seven others were severely injured when a commercial bus fell off a bridge and plunged on the Itakpe-Aladja railway line, which is 50 feet below.

The lone crash involving a commercial bus with registration number BMA 524 XA, occurred yesterday around the Agbor/Ogwashi-Uku axis of the Benin-Asaba-Onitsha highway.

Nollywood actress, Uche Jombo, who was rumored to have quietly and secretly left her marriage to Kenney Rodriguez, has taken to her social media page to react to the fresh report.

Recall that some weeks ago, the actress’ husband was reported to have been romantically involved with a lady in her 20’s identified as Teresa.

The report further added that the actress’ husband and the alleged side chick have been seen on dates.

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