Tiemkenfa Francis Osvwo 1 of the mastermind of october 1st 2010 independence day bombing in abuja died in kuje prison. His lawyer Mr Festus Keyamo, alleged that he was murdered by the authorities. Keyamo said this due to the maltreatment meted out to Osvwo in prison.
A 17-year-old HIV positive maid from Gutu, laced
the porridge of her employer’s four- year-old child
with menstrual blood.
This was revealed in court where the maid’s cruelty
earned her a 10-year prison term on Friday. She
will effectively serve eight years as two years were
suspended on condition of good behaviour.
Pelagia Mureya, originally from Choto Village in
Chinhoyi, carried out the disgusting act several
times until luck ran out on her when one day her
employer last week noticed a drop of blood when
her child was eating porridge and investigated.
The maid professed ignorance of the blood but
her inquisitive employer took the porridge, her
child and the maid to Hospital where tests
confirmed it was the maid menstrual blood.
This is absurd and wickedness at it's highest.
28 yr old Nigerian that married 71 yr old white woman finally relocates, the couple were spotted at the Muritala international airport on tuesday.
The Save Nigeria Group has asked the
Federal Government to sack the
Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido
Sanusi, over the N100m gift he gave to
the victims of Boko Haram attacks in
Kano State.
Also, the youth wing of the Christian
Association of Nigeria has disagreed
with the explanation given by the CBN
on the donation by the apex bank
governor, saying he should be sacked.
The SNG said the CBN governor
desecrated his office and violated the
laws of the land by manifesting ethnic
and religious bias in the discharge of
his duties.
It threatened to mobilise Nigerians to
the streets if the government failed to
sack Sanusi.
Addressing a news conference in
Abuja on Thursday, the SNG National
Coordinator, Benedict Ezeagu, stated
that Sanusi’s actions and utterances
portrayed him as “an undisciplined
politician instead of a public servant
engaging in dangerous brinkmanship
and taking advantage of Nigeria’s fault
lines and the impunity permeating the
public service.”
He said that Sanusi’s donation of
money that was not appropriated by
the National Assembly was “illegal,
provocative, divisive and a display of
clannish and ethnic bias.”
Ezeagu, who is also the Coordinator,
Lawyers of Conscience, explained that
the 1999 Constitution did not
authorise the CBN governor to
personally give out public fund.
He described the donation as an
usurpation of the statutory function of
the National Emergency Management
Agency.
The SNG activist took Sanusi to task
over his statement that the Boko
Haram insurgency was caused by the
13 per cent derivation formula,
describing this as reckless and a
questionable justification of the sect’s
activities.
Ezeagu said, “The most provocative of
his (Sanusi) actions is his recent
questionable diversion of a whopping
N100m from the CBN as a donation to
the government of his state of origin,
Kano, for the victims of the Boko
Haram insurgence without the
necessary appropriation by the
National Assembly and without
authorisation from the board of CBN
or the President/Federal Executive
Council.
“Apart from the illegality of his action,
the donation stands out today as the
pinnacle of ethnic bias and sectarian
favouritism considering the fact that
before the Kano incident, there had
been civil unrest, bombings and
fatalities in Abuja, Plateau, Borno,
Yobe, Niger, Adamawa, Nasarawa and
Oyo states.”
The SNG accused the CBN governor of
illegally donating N500m without
appropriation to the University of
Benin.
A board member of the CBN, Prof.
Sam Olofin, had defended Sanusi’s
action, saying the gesture was within
the purview of the corporate social
responsibility and mandate of the
apex bank.
He had said that the donation was not
made because Sanusi was from Kano
State, but that the huge damage
caused by the bomb blasts prompted
the apex bank to make the donation.
Quoting from the CBN Act, he had
said, “The Act in functions of
management said that the governor,
or in his absence, the deputy
governor nominated by him shall be
in charge of the day-to-day
management of the bank and shall be
accountable to the board for his acts
and decisions.
“So, there is no single action that the
governor takes to which he is not
accountable to the board or does not
entail clearance from the board.”
The Public Relations Officer of
YOWICAN, Pastor John Pofi, in a
statement obtained by our
correspondent on Thursday in Abuja,
condemned the donation by the CBN
to the Kano victims of Boko Haram
and called for the immediate sacking
of Sanusi.
A four-man robbery gang invaded the Governor’s
Office, Oke-Mosan, and attempted to steal a Toyota
Camry car with registration number Ogun AKM 146
AA.
The vehicle was parked behind the Ministry of
Education, Science and Technology, which is
located near the Governor’s Office in the state
secretariat.
It was learnt that the robbers struck around 9.40
am in a black Nissan Quest car with an Abuja
number plate BK 944 RSH.
But in their attempt to steal the car, the vehicle’s
security system triggered off.
The development attracted the attention of the car
owner – a civil servant – who consequently raised
the alarm and alerted other workers within the
premises of the ministry.
Sensing danger, the robbers made a desperate
move to escape from the scene and drove towards
the main gate of the secretariat.
The suspects rammed their vehicle through the
gate but a policeman, who was said to have laid in
ambush, shot one of the robbers in the thigh.
The robbers were said to have abandoned their
vehicle and fled into the bush opposite the
complex.
It was, however, learnt that a reinforcement team
of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, which joined in
chasing the bandits, killed one of them.
Governor Ibikunle Amosun, who incidentally was in
his office when the robbers struck, expressed
surprise at the effrontery of the men of the
underworld.
He lauded the gallantry of the security operatives
in foiling the robbery and restated the commitment
of his administration towards improving the
security situation in the state.
“This is part of what we met on ground. I told you
before that to buy guns in Ogun State is easier
than to buy water or a bottle of Coca-cola and that
is the example of what we have seen. Imagine if
people now have the effrontery to come into the
secretariat; it is unheard of,” Amosun said.
The Commissioner of Police, Nicholas Nkemdeme,
said the command had already launched an
investigation into the incident.
“This is one of the most embarrassing situations I
have ever met; for armed robbers to enter the
Government House. I don’t know what they
wanted and I am very happy that my boys gave
them what they wanted,” he said.
10 couples were selected from 100 applicants to participate in the valentine's day nude wedding at a Jamaican resort.
The Valentine’s day ceremony was the first nude
wedding event at the Jamaican resort since 2003.
There had been controversy over nude weddings
in 2001 when Simpson Miller, then Jamaica’s
tourism minister, said getting married without
clothes was at odds with how Jamaica should be
marketed.
According to Zein Issa-Nakash, a marketing vice
president of Superclubs, which owns
Hedonism,this time around there were no protests
by locals and pastors as there was a decade ago.
A man who thought he had explosives for an
attack was arrested Friday near the US Capitol as
part of anti-terrorism investigation, the FBI said in
a statement.
“Explosives the suspect allegedly sought to use in
connection with the plot had been rendered
inoperable by law enforcement and posed no
threat to the public,” the FBI said.
The FBI said the arrest was “in connection with a
terrorism investigation,” and “was the culmination
of an undercover operation during which the
suspect was closely monitored by law
enforcement.”
Fox News reported that the suspect was of
Moroccan descent and had expressed interest in
an attack on the Capitol to undercover FBI agents,
who he had thought were with Al-Qaeda.
