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Monday, 3 April 2017

Again, police re-arraign Seun Egbegbe, four others for serial frauds

The police, for the third time, have re-arraigned a Nigerian film maker, Olajide Kazeem, better known as Seun Egbede, and his alleged accomplice, Oyekan Ayomide, for alleged serial frauds involving N39, 098,100, $90,000 and £12,550.

Devastating mudslides in the Colombian town of Mocoa killed at least 254 people including 43 children, President Juan Manuel Santos said Sunday, as survivors described gruesome scenes amid the ruins.

Then Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, has assured Nigerians that the Federal Ministry of Health would check the scourge of meningitis ravaging some states.

The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, with tank crews, in an undated photograph.
Photograph: KCNA/Reuters

Donald Trump has issued China with an ultimatum that if it fails to put pressure on North Korea to disable its nuclear programme, then the US is prepared to take action against Pyongyang on its own.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has said the government will protect the interest of Nigerians living abroad.

Key stakeholders from the coastal Gbaramatu Kingdom, Delta State, where ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo (aka Tompolo), hails from have met with the federal government officials to prepare the ground for participation in the new policy to introduce modular refineries in the Niger Delta.

A Lagos businessman, Mr. Raji Rasheed Oyewumi, has filed a suit at the Federal High Court Abuja seeking the nullification of the screening of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu by the Senate.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has said that corruption cannot be totally wiped out.

In an interview with a popular media outfit, he pointed out that even in advanced nations of the world, the menace has not been fully eradicated.

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor E.A Adeboye, today in his sermon at the Church's headquarters at Redemption Camp, told his members why they shouldn't marry girls from Facebook.

With their largely unfettered access to the nation’s treasury and legal or illegal sumptuous rewards for getting elected or appointed into different offices, the Nigerian politician can be excused his or her trade-mark haughtiness while enjoying income not earned and reveling in comfort not worked for.

Former Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of worsening Nigeria’s economic and political system in the last two years.

The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has denied having certificate scandal.

He said it was troubling and unfair to categorise him with persons having issues with their certificates.

,Many people were saved at a wedding party in Maiduguri, yesterday, as a teenage suicide bomber, who attempted to detonate a bomb at the ceremony was attacked by a dog.

The former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on electronic media, Pastor Reno Omokri has said that the former President made a total of six “A”s and two credit passes in his West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WAEC which he sat in June 1978.

Nothing will stop President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration’s war against corruption, the Presidency said yesterday.

It said that not even the strong resistance being put up by the opposition and its calculated actions to thwart the efforts at sanitising the system would force the government to give up on the crusade.

The face-off between the Senate and the Presidency is set to escalate upon the Senate’s rebuff of the plea by Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, to defer the summons to the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (retd).

Nigeria has in the last 10 years dropped from being the second highest gas flaring nation in the world to now occupy the seventh position, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) disclosed yesterday.

Arsenal’s transfer policy has been slammed by Emmanuel Petit, with the Gunners accused of panic buying in recent years.Throughout Arsene Wenger’s reign, a close eye has been kept on the club’s bank balance.

A fresh corruption charge now awaits the immediate past Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice Innocent Azubike Umezulike in court.

Both organs of the federal government controlled by the party had developed a frosty relationship over some issues relating to appointments by the executive, including the nomination by President Muhammadu Buhari of Mr Ibrahim Magu who is now acting as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

President Muhammadu Buhari may not heed the call by the Senate for the sack of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, despite ongoing efforts to end their face-off, according to reports.

The latest external reserves position showed it fell by $67 million compared with the $30.231 billion it was two weeks ago.
As a result of the central bank’s decision to enhance FX liquidity in the market last month, which led to significant appreciation in the value of the naira, the CBN had adjusted its FX policy.

Nigeria is set to boost her daily production of crude oil as the Nigerian Agip Exploration Limited (NAE) begins work on Zabazaba deep water project that is expected to gulp $13.5 billion. The oil giant will begin to receive commercial proposals for the project this month (April).

A Lagos High Court has declared Apostle Adebayo Abiola as the Supreme Head of Cherubim and Seraphim Unification Church, after removing Apostle Solomon Alao. Justice Lawal-Akapo, in a judgment, restrained Alao from occupying the Office of the Supreme Head of Cherubim and Seraphim Unification Church or perform the duties and functions of the Supreme Head of the church.

The Department of State Services (DSS) has cleared Senate President Bukola Saraki and members of the National Assembly over what it described as “malicious falsehood’’ being spread around by one of its dismissed officers, Abdulrasheed Maigari, who recently claimed that he and other security personnel, including an army captain stole N310 million from the Senate President while guarding his house in Maitama, Abuja.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Governors are set to remove Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, as chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) and replace him with a Governor from the South West.

Local airlines are weighed down by a yearly wage bill of N39.2 billion for expatriate pilots and engineers.Some of these domestic carriers which are already in distress parade no fewer than 682 foreign pilots with cumulative wage bill in excess of N3.27billion a month. Foreign maintenance engineers are also in the excess of 300 across the board.

Charles Chukwuemeka Oputa, popularly known as Charlyboy, has lamented what he described as activities of “bunch of irresponsible” lawmakers in the National Assembly.

The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, saturday lauded Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti for setting Ekiti on a solid rock in the education sector, saying the governor has begun to re-enact efforts that would bring back her old glory, when the state led in education.

Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, has said he will only retire from football when he is dead, as he is too addicted to the game.

The Bauchi State Police Command has arrested a 55-year-old man, Abdulkadir Mohammed in Gamawa Local Government Area of Bauchi State, along with his 20-year-old daughter for attempted murder.

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has said its Petroleum Tanker Drivers had been mobilised to ensure no movement of petroleum tankers as their nationwide strike begins on Monday.

PDP Caucus Accuses Tinubu, EFCC of Conspiracy to Destroy Senate

The Senate caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused one of the national leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, of working in cahoots with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to destroy the senate by impugning the integrity of members of the upper chamber of the National Assembly.

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has said that the Yoruba nation is unshaken in its support for President Muhammadu Buhari’s government.

A former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi, has shed light on the strategy allegedly deployed by former generals to ensure the emergence of a former military Head of State, Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, as the country’s president in 1999.

Leicester City 2 Stoke City 0: Ndidi, Vardy smash Shakespeare into the record books

Leicester City continued their turnaround under Craig Shakespeare as a pair of fine goals secured a 2-0 Premier League victory over Stoke City that further boosted the champions' survival bid.

Seun Egbegbe’s brother and two others have been arrested by the police in Lagos State for allegedly aiding the Nollywood Producer as he robbed big phone shops.

Nigerian musician, Ebenezer Obey Fabiyi, also known as Chief Commander, has revealed that most of his music compositions are done right inside the toilet.

More than 300 million people are now living with depression, which is the leading cause of ill health and disability worldwide, according to the latest estimates from the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Chloroquine syrup used to illustrate the story [Photo credit: JUHEL Nigeria Limited]

Eleven years after Nigeria banned the use of oral artemisinin-based monotherapies (oAMTs) for malaria treatment, chloroquine, a notable oAMT, is still readily available at patent medicine stores across the country and is being used for treatment of malaria.

The Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima has led a large delegation of important personalities from the state, to meet with the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, to mediate on the six month suspension slammed on former Majority Leader, Ali Mohammed Ndume.

A Nigerian Journalist, Chris Ayo Joseph has taken to his Instagram page to pen down a post on why Bisola has remained a single mother for long.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday disclosed that it had received reports that some customers seeking to buy foreign exchange (forex) for business travel allowance (BTA), personal travel allowance (PTA), medical and school fees were being frustrated by some banks with the false claim that the CBN was not allocating enough forex for such invisible items.

Chief Chekwas Okorie, presidential candidate of the United Progressives Party, UPP, in the 2015 presidential election‎, has declared that the ‘leader’ appendage which many call former Lagos governor, Bola Tinubu, is just a nickname.

If you or someone you know suffers from sickle cell disease, hope is on the way. Iesha Thomas, who suffered from the disease herself, is the first person to be cured. This is huge!!!

The Benue State Commissioner of Police, Bashir Makama has pledged that masterminds of the recent Zaki Biam massacre in the state, the Fulani insurgency and other related killings will be nabbed in a month.

Popular Nigerian entrepreneur and Chairman of Heirs holdings, Tony Elumelu, on social media yesterday debunked reports that he graduated with a 3rd class.

Christian Benteke and Wilfried Zaha starred for Crystal Palace as they claimed a stunning 2-1 win at Premier League leaders Chelsea to give the chasing pack in the itle race a glimmer of hope.

A high ranking member of the Boko Haram terrorist group, Mr Bulama Kailani Mohammed Metele has surrendered to 145 Task Force Battalion, 5 Brigade troops at Damasak.

Manchester United's top-four hopes took a hit as they were held to another 0-0 draw in the Premier League at Old Trafford, this time by West Brom.

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