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      Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, was guest lecturer at the National Defence College, in Abuja, Tuesday, with the governor being frank in engaging his audience, the participants of course 28, amongst them military officers and civilian policy makers from Nigeria and other foreign countries. Zulum said, the unwillingness of persons in the corridors of power to tell leaders truth about issues and the unwillin gness of leaders themselves to hear the truth, are some of the major problems confronting leadership in Nigeria. The Governor, honoured an invitation by the college, to deliver a well researched paper with the title, “Strategic leadership: The challenges of Insurgency in Borno State” which was both academic and practical. Zulum discussed different aspects of strategic leadership, situating them with Nigeria’s in the last 50 years and gave account of experience working as commissioner from 2011 to 2015 and as governor in the last eight months...

        The Vice Chancellor of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU) in Abia State, Prof Francis Otunta has been accused of impregnating a 300 level student of Accounting of the institution. The allegation was contained in a petition written by a member of the University’s Governing Council, Dr Nelson O’Amanze Udenze. In the petition made available to LIB, it was revealed that the Vice Chancellor was also accused of impregnating a third year female student of accounting in 2017. He allegedly upgraded the student to final year status without any examination, allegedly graduated her and allegedly quickly sent her abroad to close the trial.  Prof Otunta was also accused of an alleged abuse of office and embezzling money meant for some staff of the university he allegedly suspended.  A member of the University’s Governing Counil, Dr Nelson Udenze who wrote the petition against the Vice Chancellor, told LIB that he is yet to go the p...

      A 60-year-old woman got married for the first time on Saturday, January 25, in Anambra state. The woman, fondly called Aunt Nwatoka, married a widower known as Mr. Okeke. The man is a Lagos-based businessman while the woman lives and works in Anambra state. Sharing the news, the bride's relative wrote: She's in her 60's and got married just yesterday for the very first time! Yes!! Isaac and I had to dash back to the village in Anambra state to witness the most beautiful wedding of this century! Aunt Nwatoka had never been married all her life. She's Isaac's aunt from his father's side and one of the best aunt in-law you can wish for. She took excellent care of my husband's grandma until she passed in her 90's. She was always there for the whole family each time we came home for Christmas or ... I was personally surprised but pleasantly so when a handsome Enugukwu man Mr. Okeke decided to take her hand in marriage. Aunt Nwatoka as she'...

     The lawmaker representing Ikeduru State Constituency, Hon. Uche Ogbuagu who was elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party has dumped his Umbrella. Ogbuagu formally announced his defection to the All Progressives Congress Party in a letter dated January 28, 2020.Read his defection letter below.

      President Buhari receives in audience Chairman MTN Group Mr Mcebisi Jonas in State House on 28th Jan 2020 MTN 3: President Buhari with Chairman MTN Group Mr Mcebisi Jonas and Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Isa Pantami as he receives in audience Chairman MTN Group in State House on 28th Jan 2020 MTN 5: President Buhari with L-R: Dr Kalli Zanna, MD MTN Nigeria Mr Ferdi Moolman, Chairman MTN Nigeria Mr Ernest Ndukwe, President MTN Group Mr Robb Shutter, Chairman MTN Group Mr Mcebisi Jonas, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Isa Pantami, Chief of Staff Abba Kyari, SGF Boss Mustapha and Exec. Vice Chairman NCC Prof. Umar Danbatta as he receives in audience Chairman MTN Group in State House on 28th Jan 2020.More photos below.

       President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Abuja said “harder times’’ await bandits whose disruptive activities have brought sorrow to Nigerians, kept many away from their means of livelihood, and heightened insecurity in parts of the country. The President, who received a delegation of Eminent and Respected Citizens of Niger State led by Governor Abubakar Sani Bello in State House, said the activities of the bandits h ad forced many to abandon their farms and homes, adding: “we will now be harder on them.’’ “I was taken aback by what is happening in the North West and other parts of the country. During our campaigns, we knew about the Boko Haram. What is coming now is surprising. It is not ethnicity or religion, rather it is one evil plan against the country. “We have to be harder on them. One of the responsibilities of government is to provide security. If we don’t secure the country, we will not be able to manage the economy properly,’’ he said. Presi...

        The perennial traffic on Ikorodu road occasioned by the failed portions between Ojota Interchange and Kudirat Abiola Junction will soon be history as the Lagos State Government has mobilised construction giant, Julius Berger to fix the road. The Special Adviser to Governor Sanwo-Olu on Works and Infrastructure, Engr. Aramide Adeyoye, who made this known today, said the stretch of that road both inward and  outward Lagos had defied palliative measures over time, adding that the time is ripe to address all the challenges once and for all to bring succour to the motoring public. She sought the understanding of road users during the renovation work as traffic will slow down along the affected corridor, noting that effective traffic management measures have been put in place to reduce congestion to the barest minimum. While appealing for the support and cooperation of general public and road users for any inconvenience the project might cause, Adeyoye...

     Lagos State Education District II, Maryland on Monday partnered the United Nations Information Centre, UNIC to educate students within the District on the popular genocidal murder of the the Jewish people some decades ago popularly called Holocaust with emphasis on the need for students to toe the path of virtue and eschew vices capable of nurturing animosity. The Tutor-General/Permanent Secretary of Education District II, Mrs. Elizabeth Anike Adekanye who addressed the students at the event underscored the application and implication of the Holocaust experience to the students in their relationship with their peer groups and colleagues. She advised teachers to always show love to the students, handle them like their own biological children, extend due courtesies to them, give them warm reception and be there to always assist them. Adekanye said that the programme was also designed to create the consciousness of brotherliness in the minds of the school childre...

      The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) is set to deploy additional air assets as well as NAF Regiment and Special Forces personnel to troubled areas in the Northwestern States currently combating armed baditry, kidnapping, cattle rustling and other related crimes, to beef up already existing security arrangements. This was made known today, 27 January 2020, by the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadque Abubarkar, while playing host to the Executive Governor of Katsina State, His Excellency Honourable Aminu Bello Masari, in his Office at Headquarters NAF Abuja. Speaking further during the visit, the CAS noted that the NAF, in conjunction with sister Services and other security agencies, would continue to work tirelessly to ensure the territorial integrity of the Nation, whilst dealing ruthlessly with all criminal elements that seek to undermine the security of Nigeria and Nigerians. Air Marshal Abubakar appreciated the laudable peace initiatives of the Katsina Sta...

      The Nigeria Customs Service has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to assist it in realizing the 2020 revenue target handed to it by the Federal Government. M. B Boyi, Customs Area Controller, Port Harcourt made the appeal on Tuesday January 28, 2020 during a courtesy visit to the Command by the Port Harcourt Zonal Head of the EFCC, Usman Imam. Boyi disclosed that while the Federal Gov ernment gave the Service a revenue target of N1.5trillion for 2020, the agency has a more ambitious projection of N2trillion. "Last year, government gave us a revenue target of N1trillion. We delivered N1.3trillion. This year, 2020, N1.5trillion is the target. But instead of N1.5trillion the management said we should make it N2trillion. We will do what we could to meet our target in this Command. This collaboration will help us. Where we have challenges we will call on you," Boyi said.More photos below.

     Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of a Federal High Court, Abuja on Tuesday, January 28, 2020, adjourned the trial of Abba Moro, a former Minister of Interior to February 25. Moro is facing prosecution by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) for procurement fraud and money laundering and for allegedly defrauding Nigerian applicants who applied for employment in Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) to the tune  of N675,675,000 (Six Hundred and Seventy-five Million, Six Hundred and Seventy-five Thousand Naira). The amount represents N1,000 obtained from each applicant through e-payment for the online recruitment exercise on March 15, 2014 - an exercise in which 15 applicants died with scores injured due to the ministry’s shoddy preparations for the exercise. He is charged alongside Anastasia Daniel-Nwobia, a former secretary in the ministry, F.O. Alayebami, a deputy director in the ministry, Mahmood Ahmadu, currently at large, and Drexel Tech Nigeria Limit...

       ANAMBRA STATE POLICE COMMAND DIARY:       DISASTER AVERTED AS PETROL TANKER LADEN WITH 45,000 LITRES OF PREMIUM MOTOR SPIRITS LOSS CONTROL AND CRASHED AT NNEWI TOWN. Today 28/1/2020 at about 7:30am, a Mark tanker with Registration number EFR 10 ZQ laden with forty five thousand litres of premium motor spirits (petrol) and driven by one Pedro Ojugbeli 'm' aged 39years of Delta State lost control and fell while it's contents spilled through the drainage at Traffic light junction   Nnewi town in Nnewi North local Government Area of Anambra State. Police patrol teams led by DPO Central Police Station Nnewi and other Sister Security Agencies rushed to the Scene, cordoned off the Area and diverted traffic to prevent calamity and looters from taking advantage of the situation to loot while fire service personnel equally responded and spread the truck and drainage with chemicals to prevent fire outbreak. Preliminary investigation revea...

    REPORT OF A FATAL TRAFFIC CRASH  FROM FRSC OGUN STATE BY OMI RIVER ALONG THE IBADAN - IJEBU ODE ROAD A FATAL CRASH INVOLVING A WHITE COLOURED MISTIBUSHI  CANTER  TRUCK WITH REGISTRATION NUMBER XE331MKA  OVELOADED WITH PASSENGERS  TRAVELLING FROM SOKOTO OCCURED AT THE  OMI RIVER, AJEGUNLE BRIDGE ALONG THE  IBADAN - IJEBU ODE HIGHWAY AT THE EARLY HOURS OF THIS MORNING. TUESDAY 28 JANUARY 2020 RESCUE OPERATIVES LED BY THE FRSC UNIT COMMANDER  IJEBU ODE AND  FRSC RESCUE OPERATORS FROM THE FRSC AGO IWOYE OUTPOST COMMAND WERE QUICKLY  MOBILIZED TO THE SCENE.. RESCUE OPERATIONS IS STILL ONGOING  HOWEVER 15 CORPSES ALL MALE ADULTS OUT OF THE PASSENGERS CRAMED INTO THE CANTER MINI TRUCK  HAVE BEEN RECOVERED FROM UNDER THE BRIDGE FROM THE  DRIED OMI RIVER SO FAR THIRTY  EIGHT PASSENGERS IN THE MINI TRUCK SUSTAINED VARIOUS DEGREES OF INJURIES AND RESCUED TO THE STATE HOSPITAL IJEBU ODE FOR MEDICAL TRE...

      ANAMBRA STATE POLICE COMMAND DIARY: EMERGENCY! Be informed that today 28/1/2020 at about 2:30pm,a Mack Tanker with Reg No JJJ 106 XU fully loaded with cooking gas lost control and crashed into the pavement of Onitsha/Awka Express way, about 150m away from the Pedestrian Bridge, MCC, Onitsha. The police and other emergency responders are on ground. Traffic has been diverted to a safer lane/route. Members of the public are kindly advised to keep off the area in view of the combustible nature of the product that the truck involved in the accident is carrying until the situation is brought under control and obstruction cleared please. SP Haruna Mohammed PPRO Anambra State Police Command, For-Commissioner of Police Anambra State Command. One more photo below.

       Gov. Sanwo-Olu, First Lady attend official launch of United Nations 'He-For-She Campaign' in Lagos State at Adeyemi Bero Auditorium, Alausa, Ikeja, on Tuesday, January 28, 2020.More details later and more photos below.