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 February 10, 2023 Press Statement PDP Expels Nnamani, Ogbu, Ajijola Others from the Party The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at its 566th meeting today, Friday, February 10, 2023, approved the expulsion of the following individuals from the Party for anti-Party activities and other grave offences in violation of the Constitution of the PDP (as amended in 2017) Those expelled from the Party are: 1. Senator Chimaroke Nnamani - (Enugu State) 2. Hon. Chris Ogbu          - (Imo State) Others are: 1. Ajijola Lateef Oladimeji -(Ekiti Central)  2. Olayinka James Olalere  -(Ekiti Central II) 3. Fayose Oluwajomiloju John -(Ekiti Central I) 4. Akerele Oluyinka  -(Ekiti North I) 5. Emiola Adenike Jennifer  -(Ekiti South II) The expulsion takes effect from today, Friday, February 10, 2023. The decision of the NWC is sequel to the recommendation of the National Disciplinary Committee and pursuant to Sections 58...

PRESS RELEASE UNWTO To Set Up Tourism Academy in Lagos - Minister The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the Federal Government and the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) are currently working with some private sector players to establish a Tourism Academy in Lagos. The Minister disclosed this in Lagos on Friday at the graduation of the first set of trainees of the Terra Kulture-owned Terra Academy For the Arts (TAFTA), saying the Academy will provide accessible vocational and managerial transformative training for the tourism and hospitality sector. “We are very keen to expand the opportunities available to our youths through training. I am therefore happy to announce that we are currently working with the UNWTO and some private sector players to establish a Tourism Academy in Nigeria. This initiative was launched and approved during the global conference on Tourism, Culture and the Creative Industry held in Lagos last November. “In recognition of ou...

Late Emir Of Kano Prayed For Me To Be Nigeria’s President – Atiku The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has said that the late Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, gave his seal of approval for him to become Nigeria’s President with prayers. Atiku stated this on Thursday during a visit to the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, pledging to do all in his power to uphold the late Emir’s legacy if elected as the country’s President. During the visit, Atiku expressed his gratitude for the warm reception and spoke highly of the late Emir, Alhaji Ado Bayero, whom he referred to as a great leader and a father figure to many Nigerians. “Whenever I come to Kano I feel at home. I still could remember the Late Emir Alhaji Ado Bayero. He prayed for me here at this palace to be the President of this country,” the PDP presidential candidate said.  

TARABA STATE GOVERNOR COMMENDS TROOPS' RESILLIANCE IN SUSTAINED OFFENSIVE AGAINST CRIMINAL ELEMENTS The Executive Governor of Taraba State, His Excellency, Architect Darious Dickson Ishaku has commended troops of the Nigerian Army for their sustained efforts towards flushing out criminal elements in state. Governor Ishaku made this know today when the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 3 Division and Commander Operation SAFE HAVEN (OPSH), Major General Abdulsalami Ibrahim paid him a courtesy visit in Government House Jalingo.  The Governor revealed that since the deployment of troops in the state, banditary and other forms of criminalities have been kept at low ebb. He further called on the people of the state to sustain the level of support and cooperation with security agencies to flush out the remaining criminal elements in the state. The Governor who also presented Certificate of Occupancy of the land donated by the state to the Nigerian Army (NA) for the construction of Headqua...

 Former Premier League footballer, Peter Ndlovu has claimed that he cannot afford to pay 568 in child support for two of his children because he has 11 other kids. Ndlovu, 49, who played in the Premier League for Coventry and also represented Birmingham, Huddersfield and Sheffield United, has become embroiled in a legal battle with the mother of the two children. She wants Ndlovu to pay her 1,420 a month, but the Johannesburg High Court ruled that he should pay her 568 a month, according to The Sun. Ndlovu, who in 1992 became the first African player to feature in the newly-formed Premier League stated that he has had no contact with the two children and hasn't spoken to their mother since their conception.   Ndlovu told the court: 'I have 13 children, including the two children I have with the first respondent.   'I'm obliged to contribute and see to the maintenance needs of all 13 of my children.   'I earn a monthly salary that is utilised for my own living expens...

LIVING ON SHOESTRING BUDGET We left Abuja on January 23, on a journey that would take us to Bauchi, Lagos, Senegal, Katsina, Kano, and Jigawa States. Return date was January 31, in the evening hours. Since January 31 was then the terminal date for key denominations of the naira to be legal tender, I didn’t want to be like the unwise cripple, who had been told that war was approaching, but who stayed put in the same spot. So I parked everything I had, every dime, and sent it to the bank. I didn’t want my modest funds to become something fit only for the museum. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) later secured a ten days extension of the deadline from President Muhammadu Buhari, which has now been further extended by a Supreme Court ruling. But it has not changed the fact that I’ve been spending the sum of N20,000 for one week, and I’m still spending it. Shoestring budget? Yes, you are right. That’s what it is. Major part of our Duty Tour Allowance (DTA) had been paid in old currency, so ...

PRESS RELEASE IGP ORDERS POSTING/REDEPLOYMENT OF SENIOR POLICE OFFICERS As Former Ogun CP moves to X-Squad The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, psc (+), NPM, fdc, in his effort to achieve maximum impact of community-based and strategic policing on the society, has ordered the provisional posting of CP Afolabi Babatola Adeniyi to the Adamawa State Police Command as its new Commissioner of Police pending approval of the Police Service Commission while the posting of CP Adebola A. Hamzat, fdc, has been varied to Commissioner of Police in charge of the Border Patrol Force, Force Headquarters, Abuja.   Similarly, CP Lanre Bankole Sikiru, the former CP Ogun State, has been posted to head the Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID) X-Squad at its Annex in Lagos State. The IGP has tasked the new CP X-Squad to deploy all requisite assets in ensuring sanity, professional standards and discipline in all ramifications..  The IGP has therefore charged the se...

 FG Will Obey S’Court Ruling against  Banning Old Naira Notes, Moves to Vacate Order - Malami Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, yesterday said while the federal government would obey the Supreme Court ruling, which put on hold the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) demonetisation policy, the government would take necessary steps to set aside the interim order. The Supreme Court had in a ruling on Wednesday suspended the CBN deadline for demonetisation policy and fixed February 15 for hearing on the matter.Malami clarified that the federal government, out of its regard for the rule of law, would abide by the order of the apex court, even though it intended to challenge it and would do so within the provisions of the law.

THE OGUN POLICE COMMAND HAS ARRESTED THE KILLERS OF FATINOYE COUPLE AND THEIR ONLY SON. The three suspects involved in the killing of Fatinoye couple and their only son have been apprehended by operatives of Ogun State police Command. The suspects, Lekan Adekanbi a.k.a Koroba, Ahmed Odetola a.k.a Akamo and Waheed Adeniji a.k.a Koffi were all arrested following painstaking intelligence based investigation embarked upon by men of the Command, as a result of the gruesome murder of the couple, Kehinde and Bukola Fatinoye and their only son Oreoluwa Fatinoye. The couple were killed in the most gruesome manner on the eve of New year celebration immediately they returned from Cross-over service, and the murderers also set their corpses ablaze in order to cover their tracks. Upon the report of the dastardly act, the Commissioner of Police directed the Homicide section of the State criminal investigation Department to take over the case and ensure that the culprits were brought to justice. In t...

El-Rufai Confirms Saying Tinubu Will Reverse New Naira Policy, Says ‘Pea-brained’ People Responsible Will Be Held To Account   Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, on Friday confirmed a statement attributed to him over the new naira policy.  The governor earlier said that the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu would reverse the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) naira redesign policy if elected next president on February 25. During a town hall meeting in Kaduna, El-Rufai, therefore, urged the people not to bother to deposit their old naira notes in banks. The governor on Friday responded to a Twitter user asking if he actually made the statement attributed to him. He wrote; "CONFIRMED VIDEO: Yes. I, Nasir @elrufai made the commitment and stand by it. Those intent on impoverishing citizens through pea-brained policies of sabotage against our nation and democratic rights will not only fail, but will be held to account in this world & here...

HOW I FOUND OUT MY STUDENT WAS MY NURSERY SCHOOL TEACHER - LECTURER 10th February, 2023    A lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Abia State University Uturu, Anucha Wisdom, has reunited with his nursery school teacher, who he calls Aunty Ijeoma. In a Facebook post that went viral on Friday, Wisdom narrated how he found that his old teacher was now his student. He wrote, "Early this week, I reconnected with Aunty Ijeoma, who was my Nursery 3 teacher at St. Joseph's Development Nursery/Primary School Umuchichi Aba. Fortunately, she has been a student in my department and I knew not, not until they came to take my course. 'Wisdom! Is that you?', She shouted at me. "'Aunty I.J, it's your boy,' I responded, as we threw ourselves on each other. The entire class almost went agog. Aunty IJ has really added more flesh. She was single then when she taught us.  "Quickly, I peeped into her bag to check if I could still see that her cane she'd always use...

President Buhari presides over Council of State Meeting in State House on 10th Feb 2023 Council of State 4: President Buhari with Former Head of State Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar, Former President Goodluck Jonathan, and Former Head of State Gen. Yakubu Gowon as he presides over Council of State Meeting in State House on 10th Feb 2023 Council of State 7: President Buhari with L-R: Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami, Senate President Ahmed Lawan, Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila, Former Head of State Gen. Yakubu Gowon, Former Head of State Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar and Former President Goodluck Jonathan during Council of State Meeting in State House on 10th Feb 2023. More photos below. 

 NIGERIA SECURITY AND CIVIL DEFENCE CORPS ( NSCDC ). LAGOS STATE COMMAND. PRESS RELEASE. FRIDAY, 10TH FEBRUARY, 2023. NSCDC LAGOS COMMAND ARRESTS TWO ( 2 ) SUSPECTS, RECOVERS TRUCK LOADED WITH AGO, STOPS ILLEGAL DEALERS FROM SYPHONING PETROLEUM PRODUCTS SUSPECTED TO BE STOLEN. Within barely three weeks of resumption of the new State Commandant, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps ( NSCDC ), Lagos State Command, Commandant of Corps Usman Ishaq Alfadarai, fdc, mpa, mnim, his new strategy and approach of anti - vandalism has continued to yield positive results, in the State without mincing words. Therefore, in line with the renewed and re - invigorated efforts of the new State Commandant, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps ( NSCDC ), Lagos State Command, Commandant of Corps Usman Ishaq Alfadarai, against oil pipeline vandalism, illegal dealings in petroleum products, economic sabotage and other forms of criminality, in Lagos State, the Corps has once again made another succ...

EFCC Arraigns Man For Alleged N30m Fraud in Lagos The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Thursday, February 9, 2023 arraigned one Ibukunoluwa Olaoye before Justice Mojisola Dada of a Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on a one-count charge bordering on stealing contrary to Section 287 (1) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015. The count reads: "Ibukunoluwa Olaoye, between 25th April 2022 and 26th April 2022 at Lagos within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court converted to your personal use, the sum of N30,000,000.00 (Thirty Million Naira), property of Odememfon Felix Ekarika and Chidi Odoemenam."  

  35-year-old woman jailed for luring teenage girls into prostitution in Delta State  A 35-year-old woman, Success James has bagged multiple jail terms for luring four teenage girls into prostitution.  The Anambra State Commissioner for Women’s Affairs and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo had two days to the 2022 Christmas celebration intercepted four girls aged between 13 and 15 years in Onitsha, who were into prostitution.  The girls confessed that a certain Madam Success, lured them into prostitution, with a promise of a job in a restaurant in Agbor, Delta State.  Obinabo had led security operatives to arrest Madam Success, who was also brought to trial in a Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence court in Awka.  The 35-year-old suspect was tried for offences of child labour, child exploitation, abduction of children and child stealing.  Chief Magistrate, Genevieve Osakwe who delivered judgement on the matter on Wednesday found Success James guilt...