247NEWZUPDATE: February 2016

Sunday 28 February 2016

We’re In Nigeria For Money – Nigerians Arrested For Robbery (Photo)

Five Niger Republic nationals arrested for armed robbery have told police detectives that they came to Nigeria to make money.

The suspects, Mustapha Musa (21), Abdulahi Ali (21), Saidi Isa (21), Ali Alisuma (22), Yakubu Adamu (22) and Isiaka Yakubu (23), were arrested by police patrol team at Tinubu on Lagos Island.

It was gathered that the suspects were all working as porters at Balogun Market before they met one Isa Musa from Borno State who introduced them to robbery.

PIC. 2. CANDIDATES WRITING UNIFIED TERTIARY MATRICULATION EXAMINATION (UTME) IN ABUJA ON TUESDAY (10/3/15). 1256/10/3/2015/HF/BJO/CH/AIN/NAN

FILE: CANDIDATES WRITING UNIFIED TERTIARY MATRICULATION EXAMINATION (UTME) IN ABUJA ON TUESDAY (10/3/15). 1256/10/3/2015/HF/BJO/CH/AIN/NAN

The 2016 all Computer Based Test ( CBT) version of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) would not hold at the University of Lagos centre until March 7. Dr Beatrice Okorie, the Coordinator of JAMB National Head quarters Annex, Lagos, told journalists that this was because of the institution’s 2014/2015 convocation that would start on Monday , Feb.29 with the convocation lecture.

President Muhammadu Buhari in a chat with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hammad Al-Thani at the Amiri Diwan (Emir’s Office) in Doha, Qatar.

LAGOS (Reuters) – The OPEC cartel needs to take action to stabilise the oil market because crude prices have fallen “totally unacceptable” levels, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Sunday. President Muhammadu Buhari in a chat with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hammad Al-Thani at the Amiri Diwan (Emir’s Office) in Doha, Qatar.

Nigerien special forces prepare to fight Boko Haram in Diffa

Our gallant military seems to have upped its game against the Boko Haram militants following series of ‘back to back’ victories recorded.

Here are photos of vehicles, weapons and Improvised Explosives Making Devices (IEDs) -recovered from the deadly sect at Kotokuma, Dikwa Local Government Area in Borno state on Friday.

Earlier this week Whatsapp celebrated its 7th years anniversary with its 1 Billion Active users, instead to break a bad news on such a good day, the team decided to wait till on Friday when they announced that: the app will soon be discontinued on BlackBerry and Nokia devices running those company’s operating systems.

In spite of the death sentence slammed on the General Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly (CPA), Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeugo (aka Rev. King), one of his diehard godsons, Austin King, has said that it is humanly impossible to hang the condemned cleric.

Austin made this claim in an exclusive interview in Ajao Estate, Lagos, Saturday.

In this era where there is an “unjust” pontification on Beauty over the brain, one needs to wonder a little the trends that preceded and made things turn that way.

Its a common thing to see people who made success in the fashion, entertainment, modelling and many other relevant industries that will be placed in the “beauty” category being giving more than enough kudos and attention.

The story of Bread seller turned model Olajumoke and most recently the first Unilag graduate to have hit the much coveted “perfect distinction” of 5.0. Their cases can be said to be a perfect and the most relevant example of the beauty and the brain.

When I was in primary school, I never knew the Nigerian National Anthem was in English language.

The Nigeria Association of Zoological Gardens has attributed last month’s escape of a lion at the Jos Wild Life Park to the general dilapidation of the facility. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the lion, which escaped when the door to its cage was opened for its morning food was later killed. This is contained in a communiqué issued by Dr Olajumoke Morenikeji and Mr Andrew Ehanire, the President and Secretary of the association, after a working visit to the park.

President, Benin Republic, Boni Yayi and President Muhammadu Buhari

The Federal Government has donated 15 Hilux operational vehicles and 100 motorcycles to the Independent National Electoral Commission of Benin Republic to enable it conduct credible presidential election. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Bulus Lolo, who presented the items in Cotonou, said that free, peaceful and credible election in Benin was of interest to Nigeria. President, Benin Republic, Boni Yayi and President Muhammadu Buhari The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the presidential elections will be held in Benin on March 6, 2016 and 36 candidates have been cleared to contest the election.

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2019 Senate Seat: No Rift With Gov Ahmed - Rafiu Ibrahim.

Senator Rafiu Ibrahim (Kwara South) has denied there is a rift between him and Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed. Some online publications recently claimed there is a feud between the two caused by the alleged desire of Ahmed to replace Ibrahim at the Senate in 2019

Below is the text of Senator Ibrahim's press release

The insinuation of rift between myself and the state Governor in some quarters is an act of gullibility and a total wrong of miscalculation of some idle minds.

Switzerland Gianni Infantino, on Friday, was elected the new President of the 112-year-old world soccer governing body, FIFA, for the remainder of the current term of office (until 2019). Infantino was elected by the Extraordinary FIFA Congress held in Zurich, Switzerland, according to Fifa.com. New FIFA President, Gianni Infantino He was elected as the 9th FIFA President after the second ballot with 115 of 207 total votes. In line with the FIFA Statutes, the mandate of the new FIFA President started after the conclusion of the Congress.

Buhari and Soyinka

LAST week’s call by Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on President Muhammadu Buhari to summon a conference of eggheads to help him chart ways out of our current economic woes was more loaded than met the ordinary eyes. It was a message garbed with uncaccustomed subtlety from Soyinka, who is usually finger-in-your-eye with words when addressing what he perceives as lapses in a regime he does not fancy.

Yes, indeed, the President Muhammadu Buhari All Progressives Congress (APC) Federal Government is full of Soyinka’s friends, including a former governor of an oil-rich state whose traducer successor alleged he spent N80 million on the respected professor’s 80th birthday bash (which the former governor pooh-poohed).

PDP chairman, Alimodu-Sheriff

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, alerted members of the party and the general public of a fake online registration portal- www.pdpmembership.org/register, stating that the portal neither belongs to the party or is the party associated with it.

he vice chancellor, University of Ilorin, Professor Abdulganiyu Ambali, on Tuesday urged professional chemists to be more vibrant on issues affecting environmental conditions of average Nigerians. This, he said would go a long way in reducing diseases inherent in environmental changes among the teeming populace.

Harmony Holdings is set to begin Phase 2 of the strategic growth plan by creating more opportunities in the economy of the state with a view to generating more resources and employment opportunities for Kwarans. This was contained in a statement issued in Ilorin by the Head of Corporate Affairs, Kayode Aremu

The second phase include the upgrading of the Patigi Regatta and Nupe Durbar into a world class tourism point, while plans are on-going to resuscitate the abandoned Satellite Motel Ilorin, Kwara Paper Converter Erin-Ile and Kwara Cashew Processing Company Ltd Ogbondoroko.

Five gunmen suspected to be cultists have shot dead a second year student of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin.

The Punch correspondent gathered on Wednesday that the assailants were said to have run away after killing the student, whose name had yet to be ascertained. Some of the students of the institution, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they suspected the victim to be a member of a rival cult group.

Gunmen Attack Students Of Abraham Adesanya Polytechnic, One Shot Dead (Graphic Photos)
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Students of Abraham Adesanya Polytechnic living at kings villa, Depolu,ojowo, Ijebu – Igbo were attacked last night with two injured and one shot dead.

The deceased, identified as Oduntan Azeez was an NDII student of Business Administration of the institution.

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Speaking on Friday during the StateCraft Masterclass event at the Social Media Week, Lagos, Saraki said his assets declaration trial is more of ‘persecution’ than an actual fight against corruption.

When asked by Declan Galvin of Sahara Reporters why he had thus far, failed to walk away from the position of Senate President, he said: “It is not a fight against corruption, it is more about being persecuted.”

By Tabia Princewill Nina Simone, the “high priestess of soul” sang “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” in the ’60s, an era synonymous with the Civil Rights movement in America, decolonisation and the first military coups back home. To quote some of her lyrics, she said: “Young, gifted and Black, we must begin to tell our young, there’s a world waiting for you, this is a quest that’s just begun, when you feel really low, yeah, there’s a great truth you should know, when you’re young, gifted and Black, your soul’s intact”.

The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, in a statement issued on Friday disclosed the enrollment statistics of candidates from different states in the country.

Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, on Friday, appealed to the presidency to intervene in the incessant bloody clashes between Fulani herdsmen and the farmers in the State, regretting the sad development had claimed many lives and destroyed valuable properties. The governor’s appeal followed a renewed attack of the people by the Fulani herdsmen who invaded the state.

A MTN service provider tries to register a client's SIM card in Lagos, on October 27, 2015. Nigeria's telecommunications regulator has fined South African mobile giant MTN $5.2 billion for missing a deadline to disconnect unregistered SIM cards, the company announced on Monday. The penalty saw shares in Africa's largest telecommunications company crash more than 12 percent to 167 rand on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, the biggest fall the firm has suffered in a day since November 1998. AFP PHOTO

The Federal Government has confirmed the payment of N50 billion by Mtn as part payment of the N1.04 trillion fine by the Nigerian Communications Commission. Confirming this to newsmen on Friday, the Special Assistant to the Minister of Communications, Mr. Victor Oluwadamilare, said the payment by telecom company was made with a precursor for an out of court settlement over the matter.

Former Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia, has been re-appointed coach of the national team. Siasia got the big job back on Friday as replacement for his former colleague, Sunday Oliseh, who resigned.

The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde has stated that candidates participating in the 2016 Computer based Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, UTME, will get their results after 30 minutes of the examination.

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The most difficult age for any man born in Nigeria should be between 24 and 29 years, the pressure to be something, to be someone is so immense.

When you look around you everyone seems to be doing something for themselves, people seem to be living a life you only dream of. You have applied for jobs and the results have been more disappointing than Yakubu Aiyegbeni penalty kick at the world cup.

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The Supreme Court has okayed the convicted General-Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly, Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, a.k.a Rev. King to die by hanging.

Police withdraw Tompolo’s security aides

WARRI- GOVERNOR of one of the South-South states and prominent Ijaw leaders in Delta region have counseled the ex-General Officer Commanding, GOC, defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, to show up before the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, which renewed a bench warrant for his arrest on Monday. An Ijaw leader, who preferred anonymity told Vanguard, yesterday:

Former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku has described the achievements recorded by Ondo State governor, Olusegun Mimiko as true transformation while stressing that the country will realize its dreams if the kind of welfare services provided Ondo State Govt becomes a common sight in other part of the country.

Emmanuel Adebayor, who plays as a forward for Premier
League club – ‘Crystal Palace’, shared this photo of herself spending
time with his daughter.

A former National Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) and Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje has commended President Muhammadu Buhari over his plan to reintroduce Teachers Training Colleges (TTC) in the country.

Baraje who is a retired teacher and proprietor of an Islamic academy said Buhari's plan was in the right direction.

Two very young boys were caught in the early hours today after stealing a television and some other household items.

The Kwara Government on Tuesday advised farmers in the state to embrace modern farming technology to boost their productivity. The state Coordinator, Agro Mall, Mr Tope Amujo, who gave the advice in an interview with newsmen in Ilorin, restated government's commitment to modern farming for sustainable food security in the state.

**says situation is embarrassing By Levinus Nwabughiogu ABUJA – In a development that has openly shown his anger and dissatisfaction with the controversy trailing the 2016 budget proposal currently being debated at the National Assembly, President Mohammadu Buhari has vowed to deal decisively with those said to be the masterminds of the “budget padding”. This was even as the President, for the first time, admitted that the budget he submitted to the national legislature late December 2015 for approval had been utterly doctored.

Dedemur releases his first official single for the year titled Orimi Tete Sowo. This new song is not just a song but a prayer.

President Buhari this afternoon met with King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, the King of Saudi Arabia.

The meeting held at the Royal Protocol, Riyadh, KSA. Buhari is currently in Saudi Arabia to discuss the falling price of crude oil and also sought for investors.

President Olusegun Obasanjo, in his memoir, ‘My Watch’, revealed his number of children in the order they were born. Of the highly-successful 20 children, 19 are biological, except Kunle, his nephew.

Widow of a slain commercial motorcyclist aka Okada rider Monsuru Fowotade Alapini, has said she advised her husband against going out that fateful day.

Alapini was stabbed on the chest by some suspected cultists in Oworonsoki, Lagos, on Valentine’s Day and died on his way to Gbagada General Hospital.

Prof David Cahill and Dr Aamna Ali carried out the operation after its mum Kera, 11, suffered a life-threatening pre-eclampsia and it was feared that it and it’s unborn baby could die if she went into labour. She was rushed to a clinic at the zoo.

Troops stormed the railway police station, Umuahia in the Abia State capital monday and whisked away the divisional police officer (DPO) and another policemen after raining blows on them following the arrest of an army captain for parking his bus at an unauthorised place close to the station.

Nigerian sailors rescued a hijacked oil tanker in a dramatic night-time rescue in which they killed one pirate, the Nigerian navy announced as it escorted the ship into Lagos harbour.

Four pirates were captured while another two members of the gang escaped in a separate boat. One other pirate was killed in the army raid on the Panama-flagged Maximus, owned by a company in the United Arab Emirates, said Rear Admiral Henry Babalola.

Suspected Fulani Militias have continued to bombard Akwu village in Agatu LGA, popular Benue journalist, Yemi Itodo told DAILY POST.

According to NEMA who shared the photos on their Facebook page, the thief identified as Suleiman Abba was caught red handed today by Task Force stealing food items from IDP camp in Maiduguri, Borno State.

Students of a primary school have shocked policemen after they were caught performing occultic rituals and seeking black power that will enable them become rich, charm girls and become stronger.

Authorities of Mary Afriyie SDA JHS at Mamponteng in the Kwabre District of the Ashanti Region have been shocked beyond wits after six students and a primary 6 pupil were caught allegedly performing occult acts,Ghanaweb reports.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) ‎has given candidates who could not upload and complete their registration process as at February 5, could do so within 48 hours starting from 12 midnight of Tuesday, February, 2016 to 12:00am on Thursday.

The board, in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by its Head of Media, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said‎ that its website would be open to candidates from 12:00am on Tuesday to 12:00am on Thursday for candidates to complete and upload all late registration.

Fertility experts are warning man that using a mobile for as little as an hour a day is “cooking sperm” and lowering level significantly. The new study shows that having a mobile phone close to the testicles – or within a foot or two of the body – can lower sperm levels so much that conceiving could be difficult.

There was pandemonium in Benin on Tuesday, as a 75-year-old pensioner, Sunday Oboite, collapsed and died while waiting on queue for screening at the Oredo local government council.

Sources at the local government council disclosed that the council which called for the screening, is owing the pensioners nine months pension arrears.

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