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                                                                                          President Zuma's statue Dear Rochas,   My hatred for the Western media is a global secret. I have personally boycotted them for over two decades. I would have maintained my blissful presumption that their flagship cable television has long gone extinct, if it were not for a recent event that had to do with your person.   You may not know but I discovered ‘’fake news’’. I discerned the West’s practice of fact-bending journalism and outed them long before the internet emerged and popularized ‘’fake news’’. This is the real reason they portray me as a buffoon, the humanoid baboon that reduced Zimbabwe from a food basket to a banana republic.   Notwithstanding my aversion for the Western press, some of my aides insisted, even at the risk of their jobs, that I permit them to monitor the enemy channels so they can serve me more useful briefing papers. I demurred at first, but later

              Kebbi State Accountant-General, Mohammed Arzika Dakingari and others were sentenced to prison The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secured the conviction of the Kebbi State Accountant-General, Mohammed Arzika Dakingari and others for their involvement in a N1.6billion fraud.  The Court of Appeal, Kebbi Division has upturned the judgment of a Kebbi State High Court which discharged and acquitted a Kebbi State Accountant-General, Mohammed Arzika Dakingari, on charges of conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence preferred against him and one other by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. He, among other things allegedly used his office as the Accountant-General, Kebbi State for personal enrichment to the tune of N1.6billion. Dakingari was charged alongside Musa Yusuf, Managing Director, Beal Construction Nigeria Limited; a company owned by him (Dakingari) and used in award various contracts to himself. Dakingari’s stake in Beal Con

I am a curious being Wondering in ignorance I want to know Since “man is born to know”- Aristotle. I beseeched the moon I bribed the stars I went before the harsh eyes of the sun But all were more ignorant than me. I walked and walked But on the road of my village I met a man named John But not the one called the Baptist.  I asked him, ‘ Onyekachi’ - Who is greater than God? And he started to preach like John the Baptist: “Chi- God is a being ever supreme His power is greater than power itself His voice is louder than voice itself And His name is famous than name itself.” My head became filled Having met John A man that answered my question: Onyekachi - Who is greater than God? Please if you see Onyechefula John Onyekachi Tell him these words of mine: “Having taught me the meaning of ‘ Onyekachi’ May Chi- God, bless you before the sun rises And may your light shine even after sun set. “May your new age, bring you to

Paul Akpederi, a 52-year-old retired civil servant, is now a ‘tenant’ in a Lagos police cell after taking her daughter’s virginity. The Delta State indigene, who lives on Adegbite Street, Ori-Okuta, in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State, was alleged to have raped his 15-year-old daughter, Rose, for over three years. According to the information gathered by PUNCH Metro , Paul started sexually abusing Rose when she was in Junior Secondary School Three. When the secret got to the knowledge of a teacher, Paul allegedly changed her school. The suspect was said to have continued the abuse until she got to Senior Secondary School Two in her new school. Rose’s former teacher was said to have run into her sometime in October 2017 and told a friend about Rose’s plight, who then alerted the Lagos State Office of the Public Defender through the agency’s social media platform. The officials of the agency reported the case to the police at the Owutu division, who then arrested the su

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has alleged that the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari is a government of lies and propaganda. He made this statement on Thursday in Abuja when he received one of the national chairmanship aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prof. Tunde Adeniran, and members of his campaign team in his office. The party will hold its national convention in Abuja on December 9 to elect its national officers. Jonathan said the solidarity being enjoyed by the party even though it lost election at the centre in 2015 showed that “there is something in the PDP.” While pledging to speak up some day on the achievements of the PDP in its 16 years in power, the former President took a swipe at the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), who as a state governor reportedly said that a serious government at the centre must be able to fix power within six months. Jonathan was the president when Fashola made the state

The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign state of Biafran, MASSOB, has rejected in strong terms to the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to approve payment of pension to police personnel who served under the defunct Biafran police during the civil war. According to a statement made by its National Director of Publicity, Samuel Edeson on Thursday, 19 th 2017, he described the move by President Muhammadu Buhari as an administration of medicine after death. MASSOB said Buhari was using the carrot to placate what it alleged Nigeria government’s atrocities against Igbos. The group noted that even if Buhari stepped down for an Igbo man to be president of Nigeria, it cannot change demand for Biafra. The statement reads: “‎the directive that ex- Biafra policemen should be paid is medicine after death. “For forty seven years after the civil war, these men have been denied their right. Why must it be now because president Buhari feel by doing so, Ndigbo and Biafr

                                                               Kwara State governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed (Photo: Premium Times) According to a statement issued by the Kwara State Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Abdulwahab Oba on Thursday revealed that a former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Saidu Isa, is dead. Until his death, Isa who died in the early hours of Thursday at the age of 71, was the Chairman Governing Council, Kwara State University, Malete, and occupied the same position at the Federal College of Education Osi-Ile, Abeokuta in Ogun State. The Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, described the death of a former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and one time Secretary to the State Government, Saidu Isa, as a big loss to the state and the country as a whole. The governor said the deceased made outstanding contributions and selfless services to humanity and his fatherland.  “My heart goes out to the families, friends and well-wishers of the for

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Abukabar Malami, SAN has disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari has directed all relevant agencies to compile documents on names of all looters with a view to promptly enforcing the judgment of a Federal High Court in Lagos ordering the government to release to Nigerians information about the names of high ranking public officials from whom public funds were recovered. The court also ordered the government to tell Nigerians the circumstances under which funds were recovered, as well as the exact amount of funds recovered from each public official. Mr. Malami made the disclosure during a meeting at his office in Abuja with a delegation from Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP). This development was disclosed on Thursday in a statement by SERAP Executive Director, Adetokunbo Mumuni. Mumuni said, “We had a very productive meeting with Mr Malami, discussing among other critical issues th

The ruling party, All Progressives Congress has said it will abide by its constitution to resolve the controversy over whether or not President Muhammadu Buhari will be given an automatic ticket to contest the 2019 presidential election. Governor of Bauchi State, Mohammed Abubakar, made this known while speaking to reporters in Abuja, after an expanded meeting of the party’s National Working Committee with state governors and principal officers of the National Assembly, at the party’s National Secretariat, on Wednesday. Abubakar, who was flanked by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, and the Senate Majority Leader, Ahmed Lawan, was asked whether the party’s presidential ticket was open to all or restricted to the President. He said, “This meeting has not deliberated on that but the APC has a constitution and that is one of the items that was discussed – the amendment to the constitution of the APC in order to faithfully hold the convention in

Seeing another day is a privilege and not a right. Thank you Jesus.

As part of the deliberate measures to curtail abuse and to prevent smuggling of tobacco products into the country, the Federal Government says it may increase taxes on Tobacco. This was made public in a statement made by the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, when he addressed State House correspondents after the meeting of the Federal Executive Council on Wednesday. The meeting was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari in the Presidential, Villa, Abuja. According to Adewole, Nigeria is implementing the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Nigeria became a party to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control on Jan. 18, 2006. “Yes, we are part of the campaign against Tobacco. We are implementing the WHO Framework Convention for Tobacco Control. As of Monday, we were part of the ECOWAS meeting to look at how do we raise taxes on tobacco, and that meeting would really work to prevent smuggling of tobacco products. We looked at h

Despite the hostile responses by many Nigerians over the Jacob Zuma’s 250-metre multi-million statue erected in Owerri by the Governor, Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, he (Governor) has publicly said that he owes no apology for erecting Jacob Zuma’s statue in Owerri, the State capital. Okorocha’s Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo has however said that they cannot be deterred by enemies of the people who are trying to discourage them from making the state open to foreign investors. The statement reads: “And in case these “Galatians” do not know all we need to do to attract good things or investments to Imo is erecting statues, then, we have no option than to erect as many of such structures as possible. “We owe no one apology. Rochas made a promise to open the doors of Imo to the rest of the world, for good and he is doing that and we cannot be deterred by these enemies of our people. “If it was in the days of PDP, schools and markets would have been shut down. And roads

He is a believer Indeed a reader of the word Having heeded to the bible Then why do you want to crucify him? He chose a saint as his mentor What is wrong with that? A saint that sinners accuse While he is undisturbed as he enjoys his sainthood. A saint that has a stainless record But the heathen still accuse him of doing 738 miracles: Ranging from fraud, racketeering and money laundering That there amounts could be used to feed this hungry world. Since iron sharpens iron What concerns a monk with a Casanova? Or a nun with a seductive lap dancer? Or even an angel with a fallen angel? His name is Zuma and he made his monument to stand in Owerri And to live longer than the ancient Zuma Rock Why shouting for making him a Chieftain in Igbo land? Don’t you believe in ‘One Africa’? Why shouting for lavishing honours on him? He decorated him with the Imo Merit Award and you are talking But you still believe in Grace- an unmerited favour