Mr. Oluwaseyi Afolabi Tinubu, son of All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,
got married to his heartthrob, Layal Jade Holm yesterday at a low-key
ceremony at the Iga Idunganran Palace of Oba Rilwan Akiolu, the Oba of
Lagos. The ceremony was witnessed by top government functionaries,
The ceremony was witnessed by top government functionaries, eminent
academics and royalty. Although, President Muhammadu Buhari didn’t
attend the wedding, he sent his well wishes to the couple via a letter.
“It is a real pleasure for me to convey my
congratulations to the groom, Oluwaseyi Afolabi Tinubu and the beautiful
bride, Layal Jade Holm on this day. Wedding day is one of the happiest
and most momentous days of a couple’s life. From the bottom of my heart,
I wish you very happy marriage and long life together.
“Seyi, your duty is to look after her, respect her and be patient
with her. Layal, your duty is to respect him, honour him and be patient
with him.
“Seyi, your father is among the famous Nigerians who helped to shape
modern Nigeria. You should cherish and help keep his legacy alive.
Congratulations, happy day today and happy days ahead.”
The
Joint Military Force deployed to the Niger Delta has vowed to apprehend
the militants who attacked its base and killed the three soldiers at
Nembe jetty on Monday.
This is contained in a statement by Lt.-Cdr. Abdulrashid Ahmed, Acting spokesman of Operation Delta Safe, in Yenagoa on Tuesday.
Ahmed said that the troops had been reinforced to fish out the militants.
“Some suspected gunmen believed to be militants at about 10 a.m. on
Aug. 8, 2016, attacked 343 Artillery Regiment, a detachment of Operation
DELTA SAFE deployed at Nembe Jetty in Bayelsa State.
“During the incidence, three soldiers lost their lives.
“The Commander of Operation Delta Safe, Rear Admiral Joseph Okojie,
has consequently deployed reinforcement team to apprehend the
perpetrators of this heinous crime”, he said.
Ahmed quoted the commander of the joint force as warning that
henceforth, Operation Delta Safe would go on the offensive to fish out
all criminals in the region.
He attributed the attack by militants to the ongoing operations of
the troop to flush out all forms of criminality, especially pipeline
vandalism and destruction of illegal refinery within the region.
Ahmed, however, assured law abiding public, particularly the Nembe
community that its operation in the area was to ensure conducive and
safe waterways for legitimate businesses in the Niger Delta region.
Meanwhile, residents in Nembe are leaving the area for fear of reprisal by the military following the attack.
Mrs. Marry Benjamin, who hails from Nembe, described that attack in
which the militants carted away a military gunboat and a cache of arms
and ammunition as worrisome.
She recalled that militants had attacked the military post in November 2015 and killed four soldiers.
The killing of the soldiers has triggered panic in Nembe area; our people have started moving out in fear of military reprisal.
We can no longer stay in the area because shootings are ongoing here and there”, Benjamin said. (NAN)
Nigerian Senator and businessman, Ben Murray-Bruce took
to his Twitter to say how much Nigerians miss President Goodluck
Jonathan and how people come to value something more after they have
lost it. A lot of his followers did not agree with him and weren’t
exactly gentle in disagreeing!
The Senator tweeted;
At times we dont know the value of what we have until its gone. Everywhere I go, Nigerians tell me how much they miss @GEJonathan. Do I lie?
And Nigerians came at him with no chill at all. To them, they’d
rather have president Buhari than former president Jonathan and all
other corrupt Nigerians will miss the later.
Only corrupt people will miss GEJ
Ho. Abdulmumin Jibrin has petitioned the police as well as the EFCC
after alleging that the 2016 Budget was padded. He alleged that the
padding was carried out by the Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara,
Deputy Speaker Yusuff Lasun, Chief Whip Alhassan Ado Doguwa, Minority
Leader Leo Ogor and nine others. also gave the police three versions of
the budget yesterday and they (police) have begun probe into the budget
He also gave the police three versions of the budget and they (police) have begun probe into the allegations.
The Special Investigation Panel (SIP) has started looking through documents to isolate the padded areas.
Jibrin claimed that they inserted about 2000 projects worth N284
billion into the budget and had a two-hour session with the Assistant
Inspector-General of Police (AIG) Amodu Ali-led SIP.
Jibrin, who submitted more documents on the matter to the
investigators, is scheduled to appear before the panel again either
today or tomorrow.
These versions are the original copy laid before the National
Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari, the version passed by the
National Assembly but rejected by the President due to the omission of
some key projects, such as the N60billion Calabar-Lagos rail project;
and the harmonised copy.
With the retrieval of these budget versions, detectives have started identifying padded areas by the House members.
After locating these padded areas, the SIP will be able to determine
the focus of interrogation and the list of those to be questioned
alongside the 13 already implicated by Jibrin.”
For the session with the SIP yesterday, Jibrin arrived at about noon and left around 2pm.
Jibrin brought additional documents to support his allegations.
What he did was to support every allegation with proof and the sources where he got all the documents.
He is trying to prove his case that the padding was criminal.
Yakubu Dogara and the other accused persons would be invited after Jibrin.
The SIP promised to be fair to all and to also carry the public along.
While answering a question at a town hall meeting in Abuja on
Tuesday, Babatunde Fashola, minister of works, power, and housing, told
anyone not happy about his supervision of three ministries to send their
complaints to President Muhammadu Buhari. INFORMATIONNIGERIA brings you 3 things he said, you should know,
To merge cost
“Whether I can cope with three ministries or not, let us
be clear on this. On the one hand, we have spoken about the cost of
running government. And in trying to mitigate or reduce that cost, Mr.
President, in his own wisdom, decided to merge three ministries
together,” he said.
His duty is supervisory
So, my work really there is supervisory and directional.
Today in the ministry of works, and in the ministry of housing, where
there are over 4000 personnel, the number is reducing. The ministry of
power has barely 800 staff today and the number is reducing as we are
gaining traction.
Result so far
“So, it is no longer a government-driven sector, it is
now a government-regulated sector driven by private sector. And if you
have issues about that, I think you should complain to Mr. President.
For me, the privilege is to serve my country in whatever capacity I am
designated to.
Two of those ministries have had a natural relationship over years,
they were either works and housing, or lands, works and something. In
adding power to it, let us remember that essentially the work that is
left in power is just to complete the privitisation and complete the
transmission grid.
The distribution is now in the hands of companies. All of the work
that NEPA (National Electric Power Authority) used to do is now in terms
of distributing power is now in the hands of 11 companies. What they
used to do in terms of generating power is now in the hands of six
companies.
The agency called NERC (National Electricity Regulation Commission
(NERC) is the regulator of the power sector, in getting licenses issued
and so on and so forth. And a statutory company called MBET. All of
these institutions are taking positions and evolving.”
Although the All Progressives Congress, APC has warned the sacked
chairman of the appropriation committee in the House of Representatives,
Abdulmumuni Jibrin, to stop talking about the budget padding issue,
Jibrin in his latest tweets accused the speaker, Yakubu Dogara of
conniving with two serving governors and four ex-lawmakers to block his
access to President Muhammadu Buhari in order to explain his side of the
story.
The APC via its acting National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Timi
Frank in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja accused Jibrin of lacking
respect for the Sen. Shuaibu Lawal-led committee which has been charged
by the party to look into the issue.
“It is now obvious how disrespectful, mannerless and desperate Hon.
Jibrin could be even to the leaders of our party which include the
deputy national chairman (north), national secretary, national treasurer
and others who have been sleeplessly working to ensure that peace
returns to the House.
But if Hon. Jibrin does not have respect for Speaker Dogara as a
person, it is expected of him to respect the office of the speaker, the
number four citizen of our party and the country.
Jibrin should also be told that he has clearly shown disrespect for
President Muhammadu Buhari who is the leader of our party by this
singular act. “It is high time Hon. Jibrin kept quite and stopped this
public show of shame before his excesses will be made known to Nigerians
and the whole world.”
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde
Fashola, on Sunday ordered the immediate closure of the damaged Apapa
bridge for emergency maintenance work to begin.
This is sequel to an assessment of the integrity of the bridge. The
Minister made the announcement at a meeting with stakeholders in Lagos.
According to Fashola, shutting down the bridge was a difficult choice
but saving lives was a better choice than the inconvenience the closure
of the bridge would bring.
In his words: “It is a sobering experience that the Federal
Government is now dealing with many years of neglect and abuse of the
bridge by traders. There are many other bridges across the country that
are begging for attention, maintenance and repairs.”
Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Mr Dayo Mobereola, said
that alternative access routes from Apapa would be cleared of all
encumbrances.
He said that truck owners had agreed to move their
vehicles from the alternative access routes as Julius Berger begins the
palliative works.
Some of the stakeholders at the meeting were members
of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and
the representatives of the unions in the agencies in the maritime
sub-sector
Boko Haram’s shadowy leader Abubakar Shekau has appeared in a new
video vowing to fight on, shrugging off an apparent split in the
hardline jihadist group blamed for thousands of deaths since 2009.
This screengrab taken on August 8,
2016 from a Boko Haram video released by the Nigerian Islamist extremist
group Boko Haram and obtained by AFP. Vanguard File
“I… Abubakar Ash-Shakawy (Shekau), the leader of Jama’atu Ahlissunnah
Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, made it a duty for myself (to fight) Nigeria and
the whole world,” Shekau said in the video released on Sunday, using
the group’s name since it declared allegiance to the so-called Islamic
State.
Last week, Shekau said in an audio message he was still head of the
group despite his purported replacement by Sheikh Abu Musab al-Barnawi, a
former Boko Haram spokesman.
“We have no desire to fight our Muslim brethren,” Shekau, who last appeared in March, said in the 24-minute video.
Shekau ridiculed suggestions that he was dead, and looked more composed and energetic than in previous appearances.
“I’m alive by the permission of Allah,” he said in his speech in
Arabic and Hausa, adding that he would only die when his time came.
In the video he is wearing camouflage gear and holding a machine gun,
standing between two Islamist fighters in balaclavas armed with
rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
He taunted President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration and condemned
Western countries including the United States, France, Germany and “the
tyrants of the United Nonsense (UN)”.
At the end of his speech — apparently filmed in Boko Haram’s
stronghold in the Sambisa forest of northeastern Nigeria — he fired off
rounds of ammunition into the air.
His absence in recent months had sparked speculation about his fate and whether he had been deposed as Boko Haram’s chief.
Barnawi’s appointment was contained in a magazine issued by the
Islamic State group, to which Boko Haram pledged allegiance in March
last year.
Shekau dismissed Barnawi as an infidel who condoned living in an un-Islamic society without waging jihad.
Shekau became leader after Nigerian security forces killed the group’s founding chief Mohammed Yusuf in 2009.
Omar Mahmood, a security analyst with US-based Foreign Policy
Research Institute who has spent the past five years researching Boko
Haram, said Shekau was removed because of his highhandness and
ruthlessness.
“One thing that has remained constant, however, is the focus on
attacks against regional security forces, with Muslim civilian deaths
still ignored. This aspect seems to be a key concern for IS
propagandists,” Mahmood said.
“By contrast, Abu Musab al-Barnawi, the man announced as the new
leader, clearly stated in his al-Naba interview that attacks against
Muslim civilians, mosques and markets will not be a staple of his
leadership.”
Sources close to Boko Haram said Barnawi, aged in his early twenties,
is none other than Habib Yusuf, the eldest son of group founder Yusuf.
They said he was put under Shekau’s care following the death of his
father, but the pair fell out over ideological and operational
differences.
Boko Haram has been blamed for some 20,000 deaths and displacing more
than 2.6 million people since it launched a brutal insurgency in
Nigeria in 2009.
Nigerian forces, with the support of regional troops, have recaptured
swathes of territory lost to the jihadists since they launched a
military campaign in February 2014.
Source: Vanguard
Runtown and former Miss Universe, Monifa Jansen Hang were spotted
hanging out at the 2016 Crop-Over Festival in Barbados over the weekend.
The Nigerian pop star was among the headliners of the annual Barbadian festival which also featured Wizkid and Machel Montano.
During his stay in the Caribbean Island, the Eric Manny signed act
was spotted with the sexy ex-beauty queen at different times sharing a
couple of suspicious PDA moments.
So what exactly does this mean? Probably nothing, except for Runtown,
who shared a photo with the beauty queen, he captioned; “Shout My G for
coming through @Monifajansen”.
The ‘G’ could actually mean anything you know. But what readily comes
to mind first is ‘Girlfriend’, which we all assume he meant.
The “pals” may have a history — even though they never confirmed or
denied whether or not they ever got together — but we can safely assume
their hang out was strictly platonic.
For those who don’t know, Monifa Jensen is a beauty queen who was
crowned Miss Curaçao Universe 2011 and represented her country in the
Miss World 2011 and Miss Universe 2012 pageants.
See more photos of the stunning Queen below.
Daredevil armed robbers on Thursday stormed Delta State Government House Annexe in Warri, killing one person.
The incident was confirmed by Chief Press Secretary to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, Charles Aniagwu.
“It was actually a group of armed robbers who were chasing a driver from the Government House Annex that went to the bank.
“They pursued him as he was driving back. He rammed into the Government House gates and ran out of the car.
“They started shooting at the vehicle. Unfortunately, we lost him and
I heard they have apprehended three of the suspects”, Mr. Aniagwu said.
The Delta Police Command spokesperson, Celestina Kalu, confirmed the incident, but added that she was yet to get enough details.
The Divisional Police Officer, B Division, Warri, Anietie Eyoh, said his men were on the trail of the fleeing robbers.
In curious circumstances, Nigeria’s Central Bank of Nigeria has
blocked money transfer operators from making transfers to Nigeria. The
CBN through a new policy has excluded a number of operators by insisting
that a handful of agents from transferring money to Nigeria by setting
minimum requirements for companies offering international Mobile Money
transfer services to Nigeria.
The guidelines specify that any company offering Mobile Money
transfers must have minimum net assets of $1bn and must have been
operating for more than 10 years.
The biggest Money transfer operator it has chosen to block is WorldRemit, a leading operator in Mobile money transfers.
The Central Bank had earlier said in a statement warning the public
against unlicensed money operators; “All financial services providers in
Nigeria, just as in other jurisdictions, are required to be duly
licensed in order to protect both customers and the financial system as
well as to ensure the credibility of financial transactions. “For the
avoidance of doubt, all licensed International Money Transfer Operators,
are required to remit foreign currency to their respective agent banks
in Nigeria for disbursement in naira to the beneficiaries. “The foreign
currency proceeds are to be sold to Bureaux De Change operators, for
onward retail to end users. “The Central Bank of Nigeria will therefore
not condone any attempt aimed at undermining the country’s foreign
exchange regime.”
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Joint Military Force deployed to the Niger Delta has vowed to apprehend
the militants who attacked its base and killed the three soldiers at
Nembe jetty on Monday.
Daredevil armed robbers on Thursday stormed Delta State Government House Annexe in Warri, killing one person.
