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HOURS after some groups of militant threatened to resume hostilities in the Niger Delta region, some suspected militants on Monday attacked an army formation at Opuama community of Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State leaving one of the soldiers critically injured. The incident it was gathered occurred at the Opuma Zion junction along the Omojo creek of the area and has sent tension down the spines of locals in the area over fears that the military would invade their community in a manhunt for the suspected militant. Giving details of the incident Wednesday, an operative of the Department of State Security, DSS, said: “Though military personnel in the area were able to foil the attack, unfortunately, one of the soldiers was critically injured after he was shot by the hoodlums.” He asserted: “They came out from Omojo creek and were heading towards Kpogoda at about 1a.m when they were flagged down by the army personnel at the formation with torch light for a mandatory sto...

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has listed three “evil geniuses” that worked against ex-President Goodluck Jonathan during the 2015 Presidential election. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chieftain claimed that a former principal Secretary to Jonathan, ex-National Chairman of the party, Adamu Muazu and Attahiru Jega, former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, betrayed Jonathan. Fani-Kayode made the allegation while corroborating the claims by Jonathan that Muazu betrayed him during the during the 2015 presidential campaign. The former Minister who took to his Twitter handle, wrote: “That Mauzu betrayed us during the 2015 pres. campaign and that Jega was working for @MBuhari is not news. “The biggest secret and greatest traitor of them all was the man that brought both Mauzu and Jega to do a dirty job and sabotage our efforts. His name was Hassan Tukur. “He is an evil genius. His treachery and collusion with the APC cost us the 2015 election...

Read below how it was posted online, 😔 SAD NEWS. Please pray Urgent prayer request. “Pray for the Church in lndia. 20 churches were burnt down last night. And tonight, want to destroy, more than 200 churches in “Olisabang province”. They want to kill 200 missionaries within the next 24 hours. All Christians are hiding in villages…. Pray for them and send this message to all Christians you know Worldwide. Ask God to have mercy on our brothers and sisters in India. “When you receive this message, please urgently send it to other people. Please pray for the 22 Christian Missionary families sentenced to be executed by Islamists in Afghanistan. Pls PASS this as fast as u can so that many will pray!!! Also noted that…: * Adultery is legalized in South Africa by the Constitutional Court. No automatic alt text available. * Gay Marriage is legalized by the U.S. Supreme Court. * As if that is not enough, Germany’s National Ethics Council has called for an end to the criminalisation of incest ...

State chairmen of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and some national officers yesterday registered their disappointment with the national leadership of the party over the inability of President Muhammadu Buhari to reward party members, New Telegraph reports. The report revealed that party officials are angry that members who worked for APC’s victory in the 2015 general elections have been neglected almost two years after the polls. Speaking on the matter, the state chairmen and national officers, under the aegis of Non-National Working Committee (NWC) members, in their separate communications to the APC leadership and President Buhari, also decried the delay by the party in filling vacant positions in the state executives across the country. New Telegraph gathered that the 36 state chairmen of the APC and their Federal Capital Territory (FCT) counterpart, made their position known during a meeting with the party’s NWC in Abuja yesterday. The forum of non-NWC, on its part, registere...

Barely twenty four hours after his dramatic appearance at an Abuja Federal High Court where he showed solidarity with the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader Nnamdi Kanu, Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose has been criticized by some interest groups for his action. The state chapter of Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) criticized Fayose for “bringing governance to a ridiculous level and assaulting the sensibilities of the Yoruba nation” by Tuesday’s gesture. The Progressive Youth League (PYL) slammed Fayose “for abandoning serious business of governance in his home state to run a comedy show in faraway Abuja in a matter that does not concern him.” They took exception to a statement credited to Fayose that “Ekiti now belongs to Biafra warning the governor not to use his position to fan the embers of discord, disunity and crisis in the Nigerian federation. The ARG in a statement by its State Coordinator, Bunmi Akanbi Awotiku, said the group was not oblivious of the constitutional immunit...

Veteran actor Olumide Bakare is dead. The actor passed on in the early hours of today according to his personal assistant. “His situation however gone bad during the procedure and he could not make it. So he died,” a close family source Abiodun Alarape said. Bakare, it was learnt, was rushed to UCH on January 24, after suffering cardiac arrest. His condition was however said to have improved, until he went in for the procedure and failed to make it out alive. His death came as a shock to his numerous fans. May His Soul Rest In Peace.

From all indications, it's due to wrong information flying around. The late Senate Isiaka Adeleke was said to have died from drugs overdose complications. But before the autopsy some in his home town had alleged that he was poisoned by Governor Rauf Aregbesola's camp. That was how angry mourners at the Ede residence of late Adeleke attacked and injured the lady, Idiat Babalola, a prominent Ede indigene, who is one of the commissioner-nominees of Governor Aregbesola for coming to pay her last respects to the departed politician. The attack came just before Adeleke’s remains were buried at a grave dug beside the mosque built inside his country home in Ede. Angry youths have been claiming that Adeleke, who was their benefactor, was poisoned at one of the social functions he attended within the state on Saturday. They claimed that he ate just a piece of meat at one of the functions and that some APC leaders were behind his death in order to brighten the chances of an ‘anointed’...

Sahara Reporters - Some of Senate President Bukola Saraki's aides involved in the November 20, 2015 theft of N310 million being transported to the senator have disclosed why they stole the cash. The aides snatched the cash from a bureau de change operator at 5 Nana Close, Maitama in Abuja. Tracked down by SaharaReporters and speaking anonymously, some of Mr. Saraki’s aides, who are currently on the run, said the senator was in the habit of warehousing large volumes of cash, mainly for use as bribes to judges, investigators and prosecutors to ensure the scuttling of his trial for false assets declaration by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). The theft, first reported by SaharaReporters, featured five officers of the Department of State Security (DSS) led by Abdulrasheed Maigari, the most senior of the DSS officers attached to Senator Sarak‎i. Mr. Maigari hails from Dungo local government area of Taraba State. The other DSS officers involved in the heist were Ibbi George from Ada...

During the Nigerian Entertainment Conference today, Adegoke Odukoya, better known as Adé Bantu and creator of music Festival, Afropolitan Vibes, said; "I think 'Afrobeats' is the most insulting terminology ever invented. Nigerian pop music is not Afrobeats." Music Lovers, do you agree?

It was the mother of all press conferences as the Opebi Lagos office of Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) was on Tuesday, April 25, 2017 practically taken over by a hoard of journalists who had come to hear about the commissioning of the ultra-modern ‘COSON House’ slated for May 20 in Lagos and the reaction of COSON to the reported orders of the Attorney-General of the Federation that Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria Ltd (MCSN) be approved as a collecting society Confirming that the COSON House commissioning will go ahead as scheduled on May 20. The COSON Chairman, Chief Tony Okoroji who addressed the press on behalf of the organization said, “it is instructive that we did not get one Naira assistance from the federal government or any Nigerian government at all to finance COSON House. We did not get one dollar from any donor agency or any foreign institution to build COSON House. It is also instructive that we did not take a loan of any type from any bank to finance COSON Hou...

The British government has announced a special service for Nigerians which enables them to get their UK visa on the same day of application. British High Commissioner, Mr. Paul Arkwright disclosed this at the 40th anniversary of Nigerian British Chamber of Commerce, NBCC, in Lagos. Mr Arkwright while speaking at the event on Monday said the British embassy has made provision for visa applicants in Nigeria to get their visa on the same day or within five days of application. He noted that the embassy as part of its special services has reduced the maximum turnaround time for all classes of visa application to 15 days. “We have introduced a same day visa service – at a cost – for visas in Nigeria. “We have also introduced a service that means you get a visa within five days, at a lower cost than the same day process. “Our turnaround time for all other visas is 15 days. The key thing, however, is that all visitors to the UK, whether they are from Nigeria or anywhere else, must respe...

A United States Federal court has convicted a Nigerian, Wiseman Oputa, who set up a number of bank accounts with bogus passports over a year, in which he managed to steal at least $500,000 through wire fraud and Internet scams. The court convicted Oputa of one count of wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Texas announced. Wiseman Oputa, 25, pleaded guilty to opening bank accounts in the area surrounding Houston, using counterfeit passports. Once the accounts were created, Oputa and his associates conducted a number of Internet scams from romance schemes to hacking into company email accounts to make their phishing efforts appear more real. The victims sent at least a total of $500,000 to these bank accounts via checks and wire transfers, which Oputa and his associates controlled. He would then use the bogus passports to withdraw the money from the accounts. Oputa is scheduled to be sentenced on July 6 and faces up to 20 years in federal prison ...

mNollywood actor and S.A. to Ebonyi universal Basic Education Board (UBEB) Chairman, Mac Donald Oti, was on Saturday kidnapped, robbed and dumped in a forest in Ebonyi State. He was grabbed alongside with his wife at about 8:25pm at gun point. The kidnappers were said to have dump him and left with his car, phone and other valuables which include a camera tripod he went to collect from a transit before the incident. Thankfully, they were not hurt.