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Bamidele, the lead singer of the band that performs at different functions concerning Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers, has survived a serious motor accident.
Sharing photos of him bleeding and receiving medical attention, Bamidele said his car “somersaulted over 8 times into the bush from the road”.
The Directorate of State Services, DSS, has warned upwardly mobile individuals, especially the youth, to desist from the growing fad of reckless display of material wealth so as not to attract the attention of violent criminals, especially kidnappers and armed robbers.
In a statement released, the security agency says it is common to see young people displaying their fleet of flashy cars, newly completed and luxuriously furnished mansions, and raw cash to show they have “blown” (made it).
The agency says some get themselves conspicuously videoed spraying bundles of cash at ceremonies and post it to social media for maximum publicity. Others ask members of the public to drop their account numbers to receive financial windfalls.
The agency opined that coming at a time that criminality is getting more sophisticated and violent, this fad simply ”makes no sense.”
According to the security agency, these criminals are always on the watch out for an opportunity to strike.
”Even if the wealth flaunter adequately secures himself or herself, what about their loved ones who are put at risk?
The unfortunate thing is that what these individuals see as “wealth” is not much in real terms, particularly if they have no sure means of sustaining the income.
Many celebrities have flaunted wealth only to turn beggars a few years down the road.
We advise anyone who feels he or she has arrived materially to apply common sense. They should save for the rainy day which is sure to come. They should acquire financial education and invest wisely to secure their future.
They should borrow a leaf from accomplished, genuinely wealthy industrialists like Aliko Dangote, Cosmas Maduka, Folorunsho Alakija and others who live humble lifestyles despite their enormous wealth.
It is unfortunate that our law enforcement agencies, especially the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC; the federal and state tax agencies and others, are not doing enough to clamp down on people who display wealth, verify their sources and tax them appropriately.
These agencies must wake up and act. Adequate taxation and moderation of the excesses of citizens are parts of the functions of governance.
These wealth advertisers portray the moral rot in society. They unwittingly send the wrong signals, especially to fellow youth to pursue material wealth by all means, thus worsening the crime rates in society.
Those who have actually made it and want to benefit the less privileged ones should emulate singer, David Adeleke (Davido), who once raised N200 million and added N50 million from his pocket which he donated to orphanages around the country.Let there be sanity. ” the statement in part read
A Virgin Mary statue cried tears of blood in Lagos, a Catholic priest has claimed. Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Ehioma, aka Fada Mentor, shared a photo of a Virgin Mary statue bleeding from the eye and said he heard the occurrence was witnessed at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church Agodo Egbe in Lagos.
His post immediately went viral and started a debate, with many accusing him of idolatory and telling him that such is not possible.
In a follow-up post, he disclosed that the Catholic Church will investigate such occurrences first as the Church does not accept everything hook, line, and sinker. He added that this is to avoid hoaxes as there have been such in the past.
The Nigerian Army has declined response after a court ordered the remand of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Faruk Yahaya, and the Commandant, Training and Doctrine Command, Minna, Major Gen. Stevenson Olabanji, for alleged contempt.
A High Court sitting in Minna, Niger State, had issued a warrant of arrest and subsequent remand of both Yahaya and Olabanji in the custodial centre.
The case was said to between one Adamu Makama and 42 others, versus the governor of Niger State and seven others.Counsel for the plaintiffs, Mohammed Liman, had prayed the court to send the army chief and commandant to the custodial centre for disobeying an order made on October 12, 2022.
Ruling on the application, Justice Halima Abdulmalik, said, “An order is made committing the Nigerian Army Chief of Staff, General Farouk Yahaya, and the Commander, Training and Doctrine Command, Minna, i.e the 6th &7th respondents, into the custody of the correctional centre for contempt of the order of this honourable court made on 12/10/2022.”
The judge ordered that the army chief and commandant should remain in custody until they purged themselves of the contempt.
The case was adjourned till December 8.
Several attempts to get the reaction of the Nigerian Army were not successful.Calls and a text message to the phone number of the Director of Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, were not answered.
The ruling is coming barely a few days after the Federal High Court in Abuja sentenced the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, to three months’ in prison over a similar offence.
Another Federal High Court in Abuja also ordered the remand of the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, at the Kuje Custodial Centre.
The Abuja-Kaduna rail corridor would resume duty from December 5, as announced by the Federal Government.
Recall that the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) had suspended train service along the route after terrorists attacked a passenger train in Kaduna on March 28.
NRC Managing Director, Fidet Okhiria, who noted that they are ready to resume services, advised passengers wishing to utilize the service to update their mobile app from December 3 for booking.
The services will commence with two train rides from Abuja-Kaduna and vice versa. Okhiria also assured passengers of their safety.
He said;
“AK 1 will depart Idu station at 9:45hrs and arrive Rigasa Station at 11:53hrs.
“KA 2 will departs Rigasa at 8:00hrs and arrive Idu station at 10:17hrs.
“AK 3 will depart Idu Station at 15:30hrs and arrive Rigasa Station at 17:38hrs.”
And KA 4 will depart Rigasa at 14:00hrs and arrive Idu Station at 16:07hrs.”
During an unhinged Friday morning, December 2 tweet storm, rapper and fashion designer, Kanye West claimed that he “caught” future Hall of Fame point guard Chris Paul with his ex-wife Kim Kardashian.
Kanye wrote;
Let’s break one last window before we get outta here. I caught this guy with Kim. Good night”
Chris Paul plays point guard for the Phoenix Suns in the NBA and has been pictured in the past hanging out with Kanye and Justin Bieber.
He’s been married to Jada Crawley since 2011.
The tweet surely caused many reactions on social media. See some below
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has declared two serving civil servants in the Budget Office of the Federation, Federal Ministry of Finance, Olojede Kolawole and Ogunniyi Bukola Jide, wanted.
The anti-graft agency also declared Solomon Ogodo, a serving staff member of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) wanted over issues bordering on employment racketeering and obtaining money by false pretence.
The spokesperson for the commission, Mrs Azuka Ogugua, who announced this on Wedneday, November 30, 2022, urged Nigerians who know the trio’s whereabouts to report to the headquarters of the agency, its state offices or any police station nearest to them.
She told Daily Trust Thursday December 1, that the announcement became imperative following the commission’s futile efforts to make the suspects honour several invitations or get them apprehended.
“We have made several efforts but it hasn’t yielded results. If you know their whereabouts, you can as well let us know,” Mrs Azuka said.
“Solomon Ogodo, a serving staff of NSCDC, was born on 26th March 1974 (48 years old), 1.6m tall, with brown eyes, black hair and dark in complexion. He is an indigene of Ndufu Alike, Ikwo LGA of Ebonyi State.
His last known address is Tudun Wada Village, after Bua Bank, FHA, by Berger Bus Stop, Lugbe, FCT, Abuja.
“Olojede Kolawole, a serving civil servant under the Budget Office of the Federation, Federal Ministry of Finance, Finance Building Abuja, was born on 28th September 1968 (54 years old), 1.6m tall and dark in complexion.
His last know address is House 02, behind St. Williams Catholic Church, Pwambara, Bwari, FCT, Abuja. “Ogunniyi Bukola Jide, a serving civil servant under the Budget Office of the Federation, Federal Ministry of Finance, Finance Building Abuja, is about 1.6m tall and naturally brown in complexion.
His last known address is House 13] Solution Estate, Karshi St. Jikwoyi, FCT East, Abuja.
The Anambra State Police Command has finally released the corpse of the slain singer and actor, Slami Ifeanyi.
This is following a protest by a Twitter user and friend of the deceased who alleged that the police demanded N350,000 for the release of the corpse in its custody for burial.Ifeanyi was shot dead on Saturday in Umubele, Awka, Anambra State capital by some yet-to-be-identified assailants.
It was gathered that the 31-year-old songwriter was driving in his newly acquired vehicle when he was attacked and killed.
The Twitter user, with the handle @princenenchecfr, had raised the alarm in a tweet as he requested the help of the Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, and his Lagos State counterpart, Benjamin Hundeyin.
The Anambra State police spokesman, Tochukwu Ikenga, in his reply said, “We are aware of the shooting that took place that day which led to the death of the young man.
Preliminary information reveals that it is cult related. I will follow up. Meanwhile, we have three suspects in custody.”
But speaking to our correspondent on the telephone on Thursday, the tweep said, “The matter has been resolved, all thanks to the state police spokesman, Tochukwu Ikenga.
“It was the police officers at the police station in Awka who were demanding for the sum of N350,000, but the command had intervened and asked the family to go and pick the corpse at the mortuary.
“The Divisional Police Officer of the command was summoned and he claimed ignorance that his men were demanding money from the family of the deceased and thereafter, ordered for the release of the corpse to the family.”
Confirming the incident, Ikenga said the corpse had been released to the family and that the protesting Twitter user had reached the command to thank it for its intervention and cooperation.
“The corpse has been released to the family,” Ikenga said.
The Chief Executive Officer of Twitter, Elon Musk, has notified users that the number of their followers may drop.
The Twitter CEO said this in a tweet he shared via his Twitter handle on Thursday.
He stated that the decrease is due to the removal of some spam accounts saying, “Twitter is purging a lot of spam/scam accounts right now, so you may see your follower count drop.”
Suspected ‘celebrity kidnapper,’ John Ike Lyon, and his accomplice, Emmanuel Angase, have pleaded not guilty to a 14-count charge bordering on conspiracy to commit felony, kidnapping, and armed robbery filed against them before the Bayelsa State Judiciary Complex, Yenagoa.
Recall that Lyon who used to be a cleaner in a bank, and the other suspects, were arrested in September this year over allegations of carrying out series of kidnappings in the state.
The suspects were on Wednesday, November 30, arraigned before the court where they pleaded not guilty to all the 14-count charges.
According to the counts read out by the court clerk, John Lyon Ike, Emmanuel Charles Angase and others at large were charged on four counts of “conspiracy to commit felony contrary to section 444 sub (a) of the criminal code law, Cap (C) Laws of Bayelsa State, 2006.
They were also charged on eight counts of “kidnapping contrary to Section 2 sub (1) of the Kidnapping and Other Offences Laws of Bayelsa State 2013,” and a further two counts of armed robbery, contrary to Section 329 sub (2 ) of the criminal code law, cap ‘C’ of Bayelsa State, 2006.”
After pleading not guilty to the 14-count charges, the presiding judge, Justice Ineikad Eradiri ordered that they be remanded in prison custody. After the judge’s pronouncement, the suspects demanded to speak to the press when they were about to be ushered into the waiting police van.
They alleged that they were being threatened at the police custody and do not want to return there.
The suspects then refused to enter the police Hilux van, insisting that they be taken to the Yenagoa Prisons as ordered by the presiding judge.
They were, however, forced into the police van by the policemen when their counsel told them that their prison remand order has not yet been signed by the judge.
John Lyon started crying and protesting that his health condition in police custody is deteriorating.
Portable took to Instagram to lament about the fuel scarcity in Nigeria.
As he waited in the queue at a petrol station in lagos, the singer is heard saying that waiting for hours to buy fuel is “sufferness”.
He blamed the government for this and revealed that he is sweating in his car but cannot put on the air-conditioner because he has no fuel.
A Federal High Court sitting in Minna, the Niger State Capital, has ordered that the Chief of Army Staff, General Farouk Yahaya, be arrested for contempt.
Justice Halima Abdulmalik, who issued the warrant and presided over the case, said the order followed notice brought before the court in pursuant of order forty two rule ten of the Niger State High Court Civil Procedure 2018.
The judge ruled that the order is commuting Yahaya to be kept in Minna correctional custody for contentions of order of the court on October 12, 2022, adding that the COAS is to remain in custody till he has been “purged”of the contempt.
Also, the judge issued that the Commandant Training and Doctrine Command, Minna, Major General Olugbenga Olabanji, be arrested and imprisoned for a similar offense.
Justice Abdulmalik then adjourned the case to December 8 for continuation.
NPG had reported that on November 29 a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja sentenced the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, to three months in prison for disobeying a court order.
The IGP’s committal followed a suit that was filed by a police officer, Patrick Okoli, who was unlawfully and compulsorily retired from the Nigerian Police Force.
The court also ordered the payment of N10 million to the applicant, being special and general damages for the unlawful, illegal and unconstitutional denial of his (Patrick’s) rights and privileges as a Senior Officer of the Nigeria Police Force from 1993 till date.
The police in Adamawa State have arrested Ajik Ishaq, a 400-level student of the Plateau State University Bokkos, who allegedly specializes in forging and issuing fake National ID cards.
Ishaq who studies English and Literature at the university was arrested on November 24. Ajik, was apprehended while parading as well as advertising the kind of services he renders to people as a staff of the National Identity Management Commission(NIMC).
An investigation by the police showed that he had defrauded about 28 unsuspecting citizens and realized the sum of N34,000 only.
While being paraded before newsmen on Wednesday, November 30 alongside other suspects, Ishaq said he collects the sum of N1,500 only per identity card.
He narrated that whenever he meets a Christian, he gives his name as Ajik, and that while with a Muslim, he identifies himself as Yusuf in order win trust.
He said that it was while he was carrying out his business that somebody suspected he was a fake staff and called the police who arrested him.
While parading the suspects, the Commissioner of Police, S.K Akande, vowed to ensure the prosecution of all the suspects upon completion of investigation.
Nigerian musician, Damini Ogulu, better known as Burna Boy was one of the big winners at the 2022 MOBO Awards.
Burna Boy who had been nominated under the category of Best International Act at the MOBOs alongside the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Beyonce, Chris Brown, Drake and Summer Walker had come out tops as the winner of the award.
Other nominees under the category included Jazmine Sullivan, Skilibeng, Jack Harlow and Nigerian fast-rising global act, Tems.
Burna also won the Best African Act, beating Asake, Rema, Fireboy, and Omah Lay.
This brings the star’s MOBO award wins to a total of three following his 2021 win as the Best International Act.
The MOBO Awards is an annual British music award presentation honouring achievements in “music of black origin”, including hip hop, grime, UK Drill, R&B, and more.
Suspected bandits have allegedly killed a Nigerian military officer identified as Nathaniel Dem Danjuma Dawa.
Details of the incident are still sketchy at the time of filing this report, but a Facebook user, Emmanuel Zakka, who confirmed it on Wednesday, November 30, 2022, said the officer was killed on his way to Abuja.
The National Sports Festival was declared open in Delta State on Wednesday by the sports minister, Sunday Dare, who represented the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).
The opening ceremony held at the Stephen Keshi stadium Asaba.
The police in Adamawa state have arrested a 36-year-old mother of eight, Bilkisu, for allegedly aiding her husband, Nafiu Yusuf, in kidnapping.
The accused and her husband, who was nabbed by the operatives of the command, were among the 27 suspects paraded by the Commissioner of Police, S.K Akande, on Wednesday, November 30.
According to the police, the woman was nabbed following the arrest of her husband who eventually led the operatives to his residence for a search.
It was discovered that she helps her husband to hide the AK-47 riffle he uses in perpetrating the alleged crime.
When interrogated, Bilkisu denied the allegation but claimed that when she sighted the weapon under their bed, she decided to carry it and keep it somewhere for fear of her children.
According to her, she had neither seen nor touched such a weapon before, and that she saw it after her husband left for the farm.
She claimed she hid the weapon for three days unknown to her that her husband had been arrested. She added that the mistake she made was failing to report the matter to police.
On his part, Nafiu, said he has never committed any crime with it, and that he was given the gun for onward delivery to someone else.
The federal government has approved a new National Language Policy which makes mother tongue a compulsory medium of instruction for public primary school pupils.
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, disclosed this today, Nov. 30, while briefing reporters on the outcome of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja.
The minister revealed that the mother tongue will be used exclusively for the first six years of education, while it will be combined with English Language from Junior Secondary School.
He said even though the policy has officially taken effect, it can only be fully implemented when government develops instructional materials and qualified teachers are available.
Adamu explained that the mother tongue to be used in each school will be the dominant language spoken by the community where it is located.
The minister said the government is prepared to preserve cultures and their peculiar idiosyncrasies, stressing that so much has been lost due to the extinction of some local languages.
He assured Nigerians that all Nigerian languages are equal and will be treated as such.
Popular comedian and actor, Mr Macaroni has reacted to the alleged arrest of an undergraduate student of Federal University, Dutse, (FUD) Jigawa State, Aminu Mohammed, over a Twitter post where he alleged that First Lady, Aisha Buhari, was feeding fat on poor people’s money.
Commenting on the alleged arrest, Mr Macaroni said the First Lady is not God and should have taken her grievances to court.
The comedian who also averred that Aisha Buhari is “not bigger than the citizens of Nigeria or the law”, further stated that she should use “her power to serve people and not oppress them”.
Father and uncle of Aminu Mohammed, a student of Federal University, Dutse, (FUD) Jigawa State, who has reportedly been languishing in detention after security officials comprising the police and men of the Department of State Service, allegedly arrested him over a Twitter post where he alleged that First Lady, Aisha Buhari, was feeding fat on poor people’s money, have opened up on his alleged travail.
Recounting how his son called him from detention in an interview with BBC Hausa, Aminu’s father pleaded with Aisha Buhari to forgive her son.
Shehu Baba Azare, Aminu’s uncle also told BBC Hausa that they need their son to be released to them.
He said;
“We were not aware of it until five days later, Aminu’s friend called my brother (Aminu’s father) and told him that he hadn’t seen Aminu for the last five days.
“The next day Aminu called his father and told him that he was arrested and taken to Aisha Buhari in Presidential Villa and he was beaten and detained. He said one of the security gave him his phone to make the call.
“Adamu (Aminu’s father) also told me that he was called from the university informing him that his son was arrested but without their knowledge. We are begging the First Lady, please forgive him, you are a mother”
Spokesperson for the FUD, Abdullahi Bello, who also commented on the development, said Aminu was trailed to Dutse where he was arrested.
He said;
“The university authorities have spoken to the parents who have already engaged the services of a lawyer to handle the matter and they are hopeful for an amicable resolution soon.”