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BREAKING: Leah Sheribu Gives Birth To Baby Boy For Boko Haram Commander After Being Forced To Convert To Islam
Leah Sheribu, a Christian girl kidnapped and held in Boko Haram captivity for over one year, has given birth to a baby boy.
Leah was delivered of the baby a few weeks ago following her forceful marriage to a top Boko Haram commander, according to a reliable source close to the terror group.
The source said Leah, who refused to renounce her Christian faith, was forced to accept Islam before being married to a top commander of the terror group.
Leah was among dozens of girls seized from a school in Yobe State by Boko Haram fighters two years ago.
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Ondo State Agrees To Pay N30,000 Minimum Wage
The Ondo State Government has agreed to pay N30,000 minimum wage after series of meetings with stakeholders and union leaders.
The government’s decision to pay the new minimum wage after a meeting on Saturday with organised labour comprising of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress and Joint Negotiation Council.
Present at the meeting were also the state legislature, judiciary, and other top government functionaries.
Speaking on the development, the state’s Head of Service, Mr Oluwadare Aragbaye, said the government had also approved 33 per cent for those who retired before 2014 and peculiar allowances for some workers.
It was gathered that the parties agreed on full payment of the new wage from level six downwards while level seven above had experienced consequential adjustment.
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Group Asks Middle Belt Governors To Create Own ‘Amotekun’
The Middle Belt Forum has asked governors in the North-Central geo-political zone and two others in the North-East to create a security network similar to Amotekun in the region.
President of the forum, Pogu Bitrus, made this known in a statement on Saturday.
According to the group, this will prevent unnecessary killings in the region by hoodlums.
He said, “We believe that a security outfit like Operation Amotekun will serve our communities better than the proposed community policing which is similar to the works as currently being done by informants in providing intelligence to the police.
“The present decimation of communities in Middle Belt states and the turning of towns and villages into silent killing fields need to be revisited by these governors in collaboration with relevant agencies of the Federal Government to end the massive siege unleashed on Middle Belt states.
“More than anything, the governors should embark on measures towards engendering development and providing hope for people and communities that are under siege.”
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E2%80%93suspect How I Learnt Armed Robbery From Prison –Suspect
A suspected armed robber, Ehuiwe Akire, has confessed to learning robbery when he was remanded in prison for another offence.
Akire was arrested by operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Response Team after a robbery incident in the FESTAC and Apapa areas of Lagos.
Akire, according to a report by PUNCH, is said to be the leader of a six-man gang.
The 35-year-old man was reportedly arrested along Isheri-Igando Road on January 16, 2020 as he attempted to resume operations with his gang members.
Police said two Beretta pistols were recovered from the suspect.
Akire told the police that he only used guns to threaten victims and force them to part with their valuables.
Explaining how he got into crime, the father of one said he was an artisan but was not earning enough income.
He said, “I dropped out of school at primary six. I was into bricklaying but I was not making enough money despite all my efforts.
“I started sneaking into shops when owners were asleep to steal their handsets, money from drawers and anything valuable.
“I was making big money but I did not save. I used the money to take women to hotels. I am married with a daughter but my wife and I have separated. She left me when she discovered I was a thief. I was later arrested by police at the Adeniji Adele (Lagos Island) for receiving stolen items and charged.”
Akire said while he was on remand in prison, he met inmates who taught him how to make more money through armed robbery.
He explained that he joined a cult group upon his release from prison and formed a robbery gang.
He said, “Joining the cult gave me the courage to carry gun. My cult members ordered me to buy two guns for them which I did. I then bought my own guns which I used for operations.
“My members are Festus, Obilo, Lastborn, Segun, Shedra and we operate in Apapa, FESTAC, Mushin and Surulere. If we wanted to rob someone coming from bank with money, Festus would pretend as if he wanted to withdraw money.
“He would enter the bank hall and start to monitor the person who came to withdraw huge amount of money. The rest of us would stay outside watching. Once the target had withdrawn the money and heading out, Festus would follow the person closely and would make a signal to us.”
He said as soon as their victims moved away from the bank premises, they would collect the money and escape on standby motorcycles.
Akire said he usually realised between N20,000 and N250,000 on each operation, adding that he made about N1.2m in one of the operations.
“I bought a parcel of land for N500,00 out of the money. Whenever there was no robbery operation, I engaged in stealing to make small money so I could cope.”
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Mob Kills Policeman Attempting To Arrest Suspect
A policemen, Eric Isaiah, has been killed by an angry mob in the Bwari area of Abuja for attempting to arrest a murder suspect.
According to the spokesperson for the FCT Police Command, Anjuguri Manzah, Isaiah was detailed to arrest one Moses Peter, aka Dogo, wanted for culpable homicide when the incident occurred.
One Dominic Emmanuel had reported at Bwari Divisional headquarters that his brother, Moses, who was engaged to work as a mason by one Mrs Priscilla Patrick, was found unconscious after being attacked and severely injured.
Manzah said, “After he was rushed to Bwari General Hospital for medical attention, Emmanuel was able to provide vital information about his assailants.
“Consequent upon this, Peter and one John were fingered as the perpetrators of the act.”
The police further said Moses’ condition deteriorated and he later died at the hospital.
As a result of this, the Divisional Police Officer sent one Insp. Okpanachi Audu and Sgt. John Mark to Ushafa Village where the deceased was attacked.
The detectives sighted and accosted Peter, who resisted arrest and thereafter invited his friends from a nearby drinking joint to rescue him.
They insisted that the suspect must be taken to the Chief of Ushafa palace before the police could arrest him.
The statement added that the two police detectives obliged the crowd and went to the chief’s palace, where they met the secretary to the chief, one Danlami Busa.
He added, “However, instead of addressing the issue, the chief’s secretary at the instance of the chief, Alhaji Mohammed Baba, allegedly incited the crowd, who attacked the two detectives.
“As a result, a re-enforcement team led by late ASP Eric Isaiah, patrol and guard officer, Bwari Division, with three others were deployed and they arrived at the scene with a police Hilux vehicle which was used to rescue the two officers.”
He explained that the crowd brutally attacked and murdered Isaiah after inflicting injuries on other members of the team, who narrowly escaped.
He disclosed that the chief of Ushafa and his secretary had been arrested and are providing the police with useful information regarding the murder of Emmanuel and ASP Isaiah and the injuries inflicted on the police team.
Manzah stated that investigation into the incident was in progress.
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Immigration Officials Block Trafficking Of Nine Girls Out Of Nigeria At Lagos Airport
The Nigeria Immigration Service has intercepted an attempt to traffic nine girls out of the country through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
The service said the girls were to be trafficked to Lebanon, Cairo, Dubai and India on Ethiopian, Peace, Egypt and East Airlines.
Public Relations Officer of immigration, Mr Sunday James, in a statement on Saturday said that four of the girls after interrogation claimed that they were traveling out of Nigeria to take up employments without knowing their employers or the nature of jobs they were going out of the country for.
The statement said two of the girls claimed that they were embarking on visitation trip to India for medical treatment but were not in possession of referral letters from any hospitals in the country.
Also, at first, the two could not explain the nature of the ailments they had, but later claimed they had malaria fever.
However, after much interrogation by its personnel at the airport, they confessed “to be going to India to hustle”.
The other two said they were on a trip to Dubai for visit but later confessed they were going to Dubai for “hustling”.
James hinted that the trafficking was organised by agents aimed at exploiting their innocence and ignorance.
He added, “Considering that the nine girls had no credible mission for embarking on the failed journey, they were refused departure to save their lives and dignity.
“The Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service, Muhammad Babandede, is calling on parents to be wary of juicy offers to their children by family members and non-family members to take their children abroad on a deceitful planned trip for employment, studies or visit which may end up in exploitation or death.”
He emphasised that immigration officials at various entry and exit points would not permit any irregular travelling out of the country.
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Polygamy Causing Poverty, Backwardness In North, Says Emir Of Kano, Sanusi
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The Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido, has warned that unless the people of the North change their culture, they will continue to be backward and poor.
The emir, according to a report by PUNCH, made the comment in Gusau, Zamfara State, on Friday while presenting a paper.
Sanusi was represented at the event by Dr Usman Bugaji.
According to the emir, the culture of marrying more than one wife by those who cannot even properly take care of one wife and producing many children was the main reason why the Northern region would continue to remain backward and poor.
He said, “There are people who cannot afford to feed one wife but are ready to marry three wives and have more children than they cannot feed, talk less of paying for their school fees.
“The poverty level of the North is 80 per cent; while in the South, the percentage is 20 per cent simply because of the culture of marrying many wives and producing many children who at the end are left on the streets to beg for what to eat.
“The issues we have today such as drug abuse, Boko Haram, banditry and unemployment would be nothing compared to what we will be dealing with in the next 20 or 30.”
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I Am The Best President Nigeria Ever Had By Remi Oyeyemi
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“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.” – Rabindranath Tagore
I still don’t understand why it is difficult for millions of Nigerians to understand this simple fact, that I am the best President Nigeria has ever had and would ever have in a long time to come.
Apart from my brother, General Sani Kano, who never passed an examination in his life time, I am the best educated President in Nigeria’s history. Yet my detractors always make it look as if I am the worst educated.
Yes, let the truth be told, I don’t have any WAEC certificate anywhere. I didn’t need it. I am a Fula man. Full blooded and blue blooded. Of what use could the certificate have been anyway? I have achieved what millions of Nigerians would never achieve. I am the President now and there is nothing anyone could do about it.
Moreso, at least, I am far better than Sani Kano, who never had any certificate at all. In my own case, I only stopped midway through Form 4. Some were even suggesting that the school that cooked the fake WAEC certificate for me was not in existence when I claimed to have attended, what is the big deal about that? Does it matter when the school was created? Even if the school was created in 2014, of what difference is it? The bottom line is to have the certificate issued. And I got one.
Hmmm, my supporters. I love them to death. They are the dumbest in the world. They are so stupid that even my own stupidity was alarmed. I am glad that majority of them are as brainless as me. They have nothing in their heads. They would defend me on anything, no matter how absurd. You couldn’t reason with them. You couldn’t present facts to them. Even many Babiallahs are more reasonable than them. Yes, they are proofs that I am the best Present yet in Nigeria’s history.
My supporters, even me, I am offended by their idiocy, but I still love them. This is because, if they were not idiots, I would not have been able to mislead them and they would still hail me. Many of them claim to have eyes, yet I am not sure they could see all the damages I have done. This convinced me more that I am the best President.
I lied to them that I would declare my assets and would make declaration of assets a precondition to being in the cabinet. I did not do it. My supporters, in their usual stupid manners have manufactured excuses, which are at best nincompoopish to defend me. At times when I read their defence of me, I am like “Wooow!!! So there are still so many who are more stupid than me in this country?”
Honestly, before I became President, I had thought I was the most stupid person in this country. But now I know better. With what I have seen among my hailing supporters, I could walk with my head straight and my shoulder high. I could shape my arms like those of the crab and gallivant around, with my chest puffed out and my gait guided gratuitously. If I had any doubt before now about being the best President, it has been erased.
I told them I had 150 cows, I laughed how they all believed me hook, line and sinker. I had told them over 20 years before then that I had the same number of cows. This time around when I was giving them the same number of cows, I didn’t even think about it. Well, I could not have thought about it even if I wanted to because I have no brain anyway. Someone had pointed out to me that one must have a brain in order to think. I didn’t think because I had no brain.
My supporters, they defended the fact that the number of my cows never increased or decreased for 20 years. See how stupid my supporters are? I was very upset with them for giving the impression that there were gays and lesbians among my cows! Despite my own level of stupidity, I could not imagine the level of theirs. Didn’t they know that this was not acceptable to Islam and Quran? Yes, the idea of gay and lesbians are not acceptable to Islam and Quran. They made me upset. But I still love them for their idiocy anyways.
I told them I would fight corruption and they all began dancing and jumping up and down. Ha! My supporters, they licked every lie I flailed at them. They swallowed every rubbish I threw at them. They reminded me of Umaru Dikko, the man I wanted to crate from London to Lagos when I was a pupil dictator in 1984/85, unlike now that I am a full blown tyrant. Umaru had told Nigerians that until he has seen them scavenging from refuse dumps he would not be persuaded that that there was poverty in the land.
My supporters were scavenging from the refuse heap of my lies like hungry goats. How could they believe that someone like me who made $2.8bn disappear as an ordinary Secretary of Kerosene, would fight corruption? I took N134bn of Gas Fund Trust (GFT) and did what I like with it without any accountability, under Sani yet they still believed that I would fight corruption. I never thought there were worse dummies than me in Nigeria until I found my supporters, Walahi Sumobillahi!
That $2.8bn was the first of its kind in Nigeria’s History. I laid that record. I am very proud of it. Actually, during this my second coming, I was determined to lay a new record. I did that with the help of Maijibiti Barawo, the GMD of CPNN. I approved a ghost contract worth $26bn from my hotel suite in London. And trust my supporters, they applauded it, defended it, praised it and shut down any critique of it.
Some of my critics were upset that I detained Samson Dansaki for over 4 years. I don’t understand them. This man only gave me N800m out of the $2.1bn he took. He should have given me at least a billion out of the money. I had no choice, I had to use him to fight corruption the easiest way by locking him up regardless of court injunctions. I just don’t understand why people could not understand what I am doing!
Ha! My supporters, they are amazingly stupid. How could they believe the dumb stories that I was poor? How in the world? I had ten Toyota Prado SUVs in my entourage before I became President. I had an estate in Abuja in my name rented by the United Peoples of the World. I had my children in the UK going to the best schools. My son, Yunusa, rides a bike that costs meagre N58m. I have landed properties in Port-Harcourt, Kaduna and Daura. Is that the life style of a poor man?
When I went to pick the nomination form of my party, Congress of Progressive Alliance, I told them I borrowed the N25m. I have never seen such a celebrated dance by idiots in my life. It was a metastasised celebration across the land. My popularity soared. I became a cult figure. People began to express their supports through weird ways. I was dumfounded. Stupefied. Bewildered. They all believed my lie which myself could not and did not even believe. For the whole week, I was celebrating the master stroke, drinking champagne. Yes, I drank champagne as if it was going out of fashion o. No, no, no, no, don’t come with that o. Quran is not against champagne at all. Neither is Islam.
Since I became President, I have made my predecessor look like Anab Mohammed (SAW). I increased the cost of petrol. I increased the cost of staple foods. I increased the VAT tax. Light has become more expensive and inconsistent. Everything now costs more. Lives are no longer secure. Kings have been kidnapped in their palaces. Emirs are attacked anyhow. Boko Haram is now technically stronger. But I trust my dumb supporters, they have defended me all the way and very well too. I have absolute faith in their lunacy, in their cretinism. I could always count on their derangement to come up with senseless defences of my actions.
The most interesting aspect of my leadership is that I have allowed my Fula people to kill members of other ethnic nationalities unrestrained. I didn’t have to say anything. The Police knew that they dared not arrest them. The Armed Forces knew they had to protect my Fula people. Have you ever seen any of them arrested and or tried? Even when my Fula people claimed responsibilities for massacring others, have you seen them arrested by anyone? My people have massacred villages, murdering women and children, destroying farms, raping women, burning down century old settlements. I didn’t know it was going to be this easy.
People offered no resistance that I had anticipated. They don’t want to give up their lands to my invading people and yet they are not willing, even when they are able, to defend their lands. They just threw up their arms, helplessly, sermonizing about “unity” of Nigeria. Which “unity”? The only “unity”of Nigeria I understand is when my Fula people dominate every strata and control everything. Anything outside that does not make any sense to me.
I never knew Nigerians are this cowardly, Allah! Walahi! I never knew I could get away with this much. All I needed to do was to sneez by arresting any one vocal person and you see the rest running helter – skelter, with their tails between their legs. They scurry into their holes so fast that I am amused to the point all I have to do is just pick my rotten teeth in front of the television in Osa Rock.
I think my problem right now is this Yorùbáwa people. They are trying to prove stubborn and difficult. I brought RUGA, they frustrated it. Now they came up with Àmòtékùn trying to cause problems for my people’s ability to occupy and take over their land. But I would get them. I have some other plans up my sleeves. It is not over until it is over.
Those Yorùbáwa people, I would always find traitors among them. There are few black legs among them who would eat faeces for position. All they want is money and position. I have plenty of that to give, as long as I remain in Osa Rock. Many of them are shameless. They don’t care what happened to their people as long as they get to become Ministers or anything of the sort. I would give them contracts and make them betray their people.
There is even one among them, who they call “National Leader” of whatever. Some of his people call him “strategist.” I sized him up and I found his thinking constricted. To say he is myopic is a gross understatement. I find him very useful. He is a good tool. He wants to succeed me. I smile to myself about him in my quietude. There are many of these people in my party that I had thought were smart. But they are not. They are cowards and they are very greedy.
And those others from the East who call themselves Biafrans… Hmmmm! They irritate me a lot. I despise them more than I despise those sneaky and stubborn Yorùbáwa people. I don’t like them at all. They thought I have dealt with them, already. They have not the slightest idea. This second term is another term given to me by Allah. And Walahi, I swear I would use it. Some of them have tried to reveal my secret plan for third term. I have denied it and I know that as usual, they believed me.
One thing I have been able to confirm is that I am the most idiotic politician in Nigeria. I am so stupid that it is beyond amazement. But the seamless adulation by my ululating supporters beats me. I used to think that you get admired for being smart and intelligent. I never knew I could be so much adored and worshipped for being brainless and vacuous and dumb. I never knew that. It is a new revelation to me.
Is there any doubt still that I am the best President in Nigeria’s history?
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Fire Guts Mushin Timber Market
There has been a fire outbreak at Amu Timber Market in the Mushin area of Lagos.
The fire has destroyed goods and valuables worth several millions of naira.
The inferno started around 12:00am on Saturday and still spreading through large sections of the market.
The cause of the fire is still unknown.
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Arrest Of Student Activist, Ayoola Babalola, Over Critical Articles A Continuation Of Senseless Attack On Free Speech In Nigeria By Inibehe Effiong
Late on Friday, January 24, 2020, I was alerted that my client, Mr Ayoola Babalola, a courageous student activist and young journalist, was arrested and charged to court for allegedly publishing certain articles in a campus newspaper called GAPOSA Trumpet in which he served as Editor.
Babalola recently graduated from the Gateway Polytechnic located in Sapaade, Ogun State, where he read Mass Communication.
The said articles deemed critical of President Buhari, All Progressives Congress Leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission also led to the dismissal of a lecturer of Gateway Polytechnic, who served as producer of the campus newspaper.
Babalola was arrested on Thursday in Abeokuta by the Department of State Services and taken before a magistrate court on Friday.
His appeal to the SSS for him to be allowed to contact me as his counsel was rebuffed. Mr Babalola was only able to contact me through a third party from the Ibara Maximum Prison in Abeokuta where he was remanded by the court.
I understand that he was arraigned on a six-count charge bothering on alleged incitement, conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace and so on for allegedly publishing critical articles against President Buhari.
The said articles also related to the travails of the leader of the RevolutionNow movement, Mr Omoyele Sowore, and student activist, Comrade Femi Adeyeye.
Before his secret arrest and arraignment, Mr Ayoola briefed me over repressive actions, which he believed Gateway Polytechnic may likely take against him over the articles that he published.
Mr Babalola also intimated me that the DSS were possibly trailing him because of the said articles.
I condemn this despotic and needless actions by the DSS. It is a shame that at a time the country is battling serious security challenges, the DSS rather than protect Nigeria, is paranoid about any form of criticism against the Buhari regime.
The DSS has continued to expose the country to public and international ridicule over its flagrant violation of the rights of Nigerians and shameless disregard for the rule of law and democratic ethos.
The DSS will not be allowed to turn Nigeria into a police state. We will face them squarely in court.
All legal options will be explored to secure the release of Babalola and safeguard his legal and constitutional rights.
Tyranny will not win.
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