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MAN KILLED HIS NEIGHBOR FOR RITUAL SIX DAYS TO HIS WEDDING.

It is really sad that Nigeria has gotten to a point where the citizens cannot trust anyone, including their family members and neighbours. It was the trust Olokose Oluwasola Ojo, staff of the University of Ilorin Teaching hospital, had for his neighbour who got him killed 6 days before his wedding. Olowokose was said to have given his neighbour money to get cow for him for his wedding and instead of getting him a cow, he Olowokose, killed him instead. The ring leader and the victim’s next-door neighbour confessed to the police that he murdered his friend in the cold blood, and used his head and arms for money ritual. The commissioner of police said; “The suspects also confessed that they killed the victim in Patigi and buried him in a shallow grave having removed sensitive parts of his organs “ S.P, Ajayi Okasanmi, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, identified all the suspects as Muhammed Kazeem Belwa, the ring leader and the victim’s next-door neighbour and friend, Mo...
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Mr Trump urged other countries to follow Mr Buhari's move to ban the US-owned social media platforms

Mr Trump urged other countries to follow Mr Buhari's move to ban the US-owned social media platforms Former US president Donald Trump has praised Nigeria's government for banning Twitter after it deleted President Muhammadu Buhari's post for breaching its rules. "Who are they to dictate good and evil, if they themselves are evil?" Mr Trump said in a statement. He urged other countries to ban Twitter and Facebook for not allowing "free and open speech". Mr Trump was banned from both platforms after the US Capitol riot in January.  What did Trump's statement say? "Congratulations to the country of Nigeria, who just banned Twitter because they banned their president," he said in a statement released on Tuesday. He suggested that he should have banned Facebook while he was in office, but said the company's boss Mark Zuckerberg "kept calling me and coming to the White House for dinner telling me how great I was". Mr Tru...
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I want to sit, talk with Nnamdi Kanu - Abia Gov, Ikpeazu

I want to sit, talk with Nnamdi Kanu - Abia Gov, Ikpeazu  The Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu has declared that he has no grudges against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. The governor, who spoke during an interview with newsmen in Umahia, the state capital, said he was ready to engage the Biafra freedom fighter on how security would be restored in the state and other parts of Southeast. Governor Ikpeazu while reacting to the activities of the IPOB members, who were accused of attacking security operatives in the state, said violence would not bring the expected change. According to him, “I am not going to engage Nnamdi on the grounds of IPOB, but I can speak to citizen Nnamdi who happens to be an Abian but not on the basis or affiliation with IPOB. I’m going to speak to Nnamdi on the basis of the fact that I am the governor of Abia State and he is a citizen of Abia State. “If you’re taking up arms against the Nigerian natio...
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Twitter has Reached out to Nigeria over Suspension, Says Lai Mohammed

Twitter has Reached out to Nigeria over Suspension, Says Lai Mohammed The social media group, Twitter, has called for a high level discussion with the federal government over the recent suspension of its activities in Nigeria. The Information and Culture Minister, Lai Mohammed, who disclosed this to newsmen on Wednesday after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the State House, Abuja, said Twitter has reached out to the federal government seeking high-level discussion to resolve the issue. Mohammed, who said he got Twitter’s request on Wednesday morning, listed conditions that must be met even if there is a discussion with Twitter to include that it must now be registered in Nigeria as a business concern. Apart from Twitter, the minister said other social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram must also be registered in the country. According to him, freedom of speech has not been stifled by the suspension of Twitter, adding that Nigerians can still u...
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I'm ready to die in hands of kidnappers, no ransom for bandits - El-Rufai's wife

I'm ready to die in hands of kidnappers, no ransom for bandits - El-Rufai's wife The wife of Kaduna State Governor, Hajiya Asia El-Rufai, has said no ransom should be paid to her abductors if she is kidnapped.  Addressing participants of a peace and security training organised Equal Access International (EAI) in Kaduna, the governor’s wife, who is also a lecturer at Baze University, Abuja, said she is ready to die in the hands of kidnappers if that will bring peace to the country. The governor’s wife said Nigerians must get back their once peaceful country and women have a great role to play in achieving that. “We must sacrifice to bring this to an end and I am ready to die in the hands of kidnappers if it will bring peace to this country. “For as long as you continue to pay ransom, it is like you are adding kerosene to fire, you are giving bandits, kidnappers money for ammunition to continue to haunt you. We should not pay ransom. this is my personal opinion. “I ha...
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Three Employees were arrested for planning to kidnap their Boss for N60M Ransom

Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command arrested one Sunday Nwankwo and two employees of an oil and gas merchant, Aguizu Chukwu, 19, and Tunde Olaewo, 21, for allegedly planning to kidnap their boss, one Solomon Otungo, in the Ejigbo area of the state in 2019. The state Commissioner of Police, Zubairu Mu’azu, said that the command mobilised operatives to arrest the suspects at their meeting point, after it received credible intelligence about the alleged plan to kidnap the oil and gas merchant. The suspects confessed to the crime and said they would have demanded a ransom of N60m from Otungo if their plan had succeeded. Mu’azu said, “The police received credible intelligence report that some newly-employed workers of one Solomon Otungo, an oil and gas merchant in the Bucknor area of Ejigbo, Lagos, were holding nocturnal meetings on how they would kidnap and keep their employer incommunicado until a ransom of N60m was paid.
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The £4.2 million recovered from the former governor of Delta State,

The £4.2 million recovered from the former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, has been paid to the Delta State Government, the Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, said on Tuesday. The fund, which the federal government recently received from the United Kingdom, is part of the proceeds of crime seized from the ex-governor. Mr Idris stated this while appearing before the committee investigating the status of recovered loot. He stated that “all recovered funds that belong to the respective states are paid directly to the states”. “Some recoveries are for state governments, I know there was a time recovery were made on behalf of Plateau State, there was one for Bayelsa, even Delta, such recoveries go to those states,” he stated. Adejoro Adeogun (APC, Ogun), the chairman of the committee, asked Mr Idris specifically if the Ibori loot was paid to Delta State. He (Idris) answered in the affirmative. “It was paid to the state, it was paid to Delta State. Any recov...
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