The Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Garba, has advised an All Progressives Congress (APC) aspirant, Ahaji Idrisa Mamman Durkwa to take youths unemployment with all seriousness it deserved by creating Jobs to the youths and take education as his priority if elected. (more…)
Citing cases of insecurity around the Ekiti State High Court in Ado Ekiti, the Election Petition Tribunal handling the July 14 governorship election, on Monday relocated its sitting to a yet to be disclosed location. (more…)
After five years of protracted legal battle between the federal Government and Yushau Shuaib, Chief Information Officer at the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed’s Ministry has finally obeyed the National Industrial Court order to reinstate the embattled civil servant. (more…)
Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), has denied lobbying for Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, who seems to have fallen out of the goodwill of the National Leader of the All Progressives Party (APC). (more…)
Two office workers, Oladoyin Ogunyinka and Folashade Junaid, on Wednesday appeared in an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly defrauding their employer of N10 million.
Ogunyinka, 35, an accountant who resides at Yaba area of Lagos, and Junaid, 41, a manager who stays at Ajah, in Lagos, pleaded not guilty to charges of obtaining money under false pretences, conspiracy and stealing.
The Prosecutor, Insp. Victor Eruada, said that the defendants committed the offences between January 2017 and February 2018 at USAF Global Resources Nigeria Limited, Ikeja area of Lagos State.
Eruada said that the defendants, who were members of staff of the company, obtained the amount from their employer, Mr Olakunle Olawoore.
“The accused obtained N10 million from Olawoore under the guise of acquiring him a house, which they never did.
“They converted the money to their personal use,’’ the prosecutor said.
The offences contravened Sections 287, 411 and 314 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 (Revised).
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Section 314 prescribes 15 years jail term for obtaining money under false pretences.
The Magistrate, Mrs M.I. Dan-Oni, granted bail to the defendants in the sum of N1 million, with two sureties in like sum.
Dan-Oni adjourned the case until Dec. 3, for mention. (NAN)
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed solidarity with Nigerians across the states affected by floods and directed all Federal Government agencies “to use their authority and resources to assist the victims affected by the natural disaster’’.
Malam Garba Shehu, the president’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, said the new directive was conveyed through the Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mr Mustapha Maihaja.
The presidential aide quoted Buhari as warning all the agencies of the Federal government against disobeying the presidential directive.
According to him, the President has requested that any such agency that failed to assist should be reported to him.
The President expressed his sympathies to all families who lost property and their loved ones arising from the floods.
While noting that the loss of lives cannot be compensated, Buhari assured Nigerians that his administration would minimize the suffering and misery of citizens affected by the disaster.
It would be recalled that Buhari had on Sept. 14 delegated authority to the NEMA Director-General to declare a “national disaster’’ in the event that anticipated flooding turns a reality in parts of the country.
“The NEMA DG is mandated to coordinate a national response to emergency situations and in doing so, empowered to direct any or all agencies of government to use their authority and resources to offer assistance to victims affected by the floods,’’ Shehu said. (NAN)
BERLIN:
Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who claims US President Donald Trump paid her off to keep their tryst a secret, goes into uncomplimentary detail about their alleged sexual encounter in a new memoir, according to the Guardian newspaper.
Daniels, 39, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, also told friends that Trump “doesn’t even want to be president” during the 2016 campaign, according to the British newspaper, which said it had obtained a copy of the book “Full Disclosure” ahead of its Oct. 2 release date.
Reuters was unable to review the book. Calls to the publisher, St. Martin’s Press, were not immediately returned on Tuesday. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Adult film star Stormy Daniels to publish book on Trump affair in October
Daniels’ memoir comes on the heels of several other books that portray Trump in an unflattering light, including an investigative work by famed journalist Bob Woodward and a memoir from former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman.
In addition, the New York Times recently published an anonymous opinion article written by an administration official questioning Trump’s fitness for office and saying there were a number of US officials who were part of a “quiet resistance” inside the administration.
Trump and the White House have dismissed those reports as fiction.
Daniels has said she slept with Trump during a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, California, in 2006.
“It may have been the least impressive sex I’ve ever had, but clearly, he didn’t share that opinion,” she wrote in her memoir, according to the Guardian.
Trump lawyer seeks $20 million damages from Stormy Daniels
Trump has denied he had sex with Daniels. His former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, has pleaded guilty to making payments to her that violated campaign finance law.
Daniels wrote in her book that she did not take Trump’s chances of becoming president seriously until late in the 2016 campaign, according to the newspaper.
“It will never happen, I would say,” Daniels told friends, according to the book. “He doesn’t even want to be president.”
As Trump’s election grew more likely, however, Daniels said she decided to go public with her story in an effort to protect herself. She cited a 2011 incident in which she claims a man threatened her in a parking lot not to talk about Trump.
Trump has called that claim “a total con job.”
The Niger Government is spending about N2 billion on the reconstruction of the 84 kilometer Minna-Bida road, Alhaji Ibrahim Balarabe, the state Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, has said
Balarabe made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna on Wednesday.
He said that the road had been in deplorable condition due to the activities of heavy duty trucks plying it.
He explained that the project had reached about 75 per cent completion and expressed satisfaction with the level of the work done so far on the road.
“Our major challenges are the excesses of the heavy duty vehicle operators coming from Lagos to different part of the country as the state remains the gateway
” We are spending billions of naira yearly to repair federal and state roads as a result of heavy duty trucks being loaded above their approved capacity,’’ he said.
The commissioner called on leaders of heavy duty trucks association to caution their members on the danger of overloading.
The Speaker of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Mr Olagunju Ojo, the Minority Leader, and five other lawmakers on Tuesday defected to three different parties.
The Clerk of the House, Mr Paul Bankole, read the separate letters of defection by the lawmakers during the plenary session in Ibadan.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Speaker (Labour Party-Orire), Mrs Wunmi Oladeji ( Labour Party-Ogbomoso North) and Solomon Olukayode (Labour Party-Ogbomoso South) defected to All Progressives Congress (APC).
Gbenga Oyekola ( Labour Party-Atiba) and Peter Oyetunji (Labour Party-Ogo Oluwa/Surulere), on the other hand, defected to African Democratic Congress (ADC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) respectively.
The Minority Leader, Mr Ademola Ige (Accord Party-Ibadan South-East II) and Mr Fatai Adesina (Accord Party-Ibadan South-East I) defected to ADC.
Meanwhile, the house has appealed to the Commissioner of Police in the state, Abiodun Odude, to make conscious efforts to put a stop to gang-related crimes and violence in Oyo town.
The assembly also urged the commissioner to deploy competent police units to tackle the dastardly activities of criminal gangs.
This followed a Matter of Urgent Public Importance raised by Mr Muideen Olagunju (Accord Party-Oyo East/Oyo West) during the plenary.
According to Olagunju, the dramatic upsurge in gang warfare within the town has resulted in residents living in fear as well as property damage and deaths.
“The acts of violence are traceable to battle for supremacy among bands of youths in certain black spots within the town.
“During these battles of attritions, the gangs engage in spates of physical attacks, maiming, property damage, looting and sadly, killings.
“More often than not, innocent citizens bear the brunt of these acts of violence especially in Agunpopo, Balogun, Apara, Apinni, Ilaka, Akesan Motor Park, Iseke and Tengbe.
“It calls for concern that in spite of the fact that Oyo town and its environs have four Divisional Police Headquarters, one Area Command as well as a unit of SARS, it appears the gangs are controllable with low rate of arrests and prosecution of offenders,” he said.
The Speaker directed the House Committee on Security and Special Duties to convene, charge and monitor relevant authorities to act swiftly to curtail violence. (NAN)