The controversial OurMumuDonDo Protest group led by the popular Nigerian entertainer, Charles Oputa, has stormed EFCC offices to demand that Diezani be repatriated.
Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, and his #OurMumuDonDo protesters on Monday stormed the offices of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Abuja to demand the repatriation of a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke.
Diezani, who served under former President Goodluck Jonathan, has been the subject of several graft probes.
Already, the courts in Nigeria had ordered the forfeiture of some properties, linked to the former ministers and believed to have been acquired with stolen wealth, to the federal government.
MAN IN CUSTODY FOR ASSAULT ON PREGNANT WOMAN February 22, 2017; An Osun Magistrate Court sitting in Ile-Ife has docked one Dayo Adebayo, 29, for alleged assault on a pregnant woman. The prosecutor, Sunday Osanyintuyi, told the court that the accused committed the offence on February 13, around 11:45 pm at Ehindi Street, Ile-Ife.Osanyintuyi, said Adebayo assaulted the woman named Blessing Monday, by hitting her with his fist across her face, causing various injuries.He added that the offence was contrary to and punishable under section 356 of the Criminal Code (Cap 34 Vol 11), Laws of Osun, 2002. The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the offence leveled against him.Defence counsel, Mrs Innocent Akhigbe, therefore pleaded for the bail of the accused in most Liberal terms, promising that her client would not jump bail and would provide reliable sureties. Magistrate Risikat Olayemi granted the bail of the accused in the sum of 5,000 Naira with one surety each in like ...
The meeting of the Federal Executive Council that holds every Wednesday did not hold yesterday. Yesterday would have afforded President Muhammadu Buhari who returned to the country on Saturday the opportunity of presiding over the council meeting for the first time in over three months. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, disclosed in a statement that the meeting would not hold. Adesina did not however disclose the reason behind the decision to cancel the meeting. But he said Buhari would yesterday receive the report of the investigation committee into the allegations against the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke. The statement read, "The meeting of the Federal Executive Council will not hold today. "President Muhammadu Buhari, will however, receive the Report of the investigation committee into the allegations against the susp...
SHERIFF IS A CONTRACTOR BROUGHT INTO PDP DURING OUR TRYING TIME 29th Feb 2017, February 27 2017 Emeka Ihedioha, a former deputy speaker of the house of representatives, has described Ali Modu Sheriff as a contractor invited to help the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during its low point. He said Sheriff’s contract had long expired and that he has nothing to contribute to the opposition party’s development. Ihedioha told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Port Harcourt on Monday that Sheriff by his conduct had failed to show an attitude worthy of uniting and strengthening the party. According to him, the conduct, actions, language and temperament displayed by Sheriff has succeeded in planting disunity amongst members. “His utterances after the Appeal Court judgment in Port Harcourt created division in the party rather than unit members, this showed that he is not interested in the progress of our party,” he said. “Sheriff has nothi...
Man Attacks Neighbour With Cutlass For Correcting Him A 26-year old man identified as Jamiu Akinrogun has landed in trouble after he attacked his neighbour, Olatunde Omisade with a cutlass for correcting him and other youths.The shocking incident happened at 2, Alaye Street off Abule Odu Street, Egbeda, Lagos where they both reside.It was gathered the victim suffered his fate when he tried to offer advise to the suspect and other youths in the area over their misdemeanour conduct. However, the suspect got angry and challenged Omisade for the effrontery which later led to an exchange of words between them. The suspect reportedly went inside his room and brought out a cutlass and attacked the victim with it and cut the victim’s hand.Omisade was bleeding profusely and was rushed to the hospital where he is being treated. The matter was reported to the police who arrested the suspect and charged him to court with griev...
My wife is cantankerous, denied me sex for 8 years —Husband •He has turned me into punching bag —Wife January 28, 2017 Crime & Court An Aba-na-Ohazu Customary Court, near Aba, has dissolved a 33–year-old marriage between Eugene Okoli and his wife, Harrieth, on grounds of denial of conjugal rights and irrational behaviour. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the dissolution of the marriage, contracted in 1983, followed a suit filed by Okoli, claiming that his wife had been behaving irrationally and had denied him sex for eight years running. “My wife is cantankerous and nagging, without justifiable cause. She has for over eight years now denied me my conjugal rights. “She now reacts to me in a despicable manner, which I think is intolerable. And all the efforts I have made to reconcile with her have failed because of her intransigence. “From her ways of doing things now, it is clear that there is no more love existing between us,” he subm...
Former Fifa President Sepp Blatter Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter, who was disgraced out of office amid a corruption scandal in 2015, has admitted he should have stepped down earlier. The 81-year-old was banned over ethics breaches, bringing an end to his 17-year reign, following a suspected two million Swiss franc ($2 million, 1.8 million euro) payment to ex-Uefa president Michel Platini. "I should have stopped down myself earlier," Blatter said in an interview published by Swiss newspaper SonntagsBlick. Blatter, who was re-elected for a fifth term in May 2015 before promptly announcing his plans to resign, recalled the editor-in-chief of a Swiss magazine warning him the role of Fifa president had an expiration date. "At your place the date is 2014', he told me, and I said to him that sometimes it's written that the product can be consumed beyond this date if it's stored in a cool place," he said. Blatter was also asked about a report in German news...
This story has been updated to reflect new details in the Kenneka Jenkins case. The mysterious death of Kenneka Jenkins, 19, who was found dead in the freezer of a suburban hotel, has sparked national outcry and questions about the circumstances surrounding her death. The teenager left her home for a party Sept. 8, according to the Chicago Tribune. After her mother, Tereasa Martin, demanded hotel staff search for her daughter, Jenkins body was found in the hotel freezer of Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel & Conference Center in Rosemont, Illinois. Here is everything we know so far about the tragic death of Kenneka Jenkins. 1. Autopsy results released Friday determined that Kenneka Jenkins death was an accident. Cook County medical examiner’s office has determined the ca...
Suspected billionaire kidnapper, Evans, uses a different name in each state of the federation to create varied identities in order to beat policemen tracking him, NewTelegraph reports. It has also been discovered that in 2013, he was issued with a Ghanaian passport with a fictitious name, Asare Nelson. The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, disclosed this while speaking at the West Africa International Security Conference in Accra, Ghana. Officials of the Accra Passport Office allegedly connived with Evans to issue the passport on January 10, 2013 to expire in January 2018. Evans had told the IRT team of interrogators that he had a different name for different state of the federation. For instance, the suspect is known at his Magodo residence as George but he is Evans in the Lagos criminal world. "In Edo he is Sunny; in Port Harcourt, he is Richard; in Lagos he is Evans; in Anambra he is Somtu, etc, while some of his girlfriends police arrested know him as Mike. Security ...
Bidemi Kosoko ignores Bose Alao's accusation of love affair with husband March 22nd, 2017 Bidemi Kosoko has said she would not respond to the shade thrown at her by Bose Alao , who had accused her of having an affair with her ( Alao ) husband . Bose Alao ' s husband reportedly lives in Ghana, but she is certain that Bidemi , the daughter of Nollywood actor , Jide Kosoko , is having a relationship with him . Immediately the news broke out on Instagram, Bidemi also took to her IG page and shared a photograph in which she was wearing white dress with a caption: " AND I SAY LORD U ARE GREAT #selflove # # thanksuJesus # lovely ppl how is ur day going ? Her fans stormed the page , making various comments as it suits them . One of them wanted her to clear the air about Bose Alao ' s accusation, saying , " This is cute u , pls clear the air, about news going around , don' t put we ur fans in the dark ma ' am . " Bidemi replied : " Not interested my siste...
Neighbours watched on in shock as a pair of brazen lovers pulled their trousers down and seemingly had sex by a block of Ware flats. A young man and woman, described as being around 20 by a witness, were seen engaged in a 15-minute romp by a set of stairs in Tudor Square, just off West Street at 8pm on Saturday (May 13). The couple "didn't seem to care if anyone saw", according to witness Kay Hamersley, despite the festivities for music event 'Ware is the Music' going on in the area at the same time. Miss Hamersley was having a cigarette by a window in her friend's flat when she saw the young couple walk into the square and snapped what happened next on her phone's camera. The dental nurse, 20, said: "First they were just standing there looking at each other, which I thought was quite odd so I called my friend over. "The young man then pushed the girl to the wall and started to pull her trousers and underwear down. He then put his ha...
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