Effiong Eton: 06/30/15

Tuesday, 30 June 2015

Buhari Has Acheived Alot Within One Month in Office - Lai Mohammed

The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday, said President Muhammadu Buhari's pace within 30 days of his administration has outpaced the six years achievements of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
He said

“It’s been about one month now since President Buhari assumed office, and I can tell you that there has been motion, and there has been movement, contrary to what is being peddled in some quarters.
“Let me say straight away that my party, the APC, understands and appreciates the concerns of Nigerians as far as the perceived pace of the administration is concerned. We understand that they repose so much confidence in the party and the government to act quickly to stamp out insecurity, tackle corruption, revive the moribund economy, provide jobs and generally restore hope.

After announcing weeks ago that he would be stepping down as president of Chocolate City Music, Audu Maikori has officially announced M.I as the president and Ice Prince as Vice President of Chocolate City Music..

Tragedy struck over the weekend at Uratta in Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo State when a 15-year-old senior secondary school student, identified as Paschal Egbosimba, committed suicide.

Pascal, a native of Ntueke, Ideato South local government area of the state, prior to his death was staying with his mother and siblings at Toronto Junction in Uratta area of the State.

The deceased, a senior secondary school student of Passion Model Secondary School, Egbu area of the State was said to have hanged himself on a ceiling fan using an electric extension cable, when his mother was away for a night vigil.

Central Bank of Nigeria has extended the deadline for the Bank Verification Number, BVN, registration to October 31st. The Apex bank had earlier fixed today June 30th as the deadline for the registration.

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Cop Arrested For Killing Two Women At Funeral

The Edo State Police Command has arrested a police corporal for shooting two women to death during a funeral at Ivhiokhile quarters, Fugar, in the Etsako Central Local Government Area of the state.

It was gathered that one of the women, Sandra Imhaku, was hit by a bullet from the yet-to-be-identified police officer’s gun last Saturday.

The gun went off while the cop was trying usher his principal, said to be a traditional ruler, into a vehicle.

The corporal was said to have held his rifle with one hand, while opening the door for the traditional ruler to enter his car as they were about to depart from the venue.

A source explained that the stray bullet had narrowly missed a two-month old baby strapped on the late woman’s back before hitting her in the neck. She was seated among other guests at the ceremony.

A 70-year old woman, Mrs. Saratu Rahman, aka Iya Ogbomoso, from Offa, in the Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State, has killed herself with a razor blade.

According to Punch, the woman, a mother of four, cut her throat with the razor blade.

A neighbour, who identified herself simply as Yetunde, said when she and other neighbours heard Rahman screamed, they rushed to her room and saw her in a pool of blood.

She stated that they contacted the police, adding that she was later rushed to a hospital where she was treated for two days before she eventually died.

Nigerian music star, Damini Ogulu, aka Burna Boy is playing no more.

The reggae-dancehall singer proudly flaunted this semi-automatic pistol on his Instagram page yesterday with the caption you see above - 'Trust mi daddy, this is not a movie or music video.'' See another photo after the cut........

Mozambique decriminalized homosexuality Monday when a new penal code came into force that swept away old Portuguese colonial laws, in a victory for campaigners for gay rights.

The old code, dating back to 1886, targeted anyone “who habitually engages in vices against nature” — though no known prosecutions took place after Mozambique became independent in 1975.

Breaking the law was punishable by up to three years of hard labor.

“It's a symbolic victory, as social inclusion remains the main challenge,” Frank, a student gay rights activist who declined to give his full name, told Agence-France Presse.

The new penal code, which was announced last December by then President Armando Guebuza, also decriminalizes abortion after lobbying by civil rights organizations.

A mother who killed two of her children leaving their bodies in her kitchen freezer has pleaded guilty to their murders saying:

“I don’t feel no remorse for the death of them demons.”

Mitchelle Blair of Detroit, Michigan, callously admitted abusing her 13-year-old daughter Stoni Blair and nine-year-old Stephen Berry, before their deaths.The bodies of the children were discovered in a deep freezer at her apartment on May 24 when bailiffs arrived to evict her.The mother has two surviving children aged eight and 17-years-old.

As she appeared in court Blair said she killed her children after claiming they repeatedly “gang-raped” her youngest child.

The National Economic Council, chaired by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, on Monday accused former Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, of spending $2.1bn from the Excess Crude Account without authorisation.

“We looked at the numbers for the Excess Crude Account. The last time the former Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, reported to the council, and it is in the minutes, she reported by November 2014 that we had $4.1 bn.

Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole told State House correspondents after the NEC’s 58th meeting in Abuja.

“Today, the Accountant-General Office reported we have $2.0bn. Which means the honourable minister spent $2.1bn without authority of the NEC and that money was not distributed to states, it was not paid to the three tiers of government,”

Reports that President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Department of State Sevice, DSS, to arrest his wife’s younger brother, Musa Yola, over suspicion of fraud, are untrue.
PREMIUM TIMES contacted presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, and he categorically denied the reports.

“It is definitely not true, there is no iota of truth on this report there is no basis for the president to do that,” Mr. Shehu said.

Also, the man who is said to have been arrested, Mr. Yola, called PREMIUM TIMES and said he was shocked to see reports of his purported arrests in the social media.

“As we speak, I am in the President’s office and I was with him last night,” he said.