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June 18, 2018
A Nigerian man has shared a rather shocking video showing some men committing suicide after losing bets in China.
The scene of the sad incident
 
Mokwuelum Ifeanyi, a Nigerian man who lives in Guangzhou, China, has shared videos of two men who committed suicide separately.
 
According to Ifeanyi, the men killed themselves after allegedly losing all their money which they betted on the world cup match between Germany and Mexico.
 
While one jumped from a building, the other jumped from a bridge.
 
What Ifeanyi shared on Facebook
 
It will be recalled that yesterday, defending champions Germany made a disastrous start to their bid to win back-to-back World Cups with a 0-1 shock defeat by Mexico.
 
Hirving Lozano’s strike helped Mexico beat , Germany, 1 – 0 in their Group F match at the Luzhniki Stadium on Sunday.
 
Despite facing some sustained late pressure, Mexico held on to inflict a first World Cup defeat on Germany since they lost to Spain in the 2010 semi-final.
 
This was also the first time a German side had lost their opening game of this tournament since 1982, when West Germany were upset by Algeria.
 
 
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June 18, 2018
A naval officer has shocked people with his unbelievably criminal act after going haywire and stabbing a woman to death.
File photo
 
A naval rating, Yusuf Owolabi, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly stabbing a woman, Taibat Badru, to death in Egan, a riverine community in the Ojo council area of Lagos.
 
According to Punch Metro, the naval rating, who was said to be the son of a factional traditional ruler in the community, allegedly stabbed the woman with a knife on a clear Friday afternoon.
 
The 55-year-old was confirmed died at a general hospital.
 
Punch Metro reports that the suspect was arrested by policemen attached to the Ilemba Hausa Division on Saturday and was transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba.
 
It was learnt that an aide to the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly had petitioned the state Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, who ordered the arrest of the suspect.
 
A community source said the incident was caused by a tussle for the position of the baale of the village, lost by the suspect’s father, Moshood, to a member of the deceased’s family.
 
The development reportedly pitched members of the two families against one another.
 
According to the source, the suspected killer rating, who was recently deployed in Lagos from Port Harcourt, Rivers State, arrived in the village in company with a friend.
 
The source added that the suspect, who was armed with a knife, got himself drunk before he picked a fight with the son of the deceased woman, named Quadri.
 
Quadri reportedly invited his mother into the clash and the woman was stabbed to death.
 
The source said, “The family members of Moshood and his rival always fight one another. There was a time the house of Moshood was set ablaze by the people of the village over this matter.

“But the fight that led to the death of the woman started between the naval man and Quadri, the son of the deceased.

“Quadri ran into their house to inform his mother about the scuffle and as the mother rushed out, the suspect brought out his dagger and stabbed her in the back.

“When efforts to stop the blood gushing out of the woman failed, they rushed her to the Alimosho General Hospital at Igando where she eventually died.”
 
The Chief Press Secretary to the Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Musbau Rasak, said the woman was his sister.
 
The Lagos State Police Public Relaions Officer, CSP Chike Oti, confirmed the incident.
 
He said, “A naval rating with no 815/448, Yusuf Owolabi, aged 24, son of the factional baale of Egan and one other at large, went to Egan community and used a knife to stab one Tohbat Badiru, aged 55 years, in her back. She bled to death on her way to the general hospital. The suspect has been arrested and detained.”

June 18, 2018
A HR Manager has told a rather shocking story highlighting the day some operatives of SARS allegedly threatened to drink his blood.
Kamil Mahmud
 
Kamil Mahmud, a human resources manager, has alleged being threatened by some operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Punch Metro reports.
 
The 26-year-old claimed that the men threatened to drink his blood for allegedly disrespecting them.
 
Punch Metro reports that Mahmud had driven behind his brother’s car to the Ikeja area for an interview on a radio station on Thursday.
 
They were returning on Friday when three policemen allegedly accosted them at the Agidingbi area of Ikeja.
 
Speaking with our correspondent on Sunday, Mahmud said he was about parking by the roadside when the operatives cocked their guns and threatened to shoot.
 
He said, “I waved my hand to tell them that I was not running away and I just wanted to find somewhere to park. I was thinking it was going to be a normal civilian-police conversation. But I realised the situation was getting more aggressive even before I got down from the car.

“One of the policemen asked me to come down from the car and told my friends and my brothers, who were driving behind me, to stay back.

“I came down and he said he wanted to search the car. I told him to go ahead. But before he even tried to search, he had started manhandling me.

“I told him that he had not even asked for my name or who owned the car I was driving and what I did for a living.

“He, however, searched me and the car without finding anything incriminating.
 
“I don’t drive with my shoes on; so, when I got down, I was barefooted. I told the three officers more than five times that I wanted to get my shoes, but they looked at me with no response.

“The moment I tried to get my shoes, the policemen went berserk and started slapping and hitting me. One of them was shouting that he drank blood and he was ready to drink my blood. He pulled my shirt and trousers and threw me into their vehicle, a Sienna, without a number plate.”
 
According to Mahmud, a passerby who wanted to intervene was threatened with a cutlass.
 
He added that he had attempted to beg the officers when one of them further beat him with a cutlass.
 
The Edo State indigene said, “As I sat on the back seat of their car, one of them put handcuffs in my hands. They never told me what I did wrong.

“The one who assaulted me with the cutlass started the car and drove to Ikeja GRA. On getting to the Area F Police Commad, the officers refused to enter the premises and I told them that they should take me inside the station and file a report because I really wanted to know what my offence was. They shouted at me that I still had the mouth to talk.

“The officer driving had a bottle of gin in front of the car; he was drinking and driving. They later negotiated with my brothers and demanded N15,000.

“My brothers went to use the ATM at Conoil Filling Station, but the ATM did not dispense cash. Then one of the policemen got angry and started driving towards Oba Akran Road. When we got there, he parked and waited for my brothers.
 
“My brothers came and told them that they were able to get N8,000. They collected it, removed the handcuffs from my hand and told me to get out of their car.”
 
Mahmud demanded the arrest and prosecution of the policemen, adding that he was robbed by the law enforcement agents.
 
He said the cops wore the F-SARS jackets and had guns with police tags.
 
The Lagos State Police Public Relation Officer, CSP Chike Oti, said, “They are not SARS officials because SARS officials in Lagos State have uniforms that have code numbers with which they can be identified easily and SARS officials in Lagos State are under the instruction of the Commissioner of Police not to conduct stop and search in Lagos State.

“However, the complainant should come forward to give us vital information about the officers, so that we can arrest whoever the people might be; but I know that they are not SARS officials.”
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June 18, 2018
Some officers of the Nigeria Police Force have smartly foiled a plan by kidnappers to abduct a customs deputy comptroller and her family.
Suspects
 
According to a report by Punch Metro, the operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have foiled the alleged plot of a gang to kidnap a customs deputy comptroller and her family.
 
The state’s police spokesperson, CSP Chike Oti, in a statement on Sunday, said the alleged kidnappers,  Yomi Odudare and Olugbenga Ojo, were arrested after detectives attached to the Area D Command, Mushin, Lagos, thwarted their plan.
 
He said, “Acting on the directive of the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Edgal Imohimi, the Area D commander assembled a decoy team which played along with a caller who had been making business calls to Yisa Theophilus, the younger brother of the female officer.

“The police team ran a quick check on the caller based on available information and came to the conclusion that he was up to something sinister.

“The team found out that aside from being a notorious criminal in the area, the caller, later discovered to be one Yomi Odudare, was into land business. So, the detectives called him to meet them for a land deal and he agreed.”
 
Oti said the police arrested Odudare at an agreed meeting point and during a brief interrogation, the suspect confessed that the plan to kidnap the custom’s deputy comptroller and her family was the idea of one Olugbenga Ojo.
 
Ojo was said to be a former driver of the uncle of the deputy comptroller.
 
It was learnt that the men planned to kidnap the customs officer after first abducting her brother,  Theophilus.
 
The driver, according to the police, confessed to the plot upon receiving a monitored call from Odudare, who was in police custody at the time.
 
“Odudare told him (Ojo) on the telephone to let them meet because he had successfully kidnapped the lawyer (Theophilus). He (Ojo) was happy and so he rushed to the venue, straight into the waiting arms of police detectives investigating the case,” the police spokesperson added.
 
Oti said the CP advised Lagosians to be cautious of involvement in any business dealings with questionable sources.
 
He said, “It was the agreement of both suspects that in order to avoid the mistakes of the notorious kidnapper, Evans, the moment any of their potential victims sights  Ojo, a former employee of the deputy comptroller’s uncle, that person must be killed because the family members knew him.

“The CP Lagos, wishes to use this opportunity to advise Lagosians to be wary of people who call them out for lucrative business deals as it may turn out to be a ploy to kidnap or harm them. He, however, assured that the command would remain proactive in the fight against crime in the state.”
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June 17, 2018
This unnamed Nigerian lady decided to go gaga on her special day by daringly wearing her ordinary bra and panties during her birthday parties.
 
The slay queen celebrant (middle)
 
If you have ever been confused about what indecent dressing means, then the physical appearance this unnamed slay queen put up at her birthday could help you understand the concept.
 
Her entire body was sparsely covered in white underwears as she danced and boldly posed for pictures with her friends. She appears to have achieved her attention-seeking aim as the pictures have gone viral online.
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June 17, 2018
A total of 19 aspirants at the forthcoming national convention of the All Progressives Congress have been disqualified.
APC logo
 
19 aspirants have been booted out of the race for various offices at the forthcoming national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC), according to details released by the screening Appeal Committee.
 
A report by The Nation revealed that the committee, however, said their cases would be reviewed strictly on merit.
 
It added it has received 16 petitions from party members against disqualification or some of the aspirants the committee screened.
 
Chairman of the Appeals Subcommittee, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, told newsmen during one of the sittings of the committee yesterday it has not received any petition against any of those aspiring for the offices of the national chairman and national secretary.
 
He disclosed that the committee hopes to submit its final report to the convention committee tomorrow, adding that aside petitions against some of the aspirants, there was one general petition demanding for justice.
 
The Imo State governor added, the petitioner wanted to know if members of the National Working Committee can be judged in their own cases having presided over the various congresses.
 
According to him: “We have started receiving petitions and appeals. Right now, we have seven aspirants here.

“We have resolved to give everyone a fair hearing so that justice, equity and fairness will prevail so that we prevent crisis in the party.

“We are carefully selected Nigerians from all works of life from different states that constitute membership of this committee.
 
“We have two days to do this job and we will be submitting our report by Monday barring any other reason. We are here to work all day and all night and take our decision.

“The screening appeal is the final appeal in this case. After this appeal committee, the next appeal will be after election appeal which will come after the convention.”
 
He added: “We are unmindful of the fact the convention committee will need time to start printing of ballot papers for the convention and so, we will ensure that we complete this job on time.

“So far, we have about 18 petitions before us and we have 19 persons that did not make it at the screening level.

“These are the things we are looking to see the merit or otherwise of their claims. We are going to use the screening committee report as a major guide to what we are doing.

“As soon as we are through with this, we are going to make it known to the public those who have succeeded at the appeals committee level.”

On those who were petitioned against, he said: “Of course we have petitions against all other positions except that of the national chairman and national secretary.”
 
On whether the committee has powers to disqualify those already screened and qualified, he said: “Yes, if you don’t make the appeal screening, you are disqualified because there is no other appeal after this.

“If the appeals committee upholds the position of the screening on the 19 persons, it means they have been disqualified from contesting the election.

“If there is anybody who has been screened and there is a petition against him, we have powers to uphold his qualification or disqualify him based on the merits of the petition.”

June 17, 2018
Popular Prophet Wale Olagunju who is resident in Ibadan, Oyo State believes Buhari and the ruling party is in for a shocker.
 
Prophet Wale Olagunju
 
Prophet Wale Olagunju, the presiding Bishop, Divine Seed of God Chapel Ministries has spoken on the state of the nation saying 'It is not in the mind set of God for Buhari to rule beyond May 2019'.
 
In a recent interview with City People, the man of God said, 'let me give you my own Biblical view, whenever there is injustice there will be no peace. Forget about those Bishops who are saying it shall be well with Nigeria. I am a die-hard supporter of Buhari in those days. One, to me his war against corruption is too selective. Buhari should know that corruption is a sin against God and mankind, so war against it should be total'.
 
According to him, 'I expect him to restructure Nigeria to balance the equation, He should conduct transparent censors to address the injustice that is going on in this country, create job opportunity for the youths who are roaming the street and address the problem of tribalism in the nation, correct the lopsided appointment that is going on in the Armed Forces; Custom; Immigration; Nigerian Police; Federal Ministries! Parastatals. It is not in the mind set of God for Buhari to rule beyond May 29,2019. Look at the just concluded bye-election in Oyo State, yes, PDP floored APC hands down. This is just the beginning of what awaits Buhari and his APC come 2019; as earlier predicted by me in my prophesy of 2017 and 2018'.
 
He added that, 'let me be frank and declare before God of Heaven and the whole heart, even if Buhari should red-carpet the whole nation, Buhari and his APC would not win the 2019 presidential election. In my 2017 prophesy, the Lord told me He would raise adversaries against him and even his own kinsmen, the Hausas would disown him. What are we witnessing now? 

The Lord gave me the signs through my prophesy; there is no way he can win. Some Nigerians in their own thinking has said that Buhari is a man of Integrity .. Where lies the integrity in the life of Buhari when he chose his own people the Fulanis to manage the security affairs of this nation, shedding innocent blood on daily basis, marginalizing the Christians and the Ibos has no say in the affairs of Nigerian nation. Why? 

To me the thinking of those who are supporting Buhari today is upside down. Under Buhari, the government doesn’t value integrity and value system is no more'.

June 17, 2018
Some suspected cultists arrested and paraded in the South-eastern part of the country exuded confidence as they smiled and discussed with themselves.
 
The suspected cultists
 
Some suspected cultists who were arrested for fomenting trouble in their neighbourhoods were seen in a cheerful mood while being paraded, recently, by the Imo state police command. 
 
The cultists who were apprehended by security operatives across various parts of the state, are said to mostly belong to Vikings and Aiye confraternities.

June 17, 2018
Kunle Adebajo will be spending at least one year in his father's house after a critical article he wrote about the premier university backfired.
 
Kunle Adebajo
 
The management of the University of Ibadan has suspended Kunle Adebajo, a 500 level student of the faculty of law, for two semesters.
 
Adebajo, who was supposed to proceed to Law School, was suspended over his 2016 article, UI: The irony of fashionable rooftops and awful interiors, published by The Guardian.
 
He drew attention to the deplorable state of the facilities at the Nigerian premier university. Piqued by the article, the university, two days after the publication, asked Mr Adebajo to face a disciplinary committee.
 
In the following months, the student continued to face disciplinary charges which he defended before he was eventually told he had been rusticated for two semesters at the end of May.
 
But it was on Friday that the rustication of Mr Adebajo became public, with his colleagues within and outside UI accusing the university authorities of being anti-free speech and oppressive.
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June 17, 2018
Reactions have trailed the embarrassing fall of the Super Eagles yesterday at their first match at the ongoing World Cup in Russia.
 
File Photo
 
The first tragedy of the Eagles' performance tonight was the revelation that many Nigerians truly believed that in the absence of quality preparation and good organization, the predictions of the so-called 'Marcus the mystic pig' would spur the team to victory.
 
For those who have followed the sub-par performances of Nigeria's sports teams over the past few years, this timid and uninspiring show against a lackluster Croatian side didn't come as a surprise, it is consistent with the trend.
 
There is apparently a correlation between the Mediocre performance of the country's leadership and the performance of her sports teams; the one rises or falls with the other. And they both seem to be on a consistent decline.
 
These Eagles, much like the country's leadership, were feckless, lacked imagination and creativity, and had very little ambition. The surprise was not their horrible performance, the surprise was that we expected them to perform, to give in essence, what they do not have. This is a clear case of harmful illusion, the natural consequence of reliance by humans on predictions by pigs!
 
It is the same illusion that has many of our people still expecting Buhari's APC or Jonathan's PDP to fix our country, and give her the sort of ambitious and creative leadership required to harness her potentials and unleash the limitless imagination and creative force of her proud people; the kind of leadership of which the Buharis, Jonathans, and their co-travellers are simply incapable.
 
Also, this illusion seems to have blinded us to our collective low self-esteem borne out by the fact that more than half a century since our first participation in international football, we still rely on the questionable expertise of a string of under-achieving Europeans - fraudulently tagged 'expatriates' - who turn in mediocre performances after pocketing very high wages from our lean national purse.
 
This illusion speaks to our national vanity, and led us to the ridiculous celebration of sports kits made by a foreign company rather than question why in 2018 we cannot kit our teams domestically. This is besides the curious stupidity of celebrating our team's fashionable kits in a tournament where laurels are won by performance not fashion.
 
While it is almost certain - especially to those of us not caught in this collective illusion - that these Eagles will deservedly end up a flop in Russia, there is the consolation that this team is a poor representation of our actual abilities in this and other sports; and the sooner we fix our leadership question, the sooner a competent and gallant set of Eagles managed by one of our own, will emerge and conquer the world.
 
Until then, we might remain steeped in our collective illusion, celebrate mediocrity in the name of patriotism, and ultimately rely on the vacuous predictions of 'Marcus the mystic pig' or, perhaps next time it will be 'Marcello the prophetic rat'!
 
Written by a U.S-based Nigerian lawyer, Oyinye Gandhi
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June 17, 2018
An organized airstrike has been conducted on some communities purportedly housing armed militias in Benue State.
 
File Photo
 
Fighter jets of the Nigerian Air Force conducted air strikes on at least three Benue State communities on Saturday, in an operation which lasted several hours.
 
The NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo Adesanya, confirmed the air strikes to a correspondent.
He noted that it was an ongoing operation and that he could not reveal further details.
 
Adesanya said, “It is true that the NAF aircrafts are involved in an operation together with other security services in Katsina-Ala. But the operation is still ongoing and I cannot disclose further details.”
 
A Punch correspondent learnt that the air strikes were carried out along the Katsina-Ala to Zaki Biam and Wukari Road and that the affected villages included Gbise, Ayaka and environs.
 
A reliable source in Katsina-Ala, who is privy to the air attacks, said the operation could be a reprisal on hoodlums in the communities.
 
Some hoodlums, dressed in military camouflage, had last week attacked the Commander of the Nigerian Army Engineering Corps, Maj Gen John Malu, in his hometown in Tse Adoor, Tiir Ward, Tongov in the Katsina-Ala LGA of Benue State.
 
The source said, “Gbise, Ayaka and other nearby villages in Katsina-Ala were on Saturday bombarded by the air force. These are reprisal attacks by the military to clear the hoodlums who attacked Maj Gen Malu when he was home last week.

“There were mortars, artillery pieces, assault rifles and aerial bombardments.”
 
A correspondent could not ascertain the number of casualties or dead as of press time because military sources said the operations could last till Sunday (today).

June 17, 2018
Generator noises and fumes have pervaded Nigeria in the last 24 hours following a total power failure which has made life uncomfortable for the people.
 
File Photo
 
The nation has been plunged into total darkness as the power grid recorded a total collapse on Saturday morning, a Punch correspondent has learnt.
 
The system collapse led to the shutdown of all the nation’s power plants.
 
An industry source, who is a top executive of one of the nation’s electricity distribution companies, told a correspondent on condition of anonymity that the national grid first collapsed on Friday.
 
When contacted to find out the cause of the outage in parts of Lagos, he said, “It’s a general thing; it is a system collapse. It happened yesterday and this morning. All the power plants were shut down.”
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June 17, 2018
Punch columnist, Sonala Olumhense believes President Buhari will not arrest his former friend and military colleague, Obasanjo in the ongoing political tussle.
 
Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari
 
Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s former president, has cried out that President Muhammadu Buhari plans to arrest him.
 
I consider it the mother of all false alarms: Buhari lacks motivation for such an action.
 
But according to Obasanjo’s June 6 statement, which was signed by an aide, the plan arises from “(Buhari’s) desperation to frustrate, intimidate and blackmail him into abandoning his divine mandate to protect the rights of the people to better life and living” because of Obasanjo’s indictment of his administration in January.
 
Expressing disgust with Buhari’s abysmal performance in office, Obasanjo had urged him not to seek re-election. Ordinarily, Obasanjo’s status as a statesman ought to be enough for him to speak out on matters of national interest.  But having squandered that, he now mistakes his six-month old university diploma for God’s very mandate.
 
But to be clear: in a normal polity, the prosecution—not persecution—of Obasanjo should have started on or right after May 29, 2007 following his loss of presidential immunity, for a truckload of offences that are now well-known to Nigerians.  But he had carefully planned his future, handpicking those who took over from him, thereby foreclosing the option of justice when Umaru Yar’Adua took office in 2007.
 
Mr. Goodluck Jonathan, who eventually assumed the presidency in 2010, ought never to have been anywhere near that office, considering his abysmal record as governor of Bayelsa.
 
Still, Obasanjo shoehorned him onto the express path to the presidency, and when he made a mess of it, accused his creation of being fake and ineffective.
 
But he was fake and ineffective by design: Obasanjo’s.  But Obasanjo knew if he had made the patriotic choice and allowed the emergence of a strong and popular president, he might have wound up in prison rather than as a larger-than-life political deity forever trying to define Nigeria in his image.
 
But the man with a “divine mandate” (to protect Nigerians) has never apologised to Nigerians for his chicanery in manipulating the political process for his own purposes.
 
Now that in Obasanjo’s eyes, Buhari has descended to the same political lower life form—even if so in the eyes of many disappointed Nigerians—we must remind ourselves not only of Obasanjo’s responsibility for our suffering, but also of other crimes as president that he has yet to pay for.
 
Crimes that, despite Obasanjo’s “alarm,” Buhari has no intention of making him pay for, nor can make him pay for.
 
And then there are those that he selfishly continues to commit. In the June 6 statement, Obasanjo said, among others, “We are currently in a nation where the Number Three citizen is being harangued and the Number Four citizen is facing similar threat within the same government they serve.”
 
This illustrates the double standards and arrant hypocrisy by which Obasanjo has perennially divided and cheapened Nigeria.
 
Bukola Saraki may have other issues with the executive branch, but at the heart of his troubles are allegations of false declaration of assets from his governorships of Kwara State.  Lest we forget, in 2006 during Obasanjo’s second term, 15 governors, including Mr. Jonathan, were indicted for similar offences by his Joint Task Force and recommended for trial.
 
But Obasanjo personally rubbished the report and instead, gave Mr. Jonathan the vice-presidency.  In that light, Obasanjo is consistent: the only side he has ever been on is Obasanjo’s, not justice.
 
To hear Obasanjo tell it, however, he is clean, and he was absolved by everyone, particularly the EFCC.  On that score, here is how he attempted to handcuff Buhari in his statement: “The same EFCC that had conducted a clinical investigation on the activities of Obasanjo in and out of government…would now be made to stand down the existing report that gave Chief Obasanjo a clean bill of health on the probes…”
 
Obasanjo never says that it was his EFCC that “cleared” him while he supervised it.  Or acknowledge that Nuhu Ribadu, who chaired the commission at the time, subsequently declared publicly that his government was more corrupt than Sani Abacha’s had been.
 
One more example: in April 2010, a report of the United States confirmed that over 80 Nigerians had collected bribes, some of them in the millions of dollars, from Halliburton.  They included former heads of states, notably Ibrahim Babangida, Abdusalam Abubakar…and Obasanjo!
That report, and a local one two years earlier by the Mike Okiro panel set up by Yar’Adua, reached the same conclusions that are well-known to Buhari.  But no Nigerian leader, certainly not Buhari, has had the courage to do anything about it.
 
That is because Buhari is not interested in fighting corruption symptomatically.  His corruption does not involve people who are as “important” as Obasanjo.  He also appears to be working with the template that leaders don’t harass former leaders, an EFCC official describing last year an arrangement under which Buhari will not arrest Jonathan or his wife.
 
Note that until Obasanjo shot Buhari’s re-election plans full of holes, Buhari never expressed one negative thought about him.  Only then did Buhari dig up Obasanjo’s infamous expenditure of $16bn in the power sector between 1999 and 2007.
 
But it is the same Buhari who had always vowed to recover all the funds looted since 1999. “We want to have everything back – all that they took by force in 16 years,” he swore in November 2015.
 
And yet, in the three years during which he has borrowed externally by the billions, he has not set about recovering any part of that $16bn.  Or any major accounts and scandals of real magnitude.
 
In other words, Obasanjo symbolises the duplicity and emptiness of Buhari’s mythical onslaught on corruption.  Obasanjo is proof that Buhari’s war is not blind; to investigate Obasanjo would open Pandora’s Box.
 
But now there may also be another reason why Buhari appears to be playing with parallel agendas: his own record.  In “Petroleum Trust Fraud,” last week, Ray Ekpu, one of Nigeria’s most accomplished journalists, explored Buhari’s sordid tenure as Executive Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund under Abacha.  It is not an insult to say it diminishes Buhari considerably.
 
The irony of the power-play between Obasanjo and Buhari is that, in the end, a man without a conscience wants to be the conscience of a people. Had Obasanjo Nigeria at heart, he had eight full years to serve Nigerians with distinction.
 
He didn’t grasp the opportunity: the same test Buhari is failing as we speak.
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June 17, 2018
The Super Eagles were punished for their lack of coordination while defending set-pieces, according to the German gaffer.
 
Gernot Rohr
 
Nigeria's only undoing against Croatia was defending set-pieces and not the tactical approach, according to coach Gernot Rohr.
 
The Super Eagles failed to break their World Cup opening game jinx with an own goal from Oghenekaro Etebo and a Luka Modric penalty, both coming off mistakes from corner kicks, condemning them to a 2-0 defeat at the Kaliningrad Stadium.
 
The west African side have now failed to win their first games at the quadrennial tourney since the 1998 edition when they won Spain 3-1. Also, the goals conceded were the third and fourth off corner kick situations in their previous three encounters.
 
Rohr's choice of tactics was questioned by fans and pundit alike . But the German handler has defended the urge not to revert to a back-three, stating they did well in countering Zlatko Dalic's approach and, however, only missed being 'professional' from set-piece situations.
 
"I think the organisation was okay. We didn't concede from normal play, we conceded from set-pieces," Rohr said after the game.
 
"Our system was okay. We cannot play with three when there is only one centre-forward, so we played with four because Croatia had three strikers. What we were missing today was to be more professional on set-pieces. Each game is different, we will see for the next game. We know we can play with three centre-backs but today was not that day.
 
Rohr also jumped to the defence of team captain John Obi Mikel - subbed off in the closing stages of the game after failing to exert his influence, and particularly failing to link effectively with striker Odion Ighalo.
 
"We play all the time with Mikel in this role of offensive midfield. It's was going well, we qualified and the team built behind them.

"I know he plays before in defensive midfield, in China he plays offensive and defensive. When we don't have the ball, everyone is defensive. Obi Mikel tried his best, it's not easy when you have to play against Modric and Rakitic when you see the clubs where they play and then the clubs where our players play.
 
On Alex Iwobi, he said: "Iwobi deserved to start the game, he had big work to do defensively against the right-back, he did it well, he had to work a lot, perhaps he was missing the energy for his offensive game.

"He did well, it was not his fault we lost the game."
 
Rohr still harbours hope that Nigeria can qualify from Group D, believing his side can muster four points off Iceland and Argentina - who played a 1-1 draw at the Spartak Stadium, earlier on Saturday.
 
"It's important to make at least four points to qualify. All is in our hands. Let's be positive and believe we can do it.

"We have the youngest team at the World Cup. Let them learn from this match and do better. We saw Iceland they are a strong team and they can do very well, but we know we can also do better."
 
Nigeria, rooted to the bottom of Group D with no point, face World Cup debutant Iceland on June 22
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June 06, 2018
A man who was nabbed for incarcerating his own daughter has given a shocking reason for committing the terrible crime.
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According to a report by Vanguard, three children, who were incarcerated by their father over allegations of witchcraft, have been rescued by a child rights group, Basic Child Rights Initiative, BCRI, after neighbours alerted them. 
 
Their father said the eldest, aged 13, confessed to being the head of witches in the family and is responsible for his financial challenges.
 
The incident, Vanguard learned, occurred at Asabanka, Idundun in Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River State.
 
An eyewitness, Iniobong Ekpo, said: “Before the group came to the children’s rescue, we did not really know what was going on. We used to see them around sometimes whenever their father was not around.
 
“It was later that we discovered that whenever he wanted to leave the house, he locked them up in a dark room without food and water. They slept and defecated there.”
 
On his part, the suspect, Mr. Patrick Effiom, said the eldest daughter, Edak, who is 13 years old, confessed to being the head of the witches in the family. He also said she confessed to being responsible for his financial misfortunes.
 
His words: “I only gave them gari to drink because that was what I had before I travel to Akwa Ibom for a church programme."
 
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr. Irene Ugbo, an Assistant Superintendent, confirmed the incident, adding that the suspect was arrested and granted bail.
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June 06, 2018
Nigeria will he hoping to beat Czech Republic to give the football fans the needed confidence as they proceed to the World Cup in Russia.


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Head coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr, has confirmed that Francis Uzoho will continue in goal, when they face the Czech Republic in an international friendly on Wednesday afternoon.

Wilfred Ndidi will also make a return from injury for the match at the Rudolf Tonn Stadium, a multi-use facility in Rannersdorf

Rohr will shake up the team, after a miserable first half display in Saturday night’s 2-1 loss to England at Wembley.

Expected to miss out on the starting lineup are Ogenyi Onazi and Joel Obi, with Ndidi and John Ogu taking their places.

“Uzoho will start in goal (against Czech Republic).

“Ndidi will start. We followed very well the protocol by Leicester and he is now ready to play,” Rohr told KweséESPN on Tuesday.

Kick-off is 2pm.

The starting line-up is Uzoho, Shehu, Ekong, Balogun, Idowu, Ogu, Mikel, Ndidi, Moses, Ighalo, Iwobi
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June 06, 2018

Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the House of Representatives has raised alarm that Nigeria's democracy might be under threat.
Yakubu Dogara
 
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara has sponsored a bill seeking to eliminate the proliferation of small arms and light weapons after raising alarm that democracy in Nigeria might be threatened by violence.
 
Speaking on Tuesday when he received a delegation from Security Sector Reform of Civil Society Organisations in Nigeria and Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre at his office, he noted that arms fuel conflicts, which in turn impale the society and truncate development.
 
He said: “Elections happen in virtually all governments, but not all elections are democratic. We are talking about promoting democratic elections; these democratic elections have some criteria: they are supposed to be fair and free, they are supposed to be inclusive, and they are supposed to be periodic. Where you hold elections in an environment of intimidation and violence; it cannot be free and fair.

“Once it is not free and fair, it therefore means it doesn’t pass the criteria of a democratic election. So that’s the challenge, and the truth is that there is no corruption that is more than truncating the will of the people through elections into government positions. This is because that is the essence of representative governance, as the people have elected their representatives and it is those representatives that they have elected and having taken positions in government that can deliver the goods.

“We are aware of the fact that if this Bill is quickly translated into Law, as we are running into the 2019 general elections, if we are able to set up this Commission, we will combat this illicit dealing in weapons of war. We will be able to provide a very conducive environment for the 2019 elections to take place.”
 
The speaker affirmed the commitment of the House to ensure that the Bill is quickly transmitted into law before the annual recess in July.

“Because you may wake up one day and discover that you can’t even think or write what you want to write, you can’t even go on advocacy, except you get a Commission from some quarters, and that is why we really have to wake up and work for the preservation of our democracy and freedom. As it is written and said: a free man when he fails blames no one.

“So at least if you are alive and free; you have the right to invest your freedom in the pursuit of happiness regardless of the conditions. When you are not free however, you don’t have the tools, you don’t have the means to pursue happiness, you are cut-off completely from the proceeds of democracy,”he added.
 
Earlier, leader of the delegation, Mr Clem Nwankwo, informed the speaker that the country is undergoing serious threats to its security, hence the urgent need for setting up a commission on small arms and light weapons in Nigeria to check its influx.
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June 06, 2018

A Primary school teacher has uncured the wrath of a parent and the school authorities after he reportedly pushed the kid down from a desk and he lost his teeth.
 
The injured boy
A Facebook user identified as Eze Doreen, has taken to the social networking platform to berate a teacher who allegedly injured a 4-year-old pupil after reportedly pushing him down from his desk. 
The eyewitness revealed further that after the incident which led to the boy loosing his teeth, the teacher never bothered to notify his parents or the school authorities in order to administer first aid to him.
It was gathered that the young boy was reportedly left in pains till he went home with the injury. The two teachers handling the boy's class have now been suspended by the school authorities. 
Doreen narrated the full story and wrote;
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"Some teacher are extremely wicked, heartless but money conscious. This kid of 4 years was pushed down by his teacher from a desk by 11:00am yesterday she never cared to call the child's parents nor report to the school authority for at least, the child to be given a first aid, she left the child in pains and went home.
"The child was in pain till 4:00pm when his mother came to pick him and his elder siblings.

"What do you think should be the punishment for such a wicked teacher?"
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June 06, 2018
What has been dubbed The 'Hand Of God' has been spotted hanging down from the sky in a really amazing cloud formation.
Strange cloud formation is being dubbed as the 'Hand of God'.
 
An amateur photographer captured a stunning photo of a cloud formation that looks like the hand of God reach down to earth.
 
Louise Taylor, 30, took the spectacular photos on her iPhone after spotting the bizarre formation while out in the Highlands of Scotland.
 
Louise, from Kinlochewe in the north west Highands, was in near Tore as she travelled to Dingwall in 2016 when she saw the remarkable sight and instantly whipped out her mobile phone.
 
She said: "The photos were taken on an iPhone while travelling. It formed before a major wind storm hit Scotland.

“It’s a form of twisted lenticular cloud. The oddest cloud I’ve ever seen that’s for sure.”
 
She added: “Being in the weather photography game for a while, I know people prefer the strange and let’s say ‘religious’ meaning of clouds rather than what they actually are.
“I’m fantasising about a big hand coming down scooping billions of midges up.”
 
 
After posting one of the pictures online Saturday, the celestial vision has sparked a slew of comments online.
 
Ana Maria Cerrudo said: “Looks like an arm coming down with a hand, palm up.”
 
After posting one of the pictures online on Saturday, the religious imagery has prompted some interesting comments.
 
After posting one of the pictures online Saturday, the celestial vision has sparked a slew of comments online.
 
Ana Maria Cerrudo said: “Looks like an arm coming down with a hand, palm up.”
 
Andy Houliston wrote: “The Scottish version of a fist full of dollars. A handful of clouds.”
 
Source: The Sun UK

June 06, 2018
The privacy thing has gotten totally out of control as Apple CEO, Tim Cook declares war on Facebook as Apple unveils new features to stop the social network tracking users.
 
Apple CEO, Tim Cook
 
Apple boss, Tim Cook has taken aim at Facebook once again by calling for greater regulation of tech companies who may be abusing user privacy with data collection.
 
In a wide-ranging interview, Cook told CNN that issues around privacy have 'gotten totally out of control' and that some form of regulation would be 'fair'.
 
The comments come as Apple unveiled a slew of new features for its Safari browser that are aimed at limiting Facebook, Google and other tech giants from tracking users across the web.
 
Silicon Valley tech giants have been facing heightened scrutiny as consumers, officials and others continue to question their data collection practices.
 
Most recently, Facebook has dealt with the fallout from its Cambridge Analytica scandal, when it was discovered that 87 million users' data had been harvested and shared with the Trump-linked research firm without their knowledge.
 
A recent New York Times report also claimed it had allowed third parties to access some data from the platform without user consent.
 
The controversy has resulted in more talk around the idea of regulating big tech.
 
'Generally for me, I'm not a big fan of regulation,' Cook told CNN. 'I think self-regulation is best.' But when it's not working, you have to ask yourself what form of regulation might be good'
 
'And I think most people are not aware of who is tracking them, how much they're being tracked and the large amounts of detailed data that are out there about them, nor about the companies that possess the data,' he added.
 
However, Cook said that his beliefs around government regulation of tech were ' not focused on any singular company,' such as Facebook or Google.
 
'We're focused on the practice of tracking people when they don't know they're being tracked,' Cook explained.
 
'So what we believe is one of the most offensive things is when you are on another website but this website that you were on three or four times earlier is still tracking what you're doing'
 
'We don't think that's reasonable for people', he added.
 
To that end, Apple released a new tool called 'intelligent tracking prevention' in the latest version of Safari that gives users greater options to limit how they're being tracked from site to site.
 
The new data privacy tools will 'shut down' the ability of social networks such as Facebook to track users on the web, including blocking Like and Share buttons that can be used by social media platforms to monitor web users.
 
They'll be available in the latest macOS 10.14 update, called 'Mojave', as well as iOS 12 for the iPhone and iPad.
 
The tools will target the practice called 'browser fingerprinting' which allow sites to track you based on your computer's system configurations.
 
Speaking at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Jose on Monday, software boss Craig Federighi said the firm was placing tighter controls on social media’s access to data.
 
'We’ve all seen these Like buttons, and Share buttons and these comment fields. Well, it turns out these can be used to track you, whether you click on them or not,' he said.
 
'And so this year we are shutting that down'.
 
Mr Federighi said Safari users would now see an alert appear asking users to choose if they would like to share their data.
 
Source: Dailymail UK
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