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Out of the shining light, an unknown became known within a twinkle of an eye.
A male graduate of Theatre Arts from Igbinedion University, Okada, he was the winner of Best Catwalk Male Model Nigeria 2014.by name Ebimobowei Joshua Agai. It was also said that he is a professional model and a makeup artist who hails from Bayelsa state.

Now, he is currently undergoing his national Youth service at Delta State to be precise. The photo on the display shows the young known artist standing at the centre who is the fair guy with makeup on his handsome face that makes him look so pretty like a woman.

Also, to people's notice all over the world, his fellow corp-member says he is very accommodating and he is not like Bobrisky in any form or manner at all.

ASABA—A kidnap suspect, Ojiedu Doctor, who had been on the wanted list of the Delta State Police Command, has been arrested as he walked into the Police Headquarters, Asaba, to reclaim a vehicle used for a kidnapping operation in 2015.

The state’s Police Commissioner, Mr. Zanna Ibrahim, disclosed that operatives of the Special Anti-Kidnapping and Cyber Crime Squad, SAKCCS, effected the arrest on December 29.

The marching police officers
His words: “On September 19, 2016, a victim, Gbiyede Juliet, was kidnapped alongside her child, Tekevwe Gbiyede, aged nine, while driving her Venza car. Four suspects were then arrested and charged to court in connection with the crime.

“However, on December 29, 2017, the suspect, Ojigedu Doctor, was arrested in Asaba by SAKCCS operatives for his complicity in most kidnap cases in Warri and environs.

“He admitted that he gave N2,000 to the earlier arrested kidnappers to fuel Gbiyede Juliet’s Venza car for possible escape.

“The suspect evaded arrest in 2016 in connection with alleged kidnap case and abandoned his Toyota Camry with number plates JRT 528 GE, currently packed at the Police Station, Ebrumede.”
… on Dracula
Meanwhile, Mr. Zanna Ibrahim has disclosed that he was under pressure by some powerful Deltans to release the notorious kidnap and robbery suspect, Anthony Obolor, a.k.a. Dracula, arrested by the Police.
Ibrahim, who had complained to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, did not name the powerful persons, but said: “Big shots are calling to compromise me on his case.”
He added: “It is because of the pressure that I decided to call this press conference, parade him and make them to back off.”

He said the Police would carry out thorough investigation in the cases involving the suspect and others arrested over several cases of kidnapping, murder and robbery and charge them to the court.

He said the kidnap gang ran by Dracula and his colleagues usually abduct their victims on land and ferry them to the creeks, where they make negotiations tedious until ransoms were paid.

His words: “Dracula is the owner of the Hilux vehicle used for most kidnapping operations in Warri and environs lately, but it was involved in an accident and they acquired another vehicle for their operations.”
The suspect, who said he hails from Otor-Iyede in Isoko area of the state, did not deny that he was a criminal when Vanguard questioned him.

THE Registrar of Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Professor Ish’aq Oloyede, has disclosed that the board generated N12 billion in 2017 as income and, after deducting its expenses, had N7.8 billion left which it remitted to government’s coffers

Oloyede, who spoke during an interactive session with journalists in Ilorin yesterday, said the board was able to remit such money to the treasury because it blocked loopholes and checked wastages.
Oloyede said though JAMB is not a money-generating establishment, it is not a money-wasting one.
He said the board had also devised means to check candidates who do multiple registrations by deliberately writing their names wrongly with the intention to claim the result of the one with the highest score and, thereafter, demand correction of the name claiming that the fault is not theirs. Oloyede, who disclosed that 1.7 million candidates sat for the last UTME, said the board expects two million candidates in 2018

Yola – The Adamawa Commissioner of Information and Strategy, Alhaji Ahmad Sajoh, has described President Buhari New Year speech as a patriotic leader’s show of genuine concern to the plight of citizens.

Muslim faithful from the Ya Lateef Islamic Society sit as they pray into the New Year at Ibafo, Ogun State in southwest of Nigeria on December 31, 2017.
Dozens of Muslim faithful of the Ya Lateef Islamic Society concluded forty-days of Muslim fasting to usher members into the new year in Ibafo land, Ogun State in southwest Nigeria ./ AFP
Sajoh said in Yola on Monday that the president’s speech had given the nation hope and showed his administration’s commitment to address the challenges facing it.
“The president has given us hope; he has painted a picture of hope for the nation.

“The president did a good thing by appreciating the hardships being experienced by Nigerians particularly the fuel scarcity and his show of resolve to address it.”
The commissioner said that the president’s caution against politics of primordial sentiments as the nation approached election period was timely and a food for thought for politicians that were contemplating using the country’s diversity negatively.

Some commercial motorists and commuters who also spoke to NAN in Yola lauded the commitment shown by the president to roads construction and rehabilitation which they said would greatly ease the transportation of humans and goods in the country.
They said with good roads and rails, there would be easy and cheaper transportation and the economy would record a boom.

Iliya Baba, a motorist, said bad roads have been a major problem of commercial drivers and any administration that showed commitment to providing good roads should count on the support of drivers.

“We commend the present ongoing work on the Yola–Gombe road and hope the project would be completed as scheduled,” Baba said.(NAN)
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Kaduna – Another tragedy struck in Southern Kaduna early in the new year as a traditional ruler, the Etum Numana, Mr. Gambo Makama and his wife were shot dead and his palace and car set ablaze by unknown gunmen in the volatile southern Kaduna region

The son of the traditional ruler was however lucky as he survived the attack with gun shot injuries and is being treated at an undisclosed hospital.

The killing of the traditional ruler and his wife has brought to ten, the number of persons killed by unknown gunmen in southern Kaduna in the last one week.
The state police Public relations officer, Asp Aliyu Mukhtar who co firmed the killing said although no arrest had been made, the police were on the trail of the gunmen

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The Senior Pastor, Dunamis International Gospel Centre (DIGC), Abuja, Dr Paul Enenche, has released 2018 prophecies declaring the New Year as the year of open doors.
Enenche predicted during the Cross Over Night service in Abuja that the year would mark a new beginning for the nation and its people as well as supernatural opening of new opportunities.
He added that 2018 would also be a year that God would release severe judgment upon the wicked and those holding the country to ransom.
According to him, it is a season that God shall do what he wants irrespective of what men want to restore the years of lost that the country has experienced.
“There shall be drastic shift in dimension in all realms in an unpredictable manner,’’ the cleric said.
On his part, Special Apostle Funsho Oshoro, the Chairman, Cherubim and Seraphim Movement, Abuja District Headquarters, said in his message that Nigerians should be upright in all they do.
Oshoro called on Nigerians to transform themselves in the year 2018, adding that the Federal Government will not be able to do it alone.

However, he admonished Nigerians to be politically and spiritually matured in all they do.
According to him, those that are in authority should do it well because if they do it right, automatically the Lord will see them through the year 2018.

“There is a lot of blessings but we must do it right with God; we must know him; we must plan and set a goal for ourselves for that is what we desire from God.
“Forget the past and failure of 2017 so as to be purposeful; get connected to God; walk with wise men that have evidence of prosperity in the sense that they have accomplished a lot.
“The message is not for the church alone. The message is for the whole country,’’ Oshoro said. (NAN)

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Ekiti State Governor, Chief Ayodele Fayose, has urged Nigerians and particularly the people of his state to hope for an abundant future and not be deterred by the current challenges they are contending with.

In his New Year message to the people in Ado-Ekiti, the governor said, “the insufficiency of today will turn out to the abundance of tomorrow if we all improve on our efforts and dedication.”

According to a press statement by his Chief Press Secretary in Ado Ekiti on Sunday, the governor while thanking the people of the state for the rare opportunity given him to lead them twice, Fayose expressed satisfaction that he did not betray the confidence reposed in him by the people.
He added that the chance afforded him the opportunity to correct some erroneous impression some had about him, and the deliberate mischief peddled against his person towards the twilight of his first term in office. Reeling out his achievements in office, the governor said he had been able to transform the face of the state from a rustic settlement to modern urban centres through the provision of infrastructure, socioeconomic policies, and other measures. ”
During my first term in office, we embarked on the dualization of major roads in Ado-Ekiti. We are however, happy that we have extended the dualization of roads to almost all our local government headquarters.
The icing on the cake is the 1.3 kilometers flyover that links Fajuyi Park to Ojumose axis in Ado-Ekiti.
“Just like we did during our first term, we also embarked on the construction of public buildings to make governance and public service more conducive. We built the Adunni Olayinka House, a new Governor’s Office, new High Court Complex, new Ojaba Market, new Speaker’s Lodge among others. “Our efforts in education and social sector yielded positive results as we improved significantly in public examinations with our state coming first back to back in NECO examinations, ” he said.
Governor Fayose said despite the huge debts left for him to inherit by the Kayode Fayemi administration, he was able to overcome some challenges and achieve results due to the support of the people and the prudent management of available resources. On the jibes being thrown at him by some opposition figures and antagonists, he noted that he was not bothered because he saw it as people expressing their own views which could be utterly wrong. On the need for the state to continue with the current pace of development, Fayose called on the people to support and vote his party, the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate in the coming governorship election. He reiterated his commitment to leave the saddle without owing any worker or leaving any project abandoned. Fayose expressed confidence that posterity would be kind to him, as he said he felt fulfilled marking his last year in office as the governor of Ekiti State

The Edo State Government has said 18 trucks carrying 720,993 litres of petroleum products have arrived the state to ease the lingering fuel scarcity, warning filling stations against hoarding the product. Black Market Sellers waiting for Customers .

Photo: Nwankpa Chijioke The Commissioner for Solid Minerals, Oil & Gas, Hon. Joseph Ugheoke, in a chat with journalists, said the products are being discharged at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)’s Mega stations as well as stations of major distributors of petroleum products across the state.
He added that the products are to be sold at the official rate of N145 per litre, noting that a team from the state government and the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), will go round to enforce this and sanction erring filling stations.

According to him, “We have just received 18 trucks of petroleum products, with a total of 720,993. NNPC Mega stations and oil majors that are receiving these products are mandated to sell the products at N145 per litre.
Anyone found to be selling above the price will be sealed by DPR and Edo State Government. “With the flow of products into the state, it is hoped that in the next one week, we will start getting over the issue of fuel shortage.”
Recall that the state government has over the last few weeks threatened to shut down petrol stations that have been hoarding products after it received about 500,000 litres of petroleum products.
A taskforce composed of officials of the state government and the DPR have been monitoring the discharge of the products to ensure that sly businessmen do not take advantage of residents during the Yuletide.

President Muhammadu Buhari in one fell swoop on Friday appointed 209 board chairmen and 1,258 members of government owned agencies and parastatals, redeeming a part of the pledge he made 31 October at the National Executive Committee meeting of his All Progressives Congress.

More appointments are on the way, said Mr. Boss Mustapha, secretary to the Government of the Federation, who announced the latest massive batch of appointees.

At the APC NEC meeting, President Buhari also hinted he would expand his cabinet by appointing more ministers.

The latest appointments, the largest President Buhari ever made since 2015.

Many big wigs of the APC were appointed.

The party’s legal adviser, Muiz Banire is now the chairman of the Asset Management Company of Nigeria(AMCON). Senator Olorunimbe Mamora is the chairman of Abuja Investment and Infrastructure Centre.

The party’s secretary, Mai Mala Buni, is the chairman of the Shippers Council. Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, the publicity secretary of the party is in charge of the National Sugar Development Council(NSDC).

Demola Seriki, a former minister of state for defence is the chairman of the National Maritime Academy of Nigeria in Oron. Former Speaker House of Representatives, Patricia Olubunmi Etteh is the new chairman of the National Hospital, Abuja. A former deputy speaker, Chibudom Nwuche is in charge of Federal Medical Centre Lokoja.

Dr. Leke Pitan, a former commissioner for health in Lagos, under Asiwaju Bola Tinubu was appointed chairman of National Agricultural Extension Research Liaison Services in Zaria. Teju Philips, also a former Lagos commissioner is the chairman of Federal College of Agriculture, Ibadan. Pastor Yomi Kasali will head the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission.

Chief George Moghalu is the chairman of the Nigerian Communications Satellite(NIGCOMSAT). General John Shagaya is the chairman of National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru Jos.

Former governors of Ekiti state, Otunba Niyi Adebayo and Engineer Segun Oni were also named as chairmen. Adebayo is in charge of Federal Airports of Nigeria(FAAN). Oni who is a vice-chairman of the APC has been posted to Nigerian Export Processing Zone. while Senator Ayo Arise, a recent kidnap victim will chair Sheda Science and technology Complex.

Former deputy governor of Plateau state, Pauline Tallen is the new chairman of National Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS(NACA).

Former deputy governor of Ondo state, Alhaji Ali Olanusi, will chair the Benin-Owena River Basin Development Authority, while a former deputy governor of Lagos, Femi Pedro is the chairman of Small and Medium Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria.

Timi Alaibe, former Managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, is heading to Oil and Gas Free Zone Authority as chairman.

According to Boss Mustapha, all the appointments take immediate effect.

The ministers under whom the agencies fall, have been asked to constitute the boards immediately.

Said Mustapha: ” Mr. President considered the approval for the constitution of the Boards as well as the appointments, very necessary, so as to provide a proper Governance and oversight structure for Government Agencies and Parastatals.

“The constitution of the boards with the appointments, is a demonstration of this Government’s efforts aimed at building strong institutions of Governance, and by extension, improving the quality of Policy formulation and supervision”, he added.

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Ogun State Police Command has arrested a man for allegedly killing his six-month-old baby over suspicion that his wife would abandon him for her former husband


The suspect, Andrew Koku, who admitted to the crime, told detectives at the State Criminal Investigation Department that he smashed the baby’s head on the ground out of fear of losing his wife, Omowunmi Teleda.
The incident occurred on Christmas eve in Obada area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. Mother of the child, Teleda, claimed that she left her baby in her husband’s care to visit her older child, who was in her former husband’s custody. 

However, on her return she discovered that her baby, Precious, was motionless. Apparently thinking she was sleeping, she reportedly shook her with the intention of breastfeeding her. But there was no response from the baby.
At that point, she said she became suspicious and reported the matter to the Police. The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the incident, said:
“She explained further that the baby was hale and hearty before she left home. “But within an hour of her outing, the baby had dropped dead. This made her to strongly suspect her husband who happened to be the only person with the baby.
“Upon her complaint, the DPO Adigbe Division, CSP Sunday Oladipo, detailed Police detectives to the scene, where the suspect was arrested on December 24.
On interrogation, the suspect confessed to the crime but claimed to be suspecting that his wife wanted to leave him for her ex-husband and that if that should happen, he will not be able to take care of the baby; that was the reason why he decided to eliminate the child.
The Commissioner of Police, CP Ahmed Iliyasu, has directed that the case be transferred to Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, CIID, for proper investigation and prosecution of the suspect.

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No fewer than four persons were killed in a suicide bomb attack yesterday, at Amarwa community of Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State.
It was gathered that the incident occurred at about 2p.m. when a male suicide bomber infiltrated the village and detonated an Improvised Explosive Device, IED, strapped to his body.


An eyewitness, Bukar Fantai, disclosed that the bomber managed to sneak into the village disguising as a grain merchant.
Fantai said the insurgent first approached a shop keeper and offered sorghum for sale. He said the terrorist, thereafter, went to a shade where many villagers gathered for relaxation and detonated the explosive. “
The suicide bomber detonated the IED, blew up himself, killing three other persons, while 13 others sustained injuries in the explosion,” he said.
A competent security source, who confirmed the attack, said the wounded persons were referred to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, UMTH.
The source said Police EOD and patrol teams were deployed to sanitise the scene of the attack, adding that normalcy had been restored to the area.
Police and military authorities were yet to comment on the incident at press time.  

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Less than 24 hours after a batch of 157 Nigerian Returnees from Libya arrived Lagos on Wednesday, another batch of 257 Returnees arrived Lagos at about 6.05pm today.
Some of the 164 returnees from Libya facilitated by International Organisation on Migration and National Emergency Management Agencyon arrival at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, Lagos on Thursday
They arrived the cargo Wing of Muritala International Airport MMIA, Ikeja, aboard the Afriqiyah Airbus A330-300 with Registration number 5A-OMR The Returnees comprise 152 adults females and 82 adult males including 9 children and 14 infants with one medical cases making a total of 414 within 24 hrs.

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A Young Man got killed hazardously on Christmas day by Abia state truck Iron Carrier, who was loaded with Iron gates along the Aba Owerri road.

According to my investigation, the Young Man who died lately was one of the Abia state polytechnic Lecturers, and he’s generally well-known in the school as Mr Dan Onukogu.

Lecturer Mr Dan Onukogu left home on monday (Christmas day) without his car, because of the fuel deficiency in the country.

So he decided to enter tricycle (Keke Nape), on getting to the place aimed at, he dropped and he was about to pay the “Transport fee”, rapidly an Iron heavy gate’s sharpen edge dropped from the truck passing beside him, filled with Gates, and deeply gashed his throat.

He bleed to death along the Aba Owerri road. May Your Soul Rest In Peace And Keep Your Wife And Children In A Lovely Journey.