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kay1one2:
Obiagelli!

kodded:
those country didnt depend on oil alone

kodded:
yup they stole all the money and the fall in oil price had nothing to do with it



Pathetic

Residents of Ita-Amodu community, Ilorin, Kwara State, have apprehended a suspected ritual killer, identified simply as Kelechi.

The PUNCH learnt on Tuesday that the 32-year-old suspect was caught on Mejindadi Street.

He was accused of trying to use a yet-to-be-identified elderly woman for ritual purpose when he was apprehended by members of the community surveillance team.

A witness said Kelechi had kidnapped the woman at the Agbabiaka area, and kept her in a hideout on Unity Road, Ilorin.

He said the vigilance team swooped on the suspect when he was attempting to take his victim to an herbalist popularly called Alfa Buaya.

He said, “We saw the suspect backing an old woman around 11.30pm on Sunday. He was tired and we tried to assist him. And then we asked him what happened to the woman because she looked emaciated. We thought he was taking her to a hospital around Oja-Iya.

“He started responding in pidgin while the woman was just muttering ‘Agbabiaka’, a place around Ago Market. It was in that process of interrogating him that we discovered his real intention.

“A police patrol team came around and we handed him over to the police.”

The witness said while in the vehicle, the group began to prod the suspect for information.

“He said if we could assist him, he was ready to cooperate.

“He then confessed that he was actually taking the old woman to one cleric called Alfa Buaya around Agbo-Oba so that he could help him use her for ritual purpose for him to be wealthy.”

Our correspondent gathered that the suspects and the victim were taken to the Area B division of the state police command.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Okesanmi Ajayi confirmed the incident, adding that investigation was ongoing.

According to him, some very powerful ministers did not have respect for the nation’s local currency as they operated throughout in office in dollars, thereby turning the country into a dollar economy, adding that two powerful ministers in the immediate past Administration must go to prison and be made to return the over 100 trillion tax payers money stocked away in other countries, institutions and agencies.

doublewisdom:
Bad company corrupts. Dike made the wrong friends.

A pregnant woman, Mrs Ajayi (surname withheld), was allegedly stabbed by her landlord’s son at the weekend, forcing her into forced labour and child birth at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City, Edo State.

The boy simply identified as Osanwa was said to have stabbed the pregnant woman who was to be an occupant of the compound along St. Mary’s Church, Textile Main Road in Benin, for five years.

After series of investigation as to what led to such act, it was learnt that the woman was sleeping quietly in her room when the young man attacked her. The cry of the woman attracted neighbours and sympathizers to the scene. The woman was however rushed to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital where she was prematurely delivered of her seven- month-old pregnancy through caesarean operation.

The husband to the victim, Mr. Ajayi, who said it was their first issue, called out to the government and well-meaning Nigerians to come to his aid and fight the injustice done to him and his family.

“I am just coming back from work now; immediately I was informed of this wicked act. It’s still a shock to me because my wife never had any issues with anybody and has always been indoors. Just when I was warming up to be a father soon, this boy came and did this wicked thing. This is sheer wickedness; what annoys me most is that my wife never had issues with anybody before I left the house this morning and they have never had any issue before now.

“The government and all those who have good minds in Nigeria should come and help me fight this case to the end because justice must prevail”, the grieving husband said.

The boy, however, upon seeing the large crowd, feigned madness. He was later arrested by youths who mercilessly beat him before finally handing him over to the police.

All efforts to get to the landlord were unsuccessful as he was reported to have been out of town, but some bystanders said the boy may have been under the spell of an evil spirit.

June24th:
U're indeed right.. I noticed that in recent times, Ogun state has been marred with various crimes.. God help us o cos I'm serving there ooo

1stCitizen:
Busy bodies!!!!!! Both parties claim it was an accident so which one be una own?

cococandy:
if they will pay.
I no dey do free work

cococandy:
There's something in the air around that igando area. It needs to be looked into

scachy:
He's lucky he got hot water as first warning note. It could v been acid of something more dangerous

“It is something I cannot explain till date. It shook our family and we are still asking what could have led Joseph to kill his wife and also take his own life. I knew him well because we grew up together. He was not somebody that could kill a fellow human being for whatever offence committed against him.

President Muhammadu Buhari will this week make his first foreign trip since taking office, travelling to Chad and Niger for talks on Boko Haram, his spokesman said on Monday. Shehu Garba said the two-day trip starting on Wednesday will focus on “matters of security”, with the cooperation of Nigeria’s neighbours seen as crucial to ending the Islamist uprising which has claimed more than 15,000 lives since 2009.
Buhari was sworn in last Friday and vowed in his inaugural speech to crush the insurgent group he described as “mindless” and “godless”.
But Boko Haram attacked some 12 hours after the new president took the oath of office, hitting homes in the key northeast city of Maiduguri with rocket-propelled grenades overnight on Saturday.
Later, a suicide attack at a mosque in the city, which is the Borno state capital, killed at least 26 people. Suspicion immediately fell on the insurgents. The militants then raided two towns in Borno’s neighbouring state of Yobe on Sunday, torching public buildings and looting food and fuel stores. Niger shares a border with both Borno and Yobe while Chad borders just Borno in Nigeria’s extreme northeast.
Former president Goodluck Jonathan’s administration had long complained that Nigeria’s neighbours were not doing enough to contain Boko Haram as they fled military pursuit by crossing porous borders. A four-nation offensive that also includes Cameroon has won significant victories since February but there are fears of Boko Haram regrouping, especially in remote border areas.
Buhari said little regarding his specific plans for regional security cooperation other than to thank the three nations for their efforts to date. Chadian President Idriss Deby has publicly mocked Nigeria’s counter-insurgency efforts under Jonathan and called for greater cooperation. Buhari, a former army general who headed a military regime in the 1980s, is seen by most observers as a more robust commander-in-chief than Jonathan.

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As soon as he committed the act that afternoon, Ajasa took to his heels before neighbours arrived at the scene. Five days after, the man’s dead body was found inside his farm dangling from a tree.

By ADEWALE SANYAOLU

Nigeria’s biggest refinery, Port Harcourt Refining Company (PHRC) Limited has said its refinery rehabilitation is nearing completion.
Managing Director, Dr. Bafred Audu Enjugu also said upon completion of work, the 210,000 barrels per day refinery would have attained 80 per cent capacity utilization.
According to him, the remaining rehabilitation work will, however, be carried out in phases in a strategy that would permit operations to progress at available units of the complex while repairs continue on other processing units.
When completed, the refinery is expected to stop significant volume of petroleum products currently imported, substantially cut subsidy bill on government and also evolve a sustainable model for use of in-country capacity for maintenance of all local refineries.
The Executive Director, Operations, Mr. V. A. Ugochukwu, said the refinery had concentrated on production of low value products in the past because units that optimize full value production were not available due to long period of lack of required Turn-Around Maintenance (TAM).
He said the operations and maintenance team has robust experience to bring the plants to full operations, add maximum value to crude oil, and pump out premium products to the market.
Also speaking, Executive Director, Services, Sir Ralph Ugwu, stated that the rehabilitation project is receiving full host community support and has seen unprecedented staff enthusiasm in tackling such an intricate and complicated challenge.
According to him, the rehabilitation is to be carried out by indigenous workforce without compromising standards, adding that the project model would give full expression to the targets and objectives of the highly-applauded Nigerian Content policy which, he explained, has been very successful in the upstream sector of the petroleum industry.
With the project, he said, PHRC would lead to the implementation and compliance of Nigerian Content policy in the downstream end of the industry.
Enjugu told visiting journalists in Port Harcourt that the management, with the support of the parent company – Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), have used the period of crude supply glitch at the refinery to embark on rehabilitation of Area I which hosts the Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) to pave way for simultaneous operations and upgrade of other units ahead of July when crude supply to the plant is expected to be restored.
Enjugu said Area I of the refining complex is prioritized because of process sequence while the optimization units such as the Catalytic Reformation Unit (CRU) and the Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit (FCCU) are to be rehabilitated subsequently. The units, he said, further process initial output of the CDU to produce premium products used for blending primary products of CDU to achieve products of high octane rating.
The 210, 000 barrels per day refinery is expected to exceed 80 per cent availability by first quarter of 2016 when all the units are expected to have been fully revamped and upgraded.

maestroz:
the writer quoted the marriage as barren yet I counted 4children.

Let's watch the choice of our grammar and tenses.this is the era of change and misuse in the likeness of PEJ won't be condoned.

A 56-year-old businessman, Olabode, on has told an Igando customary court, Lagos, that his wife, Folake, was troublesome and fetish.
He told the court after 18 years in a barren marriage, his wife, Folake charmed the children to love her and hate him.
Olabode claimed that Folake, was using charms on his children to love, respect and obey her while she did the opposite for him.
“My wife has added charm to the food she used to give my children to eat, they have excessive love, respect and obedience for her but my children failed to do same for me. She is using my children against me, anytime both families come to settle our quarrel, all my children will speak against me, supporting her by castigating me in their presence. Anytime we are arguing, she attacks me first by slapping me; and when it degenerates into physical combat, she bites me, leaving scars on my body,” he said.
Olayinka, therefore, pleaded with the court to dissolve the marriage because he was tired and could no longer cope with her.
Folake, 48, a trader, denied using charm on the children and that she married Olabode 18 years ago and started taking care of his four children because their mother was late.
“The children know me as their mother, they love, respect and obey me, even when their father later told them that I am not their biological mother, they still continue to take me as their mother and love me the more. I did not use charm on the children, if I wanted to charm anybody to love, respect and obey me, it is their father I will charm not the children,’’ Folake said.
She accused her husband of infidelity, claiming that he was dating two of her close friends and that anytime she confronts him he resorts to violence.
She said her husband recently embarrassed her in the neighbourhood by telling people that she was not the real mother of his children.
The respondent added that her husband often uses her childlessness to mock her.
She, however, accepted that she always bites her husband anytime they fight, saying it is in self-defence.
Folake begged the court not to grant her husband’s wish as she was still in love with him.
The president of the court, Hakeem Oyekan, adjourned the case till May 26 for judgment.

butterflyy:
Being in the hospital on a day like this makes this thread the best. Thanks op, for making me laugh through this

9jatatafo:
No woman dare call a solemn assembly in an attempt to stop them from tempting men. It will result to a war without end. Women love the JT of men. I asked a lady between a man and a woman, who enjoy sex most? Her analogy as answer left me speechless. She said if I am using cotton bud to remove ear wax from my ears, is it the ear that enjoys it or the cotton bud? I said the ear. What is your take on this?

The Peoples Democratic Party has described the performance of former Governor of Lagos, Babatunde Fashola, as dismal.

The Lagos chapter of the party on Friday alleged that the administration of Fashola was largely based on propaganda.

But in a swift reaction, Fashola’s Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Hakeem Bello, described the party’s statement as amusing.

The PDP, however, admonished his successor, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, to govern the state with the fear of God in order to move the state out of its “make-belief” situation.

In a statement issued by its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Taofik Gani, the party stated that it did not expect Ambode to act differently in terms of running his administration based on propaganda.

Gani said, “While we hope the best for Lagos State, it is our objective projection that Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode may not depart from the propagandist government now institutionalised in the state by Governor Fashola.”

The PDP said Ambode should avoid the entrapment of ‘godfatherism’ for the Lagos State to prosper.

The statement said, “It is, however, our wish that the state prospers and so we admonish Ambode to get close to God and jettison ‘godfatherism’ in order to make any appreciable success. By upholding this tenet, Mr. Ambode will implement policies for the people and not continue in the manner that (suggests) the state economy is in the hands of a godfather.

“With monthly internally generated revenue of at least N27bn, no governor should fail in Lagos state. But former Governor Fashola left office leaving the state with the highest local and international debt profile in the federation. The former governor failed because of his over-dependence on a godfather and his own self-believe.”

According to the Lagos PDP, there are many projects and policies abandoned by the Fashola administration.

“Such include, lack of affordable low-cost housing, balkanised civil service with no minimum wage, unresolved Lagos State University crisis, economic and human rights violations. Others are shortage of road networks, hostile business environment, inability to bring down cost of living in the state, poor primary and secondary education standard, to mention a few,” the statement added.

The party expressed confidence that through the ongoing governorship tribunal, its candidate, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, might be declared the winner of the April 11, 2015 poll.

In a text message sent to our correspondent in response to PDP’s assessment of Fashola’s tenure, Bello said, “It’s ironic that the PDP, a party that failed woefully at the national level could issue such a statement.”

Also responding through a text message, the Lagos All Progressives Congress Publicity Secretary, Mr. Joe Igbokwe, said that the party should not be taken seriously.

“Are you still listening to that dead party? Please stop wasting your precious gift of time on this totally irredeemable party that destroyed Nigeria. Did PDP in Abuja accomplish half of what Fashola accomplished in Lagos given the resources at their disposal? PDP Lagos should shut up forever in Nigeria. They gang- raped Nigeria for 16 years and posterity will never forgive them,” Igbokwe told Saturday PUNCH.

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