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Welcome to the reality: Nigeria is broke


Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed last week said that Nigeria is broke. He spoke to State House correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting in Abuja. He said the Federal Government took a painful decision by increasing the pump price of petrol from N86.50 to N145 per litre. According to him, the current problem is not about subsidy removal but a result of dwindling income of the government. He said: “The current problem is not really about subsidy removal. It is that Nigeria is broke. Pure and simple!

“It is like somebody who has been earning N100,000 a month and he is faced with a situation where his employer says henceforth, you will be earning N10,000 a month. He would need to make some very painful decisions and some very painful adjustments. That is the situation with Nigeria today.

“A few months ago, we were earning as much as $100 for every barrel of crude. In the months of February and March, we were short of…so, we no longer have the resources, the foreign exchange to bring in refined fuel products. And our economy is shrinking. We appreciate the fact that the decision is going to affect everybody.

“We appreciate what we are going through, but Nigerians should also know that the government has the responsibility at times to take very difficult decisions. So, it is not always about popularity.”

Lai Mohammed was only stating the obvious. This fundamental truth was not told to Nigerians from the very beginning. This is what Lai Mohammed and his principals should have told Nigerians before the hike in the pump price of petrol. Nigeria is indeed on financial life support machine if you like. This government should have told the nation the whole truth. Nigeria is broke, please understand and bear with the government. The average Nigerian would have listened.

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12 die after drinking bootleg alcohol




twelve men have died after drinking bootleg liquor, Indonesian police said Tuesday.

The victims died in Bantul district in the main island of Java in recent days, said local police spokeswoman Anny Pudjiastuti.

Four other people are in hospital after drinking the liquor, she said.

A man suspected of selling the alcohol has been arrested in Bantul, which is in Central Java, and 81 bottles of liquor confiscated.

“The suspect could be charged with causing death and could be jailed for 15 to 20 years,” said Pudjiastuti.

Police said they were still investigating what the bootleg liquor contained.

There have been several cases in recent years of people dying after drinking bootleg alcohol. In February 26 people in Sleman district — next to Bantul — died after consuming locally-bought homebrew.

Indonesia is home to the world’s biggest Muslim population, but most practise a moderate form of Islam and alcohol is available in big cities.

However in rural areas, where few drink, getting hold of alcohol can be difficult and people sometimes turn to potentially dangerous homebrews.


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BREAKING: Nanny who abducted one-year-old boy arrested


Covenant Bassey, the nanny, who abducted one-year-old David Robinson in Calabar, has been arrested by the police after a manhunt.

Bassey had fled her employer’s home in the Satellite Town area of Calabar on Friday, taking David along and carting away other valuables.

David’s mum, Mrs. Uche Robinson, confirmed the arrest of Bassey and rescue of her son in a Facebook post.

The post read, “David has been found Hallelujah… I want to say a very big thank you to all who showed concern with their prayers,test messages,media post/shares and tags during this hard time of looking for my son.

“David and the nanny were found today at Trailer Park, Onne, where she was trying to sell the baby…”

Source: http://www.blebleblog.com/2016/05/breaking-nanny-who-abducted-one-year.html?m=1

Bishop stages one-man protest against fuel hike


The Bishop of Sufficient Grace and Truth Ministry, Seun Adeoye, on Monday staged a solo protest against the deregulation policy of the Federal Government which has led to a sharp increase in the price of fuel.

The bishop, who is a former Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Osun State Council started the protest in front of the Osun State Government House, Okefia around 10am and marched to the popular Olaiya Junction where he addressed journalists.

The bishop was dressed in full regalia of his office and hung a placard with the inscription ” N145 per litre: This is not change but chain.”

The bishop said he would not keep quiet in the face of injustice and oppression because the masses who he described as voiceless were the ones being affected adversely by the government policy.

The bishop threatened to trek from Osogbo to Abuja to protest against the policy if the Federal Government refused to review the policy.

He said, “This is not the change they promised the people. At most it should be N95 per litre. This price is too much, many Nigerians are dying because they cannot feed and do other necessary things like buying drugs and all that. Things are vey bad and this hike would worsen it.

“There is hike in electricity tariff; things are very expensive and the salaries have remained the same despite this. Churches are distributing food and other items to members every day. Nigerians have been turned to beggars.

“Most of those who are supporting the policy are doing so because they can afford to buy a litre of fuel even for N1000. But we have to think of the majority of the people whose standard of living are seriously affected.”

Source: http://www.blebleblog.com/2016/05/bishop-stages-one-man-protest-against.html?m=0#more

Davido’s baby mama reportedly ‘bounced’ from daughter, Imade’s 1st birthday


Super talented artiste, David Adeleke, aka Davido threw a grand party to celebrate his beautiful daughter, Imade who turned a year older on the 14th, May, 2016.


However, it was learnt that Davido’s babymama, Ms. Sophie Momodu was ‘bounced’ from the party which held at her grandfather’s residence at Esther Adeleke Street, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos.

The event was graced by celebrities like Tiwa Savage, DOTUN of Cool FM, Peter Okoye and some other top celebrities who all came with their kid(s)

Source: http://www.blebleblog.com/2016/05/davidos-baby-mama-reportedly-bounced.html?m=0#more

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Breaking : Wife of Rivers comedian, Ogbolosingha kidnapped


WIFE of popular comedian in Rivers state, Mrs Chime Mike Ogbolosingha has been kidnapped in Obio Akpor local government area of the state.

The husband, Mr Mike Ogbolosingha told Vanguard that the gunmen stormed their Elenprawon residence on Sunday and abducted her.

According to him, the kidnappers who were about six in number also went away with valuables in the house.

He said the kidnappers had not established contact with any member of the family, pleading also that they should release his wife unconditionally.

Mike Ogbolosingha

He said he had alerted the Police of the ugly development.
“About six of the kidnappers came to my house. I was coming back from Bayelsa when I got a call that my wife had been kidnapped. They broke into my house, took away every valuables and still went with my wife.

I am begging for the release of my wife. The kidnappers have not called me or any member of the family since the incident on Sunday. They should please release my wife, I am begging those holding her”, Ogbolosingha said.

Source: http://www.blebleblog.com/2016/05/breaking-wife-of-rivers-comedian.html?m=1

Man jail for 1 year, for stealing a woman handbag in church



An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Friday handed a 12 months jail term to a 22-year-old unemployed man, Innocent Ali, for stealing a woman’s handbag in a church.

The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Taiwo Akanni, who sentenced the accused without any option of fine, said the punishment “will serve as a deterrent to others.”

The accused was arraigned on July 20, 2015 on a one-count charge of stealing.

The convict, whose address is unknown, pleaded guilty the day he was arraigned and had since then been in custody
The accused jail term will include the number of days he had been in custody.

The prosecutor, Insp. Clifford Ogu, had told the court that the offence was committed on July 5 at Christ Royal Family International Church, located at 2, Adegbola St., Ikeja.

Ogu said the accused stole a woman’s handbag in the church and ran away.

“The accused was sitting beside a woman, one Mrs Ekundayo Oyenuga, in the church, and after the service, the woman left her bag to meet with the pastor, but on her return, the bag had disappeared.

“It was the CCTV camera that revealed the accused,’’ Ogu said.

He said that police was able arrest the convict through the account number he gave the complainant to pay in N15, 000 before he would release other document in the bag to her.

“The items in the bag are a blackberry phone valued at N45,000, cash of N10,000, a drivers’ license, ATM card, car key, international passport and an Ipad,’’ Ogu said.

He said that “when the accused was arrested, he had already spent the money and sold the mobile phone.’’

The prosrecutor said that the offence contravened Section 285 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

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At Least 88 Killed In Baghdad Car Bombings

Three car bombs in Baghdad have killed at least 88 people on the bloodiest day in the Iraqi capital this year.

The first blast hit a busy outdoor market during Wednesday morning's rush hour in the northern district Sadr City, a predominantly Shiite area.

At least 63 people were killed and 82 others were wounded.

Islamic State, which considers Shiite Muslims heretics, claimed responsibility.

In an online statement, the group said a suicide bomber it identified as "Abu Sulaiman al-Ansari" detonated the explosives-rigged vehicle.

It was followed by a suicide blast targeting a police station in Kadhimiyah, another mostly Shiite Muslim district in the northwest of the Iraqi capital.

Eighteen people were killed, including five policemen. Another 34 people were wounded.

Kadhimiya is home to an important Shiite Muslim shrine and access to the frequently targeted neighbourhood is tightly controlled.

In the Jamiya neighbourhood in western Baghdad, a suicide car bombing killed seven and wounded 22 .

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the later bombs, but all such attacks recently have been carried out by IS.

The UN's top envoy in Iraq, Jan Kubis, condemned the bombings.

"These are cowardly terrorist attacks on civilians who have done nothing but going about their normal daily lives," he said.

Earlier this month, at least 18 Shia Muslim pilgrims were killed and 45 others injured by an IS car bomb in the Saydiyah neighbourhood of the Iraqi capital.

The attack also comes just days after the Pentagon announced that a senior Islamic State leader in Iraq's Anbar province had been killed by a US airstrike.

The strike targeted a vehicle carrying Abu Wahib, military emir for Anbar province and a former member of al Qaeda in Iraq.

Three other IS members were also killed in the strike, near the town of Rutba.

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72-year-old woman gives birth to baby boy


A seventy-two-year old Daljinder Kaur delivered a healthy baby boy after 46 years marriage and about 20 years after menopause.

Kaur’s wish to have a child was fulfilled through the in-vitro fertilisation (IVF-test tube) technique, wherein the eggs and sperm are fertilised outside the womb, in a test tube.

Kaur’s 79-year-old husband, Mohinder Singh Gill, had been travelling with her from Amritsar in Punjab to Hisar in Haryana since 2013 to ensure the success of the treatment, according to Hindustantimes.

In July 2015, Kaur finally conceived after two failed IVF cycles.

Embryologist and owner of the National Fertility and Test Tube Baby Centre in Hisar, Dr Anurag Bishnoi, explained that Kaur first came to him alone in 2013, after reading about the centre in newspapers.

Kaur own case is the second at the centre where a 70-year-old woman was delivered of a baby girl successfully through IVF.

Bishnoi said, “Our track record in handling IVF in older women has been fairly good, but not everyone is fit to conceive. In her case, she looked visibly frail too, so I had to refer her to a cardiologist to get clearance for the procedure and a battery of other tests to ascertain fitness levels.

“We started work within two months in 2013 but the first attempt failed, which is normal. After six months, another attempt was made and that also didn’t succeed. Finally, the third attempt was successful.”



The husband blames his wife’s inability to have a child on a lack of awareness and a family feud that was on for years because of which they didn’ t get time to see a doctor.

He said, “It was embarrassing to not be able to produce a child, no doubt, but we have been busy with litigation all our life and hardly had time to think it over.

“After we got a little free a few years ago, we thought of trying for a baby. The newspaper article was spotted at an opportune moment.”

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Abomination: 22-year-old Anambra man kills, buries father
in shallow grave

There was confusion recently in Umuajani village, Umudioka in Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra State when one of its sons, 60-year-old Charles Maduekwe, who was declared missing for about three weeks, was discovered to have been killed by his own son and only child, Emeka, and buried in a shallow pit.

The accused son, a self-acclaimed pastor, who operates a chapel in his father’s house when apprehended by his kinsmen confessed that he committed the abomination, saying that he did it because his late father was in the habit of placing curses on him.

Before the crime was exposed, the young man was plying his trade in a prayer house and respected as a pastor in the area but all these changed as the allegation of his killing his own father came to the open.

The abomination was discovered when for over two weeks the kinsmen of the late Maduekwe could not see him at events in the village and inquired from his son, who told them that he travelled.

One of the kinsmen said: “When we asked him again, he said he travelled but when you looked at him ,you would know very well that he was lying. His mouth was shaking and he actually betrayed his innocence. We moved to his father’s house and there we saw some fresh sand covered with leaves and we asked him what he did there, he said he dug pit toilet there but his father said he should close it and he did so.

“People became suspicious and we decided to unearth the pit and at a level confusion came in and many said there was nothing there but one of us said no we should continue that he perceived some odour and they continued and in a short time the foot of the man was seen and the boy wanted to run but the youths stopped him and pounced on him.

“He confessed that he killed his father and put him into the pit, he also said that the pit took him four days to dig and that he killed him because he cursed him.”

The decomposing body of the late Maduekwe was later exhumed and reburied after the people performed some traditional rituals and cleansed the land.

However, Emeka was rescued from the irate youths of the community who wanted to lynch him and handed over to the police.

One of those who spoke to Oriental News on condition of anonymity said: “I interviewed the boy myself with my phone, I asked him; why did you kill your dad, what did he do that you killed him? He said his father used to curse him. I asked him, how long it took him to dig the pit and he said it took him four days.”

On his personal bitter experience with Emeka some months back, he said: “I lost my car in Lagos, my car broke down and I parked it in one filling station, it was a tyre problem. I went to the house to collect money and buy tyre but by the time I returned to the place I did not see my car again. The security people I paid said they did not know who took my car away. I called the village and informed them of what happened to me and some people.....

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I would harness resources to end poverty – President Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Katsina promised to harness available resources to end poverty in the country.

The number one citizen who declared opened Katsina Economic and Investment Summit noted that the action was achievable through job creation.

The President who was in Katsina barely 7 months into his administration stated that “creating employment is the biggest way to escape poverty.

The President however declared that the desire to free Nigerian from the shackles of poverty would be realisable through active private partnerships.

President Buhari further stressed that the expectation are high adding that the Federal government alone can not deliver without the intervention of private sector.

Buhari assured on the readiness of the Federal Government to partner with any state government with laudable initiatives, like Katsina example, for the economic growth of the country.

The President who acknowledged the bigger role of the private sector further appealed to them to employ the needful in Nigera’s industrialization effort.

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Breaking News : N840m cash receipt: EFCC secures remand warrant to keep Femi Fani-Kayode

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secured a remand warrant to further detain the Spokesman for the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, who was detained on Monday over the receipt of public funds to the tune of N840 million out of the N4 billion payout in the heat of the presidential election last year.

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Photos: Hubby of killed banker arrested in Lagos

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‎BREAKING: Gunmen kill five policemen in Rivers


UNKNOWN gunmen in the early hours of Monday killed five policemen, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mr. Nasiru Halidu.
The policemen were ambushed by their assailants in Okobe, Ahoada West LGA of Rivers State, along the East-West road at about 3am.
The victims were coming from Yobe State where they went on a special duty and were on their way back to Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital when they were attacked.
State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ahmad Muhammad, who was almost in tears while confirming the incident, described the development as a sad one.

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Appeal Court Affirms 25 Years Jail For Boko Haram Convicts


The Court of Appeal in Lagos on Friday affirmed the judgment of a Federal High Court in Lagos convicting and sentencing three members of dreaded terror group, Boko Haram to 25 years imprisonment each.

The Appeal Court, in a judgment delivered by Justice Y.B Nimpar, rejected the appeal filed by the convicts and upheld the judgment of the court below.

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Edo 2016: Oshiomhole and Odubu at War


Edo State Deputy Governor, Dr. Pius Odubu, and his boss, Governor Adams Oshiomhole, came on board November 12, 2008, when the Court of Appeal nullified the election of Professor Osarhiemen Osunbor, then of the Peoples Democratic Party. Oshiomhole and Odubu had since their coming enjoyed so cordial a relationship that the governor on many occasion describe his deputy as the most loyal deputy governor in Nigeria.


To demonstrate to the public that there was no rancour between them, Oshiomhole had during his re-election campaign in 2012 rejected pressure from Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, who was then in Action Congress of Nigeria, to drop Odubu as running mate. The governor in conjunction with members of the Edo in Safe Hands, led by his Commissioner for Works, Osarodion Ogie, came to Odubu’s rescue and subdued Ize-Iyamu.


Face-off

But the relationship between Oshiomhole and Odubu has turned sour. Although there have been no public altercations between the two men.

According to THISDAY investigation, the friction between the governor and his deputy began with the governorship ambition of Odubu, who is alleged not to have informed his principal of his ambition to run for governorship when Oshiomhole summoned his political associates, including Odubu, to support Godwin Obaseki. At the meeting, Odubu was said to have kept quiet, only to open a campaign office later.


It was further learnt that because of the choice of Obaseki, Ogie, earlier believed to be the governor’s choice, had to shelve his ambition as a mark of honour to Oshiomhole. The deputy governor was expected to do the same. But he did not. Based on this, Oshiomhole was alleged to have said that since both of them joined the boat at the same time, they will disembark at the same time.


Peace Meeting

Indications that the relationship between the two men had gone sour emerged when Odubu’s campaign coordinator, Humphrey Uanseoje, signed a letter with four governorship aspirants of the ruling All Progressives Congress in the state, which was addressed to the national leadership of the party. in the letter, they alleged plans by the state chairman of the party, Anslem Ojezua, to doctor the delegates lists with the backing of Oshiomhole. It was the first time that the deputy governor would openly accuse his boss of alleged plot to manipulate the forthcoming primaries of APC.


It was on the basis of this that a peace meeting was organised on April 11 by the inner circle of APC, with supporters of Oshiomhole and Odubu in attendance, to try to reconcile them. Present at the meeting were Ogie, Ojezue, state secretary of the party, Chief Osaro Idah, Oshiomhole’s in-law, Victor Eboigbe, and Chief of Staff to the Governor, Patrick Obahiagbon.

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Police arrests son for raping his 70-year-old mother

A 40-year-old alcoholic man has been arrested for repeatedly raping his 70-year-old mother.

The Asian Age reports that the mother approached the Chhattisgarh police, in central India, alleging that her son had repeatedly subjected her to rape and sexual abuse.

The report alleged that the man had habitually abused his mother physically, but last month, under the influence of alcohol, had sexually violated her.

The mother, while giving an account of what happened to the police, said she told him she was his mother and that she was the one who gave birth to him.

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"MIRACLE" IN KENYA: BABY GIRL SURVIVED 3 DAYS WITHOUT FOOD AND WATER IN THE RUBBLE OF A BUILDING


Ralson Wasike thanked God for protecting his only daughter.

(Huruma, Kenya)—[Gospel Herald] Rescuers were surprised to find a baby girl that survived three days without food and water under the rubble of a collapsed residential building in the Kenyan capital. (Photo via Gospel Herald)

The six-month-old baby is now with her father and is making a good recovery.

 
"(The) guys were saying it's a miracle for the baby girl to have been in there without a scratch," Bonny Odhiambo from Red Cross told in CNN.  He also led the team involved in the rescue operation.

 

Odhiambo went on to explain that the baby girl was dehydrated, but had no visible injuries. The girl is named Dealeryn Saisi Wasike. She was pulled from the debris of a six-story building at about 4 a.m. local time. After that, she was taken to Kenyatta National Hospital for treatment.

 

By using specialized equipment, military search and rescue team found baby Dealeryn, who was wrapped in a blue blanket. The equipment can detect breathing beneath the rubble.

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Photos: Man attempts suicide, climbs electric pole in Lagos


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