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A male model and teaching assistant who campaigned against knife crime was stabbed to death after robbers used Gumtree to lure him into a trap to steal his laptop.

Michael Adegbite, who also worked as a fitness instructor and football coach, was attacked after he advertised his secondhand Mac Book on the popular classifieds website for £200.

He and a friend went to meet someone they believed was a buyer in Enfield on Sunday evening but were confronted by three youths. Detectives believe the men lured the 28-year-old to the rendezvous with the intention of mugging him for the laptop.

Mr Adegbite and his friend managed to snatch the laptop back and the suspects ran off.Police say that a short time later, a second friend joined the victim and the three men set out to look for the group who had attempted to rob them. Minutes later there was a confrontation and a scuffle in the street and Mr Adegbite was stabbed once in the chest.

He died at the roadside 30 minutes later despite frantic attempts by neighbours and paramedics tosave his life.Three 18-year-old men have now been arrested in connection with the incident and are currently being questioned by police.


Source:http://www.nationalhelm.com/2015/07/photos-nigerian-man-michael-adegbite.html

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President Muhammadu Buhariand the Nigerian delegates with John Kerry and other dignitaries at the US State Department earlier today...
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Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has said that he does not drive bullet-proof cars because he has no reason to be scared of his people. In a series of tweets posted on Sunday, the governor said he relied solely on Ekiti people that he serves diligently to protect him.

Fayose, who recently survived an impeachment move, also boasted that there was no future election in Ekiti he would not have a determining influence on, even if he was no more the governor, because he had won the hearts of ordinary people. See Tweets bellow....

Here are some colorful photos from the Sallah celebration in Bauchi...The citizens trooped out in their numbers to join thein the festivity at the central square in the city's suburb...

Source:http://www.nationalhelm.com/2015/07/colorful-photos-from-sallah-celebration.html

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Immediate past Minister of Petroleum
Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke,
has offered to refund the sum of $
250 million dollars to the Nigerian
government in return for immunity
from further investigation and
possible prosecution,
SaharaReporters has learned.
However, her overture has reportedly
received a cold response from
President Muhammadu Buhari.


A source in Aso Rock and a ranking
member of the ruling All Progressives
Congress (APC) told our
correspondent that the former
minister has been reaching out to
influential government and ruling
party officials, in and outside Abuja,
to prevail on President Buhari to
accept her offer and let bygones be
bygone. According to our sources,
Mrs. Alison-Madueke had enlisted
the support of several figures close
to Mr. Buhari, including Governor
Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, to
intercede with the incumbent
president.


Mrs. Alison-Madueke was one of the
closest ministers to former President
Goodluck Jonathan, and is reputed to
have anchored and facilitated
numerous money-laundering
scandals and deals that
characterized the era of the just-
ended Jonathan administration. The
former Petroleum Minister oversaw
several oil swap deals, the
disposition of oil wells handed over
by Shell Petroleum to the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC), and the direct looting of
funds through the NNPC. Former
Central Bank Governor, Sanusi
Lamido Sanusi, was forced out of
office after he revealed that the NNPC
had failed to remit more than $20
billion in oil revenues with the CBN.


The former Petroleum Minister is the
latest of several officials who served
under Mr. Jonathan’s government
that are currently negotiating “soft
landing deals” with the Buhari
administration. The incumbent
president, who was sworn in on May
29, 2015, has vowed to probe
various questionable financial actions
taken by his successor or officials of
his government. Mr. Buhari is
reportedly determined to recover
billions of dollars in stolen funds.


One source said Mrs. Alison-
Madueke’s latest offer to refund at
least $250 million to the government
came after she learned that President
Buhari’s scheduled meeting with US
Attorney General, Loretta Lynch,
would include a discussion of ways
that the US government could
facilitate the investigation, arrest and
prosecution of some officials of the
Jonathan administration implicated in
the theft of billions of dollars and a
variety of frauds that resulted in the
loss of significant sums of public
funds in Nigeria.


SaharaReporters exclusively reported
earlier in the week that the former
Minister of Finance and the
Coordinating Minister of the
Economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has
been cooperating with the Buhari
administration’s ongoing, if quiet,
probe of a series of questionable
financial transactions by the
Jonathan administration.
Our sources revealed that Mrs.
Okonjo-Iweala had given the Buhari
administration documents that
expose a number of shady financial
deals executed by the Jonathan
administration.


Two days ago, we reported that
former Secretary General of the
Commonwealth, Emeka Anyaoku, had
appealed to Mr. Buhari to halt the
ongoing probe of former President
Jonathan’s administration. Even
though Mr. Anyaoku has denied that
he urged Mr. Buhari to stop the
investigation of his predecessor’s
financial dealings, our sources
insisted that the ex-Commonwealth
chief executive brought up the
matter.


Our sources disclosed that Mr.
Buhari was unimpressed by Mrs.
Alison-Madueke’s offer. “Mr.
President considers the $250 million
as ridiculous considering the amount
of money Mrs. Diezani Alison-
Madueke is suspected to have
diverted into her pocket and those of
others,” said one source.


According to our sources, Mr. Buhari
is intent on ordering a full audit of
deals and transactions done by the
former Petroleum Minister and her
cohorts in the various agencies that
reported to her.


In addition, the new president is
reportedly focused on looking further
at the extensive embezzlement of
security funds by appointees of the
former president. Mr. Buhari has
approved an investigation of how
more than $3 billion in Nigeria’s
defense budget was spent. Security
agents who searched the homes of
former National Security Adviser,
Sambo Dasuki, reportedly carted
away some revealing documents.


Earlier today, the Department of State
Security (DSS) arrested and detained
Gordon Obuah, a former Chief
Security Officer to President Goodluck
Jonathan. Mr. Obuah is reportedly
being questioned over his alleged
mastermind of a multi-million dollar
oil bunkering deal during the former
administration.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/2015/07/18/buhari-turns-down-former-petroleum-minister-alison-madueke-offer-refund-250-million

ABAKALIKI—CENTRALBank of Nigeria, CBN, has expressed worry that Ebonyi State ranks highest among the states in thecountry with about 56 per cent of its entire population having no access to financial services including owning of bank accounts.The apex bank disclosed this during a three-day CBN fair in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, organized to launch N220 billion Medium, Small and Micro Enterprises, MSME, Development Fund.The Assistant Director, Development Finance Department of CBN, Mr. Osita Nwanisiobi noted that the whole essence of the fund is to enhance the access to finance for MSMEs, as the engine for economic development and growth.According to him: “CBN is concerned by financial inclusion. In the South-East, 28.6 per cent are financially excluded. And 18.3 per cent of Anambra’s entire population are. The same thing with Abia. Enugu is 23 per cent and Ebonyi is 56 per cent.“For you to access this funds, you have to go through the commercial banks, microfinance banks, financial cooperation, financial companies with interest rate of nine per cent inclusive of any charge.”

Source:http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/ebonyi-highest-in-number-of-people-without-bank-accounts-cbn/

Buhari pictured with his late wife/former First Lady of Nigeria, Hajia Safinatu Buhari and their children. Safinatu's marriage to General Buhari produced five kids: Zulaiha (now late), Fatima, Musa (now late), Hadiza and Safinatu.



In the year 1998, Safinatu was diagnosed to have diabetes mellitus in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and for eight years, she battled the condition until she breathed her last on the 14th of January, 2006.



A foundation, the Hajia Safinatu Buhari Foundation (HSB) was formed by her late daughter, Zulaiha, in her honour.

Source:http://www.nationalhelm.com/2015/07/see-historical-photos-of-president.html

Congratulations are in order for Ahamefula Brendan Rochas, son of the Imo state governor -Rochas Okorocha -who has graduated in flying colours -bagging a first class degree from the department of mechanical engineering at the prestigious University of Manchester, London.


He was joined by his father, family members and friends today in England as they joined in his happiness.


Source:http://www.nationalhelm.com/2015/07/governor-rochas-okorochas-son-bags.html

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that his administration has settled the outstanding salary arrears left by the immediate past administration, noting that civil servants salaries in the state have now been paid up to date.


Governor Wike also declared that the time has come for fresh blood to be injected into the State Civil Service to make it more productive with the capacity to contribute effectively to the development of the state.


Speaking during the swearing in of the new Head of Service of the State, Mr Rufus Godwinsat the Government House, PortHarcourt on Thursday, Governor Wike said the time has come for the state civil servants to key into the mission and vision of the administration.


The governor informed the permanent secretaries that beginning July, the administration will begin the payment of monthly overheads to Ministries, which was stopped by the last administration.


He said: "So many things have gone wrong in the State Civil Service which need to be corrected. The new Head of Service now has the job of ensuring that the civil servants key into the mission and vision of the administration.


"Many of the permanent secretaries are supposed to have retired based on their records of service. These are some of the issues that needs to be addressed. The new Head of Service has the mandate to inject fresh blood in the system".


The governor specifically charged the Head of Service to improve the condition of the State Secretariat, make the lifts and conveniences functional and enhance key facilities in the premises.

Source:http://www.nationalhelm.com/2015/07/photos-governor-wike-swears-in-new-head.html

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Abuja urged the newly appointed Service Chiefs to help him rebuild the reputation of the Armed Forces and the nation.


This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja by the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu.


The statement said the president made the appeal while addressing service chiefs shortly after their appointments were announced.
The President also called on them to show utmost commitment to their new duties.


“All of you, including the National Security Adviser, were chosen on merit. Your records gave you the job. Save for the new Chief of Army Staff whom I briefly met at his Command at the Multi-National Joint Task Force in Chad, I don’t know any of you.
“Your records recommended you.


“Legally, you are in acting capacity until the National Assembly accepts you.
“It is only then that you will take the oath of office. Thereafter, we will sit down and talk in more detail,” President Buhari told the new service chiefs.
He assured them that their nominations would be sent soon to the National Assembly for confirmation.


source:http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/buhari-to-service-chiefs-rebuild-reputation-of-armed-forces/

The Federal Government has issued licenses to import refine petroleum products to 29 marketers in a bid to end the fuel scarcity witnessed across the country.

The third quarter approval for import allocations to 29marketers signaled a significant reduction in the number of marketers previous issued with such allocations.

Previously, 43 marketers were given import allocation but the significant reduction may be seen as a way of blocking leakages in oil andgas sector as promised by President Muhammadu Buhari.The 29 marketers include the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) which in the last couple of months struggled to sustain supply.

It was gathered that the approval was given by President Muhammadu Buhari to the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) to allow NNPC and other oil marketers to import fuel into the country this quarter.

The third quarter import allocation is thought to be around 1.6 million metric tonnes of petrol, a source in PPPRA disclosed.

NNPC,NIPCO Plc, Oando Plc, Conoil, Mobil Oil, Masters Energy, Techno Oil and Folawiyo Oil and Gas, Total Nigeria Plc and Mobil Oil Plc are some of the companies granted imported allocations.

Although the PPPRA was yet to issue an official statement on the third quarter import allocation, another source in PPPRA said the agency now expects major oil marketers to resume importation of petrol after extracting a promise from the government that outstanding claims on subsidies will be paid.

An industry source who pleaded anonymity confirmed the allocation to the Tribune Online in a telephone conversation."We got our allocation on Friday and I'm sure there are 29 of us as against the previous 43 marketers issued licenses to import," he said.

Source:http://tribuneonlineng.com/fg-slashes-import-licenses-oil-marketers-43-29

The Sharjah police are currently searching for a Nigerian building guard who is believed to be the father of a baby delivered by an unmarried Ethiopian woman at a local hospital.

The woman, 28, gave birth to ababy girl and doctors at Al Qassimi Hospital, one of the more popular hospitals in the United Arab Emirates, reported her to the police after discovering she is not married.

Newspapers said the woman also absconded from her sponsor nearly nine years ago and was working with other employers in violation of local labour laws. They said police are hunting for the Nigerian who disappeared after learning his girlfriend was about to deliver.

It is against the law in UAE for a woman to get pregnant out of wedlock. Anna Ebiere was expelled from her Dubai University due to her pregnancy for singer Flavour.

Source:http://www.lailasblog.com/2015/07/police-in-uae-search-for-nigerian-man.html

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the April 11 governorship poll in Rivers State, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has accused the Rivers State Government of dishonesty.
Peterside specifically said the state government under Governor Nyesom Wike is hoodwinking the people of the state, faulting the governor’s claim that he (Wike) met an empty treasury.
He noted that the new administration had yet to make any policy statement six weeks after its inception, adding that the situation suggested that the people have a rudderless state.
Apparently making reference to Wike’s alleged recovering of government property from former aides of former Governor Rotimi Amaechi, Peterside said the current governor was embarking on “mindless pursuit of vendetta against individuals”.
He added, “Too much dishonesty on the part of the government to hoodwink Rivers people. For instance, allegations of empty coffer is a spurious tale as even Mr. Wike, by his own admission, has been announcing various funds that he located in different government accounts.
“His false claim of using Julius Berger for the refilling of pot holes when he has been using local contractors and paying them peanuts. His use of the Berger name was simply a red herring to enable him to loot public funds.
“Six weeks after assuming office, the government has not made one single policy statement; rather, it appointed the Nimi Walson Jack committee to design a blueprint for the running of government after it had taken off. A move that suggests we have the case of a rudderless state manned by persons whose only bond to the state is to siphon our resources.
“The mindless pursuit of vendetta against individuals, chasing of shadows and brazen impunity against the long-term interest of the state. Obvious lack of commitment to the development of Rivers State.
“A case in point is the security situation, which has continued to deteriorate with criminality promoted at the expense of the safety of our people. Kidnapping and armed robbery are now rooted and government is doing nothing.
“Poor understanding of public finance and questionable management of public funds, as is evidenced in the borrowing of N30bn in 30 days.”
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Publicity, Sir Opunabo Inko-Tariah, disagreed with Peterside, maintaining that Wike did not hoodwink the people of the state.
Inko-Tariah explained that contractors had gone back to sites to continue most projects abandoned by the immediate past administration on the directive of the current administration.
The spoksman said, “I am a little bit startled that Dakuku Peterside could make such sweeping statement against the current administration. Look at the roads, the governor is working on them. Most of these projects were abandoned by the Amaechi administration, Governor Wike decided to work on them. Then who is hoodwinking the people?
“When you talk of salaries, the immediate past governor refused to pay workers, sportsmen and women and pensioners, but the current administration, led by Governor Wike, has started paying salaries and pensions, including the payment of N400m to our footballers.”

Source:http://www.punchng.com/news/wike-deceiving-rivers-people-to-siphon-funds-peterside/

UMUAHIA—ABIA State governorship candidate on the platform of All Progressive Grand Alliance [APGA] in the last general elections, Dr. Alex Otti has denied rumours that he was negotiating with Governor Okezie Ikpeazu and his party, PDP to drop his petition at the tribunal describing the rumours as “wicked, baseless and blatant falsehood”.


Dismissing the rumour as laughable, Otti said negotiating to withdraw his petition would amount to betrayal of the trust the people who supported and voted for him reposed on him.

He however admitted that different emissaries from his opponents had continued to approach him for a truce but insisted that no amount of pressure and persuasion would make him to drop the struggle to pursue the matter to a logical legal conclusion.

Otti, in a statement issued weekend in Umuahia, said that the mandate freely given to him by Abia people through the ballot was non-negotiable, saying he was marching on with the legal action at the tribunal.

Entitled “My governorship mandate non-negotiable”, Otti described the rumoured secret talks with his opponents for a possible reconciliation as untrue and handiwork of political jobbers.

“The rumour is baseless, blatant falsehood and the wishful thinking of idle political jobbers and rumour peddlers, in their deliberate attempt to cause mischief and deceive unsuspecting members of the public.

“To negotiate away the mandate from Abia people, who trooped out in their numbers and voted for me because of their conviction and belief in my ability to bring about the desired change, will amount to a betrayal of the people’s trust.”

“And rather than betray the trust, I am more emboldened and resolute to explore all the legal means possible to reclaim the stolen mandate in order to be able to fulfill my campaign promises to put smiles on people’s faces.

Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/ill-not-withdraw-my-petition-against-ikpeazu-otti/

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Since hitting the limelight several years ago, Genevieve Nnaji has remained at the top of her game. Photo: InstagramGenevieve Nnaji is arguably Nigeria’s leading actress. Blessed with beauty and elegance, the Ije star is one of the few true superstars Nollywood can boast of and she continues to dazzle her teeming fans, movie lovers and admirers.

Source:http://ndlistic4real..in/2015/07/40-stunning-photos-of-nollywood.html

DAILY POST gathered that the police
may be acting on a perceived
information that some groups who
were not favoured by the Federal
High Court ruling may invade the
council secretariats in protest.
A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt,
had ordered the cancellation of the
local government elections
conducted in Rivers State few days to
the expiration of the tenure of former
Governor, Rotimi Ameachi’s.
Justice Lambo Akanbi, in his ruling,
berated the former administration of
Rotimi Amaechi for conducting the
local council elections despite his
order that all parties should maintain
status quo and leave the rest.
Justice Akanbi also accused the
immediate past government of
“flagrant disobedience of court
processes.
In a swift reaction to annulment, the
Rivers state House of Assembly,
based on a request from Governor,
Nyesom Wike immediately screened
and confirmed Caretaker Committee
members to manage the affairs of the
22 Local councils, all of whom are
members of the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP in the state.
Reports reaching DAILY POST
however has it that the police have
been drafted to all the council
secretariats, stopping the newly
sworn-in CTC members and the
removed Chairmen from gaining entry
into the councils.
Meanwhile, the National leadership of
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
has requested that the council be
reopened.
The party described as
“unconstitutional, reprehensible
abuse of power and brazen show of
partisanship, the action of the APC-
led federal government controlled
police in barring caretaker
committees lawfully appointed by the
state government from taking charge
of the councils.”
PDP National Publicity Secretary,
Chief Olisa Metuh in a statement on
Friday said the action of the police
“is an affront to the
ruling of the High Court, which
Thursday dissolved the 22 local
government councils unlawfully
imposed by the immediate past
administration in the state, upon
which the
caretaker committees were appointed
by Governor Nyesom Wike.”
The party said “it was curious that
the police allowed the dissolution of
local government councils and
appointment of caretaker committees
in APC controlled
Plateau and Kaduna states, even
when they were without the orders of
the court but elected to clamp down
on that of Rivers State, which came
as a result of judicial
pronouncement.”
The former ruling party, now
opposition party charged the
Inspector General of Police to come
out clean on the matter and assure
Nigerians of the non-partisanship of
the Police Force by ordering the
immediate unsealing of the councils.

The party said Nigerians and the
international community should note
the development, which “is a yet
another clear indication that the
Nigerian police may have
become a partisan and compromised
instrument in the hands of the APC
federal government to destabilize
PDP controlled states,” Metuh said.

Source: http://dailypost.ng/2015/07/10/police-seals-council-secretariats-in-rivers-state-bars-wikes-chairmen/

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Governor Nyesom Wike is really doing a great Job in Rivers State.This is rehabilitation of ongoing work at Azikwe street, Rivers State. Wike is such an action Governor, Governor wike assured peoples of Rivers State that he will keep his campaign promises.

Source:http://ndlistic4real..in/2015/07/photos-of-ongoing-road-at-azikiwe.html

A federal court has ordered a former
Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido,
and his two sons, Aminu and
Mustapha, accused of fraud,
remanded in prison custody in Kano
till September 28.


The former governor was arraigned
on Thursday alongside his children
for receiving N1.35 billion kickback
from a government contractor.
The money was allegedly paid into
accounts controlled by the governor
and his sons.


The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission is accusing the four
suspects of money laundering,
amongst other charges.
They were due for arraignment
Wednesday, but the court appearance
was rescheduled to Thursday (today)
.
Security was stepped up around the
court vicinity in Kano ahead of the
hearing Thursday.


Delivering a ruling, Justice Evelyn
Anyadike ordered that the four
accused persons be remanded in a
Kano Prison Custody because the
EFCC said they lacked enough
facilities to accommodate them.
She rejected the pleas of defence
counsel, Effiong Effiong, SAN, that the
accused be kept at EFCC custody,
saying the commission had
complained of inadequate facilities.
Twenty eight-count charge bordering
on a number of alleged breach of
trust by Sule Lamido, Aminu Sule
Lamido, Mustapha Sule Lamido and
one Aminu Wada Abubakar, was read
in court.


They pleaded not guilty after the
charges were read to them.
The case involved N1.351 billion.
The judge ruled that the accused
persons be remanded pending the
hearing of their bail applications.
Earlier, the defence counsel, Mr.
Effiong, had argued that remanding
the accused persons in prison would
amount to trampling on their
fundamental human rights.


He pleaded they be sent to either of
EFCC facilities in Abuja or Kano.
However, the counsel to the EFCC,
Chile Okoroma, objected to the plea,
saying EFCC facilities were full to
capacity both in Kano and Abuja.
The case was adjourned to
September 28 for ruling on bail
applications.


There was pandemonium in court
between those supporting Mr.
Lamido and those against him,
leading the police to fire teargas
canisters into the air to disperse the
crowd.


Mr. Lamido, his sons and Mr.
Abubakar are accused of using their
positions to siphon Jigawa State
funds.


PREMIUM TIMES had in 2014
reported how a construction firm,
Dantata and Sawoe, paid N1.3 billion
as 10 percent kickback for contracts
it won, into accounts owned by the
governor and his sons.


It also showed how, between 2007,
when Mr. Lamido assumed office,
and 2014, Dantata and Sawoe
Construction Company was awarded
contracts amounting to N13.5 billion.
The state government made
payments for the contracts to the
construction firm through five banks
– Zenith, Access, Diamond, Sterling
and UBA.
Within the same period, according to
a probe of the transactions by the
EFCC, Dantata and Sawoe paid out
over N1.3 billion into the accounts of
companies in which the governor and
his sons had interest.

Source: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/186367-alleged-n1-35bn-fraud-court-sends-ex-gov-sule-lamido-sons-to-prison.html