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Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Fintiri has said his government is prepared to receive back home its 4,000 citizens presently residing in Cameroon.

About 57,000 Nigerians, mostly from the Boko Haram troubled Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, are said to be in the Minawo Camp in northern Cameroon as refugees.

A process has been on for a couple of months now to receive the 4,000 of them, who are Adamawa citizens and who have expressed willingness to return home.

Fintiri, who spoke in Yola while receiving a delegation of the Technical Working Group for Repatriation of Nigerian Refugees, told the group that the state government is ready to facilitate the repatriation of the 4,000 citizens.

Fintiri hailed the Technical Working Group and the Cameroonian authorities for keeping the Nigerians safe.

He said he would constitute a technical committee to support the returnees, when they arrive.

The leader of the delegation and Federal Commissioner in charge of National Refugees Commission, Hajiya Sadiya Farouq, said the visit of the group to Yola was to intimate the governor on the plan to start repatriating Adamawa citizens from Cameroon.

She said the technical group would soon start the repatriation exercise and appealed to the state government to give all necessary support.




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The Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property says an oil giant, Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited (ExxonMobil), is indebted to the Federal Government to the tune of $1.6bn.

The money translates to about N684bn at N360 to $1 exchange rate.

According to the panel, which is led by Mr Okoi Obono-Obla, the money represents the balance of the renewal fee of $2.5bn (N900bn) for three oil blocks, Oil Mining Leases 67, 68 and 70, which the company has allegedly refused to pay since 2009.

The panel’s chairman, who said the investigation into the indebtedness was ignited by a petition by human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), told our correspondent that the SPIP was planning to report the company to the United States of American government. He stated, “The petition against Mobil was filed before the panel by one of Nigeria’s illustrious lawyers, Femi Falana, SAN.

“USA has a law known as Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 1977 which prohibits American companies doing business abroad from indulging in corrupt practices; the panel shall lodge a complaint against Mobil to the USA government.

“USA will open a criminal investigation against Mobil for economic sabotage against the Federal Government of Nigeria.”

Falana confirmed to our correspondent on Sunday that he petitioned the panel to investigate the alleged payment of only $600m (N216bn) out of payable fee of $2.5bn (N900bn) for the renewal of the three oil blocks since 2009.

The panel’s June 13, 2018 letter addressed to Mobil’s Managing Director at Mobil House, Victoria Island, Lagos, giving the company three weeks to pay the alleged outstanding balance of $1.9bn to the Federation Account.

The letter with reference number SPIP/MPN/2018.VOL.1/1 and signed by Obono-Obla read in part, “In 2009, Mobil Producing, instead of liquidating the $2.5bn, elected to pay only $600m into the Federation Account.

“By this letter, you are required within three weeks of the receipt of this letter to show cause why Mobil Producing should not be subjected to a criminal investigation by your failure to pay the outstanding balance of $1.9bn into the Federation Account thereby contributing to the economic adversity of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

But ExxonMobil has denied the alleged indebtedness in its reply dated July 5, 2018, and addressed to the SPIP chairman.

The letter with reference number MPN-LAW-FMJ-OBO-0718-0059 and signed by the company’s Executive Director and General Counsel, Sadiq Adamu, stated that the OML 67, 68 and 70 were renewed in 2009 in full compliance with the provision of the leases, the Petroleum Act, other applicable laws and the renewal terms.

The letter read in part, “We refer to your letter dated June 13, 2018, with reference number SPIP/MPN/2018.VOL.1/1 seeking the payment of $1.9bn owed the Federal Government by Mobil Producing Nigeria due to the renewal of its Oil Mining Leases in 2009.

“Your letter, unfortunately, did not provide a basis for the alleged claim.

“The Oil Mining Leases 67, 68 and 70 renewed in 2009 referenced in your letter were renewed in full compliance with the provision of the leases, the Petroleum Act, other applicable laws and the renewal terms agreed between the Federal Government of Nigeria and MPN.”





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The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, have jointly called on Nigerians to defend their ancestral home lands against the Federal Government proposed RUGA cattle settlements.
This was made known in a communiqué issued yesterday to highlight details of a meeting between the monarch and Novel Laureate at his (Soyinka’s) home in Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, Ogun State.

The meeting was centred on the state of the nation.

Oba Ogunwusi and Soyinka, in the communiqué, said their call on Nigerians to defend themselves became crucial as the Coalition of Northern Groups gave a 30-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to pass the Ruga project for Fulani herders despite being suspended after many Nigerians went against it.

The report read: “In this regard, the recent ultimatum delivered by a sectarian order to the President of this nation to set up the so-called Ruga cattle settlements across the entire nation within a stipulated time, despite the national outcry, should be acknowledged as an entitlement under the bounty of freedom of expression.

“In return, we exercise ours and call upon Nigerian nationals across state demarcations to defend the sanctity of their ancestral lands. This birthright has never been annulled, not even under colonial occupation.

“Among such issues of urgent import are the ongoing insurrectional movements that derive from religious fanaticism and intolerance, exemplified by Boko Haram and allied tendencies, as well as aspects of commercial enterprise.
“In which some groups consider themselves especially privileged, singular, and above the laws and entitlements that are binding on other sectors of commercial and industrial undertaking. We have in mind destructive forms of social transactions that characterise groups such as nomadic cattle herdsmen, and their umbrella groupings in the nature of Myetti Allah.

“We confess ourselves increasingly distressed and appalled, that the hitherto harmonious cohabitation, even routine collaboration, among the productive arms of society that Nigerians have taken for granted even from pre-colonial times, have deteriorated to unprecedented levels of barbarity, contempt for human lives and a defiant trampling on the civic entitlements of other productive sectors such as farmers, the providers of both food and cash crops.

“This abhorrent, yet consistent pattern of sectarian, and homicidal arrogance is obviously not merely counter-productive but inhuman, criminal and divisive.

“We consider it a primary imperative of national existence that the constitutive parts of the nation take steps to preserve and enhance their distinct cultural identities, including tested and relevant pre-colonial values, their spiritual apprehension of phenomena and worship, all without detriment to the principles and ideals of mutual co-existence.
“To this end, we undertake to create state-of-the-art ethnic museums for our people both at home and in the Diaspora, where present and future generations can access their histories and cultures vividly, as living expressions of their very humanity, not simply as relics of eras vanished forever or irrelevant to the present,” the communiqué added.



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A female gubernatorial aspirant, Princess Iye Grace Adejoh, has explained that Kogi State has found itself in an emergency situation that needed a female person to rescue it, saying that there could be no better time for a female governor than now.

According to her, she would have waited for the next four years, but for the “emergency situations in the state,” she is contesting on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

“I was driven by passion into contesting gubernatorial election in Kogi State. I am a highly ambitious person, but this time of the day, the situation in Kogi State is an emergency one that needed intervention by a feminist.

“In the next four years or so, Kogi need to be rescued from the mess it found itself because there is no way this present situation should be tolerated further, if we must have a State.

“No well meaning indegenes who have capacity to change the game would sit folding hands. We just have one lifeline to save Kogi State the state and I am offering myself as governor.

“As a married woman, my husband has lost me now until Kogi is rescued and I commend my husband who is also not happy with the situation in Kogi State.

“I have mobilised women to the Villa during the late President Yar’adua to negotiate reopening of our Universities when lecturers went on strike.”

“We laid democratic foundation in Kogi State and we were responsible for the election of the former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999 and the election of Alhaji Ibrahim Idris in 2003.

“We all worked for the presidential campaign team that produced late President Musa Yar’adua and former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.”

She argued that the political dynamics in Kogi State requires women who are naturally good managers to manage the resources as well as tribal diversities for a better society



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The video of two twin brothers, were Taiwo grew up with albinism, while his twin Kehinde did not have the condition has become a growing sensation.

According to the video by BBC, the Nigerian twins and their mother shared an insight and the challenges of living in a society where people with albinism are often discriminated against.

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Many belief that there is no one who can not repent from their bad ways and sad life and turn into a good life and become a born again Christian .A Nigerian Lady turns new leaf after she took to her social media account to share how she was delivered from satanic threshold and sinful life.

The lady who revealed she was a staunch unbeliever who harboured in her all manner of odd and bad lifestyles. Sharing on the type of life she lived, she wrote;

”Addicted to sxx, prideful of my body figure, self hate, seductive, porn/ masturbation addict, Suicidal, partying addict”. But all old things have passed away, For i am a new things in Christ If he did it for me he can do it for you too!



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The Senator representing Delta North Senatorial District, Peter Nwaoboshi, on Sunday denied ownership of the 11 houses and 12 out of the 22 bank accounts frozen by the Federal High Court in Abuja.

The court, presided over by Justice Taiwo Taiwo made the forfeiture order on July 2 but a certified true copy of the order was only issued on July 5 (Friday).

The judge issued the order following an ex parte application by the Special Presidential Investigative Panel for the Recovery of Public Property.

The ex parte application was moved by the panel’s lawyer, Celsus Ukpong, who described the assets as suspicious or suspected to be far beyond the legitimate income of Nwaoboshi.

The accounts are in Zenith Bank, Access Bank, United Bank of Africa and Sterling Bank and were all joined as the 1st to the 5th respondents respectively in the said ex parte application.

The affected properties include, Suiming Electrical Company (RC 1090069) located along Asaba Airport Road, Asaba, Delta State; PON Filling Station, along Asaba Airport Road, Asaba, Delta State and a multi-billion naira estate under construction at Maryam Babangida Road, Asaba, Delta State.

They also include Cartage Cinema located at Okpanan Road, beside Rain Oil Petrol Station, Asaba, Delta State; Newbridge Filing Station, along Airport Road, Warri, Delta State; and a house at No. 8, Monu Olanrewaju Crescent, GRA, Asaba, Delta State.

The rest are, a multi-million building located at 41, Buma Road, Apapa, Lagos; Guinea House, No. 27, Marina Road, Apapa, Lagos; Plot 3011B, Kuranah Close, Maitama, FCT, Abuja, and Ceedeez School Hall Airport Road, Asaba Delta State.

But Nwaoboshi, who addressed a press conference in Abuja, said he had nothing to do with 12 of the accounts while the rest were meant for his salaries and allowances at the National Assembly.

He also challenged the SPIB officials to publish the official documents that linked him to the affected firms and buildings already seized by the court.

He said, “My attention has been drawn to a purported forfeiture order. I am yet to be served with the proceedings of the court. I only read it in the print media.

“I don’t have 22 bank accounts. That is not to say that there is any law that forbids me to own up to that number of bank accounts or more than that in Nigeria.

“Most of the alleged bank accounts belong to companies of which they thought I have interest in but I am not a signatory, a director, or a shareholder in any of the companies.

“It is therefore wicked, malicious, frivolous, scandalous and a height of irresponsibility to link me with them. It, therefore, portrays the level of the understanding of the law by the leadership of the SPIB.

“I challenge the SPIB to publish the names of the shareholders, directors, and signatories to the accounts for the public to judge.  For instance, the ownership of Suiming Electrical Company has been settled, in a case determined in 2017.

“Hon Justice Okon Abang pronounced the ownership of Suiming Electrical Nigeria Limited and the Guinea House on Marine Road, Apapa in  Lagos State which was also linked to me.

“All the companies mentioned are registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission. I wonder why the SPIB failed to carry out due diligence before rushing to the court to tarnish my image by securing a forfeiture order on firms that I have nothing to do with.”

Nwaoboshi said he had earlier approached a Court on June 10th this year to obtain an injunction ordering SPIB to maintain the status quo ante on his case as of May 31, 2019.”


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The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to a CCTV footage relating to allegations of malfeasance against a senator elected on the platform of the PDP, Senator Elisha Abbo.

Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary, in a statement on Wednesday, said the PDP, as a law-abiding and upstanding party, detests and completely condemns such act of lawlessness and callousness as exhibited in the video and will never condone it.

He stated that investigation has been launched into the matter and has summoned the lawmaker.

According to Ologbondiyan, “Our party is also shocked that the harmless victim of the unprovoked assault is said to be a nursing mother, who ought to be protected.

“Though this is a personal conduct of an individual which has no bearing with the culture of our party, the PDP however holds that no responsible person will condone such an attitude.

“In the light of this, the NWC has commenced investigation into the matter and summons Senator Elisha Abbo in line with the provisions of the Constitution of the PDP and code of conduct of our members.

“In the same vein, the party has taken note of the immediate action taken by the Senate.

“The PDP, at all levels of engagement, is reputed for her utmost respect and commitment towards the rights, safety and wellbeing of our citizens, particularly our women and cannot tolerate any callous assault on any Nigerian.

“The PDP therefore assures Nigerians that it will always stand on the side of justice and will never spare a thought in taking action on any of its members found wanting, particularly those elected or appointed into public offices.”



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Members of the House of Representatives are currently in a rowdy session over the declaration of who becomes the lower chamber’s minority leader.

The rowdy session followed the Speaker’s decision to abandon a letter by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) nominating Kingsley Chinda as Minority Leader.

The PDP is the largest minority party in the House.

The speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, went ahead to announce Ndidi Elumelu as Minority Leader which culminated in a protest by members of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

However, Elumelu is also a PDP member but the matter got complicated when an unidentified lawmaker grabbed the mace of the lower chamber.



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The assault case of Senator Elisha Abbo seems to be getting more interesting due to events that have occurred since after a video showed the Adamawa Senator assaulting a nursing mother went viral on the internet.

This time the incident has caught up with the Senator on his Wikipedia Page. On Wednesday morning, Senator Abbo was described on his Wikipedia page as being widely known as a violent politician who was notorious for assaulting two women in a intimacy gadget shop in Abuja.

A screen-shot of the Wikipedia page of the embattled Senator is shown below

Prior events following the release of the video had seen protesters storming the Headquarters of the Police Force in Abuja with the Police IG, Mohammed Adamu eventually ordering the arrest of the young Senator and his orderly over the incident.

In the same vein, the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, have set up an ad-hoc committee to carry out a probe on the incident

Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the 2019 general elections who is from the same state as Senator has as well condemned the act, calling on the Senator to surrender himself to the police.


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Over 26, 000 people have signed a petition against a Nigerian Senator, Ishaku Elisha Abbo, who was caught in a video clip beating up a lady at an adult toy shop in Abuja.

In a petition created by Daniel Adebayoon change.org, over 26, 000 people around the World have signed the petition calling on the violent lawmaker to resign or be recalled by his constituency.

The petition has gone viral on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms, “he should be punished…That is absolutely brutal. He should face the law,” Cynthia Sunday said on the petition.

He represents Adamawa North Senatorial District and formally became a member of the 9th National Assembly on June 11, 2019.

Apart from the petition, Nigerians home and abroad, Amnesty International, Nigeria, have spoken against the assault.

In a series of tweets, AI, Nigeria Chapter, called on Nigeria Police to properly investigate the assault and make him face the full wrath of the law.

“What is known so far on Senator Elisha Abbo’s assault on women: -He went shopping in an adult shop with 3-women. -He summoned police that joined him while assaulting a lady. -He slapped her 3-times -The woman he assaulted was treated in hospital for injuries,” AI tweeted.

It was also gathered that Senator Abbo threatened to unleash more violence on the women “if the incidence got to the public.”

Amnesty International which is a London-based non-governmental organization that focuses on human rights said “It is the responsibility of police to now protect victims from further of his violence. This must be investigated. The senator must face justice.”




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For the first time ever, an outrage has gone across party lines. The usual “Us vs Them” syndrome seems to have taken the back seat in the latest call for a public office holder to be reprimanded.


Albeit a few varying opinions, Nigerians, especially the usually commentators seemed to have buried their party affiliations to unite in the call for Senator Elisha Ishaku Abbo – who assaulted a female shopper – to be brought to book.

CCTV footage of the PDP Senator Abbo, representing Adamawa North, had emerged from an incident that occurred back in may. The lawmaker was seen physically assaulting a nursing mother who had interfered in his altercation with an Abuja intimacy gadget shop attendant.
Make no mistake, what the senator was caught on tape doing is by no means acceptable by any standards, in any clime. But we have seen people who committed far more atrocities enjoy the backing from a particular sect in the name of party loyalty. Those who will rather not be seen as attacking party faithful.

In this case however, we have seen the PDP, the APC, the non partisan and the fencists all appearing to be on the same page. From the usual suspects: Reno Omokri, Femi Fani Kayode, Deji Adeyanjo, Omojuwa, Joe Abah, Abike Dabri, Kadaria Ahmed, Kayode Ogundamisi, Festus Keyamo, the list goes on, all have condemned the act.


Is it too early to celebrate this? Can we safely say we are getting there?

One of the major factors holding a revolution in this country remains the fact that most outcries are never done in unison. Like the saying goes, a divided house can never stand, it has bedevilled any effort to seek social justice or good governance in this country.

Now that it seems we are getting there, can we safely say that it’s finally time. It’s time when that all important revolution becomes imminent.

If the trend continues like this, I can guarantee you, we are not far from taking back the Nation. We are not far from demanding and achieving the Nigeria of our dreams.



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Me I no want say anything about this issue because I know what woman are capable of