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    Cameroonian lady kills self after boyfriend she sponsored to the US dumped her

    A US-based Cameroonian woman has reportedly committed suicide by hanging after her boyfriend dumped her for another lady.

    Cameroonian activist and humanitarian, Bella Powers, who disclosed this in a Facebook post on Wednesday, March 29, said the lady, who lived in Hyattsville, Maryland, took the drastic action after she learnt that her ex-boyfriend is set to marry his new lover on June 3, 2023. 

    The lady was said to have funded the man’s relocation to America from Cameroon. 

    “According to Fon Sama, this USA based lady took her own life because her boyfriend broke up with her and shorty after she heard he was planning to marry someone else on June 3rd 2023,” the post read.

    The Lady, who hailed from the Northwest Region of Cameroon, precisely Ngie, lived in Hyattsville, Maryland USA. 

    It is reported that she spent all of her money to bring the love of her life, a man from Bangwa, Southwest Region of Cameroon to America. 

    After spending sometime in America, the young man decided to end their relationship as he was no longer interested in her.

    A while later she discovered that he was already planning a wedding with another woman for June 3rd this year. Upon hearing this, she was extremely heartbroken which led to her ending her own life by hang!ng. May she RIP. This is the full version of what actually happened gotten from my colleague Kesamag. 

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    NAFDAC Department alerts Nigerians on defective tetracycline ointment

    The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control yesterday alerted the public on defective tetracycline hydrochloride ophthalmic ointment.

    NAFDAC Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, in a public alert, noted that the World Health Organisation had raised the alarm on batches of the tetracycline hydrochloride ophthalmic ointment USP one per cent for various quality issues.

    She said the affected ointment, manufactured by Navi Mumbai-based Galentic Pharma (India) Pvt Ltd, were still within valid shelf life, quoting WHO as saying “at least 55 countries received the affected batches, and the manufacturer has initiated voluntary recall for several batches.

    “The WHO also stated that the manufacturer had indicated that other batches may be included in the voluntary recall.”

    She said various marketing authorisation holders exist for the product, and that the product is available under various labelling.

    She said “five international procurers of the product independently conducted visual examination of random samples of stock on hand and detected a range of quality issues.

    “The issues reported by each procurer were not uniform and varied from batch to batch. Some of such issues include the presence of particles, ranging in colour, size and shape on the nozzle in the cap and in the ointment inside each tube.

    Read full details of Tinubu’s drug case in United States (Must Read)

    “In a country where the Law Enforcement Agents guard and protect criminals, the direct message and implication is that citizens should become criminals so they can enjoy the same protection. The bigger your crime, the more security personnel attached to you. Correctional centres in my country are for small criminals or even innocent citizens while the big criminals continually parade themselves in the corridors of Aso Rock even at the age they ought to have retired from public service. They do everything within their purview and power including killing of their kind just to hinder any clean citizen from coming close to help the system or save the situation. Experience has shown that no one can salvage or sanitize a stinking and sinking system when he is a direct beneficiary of such system and his source of wealth stemmed from same. Untowardly and regrettably too, the vicious circle continues ad infinitum to the detriment and disservice of the greater Nigerian population.  Ours is sincerely a sad and sorry story any day, anytime.”

    It is a fact that Nigerians have elected their next leader, especially the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federation. The body statutorily saddled with the responsibility of organising and conducting the said election had declared Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu who is in fact, the flag bearer of the ruling party, the All Progressive Congress (APC), the president-elect.

    For the purpose of this post, I will be particularizing on the office of the President of Nigeria and Tinubu.

    Since the emergence of Bola Tinubu as the flag bearer of the All Progressive Congress Party, the party and her candidate (Bola Tinubu) have come under serious but necessary criticisms, screening and scrutiny. This is so because; the office of the president of Nigeria or any other country is not only an exalted and powerful office but also a very sensitive and delicate one.  The President of Nigeria by the virtue of section 130(1) and (2) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) is the No.1 citizen of Nigeria and the image of the nation.

    This being the case, the holder or occupier of such office/position must be a person of proven integrity, rectitude, nobility and above all, must be a trustworthy person whom Nigerians and international community can trust and respect. It is indeed against this backdrop that I have deemed it fit and obligated to present to Nigerians a verified, unchallenged and uncontroverted facts of the person and character of “our next president” ~ Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

    To be candid, I have heard a lot about Bola Tinubu’s involvement in drug trafficking and related matters but had taken it for political propaganda until I did my research and confirmed same from Wikipedia. We know as a fact that Wikipedia is a proven and reliable source of information. It does not peddle or publish fake news or false information. The significant and worrisome aspect of this is that the whole world has access to this information that the “next president” of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a drug dealer.

    As weighty as this maybe, I thought the media/Legal team of Tinubu would challenge or controvert the information put out by Wikipedia but nobody did thereby invoking the principle of law in Patrick Offolete Vs State (2000) 7 SC.PT 1@100; Ogoejiofor Vs Ogoejiofor (2006) 1 FWLR 306 to the effect that unchallenged evidence/statement must be relied or accepted by the Court.

    That notwithstanding, drug trafficking and ancillary matters are criminal in nature. The standard of prove by virtue of section 135(1) of the Evidence Act requires prove beyond reasonable doubt. So, to make doubt double sure, I requested and I was availed with the certified true copies of the forfeiture proceedings in the United States Court involving our “next president”.

    I painstaking studied the documents and was so shocked to my marrow that those heinous and heavy allegations of crimes were made against our “next president” and he neither challenged nor refuted them. The last straw that broke the camel’s back was when his official spokesperson Mr. Festus Keyamo SAN came on channel Television and admitted thus:

    1. That the documents are authentic.
    2. That the Bola Tinubu that was referred to in the documents is the same person who is the APC presidential candidate and our “next president”
    3. That the judgment/ruling in that case still subsist and has not been appealed against or set aside.

    In view of the aforesaid, it suffices to say that I have the locus standi to discuss on this issue and authoritatively make reference to the said documents.

    The verified facts of the case against Bola A. Tinubu

    Besides the mystery surrounding the background, academic qualification, real name and age of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, here are some of the verified facts about him;

    1. Bola A. Tinubu opened a drug account with first Heritage Bank Country Hills, Chicago, Illinios, on the 29th day of December, 1989. Coincidentally and significantly, this was the same day the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act Cap N30 Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria came into force in Nigeria.
    2. While Opening the said account, Tinubu went to the bank with one man known as Mueez Adegboyega Akande whom he referred as his uncle. Tinubu supplied his address as No. 7504 South Stewart, Chicago Illinois.
    3. On the 4th day of January, 1990, Mueez Adegboyega Akande wired $80,000 into Tinubu’s account. 2 days later, Tinubu completed a Credit Application for $8000 loan to use and purchase automobile. He also withdrew $20,000 from that account for the purposes of buying the automobile. In that Application, he gave his residential address as No. 7504 South Stewart, Chicago Illinois. Meanwhile, a review of trans Union Credit report showed that as at the 28th day of December, 1989, Tinubu was living at No. 7424 South Shore, Chicago, Illinois, and not 7504 South Stewart.
    4. On the 9th day of January, 1990, Tinubu purchased a 1990 Nissan 240X with Vehicle Identification Number JN1H536P7LW121339 FOR $17,754.03. This money was paid in cash. Meanwhile, while filing the dealership form, he supplied his residential address to be 3515 Maple Lane, Hazel Crest, Illinois.
    5. The US Customs confirmed that Tinubu’s address No.7504 South Stewart, Chicago, Illinois, was being used as a drop off point for packages from Nigeria containing white heroin.
    6. Records of Secretary of State showed that Tinubu owns a company called Globe-Link International. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revealed that the address of the company is the same No. 7504 South Stewart… and Mueez Adegboyega Akande is a director in this company.

    At this point, it is germane to find out who is this Mueez Adegboyega Akande.

    For brevity sake, I will be referring to him as Akande. Akande has account with First Heritage Bank where Tinubu opened his. In fact, it was Akande that introduced Tinubu to the bank and Tinubu while filling his account opening form referred Akande as his uncle.

    Kevin Moss deposed that there was a man called Lee Andrew Edward who was the source of white heroin in Chicago Illinois. Lee Andrew was incarcerated for attempting to murder a Federal Agent who was executing search warrant in his premises. In the process of the execution of the search warrant, guns, cocaine, heroin and paraphernalia used in the distribution of drugs were found in his house. Investigation revealed that Lee Andrew has electronic pager where people call to place order for drugs. Investigation revealed that Mueez Adegboyega Akande subscribed to this pager.

    There is another man that was arrested in the course of this investigation.  His name is Abiodun Agbele. He was arrested on the 20th day of November, 1990 when he sold an ounce of white heroin to a law enforcement agent acting as undercover for $7000. Upon his arrest, he opted to cooperate with the law enforcement agents. The man’s name is Abiodun Agbele from Nigeria.

    Abiodun came into the United State in February, 1988 and again he identified Mueez Adegboyega Akande as his uncle. Abiodun stated that Mueez Adegboyega Akande introduced him to drugs and instructed him to serve as source of white heroin to Lee Andrew Edward before he left for Nigeria. He further stated that Akande controls the operation of white heroin distribution network from Nigeria in conjunction with other individuals in Nigeria and the United States.

    Who are these individuals?

    According to Kevin Moss, he said: “This investigation has disclosed the identity of other individuals including relatives who worked for Akande with various duties in the distribution Organisation. One of such individuals has been identified as BOLA TINUBU”.

    Further investigation disclosed that Tinubu opened a joint account with his wife Oluremi. Tinubu also had a joint account with Akande. Akande’s wife Audrey opened a joint account with Tinubu’s wife Oluremi. It is also on record that Tinubu has another account in the name of Compass and investment Company Ltd wherein Agbele and Akande are directors.

    It is pertinent to state that as at the material time, Bola Tinubu declared that he works with Mobil Oil Nigeria Ltd. and his take home salary was $2,400 every month (that is $28,800 per annum). He further stated that he has no other source of income. It’s then surprising and mind-blowing to see that only in 1990, someone who has no other means or source of income deposited $660,000 in his bank account and in 1991 deposited $1,216,500.

    Finally, Kevin Moss stated that on 14th January, 1992, he called Tinubu on the phone with his Nigeria line and he admitted knowing Agbele and Akande and have associated with them both in Nigeria and in the United States.

    It was based on these verified facts and more that a seizure warrant or forfeiture proceedings were instituted.

    The forfeiture proceeding

    Many legal minds/luminaries have made their respective and respected submissions about the subject matter especially as it relates to the instant case. My position is not far from theirs but certainly different from that of Mr. Festus Keyamo SAN who claimed to be the best lawyer in Nigeria (private prosecutor) in utter and flagrant breach of Order 39 (2) of the Rules of Professional Conduct. In that interview with Channels television, he unequivocally stated that Tinubu was not a party to that suit which is false and misleading. It is not in dispute that Forfeiture could be criminal or civil but the most significant thing about the two is that “there was a commission of crime”. In other words, there cannot be forfeiture without a crime being committed. In Tinubu’s case, some of the crimes that were committed are:

    1. Trafficking in drugs that are prohibited (white heroin)
    2. Money laundry
    3. Address fraud
    4. False information

    The next question is, who committed these crimes; is it Bola Ahmed Tinubu or The Bank Account of Bola Ahmed Tinubu? It is a common knowledge that a thing is incapable of committing crime. Dennis A. Henigan wrote a book and titled it “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people”. Invariably, people use things to commit crime. So, it was Bola Tinubu that used his personal account to receive proceeds of drugs and withdraws same for his personal use (like the car he bought). He is the one that supplied the false addresses/information used in the delivering of narcotics/white heroin in Chicago.

    Assuming without conceding or concluding that my position above is wrong and it is settled that the action for forfeiture was against the bank account, it should then be noted that a bank account alone in legal parlance is not a juristic person that can sue or be sued and it is trite law that you cannot put something on nothing and expect it to stand. See Benjamin Leobard Macfoy vs United Africa Company Ltd [1961] 3 All ER 1169.

    In essence, one cannot successfully severe the tie between an account and the holder of the account. From the onset, the name of Bola Ahmed Tinubu appeared on the originating processes. It will be grossly misleading for Mr. Keyamo to say that Tinubu was never a party to the forfeiture suit. Besides, after the court had made the order nisi for Tinubu to come and show cause why the money/fund in his account should not be forfeited to the United State, Tinubu briefed his Lawyer, Mogaji who filed appearance in the case and again, Tinubu was referred to as a Claimant in the suit.

    Another key area that captivated me in the interview of Mr. Keyamo was the area he said that forfeiture is neither a fine nor a punishment. I am indeed pleased that he admitted that $460,000 USD was forfeited by Tinubu to the Government of the United States.

    My question is: if the $460,000 forfeited by Tinubu to the US Government is not a fine or punishment, is it a donation or a reward? Forfeiture generally is the loss of a right, privilege, or property because of a crime, breach of obligation, or neglect of duty. (See Black’s Law Dictionary 8th Edition).  Simply, forfeiture is an involuntary or unwilling relinquishment of money or property as a punishment for crime or deprivation of right over property due to commission of crime or breach of duty.

    It should be borne in mind that article xvii of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights entitled Bola Tinubu to own property anywhere in the world and such shall not be arbitrarily deprived from him but in the instant case, the $460,000 that he forfeited or was deprived of was a punishment for violating a particular code/law in the United States of America and till date, Tinubu has not challenged the forfeiture ruling/judgment anywhere in the world.

    For more insight, clarification and better understanding of the subject matter, I think it is necessary to reproduce the US code/Law which Tinubu violated. According to Kevin Moss in paragraph 48 of the verified Affidavit, he said:

    “…For the reasons set forth above, there is a probable cause to believe that the funds in the accounts held by First Heritage Bank, Citibank, NA and Citibank International in the name of Bola Tinubu and Compass Finance and Investment Company Ltd. represent property involved in transactions in violation of 18 USC  1956 AND 1957 or is property traceable to such property or represents the proceeds of drug trafficking making the funds in the accounts forfeitable to the United States pursuant to 18 USC 981 AND 21 USC 881.”

    The provision of 18 US Code 1956 (laundering of money instrument) says:

    “A (1) Whoever, knowing that the property involved in a financial transaction represents the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity, conduct or attempts to conduct such financial transaction which in fact involves the proceeds of specified unlawful activity…shall be sentenced to a fine of not more than $500,000…”

    The provision of 18 US Code 1957 (Engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specific unlawful activity). This law provides:

    “Whoever, in any of the circumstances set forth in subsection (d), knowingly engages or attempts to engage in a monetary transaction in criminally derived property of a value greater than $10,000 and is derived from specific unlawful activity shall be punished as provided in subsection (b). Except as provided in paragraph (2), the punishment for an offense under this section is a fine under title 18 USC or imprisonment for not more than ten years or both.”

    The above provision sheds more light or explains better why out of over $900,000 that was in the account of Bola Tinubu as at the material time, only $460,000 was forfeited. The punishment section says that the fine will not be above $500,000.

    Before I conclude this page, it is germane I draw a line between when an order nisi is made for forfeiture, the owner of the property did not appear and when he appears by himself or through a lawyer. In my mind, when the owner of the property (money) subject of forfeiture proceeding does not appear, it can be called forfeiture simpliciter but when he appears, admits or consents to the forfeiture, it becomes a fine. This is so because, at the point Tinubu put up appearance in the matter and admitted he has committed a crime and to let go $460,000, he is simply authorising his bank to pay to the United States of America the sum of $460,000 from his account.

    Furthermore, assuming my position above once again is not correct, will it be correct to say that Tinubu has committed a crime in the United States of American and can be tried in Nigeria?

    Can Tinubu still be tried in Nigeria for the crime he committed in the United States over 30years ago?

    There are basically two legal issues posed by that question but the answer to them is in the affirmative. First, there is a principle of law that says “time does not run against the State”. That is, in criminal matters with few exceptions like custom offences, dud cheques, treason and treasonable felonies, etc., the statute of limitation does not affect criminal prosecution.

    Nothing will satisfactorily diminish the fact that Tinubu committed a crime of drug trafficking, money laundry, false information et al. The fact of forfeiting the sum of $460,000 to the United States of America which still subsists is a conclusive proof of commission of the alleged crimes and can still be tried and convicted in Nigeria under section 12(1)(2) or 13 and 14 of the Criminal Code Act Laws of the FRN which came into force on the 1st day of June, 1916.

    He can also be tried under sections 11, 14, 21 and 22 of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act Laws of the FRN that came in force that same day Tinubu opened the drug account (29th day of December, 1989).

    There is a particular section of the NDLEA Act that caught my attention even though it may not be applicable. Section 22(2) provides:

    “Any Nigerian Citizen found guilty in any foreign country of an offence involving narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances and who thereby brings the name of Nigeria into disrepute shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection”.

    Other Laws Bola Tinubu violated or breached

    It should be recalled that between 1992 and 1993, Bola Tinubu was a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as such a public officer within the contemplation and spirit of the 1979 and 1989 Constitution of Nigeria which is in pari materia with the 1999 constitution. The 5th schedule to the constitution provides that a public officer:

    1. Shall not maintain or operate a foreign account
    2. Shall not belong to any society/organisation which membership is incompatible with the function or dignity of his office
    3. Shall declare all his properties, assets, and liabilities and those of his unmarried children under the age of 18 years.

    Conclusion:

    I have taken out time to pen this down not necessarily to attack the personality of Bola Ahmed Tinubu but the scripture enjoins us to know the truth and the later will set us free from the bondage of poverty, corruption, bad leadership etc. If Tinubu is a patriotic Nigerian, believes in Nigeria and meant well for the country, he should have, as a matter of urgency and necessity, disqualify himself from the presidential race.

    All the evidence against him are too glaring to be ignored and the whole world is watching and waiting. Our ruling party the APC had made a grievous mistake by jettisoning personalities like Prof. Yemi Osibanjo and co and opting for Tinubu; grievously they should answer it.

    Another smart thing APC party could have done to remedy the ugly situation if it is really his turn to be enthroned is to grant him amnesty.  With that, Nigerians and the international community will know that he has been absolved of his sins and declared clean to run for the highest office in the land.

    As this was not done, Bola Ahmed Tinubu cannot become the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and have the moral and legal justification to prosecute directly or indirectly any offender or criminal because he who comes to equity must come with clean hands.

    Let us remember that it is the president that appoints…

    1. The Chairman and members of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. See section 2(2) of NDLEA Act.
    2. Ministers of the Federation including the Attorney General and minister for Justice. See s.147(2) and 150 of the Constitution
    3. The Inspector General of Police. See s.214(1) and (2) of the Constitution
    4. The Chairman Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. See S.2 of the EFCC (Establishment) Act, 2004.

    Section 153(1) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) established various Federal Executive Bodies like;

    The Code of Conduct Bureau, Council of State, Federal Character Commission, Federal Civil Service Commission, Federal Judicial Service Commission, Independent National Electoral Commission, National Defence Council, National Economic Council, National Judicial Council, National Population Commission, National Security Council, Nigeria Police Council, Revenue Mobilization Allocation and fiscal commission.

    The head and some members of all these bodies are appointed by the President. See section 154(1) of the Constitution.

    (This piece by A.K.A. was written and posted on the 14th of Dec. 2022, but was adapted today, March 28, 2023, to suit the current developments of events.)

    North Korea puts entire city under lockdown after soldiers lost 653 bullets

    North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un has reportedly put an entire city under lockdown after 653 bullets went missing during a military withdrawal.

    The dictator’s officials have searched house-to-house in the city of Hyesan, which has a population of around 200,000 people, for the ammunition, two sources told Radio Free Asia.

    ‘The city… will remain on lockdown until all 653 bullets are found,’ a resident of the northern province of Ryanggang, where Hyesan is located, anonymously told RFA’s Korean Service.

    The assault rifle ammunition was discovered missing on March 7, when soldiers with the Korean People’s Army 7th Corps were pulling back from the area surrounding the city, which lies on the border with China.

    They had been deployed there in 2020 to enforce the border closure at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

    ‘They withdrew completely between February 25 and March 10, but an extensive investigation is underway because of a loss of bullets during the evacuation process,’ the Ryanggang resident said.

    When it happened, the soldiers did not initially report it but tried to find the missing bullets themselves, according to the source. ‘But when the missing bullets could not be found, they notified the residents and began a rigorous search,’ he said.

    The police and military launched an investigation, sealed off the whole city, and began searching house to house, the source said.

    ‘Those who have seen or picked up any number of bullets are required to report them as soon as possible.’

    Those who fail to report any bullets they found could be punished, the source said.

    ‘There have been no clues even after ten days have passed since this investigation began,’ the source said.

    Residents had been looking forward to the army’s withdrawal from the area, but during the investigation they will have even less freedom of movement, a Ryanggang province official, who requested anonymity to speak freely, told RFA.

    ‘Last week, orders were issued to factories, farms, social groups, and neighbourhood watch units in the province to actively cooperate with the ammunition-related investigation,’ the official said, adding that when the bullets were not recovered after ten days, the investigating authorities resorted to lying to spread fear among the public.

    ‘They tried to put pressure on the residents by bluffing that the withdrawal was a manoeuvre related to the safety of the Supreme Dignity from reactionary forces,’ the official said, using an honorific to refer to the country’s leader.

    ‘The Ministry of State Security, the Military Security Command of the Korean People’s Army, and the Ministry of Social Security issued a particularly stern warning against “Plunder, Illegal Possession or Disposal of Weapons, Ammunition, and Combat Technology Equipment” as stipulated in the criminal law Article 78,’ the official said.

    ‘According to that law, a person who illegally possesses or transfers firearms, ammunition, or weapons shall be punished by reform through labour for more than three years,’ he said.

    The residents are afraid that if there is no resolution then the authorities will randomly punish someone who might be completely innocent, the official said.

    ‘Some residents are saying that the authorities are raising the atmosphere of sharp military confrontation between the North and the South every day, even claiming that the South is provoking war,’ said the official.

    ‘Because this incident occurred at a time of tension, residents are closely watching how the investigation will end.’

    Chelsea Football club announce £121m loss

    Chelsea has announced a net loss of £121.3m, which it linked to sanctions imposed on former owner Roman Abramovich by the UK government last spring.


    In a statement released by new owners of the club, it was stated that the sanctions could lead to a negative financial impact for years to come because it prevented them from “entering into new contractual arrangements.”


    The London-based club sold to a consortium led by new chairman Todd Boehly in late May of 2022, were unable to sell tickets or merchandise after Abramovich was sanctioned in early March.


    Though Chelsea saw an overall turnover increase of £481.3m from £434.9m the previous year on account of increased matchday revenue following the return of supporters post-pandemic.


    In spite of the sanctions, Chelsea still saw overall turnover increase to £481.3m from £434.9m the previous year on account of increased matchday revenue following the return of supporters post-pandemic.



    Commercial revenue also grew to £177.1m with the club saying it “benefited from a net increase in sponsorship revenue from new contracts and existing partner renewals.”



    They invested £118m in the playing squad during 2021/22 and made a profit on player trading – with the sales of Tammy Abraham to AS Roma, Marc Guehi to Crystal Palace, Fikayo Tomori to AC Milan, and Kurt Zouma to West Ham adding up to £123.2m.



    A statement released by Chelsea alongside a publication of the accounts read; 



    “The club was required to operate within the limitations of a special licence issued by the UK government. These restrictions were in place until the completion of the club’s sale on 30 May 2022.

    “During this period, the club was restricted in a number of areas including, but not limited to, its ability to sell matchday and season tickets, sell merchandise, accept event bookings, as well as sign contracts with players and commercial sponsorship partners, which collectively resulted in extraordinary expenses and loss of revenue.

    “Furthermore, some of these limitations are also expected to have an impact on the financials in the following years due to the long-term impact from restrictions on entering into new contractual arrangements.”

    “INEC Lacks Credibility For Future Elections” – Prof Adibe

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will have reduced credibility to conduct future elections following its performance in the 2023 general elections.

    This is according to a Professor of Political Science and Elections Analyst, Jideofor Adibe, who accused the electoral body of being part of the nation’s problem.

    “INEC as presently constituted, I am not sure they have enough legitimacy to organise future elections, but INEC is only a part of the problem,” he stated.

    He lauded the Commission for embracing technology like the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) in improving on the electoral process.

    Speaking on Roadmap 2023, a pre-recorded programme that highlights election issues and and tracks personalities on Channels Television, Adibe noted that Nigerians would have trusted INEC more if results were uploaded from polling units immediately after the polls were concluded.

    “There is also the problem of our politicians. The BVAS I believe is a good technology that ought to have been able to help us, if the uploading of the results at the polling units immediately after elections are concluded.

    “If they were done, maybe perhaps some of the loss of confidence in the body could not have happened,” he stated.

    On logistics, he faulted the Commission’s engagement of Lagos State Parks Management Committee MC Oluomo, a loyalist to the President-Elect, Bola Tinubu, to distribute election materials.

    During the interview, he pointed out that if INEC had responded differently to situations, the citizens would have trusted them more.

    Over 19 African migrants trying to cross to Italy die as boat sinks in Tunisia

    At least 19 19 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have died after their boat sank off the Tunisia coast while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Italy.

    According to Al Jazeera, the latest migrant boat disaster off Tunisia was revealed by a human rights group said on Sunday.


    In the last four days, five migrant boats have sunk off the southern city of Sfax, leaving 67 missing and nine dead, after a significant increase in boats heading towards Italy.

    The Tunisian coast guard rescued five people from the boat off the coast of Mahdia after a journey that started from Sfax beaches, Romadan ben Omar, an official at the Forum for Social and Economic Rights (FTDES), Al Jazeera said.

    The coast guard said it had stopped about 80 boats heading for Italy in past four days and detained more than 3,000 migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan African countries.


    The coast near Sfax has become a major departure point for people fleeing poverty and conflict in Africa and the Middle East in the hope of a better life in Europe.

    The latest disaster comes in the midst of a campaign of arrests by the Tunisian authorities of undocumented sub-Saharan Africans.

    The UN data revealed that at least 12,000 migrants who reached Italy this year set sail from Tunisia, compared with 1,300 in the same period of 2022. Previously, Libya was the main departure point for migrants.

    According to FTDES statistics, Tunisia’s coast guard prevented more than 14,000 migrants setting off in boats during the first three months of this year, compared with 2,900 during the same period last year.

    The Italian coast guard said on Thursday it had rescued about 750 migrants in two operations off the southern Italian coast.

    Europe risks seeing a huge wave of migrants arriving on its shores from North Africa if financial stability in Tunisia is not safeguarded, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Friday. Meloni called on the IMF and some countries to help Tunisia quickly to avoid its collapse.

    “Not having 25% of Abuja votes can’t stop one from being President” – Femi Falana says

    Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, says those who are bandying the assertion that anyone aspiring to be Nigeria’s president must garner 25% of the votes cast in Abuja – the Federal Capital Territory – are misinterpreting the constitution.

    Falana averred that votes cast in all parts of Nigeria are equal, adding that Abuja has been interpreted to be the 37th state of the country.


    He was commenting on Section 134 of the 1999 Constitution which has become a contentious issue in the aftermath of the 2023 presidential election.

    Speaking on Channels Television Sunday Politics, Falana said he will not be making a definite comment on the issue at the moment since it has become a serious legal matter now pending in court, noting that court decisions on the status of Abuja already exist.

    “I had expressed an opinion on section 134 of the Constitution on the 23rd of January this year – that is about a month before the presidential election. On that occasion, I expressed a legal opinion and that is why I was very hesitant to join the bandwagon when lawyers started to give political interpretations of that section.


    “I did state that there is no electoral college in Nigeria and therefore the votes cast or recorded in any part of the country are equal. Section 134 of the Constitution specifically requires a winner of a presidential election to meet certain requirements. The first one is to score the majority of lawful votes and the second is territorial spread, a two-thirds majority of the states and the Federal Capital Territory.

    “And since the FCT has been interpreted to be a 37th state in Nigeria for the purpose of the constitution I didn’t see any controversy at the material time and that was when I expressed my opinion.

    “But now that it has become a serious legal issue and the matter is now pending in court, I am very reluctant to speak definitively on the section because there are decisions of the court on the status of Abuja,” Falana said.

    Section 134 sub-section 1 (b) of the 1999 Constitution states that a winner of a presidential election must not have less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two-thirds of all the states in the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

    Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who was declared winner of the February 25 presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) failed to secure 25% votes in the FCT, raising concerns about the interpretation that section of the Constitution.

    Both Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and Peter Obi of the Labour Party have filed petitions at the Presidential Election Tribunal challenging Tinubu’s declaration as the winner of the 2023 presidential election. Atiku and Obi were placed second and third respectively

    Read Former CNN Correspondent’s story – Take charge of your life

    Former CNN correspondent Isha Sesay recently gave birth to a baby girl at 46.

    Being a mother has been her greatest desire.

    At 46, single and without a partner, she opted for IVF from a sperm donor, regardless of what society thinks about her decision. 

    She said, if you’d told the 16-year-old me that at 46, I’d be divorced, single, and having a baby on my own—by choice!— I’d have shuddered and firmly said, “No!” Back then, I had very definite ideas about the future course my personal life would take, and it didn’t look like this. 

    I imagined something way more straightforward and, dare I say it, conventional.

    I’ve been blessed to build the career of my dreams over decades as a journalist—13 years on air for CNN International, traveling the world to cover global events and interviewing presidents, movie stars, and world leaders. I published a book, became a UN Goodwill Ambassador, and started a nonprofit to help empower African girls, but in my quiet moments, the one thing I wanted the most—to become a mother—remained out of reach.

    When I got cancer, no one told me how to tell my kids. Here’s how I did it:

    A brief marriage to a kind man didn’t result in children, and then the year I turned 40, my mom had a catastrophic stroke, leaving me no emotional space to contemplate anything other than caring for her. Six years went by, and a few months ago I found myself in a subpar relationship with a man who took about 12 hours to reply to all my texts, among other red flags. It was then, in the aftermath of our inevitable breakup, that it hit me: Not having a child would be the greatest regret of my life. 

    And with my biological clock ticking down, if I were waiting for the right man to come along before I did it, well, I might just find myself out of time.

    In the aftermath of our breakup, it hit me: Not having a child would be the greatest regret of my life. If I was waiting for the right man to come along before I did it, well, I might just find myself out of time.

    So, I decided to take control of my life and settle on the bravest and scariest decision I have ever made: to have a baby on my own. I had many long conversations with myself and tried to get to grips with questions about what it would mean to not have the support of a partner, both emotionally and financially. 

    How would I handle society’s questions? 

    What would being a single parent mean for my child? 

    I still don’t have all the answers, but I decided to take the leap because I refuse to let fear, social conventions, or judgment hold me back from seeking this joy.

    Culled from Today (Isha Sesay’s story)

    But who would have thought that the beautiful lady who was always smiling to the camera for the world was going through her low moments?

    This is the story of many people, agonizing in silence yet smiling for the world.

    I hope her story inspire other people to make difficult decisions of their lives too.

    Peter Obi secretly plotting with the U.S to truncate my mandate — Tinubu cries

    The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress and the president-elect, Mr Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has alleged that there is plot by one Lloyd Ukwu, a Nigerian living in the United States who is said to be the Executive Director of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), to falsely accuse him of rigging the elections on February 25, 2023.

    Tinubu’s special Adviser on Media Communications, Dele Alake, accused Ukwu of being a “secret agent” hired by Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labor Party (LP), to undermine the mandate freely given to him by the Nigerian people.

    The statement reads, “Our attention has been drawn to an attempt by Peter Obi to hire one Lloyd Ukwu, a United States-based Nigerian claiming to be the Executive Director of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), to organise a press conference specifically intended to disparage and cast aspersions on the credibility of the 2023 presidential election freely and fairly won by the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”

    Tinubu continued by saying that the people of Nigeria had spoken, and it was apparent that they wanted him to be the leader of the country beginning on May 29, 2023; he added that Ukwu and his ilk could do nothing to change this fact

    Ukraine war generates record number of refugees

    The war in Ukraine has generated a record number of refugees, according to recent reports collated from Ukraine and its neighbours, including Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, as well as many more in eight other Western and Central European countries.

    The invasion by Russia triggered the biggest wave of refugees in Europe since World War II, as more than 8 million people fled the country. While many have since returned, nearly 5 million are still estimated to be overseas.

    War refugees grapple with returning to Ukraine

    According to Politico, those who fled Russia’s war in Ukraine feel caught, living in their minds in two places at the same time.

    For three weeks, Olga Moisieieva and Lena Gorduz sheltered with their families, stuck in the cellars of their apartment buildings in the Ukrainian port town of Mariupol.

    They could only sneak out briefly during lulls in the fighting to forage for food and water, and even the thick cellar walls couldn’t muffle the cacophony of missile barrages and artillery bombardments razing their hometown.

    A year later, the memories still prompt obvious distress.

    Olga, a lively 40-year-old, tears up, her body visibly tightening as she chronicles what they endured during their entombment and several failed bids to flee.

    “The airstrikes started again nearby, and everything was shaking. And we tried to leave the city as fast as we could, but it was really hard because everything was destroyed.

    “And we saw dead bodies; there were people crumpled where they were killed, some covered, some not,” she said.

    Olga’s son was 12 at the time, and she was also caring for a nephew of the same age, whose parents had been badly wounded in an airstrike. His mother subsequently died.

    Former local television presenter Lena, a year older than her friend, appears almost mesmerized as she stares out on the Warsaw cityscape, her face draining as the memories return.

    During the siege, her son was 8 years old and her daughter was 17.

    “The first couple of months, my son was always asking, ‘when are we going to go back?’” Lena said. But they have nothing to go back to — their apartment building was obliterated shortly after they left for Poland last March.

    Both women have now started to put down roots in their new home. Lena’s daughter attends university, and her son is doing well at a Polish school. Will they ever go back to Ukraine? “It is a tough question,” admitted Olga.

    “We want to go back with all our heart and soul. But our children are making friends, and going back will be traumatic as well.

    “We never wanted to live abroad; we always wanted to live in Ukraine. But the longer we are here, the harder it will be to go back,” added Lena.

    Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian war refugees are now similarly struggling to envision the future.

    Should they plan to stay where they are for the sake of their kids, having found good education, friendships, jobs and opportunities?

    Or should they plan on returning, to pick up the threads of their unraveled past lives? For many, it remains a question that is difficult to answer.

    Russia’s invasion triggered the biggest wave of refugees in Europe since World War II — over 8 million fled. While many have since returned, nearly 5 million are still estimated to be overseas.

    And of those overseas, around 1.6 million are in Poland, 1 million in Germany and 490,000 in the Czech Republic, which is hosting the largest number of Ukrainian refugees per capita.

    Another million or so are sheltering in eight other Western and Central European countries, and there are over 200,000 in the United States, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.

    Last month, during a visit to Brussels to discuss the country’s reconstruction plans and its funding needs, Yulia Svyrydenko, a Ukrainian deputy prime minister and economy minister, said Kyiv is eager to create the conditions necessary for the return of all who fled to safety.

    “We need them to return to participate in the recovery efforts and reconstruction of Ukraine,” she noted.

    While Kyiv wants them to retrace their steps as soon as possible, the longer the war persists, the sharper the dilemma will become for refugees like Olga and Lena, which, in turn, could mean serious consequences for Ukraine — a country that has suffered repeated bouts of destructive depopulation in its history of wars and man-made famine.

    Even before Russia’s invasion, Ukraine ranked 8th in the world as a source country of migrants.

    And as with other past flights, many of those who left Ukraine over the course of the last year are among the most resourceful, and a high percentage are skilled or well-educated.

    “For Ukraine, if they don’t go back, this would be a brain drain. Ukraine is already losing people in the war, so this will be a problem for Kyiv,” Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Paweł Jabłoński told Politico.

    Jabłoński said the Ukrainian refugees have been good for Poland, plugging gaps in the labor market. And he says there are no signs of Poles tiring of them either — mainly because they’ve integrated quickly and determinedly — so there currently isn’t any push factor to encourage them to leave.

    A recent opinion survey conducted by the University of Warsaw’s faculty of Political Science and International Studies bears him out — there’s little evidence that most Poles want to withdraw the welcome mat.

    “One year after the start of the war in Ukraine, 80 percent of Poles view refugees from that country in a positive light.

    “Poles also believe that Ukraine should be supported in its war with Russia, as well as helping refugees from that country.

    “This has not changed since April 2022, when we first conducted an opinion poll on this issue,” said Robert Staniszewski, an assistant professor.

    Though that might change if they remain over time, he cautioned.

    Thanks to the first ever invocation of the Temporary Protection Directive (TPD) by Brussels, Ukrainians in Poland, as in other EU countries, have been able to avail themselves easily of the right to residency and work.

    And of the 4 million who have registered under the TPD scheme, almost all are women and children, as Ukrainian men from the ages of 18 to 60 have been banned from leaving the country in case they’re needed for the draft.

    Kyiv hopes that the women and kids will be more likely to return as an indirect consequence of this.

    And, indeed, a United Nations survey published in September found that 81 percent of Ukrainian refugees say they intend to return home to reunite their families.

    But few doubt that percentage could start slipping if the war prolongs.

    TPD only gives Ukrainian refugees residency and work rights for three years, but even in the event of the war ending earlier, migration experts say there will likely be few EU governments willing to send them back quickly and risk the bad press of tear-jerking stories about kids being ripped out of schools, or mothers losing their jobs.

    So, without significant push factors, the pace of reconstruction in Ukraine, and the speed of its transition from a wartime economy to a peacetime one, will likely be crucial in shaping the stay-or-go decision many will have to make — one of the reasons Kyiv’s eager to get on with repairing the country as soon as possible.

    But in the meantime, Ukrainian refugees like Lena and Olga feel caught, as if they’re stuck living in their minds, in two places at the same time.

    Even more than other refugees, those coming from Ukraine have been determined to avail themselves of all the opportunities, educational and economic, they can find in their adoptive countries.

    And many have adapted rapidly, starting to learn local languages and retraining so they can get working.

    North Korean faces firing squad after he was caught Googling ‘Kim Jong Un’

    A North Korean agent faces a firing squad after he was caught using his internet privileges to ‘google’ Kim Jong Un.


    This comes after several employees keeps watch on all internal and external electronic communications, were caught surfing the web without authorisation.


    But a Pyongyang source said a colleague of the agents at the Ministry of State Security informed them and a subsequent inspection revealed their illicit research.

    The agents were dismissed, and one who researched Kim Jong Un now faces a firing squad, a ministry source told Daily NK, a newspaper based in neighbouring South Korea.


    According to Daily NK, they had been developing computer programs for the country’s domestic internet firewall, which monitors and controls network traffic, as well as managing remote access, bugging and security systems.

    The incident has now led to a heavy crackdown in the ministry, with investigators also probing whether the agents involved had leaked illicit information to others.

    The actions of the agent who had researched the leader were deemed unforgivable, since he was a ‘security warrior tasked with defending the Greatest Dignity [Kim Jong Un] with his life’. ‘This act alone… could get him shot,’ the newspaper wrote.

    The article didn’t specify whether Google was the search engine used, but it is one of the two leading search engines in neighbouring South Korea, along with Naver.

    Only a handful of North Koreans are permitted internet access; most are expected to make do with a regime-run intranet service where the flow of information is tightly monitored. 
     

    US citizens lost over $10bn to internet scams in 2022 – FBI

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, has revealed that Americans lost $10.3 billion to internet scams last year.

    According to a new FBI report, the loss in 2022 was the highest in five years.

    According to ABC News, the Bureau’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) lodged more than 2,000 complaints per day.

    The most highly reported crimes were phishing expeditions, with 300,497 victims reporting over $52 million in losses in 2022, according to the Bureau.


    Phishing, defined as “the use of unsolicited email, text messages, and telephone calls purportedly from a legitimate company requesting personal, financial, and/or login credentials,” is frequently successful because phishing emails will often resemble those from people victims know personally, prompting them to click on unsecured links.


    Data breaches and non-payment scams were the next most common internet scams in 2022, claiming 58,859 and 51,679 victims, respectively, according to the report.


    Ransomware, a type of cyber intrusion which locks up a device’s data until a ransom is paid, is of particular concern for cybersecurity professionals due to the low rare of reports by victims of ransomware attacks.

    In 2022, the FBI “received 2,385 complaints known as ransomware with adjusted losses of more than $34.3 million,” according to the report.


    “The IC3 has seen an increase in an additional extortion tactic used to facilitate ransomware. The threat actors pressure victims to pay by threatening to publish the stolen data if they do not pay the ransom,” the IC3 warned.

    “The FBI does not encourage paying a ransom to criminal actors,” the report said.


    “Paying a ransom may embolden adversaries to target additional organisations, encourage other criminal actors to engage in the distribution of ransomware, and/or fund illicit activities. Paying the ransom also does not guarantee that a victim’s files will be recovered.”

    Earlier this year, the Justice Department disrupted a ransomware gang called HIVE, which was responsible for 87 incidents targeting critical infrastructure, the report says.


    Call center scams are responsible for over $1 billion in losses to victims.


    “Call centers overwhelmingly target the elderly, with devastating effects,” the report says. “Almost half the victims report to be over 60 (46%), and experience 69% of the losses (over $724 million).”

    In total, the elderly lost $3.1 billion to internet scams in 2022, the most of any age group.

    Saudi Arabia and Al Hilal preparing a super ‘deal for Lionel Messi’

    Argentine superstar, Lionel Messi is reportedly set to be offered a deal worth £194m-a-season to move to Saudi Arabia after his father was spotted in Riyadh earlier this week.


    The 35-year-old’s PSG contract is due to expire this summer, and he will become a free agent if he does not agree on a new deal.


    Messi’s father and agent Jorge, who is also a Saudi ambassador, has been in Riyadh in recent days, sparking speculation that he could be negotiating a move for his son.

    Saudi Arabia is looking to take advantage of the uncertainty surrounding Messi’s future, with one of their top clubs Al-Hilal ready to offer him a lucrative contract once their transfer ban finishes at the end of the season, according to Marca.2

    Messi’s great rival Cristiano Ronaldo joined Al-Nassr in a £175m-a-year deal in December, and Saudi Arabia is now planning to convince the Argentine to follow him by moving to the Middle East.

    They are believed to be desperate to make the deal happen, with politicians willing to get involved to increase the salary limit in the Pro League so that Messi can play in it.

    PDP Presidential Aspirant, Atiku, withdraw suit against INEC

    The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, have withdrawn an application they filed to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to allow their agents to participate in the process of sorting out ballot papers and electoral papers that were used for the presidential election that held on February 25.


    PDP and Atiku are challenging the outcome of the election declared in favour of the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu..


    Lawyers of the PDP and Atiku on Wednesday, March 15, told the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, that they were no longer interested in the application.

    When the motion ex-parte, marked: CA/PEC/10M/2023, was called up for hearing on Wednesday, Atiku, through his team of lawyers led by Mr. Joe Kyari Gadzama, SAN, told the court that he filed a notice of discontinuance, according to reports by VANGUARD.

    The move comes after a meeting Atiku’s legal team held with the leadership of the electoral body on Tuesday.

    Atiku had in the withdrawn application, which he predicated on 11 grounds, maintained that it was necessary for agents of his party to be present during the sorting out of the electoral materials he would need to prepare a petition he intends to lodge against the outcome of the presidential election.


    Atiku said there was need for his agents to observe/participate in the sorting of materials he requested in all the offices of INEC nationwide, in line with the ex-parte order the court made on March 3.


    Following the withdrawal of the application, Justice Joseph Ikyegh-led three-member panel struck it out.

    Wales: 18 female prison guards were sacked for having sexual relationships with inmates

    About 18 female guards working at a jail have been fired for having affairs with inmates.

    The sexual relationships took place at HMP Berwyn, in Wrexham, Wales, over the last six years according to reports.
     

    One of the women Jennifer Gavan, 27, (pictured top left) jailed for eight months in December after smuggling a mobile phone for her lover Alex Coxon, 25, so she could send photos of herself to him via Snapchat.


    She was also caught kissing him during the relationship that went on from April to July 2020.


    The officer pleaded guilty to misconduct in public office after she accepted £150 to bring in the phone.


    Also in 2019, Gunn was jailed for one year after having a fling with ‘dangerous’ inmate Khuram Razaq, 29.

    Gunn, a criminology and psychology graduate made numerous sexual phone calls to him while he was serving a 12-year sentence for conspiracy to rob, and smuggled in a pair of her knickers for the prisoner.


    A search of her bedroom revealed photos of the pair kissing and hugging while in his cell.

    That same year, Emily Watson was jailed for one year for performing a sex act on prisoner John McGee.

    The court, Mold Crown Court in the UK heard how she spent so much time with him staff became suspicious and launched an investigation.


    They had been alone together in his cell on three occasions, when she performed a sex act on him twice and had intercourse once.

    A Prison Service spokesman said: ‘The overwhelming majority of Prison Service staff are hardworking and dedicated and we will not hesitate to punish those who break the rules.


    ‘Over 500 members of staff at HMP Berwyn have undertaken corruption prevention training in the last 18 months and our enhanced security is protecting the prison against attempts to smuggle illicit items inside.’

    INEC explains why its ICT Director was redeployed few days to 2023 election

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has explained why its Director of Information Communication Technology (ICT), Chidi Nwafor, was transferred a few months before the 2023 general elections.


    There’s been controversies over what caused the non-upload of presidential election results in real time, with many saying that the commission missed the expertise of Nwafor.


    Reacting to this during an interview on Channels Television, INEC National Commissioner Festus Okoye stated that the commission is built in a way that no department is wrapped around an individual.


    He said; 


    “The present leadership of the commission wants to build a professional organisation that is not wrapped around one individual. The individual (Nwafor) mentioned is a very good friend of mine; he is a director in the commission and any director can be posted out or to go and become an administrative secretary.

    “Now the time we readjusted list of administrative secretaries was the time the commission was slightly panicky on whether we were going to have new resident electoral commissioners and we were preparing for elections.

    “So, the commission decided in its wisdom that we are going to post our best hands to the various states as administrative secretaries to go and prepare the states for the purposes of election and that was exactly what the commission did.

    “We have a department in charge of ICT and the Chidi I know tried to build a department that can stand on its own whether he is there on not and that is the same thing with every department.”


    Okoye also blamed INEC’s inability to transmit polling units results directly to its portal in real time as it promised before the elections to “technical glitches” which he said have been rectified ahead of the March 18 governorship and state assembly elections.


    He assured Nigerians that the commission’s Result Viewing Portal (IReV) will be functional during the March 18 elections.

    Boy stabs his sister because he was angry

    A 13-year-old boy allegedly stabbed and seriously wounded his older sister, 14, on Saturday, March 11, in their home in Jamaica, Queens, New York.

    The children’s mother Rupiah Begum, 42, said she’s at a loss to understand what came over her typically amicable son.

     “I don’t know what happened,” Begum told The Post from her Jamaica home on Sunday, March 12.

    “Everything is good usually. They play together. No problems usually.”

    The mother of five said her son, whose name is being withheld, was “frightened” and speaking to detectives at the 113th Precinct stationhouse while her daughter, who suffered multiple stab wounds, remained at Jamaica Hospital in critical condition.

    Boy, 13, stabs his teen sister because "he was angry"

    “He said something is wrong,” Begum said of her son. “He said he was angry.

    “He stabbed her multiple places, multiple times,” the mom said. “I don’t know what happened.”

    Boy, 13, stabs his teen sister because "he was angry"

    Begum said she was at work at McDonald’s about five minutes from the family home at 11th Avenue and 156th Street when she got the call that her son allegedly stabbed her daughter around 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 11.

    “I was not home. I was called away. An emergency at work,” she explained.

    She said her husband, who neighbors said drives a cab and owns a taxi service, is away on a trip to Bangladesh.

    Police said the teen got into a beef with his sister and stabbed her with a steak knife, then called 911 to report “somebody with a knife breaking into the house.”

    Boy, 13, stabs his teen sister because "he was angry"

    But cops said the wounded teen was able to finger her brother as the attacker.

    The boy later told police his sister, who suffered stab wounds to her back, legs, thighs, arms and face, was “bothering him” before the attack, cops said.

    One neighbor told The Post that the boy is autistic and is often heard having screaming fits.

    “He screams a lot and there’s, you know, there’s a lot of yelling,” the neighbor, who declined to be identified, said. “They came here three years ago. Nicest neighbors we ever had. Never any trouble at all.”

    “It’s terrible what happened,” he said. “My wife was really upset last night. The whole block was in shock. All the flashing red lights and the cops, and it was jus terrible.”

    The teen boy has been charged with assault in the bloody.

    Over 48,000 persons died from earthquakes in Turkey

    Turkish President, Recep Erdogan has confirmed that the number of people killed by the devastating earthquakes in Turkey’s SouthEast has reached 48,000, with over 115,000 people injured


    “The death toll has reached 48,000 and the number of injured has exceeded 115,000,” Erdogan said in a televised address to the nation from the Samandag district of Hatay province.


    On February 6, two earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 hit the southeastern regions of Turkey with an interval of nine hours.


    Thousands of underground shocks that followed were felt in 11 Turkish provinces, as well as in the neighbouring countries, including Syria. 

    “I’m not challenging outcome of 2023 presidential election but the process that made it happen” — Peter Obi

    …am only challenging the process

    Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), says he is only challenging the process leading to the declaration of Bola Tinubu as the president-elect.

    Last month, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Tinubu, candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), as the winner of the presidential election held on February 25.

    Obi resorted to challenging the result in court, alleging irregularities by the electoral commission.

    Consequently, the court of appeal granted leave to Obi to have access to all the sensitive materials used by INEC for the election. But, On Saturday, LP accused INEC of not allowing Obi’s lawyers access to the materials despite the court ruling.

    Speaking in a chat with Arise TV on Monday, Obi said he is not interested in challenging the “outcome” of the election.

    He said INEC, as a public institution, should always submit itself to scrutiny from Nigerians.

    “INEC is a public institution and it should be open. Because if you do something and people are not satisfied then you should be able to open up yourself,” Obi said.

    “INEC has conducted an election and announced the winner but I am only asking that I have access to the materials that were used to arrive at the result. I am not asking you to change what you said.

    “I’m not challenging their declaration. Or rather, I am not challenging who they declared. I am not challenging whatever the outcome is. I’m challenging the process by which they arrived at their declaration.

    “And unless we do that, we are not going to stop the rascality we witnessed in that election. The process through which people come into the office is far more fundamental than what they do thereafter.

    “There is a process of doing things, of arriving at every destination. A process is important.”

    Soldiers recovers 1,671 PVCs and ballot papers from Lagos Apartment

    1,671 Permanent Voters Cards have been recovered from an apartment in Olodi-Apapa area of Lagos State by personnel of the 9 Brigade of the Nigerian Army. 

    While three persons were arrested in the apartment, the prime suspect is reportedly on the run. The security operatives also recovered ballot papers, cutlasses and Indian hemp from the apartment. 

    The Brigade Commander, Brig. Gen. Isang Akpaumontia, who paraded the suspects and recovered PVCs, ballot papers and other items before journalists at the Ikeja Cantonment, said the arrest and recovery were made following a tip-off.

    Most of the recovered PVCs had the year 2022 as the registration number, while others had years 2011, 2012 and 2021 with all the owners being residents of Lagos State. 

    Akpaumontia said; 

    “Earlier today (yesterday), three young men were arrested with 1,671 PVCs.  This was after early information was received. With the support of the Department of State Services, DSS, we were able to arrest them.

    “They were arrested with some drugs, dagger, charms and over 1,000 PVCs.  They were arrested at the Apapa general area, in a house where we traced them to. The owner of the house, who is the prime suspect, was traced to a hotel. But he took off. 

    “We are going to hand these suspects and exhibits over to our immediate headquarters to do the needful because things have to be done the way they should, so as to discourage others who think they can take laws into their hands and go scot-free.”

    “Why I’m Personally Heading To Appeal Court” – Peter Obi

    The Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi has opened up on why he’s heading to the Court of Appeal.

    Speaking on Wednesday, Obi said he is heading to the Appeal Court over the refusal of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to allow the LP inspect electoral materials used during the presidential election.

    He disclosed this while lamenting over his inability to campaign for LP governorship candidates across the country.

    Obi came third behind Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the winner, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

    Following his defeat, Obi had approached the court to contest his loss and asked to be allowed to inspect materials used during the election.

    However, Obi, in a series of tweets, wrote: “I am supposed to commence our whistle-stop campaign for our various Labour Party Governorship and State Assembly Candidates today. Initially, my trip was to take me to Nasarawa, Lagos, Enugu, Abia, Delta, Edo, Rivers, Plateau, Borno, etc.

    “However, following INEC’s refusal to allow our party to inspect the materials (including BVAS) from the 25th February presidential elections, I am personally heading to the Court today with our lawyers.

    “As we pursue due process and defer to the rule of law, I urge all the Obidients in the various states to continue campaigning for our candidates, namely, Gbadebo Rhodes Vivour in Lagos, Chijioke Edeoga in Enugu, Patrick Dakum in Plateau, Alex Otti in Abia, Ken Pela in Delta,

    “Ibrahim Mshelia in Borno, to name just a few. It is also imperative that Obidients vote for candidates with Competence, Character, Capacity, and Compassion. I remain committed and will give more attention to our mission of retrieving our mandate. A new Nigeria is possible!”

    Russia bombards Ukraine, its largest attacks in months (photos/videos)

    Kyiv and other major cities in Ukraine, including Lviv, Kharkiv and Odesa, have been hit by a wave of Russian drone and missile strikes overnight, with air raid alerts activated across much of the country in the early hours of Thursday, March 9.


    The head of Ukraine’s armed forces said Russia had fired 81 missiles at Ukrainian territory on Thursday morning, including six “kinzhal” hypersonic missiles which its air force cannot intercept.

    Russia bombards Ukraine
    Russia bombards Ukraine


    The mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, said the capital experienced a number of explosions that had damaged energy infrastructure and injured several civilians.


    Klitschko said that because of emergency power outages after the missile attack, 40% of the capital’s consumers are now without heating.

    Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv city military administration, on Telegram  accused Russia of unleashing “almost all types of their air weapons” from Iranian-made drones to “almost all types of cruise missiles.”

    Russia bombards Ukraine
    Russia bombards Ukraine

    Officials in the southern port of Odesa, Lviv in western Ukraine and Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine also reported drone and missile strikes overnight. Elsewhere, in the Dnipro area, a regional official said there was “serious destruction” as a result of the shelling with “energy infrastructure and industrial enterprises” damaged. A number of fatalities were reported in Lviv and Dnipro.

    Andrii Sadovyy, Lviv city mayor, said on Telegram that “according to preliminary information, drones and missiles flew in our direction. The enemy is raging” as he likened Russia to a wounded bear in a trap.


    “They have not had success at the front for a long time. That is why they choose senseless chaotic shooting all over Ukraine,” he said.

    Responding to the attacks, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia will be held to account.


    “It’s been a difficult night. A massive rocket attack across the country. Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Dnipro, Odesa, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia regions. Attacks on critical infrastructure and residential buildings,” he said on Telegram. “Unfortunately, there are injured and dead.”


    He said efforts were underway to restore energy infrastructure that had been damaged in the 81 missile strikes that the president and Ukraine’s military said had been targeted at Ukraine.


    “The enemy fired 81 missiles in an attempt to intimidate Ukrainians again, returning to their miserable tactics. The occupiers can only terrorize civilians. That’s all they can do. But it won’t help them. They won’t avoid responsibility for everything they have done,” Zelenskyy said.

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    Opinion: The confessions of Dino Melaye – Bola Bolawole

    Politician Dino Melaye needs no introduction to Nigerians; neither is he new to controversies. His theatrics, however, set him apart from other controversial politicians of his ilk. He has traversed the country’s entire political gamut since the return to civil rule in 1999, moving from PDP to AC/ACN and taking shelter in Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Bourdillon home when the then President Olusegun Obasanjo turned the heat on him before he joined the New-PDP to pull the rug from under the feet of President Goodluck Jonathan. Therefore, the coming to power of Muhammadu Buhari was not without the support of Dino Melaye. On the plain of ideology and principles, it is difficult to plot the graph of what propels Dino to give or withdraw support. Remember, he was the gum-chewing Hon. Member of the House of Representatives jumping from table to table, turning the entire House on its head in support of the then Speaker, Ms. Olubunmi Eteh, trying in vain to prevent her eventual ouster as Speaker! Gaining “promotion” into the Senate, Dino was also the unofficial Man Friday of the then Senate President, Bukola Saraki. Remember, the duo’s running battle with Buhari during his first term in office as president and how Dino reportedly jumped down from a moving vehicle to escape DSS arrest! He said he slept on a tree for how many days thereafter! I think Dino remains the only law maker that efforts were made to recall from the Senate but who escaped, firmly ensconced in his senatorial seat after the exercise. He, however, lost the seat in the next election to Smart Adeyemi.

    Dino will be remembered as one person who best approximates the saying, whatever thy hand finds to do, do it well. In his collection of cars; in his wardrobe of shoes which put the Philippines First Lady, Imelda Marcos, to shame. His collection of wrist watches and everything collectable will make the Guinness Book of Records. Dino’s theatrics are also second to none. At one time, he reportedly toyed with the idea of joining Nollywood full time – and fittingly so. Dino breathes and lives controversies. He deliberately goes out of his way to court it; in it, he flourishes. In it he has his being and makes a living. In fact, in it, he makes a kill now and again. Dino without controversy will be like a fish out of water. Without controversies, life and living, for Dino Melaye, will be meaningless. If that is the way of life he has chosen, not only does he have a right to it, he has not disappointed. He has entertained us; he has made salient points at the same time and he has made a living of it – and a good one at that. Many of his jokes against Buhari and, lately, against Tinubu may be grotesque, outlandish and obscene; he may regularly overreach himself and overshoot the tarmac; they make some salient points all the same. Not long ago he made a video of himself begging God to help him maintain his life of ostentation and profligacy, God answered his prayers, as someone said, by nudging Atiku Abubakar to contest the just-concluded presidential election!

    Dino was one of the closest aides to Atiku during the last election. Had Atiku won, it stands to reason that Dino would have been one of those to land one of the juiciest offices on offer. So with Atiku’s loss, Dino must have been one of those seriously wounded – and understandably so. No one must grudge Atiku, Dino and the others for licking their wounds and screaming from the torment their pains unleash. The new video released by Dino disclosing that they spent a whopping N400 billion on their botched effort at cornering the presidency must have sent shock waves through the spine of many. Such a humongous amount spent on an election must certainly raise eyebrows and elicit questions, some of which I intend to ask here today. How was this sum of money raised? Who raised it, individuals and or corporate organizations? Was it raised here locally or brought in from abroad or both? Was it in Naira denomination or in foreign currencies? At a time of crippling Naira scarcity, how were they able to pull this humongous amount together? What role did the Central Bank of Nigeria and the commercial banks play? Who took delivery of this money or monies and how accountable were they?

    Again, we must ask questions about how this money was deployed: To do what; to procure what; to buy who and what; to prevent or disrupt what? One of the reasons touted for the Naira scarcity was to discourage the monetization of our elections; now, if a political party spent N400 billion on just one election, has that purpose not been defeated already? Who and who benefitted from this largesse – was it to compromise voters; if so, how much was budgeted for this? As we heard in a video in which three principal officers of a political party discussed how to compromise the election, how much of this N400b went into compromising the electoral umpires? How much was voted to compromise security agents? How much was voted for INEC ad-hoc staff; party agents, party leaders, etc? How much was voted for hackers? We understand that hackers brought down the INEC server 162 times in one day! Is this the reason why some of those who lost the election kept insisting that INEC upload results electronically, because they knew of the traps they had set to compromise the election?

    How much of the N400 billion actually got to the voters? How much did each voter get per vote? If so much money was poured into the system, why is the system not reacting positively to it? The cry everywhere is that of “no money, no money!” So, where did N400 billion enter; into some private pockets or what? We must investigate this! For me, the problems are two-fold: That such a humongous amount was reportedly spent and that we did not have the evidence that it was so spent; yet, it is being hung on our neck that it was so spent! We need to get to the roots of the matter because we could have been short-changed – everyone down the line. Is there no law on the limit of spending that can be done on an election; if so, is this N400 billion within it or did it break the ceiling? We need to know and we must take action. Illegality reigns and impunity takes roots when laws are broken with impunity and penalties are not enforced.

    Now, when N400 billion is spent on an election, is it a grant or a seed/investment by those spending the money? How much of this money came from the purse of state governments? Infrastructure is decrepit all over the place; hospitals are ghosts of their original selves, pensioners are dying in frustration; schools have fallen apart; workers’ pay cannot take them home; yet, politicians are spending N400 billion on just one election! This is more than the federal allocations of many states put together in four years! Now, when such an amount of money is thrown into an election, is it a grant or an investment? What percentage of return on investment should we expect that the “investor(s)” will want to reap? Could this be the reason why they are bent on selling off our common patrimony once they get into office?

    These same people are now busy marching up and down the whole place like school children crying that elections were rigged. They are instigating insurrection all over the place. The truth is, they are merely trying to force a soft landing for themselves! Diverting attention from their own sordid acts and criminality is what their sudden activism is all about. They want to avoid being called to account – but they surely must be called to account! The other political parties must also be called to account for their spending in the presidential election. We must thank Dino Melaye for opening this can of worms. It was like when Gov. Nyesom Wike disclosed the Paris Club refund windfall his state received from the Federal Government but which the other state governors had kept sealed lips about. Once Wike let the cat out of the bag, his colleagues no longer had a hiding place. Now that Dino has let the cat out of the bag on this matter, the DSS and EFCC should swing into action. How much did the APC/Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu spend on this presidential election? How were the figures raised and the spending done? Who got what? Peter Obi and his Labour Party, Rabiu Kwankwaso and his New Nigeria People’s Party must likewise render an account.

    Until the finances of our elections are cleansed, credible elections will remain a mirage. In the First Republic, the people largely owned the political parties and had a say in its decision-making process because crowd financing was the vogue. These days, however, moneybags own the parties and the entire political process. They determine who gets what, when (and) how, to quote Harold Lasswell. It has become what an ex-governor says it is, to wit: “Owo ose’lu l’a fi n s’oselu” You employ public funds to run for public office! Another name for it is corruption! And that is what has brought upon us the unmitigated disaster that we are in today!

    Accident: NRC gives details of BRT bus-train accident in Lagos

    The Managing Director, Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC, Mr Fidet Okhiria, on Thursday gave an account of the brief he got on the accident involving a train and a bus earlier in the day.

    The NRC train was involved in an accident with a Lagos State Government staff bus on the rail track in Sogunle area of Lagos.


    Two bodies have so far been recovered from the scene, while several others are injured, according to the National Emergency Management Agency.

    Okhiria told NAN in Lagos that, “information I gathered at the scene of the incident, they said many cars stopped when they got to the level crossing while the Lagos State Staff Bus driver continued moving, which I don’t know why.

    ”Maybe the driver thought he could pass before the train got nearer to him. He could not pass, then the train crushed the bus; that is what we gathered.


    “The train was coming from Ijoko to Iddo.”

    He urged Lagos drivers to be more careful when passing through the level crossing, to avoid train accidents.

    The managing director, who was concerned about the lives of the Lagos State staff, appealed to motorists to consider the level crossing at all times.

    Okhiria said that when motorists get to the level crossing, they should not ignore the point where they should stop.

    The Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department, Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, Mr Taofiq Adebayo, had said in a statement that a Lagos State Government staff bus was crushed by a moving train at PWD, Ikeja.

    Adebayo said that the staff bus was with registration no 04A- 48LA.

    He said that the enforcement officers of LASTMA were the first emergency responders at the scene of the accident.

    Adebayo said they had called other emergency responders to join in the rescue.

    How INEC transferred Anambra-born, Japan-trained BVAS machine developer to Enugu after he rejected offer to compromise BVAS [Video]

    The following shocking revelation shows how the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) suddenly transferred one Mr. Chidi Nwafor, the Anambra State-born, Japan-trained developer of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines in Nigeria.

    According to reports, Mr. Nwafor was demoted and transferred as the ICT Director of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in November, 2022, to Enugu as Administrative Secretary after he rejected an offer to compromise the BVAS machines.

    In a report titled “Inside the ‘technical hitches’ behind BVAS failure“, BusinessDay reported that “the glitches that marred the elections held on February 25 have raised questions over the circumstances leading to the redeployment and replacement of Chidi Nwafor”.

    BusinessDay alluded to “statements from multiple sources very close to the matter who said that Nwafor was technically demoted because “the powers that be” could not induce him to shut down the INEC server and disrupt the upload of results on the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV) ahead of the 2023 elections”.

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    Woman accidently gets over $10.4 million from a crypto company

    A woman in Australia went on a spending spree when a crypto company accidentally sent her $10,474,143.

    The incident occurred when Thevamanogari Manivel received the money in her bank account in 2021. Instead of reporting it to authorities, she went on a shopping spree.

    She spent almost the entire amount until Crypto.com discovered the error in December of that year.

    Woman accidently gets over $10.4 million from a cryto company

    Manivel could not return the funds because she had purchased a home in Melbourne for AUD$1.35 million after the funds were transferred to a joint account she shared with her sister, Thilagavathy Gangadory.

    The court heard four houses had been purchased with the ill-gotten cash – all of which had been frozen by the Supreme Court as part of ongoing civil action launched there by Crypto.com. 

    Senior Constable Healy alleged $8million had been transferred from Manivel’s account between December 24, 2021, and February 2022. 

    Of that, $1.2million was used to buy a luxury home in Craigieburn and a $56,000 deposit went on a home in Mickleham. 

    Thevamanogari Manivel

    Police allege Manivel lavished gifts on her daughters, giving $500,000 to one, $430,000 to another and $200,000 to a third daughter. 

    Another $70,000 was used to buy her daughter in Melbourne a car and $1.2million gifted to her partner Jatinder Singh’s friend to pay off his mortgage on a Mickleham property. 

    The rest was allegedly blown on furniture, art, and other luxury items. 

    Manivel was recently ordered to sell her home and repay the funds with interest after Crypto.com won its legal case against her.

    According to UNILAD, Justice James Dudley Elliot said during the ruling that evidence showed Manivel purchased her home through stolen funds.

    “It is established that the Craigieburn property was acquired with funds traceable to the wrongful payment and would never have been in Gangadory’s hands if the wrongful payment had not been made. Thus, Gangadory was unjustly enriched by receiving the purchase price of the Craigieburn property out of the wrongful payment. Accordingly, I was satisfied that the orders relating to the sale of the Craigieburn property were appropriate.”

    In a report by CNBC, Crypto.com was originally supposed to send Manivel AUD$68 but sent the millions in error. 

    The lawsuit was filed in 2022, and local authorities froze her assets.

    Crypto transactions are not reversible, but centralized platforms can attempt to reverse payments if fraud or human error occurs. 

    IReV: INEC still Uploading results => 90% Results

    The Independent National Electoral Commission has now uploaded 159,509 results from 176, 846 polling units, seven days after the presidential and national assembly elections.

    The figure represents 90 per cent of results from all the polling units.

    As of the time of filing this report, the electronic transmission of results was still ongoing.

    Nigerians expected that the election results would be uploaded on election day as promised by the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu.

    However, INEC came under fire for its failure to upload results to its viewing portal which led to the walkout of some parties’ agents at the National Collation Centre on Monday.

    Checks on Saturday revealed that the results of all the polling units were yet to be uploaded on INEC website.

    According to the Commission, the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, won with 8.8 million votes, while main opposition candidates in the Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, had 6.9 million and 6.1 million votes respectively.

    Indian bride dies during her wedding; she was replaced with her younger sister

    A bride in Bhavnagar died of a heart attack in the middle of her wedding rituals at the marriage venue in the Subhashnagar area, India.

    This unfortunate incident took place in late February, in front of the Bhagwaneshwar Mahadev Temple in Bhavnagar.

    Hetal, the daughter of a man identified as Jinabhai Rathore, was in the process of marrying Vishal, the son of Ranabhai Butabhai Algotar of Nari village.

    Guests filled the venue with wedding songs playing in the background when celebrations were forced to halt.

    While performing her wedding rituals, Hetal reportedly felt dizzy and fainted.

    She was rushed to a nearby hospital and the doctors said she had died of a heart attack.

    Even as the family mourned the death of Hetal, relatives proposed an alternative plan to ensure the wedding celebrations continued. They suggested the bride’s younger sister take her place and marry Vishal.

    The family agreed to marry her sister to the groom and continued the wedding rituals with her younger sister.

    Hetal’s body was reportedly kept in cold storage until the ceremony was over.

    Corporator of Bhavnagar city and leader of Maldhari Samaj, Laxmanbhai Rathore described the incident as very sad. He said even though the family was shocked by the death of their daughter, members of society convinced them to set an example and not send the bridegroom and his family empty handed.

    This is not the first time a family would give away another daughter after one died during the wedding ceremony. In June 2021, in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, India, a family gave the younger sister to the groom after the bride collapsed during the wedding ceremony

    Alert! Florida man declared “dead” after contracting brain-eating amoeba from tap water

    A man in south Florida, USA died from a brain-eating infection last month after using tap water during sinus rinses,

    According to Fox 4 news reports, the man, who has not been named but was identified as a resident of Charlotte County, died on February 20, three days before the county health department issued a public alert about the infection.

    DOH-Charlotte reported one case involving Naegleria fowleri, a microscopic single-celled living amoeba, on February 23. The department said infection is rare and can only happen when water contaminated with the amoeba enters through the nose, stressing that it cannot be contracted by drinking tap water.

    brain-eating amoeba from tap water


    The amoeba can cause an infection of the brain known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) – a condition that does not have any known effective treatments.


    Symptoms of brain-eating amoeba generally start one to nine days after nasal exposure and many people die within 18 days of showing symptoms, according to the CDC. These include severe headaches, fever, nausea and vomiting in the first stage and stiff neck, seizures, altered mental status, hallucinations and a coma in the second stage.

    brain-eating amoeba from tap water


    In a statement to FOX 4, the CDC said this is the first case ever in Florida where a person was infected through tap water, and the first ever case reported in winter months in the U.S. It’s also the first reported case of Naegleria fowleri infection this year.

    According to the CDC, the infection kills over 97% of the people who contract it. Out of 154 known infected individuals in the United States from 1962 to 2021, only four confirmed patients have survived the infection.


    Last summer, a 13-year-old Caleb Ziegelbauer contracted a possible brain-eating amoeba while swimming at Port Charlotte Beach Park, which is in Charlotte County, Florida.


    Though his case has not been confirmed by the US health agency as the Naegleria fowleri infection, his medical team reportedly believes that’s what it was. As of last week, he is still alive and remains on the road to recovery.

    The CDC said the amoeba typically lives in warm, freshwater bodies like lakes, rivers and hot springs. It is also likely to be found living in sediment at the bottom of lakes, ponds and rivers, so the agency advises against digging in or stirring up soil in shallow, warm fresh water.


    It is extremely rare for Naegleria fowleri to be found in swimming pools, splash pads, surf parks, or other recreational venues, but it is possible if they’re poorly maintained or don’t have enough chlorine.

    Following the death, DOH-Charlotte said it is “continuing to investigate how this infection occurred and is working with the local public utilities to identify any potential links and make any necessary corrective actions.”

    The CDC warned Charlotte County residents to be extra cognizant while bathing, showering, washing faces, swimming, jumping into water and playing with hoses/sprinklers to avoid water going up the nose. It’s also recommended to keep plastic and blow-up pools disinfected, and to avoid slip-n-slides.

    Turkish wife cries for help as a Nigerian lady allegedly snatches her husband

    I have been connected with Serpil on Instagram for well over one year. She would occasionally like my posts and I would wonder whom this white lady that bears Onwuasoanya as a surname could be. I tried to investigate within my family and found out that there is none of my relatives married to a Turkish woman. I am not as active on Instagram as I am on Facebook, but she is one of the few connections on Instagram that I regularly got notified when they update their stories. I have had a couple of white friends on social media, who tried to get close, but I deliberately avoided them because I know how much damage some Nigerian scammers have done to the Nigerian image through romance scam.

    However, few days ago, Serpil sent a kind of SOS to me. She told me she was in distress and that her life was in danger. She requested my number, and I obliged her. She told me she is married to a Nigerian from Enugu-Ukwu in Anambra State, and that the marriage has been in distress for some years now. According to her, a certain Cythie Ujunwa Ogbobe had come into her marriage and took her husband away.

    It wasn’t just about trying to take her husband away, but she complained that the lady is dangerous and had made some attempts on her life. She alleges that the Imo born lady who resides in the US is involved in some dangerous criminal activities across Turkey, USA and Nigeria and together with her husband, Chinemelum, could be capable of some dangerous things.

    I reached out to Ujunwa Ogbobe through her USA phone number, and when I tried to know her own part of the story, she told me that; “Nigerian guys are jobless animals” and she wasn’t interested in discussing anything with me. I was to find out that she blocked me after sending that message to me, because she sent a screenshot of our conversation to Serpil.

    Turkish wife cries for help as a Nigerian lady allegedly snatches her husband
    Ujunwa

    I reached out to Chinemelum, the man, at the centre of the whole scandal, and he started with the childish mind game of telling me that his lawyer would get in touch with me. I told him that would be fine. But after a few minutes, he called back to tell me that his lawyer wouldn’t be getting in touch with me anymore, but that I should steer clear of his family issues, except he invites me into it. He tried to blackmail me by telling me how he had known about me for a long time and that I was part of the reasons he is having issues with his wife, because he had severally warned his wife not to interact with me. Well, I immediately understood he was trying to insinuate that I was into an amorous relationship with his wife, and I told him off. He also threatened to find me out anywhere I am in Abuja to deal with me. Well, that was the trigger for me to finally decide to get involved in the matter.

    Serpil told me of how Ujunwa took Chinemelum to Zion Ministry ran by one Evangelist Ebuka to “wed”. I got a video of the said Ujunwa been prayed for by Ebuka, but I cannot confirm that that was a wedding ceremony or service. I will give more details about this in a small video story I shall do on this.

    With these interactions I became more determined to hear Serpil out, because I had been somehow reluctant. She emptied her out to me. Told me how she guided the young man through when he arrived Turkey, without knowing his left from her right. How she was scorned by her friends and relatives, because she was going out with a Black guy who didn’t have anything, how she invested more than twelve years of her life into building a relationship that metamorphosed into marriage, and how, given her religious and cultural background, she believes in the sanctity of marriage and wouldn’t want to trade it off. She told me how the said Chinemelum had thrown her into serious debts, while he lives in affluence.

    I got videos and recorded calls and voice notes from relatives and direct siblings of Chinemelum and confirmed that Serpil has reasonably impacted on the family as they express so much solidarity with her while disowning Ujunwa.

    I felt that Serpil might be open to some reconciliation with her husband and offered not to put this story out, and to rather work to see how I could achieve some reconciliation. She told me she wasn’t interested anymore. I sent messages to Chinemelum, suggesting that he tries to sort these things out amicably, but he ignored the messages.

    Serpil tells me she is more interested in having her husband rebuild his relationship with his family and get his own life back together. She fears that the woman wants to wreck him, because he has got a lot of money now. Also, she wants the story out there in order to correct the impression that interracial marriages, especially, between Whites and Africans are only transactional. She loved her husband deeply and only went into the relationship out of genuine and selfless love. She is pained that her love was thrown back at her, and another woman took over the love of her life merely because she is Black.

    Meantime, she has involved the Turkish law enforcement and has reached out to the EFCC in Nigeria, but is yet to get any response to her numerous mails to them. She complains that because of the financial crisis that Chinemelum put her into, she is not currently able to afford the fees for legal services required of her to get justice. For her, justice would mean getting her legitimate money back from Chinemelum.

    More on this story shall be in a video story I will be publishing on my YouTube channel next week. Stay tuned.

    Financial Times describes last Nigerian’s presidential poll as “badly flawed”

    Reputable British daily business newspaper, The Financial Times, has taken a swipe on the authorities in Nigeria after failing to conduct credible elections.

    In an editorial, the media outlet accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of badly mismanaging the elections that produced Mr Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the president-elect.

    It also berated president Muhammadu Buhari of failing to redeem his tattered reputation on a clean contest.

    Part of the editorial reads, “What Nigeria needed above all was a clean election to reiterate the basic message of democracy: that a sovereign people can choose its leaders. Sadly, it did not happen. The election — which appears to have delivered the presidency to Bola Tinubu, a wealthy political fixer running for the incumbent All Progressives Congress — was badly mismanaged at best. It failed to set the example needed for west Africa, a region where too many national leaders have extended term limits or resorted to seizing power at gunpoint. Nigeria remains a democracy, but only just.

    “The omens had been better. The emergence of Peter Obi as a viable third-party candidate had brought excitement and forced candidates to talk about policies, if only a little. Neutral observers thought the Independent National Electoral Commission was in good shape. They had high expectations that INEC’s promise to transmit voting tallies electronically from polling stations would eliminate ballot stuffing. The outgoing president, Muhammadu Buhari, had staked what remains of his tattered reputation on a clean contest.

    “Yet the INEC badly misfired. Voting started late in many districts, depriving millions of the right to vote. The system to upload results from 177,000 polling stations stuttered, causing legitimate concerns of vote tampering during long delays. Violence was troubling. Party goons invaded many polling stations in what appeared to be blatant acts of intimidation. The Financial Times witnessed armed men remove a presidential ballot box in Surulere, Lagos.

    “The official result put Tinubu on 37 per cent, Atiku Abubakar from the People’s Democratic party on 29 per cent and Obi on 25 per cent. But some individual results do not pass the smell test. That includes Obi’s ever-so narrow victory in Lagos state, where crowds had greeted him like a rock star.

    “More worrying still was voter turnout, which was pitifully low at 27 per cent. If official results are right, two-thirds of the 87mn people who lined up for hours to collect their voter registration cards failed to cast their ballot. Apathy cannot explain it. Something, including the possibility of widespread voter suppression, must have prevented them from voting. Total turnout of 25mn votes in a country of 220mn people is unacceptably low. Tinubu’s tally of 8.8mn gives him the weakest of mandates.

    “Obi and Abubakar must now decide whether to pursue their claims of rigging in the courts. If they do, Nigeria’s judiciary should take a long hard look. The courts in Kenya in 2017 and Malawi in 2020 overturned suspect elections. If Nigeria’s courts find suspicions, they should not shrink from annulling individual contests or even the whole result.

    “It is plausible courts could conclude that — despite some obvious irregularities — the overall result reflected the will of the people. In that case, or if there is no court challenge, Tinubu will be faced with one of the most difficult jobs in the world. Nigeria has been teetering on the edge of catastrophe, with a breakdown of security and an almost total absence of growth. Neither is sustainable. By 2050, Nigeria will have 400mn people. They cannot be left without hope.

    “The next president must quickly remove the ruinously expensive fuel subsidy and rationalise the exchange rate system. The army and police, both riddled with ineptitude and corruption, need urgent reform. These basic steps are the minimum to begin to repair a deeply damaged country.

    “Tinubu campaigned partly on his ability to pick a strong team. If he is confirmed as president, he must name a cabinet of independent, competent and honest ministers. Even Nigerians who did not vote for him will hope against hope for that.”

    Sports: Victor Osimhen could have gone blind – Surgeon

    Italian surgeon who operated on Victor Osimhen’s multiple facial fractures has revealed that the Nigerian and Napoli forward ‘could’ve lost his sight’ in the horror accident.


    In November 2021, the Nigeria international was involved in a clash of heads with Inter defender Milan Skriniar at San Siro that left him with shocking injuries.

    Osimhen had surgery that involved placing six plaques and 18 screws into his face to repair the damage, which included multiple fractures to the cheekbone and orbital bone.


    It ruled him out for over two months and he returned with the use of a protective mask that he continues to use to this day, even though technically it is no longer required.


    “The orbital bone stopped just in time, because Osimhen could even have lost his sight,” Professor Gianpaolo Tartaro told Radio CRC.

    “That bone could indeed have caused other problems, but fortunately, some factors helped us and the eye was able to go back into its socket.”

    There are suggestions that Osimhen could need more surgery to remove the six plaques and 18 screws in future, but the professor who performed the operation assures that won’t be necessary.

    Victor Osimhen could have gone blind - �Surgeon who operated on his multiple facial fractures reveals

    “The plaques do not need to be removed unless there is an urgent need, for example, they develop an infection. The titanium could alter an x-ray, but I don’t think Osimhen wants them removed.

    “When we performed the surgery, we used the best quality plaques in the world and had to study very carefully where to place them, so there was protection should the player have to head the ball.”

    “He seems to play even better than he did before, it gives him security. He has become world-class.”
     

    Read: Peter Obi’s world press conference after Saturday’s controversial polls

    Dear Nigerians,

    1. On 25th February 2023, Nigerians trooped out en-masse to participate in what was promised and expected to be a free, fair and transparent Presidential and National Assembly elections. But in all things, we are enjoined to give thanks.
    2. First to Almighty God for the privilege of making Datti Baba-Ahmed and I, the tools to champion the cause of a New Nigeria that will fundamentally enhance the fortunes of our dear country. Let me also appreciate and thank all Nigerians that participated in our last election especially those who believed and tirelessly worked for a New Nigeria and voted for us. My profound thanks go to the youths, ‘Obidients’ and support groups for your commitment and resilience for a better Nigeria. You truly showed that you can take back your country!
    3. We continue to pray for the repose of the souls of all Nigerians killed during the campaigns and for those that were violently attacked, we pray for their quick recovery. We reiterate our total condemnation of such attacks and continue to demand that security agencies stop further attacks and bring perpetrators to book.
    4. The commitment and resilience of Nigerians, even in the face of unwarranted and barbaric attacks is a testimony that a New Nigeria is Indeed POssible. The Lady, Jennifer Efidi who was stabbed but insisted on exercising her right to vote and indeed all Nigerians who voted during the election are the shinning stars leading us to a New Nigeria!
    5. The election has been conducted and results announced as programmed. It is a clear deviation from the electoral rules and guidelines as we were promised and did not meet the minimum criteria of a free, transparent, credible and fair election devoid of voter intimidation and suppression, and late commencement of voting in some specific states.
    6. This will probably go down as one of the most controversial elections ever conducted in Nigeria. The good and hardworking people of Nigeria have again been robbed by the institutions and leaders whom we trusted.
    7. However, let me humbly and most respectfully appeal to all Nigerians to remain peaceful, law-abiding and conduct themselves in a most responsible manner. Please be assured that for Datti and I, and indeed for all of us, this is not the end, but the beginning of the journey to birth a New Nigeria.
    8. Datti Baba-Ahmed and I remain absolutely undaunted and deeply committed to this project of a New Nigeria that will be built on honesty, transparency, fairness, justice and equity. All of these starts with the process -The process through which people are elected to office is as important (if not more important) than what they do thereafter with the office and authority.
    9. If we seek to be called Your Excellency, then the process through which we are elected should also be excellent or sufficiently credible to generate the required confidence and moral authority to govern and lead. As you all know, the destruction of a society can be a gradual or sudden process through acts such as deliberate refusal to obey the rule of law and via the suppression of the will of the people.
    10. Let me reiterate and assure my good people of Nigeria that we will follow all available legal and peaceful procedures to reclaim our mandate.
    11. I urge you all to continue with your campaigns and troop out on Saturday 11th March 2023 to vote massively again for Labour Party-LP (Mama, Papa and Pikin) in the Governorship and State Assembly Elections. Please do not despair at a time when we can still achieve massive victories in the forthcoming elections on the 11th March 2023.

    Thank you all and God bless The Federal Republic of Nigeria.

    Mr Peter Obi
    Labour Party Presidential Candidate

    Yiaga Africa faults results of presidential elections in Imo and Rivers

    Yiaga Africa, one of the Civil Society Organizations that worked with the Independent National Electoral Commission in the 2023 election has faulted the presidential results which emanated from Imo and Rivers state. 

    In a statement released on Wednesday, March 1, the organisation which deployed observers to states across the country,  said the results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were manipulated.

    The statement read; 

    “The state-level presidential results for Imo and Rivers are inconsistent with the Yiaga Africa WTV projections for both states.

    “For Rivers, INEC announced 231,591 votes for APC or 44.2 percent; 175,071 for LP or 33.4 percent; and 88,468 for PDP or 16.9 percent.

    “This is in sharp contrast to the Yiaga Africa WTV estimates for Rivers which are: APC 21.7 percent ±5.0 percent; for LP 50.8 percent ±10.6 percent; and PDP 22.2 percent ±6.5 percent.

    “For Imo, INEC announced 66,406 for APC or 14.2 percent; 360,495 for LP or 77.1 percent; and 30,234; for PDP or 6.5 percent.

    “Again, this is at variance with the Yiaga Africa WTV estimates for Imo which are: APC 5.1 ±2.3 percent; LP 88.1 percent ±3.8 percent; and PDP 5.7 percent ±2.3 percent.

    “Based on reports from 97 percent (1,453 of 1507) of sampled polling units, Yiaga Africa’s statistical analysis shows that the All Progressives Congress (APC) should receive between 34.4 percent and 37.4 percent of the vote, Labour Party (LP) should receive between 24.2 percent and 28.4 percent of the votes, the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) should receive between 4.6 percent and 6.4 percent of the vote, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) should receive between 28.3 percent and 31.1 percent of the vote, while no other political party should receive more than 0.3% of the vote.”

    Yiaga Africa which asked INEC to clarify the inconsistencies in some of the results, especially from Rivers and Imo states, also called for extension of voting hours to 5 pm in subsequent elections as well as sustain the uploads of polling unit results form EC 8A on its IReV portal.

    Do you know that INEC Uploaded 82% Of Election Results Four Days After Presidential Poll?

    Four days after the country’s presidential election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has uploaded 145, 519 results from 176, 846 polling units.

    The number of polling units uploaded by the electoral body represents 82% of all polling unit results.

    The electronic transmission of results was still in progress at the time of filing this report.

    INEV was chastised by political parties, Nigerians, and groups for failing to electronically transmit results to the results viewing portal.

    Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC Chairman, had promised that accreditation figures and results would be transmitted on election day.

    However, the results of all polling units had yet to be uploaded to the INEC website on Wednesday.

    Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was declared the winner of the election by INEC on Wednesday.

    INEC also presented Tinubu with the certificate of return in Abuja.

    According to the INEC Chairman, Yakubu, the former governor of Lagos State, won the election with a total of 8,794,726 votes.

    With 6,984,520 votes, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) came in second, followed by Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) with 6,101,533 votes.

    INEC declares APC’s Bola Tinubu winner of 2023 presidential election

    The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, as the winner of the Saturday, February 25, presidential election.

    The Chairman of the Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, who announced the final result at exactly 4.10 a.m. Wednesday, March 1, said after days of collation of results from across the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Tinubu polled a total of 8,794, 726 votes.

    His closest rival, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, scored 6, 984, 520 votes while Labour Party’s Peter Obi secured 6, 101, 533 votes to come third. Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), has 1,496,687 votes.

    Mahmood said the Certificate of Returns for Tinubu and his running mate will be issued by 3pm today, March 1.

    Labour Party won Anambra, Imo and Ebonyi States

    The Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has been declared winner of the presidential election conducted in Anambra state on Saturday, February 25.

    According to the results released by INEC, Obi secured 584, 621 votes to beat PDP’s Atiku Abubakar who secured 9, 036 votes. Bola Tinubu of the APC secured 5, 111 votes while the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso, secured 1967 votes.

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    Peter Obi who is the presidential candidate of the Labour party has been declared the winner of the presidential election conducted in Ebonyi state on Saturday, February 25. According to the results released by INEC, Obi secured 259,738 to beat APC’s Bola Tinubu who secured 42, 402 votes. PDP’s Atiku Abubakar came third with 13, 503 votes.

     The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso, came a distant fourth with 1,661 votes.

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    The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has been declared the winner of last Saturday, February 25, presidential election in Imo state.

    The final results by INEC shows Obi polled a total of 352, 904 votes to beat his main rival Bola Tinubu of the APC who secured 66, 171 votes. Coming third in the polls is PDP’s Atiku Abubakar who polled 30, 044 while NNPP’s Rabiu Kwankwaso polled 1,536 votes.

    Peter Obi wins Abuja FCT and Delta state

    Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has won the presidential election in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.

    Obi secured 281,717 votes, Bola Tinubu of the ruling APC got 90,902 votes while Atiku Abubakar of the PDP got 74,199 votes.

    A total of 478,923 people were accredited to vote in Abuja, meaning Mr Obi secured about 59 per cent of the votes cast. Tinubu got 19 per cent of the votes while Atiku got 15 per cent of the votes in the Nigerian capital.

    The Federal Capital Territory has six area councils—Gwagwalada, Abaji, Kwali, Gwagwalada, Bwari and Abuja Municipal.

    Out of the six area councils, Labour Party won four, while the APC won two. 

    See the final results for Abuja as announced by INEC below.


    Registered Voters 1526902


    Accredited Voters: 478923


    A 490
    AA 506
    AAC 215
    ADC 768
    ADP 585
    APC 90,902
    APGA 1,362
    APM 297
    APP 146
    BP 746
    LP 281,717
    NNPP 4,517
    NRM 294
    PDP 74,194
    PRP 131
    SDP 233
    YPP 335
    ZLP 2,631
    Total Valid Vote: 460071
    Total Rejected Vote: 18581
    Total Vote Cast: 478,652

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    The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has been declared the winner of last Saturday, February 25, presidential election in Delta state.

    The final results by INEC shows Obi polled a total of 352, 904 votes to beat his main rival Bola Tinubu of the APC who secured 66, 171 votes. Coming third in the polls is PDP’s Atiku Abubakar who polled 30, 044 while NNPP’s Rabiu Kwankwaso polled 1,536 votes.

    PDP and APC fail to meet constitutional 25% benchmark in FCT, They have lost already

    The result declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has put the fate of both the ruling All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party hanging as both parties fail to beat the 25% mark stipulated by both the law and the electoral act.

    According to the result, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi clinched the nation’s capital city.

    With the results declared in the six area councils of the FCT, Gwagwalada, Abaji, Kwali, Bwari, Kuje and AMAC, with 478,923 accredited votes, Peter Obi secured 281,717 votes, Bola Tinubu of the ruling APC polled 90,902 votes while Atiku Abubakar of the PDP got 74,199 votes.

    Obi who had been in an early lead since Sunday, when he took Bwari, Kuje, Gwagwalada, while the results of AMAC were awaited when the results came from AMAC he got his biggest chunk of votes, pulling 170,392 votes in the area council ahead of the candidates of APC and PDP who scored 29,596 and 26,407 respectively.

    Section 134 of the 1999 Constitution provides as follows:

    1) A candidate for an election to the office of President shall be deemed to have been duly elected, where, there being only two candidates for the election:

    (a) he has the majority of votes cast at the election; and

    (b) he has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two-thirds of all the States in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

    (2) A candidate for an election to the office of President shall be deemed to have been duly elected where, there being more than two candidates for the election:

    (a) he has the highest number of votes cast at the election; and

    (b) he has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two-thirds of all the States in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

    According to the results, Peter Obi got 58.823 percent of the votes while PDP got 18.981 percent and APC 15.493 percent.

    With the result above and in line with the provisions of the constitution, non of PDP nor APC can be declared winner of the ongoing presidential election.

    US Govt. rejects China’s peace proposal for Ukraine

    The White House has rejected China’s peace proposal for an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine .


    On Friday, February 24 was the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and on that day China called for a ceasefire after presenting a peace plan.


    China’s 12-point proposal does not call for Russia troops to leave Ukraine and appears to criticize Western sanctions against Russia.


    “Putin’s applauding it, so how could it be any good?” President Biden said of the plan in an interview that aired Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”

    “I’ve seen nothing in the plan to indicate there is something that would be beneficial to anyone other than Russia,” he added.


    Tensions between Washington and Beijing have increased since the U.S. shot down a suspected Chinese spying balloon earlier this month.


    National security adviser Jake Sullivan accused China of “one-sided diplomacy.”


    ”China put forward this plan without having had a single conversation since the war began between President Xi and President Zelenskyy,” he said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”


    This comes after the State Department and Pentagon warned China against sending military aid to Russia.

    Peter Obi wins in Enugu, Abia and Edo States in landslide

    The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has won Enugu State in the presidential election which took place on Saturday, February 25. 

    According to the result declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission collation officer in the state, Prof. Maduebibisi Ofo Iwe, Obi polled a total of 428,640 to defeat Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party who had 15, 749 votes while Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress. (APC) gathered 4, 772. The New Nigerian Peoples Party’s candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso, came fourth with 1808.

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    The presidential candidate for the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has been declared the winner of the presidential election in Abia state. 

    The state returning officer for the presidential election, Prof. Abel Ezeorah of Alex Ekwueme Federal University Alike-Ikwo (FUNAI), declared the results at INEC state office in Umuahia. He said that Obi scored 327,095 votes of the 381,683 total votes cast to win the election.

    PDP’s Atiku Abubakar got 22,676 while APC’s Bola Tinubu polled a total of 8,914 votes to come third.

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    Labour party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has won last Saturday, February 25, presidential election in the state. 

    According to results announced by INEC Coallation Officer in the state, Prof. Nyaudoh Ndaeyo, Obi secured a total of 331,163 votes to defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 144,471 and 89,585 votes respectively.

    Election Malpractice: Corper caught inside classroom thumbprinting over 6000 ballot papers for APC [Video]

    A National Youth Service Corper working as ad hoc staff with INEC was caught thumbprinting over 6000 ballot papers for the ruling APC.

    According to reports, the Corper locked himself inside a classroom and thumbprinted over 6000 ballot papers in Lugbe primary school, PU 009, in Abuja, while people were outside waiting.

    Watch video below:

    INEC Results: Atiku Abubakar wins Gombe state

    The PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has won the presidential election conducted in Gombe state. 

    According to the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, Atiku secured a total of 319, 123 to defeat his closest rival and All Progressives Congress candidate, Bola Tinubu who polled 146, 977 votes.

    Labour Party’s Peter Obi secured 26, 160 votes while NNPP’s Rabiu Kwankwaso polled 10, 520 votes.

    Victor Osimhen to recieve €260,000 (N120m) if he scores 30 goals this season

    Napoli and Super Eagles of Nigeria striker, Victor Osimhen will earn an additional €260,000 (N120m) if he scores 30 goals for the Parthenopeans in the 2022/23 season.

    According to Italian media La Gazzetta dello Sport, the 24-year-old activated his goals bonus in his contract after scoring his 20th goal of the season, which saw him earn €130,000 (N64m).

    Osimhen scored in Napoli’s 2-0 win over Eintracht Frankfurt in the Champions League round of 16 to take his tally for the 2022/23 season to 20 and unlock the €130,000 bonus (N63.6m).


    The Edo born striker has been instrumental in helping Napoli maintain their spot at the summit of Serie A and has scored 21 goals and four assists in 25 games for the Naples-based side this term.

    The Napoli star has a clause in his contract that will see him receive an extra €130,000 if he scores 25 goals and an additional €130,000 if he scores 30 goals this season.


    “He (Osimhen) has already hit his first contractual bonus, which included a €130,000 bonus upon reaching 20 goals. But at this rate, Victor risks making blows because the same figure starts at the 25th and also at the 30th goals,” La Gazzetta hello Sport stated in it’s report.


    “Objectives that become decidedly within the reach of a great striker who has achieved these 21 goals in just 25 games. There are at least 15 challenges ahead and probably they can become 17, dreaming of being able to reach 20, which would mean going to play the Champions League final in Istanbul.”

    Osimhen has scored in each of his last eight Serie A appearances, and has 19 goals in 20 league matches.

    He could help deliver the first Scudetto for the Partenopei in over three decades.

    “Chinese Lab behind the COVID outbreak” – US says

    The virus that causes COVID-19 most likely leaked from a Chinese laboratory, according to a classified US report based on new intelligence and recently sent to the White House and key members of Congress.

    The stunning revelation by the US Energy Department comes more than a year after the FBI concluded a lab accident in China was the origin of the disease, which has killed more than 6.8 million people around the world, including 1.1 million in the US.


    The FBI’s decision was made with “moderate confidence” and remains the bureau’s opinion, said The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the Energy Department’s own finding on Sunday, February 26.


    But the judgment is considered important because the Energy Department which oversees the American nuclear weapons program  runs a network of national labs and has a great deal of scientific expertise, the Journal said.

    "Chinese laboratory leak likely behind COVID outbreak" - US reveals three years after first covid-19 outbreak

    Both agencies (Energy department and  FBI) arrived at their conclusions for different reasons, with the sources declining to detail the new intelligence cited by the Energy Department.

    In response to the Journal’s report, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said, “There is a variety of views in the intelligence community” and that the origin of COVID-19 remained under investigation.


    “Here’s what I can tell you: President Biden has directed, repeatedly, every element of our intelligence community to put effort and resources behind getting to the bottom of this question,” Sullivan told CNN’s “State of the Union.”


    “And if we gain any further insight or information, we will share it with Congress, and we will share it with the American people. But right now, there is not a definitive answer that has emerged from the intelligence community on this question.”

    The report is reportedly less than five pages long, and it’s unclear whether an unclassified version will be made public.

    Last year, US Senate Republicans released an interim report that found the virus most likely leaked out of a Chinese lab and that ” the hypothesis of a natural zoonotic origin no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt or the presumption of accuracy.”

    2023 Presidential Elections: Peter Obi defeats Tinubu in Lagos

    Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP Peter Obi has defeated the presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in Lagos, his home state.

    According to the results declared, Obi polled 582,664 while Tinubu scored 541,850.


    Although, the APC candidate won more local government areas, Obi defeated Tinubu with the majority of the votes cast in the state.

    All the results of the 20 local governments have been declared. Tinubu won in 11 while Obi won in nine local governments.

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    See the results below.

    Lagos State
    Presidential Election
    1) Agege LGA Lagos
    APC 29,568
    LP 13,270
    NNPP 1513
    PDP 4498


    2) Badagry LGA Lagos
    APC 31,903
    LP 10,956
    NNPP 153
    PDP 6,024

    Meanwhile the LP agent collation agent alleged that the LG agent was asked to sign the result at gunpoint


    3) Ikeja LGA
    APC 21,276
    LP 30,004
    NNPP 337
    PDP 2280


    4) Ibeju Lekki Lagos
    APC 14, 685
    LP 10,410
    NNPP 104
    PDP 2,329


    5) IKORODU LGA
    Registered voters – 364,072
    Accredited voters – 89, 414
    APC – 50, 353
    LP – 28, 951
    NNPP – 400
    PDP – 4508
    Valid votes – 84,096
    Rejected votes – 3, 892

    Labour Party Chairman, Lagos Dayo Ekon claimed it was 29,22 LP against the 28,951 recorded votes.


    6) Epe LGA
    APC: 19,867
    PDP: 5,221
    LP:3,497
    NNPP: 76
    7) Lagos Mainland
    APC: 20,030
    LP: 18,698
    PDP: 3002


    8) Amuwo Odofin
    Registered Voters – 325,230
    Accredited Voters – 75,489
    Total Valid Votes – 73,007
    APC – 13,318
    LP – 55,547
    PDP – 2,383


    9) Kosofe
    Registered Voters – 474,772
    Accredited Voters – 94,838
    Total Valid Votes –
    APC – 36,883
    LP – 46,554
    PDP – 4,058


    10) Oshodi Isolo LGA
    APC: 27, 181
    LP: 51,020
    NNPP: 413
    PDP: 3,139


    11) Ajeromi Ifelodun LGA
    APC: 25, 938
    LP: 35,863
    NNPP: 436
    PDP: 4,680


    12) Ijaiye
    APC: 30,756
    LP: 25,437
    NNPP: 232
    PDP: 2,997


    13) Surulere LGA
    APC:39,002
    LP:36,923
    NNPP: 442
    PDP: 2651

    14) ALIMOSHO LG

    APC – 62, 909


    LP – 71,327

    NNPP 701

    PDP – 8,201

    15) OJO LGA

    APC – 20603


    LP – 38859

    PDP – 3701

    SOURCE : INEC

    US Casey King loses 600 pounds in life-changing transformation

    A reality star who once weighed a whopping 845 pounds has dropped almost two-thirds of his body weight after spending the past four years on an intense exercise and diet plan.

    Casey King, 38, underwent bariatric surgery back in 2019, with the procedure helping him to eventually shed 600 pounds.

    The Georgia native appeared on the TLC reality series “Family By the Ton” that same year, where he was filmed naked because all clothes were too tight and restrictive.

    “I will just eat till I’m dead,” King stated on the show, “A normal day for me is to wake up around 12, figure out something I am going to eat immediately, [and then] TV, video games, bed. It’s not a lot of activity.”

    Obese reality star Casey King loses 600 pounds in life-changing transformation

    In the series, King claimed he was always a “big kid,” weighing 300 pounds by the time he finished high school. 

    After graduation, he began working in restaurants and started eating even more. Several years later, he quit work and moved in with his dad, where his weight ballooned to an astonishing 845 pounds.

    The whopping weight gain made it hard for him to undertake everyday activities — including bathing. King was forced to get clean in an outdoor trough on his father’s back deck because he was unable to fit into a regular-size shower or bath.

    Obese reality star Casey King loses 600 pounds in life-changing transformation

    “Because I am a bigger guy with, like, folds and flaps, I have to move around, almost like a pig in a way, and wallow and roll over to get the back of my leg. I have to lift up literal pieces of skin. It’s just a super difficult process,” King claimed.

    He also admitted that he had to have his father help him wipe his bottom because he was unable to reach around to that area.

    “I need his help a little bit to clean myself, you know, wiping just my a— because I can’t reach everything on my back, and I can’t reach everything below me,” he candidly confessed on the reality show.

    During the series, he first met with surgeon Dr. Charles Procter Jr., but learned he needed to lose weight on his own before undergoing bariatric surgery.

    Obese reality star Casey King loses 600 pounds in life-changing transformation

    King’s mom helped him start the weight loss process, putting him on a healthier diet and making him move his enormous body.

    King eventually went under a vertical sleeve gastrectomy to reduce the side of his stomach, which made him eat less.

    Obese reality star Casey King loses 600 pounds in life-changing transformation

    The surgery saw him drop from 700 pounds to 631 pounds, and he had continued to stick to his weight-loss regime over the past four years.

    In November 2021, on his 37th birthday, King posted that he was down to 255 pounds. 

    Obese reality star Casey King loses 600 pounds in life-changing transformation

    “I’m the healthiest I’ve been since #highschool I’m the happiest I’ve been since #forever and I don’t know if I’ve ever felt more or #loved myself more,” he wrote in the caption. “5 pounds away from a weight I never really considered imaginable, I never saw even possible.”

    Now, King is down to 250 pounds and wants to lose 25 more. He also wants to undergo surgery to remove the excess skin hanging from his stomach, chest and arms, with a friend starting a GoFundMe to raise money for the procedure.

    The fundraiser had a goal of $15,000 and has currently raised almost $19,000.

    United Nations tells Russian forces to leave Ukraine immediately

    The U.N. General Assembly approved a nonbinding resolution Thursday February 23, that calls for Russia to end hostilities in Ukraine and withdraw its forces, sending a strong message on the eve of the first anniversary of the invasion that Moscow’s aggression against it’s neighbour must stop.

    The resolution, drafted by Ukraine in consultation with its allies, passed 141-7, with 32 abstentions.


    Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the vote was more evidence that not only the West (Europe and the US) backs his country in it’s fight against Russia.


    “This vote defies the argument that the global south does not stand on Ukraine’s side,” Kuleba said. “Many countries representing Latin America, Africa, Asia voted in favor.”


    US national security adviser Jake Sullivan called the vote “an overwhelming demonstration of support for Ukraine and a clear defense of freedom for people everywhere.”

    The General Assembly has become the most important U.N. body dealing with Ukraine because the Security Council, which is charged with maintaining international peace and security cannot carry out any actions due to Russia being a permanent members and carrying veto power.

    General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding, unlike Security Council resolutions.

    The seven countries voting against Thursday’s resolution were Belarus, Nicaragua, Russia, Syria, North Korea, Eritrea and Mali, which has developed close military ties with Russia.

    Belarus tried to add some amendments that would have stripped much of the language but were resoundingly defeated by countries who voted against it.

    The 193 member general assembly has held five vote since Russia sent troops and tanks across the border into its smaller neighbor on February 24, 2022.


    Foreign ministers and diplomats from more than 75 countries addressed the assembly during two days of debate, with many urging support for the resolution that upholds Ukraine’s territorial integrity, a basic principle of the U.N. Charter that all countries must subscribe to when they join the world organization.


    European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told reporters that the aggressor and the victim can’t be put on equal terms. But China’s deputy U.N. ambassador, Dai Bing, told the assembly Thursday: “We support Russia and Ukraine in moving towards each other. … The international community should make joint efforts to facilitate peace talks.”

    China says it is neutral in the conflict and an advocate of peace talks, but has not criticized the invasion or described it as such. Beijing has condemned the U.S. and its allies over sanctions on Moscow and military assistance to Ukraine. China and Russia have increasingly aligned their foreign policies to oppose the U.S.-led international order.

    The war has killed tens of thousands on both sides and has reduced entire Ukrainian cities to ruins and its impact has been felt worldwide in higher food and fuel costs and rising inflation.

    Hon Chinyere Igwe, A Rivers state Politician arrested for Money laundering (photo)

    Police Officers from Rivers State Command deployed to INEC Headquarters Aba Road, today February 24, at about 0245hrs, while on stop and search, arrested one Hon Chinyere Igwe, a member House of Representatives representing Port Harcourt II Federal Constituency with a cash sum of 498,100 USD inside a bag in his car.

    A statement released by the spokesperson of the state police command, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, says also recovered from the politician was a list for distribution of the money.

    She added that the AIG Election, AIG Abutu Yaro fdc has ordered swift interrogation and arraignment in court.

    “The Command urges all contestants and political parties to comply strictly with provisions of the Electoral Act and other relevant laws.

    Members of the public are encouraged to avail themselves of the following hotlines to report any observation they believe have potential to lead to crime or break down of law and order: 08032003514, 08098880134.” the statement read

    Thousands of uncollected PVCs dumped in Anambra forest

    Two hunters, whose names have not been ascertained, have discovered a bag full of Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, in a forest in Nnewi, Anambra State four days before Saturday’s general election

    It was gathered that the hunters on Tuesday later took the bag from Akamili community, in Nnewi to the premises of a popular radio station, Authority FM.


    According to Daily Post, the Station manager of Authority FM, Charles Ede, said he was off duty when the cards were brought, but his staff members reported the incident to him.

    Ede said, “I was off duty when the incident happened, but one of my staff members received the hunters when they came. I will send you his number.”

    A video of the PVCs, which was made in the compound of the radio station in Nnewi, which has been trending online showed that most of the PVCs belonged to people of the area.

    The radio station’s staff, who ran a short commentary on the video, urged those who were yet to get their PVCs to come to the premises of the FM to check if they can find theirs.

    Man nabbed With N100,000 Fake New Naira Notes In Ekiti

    One Celestine Nwoha has been arrested with no fewer than a hundred thousand fake Naira notes (N100,000) at a community in Ekiti State.

    Naija News learnt that men of the Western Nigeria Security Network code-named Amotekun arrested the 50-year-old man.

    It was gathered that the man had come into the community spending the notes before he was reported to the local security operatives who arrested him in Omuo-Ekiti, in the Ekiti East Local Government Area of the state.


    Confirming his arrest while addressing journalists in Ado Ekiti, the commander of the corps, Retired Brigadier Joe Komolafe, said, ”The suspect went to a local area in Omuo and started spending the money before we got a hint and went after him.

    “He said he specializes in buying kola and bitter kola, saying he was also paid with cash in Lagos.

    “On interrogation, he confessed to the crime and said he was given N250,000 from a factory in Lagos, but only N100,000 was found with him as he had spent some.”

    Komolafe said the command would hand him over to the police for further investigation. The Amotekun commander urged members of the public to be careful, especially during the current cash crunch, so as not to fall victim.

    Singaporean woman working with ‘Nigerian love scammer’ sentenced to 15 months imprisonment

    A Singaporean woman who was recruited by a Malaysia-based Nigerian love scammer, Awolola Oladayo Opeyemi, has been sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for her role in the scam. 

    32-year-old Suhaili Suparjo fell in love with Opeyemi and had a daughter with him. Persuaded by him and “blinded by love”, she acted as his money mule and laundered more than S$356,000 in criminal proceeds for him. 

    She was sentenced on Tuesday, February 21, 2023, in Singapore, after pleading guilty to two counts of helping to retain benefits from criminal conduct, under the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act.

    Another four charges were taken into consideration.

    The court heard that Suhaili was recruited by Opeyemi, who was a member of a Nigerian criminal group carrying out scams worldwide while based in Malaysia.

    In December 2021, Opeyemi, then 37, was sentenced in a Singapore district court to five years’ jail after he pleaded guilty to three counts of working with others to receive the benefits of criminal conduct linked to more than $550,000 in loses.

    Opeyemi was sentenced alongside another Nigerian, Awolola Gbolahan Ayobami. He also recruited Norhafiza Samsudin, who also bore him a child. 

    Ayobami, who admitted to two counts of working with others to receive the benefits of criminal conduct linked to $150,000 in losses, was ordered to spend four years and two months behind bars. 

    Opeyemi targeted Suhaili as part of a love scam, cultivating a romantic relationship with her.

    He then got Suhaili to act as his money mule. She would receive cash in person and through her bank accounts.

    When Suhaili’s POSB bank account was frozen following police investigations into love scams, she allowed Awolola to use her OCBC bank account to receive funds.

    Between June and August of 2017, the account was used to receive a total of S$255,935 from four victims in Singapore, Canada and Macau.

    Every now and then, Suhaili would withdraw money from her account before travelling to Malaysia to pass the cash to Awolola, who never stepped foot in Singapore.

    Awolola and another scammer were arrested in Malaysia in 2019 and later handed over to Singapore, in what was the first time that love scam suspects based overseas were arrested and brought to Singapore for prosecution.

    The prosecutor called for 15 months’ jail for Suhaili.

    Suhaili’s lawyer, Ms Yamuna Balakrishnan of Abdul Rahman Law, said her client met Awolola on Facebook in late 2016.

    He said he was a student at a college in Kuala Lumpur and lived there on a student pass.

    Suhaili agreed to befriend Awolola as she was intrigued by the fact that a man of a different nationality was taking interest in her, said the lawyer.

    His Facebook account appeared legitimate, with images of himself and his social lifestyle flooding his social media.

    Suhaili grew closer to Awolola, texting, calling and video-calling him. She liked the attention he gave her as well as his “sweet gestures”, which were “a far cry from the many men she had dated or met”, said Ms Yamuna.

    They later met at Johor Bahru City Square to have milkshakes and doughnuts and Suhaili thought Awolola was her “dream guy”, said the lawyer.

    Blinded by her “newfound fairy-tale love”, Suhaili was ready to defy her mother’s wishes and live with Awolola in Malaysia.

    She was later introduced to Awolola’s friends as his girlfriend. His friends said it was the first time he introduced a woman to them and said he was indeed in love and serious.

    Around February or March 2017, Suhaili discovered that she was pregnant. Awolola was happy with the pregnancy and told Suhaili to keep the baby.

    He said he would do anything to marry Suhaili, including converting to Islam, said Ms Yamuna.

    She said Awolola accompanied Suhaili to every medical check-up in Malaysia.

    Awolola began asking to use Suhaili’s bank account to transfer and withdraw money, that he said was from an overseas friend.

    Ms Yamuna said that Suhaili acted in accordance with Awolola’s instructions, including giving cover-up stories to Singaporean police for the illegal transactions.

    After she found out about the crimes, Suhaili continued to help Awolola.

    According to her lawyer, this was because Awolola would gaslight her by screaming: “If you choose to leave me, you will end up being a single mum and raise this child alone.”

    Ms Yamuna claimed that Suhaili tried to reject Awolola’s request on one occasion, but Awolola pushed the heavily pregnant woman to the ground.

    In September 2017, Suhaili went into labour and fainted at Customs and gave birth to a slightly premature daughter.

    Her lawyer said Awolola had been an absent father and had not assisted Suhaili financially in raising the child.

    Suhaili did not gain a dime from the crimes, argued the lawyer.

    After Awolola was sentenced to jail, he sent Suhaili a message on Facebook saying he was serving his sentence.

    He asked for forgiveness but Suhaili no longer wanted to be deceived by him and ignored him, said Ms Yamuna.

    She asked for a year’s jail, saying a lengthy sentence would have a devastating effect on Suhaili’s daughter, who relies solely on Suhaili.

    The judge allowed Suhaili to defer her jail term to March, 2023. 

    Singaporean woman who had a child with Nigerian love scammer sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for helping to launder $356,000
    Singaporean woman who had a child with Nigerian love scammer sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for helping to launder $356,000
    Singaporean woman who had a child with Nigerian love scammer sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for helping to launder $356,000

    2023 Presidential Election: ‘There will be no cash to buy votes’ —INEC

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that the 2023 elections would hold without bags of money at the polling units, assuring that this would be witnessed during Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly polls.

    The Head of Voters Education, INEC Rivers State, Mark Osulo, made this known yesterday at a National Roundtable entitled “Roadmap to a Credible and Violence Free 2023 General Elections” organized in Port Harcourt by Equity International Initiative (EII).

    The electoral officer explained that Saturday’s election would be free and fair because the new monetary policy of the Federal Government had saved the process of vote buying in the history of Nigerian politics.

    His words: “I assure you that the election is going to be free and fair. There will be no vote buying. It is going in tandem with our plans with stakeholders.

    “There will be no money to buy votes. We are going to experience an election without vote buying. There will be no money to buy votes.

    INEC also stated that it had concluded plans to conduct credible elections in Rivers State, advising all candidates and politicians to abide by its rules of the process to achieve a democratic society.

    Vladmir Putin issues new nuclear threats as he backs Out of Nuclear treaty with US

    Russia has suspended its participation in the New START treaty, said Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in a speech to the Federal Assembly and members of the Russian political elite on Monday, Feb. 21.


    The nuclear arms reduction treaty between the U.S. and Russia was signed in 2010 in Prague, and the treaty limits the size and composition of the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals. Russia and US have the world’s largest nuclear warheads – Over 6000, and with this suspension by the kremlin, the only agreement between both countries is the “arms control.”

    Putin said that Russia would not allow the U.S. or NATO countries to inspect its nuclear arsenal, adding that a week ago he signed a decree putting new strategic ground-based systems of nuclear missiles on combat duty. He also said that Russia is prepared to test nuclear weapons if the U.S. carries out tests.

    The statement adds to a list of nuclear threats that Russia has made since the beginning of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

    Putin also threatened that, “the more long-range Western systems will come to Ukraine, the further we will be forced to move the threat away from our borders.”


    Ukraine has been asking the West to provide it with long-range missile systems to be able to hit Russian military targets deep behind the front line. The West has so far been reluctant about supplying such weapons, fearing that Ukraine would attack Russian territory.

    Putin said in his speech that “the goal of the West is to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, to end us once and for all. We will respond accordingly because we are talking about the existence of our country.”


    Putin declared that Russia has not had to seek economic aid from its allies despite the Western sanctions.

    Putin praised the Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine, saying that he wanted to “bow down” to the relatives of soldiers and those engaged in the war effort. He added that soldiers would have a “regular vacation of at least 14 days at least once every six months,” excluding travel time.


    According to the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, Russia has lost more than 144,000 soldiers in Ukraine as of Feb. 21, 2023.

    2023 Presidential Election Is Between Tinubu and Peter Obi – Smart Adeyemi

    The Senator representing the Kogi West constituency, Smart Adeyemi, has stressed that the 2023 presidential election on February 25 is between the presidential candidates of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, and the All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

    Smart Adeyemi who picked up the Kogi State governorship nomination form on Monday from the APC National Secretariat stressed that the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar does not stand a chance in the election.

    After deciding to run for governor in the Kogi gubernatorial election set for November 11, 2023, Adeyemi told the press that the 2023 presidential election is a two-horse race between the two candidates from Southern Nigeria.

    The former national president of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), who gave this assessment, commended the 19 Northern APC Governors for insisting that the centre of power must shift to the south.

    In his evaluation of the anticipated performances of the presidential candidates, the Kogi State governorship candidate disregarded the PDP candidate, belittled the chances of Peter Obi, and stressed that Tinubu stands a better chance of winning the elections.

    He said: “Why will anybody ask you to vote for Atiku? Was he not in charge of privatization? Was he not the one who sold out assets to non-performing companies? All those who do not know the history will be shouting Atiku. Atiku is not in the equation.

    “Northern Governors in the APC insisted on a power shift to save Nigeria from the crisis. History will forever be kind to them. This election is between Asiwaju and Obi. Atiku is not in the race. Atiku cannot be in the race.”

    He added: “They brought this redesigning of our currency to ridicule APC. Asiwaju creates wealth. Atiku sold our wealth and resources. I pity Peter Obi because politics is the way you are seeing it. Just yesterday, the entire Labour Party structure in the Northwest collapsed its structure for the APC. So, how is he going to win the election? Maybe he is a man for the future but in this election, the strength is not there.

    “It is beyond street politics. I am from Kogi. There is no Labour Party presence in my constituency. Winning an election is about strategic thinking and planning not about talking too much

    “I am supporting Asiwaju and Shettima not because they are APC but because of their records and contemporary issues in the Nigerian nation.”

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