Ignore Yomi Fabiyi's Plea.......Baba Suwe

Veteran comic actor, Babatunde Omidina, aka Baba Suwe has responded to news of his ill health as a result of the torture meted out on him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, years ago.

His response is coming after renowned Nollywood movie director, Yomi Fabiyi called out the NDLEA on his (Suwe’s) account, accusing the NDLEA of damaging the actor’s health to an alarming state.

It would be recalled that Fabiyi had alleged that a long pipe was inserted through the actor’s anus while in NDLEA’s detention in October 2011 on the suspicion of ingestion of illicit drugs.

Actor Yomi Fabiyi Raises Alarm Over Senior Colleague Baba Suwe's Health.

ON BABA SUWE: I am calling on all SENIOR COLLEAGUES in the entertainment world especially those close to Baba Suwe cos I don't have everyone's contact to please reach out to him asap. The torture done on him by NDLEA is vastly damaging his health at an alarming rate.

 He told me he no longer feel comfortable since that episode. Baba Suwe is a widower, he can hardly walk properly as I speak, let alone go to film. How will he feed and take care of the children aunty Moladun left behind?

Revealed: Why President Buhari Rejected N1.7tr ransom For Chibok Girls.

 

Boko Haram reportedly demanded from the Federal Government €5billion (about N1,706,850,000,000) to free 219 Chibok girls .

These facts are contained in the book, “Muhammadu Buhari: The challenges of leadership in Nigeria”, authored by Prof. John Paden.

The book, which was presented to the public on Monday at the International Conference Centre in Abuja, contained some unknown issues about the President including the insider’s account on the botched negotiation between Boko Haram and the Federal Government .

OPINION: Time To Rally Round Bola Tinubu, By Femi Aribisala****

Let me re-introduce myself in case you have forgotten. I have been an implacable critic of the politics of Bola Tinubu. Among others, I have written articles against Tinubu entitled:“What Does Tinubu Want?” “Time to Get Rid of Tinubu’s Cronies”; “Time to Disgrace the South-West Godfather”; and “Don’t Cry for Bola Tinubu.” I stand by every one of those articles, even though the warnings I gave in them went largely ignored.

Although many Tinubu supporters don’t seem to realise this, my opposition to Tinubu was not personal. My opposition was based on the grounds that Tinubu’s politics was shortsighted. In that regard, my position has been proved right. The strategic political objectives of Tinubu were unattainable and have been not been attained.

In the first place, Tinubu’s recent politics were designed to make him a key player at the national level, as he has been at the regional level. He really wanted to become the vice-president of Nigeria. This has proved unattainable, and we warned him about that. Most of his so-called friends at the national level are fair-weather friends. They never really liked him and were afraid of him. Under no circumstances would they allow him to duplicate his stranglehold on South-West politics outside the South-West.

President Barack Obama And Wife Celebrates 24 Year Wedding Anniversary.

President of the United States of America (God's own country) and his wife Michelle celebrates 24 years of marital bliss as shared by the president. Wish them all the best.

Federal Government Declares Monday 3rd As A Public Holiday.

The federal Government has declared Monday October 3 as a public holiday to mark Nigeria’s 56th Independence Anniversary

Woman Seeks Dissolution Of Marriage, Alleges Her Husband Beats Her Mother.

 

A trader, Mrs Happiness Ama, who could no longer tolerate constant beating of her mother by her husband, on Thursday sought to end her marriage.

Happiness, 41, approached an Igando Customary Court in Lagos, saying that her husband, Jerry, with whom she had three children in their 21-year-old marriage, turned her mother into a punching bag.

She said, “My husband beats my mother regularly; the police have warned him to stop the assault but he continued.”

 

She also alleged that her husband had threatened to kill her if she left him.

She said, “My husband always threatens me; there was a day he brought out a cutlass telling me that he would cut off my head if I left.

Absolutely FAB: RMD Shares Cute Pic With Genevieve And Stephanie Linus

Cute pic taken at the premiere of ''A trip to Jamaica'' movie by AY Makun

RECESSION: I Can Not Predict When It Will End......... Minister Of Finance

The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has said she cannot predict when Nigeria will get out of the current economic recession. She, however, said that some of the efforts of the government to reflate the economy had started yielding results.

Speaking during an interview in Abuja, the minister said:

"I don't want to predict when we will get out of recession. Let me tell you that we'll get into growth and that's how you get out of recession, because of the stimulus that we are providing.

"And it may take longer than we would like, but we will definitely get out of it. We are already seeing some positive signs in agriculture and solid minerals; and with what we are trying to do with other sectors, I am very sure we will get out of it soon."

Bonny Export Line: MEND Condemns Bombing, Says Militants Immature.

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has described militant group, Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) as immature following the latter group’s bombing of the Bonny export line.

NDA, which was in negotiations with the Federal Government, blew up the facility on Friday, September 23, due to the ‘over-dramatization of the dialogue by President Muhammadu Buhari and his government.’

“The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) dissociates itself from the ‘holier than thou’ and arrogant attitude of the Pan-Niger Delta Group over the proposed Niger Delta Summit convened by the Federal Government,” MEND said.

“MEND also condemns in very strong terms the unstable, destructive and immature behaviour of the Niger Delta Avengers who resume hostilities at the slightest lame excuse.

Motorcycle Operator Rapes 8 Year-Old Girl To Coma.

A commercial motorcycle operator identified simply as Daniel, has dismissed allegations that he raped an eight-year-old girl to coma.

Daniel was said to have lured the victim into his room at Ogiri Oko Street in Otukpo, Benue State under the guise of sending her on an errand on Wednesday.

The incident was said to have left the eight-years-old unconscious.

The suspect was however apprehended by vigilantes from Igbanonmaje after the girl’s mother reported the incident to them.

Boko Haram Strikes! Beheads Village Head And His Son.

Members of the Boko Haram in the early hours of Monday reportedly invaded some sleeping villagers where they slit the throats of the village head and his son.

There was a reported pandemonium in a local community in the early hours of Monday, after some members of the Boko Haram terrorist sect, crept upon sleeping villagers of Talari, slit the throats of the village head and his son, and also shot dead two other villagers as they were trying to escape.

Another Black Man Killed By White Police Officer.

An attorney for a white Oklahoma police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man has said the man ignored officers” commands and was reaching through a window of his SUV when he was killed.

But police video from the incident Friday shows 40-year-old Terence Crutcher walking away from the officers and toward his SUV with his hands up when one officer shocks him with a stun gun and he falls to the ground. He is then shot and killed. Police were called to the scene to respond to a report of a stalled vehicle.

Police Chief Chuck Jordan announced Monday, before the video and audio recordings were released, that Crutcher had no weapon on him or in his SUV when he was shot. It”s not clear from the footage what led Betty Shelby, the officer who fired the fatal shot, to draw her gun or what orders officers gave Crutcher. Shelby”s attorney, Scott Wood, said Crutcher was not following the officers” commands.

Patience Jonathan Issues EFCC A 14-day Ultimatum To Defreeze Her Accounts.

Former First lady, Patience Jonathan, has issued a 14-day ultimatum starting from September 18th to the EFCC to defreeze the $15m found in the accounts of four companies she has links with or face legal action.

Patience Jonathan last week claimed ownership of the money found in the accounts and said they were meant for her medical bills as well as personal purchase.

Reports indicate  that  counsel to Patience Jonathan, First Law Associates, in a letter addressed to the acting chairman of EFCC Ibrahim Magu, asked the antigraft agency to defreeze the accounts and tender a public apology to her and that failing to do this, they will file an action at the African Commission on Human Rights at the Gambia demanding N5 billion in exemplary and punitive damages.” Part of the letter reads:

 

18 Year Old Herdsman Sentenced To Two Years Imprisonment In Ekiti

An 18 year old herdsman, Haruna Ali, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment by a Chief Magistrate Court Ekiti state for unlawfully grazing his cows in a farmland in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital. Haruna was arraigned before the Magistrate, Idowu Ayenimo, on Jan 22nd 2016 on a two-count charge of willful and unlawful damage of farm crops at Ago Aduloju in Ado-Ekiti. The case after the initial hearing was adjourned to today September 19th.

The magistrate while delivering judgement, ordered that the sentence should run concurrently, explaining that the term was minimal because the offence was committed before the Grazing Law was enacted in the state.