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  • Immigration Service intercepts 32 illegal migrants in Niger

    The Niger state command of the Nigeria Immigration Service has intercepted 32 illegal Migrants in Niger state.

    The migrants who are mostly Nigeriens and Malians had sneaked into the country through illegal routes, the Comptroller, Mamman Ango disclosed.

    According to him, the arrest was made in a bid to secure the country’s border and bring an end to illegal crossing by migrants.

    Ango said that the migrants were between the ages of 12 to 35 and were interrupted in Kontagora adding that when interrogated confessed that they were heading to Lagos in search of greener pastures.

    He said that the illegal migrants were created by the Joint Border Operation Drill codenamed “Ex-Swift Response” which comprised of men of the Immigration Service, Nigeria Customs Service, and Police.

    “Sector 3 of the Joint Border Operation Drill located in Kontagora axis intercepted the migrants who are all males and brought them this morning to the command.

    “We have profiled them and ascertained the nationality of each of them for immediate repatriation back to their respective countries.”

    The Comptroller further said that two 18-seaters buses are being ready to transport the migrants to Kamba Control Post in Kebbi state stating that from there, they would be handed over to the representatives of their respective countries.

    Ango then said that the Immigration Service has no problem with anyone coming into the country in search of greener pasture but stated that they need to go through the right channel and procedures of entering the country.

    He called for cooperation from the public to avail the Immigration Service and other security agencies with useful information to ensure the end is seen of illegal migration into Niger state.

  • Court remands ‘okada’ rider in prison custody for throwing baby into river

    A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Minna has ordered that a 20-year-old commercial motorcyclist popularly called ‘Okada’ rider, Mustapha Aliyu be remanded in prison custody for throwing his three-month-old baby boy into a river.

    Aliyu is standing trial on a charge of culpable homicide contrary to Section 221 of the Penal Code.

    The prosecutor, ASP Daniel Ikwoche, told the court that Amina Zakaria, the   mother of the baby had reported the matter to the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Sept. 8.

    Ikwoche said that the complainant of Keranbadi village in Borgu Local Government Area of Niger alleged that she had the baby for the defendant out of wedlock.

    Read Also: Okada operator beats wife to death for refusing to breastfeed baby

    The prosecutor said that the complainant alleged that the defendant had visited her at about 9:30p.m., on Sept. 7 and took the baby away.

    Ikwoche said that the defendant took the child to his own village, Tamanai.

    There, he threw the baby into a river where he eventually drowned, the prosecutor said.

    When the charge was read to the defendant, he pleaded guilty and begged the court for leniency.

    Chief Magistrate Hauwa Yusuf, however, declined to take his plea, saying that the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the matter.

    Yusuf directed the prosecuting police officer to forward a duplicate copy of the case file to the State Director of Public Prosecution, (DPPs) for legal advice.

    She, thereafter, adjourned the case until Oct. 10 for further mention.

  • Only 700,000 out of 22m Lagosians are active tax payers – LASG

    Lagos state government has disclosed that only 700,000 out of the 4.8million Lagosians registered as taxpayers are active taxpayers out of a population of about 22million people.

    The state Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Mr. Samuel Egube disclosed this in his address at the Lagos Central Senatorial district Y2020 Budget Consultative Forum which held at Surulere on Friday.

    He said the government would expand the tax net by engaging and encouraging the citizens to ensure that they participate in their tax obligations.

    “The more taxes we are able to collect, the more we are able to do, the more we are able to support small businesses, create and facilitate businesses, put the infrastructure in place that will be able to attract more investments and create jobs and do many other things.

    “It is important that as we want to get Lagos greater, we want citizens to participate in governance and also pay their contributions.

    Egube said the year 2020 budget is going to be based on the six developmental pillars of the government as captured in the ‘T.H.E.M.E.S’ agenda of the administration.

    While assuring that the administration will complete all inherited on-going projects, he said the administration’s dream of a greater Lagos will be realized through engagement and participation of the citizens.

    He said the focus of the budget will be woven around the present administration’s advocacy for an inclusive government that will run under the policy thrust based on the ‘THEMES’ agenda.

    “Which are: Traffic management and transportation, Health and Environment, Education and Technology, Making Lagos a 21st-century economy, Entertainment and Tourism, Security and governance.

    “The Y2020 budget is being designed to be people-oriented in order to ensure a Lagos that works for all irrespective of age, gender, tribe or status.”

    Read Also: Suspected burglar trapped, dies in Lagos church

    He said the government must grow the GDP at a rate faster than the ever-increasing population of the state and that while the state will deploy debt profile focus on capital expenses it would also ensure that at least 55 per cent of the budget will be on investment in capital expenditure.

    He decried the lack of support by the government in the entertainment and tourism sector, saying every achievement recorded there has been on private initiative.

    “The government is going to actively support that sector, it is our view that the government must act to support the sector this time around”, Egube said.

    The budget consultative forum which will hold in the states’ three senatorial districts, he said, is aimed at giving credence as well as greater transparency and accountability to the state’s budget preparation process.

    “We are going to gather the aspirations of the people in Lagos and ensure it comes into the budget, but I can assure you that we are going to focus the budget very squarely on the thematic areas of ‘THEMES’ which tend to capture what we look forward to hear and to see in Lagos”, the commissioner said.

  • Traits that tarnish Nigeria’s image

    This country is endowed with some of the best brains in the world – brains deployed to achieving exploits in science and technology and in businesses.

    We have an Ogunlesi from Sagamu, Remo in Ogun State owning one of the two prime airports in London; some of the best surgeons in the USA of Igbo descent and an Aliko Dangote of Northern extraction, holding his own in the world of high profile businesses like Bill Gate and Richard Branson, etc, etc

    The people referred to above rose through the ranks, though in meticulous manners, to get to their present stations in life. Theirs were not by sudden flights; but because they took years of toil and sweat to get to where they are today, they have come to be celebrated in positive light by those who know and appreciate the quality of their achievements.

    On the flip side of the coin are some of our citizens, from virtually all the tribes of this country, whose sources of wealth are questionable and who attract so much of needless and negative attention to themselves within and outside our shores, that it was a matter of time before the prying eyes of the saner world got fixed on them.

    Our perverted values and moral decadence helped in the nurturing of the negative traits that our citizens have exhibited, without qualms and with little or no sanctions in this country, and which have emboldened them to export those traits that are hardly tolerable, to other lands.

    Some of our citizens have perfected the art of living on other people’s labor, exploiting them in mindless ways no better than murderers who take peoples lives without human feeling. Some had even gone the audacious length of establishing institutions like ‘yahoo, yahoo schools’ where students are recruited, for a fee, to come and study fraudulent schemes of withdrawing huge sums of money from other people’s banks without their victims knowledge.

    A media report of the discovery of a yahoo, yahoo school somewhere in this country, went viral some months ago and I have not read of a police denial of the existence of such an occurrence. It can then be assumed to be true reportage. But has there been any update? Given our ways in this country, the criminally-minded guys behind such school of fraud must have bought their way out of trouble, away from the klieglight of negative publicity.

    The ranks of criminals are swelling because virtually every institution of state is profiting from the proceeds of fraud. Police paste stickers everywhere that bail is free but that injunction is observed more in the breach. One needs to get involved in being taken to a police station even for  issues laymen believe to be trivial, to experience the killing charges imposed to get police bail, that are advertised as free!

    One has had stories of police investigators exhibiting the dubious skills of assisting complainants to write incriminating reports against ‘foes’ and at the same time helping such suspects to write submissions that will help them wriggle out of trouble.

    Some lawyers are happy to take briefs from suspects they know to be of questionable character, not because they are interested in serving the cause of justice but because they are more interested in swelling their bank accounts, at the detriment of society. How many lawyers and law enforcement agencies have been rewarded with plots of land, some in choice areas, for assisting in the perversion of justice or in procuring dubious court judgements ?

    Preachments and admonitions by genuinely concerned citizens inside and outside of government are pooh-poohed by the large number of criminals out there undetected, who must have sworn to make efforts to rid the nation of corruption and allied crimes unachievable.

    The growing army of people with virtually incurable corrupt tendencies seem to be winning their ways through fraud and other malfeasance. A look around the academia, politics, industry et al confirm this fact. And, this set of people feel so confident and audacious that the detestable things they do in this country and get away with, and for which the nation seems powerless to combat and wipe out, can be exported and practiced elsewhere.

    The xenophobic onslaughts on some of our nationals in South Africa are condemnable no doubt; but have we taken pains to dig into the remote causes of the brouhaha ? Are our nationals in the place conducting themselves properly or do they think what their country allowed, will also be embraced in other lands? From the other side of the stories we have been regaled with, are negative revelations which no country except Nigeria can tolerate and live with.

    In any case, no country can be as tolerant as Britain where for several years, some of our citizens are living very expensive lives of scam and fraud. Some of them live on credit card  fraud and find it difficult to cover their tracks. Their money-spending spree has no parallel. The cars they ride, the ostentation they display at open parties; and all these by people without visible means of livelihood, give intelligence agencies in those advanced societies not-too-hard nuts to crack, to burst the fake lives they live.

    When I was growing up in the 60s, Chinese in their first time foray to this country, were scammed by dubious businessmen who routed letters of credit to them from their so-called “Central Bank of Ijebu Igbo” when everyone knows that any apex bank of a country is usually located at its capital city, not in any remote surburb.

    I grew up as a matured adult and as a businessman in the United Kingdom some 18 years ago, to be reminded of a similar case, when someone hacked into my internet and said before I could claim a humongrous win in a lottery I never played, I should pay some £750 into an account at a non-existent Bank of Luton. That ploy didn’t jell with me because I knew Luton too well as I walked the streets of that town anytime I was free from my training school in Milton Keynes, to the extent that I could tell how many banks were life in that town, on the way to the North of England.

    The sophistication with which our citizens ply their illegal and absolutely intolerable trades in developed nations of the world have forced their hosts to the drawing board of honing their scientific and technological skills to detect and deter criminality prevalent in the conduct of some of our citizens.

    If the UK and the USA in spite of their advancement in the detection and prevention of crimes are already at their tether’s end coping with our people’s ways, who can blame South Africa who, by the xenophobic reaction of her citizens, equally exposed herself as a developing country with scant regard for civilised behaviour.

    I sympathize with innocent victims of the xenophobic attacks in South Africa but if the truth must be said, many of the woes brought on the others were self-inflicted and such people have no one but themselves to blame.

    If Nigeria, by the clumsy and partisan ways of some of her officials, can tolerate the condemnable behaviors of her citizens and cannot dissuade them from their mindless and murderous pursuit of money, some other nations with appreciable degree of conscience, cannot live with it. Our people talk of children who refuse to imbibe proper home training, will be taught to toe the line and be wiser from outside. There should be no quibbling about it: what is bad, has no other name!

  • Legality, politics and justice

    The  dismissal  of the  2019   Presidential  election petition  of by the Election Tribunal in Nigeria this week,  together  with the allegation in   the   UK  that the British PM  Boris  Johnson lied to the Queen  in getting her consent to prorogate  Parliament,  provide  food for thought today. We  shall  look  at these two  issues in the light of  the statement that the law  can  be  an  ass  at times and also  wonder  aloud   how   legal  erudition can   somewhat   turn to  buffoonery given  the reasons that eminent lawyers pursue in open court to  advance their clients cases and interests. We    also  take a peep  at how the US President Donald  Trump is using  the US Supreme  Court as a’ weapon’ to  advance his policies on immigration  in the  American   presidential   system of  politics.

    These  events throw  up  the issues of legitimacy, legality, the rule of  law and the pursuit  of justice in any  political  system  and are  not peculiar  to Nigeria, the UK  and the US. On  each  scenario  however we shall  highlight what  we deem to  be  the mood,  guiding  principle  or motivation.  We  shall  therefore  as in Nigeria’s  case  ask    why the legal  luminaries that  represented the opposition PDP thought  that a presidential  candidate like the incumbent  Nigerian  president can  be disqualified on account of his educational  qualification given his background as an Army General  and someone who had  contested and lost elections for the same office four times in the past . In  Britain we shall see  the implications of mendacity  by  the PM for  Brexit  and the future of  the British  Parliamentary  system. In the US   we  examine  the rancorous  cowboy  politics of  the US President in filling the US Supreme Court with crony  judges  who  give him legal  backing for  his political  agenda and see  how that is affecting US politics consequently. Let me now  dilate  broadly  on these highlighted  situations  in the three nations.

    Of all  the five grounds of  appeal,  by the  PDP  dismissed  by the Election tribunal   it  is the educational qualification that  I  found  most  interesting. How  it got  to be an  issue to disqualify  this particular  candidate  on this   ground  is  simply  unbelievable. It  happened before when legal  luminary GOK Ajayi   brought up  the issue of educational  qualification of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in the presidential  election he won  at the time. The  two  events are  similar  but  in the case of President Muhammadu  Buhari I  think it is a  provocative insult  and shows that  the lawyers  for Atiku lack  the erudition they  parade in not seeing the absurdity of a plea for  disqualification  on  lack  of requisite  qualification  of a candidate  who  went to NDA, became a general in the army, was a military  Head of State and had  contested election four times before and lost,  till  he won in 2015 and 2019.

    One  does not need the lengthy judgment that threw  out  the disqualification on account of education given by the tribunal  because simple  common  sense   showed  the buffoonery of  the plea. Indeed  the president deserved exemption from  educational qualification given his military service and the height he reached and not the disgrace of disqualification  based  on his   education  as his opposing   lawyers averred  at  the tribunal. This really  was a lesson in absurdity and a great  mistake  of seeking to make an ass  of the law. I  can recall what Agrippa the judge told Paul of Tarsus  in the bible, ‘Paul, Paul  thou  art mad, thine too  much  learning doth turneth  thee to  madness ‘Really  too much  erudition especially  in the law  can make  lawyers  fall  from the sublime to the ridiculous.

    In  the UK  the rule  of law  is facing   a huge test  over  Brexit  that  is bound  to task  Britain’s  monarchical  democracy  that has hitherto  served it so  brilliantly in providing political  stability. On  occasions like this one can recall  a statement on the beauty of the role of British  monarch  that says –‘ with the Queen in Buckingham Palace every  Briton sleeps well in his bed. ‘This  statement puts absolute trust  of the British in their  monarchy as a bastion of stability and security. Now  if a PM is adjudged  to  have lied to  the Queen, a  charge Boris Johnson  has denied, then  the British  people should have great  cause for  concern  about the workings of their Parliamentary  democracy. But  credibility  is an asset  that  Boris Johnson is losing fast  on Brexit .

    He  has promised that Britain will  leave the EU deal  or no deal by  October 31. But  Parliament last week passed a law prohibiting No  Deal and when asked if he would  implement that he said he would rather  be seen dead in a ditch . But then even though a court in England ruled his prorogation legal, another court in Scotland  has ruled otherwise noting judicially that his  prorogation  was to stymy Parliament and  a higher  court is expected to resolve the legality of the Prorogation presently. Already  the Speaker  who has said he would  leave his post by October 31 has vowed  that  Parliament will  not allow anyone to bypass the laws it has enacted on Brexit. There  is  no doubt  in my mind that Boris Johnson is  going to do  something nasty and illegal  while Parliament is on suspension . The  saying is quite apt here that while  the cat  is away mice would  pay.  Surely the British  PM  knows  his onions  on Brexit but he should be careful  that Brexit , deal or know deal, does not become his political hemlock.

    We  round up with US President Donald  Trump  who  had the backing of the US Supreme Court   this week  in his policy  of reducing the rate of immigration from named nations as well  as from Central  America through its neighbor Mexico. The  US Supreme Court  has ruled to allow  government  to severely limit the ability of migrants to ask  for asylum in the US once they  failed to do so in a transit nation before. Lower  courts have ruled against this before and stopped the Trump policy in its tracks to his  chagrin. Now that Trump  has majority of judges on the Supreme Court, who share his world views on many issues,  he is using the rule of law  to  have his way. While some may accuse him of subverting the   checks  and balances inherent in the   presidential   system  there are those  who  will say that separation of powers does not necessarily preclude symmetry between  the executive and legal  arms of a presidential  system  of  government.  Once again long live the Federal  Republic of Nigeria.

  • Judgment: How FEC meeting saved me from trauma, by Buhari

    President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday recalled the anxious moment he went through while the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal delivered judgment in the petition filed against him by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

    Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), whose victory in the February election was affirmed by the tribunal on Wednesday, said the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting held the same day was the elixir that saved him saved him from trauma.

    The President spoke at the Presidential Villa, Abuja while receiving governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who had gone to congratulate him on his victory.

    He said: “On this judgment, again it was a fabulous coincidence that it came almost the same time the first Federal Executive Council meeting of this government was taking place.

    “It lasted about the same time with the judgment.

    “I thank God for that, because I think I would have gone into trauma or something. So, I was busy trying to concentrate on the memo.

    “The first memo was on the budget and it took more than five hours. So, while you were doing your thing for nine hours, we were doing ours for about seven hours here.

    “It is a very interesting coincidence and I thank God for it because I would have been in trauma or something of that sort.”

    He thanked the National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and the governors for “sharing the glory with us.”

    Read Also: Photos: Buhari, Ministers at FEC meeting

    He challenged the party leadership to work hard with a view to making the APC rule beyond 2023 when his current term will expire.

    He said: “What I will say to the chairman of the party and the governors is that we make sure that we really institutionalise the party, so that when we leave the stage, the party will continue to lead.”

    Chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum and Kebbi State governor, Atiku Bagudu, said they were in the Villa to congratulate the President over the judgment.

    He said:  “We are here to celebrate your victory and that of our party at the tribunal. I say big congrats to you.

    “We don’t know how it happened, but it was televised live for Nigerians to see for transparency.

    “It silenced all doubts. We never doubted your positions and now the law has affirmed it too.

    “It was noteworthy that you were not even distracted as you chaired the FEC on the day of judgment.”

    He commended Buhari’s social investments programmes on rail, infrastructure all taking place under his administration.

    Also speaking, the party chair, Adams Oshiomhole, said: “We never had doubts that you won your votes. All the issues raised by our opponents were trashed out one after the other by the Justices that sat on the panel.

    “But of particular interest to us, Mr. President, as members of the progressive family is that we are all aware that the only asset Mr. President has invested and continues to invest in your political journey and your political project is your integrity.”

    He pointed out that the PDP has no one in its fold that has the image and integrity of President Buhari.

    The governors at the Villa were Simon Lalong of Plateau State who also is Chairman of the Northern Governors Forum, Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos, Gboyega Oyetola of Osun, Mohammed Inuwa of Gombe, Abdulrazak Abdulrahman of Kwara, Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano, Babagana Zulum of Borno, Yahaya Bello of Kogi, Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa and Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa, among others.

    Also at the meeting were the Secretary to the Government of the Federation Boss Mustapha and Chief of Staff to the President Abba Kyari.

  • Landlord, son ‘beat female tenant to coma’ in Anambra

    A lady, Miss Ogochukwu Igwe, was allegedly beaten to coma by her landlord, identified as Obidike in Umudim Nnewi, Nnewi North Local Government Area of Anambra State.

    The victim, a hairdresser, was reportedly beaten up by the suspect, together with his son for asking them to stop using their vehicles to block her salon shop.

    The Nation gathered that trouble ensued when the landlord, on arrival to his house, parked his car in front of the salon, which resulted into a brawl.

    Speaking to newsmen on her hospital bed at Glory hospital and Maternity, the victim alleged that the landlord strangled her after hitting her with the drier in her salon.

    She said, “I pleaded with him to shift the car from blocking my shop but instead of yielding, the landlord told me to pack out of the shop and that he would deal with me when his son returned in the evening.

    “The son later arrived with his tipper, came with his father into my salon and used the drier in my salon to hit me.

    “He held me by the neck and tried to strangled me and I fell down unconscious. The next place I saw myself was at Glory hospital and Maternity,  Umudim Nnewi.”

    Read Also: Conductor charged with beating up policeman

    Ogochukwu said it was after she recovered that she saw a female police officer who introduced herself as Inspector Nneka, the investigating police  officer (IPO), from Central Police Station, Nnewi.

    “She took my statement and told me that Onyeka who beat and tried to strangled me has been arrested but that they were yet to arrest his father.

    “I later learnt that he was granted bail while his father has not been arrested,” she added.

    She appealed to the state commissioner of police, Mr John Abang, to come to her aid by ensuring that the suspects face the wrath of the law.

    The counsel to the victim, Mr Kanayo C. Muoneke, in a petition to the state Commissioner of Police, CP, Mr John Abang made available to newsmen, urged the CP to intervene, adding  that the victim had almost passed away if not for divine interventiom.

    “Presently, the victim can’t conviniently eat because of the injuries sustained and the suspects are celebrating the victim’s fate,” he said.

  • Omawumi takes album tour to Freedom Park

    AS part of the promotion of her new album, ‘In Her Feelings,’ award-winning songstress, Omawumi, will be performing live at Freedom Park, Lagos on  next Saturday.

    She will be supported by other acts like Chidinma, Timi Dakolo, Slim Case, Brymo, Lami Phillips, Ego and DJ Spinall.

    Posting on social media, Omawumi said that the Freedom Park concert will create another experience for music lovers as it will be totally different from the two previous ‘In Her Feelings’ concerts held in promotion of the new album.

    “If you attended any of my previous #INHERFEELINGS tour, you didn’t see anything o!” she said.

    “This one is going to be LIT Fa!! You know @freedomparklagos gives someone extra ginger but I’m coming prepared. I’m not also going to be alone on stage! I’m coming with some of your favourite artists! Yay!!!”

    The Freedom Park live performance, which is a presentation of List Entertainment and OMA Records, will be the third concert in promotion of her new body of works, ‘In Her Feelings’. Recently, she was also in Kenya to promote the new album and the response was amazing as many pictures of her were seen granting interviews and signing autographs.

    Some tracks on the album include: ‘For My Baby’, ‘Mr Sinnerman’, ‘Away’, ‘True Loving’, ‘Tabansi’, ‘Green Grass’ and ‘In Her Feelings.’

    The singer had said:“The album represents a legacy which was stirred by family, domestic violence, relationships and the society. I am genuinely humbled to have my fans and close friends support me. I hope it contributes to the lives of everyone who listens to it.”

  • El Rufai restates commitment to support creative arts

    Kaduna State Governor Nasir El Rufai has restated his administration’s continued support for the annual Kaduna Books and Arts Festival (KABAFEST), describing the festival as a platform to celebrate literary art and encourage literary talents from northern region.

    He said the first two editions of the festival have proven it to be a vital mix of global ideas and conversations, adding that ‘our aspiration to institutionalise Kabafest is being attained.’

    Governor El Rufai, who spoke at the opening ceremony of this year’s Kabafest in Kaduna on Wednesday was represented by his deputy Hadiza Sabuwa Balarabe.

    “Kaduna State embraces its diversity and views literature as one of the most important channels that we can use to explain ourselves first internally and to the world; build a sense of common community.

    “The creative arts are in themselves sources of economic dynamism. The Nigerian film industry and our musicians are breaking new grounds and demonstrating sustained visibility,” he added.

    According to him, the state seeks more creative arts not only to nurture minds but also to create wealth for the people.

    Apart from books, he said, the state’s creative arts programme seeks to promote film,music, and art in general.

    “We have staged two editions of Kaduna Music Festivals bringing musicians from across the country. We were able to stage a colourful Durbar to mark the centenary of Kaduna city in 2017. ” he said.

    South African writer, Natalia Molebatsi has on behalf of her country apologised to Nigerians for the ongoing xenophobic attacks on foreigners in South Africa.

    She stated that she does not know if she should take responsibility but that such crisis which happens in the world has found it’s way to South Africa and seems to be devouring the black people and women especially.

    “And it looks like we are always the responsible ones; the ones who are available for violence to unleash itself into our skins. I hope that through our words we are able to mend the situation. And we are always going to find the spirit of Pan Africanism because this is what we were taught,” she added.

    Director, Books Buzz Foundation, Lola Shoneyin commended the courage of the three South African writers who agreed to attend the festival against the diplomatic tensions between Nigeria and South Africa. “We remain united and committed to doing what creative Africans have always done, which is to rise above the poisonous rhetoric and provide reminders that our common humanity is much more important than anything that seeks to divide us. It is a great mistake to underestimate the power and value of creative arts,” she said.

  • Comedian, Ajebo shuts down Eko Hotel

    Nigerian comedian and entrepreneur, Emeka Erem, popularly known as Ajebo, last Sunday, September 1, 2019 shut down the prestigious Eko Hotel with the sixth edition of his sold-out show, ‘Ajebo Unleashed’, themed ‘What Women Want’.

    Powered by real estate giant, Middlechase Property LTD, the show witnessed rib-cracking comedy from the best of the Nigerian humour industry as well as beautiful music from the best of music acts.

    Among the guest artistes at the show were comedians Forever, Seyilaw, MCshakara, AY, Odogwu, Ovy Godwin, Hilarious Chinedu and a host of others.

    Music stars who thrilled guests include the hip-hop genius, Davido, Spyro, T-classic, Rick Hassani, as well as Peruzzi.

    Ajebo did justice to the theme, ‘What women want’ as he cracked hilarious jokes and celebrated women at the show.

    ‘Ajebo Unleashed’ is the first stage that Davido performed his hit single with Chris Brown, having been out of Nigeria for eight months. The audience had an amazing night as the fun was back to back and the event packaged with so much class.

    At the end of the show, Middlechase put smiles on the faces of two people as one lucky winner went home with an all-expense paid trip to Dubai while another got a two-bedroom apartment in the highbrow area, Lekki.

    Abuja is next as date will be announced on his social media.