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  • Elozonam, Ike evicted from #BBNaija

    Big Brother Naija housemate, Elozonam and Steve Ikechukwu Onyema, popularly known as Ike, have been evicted from the BBNaija House respectively.

    The duo got evicted from the reality show being the 91st day of the ongoing reality show.

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    Ike and Elozonam became the 19th and 20th housemates to be evicted from the show.

    They got evicted from the Pepper Dem edition of Big Brother on Sunday during Live the eviction show.

    Their eviction is coming after Cindy was evicted on Friday while Tacha was disqualified.

  • Govt reunites victims of Kaduna ‘Islamic Centre’ with families

    Kaduna State Government on Sunday commenced reuniting the over 300 rescued inmates of the embattled Rigasa ‘Islamic Centre’ with their families.

    But the legal team of the centre said its intention in running the centre was pure.

    The state government had of Saturday taken custody of the over 300 rescued inmates of the centre from the Kaduna State Police Command.

    Commissioner for Human Services and Social Development, Hajia Hafsat Baba, said 140 of the over 300 victims have already been re-united with their families.

    She said the victims, including 77 children and 113 adults, were taken to a secured facility for proper profiling before uniting them with their families.

    According to her: “Initially, after they were rescued, they were brought to Ranchers Bees Stadium where they stayed overnight and given food by the state government.

    “On Friday, they were relocated to the Hajj Camp. And that was when we did the head count to find out and separate the children from the adults. We were able to get 190 on ground.

    “77 of them are children, the youngest being the age of six. There are some that are 7, 8, 9 and 10.

    “We also have adults as old as 30 and even up to 50. We have 113 adults as at Friday.

    “On that same Friday, there were about 15 children that were really sick. We had to take them to the hospital. About three of the adults were on admission where they are being taken care of,” she said.

    She however commended officials of the Nigeria Police, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) and media practitioners for the various roles they played in the exercise.

    But the Legal Adviser, of the supposed Rehabilitation Centre, Sani Katu said the Kaduna state government and the police have not done well by raiding the centre.

    The lawyer said the development was a big loss to Kaduna state government, Nigeria and neighboring African nations.

    According to him, the centre which started in 2000 and duly registered with the state, has been a molder of society and should be commended instead.

    He said they will cooperate with security personnel on investigation but the legal team will also give the centre every cover to prove its intentions were pure.

  • We did not exonerate Osinbajo of N90bn allegation – CAN

    The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Sunday said it did not exonerate Vice President Yemi Osinbajo of the N90 billion allegation.

    CAN on Friday threw its weight behind Osinbajo over the N90 billion allegation leveled against him by a former spokesman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Timi Frank.

    National President of (CAN), Rev. Supo Ayokunle and its members last Friday visited Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa over the alleged N90 billion and ,according to Ayokunle, prayed for him.

    Frank had alleged the Vice President collected N90 billion from the Federal Inland Revenue (FIRS) to fund the 2019 election.

    A statement in Abuja by Pastor Adebayo Oladeji, Special Assistant (Media &Communications) to Rev. Samson Ayokunle said the Christian body does not endorse corruption.

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    According to him: “The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) can never endorse corruption and has never exonerated anyone accused of corruption because we are not a court of law.

    “Anyone accused of corruption has to prove his or her innocence with documentary evidence before the court of competent jurisdiction as we all know before his or her innocence can be upheld.

    “CAN leadership visited the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo last Friday to hear his side of the story instead of rushing to the press either to condemn him or throw our weight behind him. This we believe, there is no law that is against our action.

    “After we had interacted with him and he said that the allegation was baseless and should be treated as rubbish, and not only that, that he said that he was going to pursue the matter legally to prove his innocence, we then assured him that if he is proved innocent, then we throw our weight behind him.

    “We thereafter prayed for him and our nation Nigeria. We urged him to continue to serve the nation with clean hands.

    “The leadership of CAN has never endorsed corruption. In our earlier visits to President Muhammadu Buhari, we had praised him for fighting war against corruption but urged him to make it comprehensive, sparing no one irrespective of political affiliation.”

  • BREAKING: Ike evicted from #BBNaija19

    Ike has been evicted from the BBNaija 2019.

    Ike becomes the 20th Housemate to be evicted from the reality show.

    Ebuka Obi-Uchendu announced Ike’s eviction on Sunday.

    Details shortly….

  • DSS arrests human rights activist, Chido Onumah

    The Department of State Security Service (DSS) has arrested a human rights activist, Dr. Chido Onumah.

    According to a statement by The African Centre for Media & Information Literacy (AFRICMIL), the activist, who authored a nook called, “We are all Biafrans”, was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on his return from a trip abroad.

    Onumah has just completed his PhD course.

    But there were fears that Onumah was picked up by operatives following inscriptions on his T-shirt, suspected to have reflected the title of his book.

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    The statement by AFRICIMIL, which was signed by Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, said it was alarmed over the arrest of its Coordinator, Mr Chido Onumah, this evening, by operatives of the State Security Service (SSS).

    The stayement said: “Onumah was picked up at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on his return from a trip abroad.

    “AFRICMIL condemns in strong terms the unjustifiable arrest of Onumah and demands his immediate and unconditional release.

    “Waylaying law-abiding citizens should not be turned into the preoccupation of an entire security outfit.”

  • Benue killings: Mob goes after suspected persons

    Determined to end the spate of crime in Gbatse village in Ushongo local goverment area of Benue state, the youths on Sunday mobilized and went after persons suspected to be involved in the recent killings.

    Gbatse is the village where the police recently uncovered mass graves of decomposed bodies suspected to have been killed and buried secretly by a kidnapped gang operating in the area.

    The operation which started in the morning lasted for several hours as the youths move from one compound to another fishing out suspects.

    READ ALSO: How we killed 16 Okada men, buried them in shallow graves

    They suspected criminal members were handed over to the police by the youths.

  • Mother made children have sex with each other while her boyfriend watched

    A mother has been accused of forcing two toddlers to have sex with each other so her paedophile boyfriend could watch.

    The paedophile, Roberto Oquendo, 38, has been jailed for 50 years earlier.

    His girlfriend, Rose Beth Litzky, forced the young children to have sex while she filmed so her boyfriend could watch them.

    Litzky, a hotel housekeeper from Florida, was arrested after a search of the couple’s home uncovered a large quantity of sex abuse images shared between the two.

    She reportedly took photos and video of the toddlers between October 2014 and September 2016, while she was living in Florida and her boyfriend lived in Virginia.

    Online, during that same period, she used social media to paint the picture of a dotingmother, sharing photos of her taking her children to the zoo and the mall.

    “Oquendo had used a social media application to engage in live chats with a co-conspirator, Rose Beth Litzky, during which Litzky engaged two female children in sexually explicit conduct for Oquendo’s viewing and sexual gratification,” a press release issued by the United States Department of Justice read.

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    “Oquendo created screenshots of the visual depictions involving the two girls.”

    It is not entirely clear whether the two young girls are her daughters, although Litzky has been identified as a mother of two children. Her relationship to the victims has, however, not been clarified.

    During a police interview, she admitted taking hundreds of naked photos and videos of the children that she then sent to Oquendo for his “sexual gratification”.

    Oquendo abused the girls in person after moving to Florida to be with Litzky, and took further images of his young victims, some of them described as “sadistic” in nature.

    Litzky was this month convicted of conspiracy to produce child pornography and production of child pornography.

    She is being held without bond in Seminole County Jail, and will be sentenced on October 15.

    (www.newsnow.co.uk)

  • I don’t know why they keep kidnapping me, Siasia’s mum cries

    With her eyes swollen in tears, Beauty Uguoere Siasia, the mother of a former Super Eagles skipper and coach, Samson Siasia broke down and cried.

    “I dont know why they keep kidnapping me. Only God knows,” the 80-year-old woman sobbed as tears dripped down her wrinkled face.

    Mama, as she is fondly called, lamented that she had been kidnapped twice saying that her abductors on the two occasions told her that her son, Siasia is a millionaire.

    She said after whisking her away to an unknown place, her assailants fed her with garri and bought drugs for her.

    Saying that they took care of her, the traumatised woman said there was no time they beat her, adding that sometimes the abductors prepared soup for everybody in their camp.

    Narrating the latest incident, she said: I was at my house when they came to kidnap me. They took me to the place. They took care of me.

    “I was sick and they bought the drugs. They cooked and gave to me.

    “They didn’t beat me. There were days that there was no food. Those days they drank garri and gave me garri to drink too.

    “Sometimes, they cooked soup, prepare garri and we ate.

    “But on Sunday, they told me we had stayed for too long and they were tired of our problem.

    “They carried us on a flying boat and dropped us in a village. I dont know the name of the village.

    “The carried us to their chairman place. I don’t even know the man. They called Seifa and Seifa came.

    “As I am talking to you, I am not well. Before they took me I was not well. I want to go to the hospital.

    “They built small house and use tarpaulin to cover the top. That was where they kept us”.

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    When she was told that she won’t be kidnapped again, Siasia’s mother quickly said Amen.

    But she added: “They keep worrying me because they said my son, Siasia is rich and a millionaire”.

    Also one of the victims, who was abducted when he took some undisclosed amount of money to the kidnappers, said on getting to where they directed him, the gunmen surrounded his boat, blindfolded him and took him away.

    Relieving his ordeal, he said: “Where they kept us was very bad. I didn’t see anything there and I didn’t recognise anybody because before I got to the place, they blindfolded me.

    “But the place was rough. We slept on benches. There was no foam. At times, they fed us with garri and beans.

    “We used oil to eat garri. Sometimes, they cooked yellow soup and any how they cooked it you will eat because you want to live.

    “I was in a critical condition. They were fond of beating me maybe because I am a man.

    ‘They would beat me morning, afternoon and night. They would tie me before I sleep.

    “Even if mosquitoes were biting me, I couldn’t chase them away. They kept four people to guide me. I suffered a lot”.

  • 11 things you should know about Nigeria

    11 things you should know about Nigeria

    Below are 11 important facts about Nigeria:

    – Nigeria is the 32nd-largest country in world with a landmass of 923,768 km2 (356,669 sq mi).    – The highest point in Nigeria is Chappal Waddi at 2,419 m (7,936 ft) in Taraba state.- Late Benedict Odiase, a retired Deputy Commissioner of Police, composed the music of the national anthem.

    – The words of the national anthem was composed by four Nigerians: Dr. Omoigui, John Ilechukwu, Eme Etim Akpan, B.A Ogunnaike, and P.O Aderibigbe

    – There are  37 federal owned Universities, 37 State-owned and above 50 private owned universities.

    – The 2006 census puts Nigeria’s population at 140,431,790 million – although there is now an estimate of about 170,000,000 Nigerians.

    – The name Nigeria was coined by Flora Shaw, wife of Lord Lugard, a British colonial administrator.

    – Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and the seventh most populous country in the world

    – On 1 January 1901, Nigeria became a British protectorate, part of the British Empire.

    – On July 6, 1967 a 30- month war begun with a long siege of Biafra and its isolation from trade and supplies. It ended in January 1970

    – Nigerians went through 33 years of military rule (from 1966 until 1999).

    -Ever heard of the Ship House? That is the name of Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters

  • I’m all for peace in Qua Iboe Church-Gov Emmanuel

    Akwa Ibom Governor Udom Emmanuel has restated his commitment to resolving the lingering issue associated with the United Evangelical Church founded as Qua Iboe Church.

    Emmanuel also said he would intervene with a section, which would want the church to maintain its old name, Qua Iboe Church.

    This is coming on the heels of some misunderstanding especially at the 112 Ikot Ekpene Road, Uyo, branch of the church, which is the Local Assembly the Governor regularly worships and is a registered member.

    Reacting over the weekend to insinuations by some elements who think that as a key member of the local assembly, he may have certain interests, Emmanuel dismissed the insinuations as outright lies and evil propaganda.

    The Governor, a Deacon, who has been making progress in bringing peace and harmony between the two contending parties, urged agents of blackmail to direct their miss-applied talents elsewhere.

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    “It is very wrong for certain elements to make unfounded allegations concerning my role in the local assembly on Ikot Ekpene,” said the Governor who had, last Thursday held a peace meeting with the two parties.

    “At a peace meeting I had with the leadership of the church on Thursday September 26, I had outlined the processes and plans for peace to return to the both the local and the national leadership of the church.

    “The parties were very satisfied with the plans outlined and went back very happy.

    “Very soon, we hope to see the full restoration of peace and understanding between the two groups.

    “I think it is sad and unfortunate for some people to exploit the matter and make unfounded allegations.”