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  • 25 escape death in Anambra auto crashes – FRSC

    No fewer than 25 passengers including four children on Sunday narrowly escaped death in two separate auto crashes that occurred in Awka and Onitsha, Anambra.

    Mr Ayodele Kumapayi,  State Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), who confirmed the incidents, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that eight persons, however, sustained injuries.

    Kumapayi said the Onitsha accident involved two vehicles, a Toyota Lexus car with registration number ABH 178 RC and Toyota Corolla car with registration number FST 555 AJ.

    According to him, seven persons including four children were involved in the Onitsha accident, which occurred on the Niger Bridge at about 1:40p.m.

    “The Lexus car lost control after trying to overtake a trailer, spinned and hit the second vehicle on the Niger Bridge, but thankfully, no life was lost,” he said.

    Read Also: How safe is Anambra State?

    He added that personnel of the corps responded to the distress call within eight minutes and were able to control traffic on the bridge.

    The official said the Awka auto crash was reported at 12:01 p.m. same day at Kwata junction along Awka – Onitsha expressway.

    According to him, the lone accident involving 18 passengers in a Toyota black bus with registration number JJT 304 XG was caused by speeding.

    He explained that the commercial bus heading to Awka from Onitsha lost control and rammed into the drainage along the expressway,  resulting in multiple serious injuries by eight passengers in the vehicle.

    Kumapayi, who advised motorists against speeding, said all affected vehicles had been removed from the scene of accident to ensure free flow of traffic.

    (NAN)

  • Obiano, Ortom, workers hail Ngige’s re-appointment

    Anambra governor Willie Obiano and his Benue counterpart Samuel Ortom have congratulated Dr Chris Ngige on his re-appointment as the Minister of Labour and Employment.

    Mr Charles Akpan, Deputy Director, Press and Public Relations, in the labour ministry, said in a statement on Sunday in Abuja that the duo, in separate letters they personally signed, described Ngige’s return to his old turf as “a vote of confidence”.

    The statement quoted both governors as expressing delight at the development which they said should strengthen Obiano’s spirit of patriotism and zeal to deliver on national assignments.

    It quoted Obiano as challenging Ngige to “fly the prestigious Anambra flag” in the discharge of his duties at the federal level”.

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    It also quoted Ortom as urging Ngige to deploy his experience into promoting industry harmony in the country.

    Meanwhile, the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, an affiliate of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, has said that Ngige’s re-appointment was well deserved, “having diligently discharged his duties in the last four years in the labour ministry”.

    “As strategic partners in the industrial relations arena, we can attest that your tenure witnessed relative industrial peace and harmony in the country,” the association said in a letter signed by Messrs Bobboi Kaigama and Alade Bashir Lawal, its National President and Secretary.

    “Expectations are high that you will intervene in the ongoing protracted negotiation in respect of the consequential adjustment arising from the N30,000 monthly National Minimum Wage signed into law by the President in April,” the workers said.

    (NAN)

  • Gedoni, Jackye leave #BBNaija House

    Two housemates, Gedoni and Jackye on Sunday night got evicted from the Big Brother Naija house, becoming the eleventh and twelfth housemates to do so.

    This is resulting from scoring the lowest number of votes

    Gedoni was however seen kneeling down in form of thanksgiving, immediately he was announced as evicted. He spoke in his interview with the show host, Ebuka about the love triangle between himself, Khafi and Venita, saying that “Khafi is priority to me. There is no feelings for Venita.”

    Read Also: BBNaija: Khafi wins N7.6m car

    On her part, Jackye Madu said she had low moments staying in the house, but will go out focusing on her project.

    In another development, Tacha got her second strike in the show, for being rude and undermining Big Brother’s authorities on several occasions. She will be disqualified if she gets one more strike.

    Mercy was also not spared, as she got a strike for provocation and violence that she displayed in during her fight with her love interest Ike, on Saturday night.

    The Big Brother Naija show, now on day 56, continues with 14 housemates left, and will run till day 99.

     

     

  • FIRS teams up with EFCC to tackle high profile tax defaulters

    The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) is collaborating with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in a bid to check tax evasion by high profile individuals in the country.

    Head of Audit at FIRS, Mr. Ajayi Adepoju, said the organization was enlisting the support of the EFCC to ensure that all taxable individuals pay whatever they are supposed to pay to government.

    He spoke during a media chat organized by Voice 89.9 FM Chapel of the Nigeria Union Journalists (NUJ), in Ado Ekiti on Friday.

    He described tax evasion as a serious economic crime that must be tackled by all relevant stakeholders to enable government generate revenue to meet the needs of the people.

    Read Also: FIRS names over 19,000 tax defaulters

    Those who fail to comply, he said, would be prosecuted in consonance with the extant laws no matter how highly placed.

    Adepoju revealed that FIRS generated a tax income of N5.32 trillion last year.

    The FIRS chief advised the Ekiti State government to look more inward to boost its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR).

    He also advised state government to massively develop the agricultural sector, emphasizing on annexing the forestry base of Ekiti.

    The FIRS director also revealed that the tax base of Ekiti is poor and thus advised that the government should take a painstaking effort to explore the mineral deposits in the state.

    Exploring the mineral resources of the state, according to him, would help boost its tax income and provide more money to meet the needs of the people.

    Adepoju added that he, in collaboration with Ado Progressive Union (APU), is working on different workshops to equip youths with skills that will greatly impact their means of livelihood.

  • I faked kidnap in order to see my boyfriend, says 14 year old girl

    One of the reported kidnap victims in Enugu last Thursday has been found by the operatives of the anti -kidnap team of the Enugu Police Command.

    According to the police spokesman, Superintendent Ebere Amaraizu, the “victim”, Kosisochukwu Anioma, 14, confessed that she was never kidnapped but faked it in order to meet her school boyfriend in Owerri.

    Up till the time of filing this report, Kosisochukwu, who is a daughter of an Enugu politician and a former aide to former Governor Chimaroke Nnamani, Frank Anioma, was still in custody of the police.

    Anioma had reported on Thursday that his daughter, Kosiso, was on her way to the New Haven market when she got missing.

    Read Also: Boy, 15, stages own kidnap

    “Her phone was ringing when we called her number but there was no reply. Thereafter, it went into busy,” Anioma posted.

    The police based on the report immediately swung into action where she was traced to Owerri in Imo state.

    According to Amaraizu, the teenage girl confessed: “I faked kidnap in order for me to travel to Owerri to meet my school boyfriend.”

    The police quoted the girl as saying, both of them have been secondary school friends at Abakiliki but she needed to go see him following the prolonged school holiday.

    Kosisochukwu, 14, would be in SSS 1 when the school reopens, same with her boyfriend who hails from Owerri in Imo State,’ the police spokesman said.

  • We have no budget for thugs, says APC

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday dissociated itself from the N13 million allegedly given to the suspected kidnap kingpin, Alhaji Hamisu Balla, a.k.a Wadume for the Presidential election.

    In his statement, Wadume allegedly confessed to being given N13 million by the APC, but spent N7 million of the money for the election, in addition to collecting about N6 million from an unnamed sitting governor.

    However, reacting to the claim, National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mallam Lanre Issa Onilu said the party has not budget for political thugs, stressing that it would be better for the suspect to name who gave him the money.

    Read Also: Army captain on my payroll, Wadume reveals

    Onilu said “It is expected that the alleged kidnapper, having come face to face with justice, would throw whatever he could lay his hands on into the fray. In any case, our party did not have budget for thugs.

    “Unlike the period when the ruling party dipped hands into the public treasury to fund political campaigns and elections, APC had to rely on its own resources. Even if we had all the money, we would never allocate money for kidnappers and murderers. That era ended with PDP. “Perhaps, he can name whoever gave him money. Definitely, it was not APC. From his purported confession, he claimed to be a PDP member before he went on to contest under another party.”

  • Tribunal ouster of Melaye murder of democracy, says PDP

    The Kogi State chapter of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged all its supporters to remain unperturbed by the nullification of Senator Dino Melaye’s (Kogi West) election.

    The PDP in a statement signed by Bode Ogunmola, spokesman of the party, described the tribunal’s ruling nullifying the election of Senator Dino Melaye (PDP- Kogi West), as murder of democracy.

    Melaye’s was the only credible election held and adjudged as the fairest during the last national and state assembly election in the state, the party said.

    He alleged that the tribunal has murdered justice for a pot of potage.

    Read Also: Melaye: ‘APC responsible for Tribunal’s judgement’

    According to him, it is our belief that justice will be done at the appeal court because PDP won the election convincingly and overwhelmingly.

    “It’s very certain that nobody can subvert people’s mandate, where God lives, and we are not worried, because the whole world is laughing at the charade ruling that claims to nullify the PDP victory,” he said.

    Senator Melaye on his part has described the ruling of the Kogi West Election Petition Tribunal, nullifying his victory in the March 22nd 2019 election, as a miscarriage of justice.

    Senator Smart Adeyemi, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had approached the tribunal for redress, saying that the collation of results from the poll was done in Lokoja, instead of the Kabba, the senatorial headquarters, among other wrongs he alleged.

    The tribunal sitting in Abuja, had on Friday nullified the election and ordered for a fresh conduct of the exercise.

  • APC primaries: Disciplinary actions will be meted to those who betrayed party, says Obaseki

    The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has assured that disciplinary actions will be meted to those who betrayed the party during the 2019 All Progressives Congress (APC) primary elections in the state.

    Obaseki said this while receiving the Report of a committee set up by the Edo State Chapter of the APC to reconcile aggrieved party members after the 2019 primary elections.

    The governor expressed appreciation to the committee for helping to review issues involving all the aspirants that participated in the recent APC primaries.

    Obaseki called for compulsory monthly meetings across the various units, wards and Local Government Areas (LGAs) that will be attended by Special Assistants and Advisers from the wards.

    He assured that he would get across to all the parties involved in the issues raised by the committee and urged them to be proud of the developmental strides so far recorded by the party.

    Obaseki assured that the reconciliation exercise will be carried out while promising that stiff disciplinary measures will be meted out to those that betrayed and erred against the party.

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    Chairman of the four-man Committee, Mr. Theophilus Okoh, during the presentation of the Report to the governor, said the committee visited the three senatorial districts in the state and the local government areas to interact with party members who bought APC expression of interest forms, adding that the aspirants cooperated with the committee members.

    He noted that part of the recommendations by the committee is for the party to refund money spent by aspirants to purchase Expression of Interest forms, adding, “In the course of interacting with the aspirants, it was discovered that some of them are intelligent. We advise the government to consider ways of absorbing them into the system.”
    Okoh stressed the need for the party to look out for causes of frictions so as to proffer lasting solutions to all the issues at stake.

    Other members of the committee were Dr. Aisosa Amadasun, Secretary; with Alhaji Shehu Muhammed and Rev. Michael Egharevba as members.

  • BREAKING: Newcastle claims first win against Tottenham at home

    Newscastle United record signing Joelinton’s first goal in English football has given the club a surprise win at Tottenham, making it Steve Bruce first 3 points as their manager.

    The Brazilian striker took advantage of sleepy Tottenham defending to control substitute Christian Atsu’s through pass beautifully before drilling past Hugo Lloris.

    Details Shortly

  • I’m disappointed with Ubi Franklin rejecting his own, says Sandra Iheuwa

    SANDRA Iheuwa, who is believed in some quarters to be the baby mama of entrepreneur and music manager Ubi Franklin, has confessed that she will rather settle with the devil than the latter.

    The popular music manager who has lately, been in the news for many reasons ranging from his divorce to Lilian Esoro,  to his denial of Sandra Iheuwa’s new born which the woman allegedly claimed to be his in her reply to a fan’s question asking if she would  reconsider Franklin stated.

    “@folabimbo nah my dear i can’t pass that fact that a grown man with balls will reject and deny an innocent baby what exactly did the baby do? All because of ego and public image i would rather iron things out with the devil than with baby daddy. I am not angry or bitter i am highly disappointed. I can take care of baby A so baby aint missing anything significant with father not involved baby A don’t need an Instagram daddy”

    Another fan by the handle @proficient_betty went on to ask, “Do u think publicly insulting your child’s father is OK? Considering the fact that your child might get shamed tomorrow because of what u yourself said????? Don’t mean any harm I just want to understand it.”

    READ ALSO: Tekno leaves Ubi Franklin’s Made Men Music Group

    “@proficient publicly insulting??? What do u call a man that publicly rejects and deny a baby that did absolutely no wrong??? Please you people should just dead this matter and stop blaming the woman. My child will never be shamed for a man that publicly denied his own blood the shame and curse is on him not me or my child,” she replied.

    Sandra has not been quiet since Ubi denied “their” child. She shares several posts directly addressing the businessman and promising “Baby A” a better future without a father.

    Many however believe Ubi has subtly replied Sandra in a post he shared on his page saying that “silence can never be misquoted”