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Femi Fani-Kayode reveals real name of the man who tried bombing Winners Chapel, says he’s not Christian (photos) Reactions continue to the attempted bombing of Living Faith Church Worldwide, popularly known as Winners Chapel at the weekend in Kaduna and an ardent critic of the President Muhammadu Buhari has said the arrested terrorist is a Muslim of Fulani heritage. He wrote on his verified Twitter account ; If anyone really believes that the individual that attempted to plant a bomb in Winners Chapel, Kaduna is a Christian and that his real name is Nathaniel Tanko they need to have their heads examined. He is actually a Hausa Fulani Muslim and his real name is Mohammed Nasiru Sani.

Jimi Agbaje, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday said the outright ban on okada and tricycles in some parts of Lagos state is not the solution to accidents and insecurity which is the primary concern of the state government. Speaking in a chat with Daily Independent, Agbaje who was the Lagos state governorship candidate of the PDP in the 2015 and 2019 general elections said the ban which took effect from February 1 has kept thousands of okada and tricycle riders out jobs . He said this will have a ripple effect on the economy as those associated with them such as the vulcanizers, spare parts sellers, food sellers and others will also be negatively affected. While noting the hardships being experienced by some Lagosians as a result of the ban, Agbaje advised Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to regulate the activities of the operators instead of the outright ban, adding that jobless okada and tricycle riders may resort to crimes which will not augur well for the securi...

Attempted Suicide Bombing: THE KINGDOM IS TAKEN FROM YOU-Curses Bishop Oyedepo *This is the last straw. *It is impossible for these killers to do what they are doing without some authority backing them up. *Curses boko haram, miyetti allah and all others involved in the violence. *Asks how can people claim responsibility for killings and still be walking on the streets? We are here to celebrate God for delivering us from ‘So great a death’. 2 Corinthians 1:10 There was a failed attempt to bomb one of our Churches in Kaduna yesterday. This agent of the devil already entered the premises, found his way to the toilet, (but "who delivered us from so great a death"wink, was accosted and arrested. 1. That's a proof that God is in our midst. Zephaniah 3:17 A vivid proof that God is in the midst of His people and we are here not to assume but to celebrate His Faithfulness; To tell this Nation as they would expect me to do: - The last straw that will break the back of everybody in...

FG, Salkida know my daughter's whereabouts, Leah Sharibu's father alleges Nathan Sharibu, the father of the teenage Christian girl, Leah Sharibu, who was abducted by Boko Haram, has alleged that the Federal Government and Ahmed Salkida knew his daughter's whereabouts. Sharibu told The PUNCH that despite the latest revelation about his daughter, he remained unfazed. "If that is the will of God. Then, I receive it with all pleasure," he added. He, however, said he was saddened about the alleged conspiracy over his daughter's whereabouts, noting that neither the Federal Government nor Ahmad Salkida could claim not to know the whereabouts of Leah. He said, "There are no qualms. I have been receiving lots of calls from last night but all I can say is that it is well. If that is the will of God, it is well. Whatever they have done I receive it with all pleasure. The government knows of Leah's whereabouts. I repeat it, the government knows Leah's whereab...

After about 26 days in custody court finally grants Shehu Sani N10m bail Senator Shehu Sani has been granted Ten Million naira (N10m) bail by a Federal High Court in Abuja. Sani who represented Kaduna Central, in the 8th senate was accused of collecting money in the name of the EFCC acting chairman, Ibrahim Magu. A source familiar with the arrest told journalists that Mr Sani was arrested following a leak that he collected money from a popular Kaduna businessman to give Mr Magu. Following a conflict between him and his former in-law, a famous Kaduna car dealer, Sani Dauda, was said to have been approached by Mr Sani to help him get EFCC to dig up alleged crimes of his estranged in-law. A top source at the EFCC, who asked for anonymity as he was not authorised to speak on the matter, said Mr Sani collected $10,000 from Mr Dauda. But a source in Kaduna said Mr Sani returned the money to Mr Dauda after the deal leaked and the businessman was invited by EFCC to make a statement. Since his ...

Health authorities in Ivory Coast are investigating a suspected case of Wuhan coronavirus in a female student who arrived from China, officials have said. The student, whom authorities have not named, is the first person to be tested for the virus on the continent, CNN reports. The virus has killed at least 80 people in the mainland Chinese city of Wuhan. The 34-year-old student traveled from Beijing to the Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport in Abidjan on Saturday and was coughing, sneezing and experienced difficulty breathing, Ivory Coast's Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene said in statement. The student was moved to a safe location upon arrival at the airport and is currently under medical observation, the ministry said. Authorities believe it is highly likely a case of pneumonia and not coronavirus, but the final diagnosis will be made after the analysis of the results of the test, the ministry said. Michel Yao, WHO Africa emergency response program manager, said t...

Christian Obodo, former Super Eagles Attacking Midfielder on Sunday, January 26, escaped death after involving in a serious car accident in Delta State. According to report, The Car accident occured around Ozo road in Delta State with the car of The 35-year-old badly damaged. But the Report never reveal if the former Udinese player was alone inside the car when the accident happened. Obodo is currently withouth a club after playingg last for Appolon Smyrnis Making 17 Appearances and scoring no goal. The former Torino star was regarded as one of the most skillful and Talented Midfielders considering his style of play for the Super Eagles then.

Christian Obodo, former Super Eagles Attacking Midfielder on Sunday, January 26, escaped death after involving in a serious car accident in Delta State. According to report, The Car accident occured around Ozo road in Delta State with the car of The 35-year-old badly damaged. But the Report never reveal if the former Udinese player was alone inside the car when the accident happened. Obodo is currently withouth a club after playingg last for Appolon Smyrnis Making 17 Appearances and scoring no goal. The former Torino star was regarded as one of the most skillful and Talented Midfielders considering his style of play for the Super Eagles then.

The sacked local government chairmen in Oyo State, on Monday, defied Governor Seyi Makinde and resumed to their respective local government secretariats amid tight security. Controversy trailed the administration of local governments in the state, following the immediate sack of the chairmen elected under former Governor Abiola Ajimobi, barely twenty-four hours after Governor Makinde’s swearing-in on May 29, 2019. In his bid to reconstitute the local government administration, Governor Makinde had in December 2019 appointed caretaker chairmen for LGAs and LCDAs to fill the void despite the various cases instituted by both parties. Reports from Ibarapa NorthEast LCDA, Lanlate, have it that Mr. Lanre Olaosegba resumed at the council secretariat with his councilors. Also, Barr. Daud Suleiman Abayomi of Ogbomoso Central LCDA also resumed with his councilors. Abayomi, who was beaming with smiles while a Muslim prayer was ongoing, said the gate to the secretariat and his office were padlocke...

Governor Samuel Ortom has disclosed that he narrowly escaped death when suspected armed herdsmen shot at him in his farm at Adeke along Makurdi-Naka road. This is just as suspected armed herdsmen reportedly abducted and killed a member of the state’s Livestock Guard in Ado Local Government Area, LGA. The Governor, yesterday in a live radio programme monitored in Makurdi said he had gone to his farm in the outskirts of Makurdi town few days ago when armed herdsmen besieged the vicinity and open fire. According to him, “just last week I was in my farm that is situated in the outskirts of Makurdi town when armed herdsmen came there and shot at me. “They also shot at the vehicle of our Livestock Guards who came there and shattered it. We had to call the joint military security team, Operation Whirl Stroke, OPWS, who came and saved the situation,” he added. The Governor lamented that in the influx of armed herdsmen into the state had become a source of concern and worry and needed to be che...

PRESS RELEASE: LET AMOTEKUN EMBRACE ALL Sequel to the resolution of the governors of the South West to give a legal backing to the Amotekun security outfit, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has called on the governors of the South West to allow the re-branded security agency to embrace all citizens living in the sub-region. MURIC also advised that the new security organization should not lean towards any religion or target any ethnic group for victimization. The call was made on Monday 27th January, 2020 in a press statement issued by the director of the human rights organization, Professor Ishaq Akintola. The statement further added: “No homo sapien compos mentis living in Yorubaland will oppose the setting up of a security outfit to complement the existing security agencies on ground (the army, police, NNDC, DSS, etc). We all want lives and properties secured all over Nigeria. That is why people living on every street have security arrangements in place while some individuals also h...

Chelsea welcomes Liverpool in a tie of the round. Here is the fixtures for the fifth round of the FA Cup. The favorites to go through are the bolded teams, this is based on current form or pedigree. What is your take Sheffield Wednesday v Man City Reading/Cardiff v Sheffield Utd Chelsea v Shrewsbury/ Liverpool West Bromwich Albion v Newcastle /Oxford Leicester v Coventry/Birmingham Northampton/Derby v Manchester United Southampton/ Spurs v Norwich Portsmouth v Arsenal

The publisher of Sahara Reporters and presidential candidate of the in 2019 general elections Omoyele Sowore Monday said he was open to teaching Government or Geography in a Government-owned secondary school “while sitting idle in Abuja.” He said he looked for a public school where he could teach on Monday. But the principal had “disappeared” before he got to the school. “Today I set out to look for a public school where I could teach “Government” or Geography while sitting idle in Abuja,” Sowore said in a post on his Instagram “So we set out to a public school but by the time we arrived there, the Principal had disappeared on us. Great thanks to students and teachers who welcomed us.” It is unclear if Sowore had a prior arrangement with the school or if the principal knew he was coming. Sowore did not say if he was allowed to teach either of the subjects he mentioned. He, however, posted pictures that showed he was warmly received by teachers and students of the school he visited. Sow...

The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Monday reviewed the current security architecture of the country and demanded an urgent restructuring to make a way for intervention from other tiers of government . Lawan, in an interview with journalists in Abuja , also welcomed the recent regional and states initiatives to tackle the unfortunate security challenges in the country . He said the Senate would summon the heads of the various security agencies in the country as soon as plenary resumes this week to work out a realistic arrangement that could adequately tackle the menace. Asked to state his position on the regional intervention by governors to tackle insecurity , Lawan said it was a good idea. He said , “All hands must be on deck . The Federal, states and local governments . More importantly, citizens must be involved. This is because wherever you see security improving, that means the citizens are playing their roles very well . "The onus lies largely on government . So, w...

Kobe Bryant, 41, the legendary basketball star who spent 20 years with the Los Angeles Lakers, was killed when the helicopter he was traveling in crashed and burst into flames Sunday morning amid foggy conditions in the hills above Calabasas, sources told the Los Angeles Times. Bryant’s death stunned Los Angeles and the sports world, which mourned one of basketball’s greatest players. Sources said the helicopter took off from Orange County, where Bryant lived. for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Four others on board also died. Jerry Kocharian was standing outside the Church in the Canyon drinking coffee when he heard a helicopter unusually low struggling overhead. “It [didn’t] sound right and it was real low. I saw it falling and spluttering. But it was hard to make out as It was so foggy,” Kocharian said. The helicopter vanished into a cloud of fog and then there was a boom. “There was a big fireball,” he said. “No one could survive that.” The helicopter, a Sikorsky S-76B...

Akingbesote Oluwole caxtine   The Rufus Giwa Polytechinic (formally Ondo State polytechnic) has expelled no fewer than  nine(9)students  and suspended 18 for indulging in examination malpractices, noting that the breakdown showed 27undergraduate students. The above decision was taken at the special meeting of the board of studies held on Friday, 17th January, 2020 when the report from the Examination Malpractices Investigation Committee (EMIC) on 2nd semester examinations 2017/2018 academic session and first semester Examination 2018/2019 Academic session were taken and found them culpable of the offences. The polytechnic's Head of Information and polytechnic's Relations, Olugosi O. E, in a release said the Polytechnic's boards, after due diligence, approved the expulsion and rustication of the students. The expelled students are;Abiodun Joshua (Electrical electronic Technology), Dada Damilola Olumide(science laboratory Technology), Oseni Toyin Nurat (Banking and Finance)...

Nigeria has slipped on Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index 2019, scoring 26 per cent. Nigeria scored 27 out of 100 in TI’s 2018 report but dropped by a point in 2019, making Africa’s most populous country take the 146th position. The country has also become the most corrupt nation in West Africa. This is despite the anti-corruption war being championed by Nigerian President, Maj.Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). TI’s latest report states that Africa’s most populous country like most other countries in Sub-Saharan nations has continued to witness a high rate of corruption which has now worsened due to vote-buying. The report shows that despite the corruption war being championed by Buhari in the last four and a half years, Nigeria has failed to score higher than 28 per cent. Nigeria scored 28 out of 100 in 2016 and 2017 but fell in 2018 to 27 and fell further to 26 in 2019. In the latest report, Nigeria scored the same as Iran, Honduras, Guatemala, Bangladesh, Mozambiqu...

…Says No Case Of Virus Reported In Nigeria The Lagos State Government has alerted the public to a new virus, the novel Coronavirus (nCoV) which is currently raging in China and has also been reported in some foreign countries, including the United States of America, causing no fewer than nine deaths. In a press statement, the Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi said Coronaviruses (CoV) is a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Abayomi explained that the novel Coronavirus (nCoV) is a new strain that had not been previously identified in humans, adding that Coronaviruses are primarily infections of animals that can be transmitted to humans. “On 31 December 2019, the World Health Organisation (WHO), China Country Office was informed of a cluster of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China...

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has condemned the murder of Lawan Andimi, chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Wednesday in Michika local government area of Adamawa. In a statement issued and signed in Lagos, the MURIC director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, who described the killing as horrific, ungodly and barbaric, said that anyone who kills innocent people does not represent Islam. “We condemn it in the strongest terms possible. We reiterate our earlier declaration that Boko Haram is not an Islamic group, rather it is a group of misled zealots’’. Prof. Ishaq Akintola, who sympathized with the leadership of CAN in particular and the Nigerian Christian community, urged all Nigerians regardless of religious background to unite against Boko Haram. He called on the Nigerian military to leave no stone unturned in its efforts to eliminate the insurgents.

The National Secretary, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Saleh Alhassan, says his organisation is afraid that if the Amotekun security outfit is allowed to operate, it could turn out to be a disaster for the country. Alhassan who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Tuesday, likened the initiative to the Oodua Peoples Congress (APC) which he claimed has the history of heinous crimes and killings. “We are afraid because if they don’t tame this monster at the early stage, it is going to be a serious disaster for the country,” he said.He also described the initiative as a “threat to democracy”. Speaking further, he accused those calling for the creation of the security outfit of planning to displace the herdsmen in the Yoruba-speaking states. “For us, Amotekun, the Yoruba tribal militia is one of the greatest threats to democracy we now have in place.You cannot empower an ethnic militia that has a violent crime. “Essentially what you have as Amotekun is OPC that have a history ...

The Nigerian Institute of Journalism has sacked one of its lecturers, Mr Tene John, over alleged sexual assault on one of its students, Ms Anjola Ogunyemi. His sack was announced by the NIJ in an official release signed by its Registrar and circulated on its official social media handles on Monday. Lecturers in the journalism institute confirmed the authenticity of the release to our correspondent on the telephone.   DUKEGIST gathered that Ogunyemi had accused Tene of attempting to forcefully have sexual intercourse with her in his office. The student, who subsequently petitioned the institute and demanded probe, said she has arrived at the institute for a morning lecture when the incident happened. Upon investigation, the institute relieved Tene of his job and warned other lecturers and students to desist from such an act. The release read in part, “Our attention has been drawn to a post on the social media, by one of our students, Ms Anjola Ogunyemi in National Diploma One, alle...

During the recent Twitter war between Davido and Mr Patrick, a fake tweet where Davido allegedly made negative insinuations about his son went viral. The obviously fake Tweet came up following rumours and allegations that Perruzi was sleeping with Davido’s fiancée, Chioma and that Peruzzi pimped Chioma. An allegation that first emanated from Kemi Olunloyo last year before it trended again recently. The fake tweet said to be from Davido, apologized to Kemi Olunloyo, stating that Ifeanyi Adedeji Adeleke may not be his biological son. Now, Davido has come out to rubbish the tweet and those that spread and believed it. Davido said the Tweet is FAKE and photoshopped. See the Viral fake Tweet and Davido's reaction below:

Oxford English Dictionary said it has added 29 Nigerian words and expressions in the January updates to the dictionary. “The majority of these new additions are either borrowings from Nigerian languages, or unique Nigerian coinages that have only begun to be used in English in the second half of the twentieth century, mostly in the 1970s and 1980s,” OED’s World English editor Danica Salazar said in a statement. ‘Next tomorrow,’ is one of the new entries into the dictionary. The expression is regarded as the oldest among the over 25 uniquely Nigerian words/expressions. According to Salazar, ‘next tomorrrow’ was first used in written English as a noun in 1953, and as an adverb in 1964. Kannywood, which refers to the film industry in northern Nigeria, is deemed the youngest among the lot. Others such as ‘buka,’ ‘bukateria’ and ‘severally’ also made the dictionary. The full list of the new entries is below: agric, adj. & n. barbing salon, n. buka, n. bukateria, n. chop, v./6 chop-chop,...

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has withdrawn licences from 11 centres for charging candidates exorbitant amount in the ongoing 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) registration. Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, Registrar of the board, made this known in Abuja on Tuesday, at an interactive session with stakeholders. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the stakeholders comprises – the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corp (NSCDC), banks, E-transact, Digital Partner Network, Interswitch and other service providers. Oloyede said that the proliferation of tutorial centres was a major concern as most of the centres engaged in fraud and corruption, during registrations and examinations. Oloyede said that charging above the stipulated N4,700 for the 2020 UTME registration was illegitimate and would only destroy the nation; as it was an act of fraud and corruption. He said that the exorbitant amount could have negative effects on the nation as well as hav...