April 19, 2019

Woman delivered of five babies

April 19, 2019 9:32 pm

A 42-year-old woman has given birth to five babies (quintuplets) at Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Lokoja, Kogi, after 18 years of barrenness.

Mrs Uchenna Okeigbo and her kids are in good condition, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

Okeigbo, a native of Olokoro Amangbo Community, Umuahia South Local Government Area of Abia State , gave birth to three boys and two girls on Wednesday, April 17 through Caesarean Section.

She was full of praises to God  for the rare gift of five babies at a go after waiting for 18 years.

”It is not easy to have five
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How reckless driver caused Ibadan tanker fire

April 19, 2019 8:40 pm

Details emerged yesterday about  how a reckless car driver triggered the fire incident  that claimed the lives of  three people, three cars and more than 10 motorcycles in Ibadan during the week.

Also destroyed in  the fire incident were kiosks belonging to a motorcycle seller and a lottery operator.  The havoc wreaked by the incident according to eyewitnesses  would have been worse but for the quick removal of vehicles in a  nearby car wash. The  operator was said to have quickly driven the vehicles to safety when the fuel started  spilling from the tanker.

The 33,000litres fuel laden tanker going …

Nigeria under siege, needs prayers – PDP Chairman laments

April 19, 2019 8:25 pm

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, on Friday urged Nigerians to use this period of Easter to intensify their prayers for Nigeria because the country was under siege.

Secondus, in his Easter message to Nigerians, said only prayers can save Nigeria from the current siege.

In a statement signed and forwarded to DAILY POST by his Media Aide, Ike Abonyi, Prince Secondus also urged Nigerians not to allow the prevailing hardship in the country and the unjust outcome of 2019 election affect their spirit of love, brotherliness and peaceful co-existence.

The National Chairman said
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Nigerian filmmaker Ifeanyi Onyeabor dies shooting movie

April 19, 2019 8:13 pm

President of Directors’ Guild of Nigeria (DGN), Mr Fred Amata, has confirmed the death of Nollywood filmmaker, Ifeanyi Onyeabor, who died while shooting a movie in Jos.

Amata told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that Onyeabor’s death on Friday was shocking and unbelievable, and had left him pondering on what may have gone wrong.

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Onnoghen refuses CCT conviction, heads to Court of Appeal

April 19, 2019 11:22 am

The former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, came out smoking yesterday after the Code of Conduct Tribunal convicted him for false assets declaration.

The tribunal came down heavily on the embattled judicial chief. It relieved him of his top judicial position, barred him from holding public office for 10 years and stripped him of all the funds in the five accounts he was found to have concealed.

“We shall avail ourselves of all the processes and the hierarchy of the judiciary,” Onnoghen’s lead counsel, Mr. Okon Efut SAN, said angrily in reaction to the judgment of the tribunal …

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