February 11, 2020

contraband rice

Customs Seize 256 Bags Of Contraband Rice Hidden As Beans

February 11, 2020 12:06 pm

The Adamawa/Taraba Command of the Nigerian Customs Services (NCS) has impounded a trailer load of 256 50kg bags of contraband rice, each bag hidden in bigger bags packed with beans.

Customs Area Comptroller, Kamardeen Olumoh, who addressed newsmen at the headquarters in Yola on Tuesday, said the trailer was impounded and brought to the headquarters with the rice and beans content from where it was seized along the Yola-Mubi road.

He said the rice was hidden and presented as beans to deceive Nigerian Customs personnel who have been enforcing federal government’s policy against importation of rice.

The Customs Area Comptroller

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Bayelsa State

Dickson’s Appointees Storm Bayelsa G’House Over Salaries

February 11, 2020 12:05 pm

Some appointees of Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, on Tuesday, barricaded the entrance to the Government House in protest of non payment of salaries.

The appointees, who head the 24 Rural Development Areas (RDAs), assumed office on October 15, 2019. They say the protest was to demand their December 2019 and January 2020 salaries.

NAN reports that the protesters, who carried placards with inscription such as “Dickson, pay our two months salaries”, “We are workers and not slaves” and Give us our right,” among others.

Wilson Oruwori, RDA Chairman of Kaiko-Ibeawa in Odioma Community, Brass Local Government, said they

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Bomb

Crisis: Bomb Explodes At Party Secretary’s House In Edo

February 11, 2020 12:02 pm

A bomb on Tuesday exploded around the residence of the Secretary to the All Progressives Congress in Edo State, Lawrence Okah.

Addressing journalists in Benin, Okah disclosed that he was lucky to be alive, following the incident which occurred in the wee hours of Tuesday.

Also speaking, a chieftain of the party and governorship aspirant, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu warned against turning the state into a war zone.

The APC governorship aspirant urged the Inspector General of Police, Muhammed Adamu, and President Muhammadu Buhari to help resolve the crisis rocking the state chapter of the party.

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Dwyane Wade

I’m Proud Of My Son Coming Out As Transgender – Dwyane

February 11, 2020 12:01 pm
American former professional basketball player, Dwyane Wade has said he is proud about the 12-year-old child’s gender identity after he bravely came out as transgender.

Speaking during a recent interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the 38-year-old former basketballer recalled the ‘proud’ moment Zaya, born Zion, approached him and his wife Gabrielle Union to open up about his gender identity.

“First of all, me and my wife Gabrielle, we are proud parents of a child in the LGBTQ+ community and we are proud allies as well. We take our roles and responsibilities as parents very seriously.

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Fire Razes Central Market In Osun State

February 11, 2020 11:40 am

A part of Atakumosa Central Market, Adeti in Ilesha, Osun State, was gutted in fire in the early morning hours of Tuesday destroying goods worth millions of naira.

The inferno which started around 1 am affected several shops located at the entrance of the market but was later subdued through the combined efforts of the police and firemen.

Administrative Officer of Osun State Fire Service, Fatai Aremu, told our correspondent that despite early response to the distress call, barriers at the entrance of the affected shops did not allow the firemen access.

Aremu said the damage caused by the …

sex workers

34 Suspected Commercial Sex Workers Arrested In Jigawa

February 11, 2020 11:39 am

The Jigawa State Shari’a Enforcement Command (Hisbah), says it has arrested 34 suspected commercial sex workers and confiscated 147 bottles of beer in Kazaure Local Government area of the state.

The Hisbah Commander in the state, Malam Ibrahim Dahiru, made disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Dutse.

Dahiru disclosed that the suspects were apprehended in a raid by Shari’a enforcement agents at Gada area of Kazaure.

He said that: “Today; at about 5:00am, our men carried out a raid at the popular Gada joint in Kazaure LGA.

“During the raid, 34 suspected …

Arsenal Is The Worst Club In EPL – Paul Merson

February 11, 2020 11:38 am

 

Former professional footballer and Arsenal hero, Paul Merson described the club as the ‘worst team’ in the Premier League without the ball over the last ten years.

Merson said this ahead of Arsenal’s Premier League clash with Newcastle on Sunday evening at Emirates Stadium.

Arsenal are presently in the tenth position on the Premier League table with 31 points from 25 matches.

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“I supported what former Arsenal manager, Unai Emery was saying about the team, because the Gunners are not supposed to be in this position in the …

Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki

Explosion: Edo Factional APC Scribe Fingers Obaseki

February 11, 2020 11:37 am

 

Factional State Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Lawrence Okah, whose house was allegedly bombed by unknown persons on Tuesday morning, has accused Governor Godwin Obaseki of plotting to kill him over his second term ambition.

The Governor, however, said the resort to violence was the stock in trade of Ize-Iyamu, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and their cohorts in the Edo Peoples Movement (EPM).

Speaking while conducting journalists round his residence where the bomb exploded, Okah alleged that some gunmen had last week Tuesday fired at his bedroom.

He said that …

Kanu’s Threat Is A Rant Of A Local Coward – Abia CP

February 11, 2020 5:51 am

Abia Commissioner of Police, Ene Okon, has said the threat by IPOB to deal with his children if any member of the pro-Biafra group was shot by police during the burial of Kalu’s parents, was like the  ranting of a local coward.

IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kalu, in radio address last Saturday, said if any shot was fired in Afaraukwu on

February 14, the family and children of Mr. Okon  would be haunted down and killed.

Okon in a statement said: “I don’t want to talk much; all that I want to say is that the threat is a ranting …

SARS

Documentary Uncovers Tactics Used By SARS To Kill

February 11, 2020 5:50 am

Illegal tactics used by Nigeria’s security agencies to toture and kill detainees have been uncovered in an investigative documentary by the BBC Africa Eye.

In the 17-minute clip titled “The Torture Virus” and posted on its YouTube channel on Monday, February 10, the documentary showed how victims are illegally tortured through a technique called ‘Tabay’ and sometimes buried alive and killed by men of the Nigerian Army, Nigeria Police and the Special Anti-Robbery Squard (SARS).

The documentary begins by showing the tourture of two young men, Abba Bashir and Abubakar Mala, by members of the government-backed Civilian Joint Task Force …

Lawyer

Kanu’s Lawyer Asks Army, Police, Others To Withdraw

February 11, 2020 5:50 am

Ahead of the burial ceremony of Nnamdi Kanu’s parents in Abia state, his lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has called on the Army, the Inspector General of Police and other security agencies to withdraw their men from the community to allow for a peaceful burial.

Eze Israel Okwu Kanu and Ugoeze Sally Kanu, parents of the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kalu would be buried on February 14, 2020. Ejiofor, at a press conference, yesterday, in Abuja, appealed to Abia  Police Commissioner, Mr. Ene Okon, to order the police to stay away from the venue of the ceremony.

The appeal by Kanu’s lawyer comes …

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We Want Biafra Not Igbo President In 2023 – MASSOB/BIM

February 11, 2020 5:49 am

The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and the  Biafra Independent Movement (BIM), yesterday, said they were not part of agitation by some South East leaders pushing for an Igbo to become President in 2023.

The groups said their interest and agitation remained the actualisation of the sovereign state of Biafra  and appealed to the Federal Government to grant them Biafra independence ahead of 2023.

Chief Larry  Ikechukwu Odinma, who addressed the media in Abakaliki, as  Minister for Planning and Strategy in the New Republic of Biafra, said Igbo were more focused on getting …

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