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AIB explains why Osinbajo’s helicopter crashed

February 13, 2019 10:16 pm

LAGOS—The Accident Investigation Bureau, AIB, yesterday, released preliminary report on the helicopter crash involving the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo and members of his team.

The helicopter, Agusta AW139 with registration number: 5N-PEJ and serial number: 31389 owned and operated by Caverton Helicopters crash landed in Kabba, Kogi State with twelve passengers on board, including the Vice President.

According to the initial reports released in Lagos by the AIB Commissioner, Engineer Akin Olateru, the said helicopter had a valid certificate of airworthiness.

The report revealed that “Caverton Helicopters Limited did not conduct site survey of the landing field prior to …

Anumudu 16, wins ₦7.5 million InterswitchSPAK Prize

February 13, 2019 9:40 pm

Sixteen-Year-Old Akachukwu Anumudu of Apostolic Faith Secondary School, Anthony, Lagos, on Saturday, February 9, 2019, emerged winner of the first edition of the InterswitchSPAK National Science Competition held in Lagos – Nigeria.

He beat eight other contestants in an intense quiz session to win the grand prize of N7.5 million worth of tertiary education scholarship spread over five years, a laptop and a monthly stipend during the course of the scholarship.

The first runner-up was 16-year-old Henry Umunna of the Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja.   Umunna won N4 million worth of scholarship spread over three years; while the second runner-up, 16-year-old …

JUST IN: Nnamdi Kanu set to reveal more facts about Jubril

February 13, 2019 1:08 pm

The Supreme Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)  Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has vowed to deal a final blow that will settle this issue on President Mohammadu Buhari’s staunt double.

The IPOB’s  supreme leader has given the February 14 as the date for  the final onslaught.

It is on record that Kanu has earlier given verifiable evidences that the person being paraded as the Nigeria’s leader, is an impostor known as Jubril Al-Sudani from Sudan.

Kanu just officially made this known via his Facebook account@MaziNnamdiKanuTheLeaderIPOB

 

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North Korea nuclear threat not over yet

February 13, 2019 12:28 pm

Since President Trump met last year with Kim Jong Un, North Korea hasn’t changed a thing about its military capabilities. This blunt assessment came from Gen. Robert Abrams, commander of US Forces Korea, during a Senate hearing. Abrams said the North’s military still has the potential to put the US, South Korea and other allies at risk.

Tensions along the DMZ have eased though, the general said. Trump, who has said previously that the nuclear threat from North Korea is over, meets with Kim for a second summit on February 27 and 28 in Vietnam.

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US border security deal

February 13, 2019 11:43 am

President Trump said he’s “not happy” with the border security deal struck by negotiators in Congress. And he’s not the only one frowning on the agreement, which falls far short of the $5.7 billion Trump originally demanded for a border wall.

Some of the most conservative and liberal members of Congress have problems with it, too, but they’re likely to fall in line because no one wants another government shutdown. And that’s exactly what will happen if a bill based on the deal isn’t passed into law by the end of the week.

All eyes are on Trump right …

Jubril, Atiku, others sign National Peace Accord in Abuja

February 13, 2019 11:28 am

Jubril Al-Sudani, the Impostor being paraded in Nigeria as President Muhammadu Buhari,  the  All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday joined other candidates to sign the second 2019 National Peace Accord in Abuja.

 

Jubril, the impostor, and Atiku have beckoned on Nigerians for free, fair and non-violent elections.

The Presidential election comes up on Saturday 16th of February, 2019.…

15 Imo gubernatorial candidates adopt Senator Araraume

February 13, 2019 11:04 am

Fifteen governorship candidates of diffrent political parties under the platform of forum of Imo state governorship candidates Wednesday adopted the state governorship flag-bearer of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, Senator Ifeanyi Araraume.

The candidates led by Elder Chukwuemeka Allias, of the National Interest Party, NIP, alongside 14 others stormed the campaign office, of Senator Araraume along MCC road in Owerri, where they unanimously adopted the APGA, guber candidate.

Allias briefly said among other things that their adoption of Araraume as their candidate was based on his capacity to offer good governance to the people of the state, adding that …

NYSC warns members on election duty not to accept snacks

February 13, 2019 10:43 am

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Wednesday warned corps members on election duty to desist from receiving snacks and drinks from unknown persons during elections.

Maj.-Gen. Suleiman Kazaure, NYSC Director-General, gave the warning while addressing the corps members in Gombe. Kazaure, who was represented by Mr Zakaria Alphonso, Assistant Director, Mobilisation, NYSC, Abuja, said that such gifts could harm them. “Because such items can be poisoned or flavoured with drugs that can induce sleep,” he said.

He advised the corps members to make personal feeding plans and water, and make they do not over feed. “Rather, you should go …

We’ll deal with Amosun for disrupting rally in Ogun – APC

February 13, 2019 1:07 am

The All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, has accused Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State of sponsoring thugs to pelt Jubril, the impostor being paraded as President Muhammadu Buhari and other important personalities during its campaign rally in Abeokuta on Monday. The campaign rally which ended in chaos following the way, Ogun people pelted Jubril, and the dignitaries that occupied him.

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Babachir Lawal docked over ₦272 million grass-cutting deal

February 13, 2019 12:35 am

ABUJA—Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, docked former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, before an Abuja High Court at Maitama, following his alleged complicity in ₦272 million contract fraud.

Lawal, whose arraignment came about two years after he was accused of illegally diverting a contract the Presidential Initiative for North-East, PINE, awarded for the removal of grasses in Internally Displaced Persons, IDP, camps, to his own company, pleaded not guilty to the 10-count criminal charge the EFCC preferred against him.

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Bloody clash at APC campaign rally in Ekiti

February 13, 2019 12:01 am

Ado-Ekiti—Scores of supporters of All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party sustained various degree of injuries during a bloody clash at a campaign rally in Omuo Ekiti, headquarters of Ekiti East Local government area of Ekiti State. The incident was said to have occurred when members of the APC were said to be holding a joint rally for the senatorial candidate in Ekiti South District, Prince Dayo Adeyeye and the House of Representatives candidate in Ekiti South Federal Constituency, Femi Bamisile, Monday evening, when the suspected PDP thugs invaded the rally and launched attacks on them.

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14 confirmed dead at APC rally in Rivers

February 12, 2019 11:26 pm

It has been confirmed that fourteen persons lost their lives in the course of APC Presidential rally on Tuesday in Port-Harcourt. The stampede that was the cause of death happened when Jubril, the impostor (being paraded as Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari) arrived the state.

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