Boko Haram Leader, Abubakar Shekau Finally Admits To Killing His Spokesman For This Reason

The leader of Boko Haram’s main faction, Abubakar Shekau, has admitted killing the group’s purported spokesman over an apparent plot to oust him, he said in an audio recording obtained by AFP. In the 50-minute tape of a meeting with the inner circle of his militant Islamist group, Shekau said he killed “Tasiu” — also known as Abu Zinnira — who appeared in several video messages. “You should hear me: I killed Tasiu, hear me well,” he told the gathering in Hausa, which is widely spoken across northeast Nigeria. Shekau states the date of the meeting — December 18 — and said it had been called to discuss “those elements grumbling...

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‘Frozen Chicken Kills’ – FG Warns Nigerians

Nigerians have been warned by the Federal Government against the consumption of frozen chicken as such process chicken causes kidney and other diseases. Minister of State for Agriculture, Heineken Lokpobiri, told State House correspondents that the warning was given during a meeting with Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo held with the president of the Poultry Farmers’ Association of Nigeria Mr Ayoola Oduntan. The minister noted that “Most times, they use what they use to preserve dead bodies (to preserve frozen chicken) and it causes harm to the kidney.” Lokpobiri said the meeting specifically charged the Nigeria Customs...

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[VIDEO] See The Moment Air Force Jet Bombed A Boko Haram Hideout In Borno

Boko Haram terrorists’ location at Tagoshe/Mandara Mountain general area about 10km Southwest of Gwoza in Northern Borno was bombed yesterday, February 24 by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF). Air Force spokesman, Group Captain Ayodele Famuyiwa, confirmed the development in a statement to DAILY POST. He said, “intelligence report by Sister surface forces had it that remnants of fleeing BHTs were gathered at the location.” “This report was confirmed by NAF Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft before combat platforms were called in to strike the location. “Follow-up battle damage assessment confirmed that...

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Policemen Flee, Remove Uniforms As Gunmen Storm Bank In Asaba, Delta

Not Real Photo Policemen attached to a bank in Asaba, Delta State reportedly ran for their lives as unknown gunmen shot a middle-aged man who came to deposit money at the bank. The bank customer who gave up the ghost while being rushed down to the hospital, was shot at a close range after he refused letting go of the bag that contained the large sum of money he came to deposit. According to eyewitnesses, the 8:15a.m incident left them defenseless as policemen attached to the bank, fled the scene while 3 of them removed their uniform, as the men of the underworld who came in a blue golf car struck their first shot as the...

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[PHOTOS] IBB University Confirms One Of Its Lecturers Was Caught While Trying To Sleep With Female Student

A lecturer from the English Department of the Ibrahim Badamosi Babanginda University in Niger State was on Friday, February 24 caught while trying to sleep with a female student. Although the news broke on the internet on Friday, it was not immediately confirmed by the institution that the lecturer was caught while trying to have sex with a female student identified as Aisha (not real name). The lecturer, whose identity was given as IG Yusuf was said to have been threatening to fail the victim if she failed to have sex with him. However, nemesis caught up with the randy lecturer on Friday after the...

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[PHOTOS, VIDEO] Nnamdi Kanu’s Younger Sister Weds In Umuahia, Abia

Princess Chinwe Kanu, who is the younger sister of the detained leader of the Independent People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu had her traditional wedding in Umuahia, Abia State on Saturday, February 25. She got married to her partner Joshua at her hometown, Afara-Ibekwu, in Umuahia, Abia state. See more photos below and a video thereafter; Watch Video from the ceremony below; ...

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‘Buhari Has Not Disappointed Me’ – Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said the current Nigerian leader, Muhammadu Buhari, has not disappointed him since he assumed office in 2015. Mr. Obasanjo stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria at his hilltop residence in Abeokuta.While reflecting on the Buhari administration since 2015, Mr. Obasanjo said that the president had done his best to move the country forward. “Whatever anybody says, President Buhari has not disappointed me from what I know of him,” he said. He said the president had delivered on his core areas of strength and ability, particularly in the anti-corruption crusade and...

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[PHOTOS] Governor Wike Leads The Arrest Of Mechanics In Rivers Over Black Soot Pollution

In furtherance of the fight against the pollution of the Rivers environment by Particulate Matter, popularly referred to as ‘black soot’, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike on Friday ordered the arrest of 15 mechanics engaged in illegal burning of used tyres and condemned engine oil. The governor who ran into the mass illegal burning of tyres and condemned engine oil on Aba Road around the Oyigbo axis was returning from Oyigbo where he attended the funeral service of Late Sir Precious Oforji was attracted by the inferno which emitted a tick smoke into the atmosphere. Wike who was in the company of the Former Acting...

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See The Number Of Graduates FG Plans To Employ In 2017

According to the Senior Special Assistant to the Acting President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, the Federal Government will employ an additional 350,000 graduates in 2017. The graduates will be employed under the N-Power Volunteer Corps, a component of the government’s Social Investment Programmes. Akande disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, February 26 and that President Muhammadu Buhari had requested an appropriation of N157.75bn in the 2017 budget estimates for the N-Power scheme. “350,000 unemployed graduates more would be hired and trained, alongside 50,000 non-graduates youths to be engaged as artisans and...

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‘God Has Been Partial To Me’ – Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has stated that God had been partial to him as he did not deserve the favour he bestowed on him. The former president stated this in his remarks at the thanksgiving service organised in his honour by the Christian Association of Nigeria, Ogun State chapter, ahead of his 80th birthday scheduled to hold on Sunday, March 5. Decked in white agbada, the former President said given the village where he hails from, Ibogun Olaogun, and the illiterate parents that gave birth to him, he never thought his name would even be known in the next village let alone the whole of Nigeria, Africa and the...

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See What Toke Makinwa Wrote On Maje Ayida’s Baby Mama Instagram Page

Toke Makinwa is a Nigerian radio personality, television host, vlogger, and bestselling author of ‘on becoming’, where she walks us through her time with ex-husband, Maje Ayida. . See below: ...

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‘There Is No Cause For Alarm Because Buhari Is Neither Sick Nor In The Hospital – Lai Mohammed

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has reiterated that President Muhammadu Buhari is neither critically ill nor in life threatening situation and there is no cause for alarm. The minister reiterated this position on Monday in Umuahia at the second town hall meeting for the South East and the launch of national reorientation campaign, “Change Begins With Me’’ in Abia. The minister, who was asked to tell the country about the health condition of the president and whether there was need for a regular briefing on his health stressed that there was no reason for such briefings. Mohammed disclosed that the president spoke...

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[PHOTO] FG Evacuates 41 Teenage Nigerian Girls Involved In Human Trafficking From Mali

Photo of the girls as they arrived yesterday The Federal Government on Tuesday evacuated 41 Nigerian girls from Bamako, Mali, through the Ministry of Defence, the Nigerian Air Force, Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and the Diaspora, and the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons. The 41 girls, according to the government, are victims of human trafficking to Europe but ended up in Mali. They arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport , Lagos aboard a Hercules C-130 military transport aircraft at about 7. 55pm. The Senior Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs and the...

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‘I Don’t Regret Working With Goodluck Jonathan’ – Reuben Abati

Reuben Abati, media adviser to ex-president, Goodluck Jonathan has said that he had no regrets working with Jonathan, because of the many lessons and quality exposure that he received under him. Abati said this on Sunday night while fielding questions from the media on life in the Presidential Villa. He described working under the former President as going to the ‘University of Life,’ saying that even those who were his critics would have had something to learn if they got into arena of state power at that time. The former presidential spokesman said that in spite of the allegation that he received N50 million from ex-National Security...

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[PHOTO] Court Orders Forfeiture Of Abuja Mansion Belonging To Obanikoro’s Wife

A Federal High Court sitting in Jabi, Abuja has ordered the forfeiture of a multi-million naira property belonging to Moroophat Obanikoro, the wife of a former minister of state for defence Senator Musiliu Obanikoro pending the outcome of investigations being conducted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission into her husband and children. Her prayer asking the court to order EFCC to pay her the sum of N200m for violating her fundamental human rights was also rejected. Moroophat has already filed an appeal challenging the court judgment. The court ruling follows investigations into the $2.1bn arms scam...

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