Transport Waiver: FG Lists Participating Coys, Routes.. Check if you state is among

The Federal Government has made good its transportation waiver promise to Nigerians this festive season and has listed participating companies and routes for the scheme.

Solid Minerals Minister Dele Alake in a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday said the presidential intervention of 50 percent slash transport is a demonstration of President Bola Tinubu’s commitment to the welfare of Nigerians and easing their movement this Yuletide.

Hours after the move, the presidential aide Bayo Onanuga listed the transportation companies for the scheme and the routes.

According to him, GIG ( God is Good), Chisco Transport, Young Shall Grow, God Bless Ezenwata, and Area Motor.

Onanuga listed the routes as:

LAGOS-KAΝΟ
LAGOS-ABUJA
LAGOS-JOS
LAGOS-ENUGU
LAGOS-ONISHA
LAGOS- OWERRI
LAGOS-ABA
LAGOS-ABAKALIKI
LAGOS-NSUKA
LAGOS-UYO
LAGOS-KADUNA-ZARIA
LAGOS-PH
ONISHA-ΚΑΝΟ
ONISHA-LAGOS
ONISHA-JOS
ONISHA-ABUJA
ONISHA-SOKOTO
ONISHA-GOMBE
ONISHA- ZAKIBIAM
PH-OWERRI-ABA-KANO
ABA-OWERRI- ABJ
ABA-LAGOS
ABUJASOKOTO
ABUJA LAGOS
ABUJA ONITSHA – OWERRI – PORT HARCOURT
ABUJA-ENUGU/ABAKALIKI
ABUJA GOMBE
ABUJA – KΑΝΟ

Jigawa Govt Approves N6bn for 1,500 Housing Units

The Jigawa Executive Council has approved N6 billion for the construction of 1,500 unit of houses to address housing deficit in the state.
Alhaji Sagir Musa, the state’s Commissioner for Information, Youth, Sports and Culture said this in a statement in Dutse.
Musa that the houses would comprised of three-bedroom standalone and two-bedroom semi-detached flats in different parts of the state.
“The project will be executed in line with Gov. Umar Namadi’s 12-points agenda toward provision of affordable and accessible shelter to the people,” he said.

He said N5.9 billion had already been released for the project.
The commissioner added that 600 units of the houses would be constructed in Dutse, while 200 units would be constructed in Hadejia and 100 units constructed in Kazaure, Gumel, Ringim and Binin-Kudu Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state.
‘’Babura and Kafin Hausa LGAs will have 150 units each to address paucity of accommodation in the areas,’’ he said.

53,836 Inmates Awaiting Trial Nationwide – Official

No fewer than 53, 836 inmates in 253 correctional centres are awaiting trial as of December 18, the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has revealed.

The spokesperson of the service, Assistant Controller of Corrections (ACC) Abubakar Umar told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday.

Umar said that summary of the inmates across the country by conviction and those on the awaiting trial list was 77,849 within the period under review.

He added that the total number of convicted inmates was 24, 013 persons within the period “adding that the convicted male inmates were 23,569 and 444 convicted females respectively.

”Statistics shows that 69 per cent of the inmates in Custodial Centres are awaiting trial while 31 per cent are convicted inmates,” he said.

Umar said that one of the challenges of the service was the issue of dilapidated custodial structures which resulted in overcrowded and congested spaces within the centers.

He said that the government has recently constructed 3,000 ultra-modern additional custodial facilities across the six geopolitical zones to decongest existing centres.

He said the initiative would help in decongesting the centres as well as enhance the welfare and the health of the inmates.

“That of Kano has been inaugurated and we are expecting speedy completion on the remaining facilities under construction,” he said.

“The ongoing construction of Abuja and the Portharcourt centres had reached completion stages and they would soon be inaugurated” he added.

He appreciated the Federal Government for raising N585m towards the settlement of fines for inmates in a bid to decongest correctional centres across the country.

He also lauded the recent effort of the federal government to release 4,068 inmates serving various jail terms.

(NAN)

EFCC Confirms Detention Of Ex-Power Minister Agunloye

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has confirmed the detention of a former Minister of State for Power Olu Agunloye days after he was declared wanted.

A source in the anti-graft agency told Channels Television on Tuesday that Agunloye has been detained since 13 December 2023.

“He has been with the EFCC since December 13th,” the source said. “But it was not made public.”

The EFCC had about a week ago declared Agulonye wanted over an alleged $6 billion fraud related to the controversial Mambilla hydropower project.

“The public is hereby notified that Olu Agunloye, whose photograph appears above, is wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in an alleged case of corruption and forgery,” the agency wrote on its social media platforms.

 

Celine Dion Stiff Person Syndrome Battle Continues, Loses Control of Her Muscle Movement

Canadian singer Celine Dion also widely referred as Queen of Power Ballads is currently struggling with her health. The 55-year-old singer was detected with stiff person syndrome in December 2022 after which her health has deteriorated.

Fans all over the world are praying for her speedy recovery.

Unfortunately, it seems that the prayers are not working as recently Celine Dion’s sister Claudette Dion shared a disturbing update about the former’s health.

Claudette, 74, told Canada’s 7 Jours about how Céline has “lost control of her muscles”: “What breaks my heart is that she’s always been disciplined. “She’s always worked hard. Our mother always told her, ‘You’re going to do it well. You’re going to do it properly.’”

Claudette added Céline still wants to perform despite her illness, saying: “It’s true that in both our dreams and hers, the goal is to return to the stage.

In a rare social media post in October, Céline shared a set of photos of her posing with her three sons at an ice hockey match.

She captioned the images: “My boys and I had such a fun time visiting with the Montreal Canadiens after their hockey game with Vegas Golden Knights in Las Vegas Monday night.

“They played so well, what a game!! Thank you for meeting us after the game, guys! That was memorable for all of us. Have a great season.

In several of the images, the singer was seen with her boys René-Charles, 22, and twins Nelson and Eddy, 13, who she had with her late husband, René Angélil.

Her update overjoyed fans, who filled her comments section with well-wishes and called her a “Queen”.

Céline was left devastated when her music producer husband René Angélil died in 2016 aged 73 after they were married for 22 years.

Her stiff person syndrome is a rare, progressive neurological disorder that can cause stiff muscles in the torso, arms and legs and affects about one in a million people.

Céline’s hockey game outing came two months after the performer’s sister said the star was suffering uncontrollable “spasms” due to her illness

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Could It Be true - Reekado Banks On The Run As Manager Is Remanded At Kirikiri Prisons For Performance Fraud

Mavin Records artiste Reekado Banks is currently on the run for an alleged performance scam that has seen his brother who doubles as his manager Temi locked up at Kirikiri Prisons.

The artiste (real name Ayoleyi Hanniel Solomon) was said to have been paid the sum of N2 million naira to perform at a Benin wedding in December of 2017, an appointment he did not honour after collecting his fees in full.

Both he and Temi were invited to Area G police station last week but only his manager showed up. Uwa Idahosa, a Lagos based radio personality who brokered the deal had claimed that Reekado has refused to honour the several police invitations sent to him, leading the police to arraign his brother/manager in court today.

The police has described the singer to be ‘at large’, and Temi remanded in prison until the next court date on February 19th 2017

Prophet Arrested For Kissing His Wife And Househelp - Is His Arrest Right or Wrong

A self-proclaimed Tanzanian prophet has been arrested for his queer behavior.



The prophet became famous after sharing sharing photos of himself kissing his wife and house girl.

Nabii Tito kissing the two women went viral on social media and irked quite a number of Tanzanians and East Africans who called him out for his queer behaviors.

According to reports, the self-proclaimed prophet has also been preaching while drinking alcohol.



Confirming the arrest,IGP Simon Sirro said Tito had been arrested following public complaints and will be dealt with accordingly.

Tito’s arrest was lauded by a cross section of Tanzanians who congratulated the police for cracking the whip on rogue,rather fake men of God.

This Pretty Abuja-Based Lawyer Is Looking For A Husband - Guys Are Here

A hardworking lawyer, who’s based in Abuja, 28-year-old, with the name Ijeoma and can pound fufu is single and searching. Her close friend, Chris took to social media to help her publicize her search.

Below is what he wrote;
“My friend Ijeoma 28, lawyer based in Abuja hardworking, prayerful,can pound fufu looking for a husband for her tribe is no barrier kindly Rt”

Congratulations To Former President Olusegun Obasanjo As He Bags Phd From NOUN

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is now a Ph.D holder. But the Owu strong man does not want to be addressed as Dr. Baba says he prefers to be called a Chief.

Congratulations to Baba Obj

Nigerians Could This Be True - Aisha Buhari Is Seriously Campaigning Against Her Husband Right Now

First Lady Aisha Buhari doesn’t speak out so often. However, when she does, she sets the whole place on fire.

 

Like today. In a subtle rant delivered for maximum impact on Friday, January 19, 2018, Mrs. Buhari reposted video links wherein the speakers were taking President Muhammadu Buhari and the administration he heads, to the cleaners.

In one of the videos shared by Aisha on her Instagram and Twitter pages, Senator Isah Misau can be heard calling the president a lame duck.

“It’s as if he’s not in charge. It’s as if some people are the ones in charge of this country. Even the DG NIA that we are talking about, they said some people in the cabal, they are the ones that appointed that person to be there”, Misau said.

Cabal

If that sounds eerily familiar, that’s because it is. In October of 2016, Mrs Buhari told the BBC that her husband is being held hostage by a cabal.

“The president does not know 45 out of 50, for example, of the people he appointed and I don’t know them either, despite being his wife of 27 years,” Aisha Buhari lamented.

“Some people are sitting down in their homes folding their arms only for them to be called to come and head an agency or a ministerial position,” she added.

Nigerians How True Is This Looking At Fulani's Occupying All Security Offices In Nigeria

I have no tribal or religious bias, my appointments prove this- Buhari

  

President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday said that contrary to widespread allegations of ethnic and religious bias against him and his government, he was one Nigerian who was detribalized and religiously accommodating.

The president pointed to his ministerial appointments as proof of his non-bias, while also citing his experience in politics including close interaction and association with persons of different tribe and religion as the source of his open-mindedness.

Buhari said this during a dinner he hosted in honour of chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

He explained that the number of substantive ministers he appointed from the South East where he got only 198,000 votes was enough proof that he was not favouring the North as being alleged in some quarters.

“There is something that hit me very hard and I am happy I hit it back at somebody.

“Seven states of the North are only represented in my cabinet by junior ministers, ministers of state.

“In South East, I got 198,000 votes but I have four substantive ministers and seven junior ministers from there.

“You are closer to the people than myself now that I have been locked up here, don’t allow anybody to talk of ethnicity. It is not true,” he said.

Nigerians How True Is This - Benue Crisis: I Didn’t Receive Any Letter – Yemi Osinbajo To Samuel Ortom

The Vice-President,  Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday, denied receiving any letter from Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, warning him of attacks planned by herdsmen.

Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, and Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom His statement came on a day President Muhammadu Buhari and the Benue governor disagreed on the need for cattle colony to be created for herdsmen in states of the federation. While the President asked the governor and other leaders in the state to accommodate herdsmen in the state, Governor Ortom said Benue State had no land to give for cattle colony.

In a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Laolu Akande, Osinbajo expressed shock over the governor’s claims, which he described as a “terrible falsehood.” Ortom had said he alerted President Muhammadu Buhari, Osinbajo, the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, of the planned attacks by herdsmen but that they allegedly ignored it.

Reacting to the allegation, Osinbajo said neither him nor the other parties the governor claimed to have alerted got any letters on the situation. What Ortom told me — Osinbajo Akande explained that Ortom wrote the vice president a letter dated June 7, 2017, protesting the opposition and resistance of Miyetti Allah to the anti-grazing law, adding that he had also received a letter from the leadership of Miyetti Allah on their reservations about the law.

He said: “It will be a terrible falsehood to suggest that the VP was ever informed by the governor or anyone else of the imminence of the killing of citizens of our country in those or any other local governments in Benue State.

“Governor Ortom wrote to the Vice President, then Acting President, on June 7, 2017, protesting a newspaper publication where the leadership of Miyetti Allah was reported to have stated that it was opposed to the Open Grazing Prohibition law of the state and that they would mobilize to resist the law.

Nigeria-British Model With Multiple Contracts Stabbed To Death

A Nigerian-British male fashion model, , has been stabbed to death near his home in what is believed to be a robbery which went wrong Friday. Uzoka, who was on the books of Premier Model Management, died from a single stab wound.

   

His neighbours on Old Oak Road, East Acton, reported a shout of ‘hand it over’ in the melee which involved several men.

 

Twenty-five-year-old Uzoka staggered into the street from a housing estate before collapsing, reports say.

 

The area around Ollgar House in Ollgar Close was sealed off by police.

 

Detective Inspector Beverley Kofi said: “This is another tragic murder with a young male victim who has met a violent death.

 

“We believe that the incident started at Ollgar House, in Ollgar Close and the victim was assaulted and stabbed before staggering and collapsing in Old Oak Road.

 

“We believe there were a number of people involved, but we are still working to establish the circumstances and a possible motive.

 

“We have made two arrests and continue to pursue a number of lines of inquiry. We need the public’s help to piece together what happened — who the victim was seen with, the incident itself and the immediate aftermath.

 

The promising 6ft model’s face had appeared on billboards in the UK and USA. He had also worked for Zara and Mercedes.

 

He was also signed to the Los Angeles New Models agency and was followed by more than 14,000 people on Instagram.

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Say No To Political Violence
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Nigerians its high time we let go of the past and look forward to the future. what ever will bring peace & unity back to our country Nigeria is what we should embrace

Join the movement today, as we lead and take Nigeria to a better place.

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Meet The 12 Year Old Nigerian Who Created An App To Help Lost Children

Tomisin Jasmin Ogunnubi, a 12 year old student of Vivian Fowler Memorial College Oregun, Lagos; has just developed a fully functional android application in Nigeria.



It has not been the most positive of times in Nigeria considering the current economic climate but every now and then a story will pop up and lift the spirits of the country. Tomisin Ogunnubi from Lagos has provided such a story for her nation in Answers Africa.

The 12-year-old girl from Lagos has developed an app to solve a problem which she had noticed in her community. Tomisin finished up the development of her Android mobile tracking app, My Location, just a few weeks ago.

The motivation behind the app was to help lost children find their way back home.



How it was developed:

Tomision developed her app under the guidence of an Information and Communications Technology partnership, between her school, Vivian Fowler Memorial College for Girls, and New Horizons Computer Learning Center. Here, Tomision was able to learn the necessary skills and knowledge needed to develop her app.

How it works:

The “current location”setting on the app enables the child to see exactly where they are, as well as highlighting the neighboring streets around them. The other main functionality of the app will allow the child to save a location such as their house or school and it will direct them to their desired location.

The My Locator App also features a button, which when pressed will alert the Lagos State Emergency Services. The app will call the services as well as show the child’s location so that they can be helped.

The app is available for free download in Lagos, Nigeria.

“I Won’t Break His Marriage, All I Want Is Sex – Roman Catholic Sister

A 38-year-old Roman Catholic sister confessed to be in an adulterous affair with a married man stating that all she wants from him is sex.

Emmaculate Samukange, who also works as a nurse at Chivhu General Hospital, said she has no intentions of breaking Phillip Dzingai’s marriage but only wanted s.ex from him.

“I am aware that Phillip is married and it is true that I am having an affair with him.

“I am a Roman Catholic sister so what I do does not allow me to be his second wife.

“I am in a relationship with him because I failed to resist s.exual temptation; I don’t wish to break his marriage, all I want from him is s.ex,” said Emmaculate.

She added that Phillip is the only man she has ever loved in her life.

“I started dating him in 2013 and since then I have tried to let him go but I have failed to do so.

“We met at Chivhu General Hospital where I also work as a nurse and from that moment we clicked.

“I have never met his wife but she now knows what is going on between Phillip and I because we have been dating for a long time now,” she said.

When asked for comment Phillip denied having an affair with Emmaculate.

“There is nothing like that going on,” he said before hanging up the phone.  

Meanwhile an H-Metro source, who is a close relative to Phillip, said they had tried to warn Phillip from cheating on his wife but it was to no avail.

“As a family we have had numerous meetings with Phillip but we have not been able to convince him to be faithful to his wife.

“It seems as if they are inseparable; each time you mention anything to do with Emmaculate he changes his temper and starts to be violent,” said the source.

Ibe Kachikwu To Be Announced As Substantive Oil Minister As Northern Cabal Kicks

President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to make Ibe Kachikwu the substantive petroleum minister - 

This decision has sparked disquiet among the presidential cabal 

Kachikwu has been serving as the minister of state for petroleum



President Muhammadu Buhari’s ill-health which has made him travel to London for medical treatment has placed critical decision making of the oil sector in the hands of Ibe Kachikwu. 

Kachikwu who is the minister of state for petroleum resources is set to be made substantive minister as according to New Telegraph, President Buhari told Kachikwu to “go ahead with some critical decisions, including, but not limited to overseeing the forthcoming oil bloc allocations if necessary.” 

A source at the presidency said Kachikwu is likely going to be announced as substantive minister by President Buhari when he returns from London and this would be determined by his performance during his absence. 

In Support Of 2baba's February 6th Protest... By Prince D'advertisers

From us to you, to hell with anybody that is talking about 2baba and the Protest he wants to lead on 6th February and to all haters of 2baba...

Teebliz, Blackface and the rest and the so call professor who is looking for national &  international recognition... 

You guys are just jealous fools, of 2baba's success and fame...

Why would the Police even think of stoping the peaceful Protest about the present economic situation of our dear Country Nigeria... 

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A Naked Lady Allow An Artiste To Cover Her Body With Painting

You will have to look closely to notice that this lady had her body painted….apparently meaning that she was totally n aked before her body was painted.


We are still yet to figure out why she did this.