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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that his criticism of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration is not borne out of hatred. He stated this on Tuesday during an event to mark his 82nd birthday anniversary held at the Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. “Buhari; there is nothing personal between me and him … I am his boss, with all due respect,” the elder statesman said. He added, “The point is that I have been in that position longer than any Nigerian will ever be there.” The former president explained that he was only criticising the programmes and policy of the present administration to ensure that things were done according to democratic norms. He noted that while anybody could be in the President’s position, the purpose of criticism was to deepen democracy and ensure economic growth and development of the nation. Obasanjo said, “You see that in a democracy, to criticise a policy of government is not a family affair; even...

A 29-years old man, Owolabi Folorunso Adewale, has admitted to killing his 99-year old aunt whom he accused of using her spiritual power to change his Baba Ijebu lottery winning number. Adewale was arrested on Monday, March 4, 2019, by detectives attached to Ogun State Police Command. The suspect, according to the police, had admitted before homicide detectives that he matcheted the old woman because he had an inclination that the woman was responsible for most of his spiritual problems. It was gathered that the suspect, who is a regular player of Baba Ijebu lotto, also alleged that each time he was at the verge of winning, the aged aunty would alter the numbers spiritually. “Whenever I am sure of winning, the deceased who is my father’s elder sister will use her supernatural power to change the winning number,” Adewale lamented. Oyeyemi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), said that the arrest of the suspect followed a distress call received by the DPO Ago-Iwoye Div...

BY: Chioma Onuegbu, Uyo Akwa Ibom state chapter of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has carpeted Vice president Yemi Osinbajo and the All Progressives Congress APC  over the claim that their party result in the state was stolen. Osinbajo According to a statement signed by PDP State Publicity Secretary Mr Ini Ememobong and made available to newsmen yesterday in Uyo, the party said the APC stakeholders that used security personnel to aid electoral malpractices on the election day were actually the real thieves. The statement entitled, “Stolen Mandate: Osinbajo, APC Living In Fool’s Paradise” reads, “For the records, Akwa Ibom people know who the mandate thieves are, they are those who refused to go on consultation and grassroots campaign but held rallies in towns and instead of telling the people what their plans were, proclaimed themselves god and touted their invincibility. They took the electorates for granted, preferring to deal with the big names only. On the day...

The Alake and Paramount Ruler of Egbaland, Oba Aremu Gbadebo, on Tuesday, advised former President Olusegun Obasanjo to desist from his ceaseless attacks on President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari and Obasanjo heads on The monarch gave the advice in his goodwill message to mark the 82nd birthday anniversary of Obasanjo at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta. Gbadebo, who noted that Obasanjo had been ‘‘a warrior’’ all his life, urged him to rest, fight less and rather take a position of a consultant at his new age. ‘‘At 82 years, I think you should keep your sword more rather than use it always,’’ he said. Gbadebo, who served as a military officer during the military administration of Muhammadu Buhari between 1984 and 1985, said he had always told Obasanjo to leave his boss (Buhari) alone. Obasanjo, who responded to goodwill messages from friends, family members and well-wishers at the programme, responded by saying that the issues between him and Buhari wer...

Ms Maria Obonyo An 80-year-old woman has enrolled in Primary One at Jesus is King Nursery and Primary School in Bugandalo Village, Ibulanku Sub-county in Bugweri District, Uganda, with an aim of becoming a teacher. Ms Maria Obonyo, a farmer, said after enduring a lot of ‘suffering and ridicule’, she decided to go to school to learn how to speak and write in English. “I decided to enrol at the school because I lost all my relatives and there was nobody to take care of me. I am determined to study until I graduate from Makerere University as a teacher,” she told Daily Monitor. Should Ms Obonyo complete her school cycle, she will be 96 by then. Ms Obonyo, however, says she currently faces a myriad of challenges, notably being unable to meet her school fees amounting to Shs35,000 per term. “I also need a better structure to sleep in because I am currently staying with the village LC1 chairman, Mr Twaha Magero,” she says. According to Mr Magero, Ms Obonyo’s decision to enro...

By Yinka Odumakin AS the remains of Dr Beko Ransome-Kuti laid in state at his Imaria residence that fateful evening   in 2006,Mr Olisa Agbakoba(SAN) beckoned to me and said: “Beko is cold in there. I recall all our struggles   all over Lagos to have democracy. Now look at what those we handed the fruits of our struggle to are doing to us”. Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode (2nd left); National Leader, All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (2nd right); APC Chairman, Lagos State Chapter, Alhaji Tunde Balogun (right) and Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa (left) during APC Stakeholders meeting at the Party Secretariat, Acme Road, Ogba, on Tuesday, August 14, 2018. Some years after, Agbakoba openly expressed frustration when in an interview with a national newspaper he asked if there was much sense in our fight against the military   if it was to have those who now preside over us . He was n...

Following the success of fellow English youngster, Jadon Sancho this term, the same report indicates that Borussia Dortmund are themselves tempted to make a move for Amaechi.  Xavier Amaechi Arsenal’s teenage midfielder, Xavier Amaechi has emerged as a rumoured transfer target for German champions Bayern Munich, reports sportsmole.co.uk. The 18-year-old of Nigerian parentage is highly regarded at the Emirates Stadium and was awarded a professional deal last year that runs through until 2022. Amaechi is a winger by trade and has been on target a few times in Premier League 2 this season, which, according to Football.London, has attracted the interest of Bayern. Following the success of fellow English youngster, Jadon Sancho this term, the same report indicates that Borussia Dortmund are themselves tempted to make a move for Amaechi, who also qualifies for Nigeria.Scouts from a number of other German clubs were expected to be in attendance for Arsenal Under-23s’ meeting wi...

Mr Atiku Abubakar addressing a press conference in Abuja on February 27, 2019. The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar, has filed an ex-parte motion at the court of Appeal in Abuja, seeking various orders of the court to allow him to access all documents used by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of the February 23, Presidential elections. The ex-parte motion is praying for an order compelling INEC to allow them to Inspect the register and other vital documents used in the conduct of the election unhindered. In the ex-parte motion dated March 4 and filed March 5, Atiku and the PDP applied that the Appellate Court serving as the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to compel the electoral body to allow their agents to scan and make photocopies of vital documents used in the last presidential election for the purpose of maintaining their petition against the election. The ex-parte application filed by,...

The West African Examination Council, WAEC, has released the 2019 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, results for private candidates. WASSCE scratch card Mr. Olu Adenipekun, head of the Nigeria National Office of WAEC, disclosed this to newsmen on Tuesday in Lagos. According to him, 3,102 out of the 12,202 candidates that registered for the examination obtained credit in English language and general Mathematics, as well as in at least four other subjects. Adenipekun also said that the exam which was written in on February 4, 2019, has the results of 11,686 candidates fully processed and released. He said, although 12,202 registered for the exam, only 11,892 sat for the examination. He also said that while 4,314 candidates obtained credit and above in five subjects, 8,782 candidates obtained credit and above in two subjects. Adenipekun also said that 7,332 candidates obtained credit and above in three subjects while 5,850 candidates obtained cred...

october-1-film-afolayan October 1 is a 2014 Nigerian dark psychological thriller film written by Tunde Babalola, produced and directed by Kunle Afolayan. The film, which is set in Colonial Nigeria, narrates the story of Danladi Waziri (Sadiq Daba), a police officer from Northern Nigeria who is posted to a remote town of Akote in Western Nigeria to investigate the frequent female murder cases in the community, and have the mystery solved before the Nigerian flag is raised on October 1, Nigeria’s Independence Day.  The Figurine won several awards including the Multichoice (2015 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards), Africa International Film Festival awards and others. RATING: 7.3/10 (IMDB) DIRECTOR: KUNLE AFOLAYAN CAST: Kunle Afolayan, Fabian Adeoye Lojede, Nick Rhys, Ibrahim Chatta, Demola Adedoyin, Kehinde Bankole, Kanayo O. Kanayo and Many Others Last-Flight-to-Abuja-poster Last Flight to Abuja is a 2012 Nigerian thriller disaster film written by Tunde Babalola, dir...

The euro fell towards a one-week low on Tuesday as the dollar gained broadly and investors began pricing in more caution from the European Central Bank at its meeting on Thursday. The ECB is facing growing pressure to address the question of how to protect the eurozone economy from a protracted slowdown. Expectations that the central bank will delay hiking interest rates until next year and soon re-launch long-term loans to banks have put pressure on the euro, which has fallen 1.2 per cent against the dollar this year. “The euro’s losses may be down to the fact that the ECB’s new projections on Thursday might paint a more subdued picture than before,” Antje Praefcke, an analyst at Commerzbank, wrote in a note to clients. “The market may already be pricing in a slightly more cautious ECB, which is why the euro is already aiming for the 1.13 dollar mark,” he said. The euro dipped 0.2 per cent to 1.1318 dollars. It had brushed a 7-day low of 1.1309 dollars on Monday. Elsewh...

It has been reported that kidnappers have released the mother of Bordeaux and Nigeria winger Samuel Kalu after holding her for nearly a week. This was revealed by police in Abia on Tuesday, the Agence France Presse, AFP, reports. Ozuruonye Juliet Kalu was seized from her car on February 27 as she travelled to her home in Abia state. Reports said the kidnappers demanded some three million Naira ($40,000, 35,000 euros) for her release. But it was not known whether the money was paid, Abia state police spokesman Godfrey Ogbona told AFP. “She was released around midnight (2300 GMT) of Monday and she has been reunited with her people,” he said. “Circumstances surrounding her release has not been disclosed to me for now. “But we are still investigating the incident in a bid towards ensuring that those who carried out the act are arrested and brought to book.” Nigeria’s Sporting Life publication quoted the 21-year-old footballer as saying the kidnappers initially asked for th...

Scene of the incident A politician, Maxwell Etta has escaped death by the whiskers after he was attacked by assassins who shattered his car with over 15 bullets in Cross River State. Sharing the testimony on Facebook, Etta wrote: "This is my car heavily attacked by suspected political thugs who wanted to assassinated me and my friend Barr Collins Atu in our village obubra bansan, Boki LG. At about 12:30am. Lord we thank you for saving our lives." See more photos below: source:https://samueljackson12.blogspot.com/2019/03/politician-escapes-assassination-after.html

Eli Waduba Yusuf, 26, is making headlines after his pencil drawing of Hollywood comedian, Kevin Hart, went viral with the star acknowledging the work. The 26-year-old Chikun, Kaduna State-born artist spoke to Daily Trust about his sudden rise to fame, and more. Daily Trust: How did you get into art? Eli Waduba Yusuf: I started drawing when I was eight. I used one of my 12 notebooks for drawing cartoons. I took 11 subjects and used one of my notebooks to draw. I however faced some challenges after my junior secondary school with my dad. He wanted me to study a course like Medicine, Law, Engineering or something like that, but not art. I began battling with going to art or science class. I ended up going to art class but didn’t get into polyethnic for art. I ended up studying Cooperative Economics and Management. I did my first two years and I was supposed to do my one-year industrial attachment. I become confused because I never really had it in mind to work for anyone. I wa...

(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 16, 2017 former US Secretary of State and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton waves as she arrives to unveil US postal service issued Oscar de la Renta Forever stamp during a ceremony in New York. – Hillary Clinton has for the first time ruled out running for president in 2020. “I’m not running, but I’m going to keep on working and speaking and standing up for what I believe,” Clinton said March 4, 2019, in an interview with News 12, a local TV channel in New York. Clinton was the frontrunner in 2016 but ended up losing to Donald Trump. (Photo by Jewel SAMAD / AFP) Hillary Clinton has for the first time ruled out running for president in 2020. “I’m not running, but I’m going to keep on working and speaking and standing up for what I believe,” Clinton said Monday in an interview with News 12, a local TV channel in New York. Clinton was the frontrunner in 2016 but ended up losing to Donald Trump. “I want to be sure that p...

US President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC on February 12, 2019. MANDEL NGAN / AFP Washington will scrap the preferential trade status of India and Turkey, the US trade chief’s office said, as President Donald Trump ramps up his battle against what his administration views as unfair foreign trade practices. Trump has made an overhaul of global trade and the slashing of American trade deficits a central plank of his presidency. The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program had granted favourable treatment of imports from both countries for a range of manufactured goods, such as automotive parts, tires and appliance parts. But Trump’s administration will end “India’s and Turkey’s designations as beneficiary developing countries” because both countries no longer qualified, the Office of US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said in a statement Monday. India, the biggest beneficiary of the GSP pro...

I reflected intensely, on the presidential and national assembly elections held February 23, 2019. My thoughts meandered far and near. The gory images of violence before and after the elections kept assaulting my psyche. I feared and dreaded February 23. I wanted to relocate to a neighboring country for safety. Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai / AFP I wasn’t alone in this cage. Nigerians were generally apprehensive. The signposts of phobia were everywhere in the country and President Muhammadu Buhari knew it. Mr. President, a security czar of the military ilk, got the message clearly that conventional civil security alone cannot police Nigeria on Election Day and post-election period; the feverish days results are enthusiastically awaited. Buhari knew the army is the only saving grace. So, he called the COAS and leader of counter-terrorism in Nigeria, Lt. Gen. TY Buratai to render assistance to regular civil security. Buratai complied with the instructions ...

(FILES) This file photo taken on December 1, 2010, shows an AIDS symbol displayed on the North Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC during World AIDS Day. Jewel SAMAD / AFP A second person is in sustained remission from HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS, after ceasing treatment and is likely cured, researchers were set to announce at a medical conference Tuesday. Ten years after the first confirmed case of an HIV-infected person being rid of the deadly disease, a man known only as the “London patient” has shown no sign of the virus for nearly 19 months, they reported in the journal Nature. Both patients had received bone marrow transplants to treat blood cancers, receiving stem cells from donors with a rare genetic mutation that prevents HIV from taking hold. “By achieving remission in a second patient using a similar approach, we have shown that the Berlin patient was not an anomaly,” said lead author Ravindra Gupta, a professor at the University of Cambridge, referring...

Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un seen here in a May 2001 file photo, was alleged assassinated at the Kuala Lumpur airport A Vietnamese woman accused of murdering the half-brother of North Korea’s leader will testify in court for the first time next week, when the long-running trial over the Cold War-style hit resumes, her lawyer said Tuesday. In a brazen killing that shocked the world, Doan Thi Huong from Vietnam and Siti Aisyah from Indonesia are accused of assassinating Kim Jong Nam by smearing VX nerve agent on his face at Kuala Lumpur airport in February 2017. The women have denied murder, saying they believed they were taking part in a prank and were tricked by North Korean agents. Salim Bashir, one of Huong’s lawyers, said she will testify on Monday when the trial resumes with the defence stage of proceedings after a break of several months. “Huong is in good health, confident and is ready to take the stand,” he told AFP, add...

Everything you need to live well It’s so small wags joke that it can only hold a Tic Tac. But French brand Jacquemus’ teeny weeny bag, “Le Mini Chiquito”, is arguably the biggest thing at Paris fashion week. Never has something so tiny excited so much fashion passion — and hilarity — on social media. The handbag — or should we say fingerbag — made its debut last week on the opening night of the Paris shows. A shrunken version of the miniature and already cult $500 (440-euro) “Le Chiquito” bag — which the likes of Rihanna and Kim Kardashian have been spotted clutching between their thumb and forefingers — it is a mere 5.2 centimetres (two inches) long. Jacquemus has sold “tens of thousands” of Le Chiquito bags in the last year, according to Cosmopolitan magazine, with fashionistas so desperate to get their fingers on them that there are lengthy waiting lists for some colours. Jacquemus Le Chiquito bag Paris Fashion Week Although the brand told AFP that they have yet t...

(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 15, 2017 Renault-Nissan Chairman and CEO Carlos Ghosn gestures as he addresses a press conference in Paris to present the Renault Nissan group strategy. – A Tokyo Court on March 5, 2019 granted ex-Nissan chief Ghosn bail, local media reported, in a shock decision that could see the auto tycoon freed after more than three months of detention. (Photo by ERIC PIERMONT / AFP) Former auto industry titan Carlos Ghosn moved a step closer to freedom Tuesday as a Tokyo court unexpectedly granted him bail after more than three months in a detention cell. It was the latest twist in a case that has kept Japan and the business world gripped since the tycoon’s shock arrest on November 19 over suspicions of financial misconduct. The court set bail at one billion yen ($9 million), but prosecutors appealed the decision and could even file additional allegations against the 64-year-old to keep him from leaving detention. Under his bail terms, Ghosn...

By Emmanuel Uzodinma Barely four days to the governorship elections, the All Progressives Congress, APC, has no governorship candidate in Enugu State, DAILY POST authoritatively reports. It could be re-called that a Federal High Court in Abuja, had sacked Senator Ayogu Eze as the governorship candidate of the party in Enugu State. In the judgment delivered by Hon. Justice I. Ekwo of the Federal High Court 5, the court asked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to recognize Barr. George Ogara as the candidate. But several days after the judgement, it was gathered that the APC National Working Committee, NWC, was yet to obey the order of the court, which had asked that Ogara’s name be submitted to the INEC. Ogara had told DAILY POST that he served all the relevant parties the court judgement, and wondered why they were yet to comply appropriately. Following the development, the commission has now removed the name of the party’s candidate in its final list for...

Jose Mourinho has suggested that his failure to get the best out of Paul Pogba at Manchester United, was because he did not have the right “chemistry” with the midfielder. Pogba has made a drastic improvement since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer replaced Mourinho as manager in December, with nine goals and seven assists in 15 appearances. During his time at Old Trafford, Mourinho clashed many times with Pogba and the 56-year-old admits he needs to improve how he manages the players he is not always on good terms with. “I think the thing that normally is crucial and I’m thinking about all these things in the two months I’ve not been working. “You try to always to find solutions for the problems, there is one problem that I cannot find a solution which is – when the player is playing he likes the manager, when he’s not playing he doesn’t like the manager. “This is something basic that you can try to control a little bit, but that’s the nature and that nature you’re not going to change...

Protests are often a means, a vehicle for citizens to make themselves heard. Therefore, the ability to protest peacefully (without violence) is essential for upholding democracy and ensuring the participation of citizens in political governance. Euroapean Union EU Therefore, it is important to educate the youths in Nigeria on how to protest because protesting is not fighting or a war. To do this, this paper will analyze the term protest and what it means to protest. The study will state the importance of protest according to the European Convention on Human Rights. The study will analyze two violent protests in Nigeria in order to suggest few steps for achieving a peaceful and effective protest that will yield results. What is protest and what does it mean to protest? Protest according to the Cambridge Dictionary, is “an occasion when people show that they disagree strongly with something by standing together and shouting and carrying signs especially on the street or in op...