FIFA honors Vincent Enyeama-(photo)

World football governing body, FIFA, today honored Lille Metropole’s Nigerian goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama for his outstanding performance with the French club.‎ Enyeama shared a photo of himself holding the trophy and wrote;

"This is how goodness and mercy will follow you all this month of March. First day of the month, FIFA got me a trophy for hardwork, dedication, success. Thank you @fifa. I want to wish everyone reading this message a wonderful month of March. God did it for me. God will do it for us,”.

I will expose NFF- Oliseh

FORMER Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh, is prepared to meet the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) in court after the federation accused him of breach of contract.

According to Sports Nigerian, the NFF are threatening to sue the 42-year-old coach for quitting his post without prior notice to his employers.

But Oliseh is optimistic the court will vindicate him on the false allegations levelled against him.

“They said I was paid for three months (December 2015, January 2016 and February 2016) and half-year rent for July-December 2015. But we will see who is telling lies,” Oliseh said.

“Since they are prepared to expose themselves, I will help them further. My lawyers are studying the reports, and when we meet, we shall know who breached our contractual agreements.”

Oliseh further spoke on his eight-month tenure as Super Eagles coach.

“My time there was a big lesson and unless a holistic change is made in the administrative level, it will be difficult.”

Meanwhile, former international, Henry Nwosu, has described the resignation of Coach Sunday Oliseh as the best thing for Nigeria’s football.

Oliseh last Friday resigned as coach of the Super Eagles stating, “contract violation, lack of support, unpaid wages, benefits to my players assistant coaches and myself,” as reasons for dumping the team.

Speaking to The Guardian yesterday, Nwosu, who wondered why Oliseh took that decision, however, asked if it was possible to have two masters in a ship?

“I think Oliseh resigned because that was the way he wanted it. He sees himself bigger than his employers and it is not possible to have two masters in a boat. What he did as far as I am concerned is very good for the country and it is best for us,” he said.

Buhari extols Adeboye at 74

President Muhammadu Buhari has extolled the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, who he turns 74 years old on Wednesday.

Buhari’s birthday greeting was contained in a statement by his Special Adviser Media abs Publicity, Femi Adesina, who stressed that cleric, who paid him a courtesy call at the Presidential Villa on February 16, 2016 “and whom he had interacted with many times before, epitomizes the virtues of honesty, peace, patience, contentment, humility and diligence, which are the trademarks of a good believer.”

“As a Christian leader, the President commends the relentless efforts, sacrifices and the grace of God upon the life of the General Overseer, who has over the years propagated the gospel around the world, organized large gathering of Christian worshipers and consistently counselled leaders and their citizens on living right before God.

“Besides preaching the gospel, President Buhari salutes the social and humanitarian interventions of the RCCG leader in providing health and educational services to complement the efforts of governments.

“The President prays that the Almighty God will grant Pastor Adeboye long life and more strength to carry on the good work.”

Ijaw youths urge IGP to prosecute abductors of Ese Oruru

The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) has called on the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase to prosecute the abductor of the 14-year-old Ese Oruru from Bayelsa.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ese was abducted in 2015 by one Yunusa, aged 18, and took her to Kano for marriage.

The IYC in a statement signed by its Spokesman, Mr Eric Omare on Tuesday applauded the media for advocating for the release of Ese.

“The IYC, therefore, insist that the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, must bring those who masterminded the kidnap of Miss Ese Oruru to justice in line with the Anti-kidnapping law of Bayelsa.
“This should include collaborators in the palace of the Emir of Kano.

“This is the only way we can put a stop to such criminal conduct, especially considering the worrying activities of herdsmen in different parts of the country.

“We commend the role of the Nigerian media in rescuing Ese Oruru from the hands of her abductors.

“The role the media played has once again demonstrated to the world the crucial role of the media in our nation’s development.

“The IYC notes the historical role of the Nigerian media in the fight against military dictatorship and we call on the media to continue to play its role as the fourth estate of the realm and the conscience of the Nigerian society,’’ Omare stated.

The IYC, however, decried the response of the police to the kidnap of Ese.
It said that if police were up to their duty, the girl would have been released long ago as her parents reported the incident promptly.

Wonders shall never end....''I caught my wife with her boyfriend in my house'', man tells court

A middle-aged man, Dare Falana, on Tuesday told an Igando Customary Court that he caught his wife, Ganiyat, eating “Tantalizer’’ take-away with her boyfriend in his living room.

Dare had urged the court to dissolve his marriage blessed with three children because of his wife’s infidelity, sex starvation and frequent fighting.

“Usually I come home late at night, but on this faithful day I decided to come home early, only for me to meet her with her boyfriend eating Tantalizers in our home.

“I was too shocked to say anything; I left them there and went out but by the time I came back the man had left.

“There was a time I went to Abuja before I came back she got into a fight and was arrested. I spent the N40, 000 I brought from Abuja on that case.’’

He told the court that “my wife starves me of sex whenever I demanded for it.

“I have to beg my wife for sex as if she is still my girlfriend. She plays all sorts of unimaginable pranks to escape having sex with me.

“She only comes to me for sex when she feels like and not the other way round.

“When I complained to her sister, she told her that i have a disease that’s why she stopped having sex with me.

“I’m fed up, I can’t continue this way,’’ he said.

The respondent denied allegations of infidelity, but admitted that she usually starve her husband of sex.

“He married me a virgin, how can I be so bold and bring my supposed boyfriend to my husband’s house, the supposed boyfriend is my distance relative.

“I called my distant cousin, and told him I was hungry and that my children don’t have food to eat when they return from school.

“I specifically told him to get food for me and my children from the eatery.

“My husband’s ways are questionable, he acts and talks desperately about making money at all cost.

“He keeps comparing me to his friend’s wife.

“My husband told me that his friend’s wife is an ogbanje (witch) and she uses that to bring goodluck to her husband, that I should be doing same for him, which I refused.

“He beats me up, but in spite of this I still love my husband,’’ Ganiyat said.

The court President, Adegboyega Omilola, ordered the couple to attend an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) on March 17.

Breaking......Court orders EFCC to release of Jonathan’s ADC

An FCT High Court, Jabi, on Tuesday ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to release Col. Ojogbane Adegbe, former Aide de Camp to former President Goodluck Jonathan, with immediate effect.

The judge, Justice Halilu Yusuf, held that the applicant’s rights had been breached, adding that the commission should release Adegbe on liberal bail terms pending his arraignment in a competent court.

Yusuf said that if the EFCC was having a case against the applicant, the proper thing was to arraign him in a competent court instead of continuous detention in its custody.

He said the detention of the applicant having exceeded the 48 hours provided by the law was unlawful, unconstitutional and illegal.

The court said that the applicant’s right guaranteed under Section 35 of the 1999 Constitution had been violated by the continuous detention without proper trial.

Yusuf, however, dismissed the application demanding for a written public apology and N100 million damages sought by the applicant.

The applicant’s counsel, Mr Ogwu Onoja (SAN), told newsmen that he expected the EFCC to act on the orders of the court by releasing the applicant.

Onoja said that he was support of the corruption fight by the present administration if done within the ambit of the law.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Adegbe had dragged the EFCC to court challenging his arrest and continuous detention by the anti-graft body since Feb.11

A CRACK may have developed among the ranks of the governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as Governor Tanko Umaru Al-makura of Nasarawa State and his Imo State counterpart, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, yesterday took different positions in their reaction to President Muhamnadu Buhari’s decision to ditch the N5000 unemployment benefits to Nigerians.

The governors gave their opinions separately yesterday while speaking with reporters after their meeting with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in Abuja.

To Al-makura, the President has the prerogative to so review any policy at any given time and his decision stands in as much as it is to the best interest of the nation.

According to the Nasarawa governor, “the President is the person that can tell you precisely how he is working on campaign promises and interventions that he has created, using his ingenuity. And if at any point in time, the President is reviewing that issue, I think he is the only person that can do so in the best interest of the country. And so, it is not challengeable by anybody whatever his position.”

He, therefore, called on Nigerians to give the benefit of doubt to enable him implant the laudable agenda that he has for Nigerians.

While Okorocha, who is Chairman of the Progressives Governors’ Forum (PGF) agreed with the President on the need to improve on infrastructure to boost productivity, he, however, believed that, one way or the other, the APC campaign promises must be fulfilled to the people.

“To be honest with you, it is a great idea, but there are many ways to give that support. Sometimes, it could be in cash which has its own challenges. Handling of that is also in itself a wonderful and great idea,” he said.

The President had declared in Saudi Arabia, during a meeting with a select group of Nigerian community in Makkah that, rather than paying the N5000 as canvassed by his party on the heels of the presidential election, he would instead focus on repairing infrastructures such as roads, bridges, schools, among others.

Source; The Guardian

Ese Oruru, The Emir Of Kano and Those That Choose To Distort The Narrative - FFK

Article by Femi Fani-Kayode. Read below...

All those that are attempting to distort the narrative about the tragic plight of Miss Ese Oruru are evil and we commit them to God's judgement. The facts are as follows. She is 14 years old and not 18 and she was abducted from her home. She did not leave her home freely or of her own volition.

She was cruelly and wickedly carried away and stolen from her parents, family and loved ones and forcefully taken by complete strangers to a distant land that she had never been before on the other side of the country.

This is not a love story about two inseparable young people: it is a story about pedophilia, child abduction, kidnapping, human trafficking, slavery, rape, impunity, wickedness and ritual sex and Emir Sanusi has a case to answer. That little girl has been raped over and over again and she may well have aids, VVF or some other strange sexual disease by now.

Instead of sympathizing with her and considering the fact that she may never be the same again in view of the physical and mental torture and trauma that she has suffered over the last few months, some misguided souls and shameless commentators have the temerity to come to social media and say that she was old enough to "get it" whilst others say that she ''loved it'' and ''wanted it''. I am utterly disgusted and appauld by these sentiments. Where is the humanity of those that speak and think like this? Where is their compassion and where is their soul?

May God judge them and may their own infant daughters be abducted, forcefully Islamised, raped, enslaved and kept against their will as a sex slave in an Emir's palace in the same way that Ese was.

Meanwhile I just watched an AIT video in which 14 year old Ese Oruru's mother claimed that her daughters abductors said that it was the Emir of Kano himself that ordered her daughters abduction and that she was kept in his palace for over one year for his pleasure. If this is true it confirms the suspicion that the Emir is culpable. If what she has said is true it also proves that the Emir is not only a praticing pedophile but also a very sick man and he must be held accountable. 

It is important that Emir Sanusi clears the air and tells us precisely what he did with this little girl otherwise we are entitled to assume the worse and believe what Ese's mother has told us. Quite apart from that we are compelled to ask whether this sort of thing has happened before and how widespread it is? How many other little girls have been stolen from their homes and forced to join harems all over the nation? 

The famous high society blogger and respected celebrity Miss Linda Ikeji has just exposed yet another case. This time it is a young 17 year old christian girl, by the name of Miss Patience Paul, who has been abducted from her home, parents and loved ones in Benue state, forcefully taken to Sokoto state and kept there against her will in the Sultan's palace. 

Evidently we live in a strange country where evil is swept under the carpet and often justified. We live in a country where those that expose such evil abominations and speak truth are demonised, hated, despised and, more often than not, threatened with violence, persecution, intimidation, arrest, spurious criminal investigations and baseless civil court actions. More often than not this is the price of speaking the truth and exposing evil in Nigeria. 

There is clearly a conspiracy of silence about the perpetuation of evil in this country amongst the ruling elite. The feeling is that anyone can get away with anything providing they belong to a particular circle and class and providing they have money and power. And it is because they have money and power and they have powerful friends in government and in the political class that they feel that they can silence, crush, kill, abduct, cripple, ruin, sue and jail anybody that tests their will and crosses them or that exposes the truth about their blood-chilling and perverse ways. 

That is the reality of Nigeria and it is a sad and sorry one. All I can say is thank God for the media and particularly for the Punch newspaper who started the ball rolling last Sunday. If not for their cover story about Ese with all those pictures on their front page the little girl would not be free and at home with her family today. Instead she would have still been in slavery and captivity at the Emir of Kano's palace.

We should also thank the Nation newspaper particularly for their timely editorial on this issue which was published on 1st March and which raised some pertinent questions and offered wise counsel about the way forward. The Punch, the Nation, AIT, Channels, Tribune, the Sun, Vanguard, Thisday and all the other newspaper titles and television stations in the Nigerian media and social media has done what no-one else or no other group could do.  

Not even the Federal Government, the state governments, the political parties, the politicians, the security agencies, the lawyers or the so-called human rights groups could do what they managed to do or achieve what they have achieved. They have helped to secure the freedom of a helpless and defenseless little girl from slavery, torment, humiliation, destruction, death, disease and bondage and they have brought her home safely to her parents. We need more of this. Kudos to them and God bless them all. And may God damn and shame those that chose to remain silent and look the other way.

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Court orders Obasanjo, Yar'Adua, Jonathan's government to account for stolen funds

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former president Goodluck Jonathan and late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's government to account for all the loots they recovered during their administrations, Vanguard reports.

Delivering judgement in a Freedom of Information suit filed by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) today March 1st, the presiding judge, Justice M.B. Idris, ruled that successive governments since the return of democracy in 1999 “breached the fundamental principles of transparency and accountability for failing to disclose details about the spending of recovered stolen public funds, including on a dedicated website.”

He thereafter ordered that President Buhari “ensures that his government, and the governments of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, and former President Goodluck Jonathan account fully for all recovered loot.”.

Details ordered by the court to be made public include: information on the total amount of recovered stolen public assets by each government; the amount of recovered stolen public assets spent by each government as well as the objects of such spending and the projects on which such funds were spent

Abducted Bayelsa girl arrives Abuja, IGP to adress a press conference

14 year old Ese Oruru who was abducted from her parents home in Bayelsa by her lover, has arrived Abuja. She and her abductor, Yinusa, are currently at the Police Headquarters. Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, will later address a press conference over the matter

Newborn baby dies after being thrown from 18th floor of an apartment by her mother (Graphic pics)

A newborn baby died after she was believed to have been thrown from the 18th floor of an apartment in Danau Kota, Malaysia on Monday, February 29.

According to Wangar Maju district police chief superintendent Mohamad Roy Suhaimi Sarif, the baby's mother, 39, allegedly threw her baby from the unit's balcony at 3am.

"We received a distress call on the incident about 8am. The baby girl was already pronounced dead. After scouring the area, police found a placenta around 30-metres away from the body," Sarif told a press conference at the district police station.

The woman who has a five-year-old daughter, was going through a divorce and had rented a room at the apartment from a married couple. The shocked couple claimed not to know that the woman was pregnant as she was plump. They however said they heard her moaning in pain before the incident.

"When the couple tried to help her, the woman shooed them away so they went back to their room. Checks at the house showed blood trails from the toilet leading to the balcony" Sarif added.

The chief superintendent said police would obtain blood samples from the baby's remain.

More photos after the cut......

Source: New Straits Times

Buhari’s government is a one-chance bus - Fayose

Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose, has described the Buhari led government as a "one-chance bus". Fayose said this in a statement released by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, while reacting to the recent proclamation by Buhari and Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, that the government cannot be fulfill it's election promises.

 "Everything Buhari and his party promised Nigerians when they were looking for votes, they have denied and it won’t be a surprise if one day, Buhari comes out to even deny that he was elected on the platform of APC. Nigerians have now realised that they are inside a ‘One Chance Bus’ because Buhari and his APC have disowned their entire campaign promises by disowning their campaign document titled; ‘My Covenant with Nigerians. This document that they disowned in August, last year contained everything they promised Nigerians and if today, President Buhari chose faraway Qatar to announce that he won’t pay the N5,000 promised unemployed youths and Lai Mohammed is here in Nigeria saying no job was promised, no one should be surprised. Rather, Nigerians can only begin to pray that God, who rescued Daniel from den of lions will rescue us from this Buhari/APC one chance bus that we have entered,” he said.

At last......Emir of Kano orders release of Bayelsa girl

Amid growing outrage, the Emir of Kano, Malam Muhammadu Sanusi, yesterday ordered that Ese Oruru who was kidnapped to Kano State from Bayelsa State as a child-bride be returned to her parents .

Sanusi ordered the Kano State Sharia Commission to liaise with the office of the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 1 to commence the process of returning the girl allegedly abducted by one Yunusa of Kura Local Government of the state.

An indication that the girl would be released emerged yesterday when the planned protest march to the Bayelsa Government House and the House of Assembly by the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) was put on hold.

The CLO, in a statement after an emergency meeting on Sunday, had indicted the emir and the Kano Emirate Council for allegedly harboring the abducted teenager.

The CLO condemned the action and called on the Federal Government and the international community to probe and help release the abducted teenager.

In a swift reaction, the emir of Kano denied the allegation, describing the story as mischievous and baseless. 

The action of the emir has halted any planned protest for now as Sanusi, in his official reaction, distanced himself and the Kano Emirate Council from the purported abduction of Ese Oruru by her suspected lover.

He said: “Since August last year, the District Head of Kura came to the palace with a young girl of about 15 years, alongside somebody from the area, whom we were told was married to him after she was converted to Islam.

“I ordered her immediate repatriation to her parents who were said to be in Bayelsa State. I ordered the Kano State Shariah Commission to liaise with the Assistant Inspector General (AIG) Zone 1 to assist in taking her back to her parents in Bayelsa.”

“In Islam, she has no right to just go ahead and decide things for herself. She is still young. She is not mature enough. And there is nowhere in Islam where such young girls can just make up their mind and give their hands in marriage just like that. It is not permitted in Islam. That is why we said she must be taken back to her parents, “ Sanusi explained. 

“I am therefore giving an order that an investigation should immediately commence with the AIG office to know the position of things since that time we ordered her repatriation to her parents.”

The emir called on the said “husband” of the young girl to exercise more patience and wait till when she reaches the age of 18 years before he could ask for her hand in marriage.

He urged stakeholders not to portray themselves as being holier in religious matters like this. “We cannot in anyway be more Muslims than the Prophet of Islam Muhammad. We must therefore, do things according to the set rules and regulations governing our religion,” he advised.