Britain promises to help in release of abducted girls By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA – PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari in London on Monday told the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, that though the country will be having elections in 2019, his primary concern was to tackle insecurity and also put the nation’s economy in a better position. President Buhari meets with UK Prime Minister Theresa May at 10 Downing Street London President Buhari stated this when he held a bilateral meeting with the British Prime Minister, at 10, Downing Street, London. Recall that the President had declared his intention to seek for re-election last week Monday at the National Executive Council, NEC, meeting of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abuja, before he left for London. But Buhari told the British Prime Minister that his administration from the onset was focused on three cardinal areas which were security, economy and fight against corruption, adding that as his opponents were interested in the f...

Rochas who disclosed this while hosting some political stakeholders at the state government house in Owerri, opined that, “Buhari will win again and again and after Buhari, the turn will come to south-east and it will be the turn of Okorocha”. Okorocha Speaking further he said “Nwosu is the least of the political children I have trained but I don’t know any of them as much as I have known Nwosu,” Okorocha said. “I took him up when he was just nobody and he grew to the height he is now, his only sin is that he is my son-in-law. “Nwosu will win in 2019, don’t be afraid, I am there”.

Wife of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Uchechi, has spoken out on the whereabouts of her husband. Ucheche, who is based in London has maintained that her husband is in the custody of the Nigerian Army. Insisting that she is not aware of Kanu’s whereabouts, Uchechi told BBC Igbo that she is not also aware if her husband was dead or alive. She stated that the last time she spoke with Kanu was when soldiers invaded his residence in Umuahia, Abia State last year. Uchechi said, “The IPOB people are not sleeping. The army is going to tell them where their leader is. Keeping Nnamdi Kanu does not mean that IPOB is asleep,” Uchechi said. “I don’t know where my husband is. If he is dead or alive, I don’t know. People that are supposed to answer these questions are the army. “The last time I saw him was when the army came to shoot in our house. He called me and asked if I was hearing the gunshots. I heard the gunshots and started shouting...

British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has called for same-sex marriages in Nigeria and all other Commonwealth Nations. The Prime Minister said this on Tuesday while speaking at the first joint forum at Commonwealth Head of Government Meetings in Westminster. According to her, there should be no laws criminalising same-sex relationships across the Commonwealth. May said that she understands that most of the laws against same-sex marriages in the Commonwealth were made by the United Kingdom, adding that those laws were wrong then, and are wrong now. She said, “Across the world, discriminatory laws made many years ago, continue to affect the lives of many people tens of millions of young people. “Criminalising same-sex relations and failing to protect women and girls.” “I am all too aware that these laws were put in place by my own country; they were wrong then and they are wrong now. “As the UK’s prime minister, I deeply regret that those laws were introduce…a...

Family of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has asked the Federal Government to release the corpse of their son for burial. The family said it believed that Kanu was killed by the Nigerian military, in an attempt to quell the agitation for Biafra. The family spokesman, Emma Kanu, told Wapsim247 that the federal government should release Nnamdi’s corpse to them so as to give him a befitting burial. Emma said ever since the IPOB leader disappeared last year, when his home was raided by the military, the family had always feared for his life. “Now that it has been reported that he is dead, the federal government should, without hesitation release his corpse to his family, so that we and the entire Igbo nation can give him the befitting burial he deserves because he is a true Igbo son,” he said. The younger Kanu said even if the IPOB leader was out of Biafra struggle, it would not vitiate the resolve of IPOB and indeed the whole of...

A nanny, Fatimah Yakubu, who allegedly burnt an eight-year-old girl’s buttocks on a stove, was Monday brought before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. Yakubu, 37, of No. 15, Ologolo Street, Lekki Lagos, is facing a one-count charge of assault occasioning grievous harm before Mr B. I. Bakare. Prosecuting Sergeant Friday Mameh told the court that the defendant committed the alleged offence last Tuesday, at about 11am, at her residence. Mameh said: “The defendant grievously harmed the eight-year-old girl by burning her buttocks with a burning stove which caused her bodily harm”. The offence, Mameh added, is contrary to Section 245 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015. Yakubu pleaded not guilty. Magistrate Bakare granted him N500, 000 bail with two sureties in the like sum. The case continues on May 5.

…I have retired all godfathers Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha, has assured the supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that his Chief of Staff, Uche Nwosu has what it takes to win the 2019 governorship election. The Imo governor disclosed that his support for Nwosu’s governorship ambition is not for any personal gain but but the conviction that he will make a good governor, judging by his acceptability, which he said cuts across the three zones of the state. Okorocha who spoke when political leaders, women and youth groups, as well as traditional rulers came to endorse Nwosu at the Government House, said that he would want to hand over to a governor that will discriminate against any zone but will see the entire state as one deserving of equal attention. He assured that Nwosu will win the 2019 governorship election, irrespective of the objections of the political ‘bigwigs’, adding that the power to elect a governor resides with the people and n...

A 27 year old man has reportedly committed suicide in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital. The deceased allegedly took his live by hanging himself on a ceiling fan in his apartment. He was said to have lost out in a betting over the outcome of a European Champion League match. The incident was said to have occurred in Oko- Erin area of the town after the return leg match between FC Barcelona of Spain and AS Roma of Italy played in Italy. He was said to have bet that Barcelona who were leading by 4-1 in the first leg played at Nou Camp, Spain would maintain lead at end of the return leg and b through to the semi-final of the championship. However, the match turned out to be 3-0 in favour of AS Roma making the aggregate result to be 4-4 with Roma qualifying for the semi-final at the expense of Barcelona by virtue of away goals rule. The result made the deceased to lose the motorcycle to his opponent in the bet as the opponent reportedly smiled home with the bike f...

A former governor of Kaduna State in the Second Republic , Balarabe Musa , says nobody can become the President of Nigeria without first being a thief or supported by thieves . According to him, there is hardly how anyone can legitimately raise the kind of money required for presidential campaign in the country . He blamed the socio - economic woes of the country on the political structure, where, according to him, 99 per cent of the people in the corridors of power were thieves . Musa was captured as saying this in a video clip circulating on the Facebook. He was captured as playing host to the publisher of an online news medium , Sahara Reporters , Omoyele Sowore, a presidential hopeful. Sowore, in the clip, said he visited the Kaduna politician to seek his counsel on how to go about his presidential ambition in 2019 . He asked the 81 - year- old politician for his view on why the older generation of leaders had failed the country . Responding, Musa sai...

The senator representing Adamawa North Senatorial District in the Senate, Mrs . Binta Masi Garba, on Sunday narrated how all that she had were set ablaze by her biological father after she gave her life to Jesus Christ . She spoke during a thanksgiving service organised to mark her 50 th birthday at the Chapel of Praise International Church , Yola on Sunday . Binta, who broke down in tears during the service , said God made it possible for her to become a cornerstone after the deprivation and rejection she suffered after accepting Jesus Christ as her Lord and Saviour . She said , “ I gave my life to Christ when I was in primary school . My father was infuriated and he burnt everything I had because of my decision to follow Christ. I suffered so much because of the name of Jesus. I would have been nothing if not for His grace. The rejected child , because of my faith , has become a cornerstone. I give glory to His name . ” In his r...