A Zimbabwean woman without limbs has shared pictures of her wedding on social media.
The 26-year-old woman, Sinikiwe Kademaunga who showed off her man, Reuben, few months back has now tied the knot with the love of her life. She took to Instagram to share the good news
Kademaunga was born without hands, knees, and feet.
In other news, a video of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, dancing with one of his young Queens has surfaced on social media.
In the viral video, the 83-year-old king was pictured showing off his dancing skills with one of his Queens on stage.
Naija News understands that the Alaafin has more than ten wives, many children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
In the shared video, one of his young Oloris was spotted giving him a lap dance on stage at an event while cash rained on her.
Reacting to the video, some social media users expressed fear for the king due to the kind of dance which seemed too tasking for someone as fragile as him. While others revealed their curiosity over the level of attention young ladies pour at the king. Read more
Lawrence Ajojo, the lead suspect in the illegal raid of the Abuja home of the Supreme Court Judge, Justice Mary Odili, has disclosed that he has a connection with the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami.
Naija News earlier reported that fourteen suspects said to have been responsible for the raid on the Abuja home of Justice Mary Odili have been arrested by the Nigeria Police.
This was disclosed on Thursday by the Force Public Relations Officer, CP Frank Mba while parading them at the Force Headquarters Annex, Garki, Abuja.
He said seven others are still at large and security operatives are in pursuit, adding that one of the arrested persons include Ajojo who reportedly led the team.
But speaking with reporters on Thursday when he was paraded, Ajojo said he is not an officer of the Nigerian Police but a consultant for Malami.
He, however, revealed that the Justice minister did not authorise the illegal invasion of Justice Odili’s Abuja home.
“I am not an officer of the Nigeria Police but a consultant for the AGF; he did not send us to raid Mrs Odili’s house,” he said.
The Senator Andy Uba Campaign Organisation has rejected the result of the just-concluded Anambra state governorship election as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The campaign organisation described the outcome of the election as a charade, adding that it did not reflect the wishes of the people of the state.
In a statement signed on Thursday in Abuja on behalf of the campaign organisation, Ambassador Jerry Ugokwe, alleged that the candidate of the APC, Senator Andy Uba is a victim of widespread electoral fraud and manipulation by INEC.
“The elections were characterised by widespread irregularities, intimidation, and voter suppression in order to clear the path for the inglorious ‘victory’ of APGA in the polls.
For instance, in polling units where the Biometric Voters’ Accreditation System malfunctioned, INEC went ahead to conduct the elections manually. There were numerous cases where votes announced by INEC exceeded the number of accredited voters in polling units.
“Another clear manifestation of collusion between the Obiano administration and INEC was the publishing of results on the social media handles of APGA even before the official announcement by INEC. Yet mysteriously, the votes announced in advance by APGA always corresponded correctly with the official figures released by INEC. “It is inconceivable that our candidate, who polled over 200,000 votes in the APC primary election would be allocated slightly above 43,000 votes by INEC.
“It is surprising that APGA that lost almost 80% of its stalwarts through defection to the APC before the election came out ‘victorious.’” According to the statement, the only people remaining in APGA at the time of the election were Governor Obiano, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, and their households. Ugokwe added: “There was definitely no way the carcass of APGA could have defeated the APC without the active collusion and manipulation by INEC and the Obiano administration.”
The campaign group appealed to the APC supporters to remain peaceful and calm, saying the party will use legal means to recover its electoral mandate.
Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), may have been sentenced to eight years in prison for over N2billion pension fraud, but he is currently “living like a king” and has never been in a prison cell, FIJ can report.
On Monday, Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Maitama, Abuja, sentenced Maina to eight years in Kuje Medium Security Prison, where he has been held, convicting him and his company, Common Input Property and Investment Ltd., on all the 12 counts filed against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
MAINA’S FULL PUNISHMENT
Maina was sentenced to various concurrent jail terms ranging from three to eight years. He was jailed three years for Count 1, five years for Count 2, eight years for Count 3, eight years for Count 4, two years for Count 5, five years for Count 6.
He was jailed for eight years for Count 7, three years for Count 8, five years for Count 9, eight years for Count 10, three years for Count 11 and three years for Count 12.
Justice Abang ordered that the terms of imprisonment shall run concurrently beginning from October 25, 2019, the date he was arraigned, meaning he will serve only the lenghtiest of all the terms: eight years. However, FIJ can confirm that in those two years since October 2019, Maina has never slept in a prison cell.
‘LIVING LIKE A KING’
The fully air-conditioned building where Maina is housed, almost living like a free man.
“Which Maina? Maina that since he was admitted to Kuje correctional facility, he has never seen a cell,” one prison source, who asked not to be named for fear of official vicitmisation, told FIJ.
“He has been living in the hospital inside the facility; it is more or less like a living room. He lives inside one of the rooms in the hospital building — not in the hospital ward itself.”
A second prison source, who also asked not to be named, told FIJ Maina was “living like a king” in prison, even though some other high-profile prisoners, such as Jolly Nyame, former Governor of Taraba State, and Farouk Lawan, former House of Representatives member, are indeed in cells.
Nyame is serving a 12-year jail term for misappropriation of funds while he was governor of Taraba State from 1999 to 2007, while Lawan is serving a seven-year jail term for demanding a $3million bribe and receiving $500,000 in two tranches from businessman Femi Otedola.
Maina’s abode is just two rooms to the left of this visible air-conditioned room
“Maina is a northerner treated like a king. He is living large inside a well-furnished room in the hospital,” the second source said. “Even Farouk Lawan is inside his cell in Custody 4; Jolly Nyame is in Custody 3 downstairs.”
FIJ understands Maina’s room is just two rooms to the left of the air-conditioned room in the picture above.
FIJ contacted DSC Awiza, who was the Chief Warder of Kuje Prison until just a few days ago, but calls and a text message to his line were both unanswered.
The Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) has released an internal memo which banned students from riding cars to the campus
Naija News understands that the school management lamented the recklessness of some students bringing cars to the campuses, noting that the development has become a threat of life to commuters and pedestrians.
The memo titled ‘Prohibition of use of cars by students on the University Campus” and dated November 10, 2021’ read thus: “The University Management has noted with deep disappointment, the indiscriminate and reckless driving by some students within the University. This has put commuters and pedestrians at high and unnecessary risks.”
“Consequently, Management has directed that no student be allowed to drive/use any car on the University Campuses with immediate effect,” the memo signed by FUOYE Registrar, Mufutau A. Ibrahim added.
All students concerned have been directed to henceforth pack their cars properly outside the campuses, Naija News reports.
Aston Villa on Thursday announced Steven Gerrard as their new manager to replace the sacked Dean Smith.
The former Liverpool captain has left his role as Rangers boss to take the reins at the club, who have lost five straight Premier League matches.
Gerrard guided Rangers to a first Scottish Premiership title in 10 years last season, finishing the campaign undefeated in the league.
“The board of Aston Villa are delighted to appoint Steven as our new head coach,” said CEO Christian Purslow.
“He then took the brave decision to test himself in the intense and high pressured environment of the Scottish Old Firm. His subsequent achievement in winning the Premiership title with Glasgow Rangers really caught our eye as did his experience in Europe.”
Gerrard is considered one of the greatest players in Premier League history, scoring 186 goals in 710 appearances for Liverpool.
However, this will be his first taste of management in the English top-flight.
“Aston Villa is a club with a rich history and tradition in English football and I am immensely proud to become its new head coach,” said Gerrard.
“It was apparent how ambitious their plans are for the club and I am looking forward to helping them achieve their aims.”
Villa are 16th in the Premier League after picking up 10 points in their first 11 games.
Abubakar Malami, Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, has hit back at state governors after they criticized his office over plans to deduct $418 million from their monies to settle a debt owed to consultants by the 36 states and local governments in the country.
The Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) and the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) were said to have engaged legal services of the consultants in 2013 to help them recover funds that were over-deducted by the federal government from their monthly federal allocations to service loans taken from the Paris Club.
The state governors had few days ago faulted Malami on the planned deductions and stated that his alleged backing of the consultants to get paid, “raises questions of propriety and the spirit of justice”.
The governors had noted that a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja had recently stopped the Federal Government from deducting the said $418 million and alleged that the “undue haste” by Malami to effect the payment “suggests that there is a special relationship between the AGF and the consultants over and above Nigerian citizens.”
But responding in an Arise TV interview monitored by THE WHISTLER on Thursday, Malami noted that the Paris Club Refund issue, particularly the contract entered into between the states and the consultants, predates the current administration.
According to the AGF, the contractors had delivered on their job and were “fundamentally not paid the fees for the services they claimed to have rendered”.
He noted that the NGF and ALGON’s alleged refusal to continue with payment of the legal fees prompted the consultants to institute a suit against the state and local governments for “the determination of their rights and indeed enforcement of their fees” and had made the Federal Government a party to the suit.
Malami said a consent judgment entered into and submitted to a court by the NGF, ALGON and consultants in 2013 resulted in “the liability in contention today”.
The AGF said after the states failed to pay their legal fees, the consultants approached the Federal Government between 2016 and 2019 to intervene in the matter.
“The Federal Government approached the governors’ forum and ALGON and they collectively wrote to the Federal Government and conceded to the provision that the consultants have indeed provided the services and they were ready and willing to effect the payment of their fees,” said Malami.
According to him, the governors and ALGON had agreed that the “payment should be deducted from their monies and should be effected to the consultants”.
He said, “So, in 2017, these deductions were carried out at the instance of the governors’ forum and the instance of ALGON. Now that was the situation on the ground.
“But when eventually theses claims were made (by the consultants), the Federal Government under the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation felt that the amounts the ALGON and NGF had agreed to be paid to these consultants was in fact a very huge amount of money and the Federal Government became suspicious of what the NGF and ALGON were up to, taking into consideration that what was in contention were the services.
“So, the Federal Government wrote to the EFCC and DSS seeking for the verification of the veracity and authenticity of the claims on one hand and the judgement that gave rise to the claim.”
The AGF said the EFCC and DSS wrote back to him, confirming the liability of the state governments in the contract.
Malami said the implication of making the Federal Government a party in the suit filed by the consultants is that “the Federal Government could as well be liable and that execution could be levied against the interests of the Federal Government. So, on that note, the Federal Government took steps to approach the NGF and ALGON for the purpose of having their take as per this liability is concerned.
“I am happy to report that the governors, as at 2017, individually wrote in confirmation of admission of liability and the same thing ALGON.”
Malami wondered why the state governors did not object to the deductions when they commenced in 2016, saying “Now, nothing untoward happened thereafter until perhaps of recent when the NGF wrote, seeking to avoid liability”
The AGF said the implication of the governors planned avoidance of liability in the contract, “taking into consideration that the Federal Government was indeed sued as a party, was that at the end of the day, the liability will be placed exclusively at the doorsteps of the Federal Government when in fact this a liability that was incurred and admitted by the NGF and ALGON.”
He said, “it is indeed amazing that the governors are now belatedly, after having serviced the same claims over a period of five years, turned around to raise objections in respect of the payment even when they had consented on their own to a judgment which was entered in 2013 before this government came in place.
“Two, they had been effecting periodic payments in respect of the same [and] they had provided individual indemnity commitment that these payments should be effected over time.”
Malami said that the responsibility of his office is to “provide the necessary protection to the Federal Government,” stressing “I cannot be sitting here as the Attorney-General and allow the Federal Government to be exposed to a third-party liability incurred by the NGF and ALGON.”
The AGF stated emphatically that he won’t sit idly and watch the NGF and ALGON “turn around to create a situation that would expose the Federal Government to a liability even when it was indeed their liability that by their own showing, admission, and commitment, they have been servicing and they have conceded to.”
The Paris Club is group of public lenders who help debtor countries secure debt relief either by postponement or reduction in debt service obligations, amongst others.
There is palpable tension at the main campus of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State, as suspected bandits attacked the institution on Wednesday night.
Several students of the institution confirmed to THE WHISTLER that they heard gunshots in front of the school gate at about 11:30 PM on Wednesday.
Students who attempted to return to their lodges from the campus were turned back by the university’s security operatives
Several other sources claimed that one of the trading stalls in front of the school was also robbed and at least one person kidnapped, a claim THE WHISTLER could not independently verify as at the time of filing this report.
The institution’s Student Union President, Shuaib Isiaka Yahaya, confirmed the incident.
“There is a security challenge at the FUT Minna Gidan Kwano campus, we urge all our students to be in their respective lodges and stay calm,” he said in a voice note obtained by our correspondent.
The attack came after suspected bandits attacked and abducted six persons at the senior staff quarters of the University of Abuja on November 2, 2021.
They were later rescued on the 5th of November through a joint operation coordinated by the FCT Command of the Nigeria Police Force
Pastor Chris Simon Amadi of Shalom Mercy Ministry in Aluu, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State has been arrested by the police for allegedly strangling his wife to death.
It was gathered that the ugly incident happened in their home at Mbodo Community after a disagreement over school fees payment in his wife’s school.
Speaking with IGBERE TV correspondent, a relative to the wife who craved anonymity said trouble started when the deceased confronted her husband for chasing some of her pupils away from school for failing to pay on time, without first checking with her.
“When the wife confronted him, the pastor strangled her to death and wrapped her with clothes so that nobody will know”.
“It was when we started calling her number but she wasn’t picking that we decided to go to the house to know if everything is fine.”
“When we got there, her phone kept ringing inside her room but we didn’t see her. We asked her husband the wife’s whereabouts, he said she went out.”
“We were shocked when we saw my sister wrapped inside clothes. The husband has been beating the wife from time to time but we didn’t it will get to the extent of him killing her”.
It was gathered that the pastor has been married to the deceased since 2012 and the marriage is blessed with four children, two boys and two girls.
The Senate on Wednesday approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s External Borrowing (Rolling) plan for the Federal Government to the tune of $16,230,077,718, €1,020,000,000.
The Senate also approved a grant component of $125,000,000.00 under the 2018-2020 External Borrowing (Rolling) plan for the Federal Government.
The approval was sequel to the consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts.
The report was presented by the Chairman of the Committee, Senator Clifford Ordia, PDP, Edo Central during the plenary.
The recommendation of the Committee reads, “That the Senate does approve the underlisted ongoing negotiation of external borrowing in the sum of $16,230,077,718, €1,020,000,000.00 and a grant component of $125,000,000.00 under the 2018-2020 External Borrowing (Rolling) Plan.”
The recommendation was approved by Senators when it was put to a voice vote by Senate President Ahmad Lawan at plenary.
President Buhari and the Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed had at various times been criticize on the country’s rising debt levels which the Debt Management Office said is N87.2trn or $33.1bn as of March 2021.
In the N16.39trn 2022 budget appropriation presented by the President, the deficit was put at N6.26trn and it’s to be financed through borrowing of N5.01 trn.
Nigeria’s debt service to GDP ratio had hit 73 per cent based on figures released by the Finance Minister earlier last month.
