A chieftain of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Alhaji Mohammed Sani Soba, has been confirmed dead after he collapsed in the head office of the northern association.
Alhaji Soba was a retired permanent secretary from the services of the Kaduna state government.
The unfortunate incident was confirmed by the National Publicity Secretary of the ACF, Emmanuel Yawe in a statement on Monday night.
According to Yawe, “Alhaji Soba was serving with ACF on contract basis. Born in 1949, the late Soba obtained his school-leaving certificate in 1964.”
“He proceeded to study and obtain additional qualifications both at home and outside Nigeria in various fields especially administration and legislative studies.”
“He later became the clerk of the Kaduna state House of Assembly. His sudden death was grieved by all at the secretariat of ACF where he held sway as an administrative head until his sudden death,” he said.
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) is a political and cultural association of leaders in Northern Nigeria formed in 2000 which has extensive influence in the Nigerian political space. The forum is a successor to the Northern People’s Congress, which collapsed after the coup of 1966.
The ACF is known to have relations with the Arewa People’s Congress (APC), a militant group set up to protect the interests of the Hausa-Fulani people in northern Nigeria. However, the forum has proven to be committed to democratic processes within the Federal constitution.
#BBNaija: Tega’s Husband Blows Hot, Gives Her New Conditions To Sustain Marriage
The husband of embattled evicted Big Brother Naija (#BBNaija) season six housemate Tega, Ajeboh Krislawrence, has stated that his wife must apologize before he accepts her back.
Recall that Tega, before her eviction, has been in the news for the wrongs reasons over her unholy relationship with another evicted housemate, Boma.
Tega who had stated she is married when entering the reality show engaged in romantic activities with Boma which led to a lot of backlash from viewers of #BBNaija.
Tega alongside Peace, Michael and Boma were however evicted during the ‘Kingsize’ eviction show held on Sunday.
Speaking after her eviction Tega told the show host, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, that all her acts with Boma was scripted, claiming her husband would understand while describing him as ‘a hard guy.’
But in an Instagram live interview session with Tunde Ednut, Tega’s husband threatened to end the relationship.
He stated that he would only stick with his wife if she takes responsibility for her action in the house as this will be the first time she will be involved in such an act.
“I know Tega knows what she did was very bad but she needs us more than ever. I don’t think I should abandon her because she needs me.
“We are all humans and we all sin and God forgives us. I wouldn’t throw her away. She’s my wife and such things come with marriage,” he said.
Tragedy As Five youths die while conveying corpse of cholera victim from Lagos to Sokoto
Five youths have reportedly been killed while conveying the corpse of their brother, who died of cholera in Lagos to Sokoto state, Newpremises has learnt.
The deceased were said to be sensational migrants to Lagos state where they worked as scavengers.
It was gathered that the six brothers were living at Ojota, an area said to be worst hit by cholera in Lagos state.
One of them was said to have got infected and died shortly.
A source who confirmed the incident to Daily trust correspondent on Monday, said:
“After his death, they decided to bring his corpse to his hometown, Sanyinna in Tambuwal local government of Sokoto state for burial. They chattered a bus to Sokoto and on their way five more persons got infected and died before their arrival.”
“Another five passengers are currently on admission in Sanyinna Primary Health Centre. The bus was not allowed into the town. We had called and informed the driver to proceed to the facility on arrival which he did,” the source added.
According to Alhaji Shehu Abubakar, Ardon Sanyinna said that, the deceased left for a greener pasture in Lagos.
The deceased persons have been buried in accordance with Islamic rites.
I Paid Beninese lawyers millions but They Failed To save me from prison – Sunday Igboho
Popular Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo (aka Sunday Igboho), has lambasted his Beninese lawyers for failing to stop his detention at a prison in Benin Republic.
Sunday Igboho revealed that some of the lawyers were paid up to five million million (Naira), expressing disappointment that none of them could stop the judge from detaining him despite their large number in court.
This revelation came out after an altercation between the activist and one of his lawyers, Ibrahim David Salami.
Recounting the issue between him and Salami to one of his supporters on phone, Adeyemo explained how he walked out on Salami when he came to see him inside the Benin Republic prison.
According to an audio of the phone conversation between him (Igboho) and the caller, the activist narrated that Lawyer Salami had kept him waiting and he eventually walked out on him.
“Lawyer Salami came to prison to see me, but he kept me waiting, attending to some other people for more than 15 minutes. I called on him, ‘Lawyer, I’m waiting, I’m hungry. I want to go and eat.’
“But he replied me saying, ‘will you be going then’ and and I walked away’. I don’t lie. He was here to see me, not someone else. He should have told those ones that he wanted to see his client. I am not a kid. I will be 50 in October,” Sunday Igboho said angrily.
While the caller tried to persuade Sunday Igboho to make peace with his lawyers because freedom is better than being in captivity, he retorted that:
“If lawyers don’t want to represent me in court anymore, no problem. It is God who knows how I got here. He will set me free. Are those lawyers God? Lawyers that could not tell the judge not to take me to prison, despite how many they were. They were up to 10. In their presence, the judge ordered my detention in prison. Are those ones lawyers? Those who could not remove handcuffs from my hands until Falola came to do so. Are they lawyers? And they collected huge amount of money. Five million, four million, three million (Naira), that was how they were paid; yet they couldn’t remove handcuffs from my hands. I don’t fear any lawyer or anybody. Anything they want to do to me, I’m ready.
“I don’t need any information from Salami. Anything they want to do, they should go ahead. If he is on phone, he should hear me. I don’t need any information from anyone. I need information from God. I told my wife the last time she came here that I don’t need any information from anyone. The information that nobody has been able to get to secure my release from here, God should give me.”
Igboho was arrested at a Cotonou airport on his way to Germany on June 20, three weeks after the invasion of his house by the DSS.
He has since been detained in a Beninese prison indefinitely for allegedly committing a crime in the French-speaking country.
Don’t expect magic In Provision Of Electricity supply, New minister Of Power tells Nigerians
Nigerians have been told not to expect magic in the provision of adequate electricity supply.
New Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu, during his official assumption of duties yesterday in Abuja, stated: No, I am not a magician, but I am here to add value to what is being done.”
He charged heads of parastatals and agencies under him to translate their titles into providing a constant electricity supply for the citizens.
The minister urged the ministry staff to be dedicated to the task ahead, pointing out that he was in the saddle to assist them to deliver their job.
He canvassed cooperation to make him and other members of the team succeed, stating: “ I like good character and honesty, as I have never lied and will not want anyone to do that to me.”
Earlier, the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Otun Emmanuel, refreshed the memories of all that the staff and relevant agencies have been working as a team to deliver President Muhammadu Buhari’s mandate by ensuring availability and affordability of electricity across the federation.
He assured the minister of their cooperation and redoubling of efforts to make his stay worthwhile.
More Woes For Killer Of Super TV Boss, Usifo Ataga As Chidinma’s Trial Moved To High Court
The main suspect, Chidinma Ojukwu in the murder trial of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Super TV, Usifo Ataga is to continue her trial in a High Court.
This is as the Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court presided over by Chief Magistrate Adeola Adedayo on Monday said it would no longer handle the case but Chidinma and some others have a case to answer regarding Ataga’s death.
The decision of the lower court is based on legal advice from the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
Also based on the legal advice issued by DPP Director, Mrs Olayinka Adeyemi, 11 suspects were cleared of complicity in the murder of the Super TV boss while Chidinma and four others are to be tried in a high court.
Others set for trial alongside Chidinma include Adedapo Quadri and Egbuchu Chioma.
65-Year-Old Dare Devil Woman Cuts Off Husband’s Head During Heated Quarrel
A Kenyan elderly woman, Margaret Wanjiru, 65, has beheaded her husband John Ndung’u, 99, on Sunday morning after a domestic quarrel.
According to reports, the residents of Kagumo-ini village in Kandara, Murang’a, Kenya were left in utter shock after a 65-year-old woman cut off her husband’s head after a domestic quarrel
Betty Mumbi, a daughter-in-law to the deceased disclosed that Wanjiru woke up in the morning and started throwing insults at her husband, who at the time was in the kitchen taking his breakfast.
“She woke up and started insulting the husband and included me because I was the one serving him breakfast. The husband tried to calm her down, but it was in vain, as she dashed for the panga and slit his throat. I tried saving him, but she also started attacking me,” Mumbi said.
With blood oozing from her father-in-law’s throat, Mumbi immediately raised the alarm to alert her neighbours who rushed to the scene, but it was too late.
“He was lying outside the house as he tried to escape, but she overpowered him and cut off his head,” she added.
Mumbi said that the mother-in-law has on several occasions threatened to kill her husband.
“Earlier in the year, Wanjiru had attacked her husband, hitting him on the forehead, and he sustained serious injuries,” Mumbi revealed.
Police have taken up the matter for further investigations.
Popular Professional footballer who has been in coma since 1982 Finally Dead
Jean-Pierre Adams, a French professional footballer who has been in coma since March 1982 has died, aged 73.
Adams’ death was recorded on Monday 6 September 2021 in Nimes France.
The late athlete who was born in Dakar Senegal, played as a centre-back for the likes of PSG and OGC Nice.
Adams was 34 when he slipped into a deep coma in 1982 following an anesthesia error during routine knee surgery at Lyon Hospital.
He was said to have been in ‘great shape’ going into the operation and was expected to wake up after only a few hours. But Adams remained in the coma for 39 years.
He played 22 times for the France national team from 1972 to 1976.
His wonderful wife, Bernadette had tended to him ever since he went into coma, barely missing a day’s care over the last three decades.
Nigerian govt Vows to recover millions of Naira wrongly paid to 588 doctors
Nigerian govt to recover millions of Naira wrongly paid to 588 doctorsNigerian govt to recover millions of Naira wrongly paid to 588 doctors.
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, stated this when he fielded questions from State House correspondents in Abuja.
He explained that affected doctors wrongly benefitted from Medical Residency Training Fund meant for a particular category of doctors.
According to him, the names of the doctors were uncovered after a thorough scrutinization of the 8000 names submitted by Chief Medical Directors of Federal Government health institutions for the training programme.
The minister, however, revealed that a substantial amount of the money had been refunded by some of the affected doctors while efforts had been intensified to recover the remaining balance.
He maintained that the delay in making the refund by the affected doctors was holding back the Residency Fund payment by the government.
Mr Ngige said: “Ministry of Health has gotten the list of doctors who supposedly are to benefit from the Medical Residency Training Fund.
“Total submission of about 8000 names were gotten and the Ministry of Health is scrutinising them.
“We have done the first round of scrutinization and they will now compare what they have with the Post-Graduate Medical College and the Chief Medical Directors who submitted the names.
“The Association of Resident Doctors, in each of the tertiary centres, worked with the CMDs to produce those names, but now that the names are being verified.
“We discovered that about 2000 names shouldn’t be there because they don’t have what is called Postgraduate Reference Numbers of National Postgraduate Medical College and (or) that of the West African Postgraduate Medical College.
“So, this is it and that is the only thing holding back the Residency Fund payment because it is there already for… incurred expenditure has been done by the Finance Minister and it’s in the Accountant-General’s office,” he said.
“So, once they verify the authenticity of those they are submitting, the Accountant-General will pay.
“We are doing that verification because we do not want what happened last time in 2020 to reoccur.
“In 2020, the submitted names didn’t come through the appropriate source, which is the Postgraduate Medical College and payment was affected and it was discovered that about 588 persons, who were not resident doctors benefited from such money.
“They are now finding it difficult to make the full refund. But they have to refund that money. Some are refunding, but there is no full consideration of the account.
“That account has to be reconciled to enable the accountants pay the next round of funding for 2021,” he said.
Commenting on the ongoing strike by Resident Doctors, Mr Ngige expressed the readiness of the Federal Government to withdraw the case it instituted against them, if they would go back to their duty post.
He, however, insisted that the ‘no work, no pay’ policy of the government would be observed because “it is a global practice which is also captured in Section 43 of the Trade Dispute Act under the International Labour Organization, ILO.”
JUST IN: Shiekh Gumi reveals Big Secret On Bandits, Killer Herdsmen Operation In Nigeria
Shiekh Abubakar Gumi, a respected islamic scholar has revealed the only way the bandit/herdsmen crisis can be stopped in Nigeria.
Gumi, a controversial figure, in a recent statement seen by POLITICS NIGERIA disclosed that the menace can only be stopped with Amnesty. According to him, the same way the government quelled the Niger-Delta crisis with Amnesty is the only way to end the activities of bandits and killer Herdsmen.
The statement titled; “Zamfara: The Flaring Crisis”, read in part; “I have met many of the bandit leaders to see a way out of this gridlock. I have talked to the political class and security agents. Except for an exception, most state governors want a peaceful resolution of the conflict.”
“The Police and other security outfits have also realized the enormity of the problem. But, unfortunately, the presidency for what appears to be political gullibility and the military for budgetary reasons as they are the most beneficiary of conflicts of this nature doesn’t seem to be on the same page.”
“This conflict can be resolved by active engagement of the government with the agitators. Just as we saw how ENDSAR agitation was swiftly managed after an initial scandalous failed military confrontation, was peacefully resolved by the government, likewise, the herdsmen crisis can be.”
“Just as we had the Niger delta conflict resolved with an amnesty which comes with reconciliation, reparation, and rehabilitation packages, so will the herdsmen crisis be resolved. In fact, there is a need for a Marshal plan to educate the nomadic pastoralist so that no citizen is left behind.”
“These measures I enumerated are cheaper, easier, and lasting than the kinetic approach which is now taking place. No military especially of a poor economy can win guerrilla warfare. The recent victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan is a factual warning for those that contemplate.”
