Oluwasegun Adesuyi, Author at SocietyGazette.com

We want Yoruba liberation, not restructuring, Sunday Igboho Tells Buhari

Yoruba Nation Agitator Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho has told President Muhammadu Buhari he is not in support of restructuring but liberation of Yorubas.

But several political leaders in the region, including National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinub; Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila; former APC National Interim Chairman Bisi Akande and other prominent leaders in the South-West have kicked against the idea.

They called for national cohesion as against ethnicity.

But Igboho, while receiving a vehicle presented to him by some donors to support the Yoruba Nation agitation, accused the current administration of marginalising the South-West region especially in terms of appointments.
Of recent, Igboho expressed anger over the continuous killing and kidnapping of Yorubas by the killer herdsmen in the region.

He said: “Our demand is simple, to tell Buhari that we do not want restructuring but Yoruba Nation.

“On Yoruba Nation, no going back. We have our faith in God. When God heard the cries of Israelites, he answered them; the cries of Yorubas have been heard by God. Noah’s ark can be likened to the current Yoruba agitation.

“I’m saying it boldly; nobody can kill us in this current struggle. May God carry us to our destination.

“Many people are even ranting on social media concerning the struggle, they need to join and support. What we are currently having now is awareness and peaceful rallies across southwest states.

“Don’t think we are joking, what we are pursuing now is Yoruba Nation. I’m not the only one fronting the Yoruba Nation Agenda right now; there are many powerful people who I have been meeting and working with underground.”

He noted the struggle can be won with collective efforts, appreciating many clerics and community leaders for their private and public support.

APC Announces Date To Begin Sale Of Forms For Congresses

The ruling All Progressives Congress has announced plans to commence the sale of forms for its national congresses.
The development was disclosed by the director of the organisation, Prof Al-Mustapha Medaner, on Sunday.

Medaner in the statement released said the decision was in line with the approval of Governor Mai Mala Buni-led APC Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the party.

He further stated that the purchase of forms for ward congresses would start from July 1 to July 7, while the inauguration of wards and local government congresses, screening and screening appeals committee would hold on July 10.

Medaner added that the screening of the ward positions would start from July 12 to July 16, while the inauguration of the ward and local government congresses and congresses appeals committee would hold on July 19 and ward congresses on July 24.

He said the party has set July 26 to July 29 to entertain appeals from the ward congresses.

Medaner said: “Purchase of forms for the local government positions will be from July 26 to July 30 and screening of aspirants for local government party positions will be from July 19 to July 26.”

The APC Director said appeals from local government congresses would be entertained from August 16 to August 20.

He said the sales of forms for state executives positions would occur from August 23 to August 27, while the inauguration of the screening appeals committee for state executives would hold on August 30.

“Screening of aspirants for state executives will be from Sept.6 to September 8 and appeals arising from screening for state executives will be held from September 12 to September 15.

“State congresses will hold on September 18 and appeals arising from state congresses will hold from September 19 to September 21.

“By this notice, aspirants will purchase forms as follows: ward chairman – N10, 000; ward vice-chairman, secretary and treasurer – N5,000, other offices – N 2,000.

“Local government chairman – N25,000, local government vice chairman, secretary and treasurer – N15,000.00; other offices – N10, 000,” he said.

Medaner said female and physically challenged aspirants would pay 50 per cent of the prescribed fees for each position.

Kayamata Sex Enhancer CEO, Jaruma Dismisses Deportation Rumour, Says She is Still Based In Dubai

Society gazette reports that the Chief executive officer of Jaruma Empire has debunked the reports making rounds that she has been deported from Dubai where she is based.

This publication had reported that a popular instagram blogger, Gistlover alleged that she has been deported from Dubai for engaging in some criminal activities.

In her response, she explained that she is still on Dubai soil with some proofs

Usifo Ataga: ‘Why I Started Smoking, Taking Hard Drugs’ – Chidinma

Chidinma Ojukwu, alleged killer of the Chief Executive Officer, Super TV, Usifo Ataga, has revealed when she started smoking and doing hard drugs.

Speaking to The PUNCH on Saturday, the 21-year-old undergraduate said she started smoking and dealing with drugs after she gained admission to study Mass Communication at the University of Lagos (UNILAG).

She also confirmed she’s the person in a trending video showing a lady puffing out cigarette smoke while soft music plays in the background.

She said: “I started smoking after I got into UNILAG.”

“I am the one smoking in the trending video. I started smoking a few years ago. Old-time friends introduced me to it and we don’t talk anymore. Everything started after I entered UNILAG, but not actually when I am in school, it could be other places. But I am not the one in the other video (dissociating herself from another trending video showing a lady exhibiting her butt),” she added.

Speaking about her childhood, she said her parents separated when she was two years old and she started living with her uncle in the Mushin area of Lagos State.

The suspect added that while growing up, her childhood ambition was to become either a musician or an actress.

She said “My role models were Tiwa Savage, Beyonce, Rihanna, Genevieve, and Regina Hall. I schooled in Johnson Primary School and also a government primary school in Mushin. I later went to Sidman College in Sabo, Yaba. I was two-year-old when my parents separated, I was little, so while I was growing up, I stayed with my uncle, Mr Chijioke Obi, in Mushin. I don’t know if he bears Izu, but it was my uncle that trained me.”

Narrating her relationship with Ataga, Chidinma described him as just a friend she met a few months back.

She also faulted claims that the late billionaire neither took hard drugs nor alcohol.

Ojukwu|e said, “Mr Ataga was a friend and I don’t know how to elaborate more. He has not shown me pictures of his family but he sometimes acts like he was married and not that he is married (sic). I have met him up to four or five times; he takes drugs and drinks alcohol. It is not that I am trying to put anything together.’’

I Used To Be A Bus Conductor, I have 5 Adopted Kids – Singer, Small Doctor recounts humble Beginning

Nigerian afro pop-singer, Adekunle Temitope, better known as Small Doctor has recounted his humble beginning.

The 25-year-old entertainer in an interview on the Nancy Isime show on Friday, June 25, revealed that he used to be a bus conductor and then a driver in Lagos State.

The singer said though he had a poor family background, he didn’t allow that to stop him from believing in himself, adding that he is where he is today because he didn’t fail to plan well.

He said: “I started on the streets of Agege in Lagos State as a bus conductor and then a driver.

“If anyone had told me that today, I will get a visa to Canada or even be able to fly to Canada, I would have never believed it.

“Look at me today, I can never believe I would have access to Canada not to talk of having a family there.

Speaking about his wife and children, he said: “I have a family and I am married. I have seven children – Five adopted kids, a son and a daughter.

“So I have a wife and children and they are all based in Canada,” he said.

However, when asked what he would tell the man that wakes up at 4.am every morning to work as a bus conductor or a driver, Small Doctor said he would tell the man that “If he fails to plan, then he plans to fail.

“There’s no limitations to what one can achieve in life,” he added.

Meanwhile, Nollywood actress, Ayo Adesanya has revealed some of the reason she turn down movie roles, even when the money is right.
The single mum of one made this known in an exclusive interview with The Punch, Naija News reports.

Anambra 2021: Senator Uba Emerges Factional PDP Governorship Candidate

Senator Ugochukwu Uba has emerged as the factional governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the Anambra governorship election scheduled for November 6, 2021.

He emerged from the faction led by Cbukwudi Umeaba and loyal to Chief Chris Uba.

Uba emerged as the standard flag bearer in the primaries conducted on Saturday, 26th June 2021.

It was gathered that Uba got 275 votes to defeat his closest rival, Godwin Ezeemo with 114 votes, while Senator Uche Ekwunife scored 56 votes to come third.

The returning officer in the election, Obidi Ebede who declared Uba the winner of the primaries, added that there were 665 accredited delegates.

The Uba-led faction held its primary at the Paul University playground in Awka, Anambra State.

Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress Presidential Support Committee has suspended its National Coordinator, Senator Godswill Akpabio.

Society gazette gathered that Akpabio was suspended over what the group describes as poor leadership.

The committee, which is an umbrella body of President Buhari support groups, was mandated to galvanize support for President Buhari’s re-election in 2019.

Akpabio’s suspension was made known to newsmen on Saturday by the spokesperson of the group, Kailani Muhamad.

He stated that the National Executive Committee of the group decided to suspend Senator Akpabio because he abandoned the organisation after his ministerial appointment.

Senator Akpabio, a former Akwa Ibom state Governor, is the current Minister of Niger-Delta

BREAKING: APC Committee Suspends Senator Akpabio

The All Progressives Congress Presidential Support Committee has suspended its National Coordinator, Senator Godswill Akpabio.

Society gazette gathered that Akpabio was suspended over what the group describes as poor leadership.

The committee, which is an umbrella body of President Buhari support groups, was mandated to galvanize support for President Buhari’s re-election in 2019.

Akpabio’s suspension was made known to newsmen on Saturday by the spokesperson of the group, Kailani Muhamad.

He stated that the National Executive Committee of the group decided to suspend Senator Akpabio because he abandoned the organisation after his ministerial appointment.

Senator Akpabio, a former Akwa Ibom state Governor, is the current Minister of Niger-Delta

He was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari in July 2019.

Meanwhile, the ruling APC has reportedly extended the tenure of the Caretaker Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC).

The caretaker committee, led by Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State is understood to have been granted an extension to remain in office until it can conduct a national convention for the party.

Recall the Buni-led committee came on board in June 2020 after the dissolution of the Adams Oshiomhole led National Working Committee (NWC).

It got its tenure extended by six months in December 2020 during an emergency National Executive Committee (NEC) held at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

It is now understood that the APC leadership after briefing President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday at the Aso Rock Villa, agreed to grant another extension to the committee.

Senate President Lawan ‘Marries’ Young Arab Girl In Secret Wedding

The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has secretly married Zainab Algoni Abdulwahid, a young Shuwa Arab girl at a very private ceremony in Borno State.
According to SaharaReporters, the low-key marriage was solemnised at the Sheikh Sharif Ibrahim Saleh’s mosque in Maiduguri on Friday.

It was gathered that a mini party was also held at the bride’s family residence in Gwange 1 Ward, Malut Shuwa Street, Maiduguri, while Zainab is expected to relocate to Abuja on Sunday.

“The Senate President of Nigeria, Lawan, got married to a young Shuwa Arab Girl at Maiduguri. Her name is Zainab Algoni Abdulwahid.

“They got hooked after Jumu’at Prayer on Friday in Maiduguri. The bride will travel to Abuja on Sunday.

“The ceremony was done secretly. The Senate President didn’t attend the Nikaah, but he sent a delegation to go and get it done.

“But the bride did her ceremony at their house in Gwange 1 Ward, Malut Shuwa Street, Maiduguri,” a source revealed.

When contacted, Ola Awoniyi, Special Adviser on Media to the Senate President, said he was at the airport.

Gunmen Attack Ondo Varsity, Rape Four Female Students

Unknown gunmen have attacked the Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology (OAUSTECH), Okitipupa, Ondo State, and raped four female students of the institution.
The President, Student Union Government of the institution, Damilola Okunomo, confirmed the ugly incident to newsmen during a protest along the Okitipupa-Igbokoda highway on Friday.

Speaking during the protest embarked upon by the students, Okunomo noted that the hoodlums also robbed the students of their valuables like phones, laptops, gadgets.

Okunomo said the students had trooped out to register their displeasure over incessant robberies, threats to their lives and properties, and the rape of the students.

He expressed concern over the security situation in the institution adding that ” the students were tired of the level of insecurity in the area.

Okunomo alleged that the institution’s management was not doing enough on the security of lives and properties of students.

He said: “We are tired of this insecurity, armed hoodlums usually come to our off-campus hostels, rob students at gunpoint, and also rape our female students.

“The school management is not to doing enough as we are the ones securing ourselves by working as vigilantes most times, the situation is terrible.

“We urge the school management to do its best in securing us and complete all the uncompleted hostel accommodations in our campus as this will also guarantee our security.”

However, the management of the institution has shut down the school for two weeks over the security threats.

It was learned that a notice to that effect was pasted on campus on Friday asking the students to proceed on a “two weeks mid-semester break”.

Biafra: Police Raid Three IPOB/ESN Camps, Kill Members In Imo

Operatives of the Nigerian Police on Friday raided camps of suspected members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN), the militia wing of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) group.
It was gathered that many ESN members were killed in the raid that took place at Atta, Izombe and Ideato North areas of the state.

According to The Nations, the raids which commenced around 4 am was carried out by operatives of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Special Tactical Squad (STS), Anti-Kidnapping Unit (AKU) and other special forces.

The combined security team completely overran three camps allegedly belonging to IPOB/ESN.

Sources revealed that a commander of the group who was earlier arrested led the operatives to the camps where several weapons, stolen vehicles, explosives, gun powders, charms, weed, ammunition, hard drugs and the group’s flags were recovered.

Although the number of suspects killed was not specified, a source privy to the operation said many of them were neutralised inside the forest during gun battles.

He said six of the suspects were apprehended and were currently aiding police investigation.