Former Vice President and presidential hopeful, Atiku Abubakar has joined one of the leading social media platforms, Tik Tok.
The former vice president made this known in a post via his official Facebook page on Wednesday, Naija News reports.
Abubakar urged his followers and supporters to join him on the trending social media platform @realatiku in order to get updates on his 2023 presidential ambition.
It is understood that the chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) joined Tik Tok to woo Nigerian youths ahead of the 2023 general elections.
He wrote: “I’m on TikTok. Click the link to follow or use the id: @realatiku“.
Tik Tok is a video-focused platform owned by a Chinese company, ByteDance Ltd, which allows people to create short watchable content and share it with friends, family, or the public.
It hosts a variety of short-form user videos, from genres like pranks, stunts, tricks, jokes, dance, and entertainment with durations from 15 seconds to ten minutes.
Meanwhile, the Governor of Rivers State and Presidential aspirant, Nyesom Wike has been warned by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to stay away from the South-East.
According to IPOB, the Peoples Democratic Party chieftain had denied having any link with the Southeast in the past, hence the call for him to stay off the region to canvas for votes.
The spokesman of the group, Emma Powerful issued the warning to the Rivers State Governor following his recent visit to the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe.
Powerful said the PDP chieftain should be ashamed of himself for begging Igbos for votes.
Frontline presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu has met with the founding chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, in Saudi Arabia.
Naija News reports that both the former Governor of Lagos State and the ex-EFCC boss are in Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah, the lesser hajj.
Both politicians, who are chieftains of the ruling All Progress Congress (APC), were seen exchanging pleasantries and smiling during their discussion with another Nigerian.
The meeting follows Tinubu’s absence at the breaking of the Ramadan fast with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa on Tuesday.
Other APC leaders who attended the event include former interim chairman of the APC Chief Bisi Akande; former National Chairmen of the APC, John Oyegun and Adams Oshiomhole; former Adamawa State Governor Murtala Nyako as well as former Ogun Governor Olusegun Osoba.
The former Borno Governor Ali Modu-Sheriff; Former Zamfara Governor Ahmed Yerima; Former Sokoto Governor Aliyu Wamako; former Edo Governor Oserheimen Osunbor; former Yobe Governor Bukar Ibrahim; General Muhammed Magoro; Senators Lawal Shuaibu, Aba Aji, Alh. Tijjani Tumsah, Ambassador Fati Bala, Hon. Abubakar Guru and Alhaji Nasiru Danu were also invited.
In Christendom, when the name Maureen Badejo is mentioned, what comes to mind is the story of an idle person who has become the devil’s workshop. Indeed, Maureen Badejo has proven to be a full time agent for Satan, making moves to bring down anointed men of God.
An opportunist who found her way to the United Kingdom after wrecking her husband’s business in Nigeria, she does nothing but sit on the internet all day making unthinkable allegations against men of God in Nigeria.
No doubt, she is a well known figure in the kingdom of darkness as she has a history of lying against fathers of faith in the kingdom of light which of course tallies with the mission of the devil to win more people to his kingdom. One of her most pronounced attacks on men of God is that Of Rev DK Olukoya of MFM. She took on the man of God for over a year and as it stands now, she is on the verge of going to jail for defaming the highly revered man of God.
Despite recording several failures to bring down men of God, she seem not to get tired as she just took on the General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries, Apostle Johnson Suleman. She made several allegations about extra-marital affairs, maltreatment of maid, occultic activities, killing of adopted children, and several others.
Of course, Apostle Suleman is not expected to respond to the allegations of a nonentity as the bible says ‘’Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes’’(Proverb 26:4) but as a follower of Christ and the love for the growth of the gospel, I have taken it upon myself to clarify somethings and let the world know how mentally derailed Maureen Badejo is.
How can a sane person make over 60 defamatory videos on a human being within five months and each video duration is within 3 to 7 hours?
First, Maureen alleged that a domestic staff of the man of God named Amos revealed to her that domestic staff of Apostle Suleman die regularly and mysteriously. If Maureen had a functioning mental system, she should have asked Amos how he survived for 10 years without dying like others as he claims. It’s obvious that was a blatant lie from the pit of hell. If others die often, Amos should also have died long time ago. As a matter of fact, Apostle Suleman has been very kind to his domestic staffers, just recently he gave a house to his cook who has served him for 10 year. Aside that, he also supported Amos, his domestic staff and his elder brother with $40k which they squandered in Dubai withing days.
Secondly, Maureen said Apostle Suleman used one ‘Martha’ to renew his powers and amass congregation to his church. it’s quite funny because taking a look at Apostle Suleman’s ministry, there is no way any diabolical power can keep it running. In Auchi, Apostle Suleman has maintained a record of having the largest congregation for many years, many know how he rose into prominence through God’s help so allegations of using diabolical means is not true. Such statement is coming from desperation to bring down the ever flourishing ministry of the man of God. Aside that, the girl martha came out to debunk the lies that she never had anything sexual with Apostle Suleman. Martha even called live on Maureen Badejo’s show to debunk the story
Thirdly, Maureen Accused Apostle Suleman of having marital affairs with married women in the church, citing Mike David’s wife as a reference to back up the claims. For many who don’t know Mike David, he became popular last year when he accused Apostle of having affairs with his wife. It was discovered that his allegation was made out of bitterness and at the end of the day, he had to apologize for making such an allegation because it’s not the truth.
It’s unfortunate that Maureen Badejo has amassed to herself gullible followers who are just like her, wanting to pull down men of God if not, people like her would have been recommended for appointment at a Psychiatric hospital as it’s obvious someone in a right state of mind wouldn’t dare make the allegations.
We are in the last days and it’s normal to see agent of satan unleash their terror on men of God but at the end of the day, light will overcome darkness.
Several residents have been killed and an unconfirmed number of others wounded after an attack on Monday night by armed groups locally known as bandits on some villages in Kagarko Local Government Area (LGA) in the northwestern state of Kaduna in Nigeria, POLITICS NIGERIA reports.
Sources told this newspaper that the terrorists also kidnapped people and stole cattle.
APC Chairman, Aribi Ward, Iliya Auta
One of the victims is a local chieftain of the ruling party – the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman, Aribi Ward, Iliya Auta.
Neither the state government nor the military has confirmed the incident.
Over the last few months, groups of armed bandits have kidnapped, tortured and killed hundreds of people across northwest and central Nigeria, demanding ransoms and looting citizens, rich and poor. Consequently, millions of people have been displaced.
On April 3, the lawbreakers raided Jere, in the same Kagarko LGA, and kidnapped some people.
The bandits have operated from forest bases.
In some villages, they have even become the law, taxing locals on a regular basis.
A new-born-baby was early Tuesday morning dumped at a refuse dump along Enugu Road in the university community of Nsukka, Enugu State.
The baby was wrapped in a blue waterproof, and packaged in a carton. As at the time of filing this report, the baby’s remains had not been evacuated.
The act attracted curses from sympathisers. A woman who could not hold her tears said, “Only cursed women can do this kind of thing. If you see the number of women looking for the fruits of the womb, you wonder how any woman could carry a baby for nine months, and decides to waste the baby.”
Mrs Ozoemene Okonkwo advised young ladies to report to welfare units or registered motherless babies’ homes when they do not want to own their babies.
She said, “Thousands of people want to adopt babies and give them a sense of livelihood. It is very bad to kill a baby one cannot create.”
The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi who died in Ekiti State on Friday night failed to carry out some of his plans before his death.
The well respected Yoruba monarch before his death had plans to visit the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi.
Oba Adeyemi before joining his ancestors also had planned to install the Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila as Baamofin of Oyo.
The monarch also took steps to end the rift between the Minister of Interior Rauf Aregbesola and the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu.
A source that spoke with The Nation disclosed that Alaafin had planned to hand over two new houses to two of his wives as gifts before the end of this month.
The source said: “Kabiyesi was waiting to get well. He planned to hand over a gift of new houses to two of the queens. But, death has made that impossible now. The houses have been completed. They were just to be handed over to the wives.”
It was gathered that the monarch had planned to meet with the Oyo State Government over the elevation of some chiefs and balee into obas without his consent and in violation of chieftaincy laws.
A source disclosed that the Alaafin of Oyo had written former Governors Rashidi Ladoja and Abiola Ajimobi on the issue, but no action was taken.
It was claimed that the monarch had planned to complain to the current Governor of the state, Seyi Makinde before his death.
The monarch had gathered relevant documents, which he planned to launch by end of April before death came.
In a 2017 letter to the late Ajimobi, the Alaafin had listed bales who elevated themselves to Obas and those who gave themselves non-existing titles.
“One seemed to believe that with these and a host of legislations on chieftaincy matters, both the administrators, prescribed authorities and the beneficiaries would be guided alright. It was very disappointing that self-esteem, corrupt practices, negligence, and carefree attitude by those concerned have led to great abuse and bastardization of the important culture. Dubious characters in our society now found the acquisition of chieftaincy titles at all costs a haven since the anointment is honourable for life. They manipulated their ways to the highest position, sometimes, to the disadvantage of some families. Criminals have invaded the culture.”
Members of the Nigerian Senate have been accused of diverting funds meant for constituency projects to non-existing projects.
The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) made the accusation in its interim constituency and executive projects tracking report, Naija News reports.
According to the report, the anti-corruption agency uncovered how the members of the Red Chamber illegally added N20 billion to N100 billion annual constituency projects.
The ICPC added that the lawmakers embedded additional projects into the 2021 mandate budget of MDAs, which is a long way affected budget performance, as well as distorted developmental planning and implementation of the 2021 fiscal year.
The report read in part: “Budget insertion remains one of the egregious, yet illegally acceptable phenomenon that has distorted the nation’s developmental planning and implementation of developmental programmes.
“In addition to the N100 billion appropriated annually for constituency projects, the National Assembly embedded additional projects into mandate budgets of MDAs. This is done to increase the project portfolios of concerned legislators and their influence on MDAs. The value of the insertion was in billions.
“Analysing the 2021 National Budget alone across key sectors of education, water resources, health, power, science and technology, environment, works and agriculture, we found duplication to the tune of over N20 billion.”
In the report, the ICPC cited other areas of infractions where lawmakers allegedly awarded contracts to themselves or to proxy companies.
This includes the “contract for the construction and renovation of blocks of the classroom at the Federal University Staff School, Wukari, Taraba South Senatorial District by a popular Senator“.
ICPC alleged that the project was “haphazardly nominated, appropriated and executed in locations that have no need for such projects.”
Another infraction pointed out by the ICPC was the supply of tricycles to Rivers West Senatorial District was an empowerment project, where the sponsor allegedly used one of her cronies as the contractor.
The commission alleged that “while the contract was never performed, the sum (N30m) was fully paid and shared“.
Citizens of have re-elected President Emmanuel Macron in a tightly contested presidential election.
It took Macron 58.5% votes to defeat his nationalist rival, Marine Len Pen in the runoff election on Sunday, Naija News reports.
First-round voting results between the top two contenders, Macron and Len Pen are shown below:
Emmanuel Macron of the Republic on the Move polled 9,783,058 in the first round of France’s 2022 presidential election, earning 27.8% count of the total votes.
While his major contender in the race, Marine Le Pen of the National Rally gets a total of 8,133,828 votes which stood at 23.2%.
This led to Sunday’s second-round runoff which secured Macron another tenure in leadership.
As projected by French polling agencies, 44-year-old Macron garnered between 58.5 per cent of the vote in the second-round runoff to beat down 41.4% vote for Le Pen.
The latest victory for Macron makes him the first president in France to have won re-election since Jacques Rene Chirac who served as President of the European country from 1995 to 2007.
Len Pen on the other had lost against the incumbent president for the second time, Naija News understands.
She was defeated in the 2017 France Presidential election after earning just 33.90% of the total votes, against Macron’s 66.10%.
Speaking on his latest victory, Macron acknowledged the love from his loved ones and the entire residents of France.
He vowed to improve the living standards of the less privileged.
“Many in this country voted for me not because they support my ideas but to keep out those of the far-right. I want to thank them and know I owe them a debt in the years to come,” the 44-year-old said.
He assured the people that he will address the “anger and the disagreements” that led to many French voters choosing the extreme right, saying “this will be my responsibility and that of those around me”.
“No one in France will be left by the wayside,” he continued, pledging to be a “president for all”, Macron added.
Some residents of Oyo town who thronged the Oyo Palace to mourn the death of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi on Saturday were stung by bees.
This happened around 10 am after Islamic clerics had arrived at the palace in preparation for the burial of Oba Adeyemi, who died on Friday night.
Our correspondent observed that to ward off the attacking bees, residents in the open space in the palace who were affected plucked tree branches and leaves to drive the unwanted creatures away.
A policeman was one of the victims and some of the mourners assisted him to drive away the bees and removed some of the insects which got stuck in his uniform.
Meanwhile, the Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, on Saturday, described the death of the Alaafin of Oyo, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, as “a huge loss to the state, Nigeria and the Yoruba race”.
Makinde, while describing Oba Adeyemi’s death as a personal loss to him, said that he was “an ever-supportive royal father and a worthy leader, who spared nothing in trying to make Oyo State and Nigeria greater”.
The governor, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Taiwo Adisa, said, “Kabiyesi’s words of advice and guidance were always golden and helpful”.
Makinde expressed his condolences to the Oyo State Traditional Council, the Oyomesi, Oba Adeyemi’s immediate family, the people of Oyo Kingdom and the entire Yoruba race.
The governor, however, prayed to God to grant repose to the soul of the departed traditional ruler.
According to Makinde, apart from Oyo State losing its last man standing in the rank of experienced monarchs with long years of royal leadership, it has also lost a royal institution and an authority, which Alaafin Olayiwola Adeyemi III had become by virtue of his high-octane understanding of Yoruba history, politics and national development.
He said, “I have been informed about the death of our father, His Imperial Majesty, Iku Baba Yeye, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III.
“I express heartfelt condolences to the Oyo State Council of Obas and Chiefs, which Oba Adeyemi chaired for decades, the Oyomesi and the entire people of Oyo Kingdom.
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“I equally commiserate with the Oloris, children and entire Adeyemi family on the demise of their patriarch and worthy father.
“Kabiyesi’s departure is a huge loss not only to Oyo State, to which he committed 52 years of his life as the Alaafin of Oyo Kingdom, but also to Nigeria and the entire Yoruba race.”
According to him, Oba Adeyemi was our last man standing in the rank of most eminent royal fathers with long years of leadership.
“He became a golden king, an institution and an authority rolled into one by virtue of his immense experience, wisdom and understanding of Yoruba history, royalty and politics.
“Oba Adeyemi, not only elevated the Alaafin throne with his knowledge and wisdom, he became a worthy exemplar for royal leadership in Africa and brought glory to Oyo State and Nigeria.
“Kabiyesi never spared anything in his strive to make Oyo State greater and to bring about the Nigeria of everyone’s collective dream.
“Personally, Kabiyesi’s death is a great loss to me, because he proved to be a worthy father and had been ever so supportive of our government.
“His words of advice and guidance were always golden and helpful.
“It is my prayer that God accepts Kabiyesi’s soul into Aljanah Firdaus and uphold everyone and everything he left behind. Good night, Iku Baba Yeye !”
Former Vice President and Presidential aspirant Atiku Abubakar has reacted to the death of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi.
It was earlier reported that Oba Adeyemi had died on Friday night in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State Capital after a brief illness.
It was gathered that the Yoruba traditional ruler was reportedly receiving treatment at the Afe Babalola University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti where he later died.
It was disclosed that the rites of passage have started for Alaafin who reigned for 52 years.
Reacting in a statement by his spokesperson Paul Ibe, Atiku stated that the Alaafin was a worthy ambassador of Yoruba culture.
While describing his death as a great loss for Nigeria and Africa culture at large, the PDP chieftain said that the late Oba Adeyemi was a worthy ambassador of Yoruba culture and royal elegance.
Atiku recalled that his last encounter with Oba Adeyemi was in Ibadan during the coronation of Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Lekan Balogun.
“I admired the royal splendour of Oba Adeyemi and the fact that he remains the longest serving Alaafin means that Oyo and indeed Nigerians will not forget his reign,” the Waziri of Adamawa said.
Atiku noted that he is deeply touched by the news of Oba Adeyemi’s demise, sending his condolences to the immediate family, Governor Seyi Makinde and the people and government of Oyo State.
He prayed to Allah to grant the soul of the late king a gentle repose and to give his immediate family and the people of Oyo Kingdom the fortitude to bear the loss of a great monarch.
