The Deputy Governor of Zamfara State, Mahdi Gusau has been impeached by lawmakers in the state House of Assembly.
The lawmaker impeached Gusau during plenary on Wednesday after the House received the report of the committee.
The Chief Judge of the state, Justice Kulu Aliyu, had set up a committee to investigate the allegations against Gusau.
The panel had Justice Halidu Tanko-Soba as Chairman, with Oladipo Okpeseyi (SAN), as Deputy Chairman and Abdul-Atadoga Ibrahim (SAN), Hussaini Zakariyau, (SAN), Amina Tanimu-Marafa, Alhaji Sani Mande and Ahmad Buhari-Rabah, as members.
Okpeseyi while presenting the copies of the report to the Speaker said they were not empowered to talk about the report with any one.
He further stated “We have done our duty with utmost integrity and diligence and we have compiled this report based on the evidences we have gathered in the course of our duty.
The Speaker of the Assembly in his response to the report said they would work on the report with the context of section 188 of the constitution.
He then thanked the panel for discharging their duties in accordance with the law.
Twenty out of twenty-four lawmakers voted for the impeachment of the Deputy Governor on Wednesday.
There had been calls to impeach the Deputy Governor of the state following his refusal to dump the Peoples Democratic Party after the defection of the state Governor, Bello Matawalle.
The former Governor of Ogun State, Gbenga Daniel, on Wednesday, confirmed the death of a police sergeant, Adeleke Ogunsola, at his Asoludero residence in Sagamu.
According to Daniel, he was not around when the incident which has raised questions happened at his residence.
There had been reports that Ogunsola died following an accident that happened when he wanted to open the gate for a driver of the former governor on Saturday.
The spokesman of the state police command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the incident, disclosed that the gate bounced back and the driver mistakenly hit him with the gate.
The media aide to Daniel, Steve Oliyide in a statement released failed to reveal what led to the death of the police officer.
He noted that Ogunsola was involved in an accident at the security gate of his principal’s house and was rushed to Babcock Hospital in Ilishan.
According to Oliyide, his principal was not around at the time of the incident but has reached out to the family of the affected police officer through the police authority.
The statement reads, “On Saturday, 19th February 2022, one of the security details assigned to the residence of former Governor Gbenga Daniel, Leke Ogunsola was involved in an accident at the security gate of the premises. He was immediately taken to the hospital and then referred to Babcock Hospital in Ilishan.
“He was alive and responding as he walked his way to treatment all through until he, unfortunately, passed on later in the day.
“The former Governor who was not in Sagamu as at the time of the incident was duly informed and he has been in touch with the deceased family through Police Authorities.
Behold the loudmouth of Jerusalem, a vlogger wanna be, ventilating all sort of nonsense and fuming with unfounded stories and FABRICATED LIES, in the act of pull him and the ministry down, something that a thousand of you will and can never do as long as the lord liveth.
As far as you have decided to be a mouthpiece for the devil and Maureen, I will do my investigations and reveal who you truly are and the evil you plan to perpetrate.
I was busy doing my work as an investigative journalist on a subject matter when you joined yourself to an evil line, and as such the fire that was burning touched you and you cried foul.
FUNKE ASHEKUN you are a drama queen, an ingrate that needs deeper deliverance, no wonder the church of God could not contain you. Every denomination you have attended, you speak ill about them, from DEEPER LIFE to MFM, non could change the snake that you are, the ungrateful person that you have revealed yourself to be today.
For your information, I run the one of the biggest online Christian network magazines and my Job is to do publications for a living.
That is, if you understand how it is to do honest work to make a living, since you are used to embezzling church money and running away with properties.
I have never met the GO you are talking about on any subject matter, neither have I had any dealings with him, and same applies to many other churches I do publications about.
I only seek for facts through sources that are reliable and then we bring out the truth. So, for you to call me a media guy to a particular person or pastor shows how ignorant you are.
We have one mission and that is to rid the house of God and the ministry of rats like you and Maureen.
You termed your show TALKING MARRIAGE WITH FUNKE till this moment, i can’t bring to terms, what the relationship of a G.Os church conduct has to do with Marriage that you were supposed to speak about? Anyways, it shows how empty you are and I wonder what you have to say about Marriage and what anyone will be able to learn from a wanna be like you.
Hear this FUNKE, since you have decided to be a spoke person for Maureen and talk nonsense about me, I have decided to open a file for you with a lot more of your intricating characters that will be exposed
The songs you have been singing on your show are not new to our ears but for the sake of young hearted Christians and unstable believers we tend to clear the air always, what you are doing now is just the easy way to fame, and this is what Maureen and her cohorts including your likes did to put them in the trouble that they are today.
We found out that you have been served letters by lawyers to desist from this act of defamation and character assassination but yet you have continued and now you will become our subject matter since you want to be famous and stupid.
Without further ado, I would like to ask certain questions about the things you have been talking about, you have mentioned that the GO is occultic, he is promiscuous and so on. All those without proofs or evidence? You claimed to have video recordings of activities going on in his toilet, we are yet to see any. Is it the counselling room that we learnt is filled with people and nonstop activities? I wonder were you got your stories from and how you got your evidence.
IN YOUR SHOW you stated someone said the GO has a picture of you in his room or the GO keeps pictures of people in his room , please how did the people get to the GOs room?
What led them to the GOs room ?
If I may ask what exactly are you to the ministry that will make a GO put your picture in his room, and what value have you or did you add to the ministry when you were here and before you left?
You were not a pastor neither were you the head of any department according to our investigation you were simply a liability, someone raised by the ministry, so why all these lies?
We have firsthand information that this GO and the ministry catered for you when you were single since 1995 when you came to the ministry till you got married inside the ministry?
You left and came back and left again and as matter of fact you and your family were living in the housing units of the ministry before you absconded to the US with a tourist visa you and your family also got through the church.
FUNKE I will ask these questions again because I probably have asked them before, and I would like you to answer them for the sake of the kingdom and then tell us how the GO has wronged you?
1 Can you provide one single name of a woman that was and has been sexually assaulted during prayers as you alleged in your shows?
2 what virtue or value did you bring to the ministry when you came?
3 when you joined the ministry in 1995 as a liability, who rented a flat for you and your mum at Fola Agoro?
4 What assets did you have when you joined the ministry?
5 Are the records of the moneys you embezzled not with the account department of the church?
5 will you ever have gotten anywhere without the support of the ministry including your overseas trips to the UK and the US?
6 Didn’t you flee with the two cars and furniture in the accommodation you were given by the Church?
7 was it not the ministry that gave you and your husband your first steady employment
8 Could you specifically tell us the glory you brought to the ministry that was stolen?
9 what exactly is your mission with this show of shame that you are putting up
10 Did you not lambast your former church deeper life as a church of witches just like you have started doing with this ministry.
11 Who sponsored your wedding?
12 Who provided shelter and basic provisions for you and your children’s education
13 Can you tell us any group you led while you were in MFM
14 We learnt that your husband took money from the GO for deposit in fidelity and you people never returned the money.
15 Did you return the cars and church properties you were given before you left for your trip?
FUNKE ASHEKUN according to our findings we know that you want to be a GENERAL OVERSEER kindly thread that path and tell us how easy it is, that is, if you are sure of hearing from God. And now that you have fulfilled your childhood dream of wanting to live in AMERICA try and make the best out of life but with the way you are going, only God can help you
We have so many questions to ask since we have opened an investigation on you, but we won’t waste further time on the frivolities of an unstable being who has lost touch with reality, WE ARE AFTER THE TRUTH BECAUSE ONLY THE TRUTH CAN SET US FREE.
And we will unveil the truth about you to the world
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday extended the detention of a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, by 14 days.
The court granted permission to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to hold the embattled Kyari for the period to enable the agency to complete its investigation into the hard drug trafficking allegations against him.
Justice Zainab Abubakar issued the order for Kyari’s further detention while ruling in an ex-parte application argued by the NDLEA counsel, Mr Mike Kassa.
The NDLEA had, in the application, pleaded for more time to detain Kyari on the ground that the hard drug trafficking allegations against the suspect were complex and may require the agency travelling outside the shore of the country to make some clarifications.
The counsel asked the court to grant the detention extension in the interest of justice and to be fair to the suspect too through diligent investigation.
In a short ruling, Justice Abubakar ordered that Abba Kyari be detained for another 14 days.
The judge however ordered that the 14 days further detention should start counting from February 22.
Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed what the Boko Haram terrorists told him during a meeting he had with them in 2011.
Obasanjo who spoke on Monday at the 2022 Murtala Muhammed Foundation (MMF) annual lecture said he held a private meeting with the Boko Haram group in Maiduguri, Borno State in 2011.
According to him, the group lamented frequent attacks from government military forces and wanted legitimate jobs for their members while being allowed to practice Sharia.
He said at that time, the terrorists didn’t have much exposure to the outside world neither did they have connections to other international terrorist organizations.
Chief Obasanjo however lamented that as things stand now, a lot has changed, and with Nigeria having 15 million out-of-school children, they may be ready materials to join the now exposed and much sophisticated and attacking Boko Haram terrorists except urgent action is taken to solve the challenge.
Speaking virtually on the topic “Beyond Boko Haram: Addressing Insurgency, Banditry and Kidnapping across Nigeria,” Obasanjo who is the chairman Board of Trustees of the Muritala foundation said it’s not too late to avoid future problems by getting the children back in schools.
“I believe it is not too late to start and say to ourselves ‘we do not want the Boko Haram of 2030 or 2035″, he was quoted as saying.
“But if we don’t do anything about those 15 million out-of-school children, we are already in more trouble with Boko Haram of the future.
“We, the society, must be willing to give them education and employment or they extract it from the society unwillingly,” Obasanjo added.
Recalling his encounter with the Boko Haram group back in 2011, Obasanjo said: “What I feared at that time seems to have been happening because in 2011, Boko Haram had not much of external connection.
“My fear was: could we be able to get them away from Al-Qaeda and other international terror organizations? We seem not to have been able to do that.
“Today, Boko Haram and those who have come to work with them are making the matter much worse than it was 11 years ago,” he asserted.
Embattled Police Chief, Abba Kyari has demanded N500 million as compensation from the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA over his ‘Unjust arrest and Detention’.
It was earlier reported that Kyari was arrested last week by the police after he was declared wanted by the agency. The Deputy Commissioner of Police was caught bribing an NDLEA agent with $61,000 to facilitate the release of 17 KG of seized Cocaine. He has been in detention ever since.
However, on Monday, in. surprising twist, Kyari sued the Federal Government. In an originating motion marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/182/22, filed before Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, he also sought an order directing the NDLEA to tender a written apology to him in two national dailies.
The Motion filed on the 16th of February by his lawyer, C.O Ikena sought an order “restraining the respondent (NDLEA), its agents, servants, privies, police or anyone acting on their behalf from further harassing, detaining, intimidating, arresting the applicant unlawfully.”
“An order of this court directing the respondent to pay the sum of N500,000,000.00 (Five Hundred Million Naira) to the applicant, for unlawful violation of the applicant’s constitutional right provided for in Sections 35 and 36 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (As Amended).”
The motion also sought a declaration that his arrest and continued detention by the NDLEA “without bringing him before a court of competent jurisdiction from Feb. 12 till date is illegal, unlawful and a gross violation of his fundamental rights”.
He requested that the court orders his release on the grounds that his health was deteriorating. However, the Presiding Judge refused to grant the order as there were allegations in the suit that needed a response from the government.
A drycleaner identified as Mr Yahaya Musa has been found dead in his shop in Kubwa, Abuja.
Daily Trust reported that the incident which occurred on Saturday morning in Byazhin area of Kubwa, a suburb of Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), left residents of the area shocked.
An eyewitness revealed that Musa was found hanging from the roof of his shop at 8am. Musa’s landlord, Mr Yusuf Tijani on his own part said the drycleaner was murdered.
Tijani said;
“How can people say he committed suicide when it was obvious he was killed? His carpet was stained with blood and his mattress and other clothes were in blood. We found him hanging from his ceiling fan and his legs were firmly on the ground. So it was stage managed to make everyone believe it was suicide; but it’s murder.
The deceased have been buried by his family members according to Islamic rites.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has revealed the reason for the delay in the delivery of justice in the country.
Speaking at the 20th Memorial Anniversary Symposium of Bankole Olumide Aluko (SAN) in Lagos on Sunday, Osinbajo stated that the reason for the delay in justice delivery is bad leadership and misgovernance.
He described the delay in the delivery of justice as one of the serious challenges facing the judicial system in the country.
Osinbajo stated in order to address the delay in justice delivery, there must be the maintenance of law and order as well as governance.
He said: “The administration of the justice system is the foundation of law and order, commerce as well as democracy. When the system of administration of justice fails, these pillars of governance and orderly society also collapse.
“Investor hesitancy or reluctance is also a reflection of the inefficiency and lack of confidence in the integrity of the commercial dispute resolution process, delay is disastrous.”
Speaking further, the vice president described the late Aluko, who died on 18th February 2002, as an icon and a multi-talented legal luminary.
He said: “Every once in a while, a truly iconic figure comes by this way, usually, one who excels in the accumulation of unique talent who we would describe as an icon. But not often is it the case that the icon is multi-talented and gifted in several ways. We had one of such icons 20 years ago; Bankole Olumide Aluko (SAN).”
Members of Boko Haram’s Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) faction on Sunday night infiltrated Gamboru-Ngala in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria.
It was learnt that the terrorists launched an offensive attack at the military base in Gamboru Central Primary School, dislodged men of the Nigerian Army (NA) and proceeded to burn down the security facility.
It is believed that this latest attack by ISWAP insurgents is a reprisal for the devastating offensive of Nigerian troops which led to the killing of many commanders and fighters in Lake Chad Basin (LCB) and Sambisa forest.
Recall that recent Nigerian Armed Forces’ airstrikes eliminated Amir Buba Danfulani and four other notorious ISWAP commanders in Tumbuns and Sambisa axis.
Danfulani was a senior ISWAP Commander saddled with indoctrinating Fulanis and herdsmen in joining a terrorist group. He also coordinated activities of the terrorists ranging from the deployment of spies as well as tax collectors.
It was gathered that the terrorists got upset, and targeted military base. They were said to have fired explosives into Ngala town at the weekend which also resulted to the killing of one civilian while six persons were injured.
Full details are still skechy on aftermath assessment.
Photos: Moment Tinubu, Obasa Arrive Agege, Visit Home Of Late Prof Samuel
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and presidential hopeful of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Sunday evening paid a condolence visit to the home of late Professor Tunde Samuel, a member of the Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC), who passed on recently.
Asiwaju, who arrived Lagos from a visit to the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi, moved straight to the home of the deceased ally, accompanied by the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa.
The duo had earlier expressed sadness at the demise of the academic, who was 73.
In the Speaker’s condolence message, he had described the death of Prof Samuel as “a blow, a pain that would take long for us to bear both as people of Agege, the APC as a family, the GAC and the entire Lagos State.
“His importance to Lagos State can never be under-emphasised. He was a passionate Lagosian whose thoughts, actions and activities were all geared towards strengthening democracy in Nigeria and the creation of an egalitarian state where individuals would live their lives in peace.”
Obasa, who visited the family of the deceased on Wednesday, added: “We will continue to miss his wisdom, knowledge and understanding of how Lagos and Nigeria should be run for the utmost good of the people. We will miss his advice and productive efforts to keep a united APC in Lagos.
“I, on behalf of my colleagues at the Lagos State House of Assembly, pray that God grant him peace and give his immediate family, friends and associates the fortitude to bear this huge loss, amen.”
