PRESIDENT PIERRE NKURUNZIZA OF BURUNDI OVERTHROWN

A top Burundian general on Wednesday announced the overthrow of President Pierre Nkurunziza, following weeks of violent protests against the president’s bid to stand for a third term. General Godefroid Niyombare, a powerful former intelligence chief, announced the coup attempt hours after the president left for neighbouring Tanzania for talks with regional leaders on ending the crisis.
“President Pierre Nkurunziza is removed from office, the government is dissolved,” General Niyombare said in the radio broadcast. “All people are asked to respect the lives and property of others,” he added. Niyombare is a highly respected figure who was sacked from his position as the central African nation’s powerful chief of intelligence in February. The general said on private radio that he was committed to the democratic process and would work with others towards holding elections.
He said he would form a “committee for the restoration of national harmony,” a temporary body whose “mission, among others, is the restoration of national unity… and the resumption of the electoral process in a peaceful and fair environment.” There was no immediate reaction from Nkurunziza, who was in neighbouring Tanzania to meet with leaders of the five-nation East African Community (EAC) — made up of Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda as well as Burundi — who are trying to mediate an end to the crisis.

PHOTOS; ATIKU ABUBAKAR AND BOLA TINUBU WELCOME MAN WHO TREKKED FROM YOLA TO ABUJA IN HONOUR OF APC

Abubakar Wali, the man who trekked from Yola-Abuja in honour of APC's victory has been welcomed by the former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar and APC national leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He was welcomed in Abuja on Tuesday (yesterday) at the residence of the ex vice president after a meeting with APC executives from Bauchi state.

Ex-IGP Abba removed for indiscipline in the force —Police Service Commission

                                                                   Suleiman Abba
The Police Service Commission explained, yesterday, that the former Inspector General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba was removed from office because of increasing cases of indiscipline in the rank and file of the force.
The explanation came on a day the Police Council confirmed Mr. Abba’s successor, Mr. Solomon Arase as the substantive Inspector General of Police.
The chairman of the Police Service Commission, Mike Okiro, who spoke with newsmen after the Council of State meeting, yesterday, said the President told members of the council that the former IGP was removed because of increased cases of insdicipline among the rank and file of the force.
His words: “I’m not part of the Presidency that removed him, so I cannot give adequate answer. Though at the meeting President Jonathan tried to explain to members, based on the question raised by one of the governors that Nigerians may want to know why the former IGP was removed.
“The President, who was very brief in his response said, during the period of the former IGP, a lot of indiscipline was noticed among the Police rank and file  and as such he felt that a new IG should come and try his luck. That is what he said, though I cannot give details of that.”

Arase confirmed as IGP

The Police Council yesterday confirmed Mr Solomon Arase as the new Inspector-General of Police (IGP).

His confirmation came exactly three weeks when he was appointed ‎Acting IGP on April 21 after President Goodluck Jonathan sacked former IGP Suleiman Abba.

Arase,  who is the 18th  IGP, is one of the fastest police bosses to be confirmed.

This is even as President Jonathan explained that Abba was sacked because  the rank and file under him were very indisciplined.

AS SENATOR, I’LL EXPOSE ANYBODY THAT OFFERS BRIBE TO ME, MY COLLEAGUES – BEN BRUCE

A Senator-elect from Bayelsa State, Ben Murray-Bruce, has vowed to expose anyone who offers him or any other Senators bribe.
Mr. Murray-Bruce is part of the eighth Senate due for inauguration early June.
He said as Senator, he will expose any offer of “Ghana-Must-Go” to him or his colleagues.
Ghana-Must-Go bags are commonly used to convey large sums of money in Nigeria.
“Not while I’m there!” he assured his over 15,000 followers. “I will expose ANYBODY that dares approach me or my colleagues with Ghana Must Go.”
The Senator-elect said the incoming administration of Muhammadu Buhari should patronise Made-in-Nigeria products and services.
Mr. Murray-Bruce, few days ago, was bashed by Nigerians on Twitter over his sudden anti-corruption crusade, following a series of tweets. He was criticised for being less vocal during the tenure of President Goodluck Jonathan, believed to be characterised by corruption.
He currently uses the micro-blogging site to speak his mind and unveil some of his plans for the 8th National Assembly.

Nigerian Universities Approved Courses

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Governor Oshiomole Takes A New Wife On Friday

FIVE years after the death of Clara, his wife, Edo State Governor, Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, has concluded plans to remarry. He will be getting married to his fiancée, Miss Lara Fortes on Friday, May 15, 2015.
Wedding invitations already sent out by the governor to close friends and associates indicate that the solemnisation of the marriage ceremony will hold at the Etsako West Local Government Council Marriage Registry, Auchi, at 10 a.m.
Reception, according to the notice that was personally signed by the governor, will take place at the People’s Hall, Iyamho, Oshiomhole’s country home.
‘While looking forward to the honour of your distinguished presence, I sincerely crave your pardon for the rather short notice. Please accept the renewed assurances of my highest esteem,” Oshiomhole wrote.

Ifeanyi Ubah Escapes Assassination, One Aide Killed

The Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Transformation Am­bassadors of Nigeria (TAN), Ifeanyi Ubah, has es­caped suspected assassins by the whiskers.

It was gathered that the owner of Capital Oil Lim­ited, was to inspect a landed property after Apo mechanic village, a densely populated area in Abuja, but asked two of his TAN directors to go at the last minute.

When they arrived the site, gunmen, who were already waiting opened fire, killing one person simply identified as Mbanefo, and abducting another man simply identified as Barrister Chuma.

EFCC RE-ARRAIGNS EX-PDP CHAIR’S SON FOR SUBSIDY FRAUD

Two oil marketers and an oil marketing firm were on Tuesday brought before a Lagos State High Court in Ikeja over alleged N4.5bn fuel subsidy fraud.
The accused persons, who were freshly arraigned on an amended 49 counts of fuel subsidy fraud, include Mamman Ali, son of a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party and Director-General of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation in the last general elections, Senator Ahmadu Ali.
Ali was charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission alongside his two alleged accomplices – Christian Taylor and Nasaman Oil Services Limited, an oil marketing firm.
They three were dragged before Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo by the EFCC, which alleged that they fraudulently obtained N4.5bn as fuel subsidy claim from the Federal Government on a purported importation of 30.5 million litres of Premium Motor Spirit(petrol).
The re-arraignment of Ali and the two others on Tuesday followed the ‘disappearance’ of one Oluwaseun Ogunbambo, with whom they were first arraigned by the anti-graft commission on July 26, 2012.

OHANAEZE CHIEF THREATENS IGBO WILL SECEDE IF MARGINALISED

The Chairman of state Presidents of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, a socio-cultural organization, in seven Igbo speaking state, Dr. Chris Eluemunoh, on Tuesday warned against any attempt to “further marginalise” the Igbo in Nigeria.
Eluemunoh, who spoke with newsmen in Awka, the Anambra State capital, said such attempt would be greeted with a strong move for self-determination by the Igbo.
For him, Ndigbo had such concluded on such option, waiting for the “opportune time” to use the joker.
He said already, the United Nations had invited some Igbo elders, to hear them out about their demand for a sovereign state for the Igbo in June.
He said former National President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Dr. Dozie Ikedife, would be leading the Igbo delegation to the United Nations in June.
Eluomunoh, who was speaking against the backdrop of speculation that the incoming government of President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, might marginalise the Igbo because the people of the South-East voted against him in the just concluded general elections.
He said some time last year, the African Union had also granted an Igbo delegation a similar audience in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.