Read Why APC Wants EKWEREMADU Removed

The battle for the control of the National Assembly may be long drawn as the leadership of the All Progressives Congress on Monday insisted on removing the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, of the minority Peoples Democratic Party.

Ashiwaju.org learnt on Monday that the ruling party  APC was still miffed that Ekweremadu emergence as the deputy senate president and had vowed never to allow “a senator from a minority party take over the duties statutorily assigned for the majority party.against the provision of the constitution and standing rule of the Nigerians Senate”
A leader of the APC, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Ashiwaju.org   that Ekweremadu as deputy senate president would hamper the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
The APC leader said, “As deputy senate leader, Ekweremadu is automatically the Chairman, Senate Committee on Constitution Amendment. This is a sensitive position that, statutorily, should not be held by the minority.
“Ekweremadu and his PDP co-travellers will hamper the policies of the Buhari government. By the virtue of Senate rules, a member of the minority is not supposed to be the deputy senate leader; so, he is occupying the post illegally.

GAY MARRIAGE RIGHT: Open Letter To President Buhari From Nigerians Gay Couple In America

A report calling President Muhammadu Buhari  to repeal laws that legalize discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and people who are inter-sex and trans-gender. The report specifically attacks the anti-gay law, the “Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act of 2014” has encouraged evictions, mob attacks, police torture, and public whippings against gays, the groups say.

The report was co-authored by PEN America and PEN Nigeria, leading human rights organizations dedicated to freedom of expression and supporting literary works in Africa, and the Leitner Center for International Law of Fordham University.
The report titled “Silenced Voices, Threatened Lives: The Impact of Nigeria’s Anti-LGBTI Law on Freedom of Expression.”

Gunmen Murdered Ex- First Lady Security Aide

A Deputy Superintendent of Police, Tamuno Jacob Igbomie, who was Principal Security Officer to
former First Lady, Patience Jonathan, has been shot dead by unknown assailants.
Igbomie’s corpse was found in his Honda Accord car last Friday along the Airport Road, Abuja.
The former PSO, who was married with two children, was believed to have been killed by assassins who shot him at point-blank range in his car and left the engine running.
A source said the body of the DSP was found early in the morning with all his phones, wallet and other personal effects intact in the car.
 “We believe Tamuno was killed by hired assassins because they did not take away anything in his car, his phones and wallet were still with him when his body was found in the car with the engine steaming.

OKOROCHA And IHEDIOHA Feud Thickens

Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has warned the former deputy speaker of the House of Representatives and governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Emeka Ihedioha, to respect his office and stop insulting him on the pages of newspapers.
This was just as he admonished the former federal legislator to concentrate his energies on his petition at the governorship election tribunal.
Okorocha, who was reacting to a media report credited to Ihedioha, alleging that the governor had been stealing the funds of the state since he assumed office in 2011, advised the former lawmaker to face his case at the election tribunal and stop what he described as ‘unnecessary distraction’.
The governor, who spoke through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, said Ihedioha in the said report, accused the governor of acquiring multi-billion-naira property since he assumed office.

Journalist Pummel By Smugglers For Reporting Criminals Activities In Border Town Lagos

A Badagry, Lagos State based journalist and Executive publisher of Prime Magazine, a community magazine serving that area, Mr. Yomi Olomofe, tasted the bile of criminal gangs who descended on him and pummeled him to a pulp because of his constant reportage of their illicit activities in the border town.
Olomofe who has been described as fearless pen pusher, narrates that the smugglers sent hoodlums who waylaid him and battered him mercilessly.
Hear him:
“I was with another colleague of mine on a visit to the command, when some smugglers, who claimed that journalists have been writing negative stories about them, pounced on me. While beating me, they threatened to kill me so as to serve as deterrent to journalists writing stories about them.
I was there with the correspondent of Tide Newspaper, thank God a friend from Rotary Club came to take me away, I would have been dead, because I was left there almost lifeless.

Registrar Radiographers Registration Board Kidnapped In Anambra

The  Registrar Radiographers Registration Board of Nigeria, Chief hat Mr Okpalaeke  Sunday Michael, has been kidnapped.
He was kidnapped 8 pm at Ubo Bridge Ndiokpalaeke , his home town on his way back to his residence in Ekwulobia, Aguata local government area.
He is not staying in the village as he built at Ekwulobia sequel to lack of access road to his community and lack of basic amenities , so www.odogwublog.com was told. He has not returned home in the last 16 years. That visit was his first to his village since 1999.
The 38 years old Radiographers Registrar in Nigeria came home on Thursday to bury his late wife and yesterday was his final stay though he does not sleep at his community as he returns to Ekwulobia everyday and returns the next day. The wife died during child delivery.
But yesterday, he was returning late only to be ambushed by a Highlander Jeep and a Hilux Escort, they blocked his way at the Bridge locked in a massive wet land without any building in sight up to 4 kilometers or so.

Buhari Orders Arrest Of In-Law For Defrauding People To Gain Access To Presidency & Contract Award

Alhaji Musa Yola

Charity as its literarity said begins at home, this gave rise to the sudden rise in demand for increase access to President Muhammadu Buhari been created by one Alhaji Musa  Yola, an In-Law to the president taken to the mechanism of defrauding people in the means of granting access to the president.
Online media has been a washed with comments and reaction that led to the arrest of the wife of the president brother.
In a directive issued to the men of the Department f the Security Service, DSS, President Muhammadu Buhari felt disappointed with the shocking news of a close relative of theirs to have engaged in such dastardly act and did not spear the rod to caution any willing suspects to refrain from such activities.
President Muhammadu Buhari ordered Nigeria’s security agents to arrest his brother-in-law for allegedly extorting money from an unnamed businessman, a close confidante of the Nigerian leader . He said the suspect, named Musa Yola, was the immediate younger brother of Mr. Buhari’s wife.
Our source disclosed that the suspect, also addressed as “Alhaji Yola,” reportedly received N300 million from a businessman after promising to provide his dupe with political access to secure an oil block from the Buhari administration. According to our source, Mr. Buhari personally ordered last Monday night that Mr. Yola be produced before him in handcuffs in the company of the businessman he duped.

POLICE RECOVER DECOMPOSED BODY OF EX-FUTA VC FROM STORE

The decomposed body of the former Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Prof. Albert Ilemobade who was reportedly kidnapped by unknown gunmen last week was on Sunday found hidden in a store in his Ijapo Estate residence in Akure, Ondo state capital. 
He was reportedly abducted last Monday along with his gateman and was said to be taken to an unknown destination until his body was found by security operatives.
Sources said the Octogenarian’s decomposed body was found after the arrest of two of his domestic staff by security agents in Ogun state while trying to sell the Toyota RAV4 Jeep stolen from the late Ilemobade’s residence.
The two suspects confessed to killing Ilemobade, hiding his corpse in a store which housed the generating set before running away with his Vehicle which they planned to sell.
Following the arrest of the two suspects in Ogun state, the police in Ondo state went to the deceased house in ijapo estate, Akure for a raid and investigation but found the late VC’s corpse in the store.
When journalist visited the scene on Sunday, the body had been removed by detectives to the mortuary for autopsy. 

PRESS RELEASE : THE PLANNED RELOCATION OF BOKO HARAM CONVICTS TO ANAMBRA PRISONS

The attention of the Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano has been drawn to the mischievous speculations on the social media that the planned relocation of some Boko Haram convicts to some prisons in Anambra State was done with his tacit approval and endorsement. I wish to categorically dismiss these speculations, hearsay and beer parlour banters as fundamentally untrue and should be disregarded by Nigerians.
Hard Facts
The fact is that when governor Obiano got wind of the planned relocation of these high risk prisoners to Anambra State, he quickly swung into action and contacted the relevant authorities to seek clarifications on the matter after which he raised several objections to the plan.
Among Governor Obiano’s many objections are -

Concession Of Nnamdi Eze of PDP To Dozie Nwankwo of APGA What It Potent To Senator Ekwunife Chances--- Guest Writer

The sojourn of Iyom Uche Ekwunife in the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as Senator representing Anambra Central Senatorial District may be short-lived following the sudden turn of events at the Anambra Election Petition Tribunal holding in Awka. In a surprise move, the man who was initially returned by INEC as winner in the House of Representatives for Anaocha/Njikoka/Dunukofia Federal Constituency, Dr. Nnamdi Eze of PDP conceded defeat to Mr. Dozie nwankwo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Dr Eze and his party PDP accepted that Mr. Nwankwo is the real winner in the election based on the computation of total results collated at the respective Polling Booths in the constituency and should have been declared winner. The dramatic turn of event was said to have surprised the Head of the Tribunal, Justice Nayal Aganaba who reportedly expressed shock at the development.