Rivers police link pastor’s death to herdsmen

THE Rivers State Police Command has attributed the death of a cleric, Pastor Geoffrey Ogagaghene, and six other persons to Thursday’s raid of Ohali-Elu town in Ogba/Egbema by a group of armed men suspected to be herdsmen.

The command disagreed with reports that 16 persons were killed during the raid by the herdsmen, saying that seven persons died during the attack.

Police Jobs: NPF records 15,000 applications in three days

Over 15,000 candidates have so far applied for enlistment into the Nigeria Police Force, it was learnt on Sunday.

Our correspondent gathered that the two portals being used for the recruitment were witnessing record traffic as thousands of unemployed youths applied for recruitment into the police as constables, cadet inspectors and cadet assistant superintendent of police, respectively.

Ekitigate: Army fires Momoh, ex-spokesman, others

The Nigerian Army Council has retired two senior officers, Brig.-Gen. Aliyu Momoh, who was indicted in the conduct of the 2015 elections in Ekiti State; the former spokesman of the Nigerian Army, Brig.-Gen. Olajide Laleye, and other officers.

It was learnt on Sunday that the retirement of the senior officers was in connection with the recommendations of the panel set up by the Army authorities to look into allegations of professional misconduct against military personnel in the conduct of the June 14, 2014 governorship poll in Ekiti State and the 2015 general elections.

Displaced persons resort to food theft

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps in Borno State has said that Internally Displaced Persons are now stealing foods in houses in the state capital.

The Commandant of the NSCDC, Mr. Ibrahim Abdullahi, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri on Sunday.
Abdullahi said the command had so far recorded 10 complaints of food theft by residents of Jidari Polo area in the state capital.

Fuel scarcity likely to end in May –Marketers

                                             

Contrary to the pledge by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, that lingering fuel scarcity in the country would end on or before Thursday, April 7, marketers and depot owners said on Sunday that consumers might have to endure inadequate supply of the product till May.

The minister had initially given May as the most likely date for the fuel scarcity to abate but was forced to recant and say the situation should normalise latest by Thursday following criticisms from different segments of the country.

Ogun Former Governor Olusegun Osoba dumps SDP, Again defects to APC

Eighteen months after defecting from the All Progressives Congress to the Social Democratic Party, a former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba,  has  on Sunday announced that he had returned to the APC.

Speaking with journalists after a closed-door reconciliation meeting with APC leaders in his Bourdillon home in Ikoyi, Osoba said his conflict with the leadership of the ruling party was over.

Fashek Majek drums up support for President Buhari

Majek Fashek, a veteran musician, on Sunday night, urged Nigerians to support President Muhammadu Buhari “in his efforts to strengthen and rebuild the country.” The `Send Down the Rain’’ crooner made the call during his performance at the “AY Live’’ comedy show held at the Eko Hotel and Suites in Lagos. *Majek Fashek Majek told the audience that Nigeria’s problem was poverty and not just corruption, adding that the President should tackle poverty. “President Buhari should support the poor people in Nigeria because that is the only way Nigeria can rise like

PRESIDENCY COUNTERS TINUBU ON KACHIKWU, FUEL SCARCITY

The Presidency yesterday rose in stout defence of Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who at the weekend came under scathing criticism by the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu over comments relating to the current fuel scarcity across the federation.
Kachikwu, who is also the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), was reported to have said that he could not perform magic in solving the problem of fuel scarcity , a statement Tinubu considered insensitive and insulting to the sensibilities of Nigerians.

RESIGN HONOURABLY NOW, APC VICE CHAIRMAN TELLS KACHIKWU

THE All Progressives Congress (APC), on Sunday, asked the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachukwu, to honourably resign his position if he is not capable of doing his part, by efficiently running the ministry assigned to him and providing workable solution to the current fuel scarcity in the country.

Breaking News: Gunmen Kidnap Serving Colonel of Nigerian Army

Report just reaching Ashiwaju.org revealed that  a group of  armed men kidnapped a serving Colonel of the  Nigerian Army  attached to  Military Infantry School Academy, Jaji , Kaduna state and whisked him away  to  an unknown place

The Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Usman Abdul, confirmed the kidnap on Sunday in a statement issued in Kaduna.