President Buhari Revokes Former Niger Delta Militant Leader Tompolo's Coastal Protection Contract

                    

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the immediate termination of the coastal and pipeline protection contract awarded to former Niger Delta militant leader Government Ekpomupolo alias Tompolo by President Goodluck Jonathan. In 2011, President Jonathan awarded a contract to provide security along Nigeria's maritime borders to Global West Vessel Specialists Nigeria, a company owned by Tompolo. Seen as a political gesture, President Buhari has instructed the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (Nimasa) to discontinue payments for the provision of platforms for security.  

With the revocation of the contract, money paid to the private firm will now be channelled to the Nigerian Navy and marine police to secure the nation’s waterways. According to a source at the Federal Ministry of Transport, the $103m (N21bn) maritime security contract was approved by former President Jonathan and awarded by Nimasa in 2011, shortly after Patrick Akpobolokemi, was appointed to head the agency.  

Bola Tinubu...." i have not placed any demand on Pres. Buhari"

                       

National leader of APC, Bola Tinubu says contrary to popular opinion, he has not placed any demand on President Buhari since he assumed office. Tinubu said this while speaking to state house correspondents after breaking the Ramadan fast with President Buhari at the state house lastnight

"I have no demands. If you understand what party politics and leadership is all about, it is about loyalty and commitment to the values which the leadership believes in. I believe in what the president believes in, I respect him and I stand firmly loyal to his cause. So you can go to any length of speculation that you might want, I have not responded to all of that because I understand the president and the president understands me clearly.” he said

Beninoise woman..." I poisoned my husband because I hated him"

A Beninoise teenager, 17-year-old Abiodun Ojo, who killed her husband, Jimoh, in the Makoko area of Yaba, Lagos State, said she poisoned her husband because she hated him. Abiodun, during her interview blamed her father for forcing her to marry Jimoh, who she said never took care of her.

She said she had run away from the deceased 3 times, and was sent back by her father, who she described as the architect of her problem.

Abiodun had been handed over to Jimoh as wife by her father to stop her from marrying her boyfriend. She was said to have given birth to a baby girl, Hannah, and was living with the victim in their home on Apolo Street, Makoko.

Lagos State Government Shuts 29 Illegal Pharmacies, Chemists, Mostly In Lekki Area

                                    

The Lagos State Government has shut down 29 illegal pharmacies and chemists across the State for operating illegally. Officials of the Lagos State Taskforce on Fake, Counterfeit and Unwholesome Processed Foods raided the patent stores on Monday and shut them down for operating without being registered with the government.

Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Health, Dr. Modele Osunkiyesi explained that the 29 shops were sealed off for various offences contrary to the provisions of the law on the operation of Pharmacies and Patent Medicine stores in Lagos State.

Osunkiyesi noted that the latest closure was coming on the heels of the government’s renewed mandate to the Taskforce to comb all nooks and crannies of the state for illegal patent medicine and pharmaceutical stores’ operators.

Epic Throwback!!! Checkout photos of Bola Tinubu and Dele Momodu 19 years ago

Tinubu's smile is everything!!!! Ovation publisher, Dele Momodu shared this photo with APC leader Bola Tinubu. If was taken 19 years ago in London.

Actress Iyabo Ojo Celebrates her Son as he Graduates from Secondary School

The Proud Mama who has been divorced from the father of her two children for years now,celebrated her oldest child, her son, as he leaves secondary school. The excited mother couldn’t stop kissing her big boy.. 

Double Wahala crooner Oritsefemi Hospitalized

D’banj’s protégé, Oritsefemi is presently hospitalized at the Premier Medical Specialists’ Centre in Lekki. The singer was rushed there when he fell ill and everything had to be put on hold, including a video shoot he was supposed to start yesterday.