Sad : James Ocholi's Driver Dies in Hospital After Fatal Crash

 The driver of the SUV that crashed and killed the Minister of Labor and Employment, James Ocholi, his wife Blessing and son Joshua , yesterday March 6th, has died.

 The driver who sustained serious injuries from the accident, died at the National Hospital Abuja where he was rushed to after the accident.

“Where Is The Change You Promised Us” – Ex-Nollywood Actress Regina Askia Writes President Buhari

 “Thank you for all your effort at containing the corruption in Nigeria however unpopular. Nigerians elected you through serious acrimony, loosing several lives and facing deadly unrest but they chose you. Though you are from the North of OUR country you are president of all.

How is it that violence and deaths still hold sway? “My hope and prayer was that on your ascension you would deploy our military with fiat and alacrity armed to the teeth and silence or at least contain Boko Haram. My prayer was that as a seasoned General you would not only flush out king pins and barons but retrieve the loot as you napped them one after the other but we see them working for you. Is this the change you promised us Mr President?

“Maybe I don’t fully understand how these things work but I know one truth ‘Women with babies on their back should not be slaughtered in their farms while out there striving to make ends meet.’ They say you did not send a condolence message to comfort the families but rather you are requesting for cattle routes for the herds men?

“There is fighting in Lagos and vicinities? Kidnappers are even negotiating exchange rates, hiking ransoms and collecting change over the victims, little girls are being kidnapped from southern states and sold off in marriage to old men off north? Is it okay to encourage pedophilia in the name of tradition?”

We, concerned citizens of the diaspora are watching and praying for a swift arrest of this drift. When the citizenry loose trust and believe that their government has their interest at heart, anarchy is unleashed and we mark the beginning of a sorry end. Mr President, where is the change you promised?”

Aisha Buhari, Dolapo Osinbajo, Chris Ngige, Dalung Pay Condolence Visit to James Ocholi's Family

 The Wife of President Buhari, Aisha Buhari and wife of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Dolapo Osinbajo joined other top government functionaries like the Minister of Sports Solomon Dalung, Minister of Labor and Employment Chris Ngige, Minister of the FCT Mohammed Bello and the Inspector General of Police Solomon Arase, to pay a condolence visit to the family of James Ocholi, the Minister of state for Labor and Employment, who died alongside his wife and son in a fatal accident along the Abuja-Kaduna road yesterday March 6th. More photos below...

Goodluck Jonathan Beats Tinubu And Others to African Leadership Person of the Year Award

 Former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has won the African Leadership Magazine Person of the Year, 2015.

 Jonathan defeated APC National chairman, Bola Tinubu, founder of ECONET wireless Strive Masiyiwa, former UBA Chairman Tony Elumulelu, President, African Development Bank Akinwumi Adesina and Koffi Anan, former UN secretary general to win the award. 

Jonathan's victory was disclosed in a letter sent to him by former, Pro Tempore president of the Liberian senate and chairman of the 2015 African Leadership Person of the Year selection committee, Cletus Wortoson. The letter in part reads:

"There is no one best suited at the moment than your excellency, to advise the continent’s leaders on the merits of good governance and enduring democracy”. Your popular mantra of ‘one man one vote’ and ‘my ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian,’ is a message that must be preached loud and clear on the continent, hence our endorsement. It is with great pleasure that I bring you the news of your selection as the African Leadership Magazine Person of the Year, 2015.   

Chief among the many factors we considered was your efforts towards promoting good governance in Africa through the promotion of free and fair elections across the continent.  Your recent assignment to Tanzania received accolades and international acclaim, because you discharged the responsibility most creditably.  

We resolved that there is no one best suited at the moment than Your Excellency, to advise the continent’s leaders on the merits of good governance and enduring democracy.

The board is fully persuaded that you have served your country, Nigeria, meritoriously, conducted a free and fair election, in which you lost and yet conceded defeat, a development seeing by many in the continent as historical.  

Your popular mantra of ‘one man one vote’ and ‘my ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian,’ is a message that must be preached loud and clear on the continent, hence our endorsement."

Deputy Governor of Yobe State Involved in an Accident in Kano State

 The Deputy governor of Yobe state, Abubakar Ali, was involved in an auto accident in Daka-Tsalle town along the Kaduna - Kano expressway today March 7th.
 According to eyewitnesses, the SUV of the deputy governor had a head-on collision with a Toyota Avensis. Although the deputy governor was unhurt, the Toyota Avensis somersaulted and was badly damaged. The deputy governor’s convoy later continued its trip to Kano. See more photos below...

There Are No More Witches in Ile-Ife - Ooni of Ife Says

 Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi Ojaja II says there are no more witches in Ile-Ife, Osun State. The Ooni said this while receiving members of an ile-ife socio-cultural group known as Ife Klub 1 in his palace yesterday March 6th. 

 He said sons and daughters of Ile-Ife who have hitherto been scared of investing in their hometown over fear of witches and wizards destroying their investments, should not entertain such fears again as there are no more witches in the town:

“This Klub worked with my last two predecessors and is now working with me, so by the grace of God it will never disintegrate. I must stress to you all that the wellbeing of Ile-ife is paramount to me because we are like the proverbial white chicken who doesn’t appreciate its value. Whereas, it is in its home that the chicken is not highly regarded, it is highly valued abroad.  

God himself resides in Ile-Ife and that is the truth. There are many Ife sons and daughters who the land has blessed but they abandon their roots. They say there are witches in Ile-Ife that kill children, or that if they establish businesses at home, witches won’t allow them to prosper.  

There are no witches here that will disturb anybody anymore. They now want to have money and send their children to school too.”

The monarch appealed to his people to contribute towards the development of the kingdom, saying

"Some are making money in Ife, yet they don’t contribute anything to its development, rather they take their monies to Ibadan, Ilesha, Lagos, London and America. The Almighty has restored Ile-Ife’s glory and we must not let it go dim. So many people of Ife origin have refused to come back home and this is why we are making concerted efforts to put many things in place to attract them"he said

EFCC Seizes One Million Dollar Raw Cash In Alex Badeh’s Mansion In Maitama Abuja,Trial Begins Today

 Alex Badeh's Mansion

 The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has recovered $1m cash from one of the houses belonging to the immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh(retd.), The PUNCH has learnt.

 Following a tip off by some Bureau De Change operators in Abuja, EFCC operatives stormed the mansion of the former Chief Of Defense Staff at #6 Ogun Rivers Street in Maitama District Abuja.

According to the EFCC, the raw $million cash was found in one of his rooms.

Alex Badeh’s trial begins today.