Gunmen Storm Anambra Nightclub, Kill 7, Injure Many

An attack on a nightclub in Oba, Idemili South local government area of Anambra State, Nigeria has left at least seven people dead and several others injured.

The incident happened at Porsche Nightclub in the semi urban town about ten kilometers to the commercial city of Onitsha.

It was gathered that the assailants allegedly came to kidnap the owner of the club, who was at the club at the time of the incident, but were resisted by security men on duty.

The gunmen were said to have started shooting sporadically, killing some people in the process. One of the victims was beheaded by the assailants.

The Anambra State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga has confirmed the incident.

Ikenga said: “Yes, the incident happened. Our men were alerted and they quickly moved to the scene of the incident, but the gunmen had already fled.

“Our men have recovered the bodies of the vigilante operatives who were fatally wounded, while others sustained various degrees of injury.

“We have also fully deployed our men to Oba, and the operation is ongoing. So far, no arrest has been made”.

It was gathered that the gunmen arrived at the nightclub claiming that they wanted to kidnap the club owner, but security men resisted them.

Following resistance from vigilante operatives, the gunmen started shooting sporadically, killing many people in the process.

NAFDAC Arrests 10 For Producing Adulterated Drinks In Abia State

 

Officials of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control have arrested 10 suspects over adulterated beverages as the agency shut down the Cemetery Market in Aba, Abia State, Nigeria.

The Director, South-East Zone of NAFDAC, Martins Iluyomade, disclosed this to journalists on Tuesday during a raid of the market which began on Monday.

He said the suspects in Cemetery Market occupy over 240 shops meant for traders which they turned into production centres for large-scale adulteration of beverages and drugs.

“What’s happening here at Cemetery Market, Aba is worse than Boko Haram. We saw how many shops were converted into manufacturing centres for all manner of wines, expensive drinks, and revalidation of the expiry date of products.

“We have the cooperation of the state government and so far we have discovered 240 shops used for this illegal manufacturing of fake consumables and about 10 persons have been arrested and the arrests are still ongoing”, he said and ordered the temporary shutdown of the market.

He disclosed that the agency got information about the illegal activities involving adulteration of known beverage brands in the market by a large number of persons in the market, stating that after doing some background checks, the agency discovered that “horrendous things” were happening there, and decided to carry out the operation without involving its Abia office.

He added, “Four trailers cannot carry the fake products we moved out from here. It shows the extent we have gone so bad as a country and the extent of dangers these people are creating.

“No wonder we have all manners of health issues and the funny thing is that we use our money to buy this evil. Our Director-General is not leaving any stone unturned in getting rid of fake products in our market.

“I will suggest that this market be shut down for now until we sanitise this market for a while. We have written to appropriate authorities to that effect and we think it is the right thing to do because when people are around, everywhere is rowdy.”

Reacting, the Coalition of South-East Youth Leaders frowned at the development, describing it as “man’s inhumanity to man”, advising that the matter must not be treated with kid gloves.

Leader of COSEYL, Mr Goodluck Ibem, who spoke to newsmen called on the National Assembly to amend the constitution with capital punishment attached to producing adulterated products and its sale and similarly, called on the Abia State Governor, Alex Otti to cooperate with NAFDAC in the state to ensure that the Cemetery Market is sanitized, and bad eggs are sent out, while genuine business people are encouraged to do their lawful businesses.

According to the Aba Unit of the Civil Liberties Organisation, the situation is terrorism with the perpetrators being the terrorists who should be properly dealt with by the agency.

Chairman of the CLO in Aba, Dr Charles Chinekezi, charged officials of NAFDAC and other law enforcement agencies to be aware of fake, substandard and expired products and to be more serious in dealing with perpetrators of such acts, noting that the attitude of the agency if changed, will go a long way in determining if such activities will continue or stop.

 

Ex-Mauritanian president sentenced to 5 yrs in jail for corruption

 

Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz,

Former President of Mauritius, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, was handed a 5-year jail term by a court in Nouakchott on Monday. The charges stemmed from accusations of abusing his position to accumulate an illicit fortune. Aziz, who governed for a decade from 2009 to 2019, had been on trial since January alongside ten other prominent figures, including two former prime ministers, facing charges of illicit enrichment, abuse of functions, influence-peddling, and money laundering.

Aziz was cleared of other charges while convicted of illicit enrichment and money laundering. The court also ordered the confiscation of assets acquired through illicit means. The 66-year-old former president, who has been in detention since January 24, had previously spent several months in prison in 2021. Meanwhile, the trial, initiated in January, involved a Mauritanian prosecutor seeking a 20-year prison sentence for Aziz, alleging abuse of power and amassing substantial wealth.

Aziz maintained his innocence and argued that the trial was politically motivated and should be dismissed. The prosecutor’s closing arguments, which lasted about three hours, sought sentences of 10 years in prison for the two former prime ministers and two ministers, along with the confiscation of their assets. For the remaining defendants, the prosecutor requested a five-year prison term.

WAD honors Nigerian – American, Sylvester Okere, for excellence in security services

The World Association of Detectives(WAD) have honored a Nigerian, Dr. Sylvester Okere, with the prestigious ‘Vinson Holmes Security Professional of the Year Award. For decades now, WAD has used ‘Vinson Holmes Security Professional of the Year Award’ as a medium to honor members in the security field who have demonstrated excellence, leadership, and business acumen in an entrepreneurial endeavor. 

Sylvester Okere is a member of the World Association of Detectives (WAD), Certified Fraud Examiners (CFE), National Council of Investigators & Security Services(NCISS), Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC), American Security Foundation, American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS), Public Record Retriever Network (PRRN), Maryland Investigators and Security Association (MISA), and other esteemed global associations in the Security and allied profession. World  Association of Detectives (WAD) is gearing to celebrate its 100 years of existence by 2025 in Chicago, USA, where it first celebrated the first annual conference in 1925.

Okere is the founder & President of United People for African Congress (UPAC), the non-profit umbrella organization that advocates for the rights of African nationals, empowers and uplifts them, and increases public acknowledgment and respect. He was the first chairman of Maryland Nigeria Sister State, and also served as a  Board of Director for the Maryland Sister State Program, Inc. In 2004 Okere founded Watchman Protective Services, Inc., a multi-faceted private security, private investigation, and private detective agency he proudly owned and operated from 2004 to 2013 in the Washington DC/Maryland region.

Okere is the owner of StrategicGroups USA LLC and Strategic Overseas Limited, an international consulting firm he created to advise and facilitate trade & Investment between the United States and African nations. He was a visiting scholar with George Mason University, the largest public research institution in the Commonwealth of Virginia, interested in researching the African Diaspora’s involvement in the American political system and the interface between African immigrant entrepreneurs and American politics – to highlight their ever-increasing contributions across the nation.

Sylvester Okere, CIPM ll, FIIM.

Okere championed a USAID’s Global Innovation Exchange program for Africa. The Global Innovation Exchange is a global online marketplace for innovations, funding, insights, resources, and conversations, allowing the world to better work together to address humanity’s greatest challenges; and a unique resource by Center for Development Innovation | U.S. Global Development Lab at the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Okere held/championed several prominent roles towards the elevating African causes within the United States, Africa, and the United Nations.

Okere is an approved vendor with the United Nations (in business, politics and humanitarian roles) 

Sylvester Okere hails from Obibi Ezena, in Owerri-North Local Government Area of Imo state. He is a former Nigeria Immigration officer with 18 years of federal service (Kano and Imo state combined)

British Woman Offers $5,000 Reward to anyone who can find a husband for her

A British woman has promised to pay the sum of $5,000 to anyone who can help her find a good husband.The woman has been identified as Eve Tilley-Coulson, 35, a corporate litigation attorney, from Los Angeles. She told The Post that “A while ago, I told my friends I’d pay them $5,000 if they introduce me to my husband,” “And I figured, why not open the offer up to TikTok?” So in June, the blond virally shared her matchmaking call-to-action online, promising her more than 100,000 TikTok followers: “If you introduce me to my husband, and I marry him, I will give you $5,000.”
 
The eye-popping proposal raked in more than 556,000 views — and between 20 to 25 digital introductions to potential life partners via rookie marriage brokers, Tilley-Couslon told The Post.

“I haven’t gone on any dates yet,” said Tilley-Couslon, adding that most of her intermediaries have been women who spotted her eye-popping proposal on social media. “But people are definitely motivated to help.”
 
“I’ve been single for about five years now, meeting people in person and on the apps,” she explained. “But since COVID, there’s been a weird shift in dating culture — guys don’t approach you in person, and most of the men on apps aren’t swiping to seriously date. “So I feel like paying $5,000 for a husband who’s vouched for, meets my needs and is ready for a real relationship is totally worth it,” said Tilley-Coulson with a laugh.
 
Her post on TikTok read, “@ebtilley #stitch with @Dear Media I have never been more serious. I’m tired of being told, “its so easy.” Set me up  #setup #firstdate #friendship #meetcute #bff #bet”
 
Her online proposition, though monetarily attractive, isn’t entirely uncommon. Under the ever-trending TikTok hashtag #HelpMeFindHim, with more than 321.5 million views, lovesick romantics share their digital pleas for social media’s help in landing an ideal partner.
 
However, most folks using the popular stamp as a virtual “S.O.S.” are looking to be reconnecting with a hunk they’d previously encountered in passing — and almost none of them are sweetening the deal by dangling a sizable sack of cash like Tilley-Coulson.
 
But there are strict rules of play in her matchmaking game.
 
“You get [the $5,000] as soon as the marriage certificate is signed,” said Tilley-Coulson in a subsequent TikTok clip featuring her non-nonsense friend Lara Bahr. “He has to be eligible,” added Bahr, a lawyer.
 
“That means he cannot be already married,” she continued. “This can’t be his second wife.” Tilley-Coulson then outlined her non-negotiables of her hottie-in-holy matrimony, insisting worthy candidates must fall within the age range of 27 to 40, stand 5-foot-11 or taller, boast a witty “British” sense of humor and have strong affinities for ploosports, animals, and kids. Haters online bashed her height minimum, doubting she’d find the love of her life in the skimpy 14.5% of U.S. men who measure over 6 feet tall, per recent research.
 
But the marriage-minded honey told The Post she’s not backing down from her tall order — sorry, short kings! “The only real physical requirement that I have is that he must be tall because I’m tall,” said Tilley-Coulson, who stands about 5-foot-10. “I’ve dated men who are insecure about my height, asking me not to wear heels, and that didn’t make me feel good.”
 
When it comes to looks, she’s less picky. However, on TikTok, the beau-seeking belle did point to Hollywood heartthrobs such as “Gossip Girl” star Chuck Bass, 32, and Oscars winner Matthew McConaughey, 53, as prime examples of faces she’d love to date. Political views, religious beliefs, and ethnicity aren’t deal breakers for Tilley-Coulson — who joked she’s so ready for love that she’ll “date a rock with charisma.”
 
Whether the guy has a college degree or a car is, too, neither here nor there for the singleton. And she’s open to being in a long-distance relationship if Mr Right is game. She’s just ready to settle down with her forever person. “My perfect guy is the perfect wedding date: He can take a shot with my brother, dance with my grandma, he knows how to work the room but also comes back to check on me,” said Tilley-Coulson. “He’s a well-rounded chameleon.” And although she said a handful of virtual trolls have called her “desperate” for offering up a $5,000 husband commission, Tilley-Coulson is confident in her strategy. “I stand by it,” she told The Post. “Hey, if you help me meet him, the money is yours.”

Actress Regina Daniels Covers Hollywood Weekly Magazine 2 Months in a Row.

Nollywood actress Regina Daniels is the first star to cover Hollywood Weekly Magazine for 2 months in a row.

Regina, who also won a MOST OUTSTANDING CHILD STAR OUTSIDE OF THE USA award at the recently concluded Hollywood Weekly Magazine Film Festival (HWMFF) on 2nd November 2019, at Warner Bros. Studios in Los Angeles - California., shines in a way that you have never seen her before. She oozes class as she dominates the magazine.

What a way to start the year!

Gay People Exist Because Their Mothers Had Anal Sex, Says Bishop Neophytos Masouras

A religious leader, Bishop Neophytos Masouras, has said people turn out to be homosexuals because their mothers had anal sex when they were pregnant with them and, as such, homosexuality was transferred to the fetus during pregnancy.
Church of Cyprus bishop, Neophytos Masouras of Morphou, told an audience at a primary school in Akaki, Cyprus, that homosexuality is caused by pregnant women enjoying anal sex. He said:

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“It happens during the parent’s intercourse or pregnancy. It follows an abnormal sexual act between the parents. To be more clear, anal sex.

The bishop told his audience that Saint Porfyrios had written about the issue.
Saint Porfyrios is a relatively newly declared saint who died in the 90s. He told gay people they should remain single and pray the gay away for the rest of their life.
According to Accept LGBTI Cyprus, the Bishop was speaking during a series of “spiritual meetings of dialogue” that ran until this month ending.
The meetings are open to anyone and the audience ranges from children to elders with people open to asking the Bishop of Morphou whatever they want.

Russian boxer, Maxim Dadashev, dies after a brutal knockout blow from Subriel Matias

Russian boxer Maxim Dadashev has died from injuries he sustained during a fight on Friday night, according to his trainer, Buddy McGirt.

The junior welterweight died on Tuesday at age 28. He had sustained head injuries during a technical knockout by Subriel Matías.

Maxim Dadashev had never lost a professional boxing match when he entered the ring on Friday at the MGM National Harbor resort in Oxon Hill, Md.

But after 11 rounds in which his opponent, Subriel Matías, landed a series of heavy blows, Dadashev’s trainer urged him to accept defeat, eventually signaling to the referee that the match was over.

Dadashev, 28, collapsed as he was leaving the ring. He was then taken to the University of Maryland Prince George’s Hospital Center in Cheverly for brain surgery.

On Tuesday, he died from his injuries.

His wife, Elizaveta Apushkina, who lives in Russia with a young son, confirmed the death in a statement provided by the hospital. “He was a very kind person who fought until the very end,” she said. “Our son will continue to be raised to be a great man like his father.”

Minutes before he collapsed, Dadashev was sitting in his corner of the ring, shaking his head slightly as his trainer Buddy McGirt urged him to bow out of the match.

“I’m going to stop the fight,” McGirt said in an exchange captured on video. “Max, I’m going to stop it. Max, you’re getting hit too much. You’re getting hit too much, Max. Please, Max, please, let me do this, O.K.? O.K.? Look at me. Please.”

Dadashev, a boxer from St. Petersburg, Russia, who hoped his athletic career would earn him a United States green card, showed promise after becoming a professional boxer in 2016. He won his first 13 matches, 11 of them knockouts or technical knockouts.

At 139.2 pounds ahead of Friday’s fight, Dadashev was what the International Boxing Federation calls a junior welterweight, which is slightly heavier than a lightweight. He was fighting for the right to challenge Josh Taylor, who holds the federation’s junior welterweight title.

“He was our young prospect,” Umar Kremlev, the secretary general of the Russian Boxing Federation, said of Dadashev in a statement on Tuesday. “We will fully support his family, including financially.

“We will complete the investigation into the circumstances surrounding this fight, we need to know the truth about what happened. This happens in any sport. I think some human factors intervened, there was some kind of violation.”

Boxing’s popularity has been waning for decades, in large part because of the athletes’ risk of injuries, long-term brain damage or death. Similar concerns have been raised about American football.

In the past decade, about a dozen professional boxers have died during or shortly after a match. In November, Christian Daghio, a 49-year-old Italian fighter, died after a knockout loss in Bangkok. Scott Westgarth, a 31-year-old British boxer, died of his injuries after winning a match in England in February 2018.

In 2017, New York State agreed to pay $22 million to Magomed Abdusalamov, a Russian who had received severe brain damage during a heavyweight bout at Madison Square Garden.

A representative for Matías, of Puerto Rico, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.

Fresh Productions Boxing, which represents Matías, said in a statement in Spanish on Facebook that the organization was “devastated” by the news of Dadashev’s death. “May the eternal warrior rest in peace,” it added.

“Maxim was a terrific young man,” said Bob Arum, the chairman of Top Rank, which promoted Dadashev’s matches. “We are all saddened and affected by his untimely death.”

Boris Johnson elected as the British Prime Minister

The former London Mayor, Boris Johnson, has been elected new Conservative leader in a ballot of party members and will become the next UK prime minister. He defeated Jeremy Hunt comfortably, winning 92,153 votes to his rival's 46,656. Boris Johnson takes over from Theresa May on Wednesday. Johnson began his acceptance speech by praising his predecessor, saying it had been "a privilege to serve in her cabinet". He promised the audience he would "deliver Brexit, unite the country and defeat Jeremy Corbyn". Outgoing PM Theresa May congratulated Johnson, promising him her "full support from the back benches". Almost 160,000 Conservative members were eligible to vote and turnout was 87.4%. Johnson's share of the vote - 66.4% - is slightly lower than the share won by David Cameron in the 2005 Tory leadership election (67.6%).

Poem about 'vagina' got Ugandan lecturer jailed (Photo)

A Ugandan feminist and lecturer, Stella Nyanzi, has been jailed over a poem about 'honeypot' she wrote and shared on Facebook in September.

The Ugandan feminist in the poem,  used a graphic description of the birth of the Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, and his mother’s honeypot to criticize his “oppression, suppression and repression” in the country. Stella who was arraigned before Buganda Road Court, was charged with "cyber harassment and offensive communication". She was accused of intending to disturb the peace and privacy of President, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and his mother the late Esteeri. 
The poem she wrote, read; 

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Yoweri, they say it was your birthday yesterday.
How bitterly sad a day!
I wish the smelly and itchy cream-coloured candida festering in Esiteri’s c*@t had suffocated you to death during birth.
Suffocated you just like you are suffocating us with oppression, suppression and repression!

Yoweri, they say it was your birthday yesterday.
How painfully ugly a day!
I wish the lice-filled bush of dirty pubic hair overgrown all over Esiteri’s unwashed chuchu had strangled you at birth.
Strangled you just like the long tentacles of corruption you sowed and watered into our bleeding economy.

Yoweri, they say it was your birthday yesterday.
How nauseatingly disgusting a day!
I wish the acidic pus flooding Esiteri’s cursed honeypotl canal had burnt up your unborn fetus.
Burnt you up as badly as you have corroded all morality and professionalism out of our public institutions in Uganda.

Yoweri, they say it was your birthday yesterday.
How horrifically cancerous a day!
I wish the infectious dirty-brown discharge flooding Esiteri’s loose honeypot had drowned you to death.
Drowned you as vilely as you have sank and murdered the dreams and aspirations of millions of youths who languish in the deep sea of massive unemployment, and under-emplyment in Uganda.

Yoweri, they say it was your birthday yesterday.
How traumatically wasted a day!
I wish the poisoned uterus sitting just above Esiteri’s dry clitoris had prematurely miscarried a thing to be cast upon a manure pit.
Prematurely miscarried just like you prematurely aborted any semblance of democracy, good governance and rule of law.

Yoweri, they say it was your birthday yesterday!
How morbidly grave a day!
I wish that Esiteri’s cursed genitals had pushed out a monstrously greenish-bluish still-birth.
You should have died at birth, you dirty delinquent dictator…
You should have died in birth, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.
…….
If you want to beat me for my heartfelt birthday poem, come and find me at my home. Ask the bodabodamen to direct you to Mama Stella’s house with a red gate. I refuse to be gagged!

The academic had stated that she has no case to answer and pushed for her immediate release, but the judgement wasn't in her favour. Her request for the court to summon 20 defense witnesses, including President Yoweri Museveni himself was also turned down.

Nyanzi who is battling three other legal cases: another "cyber harassment and offensive communication" trial for a poem calling the President a "pair of buttocks," which she took bail for; a civil dispute with her former employer Makerere University, who dismissed her for staging a naked protest; and a case disputing her inclusion on Uganda's "no-fly" list initiated by her critical Facebook commentary, is still being held at Luzira prison where she has been since November 2018.

TB Joshua performs ‘miracles’ in Nazareth, pulls huge crowd

The founder of The Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN),
Prophet T.B. Joshua, has drawn a record crowd of evangelical Christians from all over the world to a mass faith-healing in a stadium just outside Jesus’s hometown of Nazareth in Israel.
The prayer session which began on Sunday ended Monday with Joshua proclaiming the enactment of many miracles.
His Twitter account splashed photographs of several worshippers who claimed to have been healed of their ailments. Among them were persons who came to the event in crutches, and left whole.

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“One woman who was born deaf confirmed that she can now hear for the glory of God”

, Joshua tweeted.
And at the end, of the two-day event styled #NazarethMeetingWithTBJoshua’, Joshua thanked the Mayor, the Nazareth municipality and the police for their support and their love.
He advised all: “Make Nazareth your second home. Visit orphanage homes and hospitals – extend your love because the love you give away is the only love you keep”.
He also gave T-shirt souvenirs to all the attendees.

In a report of the healing session on Sunday, by New York Times, worshippers who thronged the healing session sang in various languages while others collapsed and even vomited during the event.
“Jesus’s father, Joseph, and his mother, Mary, came from here. What a blessing. No other place would have been better for Jesus to come from. It was God’s design,” Joshua told the crowd gathered in a sun-baked stadium on Mount Precipice.
When T.B Joshua descended from the stage to bless attendees, placing his hand on their heads, several declared themselves healed from sickness or infirmity. Attendants stood ready to catch those who fainted in excitement.

Minerva Resendiz, from Mexico, said she had come to see Joshua as part of the two-day gathering “to ask for healing, for a breakthrough … to resolve conflicts in the family”.
I would like that (all people) could see a miracle through Jesus Christ,” Resendiz, 40, said. Other pilgrims came from China, Russia and African and South American countries.
When T.B Joshua descended from the stage to bless attendees, placing his hand on their heads, several declared themselves healed from sickness or infirmity. Attendants stood ready to catch those who fainted in excitement.
Joshua founded and leads an evangelical ministry called The Synagogue Church of All Nations(SCOAN).
His Christian television network, Emmanuel TV, says it is Youtube’s most subscribed to ministry channel with well over one million followers.
Evangelicals made up roughly half of the more than 2 million Christian pilgrims who visited Israel in 2018, according to the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem, which oversees evangelical outreach to Israel.

Autobiography of Biafra’s 'Last Field Commander’ reviewed by London based media

‘A Guided Life’

The autobiography of Col. Lambert Ogbonna Ihenacho mni

‘The Last Biafran Field Commander’

REVIEWED BY Ralph Igbo and Ebere Inyama

Published by Strive Books Nig. Ltd. no. 1 Strive Street Ext., Owerri, Imo state, Nigeria. Phone+2348033323514, +2348034004306, +2348034276894

Prologue

The book, ‘A Guided Life’ is the autobiography of Colonel Lambert Ogbonna Ihenacho. In this 339 pages of documented history, one of Nigeria’s brilliant and fearless army officer, Colonel Lambert Ogbonna Ihenacho, who hails from Imo state, Nigera, narrates the story of his life beginning from the period he joined the Nigerian Army in 1957 till he retired from active service in 1990. 

Like Ademola Ademoyega’s ‘Why We Struck’, ‘A Guided Life’ captures the scenarios that played out in the Nigerian Army shortly before, during and after the failed coup of January 1966; the book went further to discuss the Nigeria – Biafra war in detail, the events that followed after the war and the travails of the Nigerian polity.  And like Chinua Achebe’s ‘There Was a Country’, the author made good use of his amazing descriptive power to put events in their proper perspectives. 

Lambert Ogbonna Ihenacho was a Lieutenant in the Nigerian Army before the Nigeria/Biafra Civil War. He was serving at the 5^th Infantry Battalion Nigerian Army, Kano. Back in Eastern Nigeria, he joined hands with Governor Odumegwu Ojukwu and other Igbo elites to fight for Biafra Independence.

During that war, Ihenacho employed all the training he received to command Company, Battalion and Brigade effectively in various sectors. He gave details of the various battles he fought in the war.  He recaptured large territories occupied by the enemy which helped Biafra to remain afloat for such a long time. He ended as a Lt. Colonel.

After the war, Ihenacho was reabsorbed into the Nigerian Army where he served in various capacities before he was compulsorily retired in 1990 as a Colonel.

Colonel Ihenacho had a close shave with the coup of 1985. When the dust settled, his friend, Lt. Colonel Bitiyon was found guilty and was executed alongside Gen. Mamman Vatsa and others. Again, he narrowly escaped execution after he was wrongly arrested for the coup plot of April 1990 alongside Major Gideon Okar and others.

In this book, the author narrates his exploits when he commanded Nigerian troops in Lebanon between 1980 and 1981. Towards the tail end of the book, Ihenacho who was nominated as a Deputy Governorship candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo state in 2007, narrates his experiences as a politician. He also talks about his spiritual life with greater emphasis on his contact with the Grail Message.

Lambert Ogbonna Ihenacho is a blend of the military and the intellectual, a man with the sword in one hand and a pen in the other. He is a fearless warrior who dared to challenge any misdeed or atrocity committed by anybody including his superiors in the army, many of whom are still alive today.

Read the 45 pages review here 

https://globalnewsalerts.blogspot.com/2019/06/autobiography-of-biafras-last-field_0.html

Angry relatives attack doctor, nurses at UCH, Ibadan, over death of 74-Yr-old patient

Relatives of a 74-year-old man, Usman Zubair, who was receiving treatment in the hospital, went wild and attacked the medical personnel when they learnt of his death.

The deceased had secondary Grade A diabetes, and his ankle was amputated to enable him live a normal life, but he later gave up.

The family of the deceased came around, became unruly, mobilised other miscreants to assault Dr Adeleke Adedapo and some of the nurses on duty and also vandalised chairs and tables in the hospital ward.

Their claim was that the UCH authorities failed to inform them of the death of Zubair at the right time.

Shortly after the attack and following a complaint by the hospital authorities, the attackers has been arrested by the police.

The state’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Olugbenga Fadeyi, who confirmed this to our source, said that the assault on the medical personnel of the hospital occurred on the evening of Tuesday, June 18.
Fadeyi, explaining further said, the suspects also attacked policemen who were called to the hospital to contain the situation.

He said the six suspects arrested in connection with the incident had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for investigation.

Ex- Senate President, Bukola Saraki, donates severance package to Leah Sharibu’s family

Former Senate president, Bukola Saraki, has directed that the National Assembly Management should distribute his Severance Allowance to families of three victims of the insurgency in the North-East.

He also instructed that children of late senators be also included in the list of beneficiaries.

Saraki stated that the Severance Allowance should be used to support the families of Leah Sharibu, who is being held by Boko Haram.

Also to benefit from the money are children of late members of the 8th Senate who may require financial assistance in furtherance of their education, as a Trust Fund is to be established by the management of the National Assembly for the purpose.

According to him, 20% of the severance allowance is to be donated to the family of Leah Sharibu, while 20% is also to be paid to the family of Hauwa Liman, the aid worker brutally murdered by Boko Haram after she was captured.

Another 20% is to be donated to the family of the second aid worker, Hussaini Ahmed Khoisan, also murdered in the same circumstance by Boko Haram.

The remaining 40% should be used by the National Assembly Management to set up a TRUST FUND that will assist children of deceased members of the Eighth Senate who are in financial need for their education.

Revealed: Major Nzeogwu who plotted Nigeria's first coup in 1966 committed suicide

Details have emerged on how the hero of Nigeria’s first coup d’etat of Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu committed suicide in the battle field by injecting himself with poisonous liquid in a bid to escape being captured alive by the Nigerian army.

Speaking during an interview recently, Nzeogwu’s younger sister, Susan Uwechie said that after injecting himself, he threw a grenade. By then, the Nigerian soldiers were around. He was together with Emmanuel Ifeajuna, his colleague. Ifeajuna sneaked out and informed the Nigerian soldiers that ‘that person that is holding the war, I just left him there. Go there, and you will meet him’. Immediately they came near, he injected himself with poison and released a grenade. All those soldiers died with him…

Read the full text of the interview here: 
https://www.sunnewsonline.com/revealed-at-last-how-major-nzeogwu-died/

Buhari’s failure to deliver inauguration speech is ‘insensitive and pathetic’, says PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s failure to deliver an inaugural speech as “pathetic”.

Buhari set a rather bizarre record by becoming the first elected president not to deliver a speech after being sworn in.

In a statement, Kola Ologbondiyan, spokesman of the party, said Buhari’s action showed his “insensitivity and the level of derision” with which his handlers and party hold Nigerians.

The major opposition party said the failure of Buhari and the ruling party to make any commitment at the ceremony reinforced the “truism that a product of flawed electoral process cannot serve the people or meet their aspirations under a constitutional democracy”.

“The poor attendance and passivity of the audience at the ceremony at a time that Nigerians were trooping, in their millions, to the inauguration of state governors elected on the platform of the PDP, manifestly show,” the statement read.

“It is indeed pathetic that at a ceremony such as presidential inauguration, where truly elected leaders address their people, make commitments and unfold their governance direction, President Buhari did not showcase his plans or commitment to the development of critical sectors of our polity.

“It also speaks volumes that President Buhari had nothing to say to the victims of mindless killings and acts of violence in various parts of our country.

“Moreover, he had no directions toward stemming the economic distress under his administration, for which Nigerians are now resorting to suicide and slavery mission abroad as options.”

Senate passes bill recognizing June 12 as 'Democracy Day' in Nigeria

The Nigerian Senate has passed the Public Holiday Act Amendment Bill recognizing June 12 as the new Democracy Day. 
The bill was passed almost one year after President Buhari announced that the date would replace May 29 for Nigerians to commemorate the return to the civilian government. While some members of the National Assembly had criticised the President that Democracy Day cannot be changed by just a declaration, others commended his decision.

President Buhari’s declaration was later approved in the Senate by an act of parliament after the lawmakers considered the bill seeking to amend the Public Holiday Act on Thursday. The bill, which is in concurrence with that of the House of Representatives, will now be forwarded to the President for assent.

President Buhari had on June 6, 2018 announced June 12 as the new date which Democracy Day would be celebrated in the country, to honour the presumed winner of the 1993 presidential election, Moshood Abiola, who was fondly known as MKO.

He explained that the date was more symbolic of democracy in the Nigerian context than May 29, or even October 1. The President had also conferred a posthumous GCFR title on Abiola, while his running mate in the election, Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe, got a GCON national honour.

Six months later, the House of Representatives adopted June 12 as the new Democracy Day.