The Chief Executive Officer of YBNL Records, Olamide, has reportedly impregnated popular on-air personality, Maria Okan.
This comes after the rapper showed off his new son on Instagram.
Information reaching TheNigerian News reveal that Olamide was in a secret relationship with Okan.
It is alleged that the OAP took a huge amount of money from the record label boss to terminate the pregnancy and return to the UK but upon arrival, she decided to keep the baby thus breaching the agreement.
The Chief Executive Officer of YBNL Records, Olamide, has reportedly impregnated popular on-air personality, Maria Okan.
This comes after the rapper showed off his new son on Instagram.
Information reaching TheNigerian News reveal that Olamide was in a secret relationship with Okan
It is alleged that the OAP took a huge amount of money from the record label boss to terminate the pregnancy and return to the UK but upon arrival, she decided to keep the baby thus breaching the agreement.
Olamide realising the situation has calmed matters by telling his wife.
Adamawa-North lawmaker, Senator Elisha Abbo, has been drawn into a fresh scandal as a photojournalist, Olumuyiwa Owolabi, has accused him of assault and breach of agreement.
He said he first met Abbo in 2014 during the run-up to the June 2014 Ekiti State governorship election which Ayodele Fayose won.
Owolabi, who was the official photographer of Fayose during the election, said he met Abbo in Ekiti State and Abbo told him that he would like him to do some jobs for him.
He said, “The viral video of Senator Elisha Abbo assaulting a young lady isn’t a new to me as I was one of his victims of assault years back.
“I met him during the campaign of former Governor Ayodele Fayose while I was the official photojournalist assigned to Fayose during the electioneering campaign and later head of photojournalists to his deputy after the election.”
The photojournalist said Abbo, who was contesting for senator on the platform of the All Progressives Congress at the time, entered into a contract with him to cover his political activities at the cost of N2.8m.
He said on August 13, 2014, he travelled with Abbo to Yola, Adamawa State, from Abuja by air and they lodged at Lelewa hotel for weeks while campaigning for the primaries which was eventually won by Senator Binta Garba.
Olumuyiwa Owolabi, the photographer
The photojournalist said he travelled along with the senator from Adamawa to Mubi, Vintim Muchala to Mubi and later back to Yola after he lost the senatorial primary.
Owolabi said, “On approaching Senator Abbo to enforce the contract agreement we had, he refused to pay. He ignored several pleas for him to just give me part of my money.
“On the fateful day we wanted to travel together to Mubi for
the last campaign, Boko Haram invaded the place prior to the day we ought to have
travelled. Due to the attack by Boko Haram, I began to plead with him that I needed to leave the state.
“As soon as he came out, I began to plead with him that I had to go. The next thing he said was that I was embarrassing him. He started beating and slapping me. He told his orderly to put me inside the pickup truck. He told them to point their guns at me and that he would kill me and tell people I was a member of Boko Haram.“After several text messages and calls put through to him were ignored, I had no choice but to sit in front of his room where he was lodged at Dansoho Hotel, Yola. This was around 5pm.”
“When I heard that statement, I was shocked because I didn’t know anybody there and I couldn’t speak their language fluently. No one could come to my rescue when he brutalised me, causing me to sprain my ankle.
“I began begging him to just leave me and let me go that I would leave the money for him because of his action.”
He alleged that Abbo’s police escort took him to Kaliwa Police Division around 2am with the instruction that he should be shot dead if he failed to comport himself.
The photojournalist added, “He had damaged my phone I couldn’t contact anybody; he tore my clothes and I was virtually naked.
“That very night, on getting to Kaliwa police station, I begged the investigating police officer to please let me use his phone to talk to one of my relatives. That was how I called one of my brothers that pleaded with the IPO to assist me out of the situation.
“The DPO came the following morning and begged him (Abbo) to give me transport fare to go back to meet my family. Till date, he hasn’t paid me the money.”
The photojournalist, who pleaded with Nigerians to help him, also shared photos of private chats he purportedly had with the senator.
A coalition of young Nigerian groups under the aegis of Advocates For integrity in Leadership (AFIL) have called on the senate president, Ahmad LAwan and the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila to work towards ensuring that the National Assembly is sacred and purposeful.
The Group in an open letter to the Senate president and Speaker, lamented the dereliction and decadence of values and ethics in the National Assembly.
The group said it does not bore well on the image of Nigeria that senator Ovie Omo-Agege who was alleged to have invaded the senate during plenary with thugs to steal the Mace was now elected as a Deputy President of the same senate he desecrated 9 months ago.
In the Letter, AFIL also decried the emergence of Femi Gbajabiamila as speaker of the House of Representatives even though he was reported to have been suspended and dis-barred from the Georgia on allegations of fraud.
Read full letter;
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: NIGERIAN YOUTHS CALL FOR INTEGRITY IN THE HALLOWED CHAMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
Advocates for Integrity in Leadership (AFIL) is a non-partisan coalition of concerned individuals and rights groups of young Nigerians. This Coalition is birthed out of the expedient and timely need to take a stand henceforth on matters impeding our future as young Nigerians.
Since the 4th Republic, beginning from the very first Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Salisu Buhari, who was alleged to have forged his degree certificate, the National Assembly has continued to go through several integrity crises. As young Nigerians, we have witnessed several fights on the floor of the National Assembly, seen legislators climbing fences and several other worrisome occurrences. The climax of this is the recent election of Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege, who was alleged to have been involved in the theft of the Mace of the Nigerian Senate some months ago, as Deputy Senate President. Likewise, the recently elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, who was suspended from the Georgia State Bar in the United States of America for co-mingling clients’ funds. As young Nigerians, we say thus far, no further. This is not who we are and this is not the Nigeria we desire. We want the hallowed Chambers of the National Assembly to be sacred and purposeful.
Nigeria is becoming a country that is hard to love, unattractive to fight for and difficult to be proud of. It is our sincere belief that many of the elders in this nation have failed us. They have sent wrong value messages to our generation, they have rewarded evil with good and they have set wrong patterns and templates for us. Sadly, they are teaching us that misbehaviour, rascality, and lawlessness are acceptable and yield great reward in Nigeria. The most bothersome part about this is that if our generation, which is the replacement generation, imbibes these values, as is already beginning to happen, there may truly be no hope for Nigeria.
All over the world, Nigerians have unfortunately been tagged with the reputation of a lawless, fraudulent and corrupt people. This narrative has been seemingly justified by some indiscretions of some members of the National Assembly. Being the closest to the people in representative democracy, these activities of Members paint Nigerians in bad light, as whatever they do is seen to represent the views and carry the endorsement of their constituents. Such perceptions misrepresent the image and future of the Nigeria we desire, as young people. Thus, we find it necessary to speak up about these issues so that they can be addressed for the sake of our future.
As part of our own contribution to nation building and development, this Coalition of young Nigerians is heralding a national value re-orientation movement, titled, ‘I Am Different’. As
young Nigerians, we are saying we are different, we are not fraudulent, we are not lawless, we are not lazy, we are not thieves, we are not corrupt and we want those that represent and lead us to reflect and promote values and ethics that will provide positive role models and inspire confidence in us.
We decided to start this advocacy on national value reorientation from the legislative arm of government because it is the torchbearer of our democracy and the bastion of civil rule. This purposeful intervention will however not be limited to the Legislature. We shall take it to the judiciary, the executive and the people. For us, it is a national reawakening to dare to be different from ills that allay us, as a people and nation. It is an individual commitment to say #IamDifferent to achieve a collective responsibility for a nation that truly works. We Nigerians must play our role in nation building, even as we call on our leaders to play theirs.
Furthermore, perhaps it has become necessary for us as a nation to commence a conversation on a possible review of the electoral process and criteria for members of the National Assembly so that there is a minimum standard and expectation of integrity for those who represent us in this critical arm of government.
May I, at this juncture, thank all those who have identified with this initiative, especially the members of the Coalition, the Press, as well as eminent and patriotic Nigerians who have lent their time and personalities to the commencement of this initiative.
Finally, as concerned young Nigerians, we wish to call upon every youth, legislator and individual who is truly different from the negative stereotypes about our nation and people, and who want to see a great Nigeria to kindly join this national value-reorientation movement – #IamDifferent. Nigeria is ours. Nigeria is the only country we have. We are not here by accident. Our destinies are tied to this nation. Our future is determined by the actions and inactions of our present. Therefore, we have a responsibility to stand up for Nigeria. Let us defend her and uphold her honour and glory. So help us, God.
The Federal Government has announced the suspension of the planned Ruga settlement project.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s New Media aide, Bashir Ahmad confirmed the suspension on his verified Twitter handle.
He tweeted, “The Federal Government after consultations with stakeholders has suspended the RUGA Settlement Project, for now, Kebbi State Governor disclosed that after a meeting with Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.”
The Senate on Wednesday, set up a bipartisan ad hoc committee headed by a former governor of Ebonyi State, Sam Egwu, to probe the alleged assault on a nursing mother by Senator Elisha Abbo.
The embattled senator is a Peoples Democratic Party member representing Adamawa North Senatorial District. He slapped a saleswoman at an adult toy shop in Abuja earlier this year.
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, constituted the panel following a point of order raised by the Senator representing Kaduna Central, Uba Sani.
The Senate Leader, Abdullahi Yahaya; Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe; and Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, supported Sani by condemning the action of the Senator.
The President of the Senate confirmed that he had been inundated with calls from concerned Nigerians within and outside the country asking the Senate to explain what happened.
Lawan said it would be unfair on either the Senator or the assaulted lady if the Senate should pass a judgment immediately based on the viral video clip.
He, therefore, asked the ad hoc committee to probe the issue critically by inviting both parties and submit its report within two weeks.
Other members of the panel are, Senators Oluremi Tinubu, Mathew Urhoghide, Stella Oduah, Dauda Aliu Jika, Sani Musa, and Danladi Sankara.
Following the outrage generated by the video showing a senator of the Federal Republic, Elisha Abbo, assaulting a woman in a sex toy shop in Abuja, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the arrest of the senator and his orderly by an investigative team set up by the Police Force headquarters in Abuja.
Investigations are currently ongoing at the Federal Capital Territory Police Command into the alleged attack on a sales girl by a serving senator in Abuja.
The news of the attack went viral after a video recorded by the Close Circuit Television (CCTV), installed in the shop was shared on the social media, an act which is said to have embarrassed the police authorities.
The Police force says they are doing everything within their powers to restore dignity to the force, following the conduct of the police orderly attached to the senator.
“I stand with you babana and we will always stand for truth” – Senator Elisha Abbo’s wife reacts, says her husband is innocent of slapping Lady at a sex toy shop.
Emily Eric, the wife of Nigeria’s youngest senator, Elisha Abbo, who was caught on camera assaulting a woman at a sex toy shop in Abuja, has supported her husband, as she says he’s innocent of all ‘allegations’.
In a video which has since gone viral, Senator Abbo can be seen slapping a lady repeatedly before asking an armed officer to take her away.
In a post which she shared on Facebook, Abbo’s wife, Emily Eric wrote;
“I stand with you babana
And we will always stand for truth
My husband is innocent of what people are saying against him” she wrote.
The post has since been deleted from her Facebook handle.
Nigerians have been alerted of the latest antics being deployed by the Islamic State of West African Province, ISWAP, to divert attention from the fact that they have been decimated.
Network Against Cyber-Terrorism, which raised this alarm on Monday, noted that members of the sect have resorted to manipulating videos to show that they are still occupying some communities in the country.
NACT said they have now resorted to psychological terrorism by floating fake footages to create the impressions that they have recently carried out successful attacks.
Jackson Ike Mefor, President of the group, while addressing newsmen on the development on Monday, warned the general public against falling for the tricks of the defeated terrorists.
His statement reads below.
The intensified onslaughts on these vermin have seen them roundly dealt with in Doron Naira, Ngouma in Cameroun, Arege, Malkonory and Tumbun Rego as well as Goniri, Nbaga and Gero. The losses inflicted on the terror infrastructure from the encounters in these battles have been shown to the world and they clearly confirm that ISWAP is getting the correct dose of the medication being administered for its madness by sovereign states.
There are enough pictorial and video evidences to the effect that the projected ascendancy of the terrorist organization in the Lake Chad Basin is not just being halted but ISWAP is increasingly going into disarray. In the span of the previous few weeks, the terrorists have lost caches of weapons and ammunition to the military operations in the region. They are also losing commanders on a scale they never thought possible since they recently had injection of experienced terrorists from the Middle East.
These series of losses on battle will naturally attract certain responses that fit into the established pattern that the cowardly terrorists are known to have repeatedly adopted. The first is the resort to resume attacks on populations that they know to be incapable of fighting them as exemplified by the weakness demonstrated when they attacked framers in Ngamgam village, Mobbar Local Government Area of Borno state. The attack was motivated by the bitterness they felt over their serial losses which they, in part, attributed to the farmers providing actionable intelligence to government forces.
The second response from the beleaguered terrorists is to revert back to deploying propaganda with intent to mislead the public, their sympathisers and sponsors that they continue to be relevant. These terrorists, after suffering monumental defeats, have now resorted to psychological terrorism by floating fake videos to create the impressions that they have recently carried out successful attacks.
These videos often trend and they become rallying points for those that are cheering the terrorists on to commit more crimes against humanity. The media so published often get repeated and looped several times over to an extent that finding out the truth becomes a difficult task especially for publications that do not have the resources for on the ground verification of the claims made in such clips.
After carefully reviewing videos purportedly showing the occupation of military bases and other footages meant to depict ISWAP as regaining relevance, we have concluded that the videos were manipulated to create the wrong impressions. The videos are old clips re-published to create the impression of currency at a time when the terrorists are taking heavy causality. We also found that the ones that are genuinely recent among the video were staged at locations other than they were claimed to be.
However, we observed that some people continue to fall for this cheap trick, ostensibly because the online assets of the terrorist group are able to whip up sentiments around the videos by trolling the Nigerian Military and the MNJTF to the benefit of ISWAP. This development fits smugly into the intention of the terrorists. Their objective is to terrorise the population using the fake video by making people believe that they are in control of key military facilities in the Lake Chad Region when in reality they are taking flight owing to recent successes being recorded by the Nigerian military in its counter terrorism operations.
This attempt at lying about occupying military bases become exceptionally comical when one of the places they claim to be in control of is where the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai has been in the theatre of operations, personally leading the troops to carryout various operations, boosting troops’ morale in a rare act of patriotism that have made them to continue to display uncommon gallantry. For terrorists that can lie about being in control of such location it is apparent that every other thing they have claimed in recent weeks is a lie.
Because we realize that the lies of the terrorists might have done untold damages to the psyche of the civilian population before they are properly addressed, the Network Against Cyber- Terrorism has resolved to actively track the propaganda being pushed out by the terrorists and their online supporters. It will promptly brief the public of such development as the need arises in order to curb the panic that ISWAP/Boko Haram want to spread among the populace. A population that is being saved from and has been saved from terrorists’ attacks does not deserve to be terrorised with terrorist propaganda as the ISWAP videos intended.
The Network nonetheless charges those that legitimately work in disseminating information – journalists, editors, bloggers, and social media influencers etc. – to take exceptional care in treating multimedia contents emanating from ISWAP. They should bear certain things in mind in this regard. The first is to be mindful of unknowingly helping to spread lies and propaganda for the terrorists. The second reason to be circumspect is the need to not assist the terrorists in spreading weaponized messaging that terrorize members of the public.
We are convince that the cyber space is a key battleground where a timely defeat of ISWAP will translate into a conclusive dismantling of its terror infrastructure and a resounding defeat in the physical battles in the various theatres of military operations against the global menace.
-Army wrestling team wins big at the Gov. Dickson’s National Competition
The Nigerian Army wrestling team has clenched 6 medals at the 2019 (3rd Edition) of Governor Dickson National Wrestling Classics which took place at the Indoor Sports Hall, Samson Siasia Stadium Yenagoa, in Bayelsa State.
The competition had 26 States of the Federation and 13 Wrestling Clubs in attendance and featured 532 wrestlers competing for honours.
According to the organisers, the objectives of the championship is aimed at selecting the national wrestling team that would represent the country at the 2019 All Africa Games slated for Morocco in Aug 2019.
Consequently, the Nigerian Army Wrestling Team (male & female) featured in the senior category of the championship.
At the end of the week long event, the Nigerian Army Wrestling Team smiled home with 3 Gold, 2 Silver and 1 Bronze Medals to finish 5th Position on the Final Medals Table ahead of 12 other wrestling clubs and 21 States of the Federation.
By this feat, the 3 Gold Medalists and 2 Silver Medalists are qualified to be part of the Nigerian Wrestling Federation Training Camp to represent Nigeria at the 2019 All Africa Games.
The 6 Nigerian Army Medalists who excelled at the championship are:
The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai has congratulated the team on the feat achieved and tasked them to go ahead and make the Nigerian Army and indeed the Nigeria proud at the forthcoming 2019 All Africa Games.
In a similar development, the Nigerian Army Boxing Team also won three medals (2 Gold & 1 Silver) at the National Boxing Trials conducted to select the National Boxing Team to represent Nigeria at the 2019 All Africa Games scheduled to hold in Morocco.
The contest took place at the Brai Ayanote Gymnasium, National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos from 25-27Jun 2019.
Nigerian Army Boxing Team featured four boxers in the trials based on their good performances at the 2018 National Sports Festival held at Abuja.
At the end of the National Trials, the Nigerian Army Boxing Team won 2 Gold and 1 Silver Medals.
The Gold Medalists are LCpl Osita Umeh (69 Kg Men) and LCpl Yetunde Odunuga ( 60Kg Women) while LCpl Caroline Linus ( 48Kg Women) won a silver medal.
By this glorious development, the three medalists are qualified to be part of the Nigerian Boxing Federation Training Camp to represent Nigeria at the 2019 All Africa Games.
The Chief of Army Staff also congratulated the boxers on the feat achieved and urged them not to rest on their oars at ensuring they do the Nigerian Army and the Nation proud at the 2019 All Africa Games.
