Photos: Mother Of 7 Butchered To Death While Preaching In Kubwa, Abuja Naija News

Mother of seven, Deaconess Eunice Olawale, was butchered to death by some unidentified persons while preaching in the morning at Gbazango community in Kubwa satellite town in Bwari council area, Abuja in the early hours of Saturday July 9th.

 Narrating how he got to know of her murder, her husband of 16 years, Pastor Elisha Olawale, said

“Two of my sons who are footballers went to the field to play. They just came back to tell me that they heard some footballers saying that they butchered a woman preaching the gospel early this morning. When they told me, I trekked down. When I got there, I didn’t see anybody but I saw blood on the ground. I then asked a policeman about a woman who was butchered to death. He said yes its true and they have taken her to the police station. When we got to the police station, my wife was at the back of the pickup. They removed her head and two legs. We have taken her to the mortuary”he said.

 Meanwhile the Abuja police command say some arrest have been made in connection with the murder

Houston Police Shoots And Kill A Man Standing On The Road With A Revolver Pointed At Them Others

Houston police shot and killed a man after he pointed a gun at them, authorities said.
Two officers saw a man standing in the road on the city’s south side around 12:40am Saturday, according to the police department.
They asked him to put down the gun, but he pointed it in the air instead before aiming it at the officers, police said.
The officers fired numerous times, fatally hitting the man. A woman told ABC 13 he was her husband and identified him as Alva Braziel.
Witness Eric Puckett confirmed to the network the man was a black male. The races of the two officers remained unknown as of Saturday morning.
The two officers have each spent 10 and 13 years in the force according to ABC 13. They were wearing body cams at the time of the shooting, the department said.
It came one day after a gunman shot 12 officers and two civilians in Dallas, killing five of the city’s officers. He acted during a Black Lives Matter rally, which itself was held in protest against the shooting death of two black men at the end of police in Minnesota and Louisiana.

10 Most Popular Nigerian Celebrities On Social Media

One of the very important things that define celebrities is the number of people following them. Especially for Nigerian celebrities, they only do not huge have numbers of fans, but they have a massive social media presence. Below is the list of the top 10.
1. Davido: Davido has a social media presence with massive 6.8 million fans.
Facebook: 2.6 million Likes
Twitter: 1.8 million Followers
Instagram: 2. 4 million Followers
2. Peter Okoye: 6.7 million followers.
Facebook: 4.1 million likes
Twitter: 1.1 million followers
Instagram: 1.5 million followers
3. Wizkid: 5.7 million followers.
Facebook: 1.5million likes
Twitter: 2.1 million followers
Instagram: 2.1 million followers
4.Genevieve Nnaji: 4.96 million followers.
Facebook: 2.1 million likes
Twitter: 1. 06 million followers
Instagram: 1.8 million followers
5. Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde: 4.68 million followers.
Facebook: 2.9 million likes
Twitter: 829k followers
Instagram: 951k followers
6.Don Jazzy: Music producer Don Jazzy with a 4.7 million followers.
Facebook: 1.2 million likes
Twitter: 1.6 million followers
Instagram: 1.9 million followers
7. Tiwa Savage: 4.5 million followers.
Facebook: 1.2 million likes
Twitter: 1.4 million followers
Instagram: 1.9 million followers
8. D Banj – 4.0 million followers.
Facebook: 1.6 million likes
Twitter: 1.5 million followers
Instagram: 954k
9. 2Face Idibia: 3.2 million followers
Facebook: 639k likes
Twitter: 1.5 million followers
Instagram: 1.1 million followers
10. Rita Dominic: 3.0 million followers.
Facebook: 1.1 million
Twitter: 534k
Instagram: 1.4 million

Singer May D Joins Paul Okoye, As Papii J Sticks With Peter

 You know they have gone their separate ways, but it seems their music families also took sides.
We all know Kaffy’s husband, Pappi J is with Peter and officially signed to his record label and also a part of his band, but what was however not clear was, on whose side may D (a former signee of the twin brothers) was. But yesterday, the clear picture surfaced.
May D is on Paul’s side and they are both currently out of the country to attend the three shows P-Square was billed for, which Peter openly opted out from.
See another photo of May D with Paul below. So now we know who is on whose side.

EDO PDP: Two Governorship Candidates, One Party

ALEXANDER OKERE writes on the internal crisis rocking the Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, with few weeks to the September 10 gubernatorial election.

In view of its criticisms against the All Progressives Congress-led government in Edo State, the Peoples Democratic Party had in the last seven and a half years demonstrated to many that it was the loudest voice in the opposition. In addition to its anti-government positions on policies affecting the average Edo citizen, the PDP had also ensured that it didn’t keep quiet even in matters involving the internal workings of the APC, as it did in the build-up to the ruling party’s June 18.

Press briefings after press briefings, the Dan Orbih-led state executive council of the major opposition party had professed its readiness to return the state to the PDP fold and provide party’s own alternative to the government of the incumbent Governor Adams Oshiomhole. Therefore, many an Edo citizen expected that the process leading to the emergence of its flag bearer for the September 10 governorship polls would be as clean as a whistle. However, the events that played out during and after its June 20 primary, perhaps, proved otherwise.

The lingering crisis between the Ahmed Makarfi and Ali-Modu Sheriff factions of the PDP at the national level seemed to have been apparently contained in Abuja until it spilled down to the state. But the state chapter, having aligned itself with the Makarfi-led leadership, had vowed to stage the primary without hitches and warned Sheriff to steer clear of Edo, as it would not tolerate any killjoy.

Three aspirants contested the party’s ticket in the primary, which was organised by the Makarfi-led national caretaker committee at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin. They include a former Secretary to the State Government, Osagie Ize-Iyamu; a former Majority Leader in the House of Assembly, Matthew Iduoriyekemwen, and the candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party in the 2012 governorship polls, Solomon Edebiri.

Prior to the primary election, there were mutterings among supporters of Iduoriyekemwen and Edebiri over allegations that the state executive committee had ceded the ticket to Ize-Iyamu and after hours of voting, with 713 accredited delegates, the Ize-Iyamu was declared winner of the exercise. But this did not go down well with the two aggrieved aspirants, who staged a walkout before the chairman of the electoral committee, David Umahi, announced the results. They were later joined by their supporters, who cited irregularities in the recurrence of “Ize-Iyamu” during the counting of votes. The former SSG polled a total of 584 votes (over 80 per cent) to defeat Iduoriyekemwen and Edebiri’s 91 and 38 votes, respectively.

Apparently irked by what he described as a “comedy” which was “clinically manipulated” to favour a preferred candidate of the state leadership of the party, Iduoriyekemwen not only rejected the result but pitched his political tent with the Sheriff faction and vowed to participate in the group’s governorship primary.

He was also joined by the member representing Egor and Ikpoba-Okha constituency in the Federal House of Representatives, Johnson Agbonayima, who purchased the nomination and expression of interest forms of the Sheriff faction. However, many political watchers believed Agbonayima’s action was more of a political backing than a personal interest for governorship ticket, being one of the strongest allies of Iduoriyekemwen.

While announcing his rejection of the June 20 primary election at a press conference in Benin, the former Edo representative in the Niger Delta Development Commission, had said, “Having looked at all the processes, starting from the clinical manipulation and rigging of the primary, I hereby fully dissociate myself from every process that led to that so-called primary which ended on June 20.

“Myself and members of my team across the state reject the outcome and we pledge our loyalty to the authentic leadership of the party headed by His Excellency, Ali Modu Sheriff.”

The aggrieved aspirant had explained that the affirmation of the delegates negated the rules of the party’s constitution on the direct nomination of delegates at the ward level and showed “the manipulation of the state chairman, who was the main actor of the entire process and tried to get the candidates to adopt ad hoc delegates, who were elected in the last state congress, where the chairman and other members of the state executive were elected.”

The crisis took a twist when the pro-Sheriff missile hit the Orbih-led leadership 24 hours later, cancelling the June 20 gubernatorial primary, suspending the state executive committee and replacing same with a caretaker committee chaired by a former state Chairman of the party in Ondo State, Ebenezer Alabi. Sheriff also set up an electoral committee for a fresh primary election.

But the Orbih-led committee kicked and vowed to remain indivisible in spite of the action of the Sheriff group. The State Publicity Secretary of the party, Chris Nehikhare, had told Sunday PUNCH on the telephone that Sheriff had no constitutional right to suspend the leadership of the party in Edo. He also accused the former senator of doing the bidding of the All Progressives Congress to serve as a cog in the wheel of the PDP and ruin its chances in the at the governorship polls.

“He has no right to do what he is doing. But we know he is being sponsored by the All Progressives Congress. The most interesting part of it is that even those he picked as members of his caretaker committee are all flying documents of the illegal kangaroo committee,” Nehikhare had said.
But the ruling party denied any complicity in the crisis rocking the opposition party. The State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Godwin Erhahon, told Sunday PUNCH on Thursday that the statement by the PDP depicted an opposition party that has lost control.
”I am not aware of the APC being responsible for any problem in the PDP. But if the PDP leadership is blaming the APC for what is happening to it, that means it has admitted the fact that it has lost control. If they surrender their leadership to the ruling party, then all of them should better quit politics,” Erhahon said.

However, owing to what it described as anti-party activities, the state executive committee slammed a suspension on Iduoriyekemwen.
In a communiqué issued at the end of its State Working Committee meeting on June 26 it also recommended Agbonayima for disciplinary action by the National Working Committee of party. The SWC had explained that, since the June 20 primary of the PDP, where the former majority leader lost the fight for the party’s candidacy, he had allegedly displayed actions considered as “unacceptable,” “irresponsible” and “selfish.”
It also accused Iduoriyekemwen and Agbonnayima of forming a tag team with the Ali-Modu Sheriff faction, by purchasing “kangaroo” nomination forms for the same governorship ticket, which he (Iduoriyekemwen) two weeks ago.
The communiqué read, “The conduct of Matthew Iduoriyekemwen in associating with Modu Sheriff, with the intention to destabilise the party in the state, amounts to anti-party activity. Consequently, Matthew Iduoriyekemwen is, hereby, suspended from the party for one month, pending further disciplinary action in accordance with Chapter 10 of the Peoples Democratic Party Constitution of 2012 (as amended).
“For also associating with Modu Sheriff, with the intention to destabilise the party in the state, Ehiozuwa Johnson Agbonayima is, hereby, recommended to be disciplined by the National Caretaker Committee, in accordance with chapter 10 of the party’s constitution.”
In a bid to prevent the Sheriff faction from further wreaking the ship of the Edo State chapter of the party, its Legal Adviser, Professor Edoba Omoregie, filed a suit at a Federal High Court sitting in Benin seeking an order to restrain Sheriff and his committee from conducting a separate primary election in the state. The party, in suit number FHC/B/CS/109/2016 and fixed for July 1, also sought to restrain the Iduoriyekemwen, Agbonayima and the Independent National Electoral Commission from participating in the exercise.
But the apparent legal threat did not stop the Sheriff electoral committee from carrying out the bidding of its principal. Although the committee, led by a former Deputy Governor of Oyo State, had arrived four days to the proposed primary, it did not show up at the state secretariat of the National Youth Council on Akpakpava road, where it had scheduled a pre-primary press briefing, due to what many believed to security reasons.
The pro-Sheriff primary election, however, held last Wednesday under tight security at the volleyball court of Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, with Iduoriyekemwen emerging as PDP governorship candidate.
But analysts have expressed concern that the division within the ranks of the PDP portends danger for not only the party in the September 10 poll but also for the survival of democracy.
A public affairs analyst, Mr. David Ugolor, said that the PDP may be losing its role as the major opposition voice in the state, a challenge he said should be surmounted before voters go to the polls.
Ugolor said, “It is unfortunate that the PDP has ceased to take advantage of the opportunity to play the leading opposition role. It is not what the APC should celebrate because it portends danger for this country.
“I think if they don’t want Nigeria to ignore them completely, the pocket of leadership that is remaining in the party will have to act quickly to redeem their image. Otherwise, I see the party imploding and that will be a disaster for democracy in Nigeria.”
For the President of the Conference of Non-governmental Organisations in Edo State, Jude Obasanmi, the electorate must see the goings-on in the PDP as an eye opener and an opportunity to make informed choices during the election.
Obasanmi said, “I strongly believe that the decision of somebody, who contested an election before and lost and went ahead to align with another faction to contest the same position for him to emerge as the candidate, shows to a large extent that he has a selfish agenda.
“It is also a lesson for some citizens who patronise politicians, seeing them as fathers and brothers and respecting them. But their (actions) do not show that they are credible and should be trusted.”

Death Of Idps: As Kashim Shettima Waits For Jonathan’s Call

The IDPs have been languishing from hunger and dying in droves while Nigerians out there have been made to believe all along that the victims were being taken good care of. At least, that was what the governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima had made us believe until Nigerains came to know the truth.

As recently as April 2016, the governor had told the world in a keynote address he presented at the first annual dialogue on Rebuilding Peace in Borno State organized by AOA Global, a humanitarian advocacy group, that Internally Displaced Persons consume a whopping 1,800 bags of 50 kilogrammes of rice daily. That number represents three trailer loads of rice. Daily?



Before this time, the state’s former deputy governor, late Alhaji Zanna Mustapha, had some time in December 2014, told the world that the Borno State government was spending a humongous N600m monthly to feed IDPs in only 20 out of the 27 local government areas in the state.

However, despite this supposed huge investments by the State, very disturbing reports came out from the camps recently of people especially children dying of malnutrition in the camps in Borno State. One of the reports had it that, at least, 30 children were dying from the phenomenon almost daily while there were about 1,233 graves of citizens who died of acute malnourishment out of which 480 were children’s discovered by Medecins Sans Frontiers.

In a bid to cover up their negligence and corruption, some government officials had claimed that the children were already malnourished in Boko Haram camps where they were held captive before being rescued. But this story does not sell and cannot sell unless such officials want us to believe like it is being mouthed in some quarters that the purported rescued Chibok girls noise was stage-managed. For how can you not have prepared for a thing and time like this as a State playing host to the world’s deadliest terror group? Were Shettima and his partners not aware that unlike the purported stage-managed rescued Chibok girls, the reality of such rescue is that the victims would need intensive care?

Why would Nigerians who survived the onslaught of the dreaded sect for years showing resilience while in captivity be left to die after regaining freedom? Why would those who were forced to live in Sambisa die in Bama? Why would children live under Shekau but die under Shettima? Even if their conditions were so desperately hopeless, does it mean that the government of Shettima did not make adequate provisions medically and otherwise for such situations despite the hundreds of millions bandied about as the sums expended on taking care of the IDPs?

Those innocent Nigerians had no reason whatsoever to die once rescued from Boko Haram! Their rescue should have been a joyous journey back to life and not a sad, pathetic and shameful one to death! And just like the outgoing USA Ambassador to America, James Entwistle asked recently, “Nigerians are dying of starvation in Nigeria. How can that be?”

Indeed, how can that be?

If the Doctors Without Borders could have an inpatient therapeutic centre in Maiduguri where they immediately referred 16 of these malnourished and dying children to, nurture them back to life with utmost and intensive care, the Borno State governor and members of his team should be held responsible for the needless and avoidable deaths of citizens directly in their care!

They should be made to account for all the donations both in cash and in kind that have come the way of the IDPs through the state government from foreign countries, local and international donor organizations, corporate entities, NGOs, religious organizations, individuals etc.



Another fact we must not gloss over is the reality that some of these children actually became malnourished while in the camps as we have heard of how officials shortchange the IDPs in the distribution of food and medicines. Obviously, somebody somewhere is feeding fat at the expense of these vulnerable children who deserve our all in order to be alive. That is the height of heartlessness.


Maybe Kashim Shettima is still waiting for former president Jonathan to call him before he wakes up to his responsibilities just like he lamented in the wake of the Chibok saga that the former president did not call him until after 19 days following the incident. He declared this as one of his defence for his poor handling of the Chiobk issue, and when he was reminded that he, as the chief security officer of the state should have reached out to Jonathan, he said he did not reach out to the former president because he assumed that he would have been briefed! Briefed by whom? If a governor could think and act this way then, how do we expect such a ruler to be able to handle even more intricate matters of nurturing dying children back to life?

It is such act of carelessness and incompetence that Shettima has grown with to the extent that he cannot take care of a small proportion of citizens put under his care. Or, is he still waiting for Jonathan’s call. His excuses so far for this inexplicable and unfortunate occurrence are at best lame in reason and defective in intelligence.

This is the effect of politicising serious matters just for mundane purposes. If Shettima and his team had used the Chibok matter as a learning process rather than as a divisive tool, if they had focused on the larger picture rather than on the narrow prism of pulling Jonathan down, they would by now have appreciated the enormity of the catastrophe staring them in the face, and would have risen to the challenge rather than sacrifice those innocent citizens including children in desperate need of the care of a certain governor and his officials.

To put an end to this carnage of disturbing proportions, I wish to appeal to former president Goodluck Jonathan to place a call to Alhaji Kashim Shettima, the governor of Borno State, perhaps that is all he needs to wake up to the enormous responsibility that fate has placed on him, and save us the embarrassment of war-like images from his domain.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/death-idps-kashim-shettima-waits-jonathans-call/

Buhari’s Aides Frustrating Dialogue With Militants – Bayelsa Elders For Progress

Some prominent elders and traditional rulers in Bayelsa State have alleged that some of the aides of President Muhammadu Buhari are frustrating the Federal Government’s proposed dialogue with the Niger Delta Avengers.

Though the elders and the monarchs commended President Buhari’s decision to lead the proposed dialogue, they expressed concern over the alleged show of deceit, insincerity and discordant tunes among the presidential aides from the region.

They claimed the development had created a huge doubt between the militant youths and the Federal Government.
The position of the concerned elders and monarchs, under the aegis of Bayelsa Elders for Progress, Peace and Good Governance, led by their Coordinator, Chief Ayibatonye Goodnews, and ‎the Secretary, Chief Lucky Ebifaghe, is contained in an open letter to the President.

They declared that the recent activities of key aides from the region such as the Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, and the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brig.-Gen. Paul Boroh (retd.), were allegedly frustrating the peace efforts of the Federal Government.

They insisted that Buhari should investigate the genuiness of purported meetings held between Boroh and Kachikwu.

They wondered, “How can they claim to have met stakeholders and the militant attacks continue? They met some fake militants and stakeholders and wasted scarce resources of the Federal Government on jamboree.”

“The Amnesty boss, who claimed to have relocated to the creeks of the region was only sighted in a certain community holding clandestine meetings without solution to the continued bombing of the oil and gas facilities.

“Buhari should investigate the money expended on the jamboree without result. We insist that the Presidential Amnesty Office should be probed following the alleged meeting with fake Avengers.”

They contended that the lack of knowledge of the key issues of the region and wrong signals sent to the militants ‎in the creeks were frustrating the needed peace process.

They alleged that many of the purported stakeholders had made money from the self-created jamboree in the region, insisting that the genuine Niger Delta stakeholders should be consulted for sustainable peace in the region.