Osun State Assembly Minority Leader, Oladejo Makinde Dies On 48th Birthday

The Minority Leader of the Osun State House of Assembly, Oladejo Makinde is dead.

Makinde died on Sunday, December 27 which was his 48th birthday.

The lawmaker, popularly known as Igwe, and represented Ife Central Constituency, died at a hospital in Ekiti State following a brief illness.

Makinde was one of the two members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the House.


He was a former Chairman of Ife Central Local Government Area of the state.

His corpse has been deposited at the mortuary of Ekiti State Teaching Hospital.

He is survived by his aged mother, wife and children.

I Didn’t Come To Dubai To Plot Against Buhari – Atiku

A former Vice President and chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, Atiku Abubakar has reacted to rumours by what he called “political mischief makers and enemies of unity”, alleging that he has been hosting political meetings at Burj Al-Arab, Dubai.

The former Vice President says contrary to the rumours being bandied around by political opponents, he is currently in Dubai with his family for physiotherapy on his injured knee.

A press statement released by his media office in Abuja on Sunday and signed by his Media Adviser, Paul Ibe, says the former Vice President is embarrassed by the deliberate falsehoods being spread against him by political opponents who are bent on causing distraction for President Buhari at a time all energies should be channelled into helping the President actualise his change agenda.

Describing rumour mongers as “ill-motivated busybodies that don’t wish the country well”, the Turaki Adamawa explained that his medical treatment is his private affairs, which should not be politicised by anybody to achieve sinister objectives.

Atiku Abubakar says he is entitled to enjoy his private life, including the right to attend to his health, without being harassed and lied against by political opponents.

Contrary to the insinuations by political opponents, the former Vice President says the success of the Buhari administration has been his preoccupation, and that any true APC member should have the same zeal.

According to him, rumour mongers that seek to cause distrust and distraction in Buhari’s government do not mean well for the APC administration. He however advises political mischief makers to allow him enjoy his peace and desist from sinister propaganda designed to draw a wedge between him and President Muhammadu Buhari, in order to cause needless distrust and distractions in the President’s government.

7 Boko Haram Bomb Experts Arrested In Kaduna

Nigerian Army troops in Kaduna State have foiled another insurgent attack, with the arrest of seven suspected Boko Haram members who specialise in bombs and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).

A statement by the Army spokesperson, Colonel Sani Kukasheka, said from all indications, the suspects were in Kaduna to coordinate suicide bombings during the festive period.

Col. Kukasheka added that recently in Maiduguri, some of the terror specialists were arrested while trying to detonate IEDs carried in food containers in public places.

He said: “the arrest of these suspects would no doubt assist in the fight against terrorism in the country, more so as the military have technically defeated the Boko Haram terrorists in the field.


“The terrorists have resorted to attacking soft targets through suicide bombings, IEDs and harassing attacks on isolated communities”.

The Army spokesman advised members of the public to be more vigilant and security conscious by reporting suspicious persons and movements to the security agencies.

30 Feared Killed In Adamawa Suicide Attack

Scores of people were ​feared ​killed ​Monday when two female suicide bombers attacked a busy motor park in Madagali town of Adamawa State.

A witness, Danladi Buba, said the two female suicide bombers detonated bombs at a mini market near a motor park around 9am, killing many people.

“About 30 people were killed with 16 others injured,” Mr. Buba said.

When contacted, the Brigade Commander of 28 Task Force Brigade, Mubi, Victor Ezugwu, confirmed the incident, saying the casualty figure was yet to be established.

“Two female suicide bombers struck at a garage in Madagali and detonated their devices, and we lost some beloved country men,” Mr. Ezugwu, a brigadier-general, said.

He said the injured had been taken to hospital while the military had cordoned off the area.

The brigade commander said the situation had been brought under control.

The attack followed a series of gun and bomb attacks, between Sunday and Monday, by suspected Boko Haram militants on Maiduguri, the capital of neighbouring Borno State.

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Jonathan Is Responsible For Ongoing Fuel Scarcity – Lai Mohammed

Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, has declared that Nigerians are now paying for the sins of the past government.

He said the Jonathan government owed oil marketers ‎huge debts in oil subsidy payments, such that they have stopped importing the product in the last couple of months, hence the biting scarcity.

Asked by State House correspondents to explain the scarcity to the nation, Lai said: “What I will be telling Nigerians is that what we met on ground is such that we are paying for the sins of the last administration”.

“I am being very serious. You remember that about two weeks ago, we had to go to the National Assembly for a supplementary budget of N674 billion. Of that figure, N522billion was for arrears of fuel subsidy which was incurred as far back as August last year”.

“One of the reasons for the fuel scarcity was the inability of the last government to make adequate provision for fuel subsidy”.

“We do face some other logistic problems but majorly, we are paying for the sins of the last administration”.


Asked what the solution the government was now proffering, the Minister said:“The first thing we have done now is to make sure that unlike before when the marketers used to import the major percentage of the fuel, NNPC has been involved in importation”.

“This is because some of the marketers had stopped importing for a couple of months. If you see any fuel anywhere today, it is imported by the NNPC”.

“We also inherited the vandalisation of the pipelines which has made it impossible for us to even transport the fuel. In tanks today we have 14 days reserve and off tank we have 10 days reserve”.

“The issue is not non-availability of the product; it is the distribution because of pipelines that have been vandalised and the gridlock in Lagos”.

“It takes about five days for anybody to take fuel with tanker in Lagos. As at two days ago this matter has been resolved. The Mosinmi pipeline has been secured and it has led to the improvement in the distribution.

How Soldiers Brutally Killed 3 Of My Brothers In My Father’s Presence –Only Surviving Son

Muhammad Ibraheem Zakzaky, the only surviving son of the the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky has said that the army killed three of his siblings during last week’s onslaught at their residence in Zaria.

Ibraheem said that his three brothers namely, Hammad, 17, Ali 15 and Humaid, 13- were all shot dead in front of their father during the raid by the military last week Sunday.

His revelation came as the Islamic Movement in Nigeria yesterday said that it’s members would continue with its peaceful protests over the killing of its members by soldiers during a recent carnage in Zaria, Kaduna State.

In a statement made available to journalists last night, Ibraheem recalled that earlier in June 2014, the military abducted and killed his three brothers after a peaceful pro-Palestinian procession. Those killed at that time were Ahmad, 22, a final year student of Chemical Engineering in Shenyang University, China; Hameed, 20, who was studyingAeronautical Engineering in Xian University, China and Mahmud, 18, who was a student of Al-Mustapha University, Beirut, Lebanon.

He said that of his eight siblings, only two –Nusaiba and Suhaila, are alive today, while the remaining six were slain by the army. According to him, Suhaila survived with wounds in her face.


The statement read in part : “Thank God, I have been able to finally speak to my sister (Suhaila) after seven days of terror, compliments of the Nigerian army.

“They have been released from the ordeal of being with an army that is supposed to protect them. But I call to all those who care that, we must continue with our peaceful protests, however and whenever we can. Just as we have been doing for over the last 30 years, and as long as we breathe, I hope that we will continue to do so.”

The cleric’s only surviving son said that “we will continue to protest in order to demand our right tobury our dead properly, to tend to our wounded and to see to the health of our leader, my father.”

“Then comes our property which has either been destroyed or fenced by looters under the watch of the Nigerian army. He said: “I will continue to demand unbiased, impartial justice, for my six brothers, for as long as I breathe.”

Zakzaky’s elder sister, Hajiya Fatima Yaqoub, was among those killed in the cleric’s residence