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President Muhammadu Buhari approved the appointment of four non-executive directors for the Central Bank of Nigeria.
They are Adeola Adetunji, Prof. Mike Obadan, Prof. Justitia Nnabuko and Prof. Ummu Ahmed Jalingo.

The President in a statement signed by the  Permanent Secretary, General Services Office, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Olusegun Adekunle, said the appointments take effect from June 7 and will last for four years

Also appointed is Prof. Abdullahi Yusuf as the Chief Medical Director of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital for an initial period of four years with effect from June 19 with Dr. Pauline Ikwugbu as the Provost of the Federal College of Education, Eha-Amufu, Enugu State for and initial period of four years beginning March 19.

The President also renewed the appointment of the Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Unwana Afikpo, Ebonyi State, Dr. Ogbonnia Ibe-Enwo, for second and final term of four years with effect from August 7 and that of the Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, IIaro, Ogun State, Olusegun Aluko, for second and final term of four years with effect from September 25.

Prof. Sunday Onohaebi also got his appointment as the Rector of the National Institute of Construction Technology, Uromi, Edo State renewed for second and final term of four years with effect from July 25.

The statement said "Mr. President expects the new appointees to regard their appointments as a call to national service and to carry out their responsibilities with uprightness, diligence and prompt response to the yearnings of the public.

A 300-level student of Computer Science in Olabisi Onabanjo  University, Ago Iwoye, Adebisi Oriade and his girlfriend, Julia Imaga, a diploma student, have been murdered.

The two lovers were allegedly killed by members of Aye confraternity, Muritala Babatunde and Taiwo Razak.

The suspects were paraded before journalists at Ogun State Police Headquarters, Eleweran. Commissioner of police said one of the brothers of the late Adebisi, Oriade Adeola, had on 3rd June, 2018, reported to the Police that his brother had left home since MaM 28, 2018 with his girlfriend in HD car, a Honda crosstour with the number plate, FST 350 FA, but had yet to return.

He explained that on the receipt of the complaint, the men of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team, in collaboration with the operatives of the State Command, embarked on technical intelligence, leading to the arrest of the two suspects, from whom, an iPhone X and two pairs of sneakers belonging to Adebisi were recovered.

Mr. Iliyasu further said the suspects, on interrogation, confessed  that they killed Adebisi and his girlfriend.

"They said they lured the victims to a junction at Oru Ijebu, where they were forcefully taken to a nearby bus and they smashed their heads with planks and gun.”The Police Commissioner said.

He said the decomposing bodies of the deceased had been recovered and deposited  in the mortuary at the State General Hospital, Ijebu Ode.

While speaking with journalists,  Muritala Babatunde confirmed his membership of Aiye cult,saying that he and two other accomplices killed the victims.

Babatunde alleged that he and the late Adebisi were friends and they had a deal relating to an internet fraud in which over N2m was involved.

He further claimed thar despite many calls and entreaties, the deceased refused to give him his own share.

According to him, "He refused to pick my calls and I stopped calling him.  On May 28,  2018, I got two other men to join me and we kidnapped Adebisi and his girlfriend. He belonged to Alora cult. He and members of his group were threatening me, so we later killed him and his girlfriend by using planks.”

When asked why they killed Adebisi's girlfriend, he replied, “it was just to cover our track.”

The late Adebisi's father, Adedeji Oriade, denied the allegations made by Muritala, that his son was a cultist and internet fraudster.

He said,  “My son was never a cultist or an Internet fraudster. The suspect,  Babatunde Muritala, kept going back and forth. He was quoted to have said that my late son used to help him with money but suddenly he (my son) stopped and became arrogant and that was why he killed him.”

Also, the late Julia's mother,  Mrs Olamma Ofor, who wept uncontrollably during the parade of the suspects, was too distraught to talk to journalists.

Other suspected ritual killers, armed robbers and rapists arrested in various locations in the State were equally paraded.

Photo: Ogun State Police Commissioner.

Former Governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, has resigned from Peoples Democratic Party.

Mimiko is leaving PDP for Labour Party.

The former governor, who joined PDP in 2014 and later became the Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, dumped the party, following a disagreement between him and some national leaders of the party shortly after he left office as Governor in 2017.

In a resignation letter addressed to Ondo State leadership of the PDP today, Mimiko said his decision to leave the party was personal to him.

"I hereby with utmost humility inform you of my decision to resign my membership of the PDP with effect from today, June 13, 2018, for some well-thought-out personal reasons. It was an honour working with the many prominent Nigerians with whom I shared the PDP platform for the entire period I was in there as a member. The letter read.

In the meantime, the State Chairman of the PDP, Mr. Clement Faboyede said Mimiko’s exit from the party would not have any negative impact on the party.

“Mimiko is a human being,  he has the right to his opinion, we have tried at all levels to discourage him but he insisted on leaving. One thing I know is that PDP will not die as he (Mimiko) leaves.  We have survived many turbulent times in the past, so if he goes it cannot affect us negatively,” Faboyede declared.

Nwatu, was allegedly killed by unknown persons while returning from a court sitting at Nkanu, the local government headquarters.

Police sources said that Igwe Nwatu was trailing one of his subjects, who had some issues with him, with the policemen when they were waylaid by a group of people and beaten to stupor.

His attackers reportedly disarmed his Police orderlies before descending on them.

Divisional Police Officer, DPO for Nkanu West Police Station, who got wind of the attack, was said to have rushed the Monarch to the Orient Hospital in the area, where Nwatu was given some first aid treatment before he was transferred to the Parklane Hospital in Enugu metropolis, where he died.

The late Nwatu was said to have been having series of problems with his subjects who had always accused him of highhandedness, as well as complained of imposition of arbitrary and illegal levies on them.

Last month, young men, women and youths from his domain, besieged the Nkanu Police station, protesting over the arrest of some town union presidents based on alleged false petitions against them by Nwatu.

It took the intervention of the State Police Commissioner, Danmalam Muhammad to bring the situation under control.

It's black Sunday for the Nigerian music industry with the death of a reggae legend,
Ukeleke Onwubya, popularly known as Ras Kimono.

He died this morning at Lagoon Hospital, Victoria Island in Lagos, after a brief illness at the age of 60.

Ras Kimono is said to have concluded plans to travel to the United States of America, last night, before he complained of "feeling funny" and was rushed to the hospital, where he gave up the battle.

The reggae star had in a recent chat with newsmen in Lagos said he had been a vegetarian for more than 37 years and neither smoked nor drunk alcohol.

“Even when my friends were having sex with two girls at the same time in those days, I didn’t join them. I have never done what these girls and boys call threesome despite being famous and I am sure there are other people who have never done that too. When people attribute recklessness to youthful exuberance, I get worried because I once passed through that stage too. I believe it is all about your upbringing. The fact that you are young doesn’t mean you should be wayward.” He said.

The music icon will be remembered most especially for his hit songs ‘We no want’ and ‘“Rum-Bar Stylée”.

Adieu Ras Kimono.

Tension is brewing between members of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Warri and Effurun branches and the Delta State Command of the Nigeria Police over the alleged clubbing to a pulp Mr Bernard Oyabevwe by some overzealous men of the A-Division of the Nigeria Police, Warri Area Command.
Speaking at a press conference weekend in Warri, Delta State, chairman of the branch, Mr Godwin Ebowe, said the victim, Mr Bernard Oyabevwe, was brutalized, dehumanized and dragged on the floor by cops like a common criminal for no cogent reason.

The infamous incident, he disclosed, took place on the morning of June 5 at A-Division Police Station at the Warri Area Command headquarters when the victim went to Magistrate Court II in a matter between C.O.P VS NOSA IGIEHON.

Mr Ebowe identified one Corporal Collins Imade and one dreadlocks-wearing Oyinkasa Joseph also known as Kasojo with number 372964 as two of the overzealous cops that almost snuffed the life out of Mr Oyabevwe.

The victim, Oyabevwe, who was in pains from visible gashes and bruises in his face and other parts of his body,  recounts his moving, near-death experience in the hands of the killer-policemen at the A-Division thus:

I was to appear at Magistrate Court II in a matter that was coming up that morning between C.O.P VS NOSA IGIEHON.

“Meanwhile, I have another matter that same morning at High Court 1 which was not going on because the court is not sitting.

“So, I rushed to High Court 1 to see if I could take a date with counsel on the other side. Before I got back to the Magistrates Court II, EFCC had arrested my client who is the Defendant in the matter and taken him to “A” Division, Warri.

“In fact, I was informed by the Prosecutor and the I.P.O from Zone 5 that he was forcefully taken from the court by the EFCC officials.
Being a counsel in the matter and owing to the fact that my client tried frantically to get access to me on the phone while being forcefully taken away, I took the case file for the matter while holding my wig and gown and dairy in my hand and went to “A” division. On getting there I saw my client and his wife behind the counter. When they saw me they approached one of the EFCC officials who was standing close to them (armed) and told him that I am their lawyer, but he ignored them and beckoned on his colleagues to start moving my client and his wife but they started resisting and struggling with the EFCC men.

Nigerians do some bizzare things and the rest of the world has learnt to just go with the flow but this height of bizarre is way more than strange. A Nigerian man has gone viral after a photo of how he buried his father surfaced on social media. The man identified simply Azubuike shocked residents of Ihiala local government area, Mbosi in Anambra state. Azubuike who recently lost his father decided that to honour his late father he needed to bury him in a luxurious car that would be used as coffin.

A photo of deceased being buried six feet under in a BMW went viral on Facebook. It could be seen that people were gathered around to witness the shocking incident. It was also gathered that the BMW was bought brand new for the burial.

Many Nigerians on Facebook were furious with teh 

Liverpool striker Mohammed Salah was given a hero's send-off by jubilant Egypt fans as he boarded the plane to Russia. The 25-year-old was pictured alongside his Egypt team-mates in the plane as they set off for Grozny, where the Pharaohs will be based for the competition. The former Chelsea star was one of the first players off the plane in Grozny airport as the Egypt squad landed in Russia.

Salah had earlier trained alongside the rest of the squad under the tutelage of Hector Cuper in front of devoted fans at Cairo's national stadium.

Salah then proved his fitness for the Mundial as he boarded the flight to Russia, for Egypt's first World Cup appearance since Italia 90'. The Red Egyptian's World Cup chances were left in doubt when he dislocated shoulder injury in the Champions League final. Salah revealed Sergio Ramos may have deliberately injured him during the Champions League final. The Spain international has been accused of making sure the Liverpool ace was crocked, which he denies. And asked if he believed the claims, Salah told Marca: "I do not know. Maybe. "When I fell to the ground, I had a mixture of physical pain and a lot of worry, also anger and sadness for not being able to continue playing the Champions League final. "Moments later, I also thought about the possibility of losing the World Cup and that was a devastating thought. "I'm better now. I hope to play the first game against Uruguay, but that will depend on how I feel when the match is approaching." Salah was also quizzed on Ramos' suggestion that Salah could have played the rest of the game if he had a painkilling injection. 

The forward, who scored 32 league goals this season, added: "It is funny. "My comment is that it's always Ok when the one who made you cry first, then makes you laugh. "Maybe you could also tell me if I'm going to be ready for the World Cup?" Ramos claimed he had spoken to Salah and said the forward was OK. But Salah insisted: "He sent me a message, but I never told him I was OK." Egypt will file out against hosts Russia, South American power house, Uruguay, and Middle East giants, Saudi Arabia. 

Another high-profile candidate has announced he wants to stand in next year’s presidential election in Nigeria but held off declaring which party he would represent.

– ‘Zoning’ –

A 39 years old spinster in desperate search of a husband has told of how she received 48 strokes of the cane from a pastor so she could get a husband.