IMAM IMAM: House of Reps: 700 motions in two years? That’s true representation!

L-R: TAMBUWAL AND IMAM IMAM

*Imam is the Special Adviser on Media to Speaker Tambuwal

The Speaker’s aide argues that his boss has been successful in his position.

Readers can please forgive the seemingly unconventional headline to this article. I got really excited going through the statistics of the mid-term score card House of Representatives of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under the leadership of Right Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal. That mid-term milestone was achieved on June 6, 2013. For a recap, the leadership of the House was elected on June 6, 2011 in an atmosphere that has served as a quick reminder of the goodness of team work and promotion of democratic tenets.

SEGUN ADENIYI: The Craze of Dubai Weddings

 The Verdict By Olusegun Adeniyi. Email: olusegun.adeniyi@thisdaylive.com

While many of our idle rich people have for long stopped celebrating their birthdays in Nigeria, preferring to transport their friends and associates to some choice destinations abroad, the new craze in town is that the wedding ceremonies of their children and wards also no longer hold in our country: It is now a Dubai affair!

Ordinarily, wedding ceremonies are religious cum traditional affairs between two individuals and two families who would invite their relations and well wishers to share in the joy of the day. And it is usually held, in most cultures in our country, at the location where the parents of the bride reside or the community they hail from. But because of the corruption of our values and all that we once held dear, wedding ceremonies are now being exported to countries that have nothing to do with the family of either the bride or the groom.

EXCLUSIVE: Navy Arrests Vessel Laden with Suspected Toxic Waste

The captain, second and third mate of the vessel; Mrs. Claudia Mondino,
Raffaele Dimartino and the Eugenio Ruffo

The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Beecroft, a base under the Western Naval Command (WNC), yesterday handed over a vessel, MV EUROCARGO SALERNO, suspected to be laden with toxic wastes to the Nigerian Maritime Administration  and Safety Agency (NIMASA) for further investigation.

The vessel and its crew were apprehended on Wednesday, June 19, at Breakwater at her berthing position of about 1648 and escorted to AMPL Terminal 12, Tincan Island Port, Apapa, Lagos, where they were questioned as to the contents of the vessel.

EXCLUSIVE: Police Handle Over 600 Fraud Cases In Six Months

SFU CP, TUNDE OGUNSAKIN

The Commissioner of Police, Special Fraud Unit (SFU), Tunde Ogunsakin, Thursday, disclosed that the unit which was specially established to deal with fraud cases has so far handled over 600 of such cases since January 2013.

The CP, who made this disclosure yesterday in his office at Milverton, Ikoyi, when fielding questions from journalists, added that some of the cases have been seen to a logical conclusion while investigations are ongoing on the rest. 

EMMY COLLINS: Linda Ikeji Encourages Mediocrity

LINDA IKEJI

So for those who do not know who Emmy Collins, please google him up! Ok, let's play fair, Emmy is a fashionista cum designer whose blog has caused upheaval in the social scenes of late. From Annie Macaulay, to Toni Tones, Toke Makinwa, Eku Edewor, Tiwa Savage, Omawunmi, Waje and of course the blog queen herself; Linda Ikeji, Emmy has taken a swipe on all of them and many more. If you wanna read more, then visit his blog at www.diarybyemmy.com

EXCLUSIVE: Custom Officers Shoots Pregnant Passenger

Some yet-to-be identified custom officers stationed at the Ilase Custom Checkpoint, along Owode-Idiroko Road, yesterday morning shot a heavily pregnant female passenger, Alhaja Fausat Ayode, to death and absconded for fear of the irate mob.

I gathered that when the incident happened, pandemonium erupted in the area as the irate mob made to brutalise the custom officers but they fled back to their unit at Owode-Idiroko. 

It was also gathered that when the officers who were deployed to the checkpoint from the Federal Operating Unit (FOU), Owode-Idiroko, absconded, the mob numbering over 300 went on rampage, destroyed and set the checkpoint on fire.

New York Police Nab Suspected Killer of Nigerian Cab Driver

Obama and family

One week after the savage attack on a Nigerian-born cab driver in New York, the police in New York  Wednesday arrested a suspect in connection with the killing of the driver in the Brownsville area of Brooklyn in downtown New York.

Uro Ama Orji, 54, from Ebonyi State, was stabbed in the eye with an umbrella on June 13 by one of the two passengers he was carrying. The umbrella was said to have pierced through his eye into his brain causing him to immediately collapse. The suspect was seen running from the scene of the incident through a security camera.

Court Strikes out Charges against Amigo Supermarket Owner, Others

Symbol of justice

A chief magistrate’s court in Karu, Abuja,  Wednesday discharged the co-owner of the popular Amigo supermarket in the federal capital, Mustapha Fawaz, Abdallah Thaini, Talal Roda and Kossay Nourdin arraigned by the Department of State Security Service (SSS) for alleged unlawful importation and possession of large cache of prohibited firearms and other weapons of mass destruction discovered at a residence in Kano.

The accused are alleged to have purported links to the terrorist group, Hezbollah.

Chief Magistrate Yemi Oyeyipo also struck out the First Information Report (FIR) filed by the SSS against the Lebanese businessmen.

OAU Student Caught Attempting to Flush New Born Baby in Toilet

Obafemi Awolowo University

 

A female student of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile Ife, Osun State, (name withheld), who attempted to flush her new born baby into the female toilet  was wednesday caught by the institution’s authorities. The  incident took placeWednesday morning, at Moremi Hall of residence in the school campus.

The incident, which shocked students, lecturers and others in the community was said to have generated reactions in various quarters as some students were stunned as to what prompted the student to commit such heinous crime.

SSS Bursts Baby Factory, Frees 16 Pregnant Girls from Aba Home

Governor  Theodore Orji

As security agencies intensify efforts to eliminate the ‘baby factory’ phenomenon in Abia State, the State Security Service (SSS) yesterday paraded 16 pregnant ladies rescued from a baby factory located in Aba, the commercial nerve centre of the state.

Director of SSS, Abia State command, Matthew Obodoechi, who briefed journalists, said that the girls whose ages range between 17 and 37 years were rescued on Monday from a so-called “charity home” named Cross Foundation International, located along Anyamele Street, Umungasi, Aba.