RIZE FM RADIO BLOG: May 2018

Thursday, 31 May 2018

Osinbajo’s daughter, Kiki shares her feelings about Tiwa Salvage, Wizkid ‘love’

kiki Osinbajo, daughter of Vice president Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has shared her feeling on the relationship between superstar singers, Wizkid and Tiwa Salvage.

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Not Too Young To Run bill. Speaking during the signing of the Bill at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Buhari said youths, “Have now established a formidable legacy” that they can achieve anything they are determined to do.

The bill which was passed by the National Assembly last year, seeks to reduce the age qualification for elective office seekers across the country.

The United States Consul General to Nigeria, Mr. John Bray says he is impressed with the industrialisation drive of the Cross River Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade within his three years in office.

Bray stated this in Calabar on Wednesday shortly after being conducted round several industries built by the Ayade-led administration in the state.
Industries visited included the Cross River Garment Factory, the Rice Seeds and Seedlings Factory, the Calabar Pharmaceutical Company and the 21 megawatts power plant.

American gospel singer, Kirk Franklin has called out a popular gospel preacher, Jesse Duplantis for saying that God has instructed him to acquire a more sophisticated private jet.

The 64-year-old Duplantis, who own 3 private jets already, has asked his disciples to pray so that he can buy a $54million Dassult falcon 7X, which is a 3 engine plane with a range of 5,950 nautical miles so that he can go anywhere in the world as instructed by God .

President Muhammadu Buhari has finally signed the Not Too Young To Run bill into law.

Buhari signed the bill this afternoon inside the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday warned President Muhammadu Buhari’s “blood relatives” working in the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC against doing anything that will “pitch them against” Nigerians during the 2019 general elections.
PDP gave this warning while declaring that Nigerians want a change of President in 2019.

In a statement issued by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP insisted that Nigerians have noted and accepted Buhari’s declaration that “Nigerians should vote for candidates of their choice, come 2019”.

Zinedine Zidane has resigned as Real Madrid manager. The Frenchman confirmed his exit in a press conference.

Zidane took the decision after meeting with Real president, Florentino Perez, earlier in the day at the training ground.

Former Arsenal boss, Arsene Wenger, has been linked to the vacant managerial position at Real Madrid.

This comes after Zinedine Zidane announced his resignation during a press conference on Thursday.

Senator Dino Melaye lawmaker representing Kogi West, took exceptions to the uncomplimentary remarks credited to President Muhammadu Buhari against the National Assembly and demanded for an apology.

It would be recalled that Buhari last week when the leadership of one of his campaign organisations led by the comptroller-General of customs, Hameed Ali, was in Aso Villa for a solidarity visit queried the importance of the National Assembly, saying many lawmakers had even spent more than 10 years without achieving anything.

The Senate has summoned the comptroller General of Prisons, Mr Ahmed Ja’afaru to explain the allegations of unwanted pregnancies and teenage confinement in prisons.

There are recent allegations of unwanted pregnancies and delivery of babies without legitimate parents across the prisons yards in the country.

A former Governor of Kaduna State, Ramalan Yero has been remanded in prison by a Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna.

The Coalition for Good Governance, CGG, has accused the House of Representatives under the leadership of Speaker Yakubu Dogara of embarking on a “vindictive mission” against President Muhammadu Buhari.

CGG’s Executive Director, Mrs. Jaiyeole Mohammed, made the claim while stressing that the House of Representatives was embarking on its sinister agenda by “nailing” Buhari’s appointees.

Sierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Allie Kabba, has requested Nigeria’s assistance in energy, education and health sectors.

Mr Kabba, who made the call in Abuja when he visited his Nigerian counterpart, Geoffrey Onyeama, also requested Nigeria’s help for his country’s energy sector.

Olusegun Osoba, a former Governor of Ogun State, has narrated how former President, Olusegun Obasanjo rigged him and four other governors of the South West out of power in 2003.

Osoba claimed that the former President used the police to rig him and the four governors out of power in 2003.

The Chairman, Punch Nigeria Limited, Gbadebowale Wayne Aboderin, is dead. Adoderin died on Wednesday around 6.05am after a heart surgery at the age of 60.

He was also the Chairman Punch Commercial Printing Limited and Lukahed Properties Limited.

Still in my astonished state, I invited them into my room. Though it was a small room, it still managed to accommodate my unexpected visitors. Some sat on my mattress, someone sat on the chair, while the rest managed to lean on my reading table. I stood in the middle of the room, my tiredness forgotten, eager to know their mission.

One of the corp members introduced the lady with a child as Helen and the little girl, Brenda. I greeted them, my mind still unsettled about the purpose of their visit.

The fact that Helen resembled Faith so much troubled me the more... One of them began to explain the purpose of their visit, "Helen here came to our PPA this afternoon, she came looking for Faith.

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria FAAN yesterday announced that it had detected and picked up over 95 per cent of travellers who had high fever as they travelled through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

FAAN said this was in its bid to avoid the re-emergence of the dreaded Ebola virus in the country. It also stated that in conjunction with other agencies of government at the airport, it had established a public health emergency contingency plan at the NAIA and other key international airports in the country in order to effectively guard against the disease.

The Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola; Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka; ex-governor of Ogun State, Chief Segun Osoba; popular poet, Odia Ofeimun; and a human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana SAN earlier suggested ways the country could attain greater heights.

They spoke in Lagos at a colloquium titled, ‘A bright future for Nigeria and how to get there,’ organised in honour of the Executive Director of The News/PM News, Mr. Kunle Ajibade, who turned 60 on May 28.

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka yesterday said tackling corruption would address electoral rigging that has dented Nigeria’s democratic system.

Soyinka spoke at the 60th birthday colloquium of the Executive Editor, The News/PM News, Mr. Kunle Ajibade entitled: “A Brighter Future for Nigeria and how to get there.”

Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers.

1. Commercial activities were paralyzed in south eastern part of Nigeria on Wednesday by supporters of the defunct Biafra Republic as they marked the 30th anniversary of the short-lived country.

The sit-at-home order, which witnessed a total compliance in Igbo land, however, took a dramatic dimension when the self-acclaimed President of the group, Barr. Benjamin Onwuka and over 15 others were arrested after they attempted to declare Biafra at the Enugu Government House.

2. Kayode Fayemi, the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Wednesday announced his resignation from President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet.

Fayami made the announcement yesterday at a valedictory briefing in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory in order to pursue his governorship ambition in Ekiti State.

THE HONEYMOON By Moyosore Teniola "EPISODE 11"

I lost the zeal for work that day. I couldn't even face my colleagues anymore. All I wanted was to be alone, alone with my God.

I knew I had made mistakes already, I was too careless, I got carried away by her fake hospitality. I have never come across such an height of desperation in any lady in my entire life.

My heart was pounding, my head was aching, my legs turned to jelly. I knew I had to seek the comfort of my room that very moment. I headed towards the school gate and home, I went. I neither saw nor heard anyone all the way home, even though I walked through the market. I felt alone in the whole wide world. All I knew was that I entered my room and sat on the bed.

The sit-at-home order given by the pro-Biafrian groups witnessed partial compliance in some states in South Eastern Nigeria.

In Enugu, it was observed that many locations within the metropolis were deserted.

Senator Dino Melaye on Wednesday made a dramatic appearance at the Senate, declaring his intention to cross-carpet to the Senate wing of the chamber.

A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, sentenced a 34-year-old applicant, Elvis Anthony, to five months imprisonment for stealing his fiancée’s money and cell phone.

The Judge, Inuwa Maiwada, however, gave the convict an option of N5, 000 fine.

I got to the school where I worked, only to see Faith speaking with some of my colleagues, two ladies and three guys. They were all Corp members too in the same school. I actually woke up late that very day, probably because of last night's encounter, so they all got to school before me. Immediately one of them sighted me, they all looked in my direction and watched as I approached.

I wondered what Faith was doing or discussing with them because that wasn't her PPA. I greeted them with worry written all over my face. I was still bothered about what happened last night and more so about what Faith was up to.

An Abuja-based Muslim cleric, Ustaz Umar Solomon, has urged Nigerians to stop blaming President Muhammadu Buhari or the government for the nation’s problems.

Solomon said this in Abuja at the annual Ramadan lecture with the theme: ‘Fighting Poverty And Creation of Wealth in Islam’, organised by the Afemai Islamic Movement, AIM.

Abdullahi Abbas, Kano APC Chairman, says Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje is ready to work with Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.

He said this is part of reconciliatory moves to bring together warring factions of the party.

Police in Mozambique said 10 people were beheaded in an attack over the weekend in an area where previous Islamist attacks have been reported.

Radio Mozambique said police in the capital Maputo could not immediately give details of the attack in a village near the town of Palma, close to Mozambique’s border with Tanzania and near one of the world’s biggest untapped offshore gas fields.

The National Industrial Court sitting in Enugu presided over by Hon I.J Essien has stopped moves by the management of the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Enugu to sack resident doctors in the health institution.

Newsmen reports that the court ordered the hospital to maintain status quo antebellum in their move to exit or terminate resident doctors of the Hospital from their employment and Residency programme until the next date of the matter fixed for 16th July 2018.

Israel said it struck 25 more Hamas sites overnight after a barrage of rocket and mortar fire from the Gaza Strip, denying Palestinian claims of a ceasefire Wednesday after the worst flare-up since a 2014 war.

The exchange of fire raised the possibility of yet another war in the beleaguered Palestinian enclave run by Islamist movement Hamas, which would be the fourth since 2008.

The Special Assistant to the Ekiti State Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, has told the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, to steer clear of his boss.

Olayinka advised Shehu not to drag Governor Ayodele Fayose into President Muhammadu Buhari’s messy fight with former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

The apex Igbo socio-political group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s nationwide broadcast, where he vowed to deal with killer herdsmen and their sponsors.

The group said Buhari’s speech was a mockery of the situation.

The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, yesterday, said the Church was dissatisfied with President Muhammadu Buhari’s remarks on the killer herdsmen during his Democracy Day address to the nation.

In his speech, President Buhari had said that issue of killer herdsmen was being addressed and that the identified culprits and their sponsors shall be made to face the full wrath of the law.

The two groups also scolded the President over his silence on killings by herdsmen and the remaining Dapchi schoolgirl from Yobe State in the Boko Haram captivity, Leah Sharibu.

Ugwummadu said, “The broadcast of the President was not comprehensive. I expected that the President in spite of eulogizing his tenure ought to make statements about the incessant killings in the country to show clearly that he empathizes with the victims of those killings.

The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the Not too Young to Run bill and give the younger generation the opportunity to govern the country in 2019.

The National President of the ACF, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, stated this in an interview with Newsmen earlier, when he was reacting to the Democracy Day broadcast of the President.

PDP says Buhari lied in Democracy Day speech, insists address will be president’s last

The Peoples Democratic Party PDP on Tuesday described the Democracy Day address by President Muhammadu Buhari as “uninspiring, hollow, full of self-praise and false performance claims”.

PDP insisted that Buhari’s speech failed to address “issues agitating the minds of Nigerians,” adding that the address was full of false claims.

The Social Democratic Party, SDP, has suspended its National Deputy Chairman, Abdul Ahmed Ishaq for 10 months from the party for anti-party activities and financial misappropriation.

A statement from the SDP ward chairman of Badarawa/Malali, Kaduna, Yunusa Sani Mohammad, said, “The leadership of Social Democratic Party SDP in Badarawa/Malali Ward has suspended the party National Deputy Chairman, Abdul Ahmed Ishaq based over anti-party activities and financial misappropriation.

Ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan has maintained that Nigerian youths are not lazy.

Jonathan said what Nigerian youths need was a leader who believes in them and gives them the platform to showcase their talents.

Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari while addressing the Commonwealth Business Forum in London, had said most Nigerian youths wanted everything free without doing anything.

Workers in the six tertiary institutions owned by Oyo state government have issued a 21-day ultimatum to the state government over the non-payment of their full salaries and poor funding of the institution.

The workers noted that the ultimatum became necessary due to the failure of the state government to honour an agreement reached between both parties on January 31, 2018.”

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has said that the attack by armed herdsmen targeting the peaceful Catholic Church’s facilities and the shooting of priest and students training for priesthood shows that the attacks have switched from inter-ethnic terrorism to a full blown persecution of Christians of Northern origin.

This was as the rights group insisted that, “We are simply deceiving ourselves by celebrating democracy day when Nigerians in their thousands have been gruesomely despatched to the great World beyond by armed Fulani herdsmen who are being protected by the powers that be currently in Nigeria.”

President Donald Trump confirmed that a senior North Korean official is en route to New York as part of preparations for a planned summit with leader Kim Jong Un.

ADDRESS BY MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA IN COMMEMORATION OF THE 2018 DEMOCRACY DAY CELEBRATION, TUESDAY, 29TH MAY, 2018

My Dear Nigerians!

Today marks the 19th year of our nascent democracy and the 3rd Anniversary of this administration. I am thankful to Almighty God for bringing us thus far. This administration came at a time that Nigerians needed Change, the Change we promised and the Change we continue to deliver. We have faced a lot of challenges on this journey and Nigerians have stood by us in achieving the three cardinal points of this administration namely; Security, Corruption and the Economy.

2. The commemoration of this year’s Democracy Day is a celebration of freedom, a salute to the resilience and determination of Nigerians and a recommitment by Government to keep its promise to lead Nigeria into a new era of justice and prosperity.

Prof. Jega says Senators, Reps are notorious for seeking bribe

Former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, Attahiru Jega earlier alleged that members of the National Assembly are notorious for seeking bribes to carry out their constitutional duties.

Jega said this while delivering this year’s Democracy Day lecture at the International Conference Centre in Abuja.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday faulted the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation for not inviting a former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsay Orubebe, to the 2018 Democracy Day Lecture.

IPOB stated Igbo a defeated race, shameful complicit

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has accused the Igbos, especially the elites, of abandoning its founder, Nnamdi Kanu, describing their action as a big shame.

In a statement issued by an activist and social critic, Ikechukwu Nnaji, and signed by the Publicity Secretary of the IPOB, Emma Powerful, the group said it was the biggest shame on the Igbo race to be silent over the disappearance of Kanu.

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki and the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole are presently meeting with the leadership of Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU.

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Primary Healthcare, Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, and the Minister of Labour, Senator Chris Ngige are also present at the meeting.

Precious, wife of former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has delivered a set of triplets. Precious gave birth to three boys.

She made the announcement on her Instagram page on Friday. The former beauty queen further revealed the names of her new babies.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said the position of his Vice, Yemi Osinbajo was under threat.

Buhari said this at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, while hosting a delegation of the Conference of Nigerian Female Parliamentarians.

A renowned All Progressives Congress chieftain in Bauchi State, Alhaji Ali Saidu, has urged the party’s factional headquarters not to hesitate to sack Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, and nine others from the party.

The APC chieftain is accusing Dogara’s faction of dragging the APC before the court of law in Abuja, where he is challenging the recent Congresses in the State.

The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, has commended the arraignment of the Secretary to Rivers State Government, Mr Kenneth Kobani for money laundering.

In a statement issued by Mr Debo Adeniran, the Executive Chairman of CACOL, it stated that the six-count charge brought against the duo of Kobani and one Samuel Okpoko, bordering on money laundering involving a sum of N750m, was a great step in tackling corruption in the country.

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