Ile Ife Ethnic Clash: Traditional Ruler, Others Remanded In Prison

Six persons including a traditional ruler have been remanded in prison, following their arraignment at the Osun State High Court Osogbo.

Security was heightened as the Lawarikan of Apoje land, Oba Ademola Ademiluyi and five others were arraigned before Justice Kudirat Akano.

They all pleaded not guilty to the 14 count charge bordering on murder, conspiracy to commit murder and armed robbery, arson and possession of grievous weapons brought before ‎them.

Fourteen suspects were to appear in court but only six are being arraigned because others are said to be at large.


The suspects were arrested last month after the March 8 communal clash in Sabo area of the state, between Ile Ife indigenes and Arewa community.

Many lives were lost in the clash as properties worth millions of naira were also destroyed.

However, the accused persons were not granted bail as requested by the defence counsel but the presiding judge ordered for the formal bail application on the next adjournment date. ‎.

‎Justice Akano ordered that the accused persons be remanded and adjourned the case to the 14th, 15th and 16th of June 2017 for hearing.

Nigerian Wole Oni becomes first to get Yamaha endorsement in Africa

Nigerian artiste, Wole Oni has been endorsed by Yamaha Corporation Yamaha Gulf FZE as the brand's first artist signed in the whole of Africa.

Wole Oni is a multi-award winning music producer. He is the founder of Instinct Productions.

The Ondo State born producer, music writer and arranger has worked in many countries including Rwanda, South Africa, United Kingdom and the United States of America.

He's known for writing and producing music for artists’ album projects, as well as scoring various radios, television and film projects.
His first hit was producing “E wa fun mi ni visa” for Bembe Aladisa, but his first big break was producing the smash hit song “Kosobabire” which gained massive air play all over the world and earned a KORA award for Gospel songstress Folake Umosen.
One of the pecks Oni got from his new deal is the new age customized machine "Montage 8".
The artiste said Yamaha has been looking out for him for more than 10 years.
Some of the songs he also produced include, Midnight crew’s Igwe, Lara George’s Ijoba Orun, and Kefee’s Thank you my God.

Adamawa Speaker Beats Up Police Sergeant Attached To Him

The Speaker of Adamawa State House of Assembly, Rt Hon. Kabiru Mijinyawa has beaten the hell out of a police Sergeant attached to him for complaining over nonpayment of duty and food allowance, Leadership Newspaper claims.

They claim, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Othman Abubakar, confirmed the development to newsmen in Yola on Thursday.

He said that the Area Commander in charge of Yola Area Command was handling the matter,saying he had no details yet over the incident.

An eye witness who pleaded anonymity however said the sergeant, who was among the policemen attached to the speaker, complained over nonpayment of duty and food allowance.


He said, angered by the complaint, the speaker descended on the policeman, a development which took the intervention of his civil defence counterpart to rescue the uniformed man.

“The dazed sergeant was rescued by a civil defence man who had to remind the speaker that he was beating up a policeman,” the eye witness, who preferred anonymity said.

“You know, the speaker is a hot tempered person and one needs to know how to approach him on sensitive matters like this.”

“The sergeant needed to have followed due process in forwarding any complaint to the speaker.”

Efforts to get the side of the speaker proved abortive as the calls and text message made to his handsetwere by Leadership Newspaper were not replied.

OAP Freeze secures bail of arrested mother of 3, pays one year rent

An arrested mother of 3, whose kids were left to fend for themselves after she was jailed for one month by her landlady over rent, has been freed by Cool FM OAP, Daddy Freeze, who secured her bail.

Daddy Freeze, also paid the lady's one year rent, after she was whisked down to Olosan Police station in Mushin, where she spent over a month, because she couldn't afford the bail of N50,000. The Cool FM OAP and his team, are also trying so hard to reunite the lady, who is also a widow with her kids, as they were taken into government custody.

Here's what he wrote;

"This is Lateefa, a mother of 3. She was imprisoned for over a month wrongfully, by her landlady. -
The #FreeTheSheeple movement freed her from prison through our wonderful Barrister BUKKY, got the case against her thrown out of court. We went on to contribute towards her rent and paid for 1 year. Now we are uniting her with her children, who were taken into government custody.

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This is what we do.... All the blogs report about us is negative. But while you are busy criticizing us, we are touching lives and freeing sheeple from yahoo boy pastors.-

P.S the widow we contributed money for was so excited, she said the last time she saw the type of money we gave her was 10yrs ago. Her husband died leaving her with nothing 10 years ago... her 8yr son died a few months ago.. Don't just comment on the internet, touch a life, it's what we do! ~FRZ

#FreeTheSheeple 🙏" .

Delta Politician Dies In Police Custody

A prominent politician and former Director-General of the state Direct Labour Agency, Chief Lucky Ayomanor, has died while in the custody of the police in Sapele.

The Punch learnt that Chief Ayomanor reportedly slumped and died at the hands of police operatives after he was allegedly beaten and maltreated over an allegation of being in possession of a loaded firearm on Wednesday.

It was gathered that the late politician was arrested at 9pm around the popular Gana area of Sapele while driving to pay his elder brother a visit at his home.


Chief Ayomanor was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party having recently decamped from the All Progressives Party.

He contested the Sapele House of Assembly seat under the Labour Party in 2011 but lost to PDP.

Nigerian twins recreate childhood photo from 20 years ago

Twin sister and brother, Kehinde and Taiwo Adeyemi were 8 years old when this childhood photo of them below was first taken.

Two decades later, they recreated it and Kehinde, who is now married with a child shared them on social media saying:

"8yrs old vrs 29 Same set of sofa we couldn't fit into the previous one loool. All hail African carpenters mehn 20yrs and the sofas are still intact!!! #tbt @taiwoadeyemi"

It seems Hushpuppi is one of Bobrisky's baes

Nigerian Crossdresser, Bobrisky, took to Snapchat to gush about one of Nigeria's 'biggest boy', Hushpuppi, who he was pictured with few months back. According to Bobrisky, Hushpuppi loves him for who he is, even with his bad skin.

He also went further to share a photo, where his hand with a huge ring on it, placed
on probably Hushpuppi's lap. This has led everyone into believing, that something might be going on between this two.

Checkout The 2 Revealing Outfit J-Lopez Wore To Billboard Latin Music Awards

Jennifer Lopez dared to bare Thursday in two revealing dresses at the Billboard Latin Music Awards in Florida.

The 47-year-old singer put her stunning figure on display in the long black dress that featured a plunging neckline and cut-out panels along her ribs and hips for the first number of the night.

J-Lo revealed even more legs with a high thigh slit as she arrived at the Watsco Center in Coral Gables, Florida for the awards ceremony.

She completed her outfit with black open-toed stiletto heels. Jenifer had her long dark brown hair parted down the middle and gathered in a ponytail.

She accessorized with dangling earrings and several rings. The On The Floor singer also carried a black clutch.

I saw some people mourning Desmond Elliot - Nigerian pastor reveals

A Nigerian pastor, Celestian Michael has raised alarm after according to him, he fell into a trance and saw people mourning Nollywood actor, and Lagos state house of Assembly member, Desmond Elliot.
He also asked people to join him in praying against it.
He wrote;

Lai Mohammed Cautions Lying Journalists And Bloggers

Speech by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, at the Annual National Conference and General Meeting of the NIPR in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Thursday, 27 April 2017.

I am most honoured to be here today to attend the annual national conference and general meeting of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR).

 Let me say that my presence here today is a measure of the importance I attach to this conference. Due to competing assignments and tough logistics, I virtually had to jump through hoops to be here. Without equivocating, however, I will say that I am glad to be among you all.

 There is no better occasion that this to examine the increasingly tough, and almost impossible, job of a public relations practitioner.

 Tougher still is the task of the Government Perception Manager, whether he or she is the Minister of Information, Commissioner for Information, Spokespersons for the President or Governor or for any government agency.

 The challenges faced daily by the perception managers have been exacerbated by the Social Media. Today, the challenges have defied everything the practitioner may have been taught about perception management, public relations and all.

 Therefore, the government spokesperson, in order to succeed, must be a Cicero, a Socrates, an Albert Einstein and a Machiavelli all rolled into one.

 The perception manager today is engaged in an unending war with an opposition that is amorphously defined, an opposition who never sleeps, an opposition that has no rules of engagement, an opposition that has power without responsibility or control, one whose objective is not to inform, educate or provide constructive criticism but to set their own agenda from their own ethnic, religious, ideological and economic perspective, irrespective of what the challenges of government are.

 Today’s perception manager, especially at the government level, can be likened to one who has signed a contract, the terms of which he or she is not aware of. As I said earlier, the opponents are not clearly defined.

 They could be friends today and opponents tomorrow. They are not interested in the vision of the government nor the welfare of the people.

They insist on being heard and seen, and the privacy, reputation or integrity of the public official are of no consequence to them.

 As far as they are concerned, government and its leadership must be annihilated. It is not about logic, reason, intellectual discourse or professionalism.

 It is about viciousness and bitterness that are hard to fathom. Today, anyone with a phone and data is a journalist, a blogger, owner of an online publication, an opinion molder, etc.

 They invent stories and even spend money to push such phantom stories. Their mantra is to lie, misinform, malign and confuse.

And they do all this simply because they can. No regulations, no sanctions. The spokesperson is at their mercy. Regrettably, they have a fanatic followership in the largely uninformed masses, whose experience over the years has primed them not to trust government and public office holders.

 The masses are daily served incredible menu and unbelievable tales which they swallow hook, line and sinker.

 How else can you explain that people will believe and circulate a fake report that the Minister of Information and Culture, that is yours truly, has 1.2 billion dollars in his imaginary bank account? Let’s examine this for a moment. 1.2 billion dollars is about 400 billion Naira.

 The entire yearly budget of the Ministry of Information and Culture, where I preside, is under 15 billion Naira, and these include salaries, overhead and capital projects.

 Assuming, without conceding, that the Minister somehow manages to transfer the entire budget into his personal account, it will take 25 years for him to amass 400 billion Naira. Yet, this disinformation was lapped up by the public. Similar imaginary huge sums of money have been credited to other Ministers.

 This is not a surprise, because the more vicious and irreverent a blog or website is, the more the followership. The more the naysayers can invent stories or malign government officials, the more their ratings.

 They do not wait for the weekly Federal Executive Council to end before they put out their version of what transpired there. Only yesterday, even after I had briefed the State House Correspondents on the outcome of the day’s meeting, my views were still misrepresented.

I had said President Muhammadu Buhari chose to rest and work from home for that day, hence he has asked the VP to preside over the day’s FEC meeting. By the time this was reported, a section of the press simply quoted me as saying the President will henceforth be working from home. Even when they are corrected, they are neither sorry nor remorseful.

 They just move on, to do something worse the day after! One may be tempted to ask: Why do these naysayers do what they do? It is partly to distract government, to force the government perception spokespersons to be fighting bush fires and then lose focus.

 It is therefore imperative for government perception managers to be keenly aware of this, so as not to fall prey. As spokespersons for the government, you must not allow yourselves to be distracted. You must be proactive rather than defensive.

You must refuse to allow them to set your agenda for you. You must not allow them to turn you to a fire brigade, fighting bush fires all over. You must stay true to your calling to inform and educate, and to telegraph the achievements of your principal and the intentions of government.

You must neither be intimidated, cowed nor be overwhelmed by the cynics. You must set your own agenda and daily review such, with a view to improving on them. You must never lose touch with your traditional constituents.

 You must understand the tactics of the opposition, which is ambush and irrational. For example, when we inform them of the rot we met in government and the unimaginable body blows that the economy has endured, blows that would have shaken even the strongest economy in the world, they shrug it away, saying cynically ‘we know that, and that’s why we voted you into office’.

 When we tell them how we created 200,000 jobs in one fell swoop, they pretend not to hear. When we inform that our gallant military has captured Ground Zero of the Sambisa Forest, they are not interested.

When 21 Chibok Girls were released, they say it’s a lie. When our Euro-bond was oversubscribed eight times over, they do not consider that news good enough. When we recorded a month-on-month reduction in inflation, they sneer at us.

 When we said we have saved over 9 billion Naira from travels and estacodes in one year, they feign ignorance and when we said the government is taking unprecedented steps to fight corruption, they accuse us of being selective.

The government information managers must not allow themselves to be discouraged by this. They must continue to trumpet the achievements of their governments and the challenges they face in delivering the dividends of democracy to the people, because this is their role, to inform, educate and to polish the image of government.

Today’s government information manager, whether he is Minister or Commissioner in charge of Information, must equip himself with qualities such as integrity, courage, abnormal capacity for hard work, ingenuity, resourcefulness, ability to think out of the box, encyclopedic knowledge of all things under the stars, incorruptibility and, above all, passion about the job.

Tough times require tough people, and tough challenges require hard work. In the end, success is guaranteed, irrespective of the antics of the naysayers. I wish you a successful deliberation, and I thank you for your kind attention.