PHOTO OF THE DAY: 'TUALE' SALUTE TO SIA

One of the Ogun state governor’s supporters’ in a ‘Tuale’ salute to Senator Ibikunle Amosun while on a thank you tour of Ewekoro, Ifo, Santo Ota, Alagbole, Akute, Ojodu yesterday.

CRIME: FOUR IGBO DRUG TRAFFICKERS EXCRETE 171 WRAPS OF HARD DRUG

Opratives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested 4 drug traffickers Ejiofor Eliezer (46), Obah Francis (30), Akpa Sobuzochukwu (27) and 36-year-old Ike Okechukwu, after they excreted 171 wraps of drug that tested positive for cocaine at the Muritala Mohammed International Airport.

According to Punch, the men were apprehended during the screening of passengers on board Qatar and Emirates airlines enroute to Brazil. One of the drug traffickers, Eliezer, who excreted 100 wraps of the drug, when interrogated, said poverty pushed him into the illicit act.

“I live in Brazil, where I work in a supermarket and lived with my wife and four children. Life in Brazil is tough because I live from hand to mouth. It was poverty that made me to smuggle drugs. I took risk by swallowing 100 wraps of cocaine for N200, 000 because of poverty.”he said

Another trafficker, Francis when interrogated said he ventured into drug trafficking to boost his meager salary he makes from his bakery job Brazil. He said he would have made N2.8 million if he had succeeded.

“I am single and have been working in Brazil for two years. At present, I work in a bakery and my salary is meagre. My plan was to give the drug to a friend in Dubai, but he did not come to collect the drug as planned. This was how I had to come to Nigeria with the drug. I blame my friend for my arrest because I would have made S15,000 (about N2.8m) from the deal.”he said

Sobuzochukwu who holds a diploma in accounting, swallowed 26 wraps and was paid S1, 500 i.e N285,000.

One of the traffickers, Okechukwu expressed his regrets :“I regret my involvement in drug trafficking. I dropped out of school in Junior Secondary School class two and I work in a toy company in Brazil,” he added

According to NDLEA Chairman, Ahmadu Giade, they would be charged to court soon.

CHEERING NEWS: THE THREE 'OREKOYA BOYS' KIDNAPPED BY THEIR NANNY FOUND ALIVE !!!

 The three ‘Orekoya boys’ ( Aderomola Orekoya, 11 months, Adedamola Orekoya, 4 years and Demola Orekoya, 6 years,) who were kidnapped by their nanny( story read here ), Mary Akinloye, on April 8th have been found. Their mother shares the good news on her Facebook. However,the family didn't say how they were able to get the children back or if they paid a ransom. All the same, its a cheering news! Read their mum's good news below....

I HAVE NO INTENTIONS OF SEEKING ASYLUM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD....DIEZANI MADUEKE

Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, Petroleum Minister, has denied the claims of her seeking asylum in six countries. According to the Group Public Affairs GM of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mr. Ohi Alegbe, said ‘there's absolutely nothing of such happening. She said she has no intentions of either seeking asylum anywhere in the world or even relocating from Nigeria’.

NB: TIME WILL TELL !!!

GUMSU SANNI-ABACHA SETS TO JOIN APC

Gumsu Sanni-Abacha, not known for many words has shared on her Facebook wall her interest to join the soon-to-be ruling party ...APC. ...See what she wrote bellow....

GRAPHIC PHOTO:SOUTH AFRICANS KILLING AFRICAN BROTHERS EN MASS....

 Angry South Africans launched a xenophobic attack on African migrants in Johannesburg on Friday April 10th. According to reports, 10 Nigerians are feared dead, 5 Gabonese, 10 Somalis and 5 Congolese students were also killed with some of their bodies set ablaze during the attack. According to reports, the South Africans say their anger is that black migrants from other African countries are taking all the jobs available to young men in their country, leaving them, the citizens jobless, and slowly taking over their economy.

NB: These killing are just too bad. South African guys need to wake up from slumber; the world is now a global village. What about the Asians and Europeans residing in South Africa are they not immigrants? This is a case of dogs eaten dogs.

#365DAYSON:AGONY OF THE FATHER OF TWO MISSING #CHIBOKGIRLS..

After #365dayson, Reverend Enoch Mark, father of two of the missing #Chibok girls says “Since the abduction of Monica and Sarah ( in April 14th 2014, by Boko Haram) we've been in some kind of condition but I cannot describe it. We are not able to sleep’

In an interview with BBC, Reverend Mark described how he traced the sect members after they had abducted the school girls and how he got information that his daughter might have been buried alive following her refusal to convert to Islam. His interview after the cut...

"Since the abduction of Monica and Sarah we've been in some kind of condition but I cannot describe it. We are not able to sleep. My wife [has been having] this problem with her blood pressure, we have been struggling, at times when I come and see her alone I meet her crying, at times she cannot eat especially when it was in the early days just after these girls were abducted. We set a day that we fast and pray so that the Lord will strengthen our daughters and all the abducted Chibok girls, if they are still alive.  My biological daughter Monica, she was 20 at that time she was abducted, and Sarah Samuel [my adopted daughter] was 18.

That day, 14 April, was a very dangerous day. I remember hearing gunshots - all the buildings in Chibok were shaking. We have little mountains there and they were was echoing the shooting sound. When we went to the bush, I asked them [my wife and small children] to continue walking but I watched what was going and and saw how they were setting fire on some buildings until the morning. I managed to get back to my house and took my machine [motorbike]. I went to the school, no pupils were there.  I asked about them and was told that they have taken our daughters, and they showed me the direction they went. We saw that the girls had dropped their head scarves and dropped shoes along the way. 

So I used that as a guide to follow where they went. Somebody told me that my daughter jumped out of the vehicle and she was wounded and she could not walk. It encouraged me to continue to pursue them. I went to a village which the kidnappers had set fire to and passed through it. I went to the next village and was told that the kidnappers had somebody and that I should go back.I just went into the bush to keep on looking and I met two girls - Sarah Lawan and a daughter of my watchman. I took them on my machine to the house. They had jumped out of the big lorry that was carrying them - if you would have seen the dust on them, you would have pitied them.

So it was those girls who gave me the information that they were kidnapped. When I was in Chibok, there were some members of Boko Haram who mixed with us, so we did get some information though it was not first hand and we did not know if it was true or not. I was told that my daughter was stoned to death soon after being kidnapped and I was told that my daughter had been asked her to receive the Prophet Muhammad as her saviour. She refused [and] I was told that they dug a hole and buried her leaving her head outside and stoned her to death.  But [an envoy of the government who has been negotiating with the Boko Haram] just some three weeks ago he called me and told me that my daughters' names are among the names of the girls they are expecting [to be freed] which shows she is still alive, according to what he told me. I have hope. Even if my daughter has been stoned to death, I am the happiest man as a man of God who has brought up my daughter with that kind of faith"

I always think that had it been President Goodluck [Jonathan], or the defence minister or the chief defence minister or the governor of Borno state or those senators, who had lost a daughter, how would they feel? At the time these girls were kidnapped, had the federal government paid careful attention they would have rescued these girls. I'm not blaming the federal government but it's their responsibility to bring the girls back. When I remember the future of my [other] children it makes me to shed tears, I don't know how we will end up. Since the kidnapping none of my children has been to school. Monica, she's very neat in everything and she's prayerful all the time. And one thing that makes me to remember her all the time, [she said] "Daddy I'm praying for you that you will be able to sponsor me, I want to be a doctor I want to help the nation. That's all these things that I remember - and her determination.