Top Nigerian singer, Tiwa Savage is burying her father, Prince Olanrewaju Savage on Friday (today).
A Christian wake was held on Thursday in Surulere. Prince Savage died in July.
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A graduate of the University of Uyo, simply identified as Kubiat was allegedly arrested and beaten to death by men of the Nigerian police force, (B division, Ewet Housing estate) in Akwa Ibom state.
According to one Christiana Sunday who shared the story on Facebook, the deceased student who was preparing to go for NYSC by November 2021, was arrested by the police at Eni stores at about 7 pm on Sunday, August 29, and was accused of armed robbery.
Kubiat who is said to be the only son of his aged parents was allegedly taken to the police station where he was tortured to death the same night of his arrest.
His friends who heard of his arrest were said to have gone in search of him in various police stations but were told that they had no record of such arrest. His body was eventually found at the Ikot Akpan police headquarters mortuary after his aunt put a call across to some government officials who used their affluence to ascertain his whereabouts.
The police reportedly found out they had arrested the wrong person after beating him to death and proceeded to deposit his body at the mortuary.
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The school is owned by the Senior Pastor of the Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Dr Paul Enenche and his wife, Becky.
Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, Abuja, have arrested a dismissed staff of the Destiny Christian Academy, Igoche Ada.
The school is owned by the Senior Pastor of the Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Dr Paul Enenche and his wife, Becky.
A source told SaharaReporters that Ada was arrested on Wednesday at his apartment inside the church building in Lugbe and taken away in handcuffs.
He was said to have sued Enenche and his wife for allegedly dismissing him illegally over “flimsy allegations.”
“He has just been arrested by a team of police officers at his apartment inside the Dunamis Church, Lugbe and taken to the Force headquarters handcuffed.
“He was earlier accused of flimsy allegations of molesting all the female students of Destiny Academy, a school owned by the church. So he approached the police authorities to investigate and the report exonerated him to which he sued the church before the National Industrial Court, Abuja claiming N220million.
“He presently has been detained by the CID department of the FCT Command,” a source told SaharaReporters.
Ada had filed a suit at the National Industrial Court in Abuja urging the court to declare his dismissal from the school as null and void, malicious, wrongful, unconstitutional and illegal.
“A Declaration that the 1st defendant acting through the 2nd defendant wrongfully and unconditionally dismissed the claimant from its employment,” the court documents read.
“A declaration that the claimant’s summary dismissal by the defendant is null and void, malicious, wrongful, unconstitutional and illegal.
“A declaration that the letter of dismissal/release from service is unlawful, null and void and the employment of the claimant is still subsisting.
“An order directing the defendant jointly and/or separately to pay all salaries, enolument, allowances and every other entitlements accruing to the claimant from 1st of May, 2021 to the day of judgement including interest at the rate of 25% per annum.
“The sum of N200,000,000 (Two Hundred Million Naira) being general and aggravated damages suffered as a result of the wrongful, illegal, unconstitutional dismissal/termination of Employment.
“The cost of N20,000,000 (Twenty Million Naira) as the cost of litigation.”
Africa’s richest man and the Chairman of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has said that the country cannot sit on crude oil while it imports virtually all of its fuel.
The Kano-born businessman revealed that the shame of not having a working refinery in Nigeria, despite huge crude oil deposit inspired him into building the Dangote Refinery in Lagos which has gulped $19bn.
The refinery which has been an issue of debate is a 650,000 barrel-per-day capacity refinery.
Nigeria, the continents largest oil crude oil exporter imports almost every of its fuel due to the squalid state of its moribund refineries.
Dangote told Arise Tv that, “What actually inspired me is that when you look at a country like India, where entrepreneurs and also government went ahead and created about 5 million barrels of oil refinery per day and this is a country that they actually don’t have oil at all and we are here now sitting on over 2.4 million barrels per day at a point and we don’t refine any of this oil.”
The refinery which is 6,000 times the size of a football field is projected to commence operation by January 2021.
Worth $12.1bn according to Forbes, Dangote said he hopes to restore the dignity of the Nigerian oil and gas industry.
Nigeria has the tenth largest oil reserves, but its moribund refineries are currently undergoing renovation.
He said, “Where you have a country with over 200 million, and we are importing 100 per cent of what we consume, it is not sustainable. If you go to a lot of areas maybe my village or your village you will see that petrol stations are not working.
“So, we now realised that the petroleum product that we have is ‘hand to mouth’; whatever that we have is what we are consuming. So this actually pushed me into saying that look you know what? This is a big challenge, it is a big issue, somebody has to address it and we will take the challenge of addressing this issue.
“It makes me feel terrible to see a country as big as Nigeria, as resourceful as Nigeria and this sort of population that we have 200 million plus and we are importing all our petroleum products. It is very very painful.”
Dangote however believes that the project will provide millions of direct and indirect employment in the country when completed.
“Government will have more money in terms of education, health and in terms of infrastructure, So, it is going to be a massive transformational stuff,” he added.
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Fighters loyal to the Islamic States of West Africa Province (ISWAP) have warned residents of Borno State against cooperating with the soldiers of the Nigerian Army.
This is as the terrorists in their latest act of propaganda took it upon themselves to storm the streets and share fliers to the residents of some areas in which the terror group observed they are not the enemies of the people.
The terrorists in the fliers told the residents that the soldiers are the ones responsible for displacing them from their villages and destroying their property.
Naija News gathered from a report monitored on Humangle that the terrorists carried out the action in parts of Borno State where they control.
The fliers titled “A message from the caliphate’s troops to the people of a new town” were reportedly shared in a place that looked like a market while another ISWAP fighter was cited giving the flier to a driver that looks like a taxi.
Some others were also posted on the walls of houses in the area.
The content of the flier reads: “We were not the ones who chased you out of your place from the beginning,” one of the messages in the fliers read.
“These people who call themselves the Nigerian Army are the ones who chased you out, killed you, and are the wicked ones.”
Meanwhile, gunmen Suspected to be bandit terrorists have abducted students of Kaya Junior Secondary School in Maradun LGA of Zamfara State.
It was gathered that the gunmen had broken into the secondary school on Wednesday morning.
The bandits gunmen who came on motorcycles stormed the school shooting sporadically.
A teacher in the school told the BBC Hausa that he and others managed to escape by running away under the cover of farms near the school.
He disclosed that the bandits stormed the school in the hours of 11 am and 12 pm.
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On Tuesday, the Nigerian Air Force inducted A-29 Super Tucano jets into its fleet. Present at the induction were Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Magashi (retd.), Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Oladayo, American envoy, Mary Leonard, and other dignitaries.
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Former Vice-President Abubakar Atiku, chairman of the South-West Governors’ Forum, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu and his Edo State counterpart, Governor Godwin Obaseki as well as the President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick, will join the Governor of Oyo State, ‘Seyi Makinde, to officially unveil the remodelled Lekan Salami Sports Complex, Adamasingba, Ibadan, today.
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, August 31, 2021, launched the Nigeria Jubilee Fellows Programme (NJFP), a job placement scheme for graduates that have concluded the one-year National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme.
The internship program which is said to be fully paid and sponsored by the federal government in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the European Union (EU), is expected to last for 12 months, with an estimated 20,000 beneficiaries posted to reputable private and public sector organizations across the countries.
According to President Buhari, the program is part of his administration’s strategy of creating employment opportunities for Nigerians and keeping Nigerian youths occupied with opportunities that will give provide relevant skills and work experience for the future.
The NJFP beneficiaries will be deployed to a wide range of sectors including ICT, manufacturing, agriculture, mining, creative industries, education, health, research and development, and public sector institutions.
He further encouraged all eligible Nigerians to apply for the program.
Private sector partners of the program also include BUA, Dangote, VISA Nigeria, Outsource Global, GE Gas and Power, Lafarge Africa, SecureID, Microsoft, among others.
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John Paulson, the president and portfolio manager of US investment firm Paulson & Co, is an American billionaire hedge fund manager who became world- famous in 2007 by shorting the US housing market.
The 65 year old shared his views on crypocurrencies and Bitcoin saying crypocurrencies , regardless of where they are trading today will eventually prove to be Worthless, once the exuberance wears off or liquidity dries up, they will go to zero.
He said he wouldn’t recommend anyone to invest in crypocurrencies.
Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu,SAN, has signed into Law the Anti-Grazing Bill passed by the State House of Assembly.
A statement by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Donald Ojogo said the Governor Akeredolu signed the bill into Law in his office on Tuesday, August 31, 2021.
“The move is in line with the resolution of the Southern Governors’ Forum at its last meeting in Lagos where September 1st was set as the deadline for Governors in Southern Nigeria to sign the Anti-Open Grazing Bill into law.
“This is worthwhile and a very laudable development aimed at stemming needless instances of skirmishes, conflicts as well as infractions on the enviably peaceful disposition of the good people of Ondo State.
“It is very pertinent to aver and indeed, reiterate that the Law shall rather, engender a more cordial, mutually benefiting relationship amongst residents of the State irrespective of ethnicity, religion or creed. For emphasis, no particular group of persons is the target.
“While it is the hope of Government that all residents would take an ample advantage of this Law to enhance our socio-economic well being in Ondo State, compliance of same shall be given the utmost attention. Government shall pursue with vigour, through lawful means, to ensure strict compliance.
“In this regard, details of the new Law shall be made available to the public for proper information, more depth of understanding on contents as well as other relevant areas”, the statement said.
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