Tax: Soludo threatens to remove politicians’ billboards, gives two weeks grace

Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, has threatened to remove all billboards in the state belonging to politicians if they fail to pay tax on them.

Recall that the governor, who before last year’s election claimed he knew where to source funds from across the world, has imposed a number of taxes on Anambra people since his swearing-in.

In the latest press release by the managing director of Anambra State Signage Agency, ANSAA, Mr Tony Ujubuonu, the state government gave two weeks’ notice for all politicians and political parties in the state with billboards to pay up.

Ujubuonu said: “We have given two weeks’ notice to all political parties and their candidates to ensure they have paid for all their campaign billboards or meet the wrath of the agency.

“Anambra State Signage and Advertisement Agency through a letter dated 14th November, 2022, urged all Out-Of-Home Advertising Practitioners in the State to revalidate and register all their billboards in the State.”

He added that the Agency had directed all billboard owners to provide the information required to register each billboard and pay up for any campaign.

“It has also gotten to the knowledge of the Agency that some political party candidates are erecting billboards on their own ignorantly.

“The Agency wants to state that this is not only wrong but illegal and any such billboard would be brought down without any notice, the structure seized permanently and auctioned.”

The agency gave the grace period to last between 14th of November to 5th of December. It said after the period, all billboards must have been fully registered and paid for to avoid being pulled down.

NDLEA arrests Saudi-bound woman, Mrs Ajisegiri Kehinde Sidika with cocaine at Lagos airport

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 56-year-old widow and mother of four, Mrs Ajisegiri Kehinde Sidika.

She was nabbed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos while attempting to traffic 400g of cocaine concealed in her footwear to Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

The suspect claimed to be a businesswoman trading in adult and children’s wear on Lagos Island.

She was about to board a Qatar Airways flight to Saudi Arabia via Doha.

Also, attempts by a tricycle parts seller, Ayoade Kehinde Tayo to send 1kg of Tramadol 225mg and Rohypnol to Istanbul, Turkey via Cairo on an Egypt Airline flight was truncated.

NDLEA operatives arrested him at the airport as he tried to hand over the drugs hidden inside a bag of food items to an intending passenger, Idowu Ayoade.

Also, anti-narcotics officers attached to the SAHCO export shed of the airport foiled attempts by traffickers to smuggle consignments of cannabis and ecstasy tablets.

The drugs were concealed in three tubers of yam going to Dubai, UAE, last Wednesday.

The freight agent who presented the yams for export, Inegbu Ugochi Akunna was promptly arrested while the consignor, Ahmodu Sulaimon was also nabbed after that.

Singer Portable seen assaulting his artiste (video)

Nigerian Singer, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable has been captured on camera assaulting his artiste, Manny Monie, for being ''ungrateful.''

The video shows the controversial singer assaulting the artiste signed under his Zeh Nation record label, hitting and kicking him on the face, while questionning him. 

 

Speaking in Pidgin English and Yoruba language, Portable accused Manny Monie of being ungrateful despite 'all that he has done for him.'

''Did you borrow me any money? I'm helping you... I post you, carry you go shows, buy shoes for you, buy trousers, buy everything. I changed your phone. What else do you want me to do?... You will not propser'.

Manny Money on his own part said he and his brother approached Portable for a collaboration and a work relationship started from there. He claimed he paid Portable N700,000 and his brother set up a recording studio which Portable has been using.

 

He further stated that Portable said he had a dream about someone trying to kill him so he told his crew members and everyone around him to give him space. Monie said he then approached Portable to give him back his studio since the Zazoo singer had opened a new studio. However, Portable said he was ungrateful to make such a demand and began beating him, Monie said.

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17-year-old girl locked up by aunt, rescued by Police in Jos

The Plateau State Police Command has rescued a 17-year-old malnourished girl, allegedly locked up in a goat pen by her aunt, for over one week in Rikkos, Jos North Local Government Area of the state.

A neighbor alerted the National Human Rights Commission in Jos after which the police were invited, leading to her rescue.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the aunt was fond of maltreating and starving the girl, an orphan.

Coordinator of the National Human Rights Commission in Plateau, Mrs Grace Pam, confirmed the girl’s rescue in a statement on Friday, November 18, 2022.

“The commission received information from an anonymous complainant that the girl was locked up on the balcony of a house by her aunt,” she said.

“She was living with her grandmother before she came to the aunt’s house because the grandmother was ill and could not continue to care for her.

“The complainant alleged that the aunt travelled for close to a week and left the girl without food.

“Investigation revealed that the girl was truly malnourished and had scars on her hands, neck and other parts of her body.

“The marks resulted from incessant beatings she received from her aunt. The matter was reported to the police where the aunt’s statement was taken upon return from her trip.

“The girl has been provided with temporary shelter until she recovers. We also found out that the orphan girl was never allowed to go out, but locked up in the house and not fed. She has been taken to hospital by one of our partners to ensure proper medical care,’’ she added.

Pam lamented increasing cases of abuse of minors in the last few days, stressing that “as we speak, there is a case of another victim, a nine-year-old girl, who came to stay with her aunt barely two months ago.

“We had to rescue her on Thursday from her aunt; she beat her mercilessly, but thank God, she did not get her blind, but got her injured in the eye. We took her to the hospital on Friday with scars resulting from serious beatings,”

“When our staff went there, she was locked up in a zinc house where the aunt keeps her goats. The girl is looking forward to going back to her parents,’’ she said.

The coordinator appealed to citizens to stop rights abuses.

2023: Peter Obi will not get 25% of votes in two-third of the states – Fayose

A former Ekiti state governor, Fayose has claimed that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, would not get enough votes to win the election.

He also said Obi could affect the chances of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 polls.

Fayose stated this on Thursday during an interview with Channels Television.

Obi had dumped the PDP in May for LP and clinched the party’s presidential ticket.

In 2019, the former Anambra governor was PDP’s vice-presidential candidate while Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president, was the presidential candidate.

The participation of Obi in the 2023 presidential election under LP has elicited speculations that the votes of the PDP may be divided in the 2023 election.

Speaking on the development, Fayose said the former Anambra governor may not secure the required 25 percent of votes in two-third of the states to be declared winner.

The former Ekiti governor asked the PDP to negotiate with Obi, and also resolve the crisis in the party by reconciling with the camp of Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, in order to win the presidency.

“Obi is a danger to watch out for. I don’t believe Obi will make 25 percent of votes in two-third of the states of the federation,” he said.

“I’m not against Obi. I love him and he is a very vibrant leader. I don’t believe he will get the required 25 percent of votes because of my permutations as Ayodele Fayose, but with God, nothing shall be impossible.

“Let me say Obi is more of a chronic cancer to PDP and there is no denying.

“Let me give you an analysis. In south-west, people might not like to hear that, I don’t see how PDP will win. Anybody deceiving us can continue to deceive us.

“I don’t see how PDP will win in the south-east. South-south will be a combination of all interests. Let me come to the key states of the north.

“Without deceiving ourselves, there is so much work to do in the north-central. PDP and APC did not pick any candidate, either presidential or vice-presidential, from the north-central. The north-east is where the vice-presidential candidate of APC comes from.

“We will give Adamawa state to our party. Don’t forget there is still another Kwankwaso who is a semi-cancer that can equally upstage figures in the north.

“Reconciling or negotiating with Obi will be a good thing and finding a way to make peace with these Wike people will be a good thing too.”

I don't read social media anymore. They abuse the hell out of me and increase my blood pressure - Tinubu (video)

APC presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said that he doesn't use social media anymore because users "abuse the hell" of out him.

Tinubu said his children and workers send posts about him on social media once in a while and when he's had enough, he tells them to stop.

In his words;

''I don't read social media anymore, they abuse hell out of me. If I read it, I get high blood pressure, I get angry. I don't read it.

If I want to hear anything, my children or any of my workers will tell me this one said this. If I am tired I say please forget it.''

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Abacha loot: US repatriates approximately $332.4m to Nigeria

A total of $332.4 million loot traced to the former Nigerian Military leader, Gen Sani Abacha, has been repatriated to the federal government.

The latest was the return of a sum of $20.6 million loot to the Nigerian government.

DAILY POST learnt in a terse statement issued by the UN Department of Justice on Thursday.

Recall that in 2014, a judgement in the District of Columbia ordered the forfeiture of approximately $500 million; this is from more than the $625 million civil forfeiture complaint on different accounts traceable to money laundering involving Abacha, who died on June 8, 1998.

Mystery as flock of sheep have been walking around in circles for 12 days straight in China - (See Video)

A flock of sheep in China's inner Mongolia region have gone viral for walking non-stop in a circle for nearly two weeks.

Surveillance footage reveals the flock, which live in pen number 13, have been walking in a clockwise motion for almost two weeks.

Video of the sheep circle has gone viral, with the creepy footage being seen by some as the "sign of the apocalypse".

The owner claims the odd behavior began with a few of the farm animals before the entire flock joined in.

There are 34 sheep pens at Ms. Miao's farm, but only the sheep in pen number 13 have been acting strangely.

Some believe this is normal sheep behavior, but others think something more sinister is behind the odd movements.

Other Twitter users have suggested the sheep may be afflicted with listeriosis, a disease which can affect both humans and animals.

Symptoms of the disease include lack of coordination, salivation, circling and more.

However, the Chinese state-run news outlet People’s Daily reported the sheep are perfectly healthy.

Other instances of sheep behaving oddly and forming circles have been reported in the past, with one instance in East Sussex last year showing a photo of a flock standing in a circle in a field.

Christopher Hogg, of village Rottingdean in East Sussex, was cycling when he saw the animals behaving like they were ''in the X-files''.

The 47-year-old said: "I was on my daily cycle when I came over the hill and saw this magnificent circle."

"The sheep are usually noisy. I go past them every day, but this day they were very still and calm,'' he said.

Hogg said it seemed like the animals were in a trance, calling it ''eerie''.

The reason behind the sheep's odd behavior in both Mongolia and East Sussex has remained unknown.

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How 20-year-old man connived with friends and killed his stepmother in Anambra over N1million

 

The Anambra State Command, has arrested a 20-year-old man, Ekenedilichukwu Okeke, for allegedly killing his stepmother, Mrs.Theresa Okeke,54, over N1 million. 

The deceased, an accountant with the National Population Commission (NPC), was reportedly strangled to death on September 28, 2022 in her residence, No. 4 Umuziocha, Awka, the state capital. 

Parading the suspect alongside his three accomplices at the state police headquarters, Amawbia, on Friday, November 18, 2022, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Echeng Echeng, said Ekenedilichukwu allegedly connived with his friends to murder the woman in order to withdraw a sum of N1 million from her bank account.

"One Mrs. Theresa Okeke, aged 54 years, an Accountant with National Population Commission, Awka, was murdered in her residence at Number 4, Umuziocha, Awka," the CP stated. 

"Immediately the case was reported, her stepson, Ekenedilichukwu Okeke, aged 20 years, who slept in the same house with the deceased, was arrested for interrogation.

He claimed that armed robbers stormed their residence and killed his stepmother. However, after an intelligence based interrogation, he eventually confessed to the crime and named his accomplices.

Detectives from State CID, Awka, swiftly mobilized in search of the accomplices which led to the arrest of three additional suspects, namely; Peter Jideofor, aged 23 years, Chukwuemeka Christopher, aged 29 years and Chisom Emmanuel Dike, aged 22 years.

“They have all confessed to the crime and disclosed that it was the deceased’s stepson who contracted them to come and kill the deceased to enable them transfer the sum of N1 million from her account, having known her phone password. The suspects will soon be charged to court," Echeng added.

During his parade, the stepson said he had to hire his friends to assist him carry out the act, shortly after the deceased, who had been assisting him in paying his fees, insisted he must leave her house over a misunderstanding.

"I finished writing JAMB and was doing some menial jobs to enable me raise money for my university fees. I also worked for NPC 3 months ago," he explained. 

"I had misunderstanding with my mom, along the line and she scolded me. I pleaded with here, thinking she’s forgiven me. But the next day she asked me to leave the house.

“I called my dad and elder brother to inform them of the development but my dad didn’t pick. It was my brother who picked that I told what happened

"After, I called my friends to help me get money from my mom so I can use it for my fees ahead of my admission. Along the line, she collapsed and slumped. I’m very remorseful and praying God to have mercy on me and government to forgive me.”

One of the accomplices, Peter Jideofor, a musician who confessed he was the one that tied the deceased mouth when she attempted to scream, said they would not have killed her if she had provided her pin number.

"He told me he had an issue with his step mother that I should help him extract N1m from her. It was around 2am, with my other guys. We tied her hands and feet,"e explained.

"When she wanted to shout, I personally tied her mouth. In the process, she stopped breathing. It was at that point I left because my mission was not to kill. When I was leaving, I told the guy to keep checking on her every 30minutes.

"But it was in the morning she told us that she’s dead. All of us were in shock and fled, but I stayed indoors until the day I was arrested.”

Jideofor, who claimed to be an orphan, regretted the act, saying it was his first experience.

"I must confess that I didn’t plan to kill her. I feel very guilty. This is my first time. I’m 24 years. We had planned to do transfer but she refused to provide the pin number."