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Gambia votes former security guard as president
He is quiet, understated and until recently unknown, but now presidential election winner Adama Barrow, a former security guard, has become the flagbearer for a new era of change in The Gambia.
A political novice whose lack of baggage has endeared him to Gambians, the businessman represented a coalition of parties who banded together to upset Yahya Jammeh’s 22 years of unbroken rule in the tiny West African nation.
It’s very clear, the writing is on the wall that I’m going to win,” the 51-year-old told AFP by telephone before voting Thursday.
Just six months earlier, he was a political unknown.
Boko Haram members take over Kano
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State on Friday briefed President Muhammadu Buhari on emerging security challenges in the state occasioned by increasing influx of Boko Haram insurgents into Falgore forest in the state.
Ganduje was reacting to questions from State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
It’s very clear, the writing is on the wall that I’m going to win,” the 51-year-old told AFP by telephone before voting Thursday.
Just six months earlier, he was a political unknown.
Boko Haram members take over Kano
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State on Friday briefed President Muhammadu Buhari on emerging security challenges in the state occasioned by increasing influx of Boko Haram insurgents into Falgore forest in the state.
Ganduje was reacting to questions from State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
“I came to brief Mr President on the security situation in Kano especially on the fallout from the North Eastern part of this country in which some of the Boko Haram (insurgents) kidnappers will like to dominate Falgore where they will be operating to other parts of the North Western part of the country.
“So, the security agencies are working very hard and a lot of arrest had been made, investigation is going on.
“We will not allow them to dominate Kano and to make it as a launching pad.
“Certainly, we expect if they are dismantled from the North East part of this country they will find another location and Kano being an older city, is an attractive place for such elements to come in.”
He said that security agencies have apprehended three persons believed to be leaders of the criminal group.
The governor, who is the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress’ Technical Committee on Rivers by-elections, expressed optimism that all the APC candidates would emerge victorious in the exercise.
3-yr-old orphan dies in auto crash, one year after mother’s death
“So, the security agencies are working very hard and a lot of arrest had been made, investigation is going on.
“We will not allow them to dominate Kano and to make it as a launching pad.
“Certainly, we expect if they are dismantled from the North East part of this country they will find another location and Kano being an older city, is an attractive place for such elements to come in.”
He said that security agencies have apprehended three persons believed to be leaders of the criminal group.
The governor, who is the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress’ Technical Committee on Rivers by-elections, expressed optimism that all the APC candidates would emerge victorious in the exercise.
3-yr-old orphan dies in auto crash, one year after mother’s death
A 3-year old boy whose mother died barely a year ago, Friday, lost his own life in a ghastly motor accident while crossing the road for an errand, it was gathered.
Vanguard gathered that the boy whose name could not be ascertained at the time of filing this report, was crossing Aku Street Road, Ogui New Layout, Enugu, in the early hours of yesterday when a Toyota Sienna car, hit him in front of his grand mother.
The boy was later rushed to a private hospital where he gave up the ghost. It was also gathered that the boy lost his mother on the first of December, 2015 when she went to the market and slumped while he himself died in an accident on December 2, just a year and a day his mother died.
An eyewitness who saw the boy when he was hit said that he knew that by the blood he lost he would not make it. “I knew that he would not make it because he lost a lot of blood. I pity the child. Her mother died just a year ago leaving him in the care of his grand mother who sells Akara for a living,” the source laments.
I am not dumping PDP for APC- Fayose addresses rumors of his planned defection
Two days ago, Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti state hinted he might be looking outside PDP for his successor come 2018 (read here). Many political analysts interpreted it to mean he was planning to join the ruling party APC. Fayose has come out to refute this rumor and also stated that he will never leave PDP despite its internal crisis. Read a press statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, after the cut...
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state has dispelled the news making the rounds that he planned to dump the Peoples Democratic Party, saying, I am a PDP member and I remain a PDP member.
“What I said is that if the current man-made crisis rocking the PDP persists till 2018, rather than allow them mess us up like they did in Ondo, we may have to seek an alternative and credible platform. We are not people who betray the confidence of our people. If there will be change at all, it will not be spur-of-the-moment. We shall carry our leaders and the people along”, he added.
Jungle justice! Two suspected thieves burnt in Anambra state
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state has dispelled the news making the rounds that he planned to dump the Peoples Democratic Party, saying, I am a PDP member and I remain a PDP member.
“What I said is that if the current man-made crisis rocking the PDP persists till 2018, rather than allow them mess us up like they did in Ondo, we may have to seek an alternative and credible platform. We are not people who betray the confidence of our people. If there will be change at all, it will not be spur-of-the-moment. We shall carry our leaders and the people along”, he added.
Jungle justice! Two suspected thieves burnt in Anambra state
A mob on Friday set ablaze two suspected armed robbers along Onitsha-Owerri Road, Anambra State. The suspected thieves are said to have been terrorizing residents of Onitsha.
Pastor Ernest Mbanefo denies ownership of MMM
Pastor Ernest Mbanefo, the man, who is believed to be the founder of the ponzi scheme currently making waves in Nigeria has denied ownership of the scheme.
The media was awash with the news on Friday that the South Africa-based pastor was the owner of MMM Nigeria, a ponzi scheme that promised its members 30 per cent return on investments.
According to an online report quoted by NAN, Mbanefo is based in South Africa.
Nigerian Communications Week said Mbanefo registered the site, MMM-Nigeria.net domain, on June 7, 2016 at about 5pm Nigerian time.
NCW quoting Pageone report written back in September said Mbanefo made a single-year domain payment. The domain will expire on June 7, 2017.
It was also revealed that MMM Nigeria is not part of MMM Global – a Russian company that was responsible for one of the world’s largest Ponzi schemes in the 1990s.
MMM Global was founded by Russian politician Sergei Mavrodi, his brother Vyacheslav Mavrodi and Olga Melnikova.
The name of the company was taken from the first letters of the three founders’ surnames (MMM)
But reacting to the development, Mbanefo described the story as untrue and baseless.
He explained that he used his website, mmm-nigeria.net to tutor interested investors on the workings of the scheme and thereafter direct them to register on the official nigeria.mmm.net website.
He said, “I do not own MMM Nigeria.
“The original website of MMM Nigeria is nigeria-mmm.net.
“All I’ve done is to use my knowledge of web designing to launch mmm-nigeria.net.”
On his affiliation with Sergei Mavrodi, the promoter of MMM Global, Mbanefo said, ”I have never met Sergei Mavrodi before. Mavrodi does not not even know about my activities in the MMM programme. “
