Kidnappers of Super Eagles Player, Samuel Kalu, Demand N50m

Mother of Super Eagles star Samuel Kalu has been abducted in Aba by kidnappers who are demanding for N50m ransom. 

According to several reports, Mrs Kalu was abducted by some unidentified gunmen along Okpulu Umuobo area of Aba in Abia State, Nigeria.

Reports also say that the kidnappers have requested for an N50m ransom which they have also threatened to increase per day. 

Kalu who plays his football with Bordeaux in France was informed of the situation immediately. It is now known if he will be in action for Bordeaux when they take on Montpellier in a Ligue 1 game on Tuesday, March 5.

The 21-year-old made his Super Eagles debut in September 2018. 

2019 Elections: Apostle Suleman Urges Players To Embrace Peace (video)

The senior pastor at Omega Fire Ministry International, Apostle (Prof.) Johnson Suleman, has reacted on the just concluded February 23, 2019 presidential election where a winner and loser have emerged.

The 'Oracle of God' in a viral video online, advised the aggrieved

in the election to embrace peace and shun the idea of approaching the court.

According to Suleman, “Nigeria needs peace, when you lose today, you can win tomorrow. Nigeria needs peace".

The cleric admonished politicians to let peace reign in the country, adding that "politics is a game. If you don’t win today, you may tomorrow.”


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-Ademola Alade

Saraki's Allies, Bamidele Aluko, Kunle Sulaiman, Lead 2,500 Kwara PDP Members To APC

Barely a week to the Governorship and House of Assembly elections, over 2, 500 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Ilorin West and Asa local government of Kwara.



While over 2, 000 PDP members defected in Ilorin, 500 defected to the APC in Asa local government. The defection in Ilorin took place on Sunday at Taiwo area and was led by leader of the group, Mr Bamidele Aluko, a former member of the State House of Assembly and a staunch foot soldier of Sen Bukola Saraki.



They were received by chieftains of APC,  Alhaji Kunle Suleiman and Mr Olawoyin Magaji. Aluko was also the chairman of the Kwara United Football Club and the PDP leader in Badari Ward of Ilorin West, the most populated local government area of Kwara State.



Other top defectors include Alhaji Alao Abdulyekeen, another PDP top gun from Baboko area of Ilorin, and Akeem Dare youth leader from Balogun Fulani ward 1.
The mass defection took place in Taiwo area of Ilorin, led by Mr Bamidele Aluko, a former House of Assembly member and a staunch foot soldier of Sen. Bukola Saraki.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that similar defection took place last Tuesday where over 500 PDP members from Osin Wara, Osin Egbejila ward and others declared allegiance to the APC in Surulere.

Details of Saraki's Meeting With PDP Loyalists in Ilorin

Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has urged his teeming supporters not to be discouraged by the outcome of the presidential and National yassembly elections in the state, but should troop out en masse to vote for the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) governorship and house of assembly candidates come March 9 elections.

Saraki who was given an heroic reception on arrival at Ilorin International Airport by a mammoth crowd of supporters and well wishers, expressed confidence that the PDP has the number to emerge victorious in the remaining elections.

Addressing his supporters at the Charity House at his Iloffa GRA residence in Ilorin, the Senate President urged his people to close ranks and work in unison for the PDP in the governorship and house of assembly elections.

Appealing to his supporters and other aggrieved stakeholders to overlook wherever the system might have erred in the overall interest of Kwara state, Saraki reminded them that “those you voted for in anger are not your people and cannot attend to your needs as we, who are your brothers will do.”

He thanked the people of the state for their support, assuring them that he would always be around to cater for theor needs.

He added “I can’t run away. My covenant with my people transcends politics. I will never abandon my people. We should not fight. I leave everything to God. I will not fight even with those they declared winnners of the last weekend’s elections. We must cooperate for the governorship election. Once we do this, we shall win the election.”

The Senate Presiden

t charged his followers to be more committed like the opposition’s supporters.

“We should stop internal wrangling. We shall emerge victorious in the remaining election. I’m here to assure you that I shall never abandon you, my people. The people you have voted for are not known to you. We should forgive ourselves and move forward in the interest of our state, ” he stated.

-Ademola Alade

"I'm Scared of Getting Married" ...singer Jaywon

Nigerian singer, Jaywon has said he doesn’t think marriage is for him.
Jaywon who welcomed a child in 2016 added that he's still single as he's yet to find the right woman.

“One of the things I look for when it comes to having a relationship is happiness and being able to manage each other (me and my partner). I don’t think I need marriage; all I need is a best friend that we can just be together and understand each other for the rest of our lives, have kids and build an empire together."

“I feel that when the word marriage comes into the picture, that is when the problem starts. Everybody starts to feel like they have a right and all that. We can just be best friends and be together forever; it is more important than calling it marriage. If it is a partnership, then let it be so, if we can pray, make money and have children together. I don’t need any other thing.

“If I can have all that, I am okay; marriage has destroyed a lot of people. I am not married yet because I have yet to find the right woman. I feel if there is no love, we cannot progress. Even in a company, if there is no love, the company won’t grow. I have been heartbrok

en many times in the past; ‘Saro’ my song, is a true life story.

“My son is the most important thing to me right now; everybody knows I travel a lot. Each time I travel out of the country, I get to pay him a visit.

 The only reason why he has not visited Nigeria is because he needs to grow, he is still growing. I don’t care about what the society thinks, the society has killed a lot of people and messed them up because they put the society before themselves,” he said.

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"I'm Not Working for APC Enemies" ...Lagos Gov., Ambode

Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has denied reports claiming he was working with the agents of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate, to ensure that APC and its governorship candidate, Babajide Sanwo-Olu lose in the March 9th election. There were reports that the governor was using his close ally, Tokunbo Afikuyomi, to campaign agaisnt Sanwo-Olu and APC.

Governor Ambode in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Habib Aruna, said that having publicly declared his acceptance of the decision of the party on the party’s governorship primaries, he would never take any action to undermine the prospects of the party in the ongoing elections.

Recall that Ambode lost his re-election bid in a controversial governorship primaries that held in the state last October thatsaw Sanwo-Olu, the preferred candidate of APC National Chairman, Bola Tinubu, winner of the primaries.

Read the statement below

The statement reads: “The attention of the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has been drawn to a report in today’s edition of The Nation newspaper, Friday March 1, 2019. “Specifically, the contentious report, which was published on the newspaper’s front page without any by-line, insinuated that Governor Ambode might be working with an opposition party through a former member of the Lagos State Executive Council and Commissioner for Energy & Mineral Resources, Mr. Wale Oluwo. “The report also attempted to hold the Governor responsible for the alleged activities of Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi because he supported the governor’s gubernatorial ambition during the primaries of the All Progressives Congress in October 2018.

“The governor wishes to make it abundantly clear that, having declared publicly his acceptance of the decision of the party on the primaries, he has not and will never take any action to undermine the prospects of the party in the on-going elections. “

TINUBU TO LAGOS APC CHIEFS: "Be Ready To Deliver Sanwoolu or Risk Losing Your Office"

All Progressives Congress, APC leader Asiwaju Bola Tinubu yesterday gave marching order to the party’s chieftains in Lagos State to deliver maximum votes for the party, failing which they would be stripped of their positions.

Lamenting their poor delivery in Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections, the party leader warned that nobody, including the chairman of the state chapter of the party, Alhaji Tunde Balogun was indispensable.

Speaking to stakeholders after a closed-door meeting with members of the Governor’s Advisory Council, GAC, at the secretariat of the Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, Independent Campaign Group, BOS-ICG, in Ikeja GRA, he lambasted party chiefs for failing to deliver maximally for APC at last Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly polls.

He said the party’s strong membership did not show in last weekend’s election. Warning that any chieftain of the party who failed to attain in its mandate would be shown the red card.

“Please, don’t praise me, I don’t need your praises, after the poor performance you all put up at the presidential and National Assembly elections in the state,” the national leader was quoted as saying. “It showed that most of the chieftains and council chairmen did not mobilize the grassroots after all the support from the party.

 “I will not condone this act any further. Party leaders and council chairmen who fail to perform to expectation at the next governorship and House of Assembly polls on March 9, should be ready to resign or face the music.

“We have over three million registered APC members and yet the performance last Saturday was poor. “The chairman of the state party, (Babatunde

Balogun) should know that his position is not a permanent one. If he fails, he will have to go too,” the party leader said.

In attendance at the meeting were: GAC members led by Prince Tajudeen Olusi, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro,   Dr. Yomi Finnih, APC Governorship candidate in the state Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his running-mate, Dr. Femi Hamzat, APC state chairman, Tunde Balogun and executive members, among others.

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