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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORT HARCOURT – FORMER Chairman , Governing Board of National Youth Service Corps, Chief Gordon Bozimo is dead. Chief Bozimo who was also a member of the Board of Trustees of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, died on Monday at the age of 67 at a hospital in Arkansas, United States of America. A statement released by his son, Mr Preye Bozimo said the father was survived by two wives , many children and grand children, adding that he passed on after a brief illness. Chief Bozimo hailed from Bayelsa and Delta states and was Chief Executive Officer, Bozgomero Nigeria Limited. The post Former Chairman NYSC’ s board, Gordon Bozimo dies at 67 appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2rPWwWo

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday leaders he met on a Middle East trip had warned him that Qatar was funding “radical ideology” after he had demanded they take action to stop financing militant groups. The comments on Twitter, Trump’s first about the rift between Qatar and major Arab nations over alleged support of Iran and Islamist groups came as the leader of Kuwait was to meet in Saudi Arabia to try to mediate the dispute. Qatar vehemently denies the accusations against it, calling them baseless. Ordinary Qataris, however, were to be found crowding into supermarkets to stock up on goods against the crisis. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain severed relations with Qatar and closed their airspace to commercial flights on Monday, in the worst split between powerful Arab states in decades. “During my recent trip to the Middle East I stated that there can no longer be funding of Radical Ideology. “Leaders pointed to Qatar – loo...

http://ift.tt/2skrJhw Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu A Gudu Upper Area Court, Abuja, on Monday granted bail in the sum of N500,000 to 50-year-old businessman, Ahmed Echoda, who allegedly gave false information to the Police about Sen. Ike Ekweremadu’s guest house. The judge, Alhaji Umar Kagarko, also ordered the defendant‎ to provide one surety who must reside within the court’s jurisdiction and adjourned the case until July 20 for hearing. The defendant was arraigned on May 30 on a two-count charge, bordering on criminal conspiracy and giving false information to mislead a public servant, offences he denied committing. The judge had adjourned ruling on the defendant’s bail application after the defence counsel, Peters Ugwuoke, applied for his bai. The prosecutor, Malik Taiwo, had told the court that ‎the defendant and one Maiwada Adamu, now at large, had given false information to the Inspector General of Police, Special Tactical Squad, Force Headquarters,...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Disheveled, barefoot and bleary-eyed, the Nigerian girls are some of the first to walk off the boats. A dream realised; they arrive in Europe — though the scene is anything but romantic. Caskets are carried off, carrying those who didn’t survive the two-day journey across the Mediterranean, from Libya to the Sicilian port of Palermo. Babies wail and those sick and burned from the effects of the gasoline mixed with saltwater stumble towards the medical tent. The Nigerian girls are given a plastic bag containing a litre of water, a piece of fruit and a sandwich. They’re ushered to a vinyl tent for “vulnerabili” — the vulnerable ones. For at least 30 years, Nigerian women have been trafficked into Europe for sex work, but numbers have spiked recently. In 2014, the trickle of a few hundred women a year grew to nearly 1,500. The following year, it increased again to 5,600. In 2016, at least 11,009 Nigerian women and girls arrived on Italian shores. These women used...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A 50-year-old man, Muritala Olaniyan, on Friday pleaded guilty to stealing his neighbour’s mobile phone while buying goods from his shop. Olaniyan admitted that he stole the Samsung phone from Mr Godwin Enoch at 9a.m. on May 12 at Sari Iganmu, Lagos. The prosecutor, Sgt. Christopher Okoliko, had told the court that the phone was valued at N18,000. “The phone has been recovered from him,’’ Okoliko said.‎ ‎ He noted that the offence contravened Section 287 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015. Newsmen report that the law stipulates three years jail term for stealing. The Chief Magistrate, Mr. A.A. Paul, will on May 22 review the facts of the case and sentence Olaniyan. Paul ordered that the accused should be remanded in prison custody until then. The post 50-year-old pleads guilty to stealing neighbour’s N18,000 phone appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2qF51B7

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Delta Police Command has confirmed the abduction of four Itsekiri leaders and some officials of Elcrest, an indigenous firm, by suspected militants in Delta. The command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Andrew Aniamaka, confirmed the abduction in Warri, Delta, on Friday. “The police backed by the military are on the trail of the hoodlums,” Aniamaka said. Maj. Abubakar Abdullahi, Coordinator, Joint Media Campaign Centre of Operations Delta Safe (OPDS), also said that OPDS was on top of the situation. A reliable source in Warri said that the victims were kidnapped in a community in Benin River in Warri North Local Government Area at 5:00p.m. on Tuesday. The source said that the victims were returning to Warri from Ureju Community when they were abducted. “The community leaders had gone to show the officials of Elcrest, a location for the firm’s proposed free medical outreach. “The kidnappers are demanding a ransom of N36 million from the company and also re...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A toxicology test carried out by the Nigerian Police has ruled out the possibility of poisoning in the death of late Senator Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke. This was made known following the testimony of SP Moses Eleta who took the stand for the second time at the inquest Friday morning. Eleta reading sections of the police toxicology report tendered as exhibit 6 and 8 to the court stated  that  “ exhibit 6 are three bottles containing dark brown liquid labeled blood while exhibit 8 is one postmortem  bottle containing a pale yellow liquid labeled urine”. “Analysis of exhibit 6 and 8 gave negative results for the presence of chlorinated hydrocarbon herbicides, organo-phosphorus pesticides, rodenticides, metallic poisons, cyanide and tri-cyclic anti-depressants” CP Eleta submitted others reports including a reply to an enquiry written to the school of nursing Osogbo that confirmed that Alfred Aderibigbe is a licensed nurse. The toxicology report howeve...

http://ift.tt/2qyryza Manchester United's French midfielder Paul Pogba (C) and Manchester United's French striker Anthony Martial (centre R) attend a team training session at the club's training complex near Carrington, west of Manchester in northwest England on May 3, 2017, ahead of their UEFA Europa League semi-final first leg football match against Celta Vigo. / AFP PHOTO / Paul ELLIS Paul Pogba and defenders Eric Bailly, Chris Smalling and Phil Jones all trained on the eve of Manchester United’s Europa League semi-final first leg at Celta Vigo on Thursday. England pair Smalling and Jones have been out since mid-March, while fellow centre-back Bailly limped off in the 61st minute of United’s 1-1 draw with Swansea City on Sunday. With left-back Luke Shaw sustaining a foot injury in the same game, United were facing a defensive injury crisis, but manager Jose Mourinho may now have more options at his disposal than anticipated. Record signing Pogba’s return to t...