EFCC, Nigerian Army Must Synergize For A More Secured Nigeria – Babalola

The South East Zonal Head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Johnson Babalola, has described the existing relationship between the Commission and the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Enugu as very cordial, robust and professional bearing in mind that both organisations have a mutual mandate of securing the Nigerian state.

Babalola made the assertion when the new Commander, Provost Unit of the Division, Col. D.A. Abubakar paid him a courtesy call on Wednesday February 15, 2017 at his office in Enugu.

EFCC ARRAIGNS MAN FOR IMMIGRATION SCAM

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned one Salami Oladimeji Ayodeji before Justice R. O. Dugbo-Oghoghorie at the Federal High Court sitting in Enugu, for allegedly swindling one Barrister Uche Nwokocha of the sum of N270, 000.00, under the pretence that he was going to use the said sum to procure and stamp Nigerian Immigration documents for the brother in-law who is based in the United Kingdom and to courier same to the said in-law.

While taking his plea, the accused pleaded not guilty on all counts of the six count charge preferred against him by the EFCC. 

In view of his plea, the prosecuting counsel Barrister F. A. I. Asemebor, then prayed the court to adjourn for the prosecution to open its case, “my lord, I humbly pray the court to adjourn for the prosecution to open our case for trial to commence fully” said Asemebor.

ANTI-GRAFT WAR: NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION LAUDS EFCC’S OPERATIONAL METHODS

The Zonal Coordinator, National Human Rights Commission, Enugu, Uche Nwokocha has commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Enugu Zonal office for its professional and logical method in the handling of its cases especially as it bothers on human rights.

Nwokocha made the commendation while delivering a remark during her organisation’s courtesy call to the EFCC South East Zonal Head, Mr. Johnson Babalola at his office in Independence Layout,Enugu.

Progress report on the Social Investment Programmes (SIPs) - Osinbajo

The National Home Grown School Feeding scheme, part of our Social Investment Programmes has kicked off in Anambra this past December, in collaboration with the state government. The children have been feeding and enjoying their healthy, well prepared meals.

Generally, the Homegrown School Feeding programme, which is one of the Social Investment plans of the Buhari presidency, is driven through community participation where residents in the community are engaged as cooks to provide feeding services. Also the programme leverages on the agricultural produce available within the communities.

The Homegrown School Feeding programme of the Buhari administration will not only boost school enrollment and improve the nutritional status of the pupils, it would also stimulate local farming, while equally creating jobs including the 774 cooks now in gainful employment in Anambra State.

WHY PRESIDENT BUHARI DID NOT ATTEND THE SOUTH EAST ECONOMIC AND SECURITY SUMMIT - PRESIDENCY

Contrary to media reports alleging that President Muhammadu Buhari snubbed the recent South-East Economic and Security Summit in Enugu, below is the accurate account:

The President was presented with a request to attend the Economic and Security Summit by the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu.

The President happily accepted. The visit to Enugu was scheduled for Thursday 22nd as can be found on the weekly programme. After this was done, some other stakeholders from the South East came and advised him not to go in view of the closeness of the date to Christmas; given the sensitivity of the period to the people, a presidential visit may come with overexertion and possibly, be disruptive of Christmas.

THE CHANGE WE PROMISED IS HERE! - LAI MOHAMMED

Being The text Of The Speech By The Hon Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, At The South-East Edition Of The Federal Government's Town Hall Meeting in Enugu on Monday, Aug. 1st 2016

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Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the South-East Edition of our Town Hall Meeting. Permit me first to thank the Executive Governor of Enugu State, His Excellency Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, most sincerely for his immense contribution to the hosting of this event. By his efforts, His Excellency has shown that the development of our country transcends party affiliation and other divisive considerations.

2 May I also express my gratitude to my colleagues Honorable Ministers for accepting to be part of this meeting, despite their busy schedule. Honourable Ministers, your presence here is a testimony to the importance you attach to keeping Nigerians adequately informed of the activities of government.

COLLABORATION AGAINST CORRUPTION: EFCC Paid Courtesy Visit to Media Organizations in South East

As part of the EFCC’s renewed effort to take the anti-graft fight to the grassroots and in fulfillment of its preventive mandate as being championed by the acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, the Director, Public Affairs Department, Osita Nwajah, paid courtesy visit to some media organizations in the South East. 

The tour took him to NTA, Enugu; Dream FM Enugu; Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN, Enugu network station and News Agency of Nigeria, NAN. 

At Dream FM, Nwajah was received by the station’s Managing Director and Head of Operation, Mr. Antonio Cruise and Nwosu Chidioze respectively; at FRCN, it was the zonal director, Ike Ken Okere, who expressed his delight in the visit, saying it was good in fostering institutional cooperation for the greater good of the country. 

PILOT TRAINING: 301 FTS GRADUATES NEW BATCH OF 10 STUDENT PILOTS

Ten trainees of Student Pilot Course 41B have completed their ab-initio pilot training at 301 Flying Training School (FTS), Kaduna. 

The graduands, awarded certificates over the weekend, are now ready to proceed for Basic Flying Training (BFT) on the fixed wing aircraft at 303 FTS Kano or similar facilities abroad. The graduating students were among the 25 original members of Student Pilot Course 41 that was later divided into two batches of 12 and 13 students. 

Six members of the first batch of students, constituting Student Pilot Course (SPC) 41A, were sent for rotary wing flying at the International Helicopter Flying Training School, Enugu. The remaining six, comprising 4 Nigerians and 2 Liberians, continued their training in 301 FTS and completed the course in 2015. 

WHY I WILL RECONTEST IN 2019 — GOODLUCK JONATHAN

Former president Goodluck Jonathan has declared his interest to run for presidency in 2019 in Bayelsa State today. A jubilant crowd erupted as news leaked that the former president would be holding a press briefing this afternoon. In a statement released by his media secretary, the former president said, he has been inundated with calls from famous Nigerians to reconsider and salvage the economy from the current decay under the APC led government.
The statement reads in part: “A while ago I stood at the Eagle Square, to offer myself for election as the President of our beloved country on the platform of our great party; the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). I decided to run for office because of the many troubles our dear country faced. In a hotly contested election, we ‘lost’ the election to the opposition. We would have rejected the election results but decided my personal ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian.

Protests In Enugu Over Herdsmen Invasion (Photos)

Residents of Enugu state are presently staging a protest in the state over the recent invasion of Nimbo community by some Fulanu herdsmen. 

The protesters, amongst whom are members of Federated Association Of Nsukka Students (FANS), are calling on the state governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, to take a decisive step to curtail the activities of the Fulani herdsmen in the state.

 The protesters started their protest march from the Michael Okpara Square, Enugu as early as 7:00 am.  

More photos below:

The Fulani vampires are at it again; silence of President Buhari, a moral tragedy!

Today, Enugu, my state is their target. Dozens of people have been reportedly killed and hundreds displaced with buildings including a Catholic church burnt.

This murderous group killed hundreds in ‪#‎Agatu‬ and occupied their land. The Fulani president did nothing. The Fulani headed DSS did nothing.

They went to Anioma in Delta state, abducted and killed their king. The fulani president did nothing. The Fulani headed DSS did nothing.

They went to Awgu community in Enugu state, killed dozens and abducted dozens. The Fulani president did nothing. The Fulani headed DSS did nothing. Only the police and the army did something this time: they arrested 78 indigenes of Awgu who are the victims and dumped them in prison and denied them bail on the allegation that they planned on attacking the fulanis. Meanwhile, the perpetrators were allowed to roam free

NFF Unveils Super Eagles' Interim Managers

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) said on Wednesday that Shaibu Amodu, the Technical Director of the NFF and Salisu Yusuf would take charge of the Super Eagles on interim basis.

This was part of the decisions taken after Wednesday's meeting of the NFF Technical Committee which took place at the NFF secretariat.

The appointment would see the coaches lead the Eagles to the two international friendlies against Mali and Luxembourg national team on May 27 and June 1 respectively.

Nigeria Military to protect Ploice Facilities Across the Country as Boko Haram attack Gwoza Police Training Academy

Following an attack on one of the country’s foremost police training institutions, the Police Academy, Gwoza, Borno State by Boko Haram on Wednesday, the Nigeria Police has reached out to the military to protect its facilities in the North.

The military would deploy soldiers to guard police barracks, primary and secondary schools, as well as its training colleges. Besides the college at Gwoza, other NPF training institutions in the country include the police colleges in Jos, Plateau State; Ikeja, Lagos State; Kaduna, Kaduna State; Maiduguri, Borno State; Oji-River and Police Detective College, Enugu; as well as the Police College of Information Technology, Abeokuta.

Others are the Police Mobile Training School, Ila-Orangun, Osun State; Mounted/Dog Training Schools, Jos, Plateau State; Traffic Training School, Ikeja; the Police School of Music, Ikeja; Police Schools of Communication, Ikeja, Lagos and Kaduna; the Police School of Anti-Terrorism, Nonwa-Tai, Rivers State; the Police Training School, Sokoto; Police Training School, Bauchi; Police Training School, Minna, Niger State; and Police Training School, Jos.

INEC Extends CVR in 10 States by Two Days

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) taking place in 10 states by two days. This extension is in view of the huge turnout of prospective registrants, and it is intended to give a fair chance to all eligible persons.

The exercise, which was originally scheduled to end on Sunday, 1st June, 2014, will now run till Tuesday, 3rd June 2014, in the following states: Taraba, Gombe, Zamfara, Kebbi, Benue, Kogi, Abia, Enugu, Akwa-Ibom and Bayelsa.

INEC calls on eligible persons in the states involved in the exercise that are yet to register as voters to use the opportunity of this extension to do so.

The Commission hereby reiterates, however, that the CVR is for only the following categories of people:
(i) Persons who turned 18 years after the last registration;
(ii) Persons who were 18 years at the time but did not present themselves for registration; and
(iii) Persons whose data were not adequately captured previously and for whom PVCs were not produced in the last distribution exercise.

Nollywood veteran filmmaker, Amaka Igwe dies at 60

Celebrated Nollywood movie producer, Amaka Igwe is dead.

Fuji House of Commotion producer Amaka Igwe, who is a Popular film producer, writer and director was reportedly died of an asthma attack last night

Igwe who was 60 years old reportedly died a few hours ago after battling with asthma. 

She had gone to Enugu in company of her husband for pre-production preparations for a new Igbo soap when she suffered an asthma attack and was immediately rushed to the hospital after initial intervention had failed but sadly died before getting there.

President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, Ibinabo Fiberesima allegedly confirmed this with a ‘Yes” response in a phone call with Best of Nollywood and ended the call abruptly.

Uche jumbo has confirmed it too via a tweet that reads “sad sad sad day, may God console your family, a great filmaker gone”

Her death was said to have been confirmed by the president of Actor Film of Nigeria, Ibinabo Fiberesima.

15 States, Include Osun and Ekiti Are Most Prone To Electoral Violence by 2015 General Elections

A non-governmental organisation CLEEN Foundation has revealed through its research that 15 states in Nigeria may be destabilised by electoral violence during the 2015 general elections.


The organisation made the revelations in Abuja on April 9, 2014, Wednesday, while presenting the report titled 'Third Security Threat Assessment'. The NGO, which promotes public safety, security, and access to justice, warned of high security risks in the spotted areas during the 2015 general elections.

According to CLEEN Foundation, the states to watch out for as 'most volatile' are: Adamawa, Benue, Borno, Ebonyi, Ekiti, Enugu, Imo, Kaduna, Nasarawa, Osun, Plateau, Rivers, Taraba, Yobe and Zamfara.