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Barely three weeks before next month’s presidential elections, another bigwig of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Bayelsa State, Senator Felix Oboro, has left the ruling party for the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC. According to Thisday newspaper report online, Sen. Oboro, a member of Jonathan’s Presidential Campaign Committee in Bayelsa, decamped to the APC on Friday. It was disclosed that the Senator, who was Nigeria’s former ambassador to Venezuela, was conspicuously absent during the swearing in of members of the presidential campaign committee in Bayelsa by Governor Seriake Dickson. It was gathered that Sen. Oboro was welcomed to the APC by the leader of the party in Bayelsa, Chief Timipre Sylva. Speaking at the event, Sylva stated that with political leaders leaving the PDP in droves that the ruling party was gradually heading for collapse. He also added that besides insecurity that was pervading the country, the level of unemployment and poverty was inc...

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday held a closed door meeting with the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse II and the National President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor in Warri, Delta State. Sources at the closed door meeting told Saturday Vanguard that the visit was for the President to gain Itsekiri leaders’ confidence and support on next month’s elections and appeal for calm over ethnic conflict generated by the stalemated Export Processing Zone, EPZ, sited in Ogidigben, Warri South West Area of the state. The visit is coming days after the Itsekiri Leaders of Thought, ILT, vowed to vote against him if he fails to do the groundbreaking the $16 billion EPZ which the President reneged on last year following protest by Ijaws of Gbaramatu Kingdom. The President on arrival had first visited Pastor Oritsejafor at his GRA, Warri residence before leaving for the Olu’s Palace in company of the CAN President and Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan. A particip...

The Yuletide celebration ended abruptly for a woman whose husband pounced on her, in Olodi- Apapa area of Lagos State on Boxing Day, removing one of her teeth. The residents were eating and dancing with their landlord along Kirikiri Road when one of the male tenants identified as Joseph noticed that his wife, Anna, had been dancing for a long time with a particular young man. One of the tenants who spoke on the condition of anonymity disclosed that Joseph who was angry with the development called his wife and warned her against dancing with the young man. The source said, “Like a hunting dog that refused to listen to the sound of its master’s whistle, his wife named Anna continued to dance with the said tenant called Stephen. At a point, the angry husband went to them and dragged his wife who struggled to free herself and return to the young man. The jealous husband slapped his wife and a fight ensued. In the process, the man gave her a blow across the lips and she began to bleed...

An AirAsia flight carrying 155 people from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore lost contact with air traffic control early Sunday morning, officials in the region and the low-cost airline said. Reuters reported that the flight QZ 8501, an Airbus A320-200, lost contact with the Jakarta air traffic control tower at 6:17 am local time (about 6: 17 pm (Saturday)Nigerian time), Indonesian Transport Ministry official Hadi Mustofa said. According to NBC news, The plane carrying 162 aboard went missing on Sunday en route from Indonesia to Singapore after the pilot asked to change course due to weather. AirAsia said most on board were Indonesian and that there were six foreigners — three South Koreans and one each from Singapore, France and Malaysia. It had 155 passengers and crew on board, another Indonesian Transport official said. “Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers. we must stay strong,” AirAsia Chief Executive Tony Fernandes said on Twitter. He later announced he...

According to the Imo State Police Command, the suspect had har­vested about seven male private parts be­fore she was arrested. All of these bizarre incidents, she said, happened in an Owerri hotel. Reportedly, her method is to lure men into sexual act and at the height of ecstasy, she would sneak out razor blade and cut off her partner’s manhood. “We use the manhood for money rituals. I have killed seven men in the hotel in Owerri. They had sex with me after they have paid me N3, 000 or N5, 000. I would be on top of the man and in the process I would bring out blade and cut off his manhood. “I do hand over the manhood to our gang leader. They always promise to pay us N150,000 for each manhood we could sup­ply, and which they used for money ritual,” Uche, who hails from Mbaitoli Local Government Area, confessed. Moreover, Uche gave birth to three children. She sold her two kinds for N200,000 each, while the third child is staying with her mother. The...

According to Leadership and the Cable, in the early hours of December 24th, Senator Bala Mohammed’s Special Assistant on media, Mr. Nosike Ogbuenyi, was  ambushed by suspected armed robbers near the Dantata overhead bridge along the Umaru Yar’Adua expressway. The incident was confirmed by the Senator Mohammed’s Chief Press Secretary, who disclosed that the robbers have shot at Mr. Ogbuenyi at a close range and wounded him on the right leg. The criminals took off with his official car (a black colour 2011 model Toyota Corolla salon), two Samsung handsets, one Window 7 HP Laptop, two hard disc memory devices, three USB devices, one large photo book, bank documents, two ATM cards and office records. Ogbuenyi, who was political editor of ThisDay before joining the FCT administration as special assistant on media to the minister, is now recuperating in the hospital. According to eyewitnesses, the robbers headed towards Gwarinpa-Zuba road through Dantata bridge with the sna...

Vanguard reports that the governor made the appeal when he featured on his monthly media chat, ‘Meet Your Governor’. Ayo Fasoye explained that the unstable financial state in which Ekiti state is presently is very sad and it is as a result of the way the former administration used the funds. Revealing that governors of Jigawa, Adamawa and Katsina States sent rams and cows to him as part of their contributions to his “stomach infrastructure” agenda for Christmas celebrations, Fayose made it known that it is desire to ensure that happiness of Ekiti people. READ ALSO: PHOTOS: Fayose Extends ‘Stomach Infrastructure’ To Nigerian Police  The governor explained that the deductions from the allocation of the state from the Bond sourced by the last administration and commercial loans obtained from banks had adversely affected the state finances. “I became governor on October 16 and that is two months and ten days now and I want to state categorically that I have managed resources of th...