Trump urges congress to end US visa lottery

President Donald Trump has called on Congress to end the visa lottery programme, citing a Justice Department crackdown on a recipient who abused resident status to finance terrorist activities abroad.

“Time to end the visa lottery,” Trump said in a Twitter post.

EFCC arrests fake U.S. Army colonel

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says it has arrested two men for “impersonating” its operatives to obtain $10,000 by false presence.

Spokesman of the commission, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, disclosed this in a statement.

Uwujaren identified the suspects as one Mike Nkwocha and Richardson Obasogie, a “self-confessed Colonel in the United States Army”.

Lion Kills Zookeeper In Kaduna

A man identified as Mr. Adams has died after he was mauled by a lion in Gamji Gate amusement park in Kaduna.

According to a post on Facebook, the lion broke out of the cage and wounded Mr Adam on his neck and he later gave the ghost in the early hours of Wednesday.

Hundreds of people to be out of jobs as OLX plans to shutdown in Nigeria and Kenya

According to reports, OLX, one of Africa’s leading e-commerce platforms, is shutting its Kenya and Nigeria outlets. 

A source at the firm said the staff in both countries were formally informed of the decision on February 6, 2018 saying staff were reportedly notified of their termination beginning in March. 

Iconic Nigerian painting “Tutu” to be sold for N100 million In the UK

An iconic Nigerian painting that's been missing for decades has been discovered in a north London flat.

The discovery of Ben Enwonwu’s 1974 masterpiece of the Ife princess Adetutu Ademiluyi, known as Tutu, has been touted as the “most significant discovery in contemporary African art in over 50 years”, Nigerian novelist Ben Okri told the Guardian. 

Photos: Woman hits her 9-year-old stepson with a stool on the head killing him instantly

Police in Bweyogerere, Uganda have arrested a couple over the horrific death of their 9-year-old son.

Yvonne Oyo Vena, 28, a resident of Bweyogerere, hit Zion Ssendagire, the son of her co-wife, with a stool on the head killing him instantly.

South African-Born Billionaire Buys Los Angeles Times

Billionaire physician and investor Patrick Soon-Shiong who was born in South Africa to Chinese parents agreed on Wednesday to buy the Los Angeles Times, in a move aimed at reviving the fortunes of the newspaper amid recent turmoil.

Publishing group Tronc Inc. said it reached a deal to sell the LA Times and San Diego Union-Tribune to Soon-Shiong’s Nant Capital for $500 million plus the assumption of $90 million in pension liabilities.

Only 20% of policemen actively working, says AIG

The Police Force Headquarters has launched an investigation into its personnel’s attitude to work.

The probe it was gathered was aimed at solving the problems of lazy, unprofessional and mischievous policemen in the system.

19-Year-Old Guy Stabbed To Death Over WhatsApp Chat

A teenager has lost his life over an argument on a WhatsApp group chat.
According to reports he was arguing about who was least gay in the group, a court heard.

The deceased John Wright, 19, and a guy on the group Paul Akinnuoye, 20, got into an argument after Ice City Boys, members of the group, commented on Donnell Jones being in a new relationship with a girl called Fifi.

Obasanjo’s Son Asks Mother to Stop Declaring Him Missing

Olujowon, one of the sons of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has debunked the claim by his mother, Taiwo Martins, that he was missing and described the alleged search for him by the police as ridiculous.

During an interview his mother granted a newspaper a week ago, Martins had disclosed that Olujowon was missing and that the security agencies had been alerted to search for him.

2019: NBC warns broadcasting stations over political campaigns, hate speeches

The Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) yesterday read the out riot act to broadcast stations on political campaigns and hate speeches.

Its Director General, Mallam Ishaq Modibbo Kawu, said liable stations will soon face the law.

He noted that it was wrong and against the ethics of the profession to broadcast campaign messages or programmes when the lid was yet to be lifted.

Herdsmen Arrested After Exchanging Fire With Soldiers

Two herdsmen were yesterday arrested in Benue State after they exchanged fire with troops 707 Special Forces Brigade troops on a routine patrol along Gbajimba – Iyiodeh road in Guma Local Government Area.

They were arrested close to a fish farm owned by Governor Samuel Ortom.

Tin Can Customs generates N29.4b in January

The Tin Can Island Customs Command of the Nigeria Customs Service generated N29.4 billion in January 2018, up from N19.8 billion generated in the corresponding period of 2017.

The Public Relations Officer of the command, Uche Ejesieme, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Thursday.

UK to accept naira payments from Nigerian businesses

The United Kingdom government, through its export credit agency, UK Export Finance (UKEF), says it will now accept naira payments from Nigerian business owners who make procurement in the UK.

The UK department of international trade made this known in a statement sent to TheCable.

The statement said the local currency financing structure follows the same format as a conventional buyer credit in sterling or any other currency.

Unfair to say the President ignores herdsmen killings because he’s Fulani – Osinbajo

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said the assertion that President Mouhammadu Buhari ignores the killings perpetrated by Fulani herdsmen because he is Fulani is unfair and untrue.

The Vice President said this yesterday, during a summit on national security organised by the Senate in Abuja.

IBB’s spokesperson, Kassim Afegbua, invited by DSS over his controversial statement

Spokesperson of former military leader, Ibrahim Babangida, Kassim Afegbua, will today be honoring an invitation by the Department of State Security DSS over the controversial statement he released on behalf of the former military leader last Sunday.

Babangida in the state released by Kassim, called on Nigerians not to vote for President Buhari in 2019. Controversy started when Mohammed, the son of the former military leader, allegedly released another statement countering the one Afegbua had released. Babangida however granted an interview in which he stated that the one released by Afegbua was on his authority.

Daddy Freeze reacts after a lady declared that she does not pay tithes anymore

The controversial leader of the freethesheeple movement has reacted to the Facebook post of a lady who declared that she has stopped paying tithes to Winner Chapel.

Benita Owobi declared on Facebook that she feels do good about her decision and she also used the opportunity to encourage others to pay their tithes to any ministry they believe is using the money to feed the poor and Daddy Freeze reacted to what she said.

She wrote;

Nigerian man gets compensation 6 years after losing his babe to Osi Suave

A Nigerian man has taken to his twitter handle to reveal how he lost his girlfriend to popular on-air-personality (OAP), Osi Suave, about six years ago.

Identified as Abdul-Rasheed (@FineboyKrane) on Twitter, he opened up on how the radio presenter had come to pick up his girlfriend in his presence while at the University of Lagos (Unilag). He added that his lover came back with loads of goodies.

”I am a member of APC but if Benue people want me to defect to PDP, I will” Governor Ortom says

Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom, yesterday said that he will defect from APC to PDP or any other political party if his people so wish. Ortom said this yesterday when he received Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose who paid him a condolence visit over the killing of 78 persons by suspected herdsmen in January. Governor Fayose in his speech, called on Governor Ortom to leave APC and move over to PDP where he will be well catered for. He accused the Buhari-led government and the APC of neglecting one of their own states.

“My home is so silent now without him” – Eucharia Anunobi speaks on battling loneliness after son’s death

Nollywood actress, Eucharia Anunobi, is yet to get over the death of her only child, Joshua Ekwu, who died in 2017 after loosing the battle to sickle cell.

The actress cum evangelist who recently got back to acting lamented on the set of a new movie early this week while chatting with Inside Nollywood saying, ‘my home is so silent now without my son’.

The rich can no longer evade tax - Adeosun

It will be difficult for the rich to avoid paying taxes given the plans by the government to widen the tax net and capture all those who should be paying, Finance Minister  Kemi Adeosun said yesterday in Enugu.

She expressed regret that no fewer than 56 million Nigerians, who should be paying taxes, are not paying.

I Use Human Flesh For Money Ritual – Alfa

The Oyo State Police Command on Thursday paraded an Islamic cleric (Alfa), a pastor, and two others, who were allegedly caught with suspected human parts in the Ayegun area of Ibadan.

The state Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Odude, said Alfa, Sulaiman Hamed, 35, participated in the Fidau prayers for a dead man but later contracted two men to exhume the corpse because he needed the body parts for money ritual.

Obaseki Bans Night-Grazing, Armed Herdsmen In Edo

The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has banned night grazing and armed herdsmen in the state just as he set up a seven-man committee in each of the 18 local government areas to check herdsmen, farmers’ clashes.

The seven-man committee will include the chairmen or heads of the LGAs, the Divisional Police Officers, representatives of the Department of State Services and four representatives from the communities in the state.

Herdsmen killings: Gov. Ortom reveals when he’ll dump APC for PDP

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has revealed that he will dump the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP immediately the people of state ask him to do so.

The governor was responding to the call by the Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose who paid him condolence visit yesterday following the killing of several people of the state by Fulani herdsmen.

FG to return excise duty on recharge cards, fruit juice

The federal government will re-introduce excise duty on some goods manufactured in the country and excisable imported goods in line with the directive of ECOWAS council of ministers.

In a letter addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari and seen by TheCable, Kemi Adeosun, minister of finance, said spaghetti and noodles would be exempted from the changes.