Book Haram planning large-scale bombing during Ramadan – Army

The Defence Headquarters has raised the alarm that members of the Boko Haram sect were planning a large scale bombing during the Ramadan festival.


The Acting Director Defence Information, Brig. Gen. Rabe Abubakar, said in an electronic mail on Saturday that the insurgents had a plan to carry out massive bomb attacks during early morning and evening prayers during Ramadan.


Abubakar urged religious organisations to take necessary security precautions during the period. He also called on the members of the public to be on the watch out for strange objects and report all suspicious movements to security operatives for prompt action.


He said, “Information available to this Headquarters indicated plans by terrorists to use the Ramadan period which usually attracts gathering of large number of persons during morning and evening worships and prayers to carry out large scale bombings Against this background, the Defence Headquarters wishes to once again advice the general public to be watchful of strange persons and objects in their localities particularly, around places of worship and to promptly report same to security agencies.


“It is further to advice that adequate security and surveillance be evolved by respective places of worship to forestall any unwholesome acts by some unscrupulous elements.


“The DHQ wishes to reassure law abiding citizens to go about their normal businesses while efforts are being made to eliminate the remnants of the terrorists from their hideouts as well as addressing other security challenges in the country.”

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Oyo NLC demands release of union leaders

The Oyo State Chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on Saturday demanded the immediate release of its chairman, Comrade Waheed Olojede, and six others arrested by the state government.


The union further charged the state government to withdraw the charges levelled against them in the court.


The NLC described the arrest and subsequent prosecution of the labour leaders as a ploy to force the union to support the planned privatisation of secondary school education by the Abiola Ajimobi-led administration.


Addressing journalists at the union’s secretariat at Agodi, Ibadan, the treasurer, Comrade Bosun Daramola, said that the union’s leaders should not only be released from Agodi prison custody, government should also pay the outstanding salaries and arrears of workers in the state.


The police arrested Olojede and six others and charged them to a magistrate court last Friday on a seven-count charge bordering on breach of public peace and damage of public property.


The unionists were accused of disrupting a stakeholders’ meeting organized by the Oyo State government to address issues on the proposed privatisation of selected secondary schools in the state.


The accused persons could not meet the bail conditions slammed on them by Chief Magistrate Jamiu Adebisi and were remanded in prison custody.


The conditions include two sureties with national identity cards, work identity card, three years tax clearance and a sum of N200,000 for each of the accused persons. In his speech, Daramola said, “the union was aware that the arrest, arraignment and incarceration of our union leaders was a deliberate gimmick of the Oyo State government to weaken the determination of the union to lead the entire suffering workers in the state.


”The union would like to inform the public and parents of students in public schools in the state that they remain resolute and no amount of arrest and prosecution of the union leaders would deter them from the struggle to rescue public schools in the state from being sold.


”The public educational system in Oyo State and other parts of the country is enmeshed in crisis, characterized by inadequate facilities for proper learning.


The union will continue to defend the economic rights of the Nigerians working masses and urge all individuals or religious organizations who may be interested in buying over the public schools to rescind the decision. We say Oyo public schools are not for sale”.


The union also demanded for proper and adequate funding of the education sector, including payment of living wages and other incentives for educational workers and likewise the immediate payment of six months outstanding salaries and pension arrears.

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This Pastor stole Female Member's Jeep after "Killing" Her During Deliverance

A big position does not make a man good, the first step to being a good person is self-discipline; do not try to achieve your desires through a crooked or disgraceful means. Live right, you'll be glad you did! As you read this, Pastor Delight Arinze Okorie of Watered Ground Ministry in Njaba area of Imo State, has been arrested for attempted murder of a female member of his church and stealing her SUV.


The Pastor has confessed to the crime, but as usual he is blaming the devil for his action. According to The Sun, the suspect had earlier deceived his victim, one Miss Chioma Oleka that she was being troubled by marine spirit which he said must be cast out before she would be ok.


The pastor, it was learnt, allegedly lured Miss Oleka to a river in the guise of exorcising the marine spirit. But unknown to the lady, he had actually perfected plans to eliminate her and flee with her SUV.


According to Imo State Police Command spokesperson, Mr. Andrew Enwerem, while the fake deliverance was going on, Pastor Okorie pushed Miss Oleka into the river with the intention of drowning her.


The suspect was said to have gone into the car and brought out a machete when it was glaring that the lady would survive and allegedly inflicted severe injuries on her. The PPRO further revealed that as soon as the lady passed out, Okorie zoomed off in her car. He disclosed that policemen attached to Nwangele division on routine patrol rescued her and took her to hospital. By divine providence, she was revived. Mr Enewerem said the pastor was subsequently nabbed at Orlu in the state with the lady’s car.


Following his confession, Pastor Okorie would be charged to court for robbery and attempted murder.

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NYSC Has NOT Been Scraped

Following the delay in mobilizing the 2016 Batch A stream 2 corpers to their various camps across Nigeria, the social media has been awash with insinuations that the Federal government is considering to or has already scarped the NYSC scheme. But a clarification has come from the presidency.


A statement credited to Garba Shehu, SSA to the President on Media & Publicity, said "NYSC is a creation of the law. Only another law can repeal it."

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Saraki Again? ₦300m Vanishes in His Bedroom; Police Arrests His Aides & Accountant

The Nigeria police in Ilorin, Kwara State, questioned and then released several domestic aides as well as some members of the security detail assigned to Senate President Bukola Saraki in connection with the mysterious disappearance of N300 million from the senator’s bedroom in Ilorin.


According to SR investigation, the money that went missing at Saraki's home had just been ferried there by the Kwara State government in different foreign exchange denominations. What? SR reports that Saraki called on Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed to provide the huge cash to enable him provide largesse to his supporters in Ilorin at the start of the Ramadan season. This is not the first time a gargantuan sum of cash connected to Saraki grew wings and disappeared. Last year, agents of the Department of State Security (DSS) attached to the embattled Senate President stole a huge sum of money that the owner of a bureau de change, who is a cousin of former military Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar, was ferrying to Saraki. Months after their arrest, the DSS agents have yet to be formally charged to court for robbery. A source in the agency told SR that the DSS and Saraki were colluding to cover up the case.


“Senator Saraki does not want the public to start asking questions about the source of the money. And the DSS does not want the role of our agents to become public knowledge,” the source disclosed. Two reliable sources in Ilorin confirmed the latest heist of the illicit cash approved by Governor Ahmed of Kwara State and sent to Saraki’s home. Saraki anointed Ahmed as his successor.


One of our sources claimed that this was the second time in a month that large sums of money disappeared from the Senate President’s Ilorin mansion. Just imagine how government money is flying.

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Happy Ramadan To All Sodeeqstar Readers – Fasting Starts On Monday 6 June 2016

Alhamdulilah. the month of Allah’s rahmah, blessings and forgiveness is here. May Allah give us the oppoetunity to serve him wholeheartedly and devotedly.


May He accept all our efforts in this month and beyond.RAMADHAN KAREEM.


Wishing all Sodeeqstar blog readers Happy Ramadan Kareem. Please keep all muslims in your Dua (prayer), Nigeria & the world as a whole and please, don’t forget to eat your Sahur.


We Started it with Bismillahi, Insha Allah, We all will be very much alive to end it with Alihamdullilahi

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Governor Ambode Says; "Soldiers Beat Up My Mother’s Police Guards

The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has denied a media report that a kidnap attempt was made on his mother, Mrs. Christianah Ambode, at her residence in Gbagada, Lagos on Friday. The governor, in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Habib Aruna, denied the report, saying it was not a true reflection of what transpired at his mother’s residence. Reports had claimed that that armed gunmen invaded the governor’s mother’s residence and disarmed some of the octogenarian’s police detail in an attempt to abduct her. But in the statement, Governor Ambode said, “Whilst it is true that a commotion occurred at the residence of the governor’s mother on the fateful day, it was however far from the truth that it was a kidnap attempt. “What really transpired was that a man parked his vehicle in front of the residence of the governor’s mother and the security detail attached to the building asked him not to park there so as not to block the entrance. “The man, who claimed to be military personnel, was not in uniform as of the time of the unfortunate incident but he insisted on parking in front of the building on the ground that he was military personnel. “He then went on to invite military personnel attached to Operation MESA to beat Mrs. Ambode’s police details after he was advised not to park his vehicle outside the building.” “At the moment, officials of the state government are taking appropriate steps to sanction the unruly military personnel who joined their colleague to disturb public peace,” Aruna stated. Lagos Police Command has confirmed the unfortunate attack and said it was working with military authorities to investigate the case and bring the culprits to book.

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