Image Courtesy - Pixabay According to  Katie Benner,   The  New York Times  reported   that  The Justice Department disclosed Wednesday that it had created an official section in its immigration office to strip citizenship rights from naturalized immigrants, a move that gives more heft to the Trump administration’s broad efforts to remove from the country immigrants who have committed crimes. The Denaturalization Section “underscores the department’s commitment to bring justice to terrorists, war criminals, sex offenders and other fraudsters who illegally obtained naturalization,” Joseph H. Hunt, the head of the Justice Department’s civil division, said in a statement. “The Denaturalization Section will further the department’s efforts to pursue those who unlawfully obtained citizenship status and ensure that they are held accountable for their fraudulent conduct,” Mr. Hunt said. The move promises to further expand a practice that was ...

                                                           Image Courtesy- Pixabay ATLANTA —   An Atlanta woman who pretended to be disabled, but also worked as a stripper, has pleaded guilty to Social Security fraud. Valencia Williams disclosed to the Social Security Administration that she was disabled and rarely left home,  She told the government she had extreme anxiety and depression and couldn’t even leave her room, but the SSA established that it was not true. She qualified for disability benefits while she was allegedly working at Stroker’s Adult entertainment in DeKalb County under the name Chrissy the Doll. In 2010, Williams started getting Social Security benefits for major depressive disorder and panic disorder, but later discovered that she got adult entertainer p...

SPEECH DELIVERED BY THE GOVERNOR OF OGUN STATE, HIS EXCELLENCY, PRINCE DAPO ABIODUN, MFR, ON THE UNFORTUNATE KILLING OF TIAMIYU KAZEEM IN SAGAMU AND ENSUING PROTESTS ON MONDAY, 24TH FEBRUARY, 2020 Fellow Citizens of Ogun State, particularly the good people of Sagamu 1. I address you today on the unfortunate death of Mr. Tiamiyu Kazeem, a rising star of Remo Stars FC, on Saturday, 22 February, 2020. This is a painful loss and an avoidable death in a circumstance that made it even more painful. And I commiserate with the family, friends and associates. 2. Whilst investigation is still on-going, I have since engaged the top hierarchy of the Police. The IGP has since deployed DIG (South West) to visit Sagamu and DIG (Force CIID) to take over the investigation. I have expressed the strong commitment of Ogun State government to ensuring that justice is done. IGP has promised that the police officers allegedly implicated in the unfortunate death will be thoroughly and dispassio...

Osun State Council of Traditional Rulers Friday suspended the Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, for six months for dragging the institution into the mud with his public conduct. But in his reaction to the remission, Oluwo Akanbi described it as political. Osun State Council of Traditional Rulers Friday suspended the Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, for six months for dragging the institution into the...

                                                                        Image courtesy - almajiriproject.com Nigeria -  Aisha Buhari, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday,  said the challenges posed by the almajiri system in the North should fall among major issues leaders from the region must earnestly addressed.  She spoke at the Joint National Conference of Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) and Future Assured Initiative on Repositioning the Muslim Family for National Development which took place in Abuja on Wednesday. According to her, there was no assurance that government could handle all challenges but taking the almajiri children off the streets should be admired. Her words: “I’m happy that the Ooni of Ife remembered the hope that they had seen i...

                               Leah Sharibu President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday remember the abduction and imprisonment of Leah Sharibu by Boko Haram sect -Islamic West Africa Province [ ISWAP] exactly two years ago.  The President said the Federal Government has increased its effort for her liberty. On February 19, 2018, Boko Haram insurgents attacked the Government Girls Secondary School in Dapchi, Yobe State and abducted Leah and about 100 other girls. In a statement on Tuesday, President Buhari said: “This government continues and seeks to secure the release of all children and captives of terrorists – and we do so regardless of their creed or the name of their creator.” “As we redouble our efforts for Leah’s return, we can never allow the terrorists to divide us – Christian against Muslim, Muslim against Christian.” Read the president’s full statement he personally signed below.  ...

                                 Image Courtesy Pixabay With the virus death toll now exceeding 1,600, a number of countries, including the United States, the UK, and Japan, are already evacuating their citizens from Wuhan but Nigeria is yet to take action. More than 5,000 Africans study in Wuhan. On Wednesday, Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta said his country is planning to evacuate Kenyan students trapped in Wuhan.  “We are also working, because we have got a good number of our students there, to see how we can support them and find out how we can ... ensure that they are put in quarantine for the required 14 days and ensure that they are not going to spread that virus around,” Kenyatta was  quoted as saying by Daily Nation , a Kenyan news outlet.  According DW .COM ,  Senegalese President Macky Sall previously said  that Senegal couldn't match "big co...

  A bus leaves a port where the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship is docked  Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020, in Yokohama, near Tokyo. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)   Americans onboard a cruise ship quarantined over the deadly new  coronavirus  will have the option of being transferred from the vessel on Sunday, according to U.S. government. The U.S. Department of State and agencies including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will provide a chartered flight to transport all American citizens on the  Diamond Princess  cruise ship from Japan to the United States, the American Commission in Tokyo confirmed in a  statement. The vessel has been docked at the port city of Yokohama, south of Tokyo, and those onboard quarantined for over a week after a passenger was diagnosed with the infection on February 1. The quarantine period is due to last till February 19, according to its operator Princess Cruises.  It could to ...

                             Motunrayo Rafiu Motunrayo Rafiu, the law graduate of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, who was kidnapped by suspected bandits on Kabba-Lokoja Highway, has detailed  her difficult exprience. She was released on Sunday after the family reportedly paid a ransom of N1m. The victim was said to have spent six days in the kidnappers’ den. “She was released on Sunday evening after we paid N1m to them,” a family member said. The Kogi State Police Public Relations Officer, Williams Aya, however, said the victim was rescued along with three others. He said, “All the victims were released yesterday (Sunday) by the abductors. Since the incident happened, our men had been trailing the kidnappers. The Special Anti-Robbery Squad, the Anti-Kidnapping Unit and the Police Mobile Force and Counter-Terrorism Unit were deployed to comb the bush and as of yesterday m...

The police in Ogun State have arrested the President of Students’ Union Government (SUG) of the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro and one other suspect. The accused, Adegboye Emmanuel Olatunji and Olarewaju Taiwo were apprehended on Sunday. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the SUG President and another member of the cult group were arrested wearing the full regalia of the black axe cult during initiation of new members of the group. “The president of the Students’ Union Government of Federal Polytechnic Ilaro Adegboye Emmanuel Olatunji and one Olarewaju Taiwo have been arrested by men of Ogun State police command on Sunday 9th of February 2020 for cultism.” he said. Oyeyemi added that the duo were arrested following information received by police at Ilaro division from members of the public that some group of people suspected to be cultists were sighted in a bush at Gbogidi area of Ilaro where they were trying to initiate new members. “The tw...

                                                          Professor Babagana Umara Zulum An employee who is  punctual  is considered as credible in the eyes of his/her employer.   A level 12 class teacher, Mrs Obiagelli Mazi, who was met by Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum 6:30 am on Friday, has been promoted to an assistant headmistress. Executive Chairman, Borno State Universal Education Board, SUBEB, Dr Shettima Kullima conveyed the promotion on Saturday after his recommendation was endorsed by Governor Zulum.  The woman who hails from Abia state has been teaching for 31 years. Zulum met her at Shehu Sanda Kyarimi 2 Primary school under Jere local government education authority. Governor Zulum had during an outing 6:30 am on Friday to check out public schools, encountered Mrs Obiagelli alre...

                                His Eminence Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Mohammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, has renounced a Fulani group which claims that the ethnic group owns Nigeria from Sokoto to the Atlantic,  he also said no one can Islamise or Christianise Nigeria.  He also declared that in all the over hundred books of Usman Danfodio, there was no place where it was written that Nigeria belong to the Fulanis.  Speaking at the Interfaith Mediation Centre in conjunction with the Plateau State Peace Building Agency first annual Plateau State Forgiveness and Reconciliation Day. “I am the leader of Usman Danfodio dynasty, I have never seen where in the hundreds books of Usman Danfodio where it was said Nigeria belong to the Fulanis. What he wrote was the role of Islam in leadership, governance, among others. They never mention of conquer of any particular la...

                                 File Photo : The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar has condemned the new Northern proposed security outfit called ‘Shege Ka Fasa’ The caliph criticized the elders in the north, described the security outfit as a way to ‘score cheap political points. He further called on the northern elders to call the youths to order immediately. Sultan of Sokoto said this while speaking at the Northern Security Meeting which was held in Kaduna on Thursday. “I saw the security outfit on the media." ” The elites are our problems, the youth will do whatever they like If the elders don’ t take the lead and think they are right. They have to caution these youths by giving them good leadership.“ “The youths launched their own security outfit they call it Shege Ka Fasa’, meaning what? “I’m calling on northern elders to cauti...

              Operation ‘Shege Ka Fasa' A month after the South-West governors launched Operation Amotekun,   the Coalition of Northern Groups has presented the symbols of "Operation Shege ka Fasa". B ut, unlike the project of Amotekun that had governors and dignitaries from the South-West region in attendance, there were no remarkable personalities  from the north at the unveiling of the symbol for " Shege ka Fasa". Operation  Amotekun  (Leopard) was established on 9 January 2020 by the six state governors of all the South Western states of Nigeria, namely; Lagos State, Oyo State, Ogun State, Ondo State, Osun State and Ekiti State. Shege ka Fasa, according to the group, is a security outfit that would help tackle kidnapping and banditry in the northern region. Representative of the group,  AbdulAzeez Suleiman , acclaimed that the security set would be conventionally introduced in the weeks when all necessar...

                          File Photo: Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu The Lagos State Government says it will not reverse the ongoing enforcement of its Transport Sector Reform Law of 2018, which restrains the enterprises of commercial motorcycles, generally known as Okada and tricycles, popularly known as Keke NAPEP in 15 local councils across the state. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced this on Tuesday while speaking at the official launch of commercial operations in water transportation by Lagos Ferry Services (LAGFERRY) at an event held at Badore Ferry Terminal in Ajah. The governor said the state government would not yeild to the “blackmail and uninformed criticism” of its decision to ban tricycles and motorcycles on the highways, saying the implementation became necessary against developing threats to the security of lives. All the same  ,governor Sanwo-Olu admitted that the decision...

                        Ambassador Zhou Pingjian The Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Zhou Pingjian, has confirmed that no Nigerian citizen dwelling in Wuhan city has contracted the Coronavirus. The diplomat who validated this at a news briefing in Abuja announced that 60 Nigerians are resident in the city where the outbreak was first recorded. He also said that no Chinese in Nigeria has caught the virus, stating that the number of confirmed cases has risen to 17,205, while r ecorded deaths have reached 361. Ambassador Pingjian also intimated that 475 people have been discharged from hospitals. The World Health Organization has declared the crisis a global health emergency, and the first foreign death from the virus was reported in the Philippines on Sunday. The virus has since spread to more than 24 countries. 

A middle aged man, suspected suicide-bomber was on Sunday arrested at the Living Faith Church, Sabo, Kaduna, Nigeria. A worshiper  at the church, said the suspect was found in the church’s toilet while trying to detonate the bomb and was promptly arrested by the security officers assigned to the church. Attempts by angry mobs to lynch him were, however, restricted by the police, who whisked him away. The Living Faith Church Worldwide is a megachurch and a Christian denomination established by Bishop David Oyedepo. Further details coming  soon  .

                 Bishop David Oyedepo The United States Embassy in Nigeria has denied allegations that it rejected Bishop David Oyedepo, founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide visa on Thursday in Abuja. ThisDay Newspaper and News Agency of Nigeria had wrongly reported that Oyedepo reacted angrily when he was told that he was not qualified for visa.   The newspaper said its source did not give any other reason except the standard default explanation that the Bishop did not qualify for visa renewal in its assessment and urged him to try again. But the U.S Embassy in a tweet Friday said the story was false. The tweet stated: “#False News Alert! Be advised, the reports making the rounds about a visa being denied to Nigerian Bishop Oyedepo are false. If you have seen this manufactured item in the media, help defeat this #misinformation by communicating to everyone that it is completely false.” the tweet said.  In a...