Bride suddenly disappears during their wedding in Niger state.The police in Suleja, Niger State, have confirmed the arrest of the parents and relation of a bride, who disappeared after her wedding, refusing to go to her husband’s home.

The arrest of the trio followed a complaint to the police by their son in-law, Shuaib Dauda, for the sudden disappearance of their daughter few hours after wedding.

Mr Dauda earns a living as an auto mechanic.

Aliyu Lawal, officer-in-charge of Kaduna-Road police outpost in Suleja, gave the confirmation.

Mr Lawal, a police inspector, said the incident occurred on May 6 when the bridegroom complained to the police that the people he sent to the bride’s home to fetch her, in accordance with the tradition, did not see her.

Mr Lawal said the footdragging by the brides’ family to deliver the bride to the bridegroom led to the disruption of peace in the area, hence the arrest of the parents and the marriage guardian.

“They were arrested on Sunday, May 6, and granted bail on Monday May 7,” he said.

But Abubakar Haruna, popularly known as Zakiru and a resident of Hayi along Kaduna Road, said that he gave out two daughters same day, Fiddausi to Mr Dauda and Saliha to one Muhammadu Murtala.

He said before the marriage, Mr Dauda and Mr Murtala promised to comply with all the religious and traditional obligations for the marriage such as the dowry and buying of clothes and boxes for the brides.

“After the wedding ceremony, Dauda said he could not afford to buy the clothes and boxes to the bride as promised earlier.

“Fiddausi, realising that Murtala (the husband to Saliha) had redeemed his promise and presented the traditional gifts and Dauda did not, ran away to the neighbouring house until her bridegroom fulfilled his own promise,’’ he said.

Mr Haruna said already beddings, traditional kitchen wares, furniture and other domestic utensils had been taken to Dauda’s home, ahead of the conveyance of Fiddausi to her new home.

He explained that while they were searching for Fiddausi, the team sent by the bridegroom to fetch Fiddausi to the matrimonial home hinted Mr Dauda of the sudden disappearance of the bride.

He claimed Mr Dauda mobilised his friends who stormed his compound, insisting that Fiddausi must be produced. In the process they molested him and brutalised his wife, named Bayi.

“Some other female guests from Kano were also brutalised, food items and other valuables they brought for the wedding ceremony were stolen by the hoodlums who attacked us for our alleged failure to produce the bride,’’ Mr Haruna said.

Mr Haruna said while the hoodlums were molesting his family and his guests, the police officers from Kaduna Road outpost arrested him, his wife and his younger brother who is also the marriage guardian. The latter was identified as Umar Musa.

Mr Haruna dismissed the allegation by the police that he was arrested for disrupting public peace in the community. Rather, he explained that the police asked him to refund N260,000 to Dauda, being the amount he spent on the marriage.

Mr Haruna said when he failed to pay the money as demanded, he was detained together with his wife and his younger brother by the police.

According to him, they were detained overnight at the police outpost and were granted bail following the intervention of his lawyer, Aliyu Musa.

He said the bail was obtained on the condition that they would bring the money the following day or risk prosecution.

Meanwhile, Fiddausi has returned to her father’s house

Wizkid’s first babymama, Shola Ogudu made a suspicious rant on her social space while she wished his son well over the young lads birthday.

Yesterday, we reported that Wizkid’s first son, Boluwatife turned 7 and his mom, Sola Ogudu who couldn’t stop gushing about him, also announced that the launch of his kid’s cloth line ‘Czar and Czarina’.

However in Shola’s tweets,she shared shortly after her Instagram post, she reveals she feels the need to call someone out and blast their full REAL history to the public, added that she deserves some accolades for being a mother and also a father to her son.

Here are new tweets from Sola Ogudugu who welcomed Boluwatife in 2011 with Wizkid, when she was just 19;

“Being a Mom and a Dad and Still Manage to Slay all at once on a Legit Income!!! Please I need my accolades served chilled!!!! It’s very well deserved!!!
Thank you lord.. I’ll never get tired of thanking you God.. Cos I am where and who I am because of you my Miracle Worker!!!

I have alottt to say.. I feel the need to call someone out soo baddd..

Like just blast our full REAL history for the public.

Let the world know the Real Truth not the liesss this person has made the world believe

But God keeps patting me on the back saying I gotchu baby…

It’s a been a great day today.. Let’s leave it at that and keep it classy as always.

#Everyday4theThief1dayForTheOwner #OnedayBushmeatGoCatchTheHunter

He Who Fights and Runaway Lives to Fight Another day FULLY ARMED!!!

..You’ve been strong for so long don’t let nobody change that

So because of the fear of God In me I’ll save this person face.

And Leave this person to Karma to do what it does best…”

A Nigerian lesbian couple, Itz Cindyfresh, and Endy Gentlefresh has take time to celebrate their 2 years anniversary today.

One of the Ladies identified as Itz Cindyfresh took to her Facebook page to write a heartfelt note to her lesbian partner, Endy Gentlefresh.

She wrote:

It’s finally here, a day v been waiting for. Sometimes I just think back to the first time I laid eyes on you. I knew right then that I had found someone incredible. Ever since that very moment all I have ever wanted was to be with you.

No matter how dark my day is, seeing you always brightens it and makes me realize that with you, I am doing right. Your heart is so pure and so forgiving that it will always be the center of my attention, no matter what else is going on in my life. I look forward to this day and many more just like it for you will forever be in my heart.

You have gripped my soul with a ferocity reserved for a castaway clinging to a raft in the middle of the ocean. If my soul is the raft, it is your hold that keeps me afloat. Don’t ever let go. I love you treasure

Happy_2_years_anniversary_to_us_bby. #moreyearsahead#

Prophet Mboro, a South African pastor has ordered his members to remove their undies for prayers in the church.

Many people are calling out the South African Pastor for being a pervert, after he converted his service into a full pervert show by asking his congregants to remove their panties and wave them in the air like some sort of ritual.

To some critics amazement, the church-goers obliged and soon started waving their panties in the air. Though it is not clear what the pastor was trying to achieve by asking the unimaginable of his congregation as the worship session is going on, however he was heard saying, “Must we stop because somebody does not like it?”

While this took place, the pastor placed his hand firmly on his gentials. While he prayed, his members also imitated him and also placed their hands on their genitals.

Actress Mary Remmy Njoku raised alarm on instagram after she found dried  snake In crayfish She Bought in the market.

And she told people to be very careful  in what they buy and eat in the market.

The wedding ceremony of TV show presenter, Zainab Balogun and Dikko was one of the most talked about ceremonies of the immediate past weekend.

The presenter got married to her lover in glamorous style and it has caused Chocolate City rapper, M.I Abaga to react.

You might be wondering what the connection between the couple and M.I Abaga is – a while ago, M.I was asked to name his top 5 celebrity crushes and he mentioned Zainab Balogun as one of his fave. The rapper continued to express his affection for the pretty TV show host in public.

Reacting to the news that his crush got married, M.I put up a post on Instagram which he captioned NO and used a heartbreak emoji. The rapper later shared a video showing himself mourning his loss.

Nigerian senator, Florence Ita-Giwa had the honour of hosting two former Big Brother Naija housemates, Ifu Ennada and BamBam at her home.

It was a wonderful time for ex-Big Brother Naija housemates, Ifu Ennada and BamBam after they paid a visit to former Senator, Florence Ita-Giwa at her home in Cross Rivers state.

The ex-housemates were welcomed by the lawmaker who also posed with them. Writing about the story, Ifu said: “It was a pleasure to meet and be in the company of the living Legend, Senator Ita Giwa. Thanks for welcoming me to your home. Thanks for the great words of wisdom. My day is made already.”

Toyin Saraki, wife of senate president Bukola Saraki, took to her IG page to celebrate God for making their set of twin girls turn 18 yesterday May 12th.

thankful from #borntoosoonto #18today #happybirthday #twins
Mighty mighty God
Worship You today
Give You all the praise
As we lift our hands to You
With pleasure in our hearts
Raise our voice to say
Everything written about You is great!

#18today #happybirthday #twins #thankful#mightymightyGod #worshipyoutoday#giveyouallthepraise ? #savinglivesatbirth#borntoosoon #survive #thrive#surviveandthrive #thepromise #thevow#surviveandprovide #healthforall#wellbeing4all @wellbeingafrica@tommys_thebabycharity ? @blisscharity#2000 #toyinsaraki”.

A lady is causing mixed reactions after she shared a supposed chat she had with a man who wants to marry her.

In the chat she asked him if he cooks, and he replied that he’s a man who shouldn’t necessarily be good in the kitchen.

This prompted the lady to make a U-turn in considering him for a boyfriend. This issue has led to mixed reactions on social media with feminists jumping into the thread:

Nollywood actress Toyin Adewale gas finally reunites with her singer son Mayorkun after 2 years in the US.

Revealing that they had spent at least two years apart on his Instagram page, he wrote:
Not seen her in 2 years too. Missed her so much! She came out for my show in DC. Happy mother’s day.

Coincidentally, just few weeks ago, the DMW singer met up with his dad whom he had not seen for the past two years ago.

Expressing his excitement, Mayorkun said his father met him for the first time as Mayorkun and not Mayowa as he used to.

ON June 9, 1984, I left Owerri for the Ibadan Polytechnic, two days ahead of the date for prospective
corps members to be encamped. From that 9th till date, my life has never been the same again.
Prior to that date, there was skin-deep phobia to serve in the west due to alleged rampant juju usage
that had resulted in the death of corps members. Some of us in those days prayed and fasted against
being posted westward.
I braved all odds to go to Ibadan for the first time. Going to Ibadan two days ahead of time was to avail
me the opportunity to understudy the city and know if I would adapt or head back home. At Ijebu Ode,
where Ekene Dili Chukwu bus dropped me off, the struggle by Agberos to force my luggage into a
particular vehicle resulted in the tearing of the box with my “belongings” littering all over the place. To
heighten my anxiety, nobody spoke one English word. It was all Yoruba.
In that feverish condition, I looked up and saw “Welcome to Ibadan Polytechnic”. My heart sprang up.
Unbelievable!! From this point, things assumed positive crescendo on all sides. The moment I
disengaged from that car, my perception of the Yoruba people changed for life. Other miraculous
events in quick succession gave credence that God was behind all these.
For reporting first and two days ahead of other 2,000 corps members, I was made the camp leader –
deputised by Abubakar Momoh – the radical Political Science Professor who died late last year.
Posted to the headquarters of Oluyole Local Government Area, Idi Ayunre, for my primary assignment,
the Principal of Prospect High School, Abanla, one Mrs Ajobo, offered me accommodation in her vast
school premises. Here, I offered to teach final year students English Language from 4pm when I closed
from Idi Ayunre office to 8pm most times.
This long story is recounted because of my desire to mention the name(s) of one or two great Nigerians
who God used to bless me in the process, Chief Oba Otudeko of Honeywell Group. Throughout my
service year in Ibadan, I never met this man. But one night something subconsciously told me to make
more impact in that land as a compliment to the love that Abanla community and the parents of my
students showed me.
I got home in Obowu, Imo State, safely and a month later, I was getting ready to leave for Ibadan to
become a civil servant when a letter from the family mail box was handed over to me. It was a letter
proclaiming me the 1985/86 NYSC Presidential Award winner which came with an automatic
employment. In 1987, I enlisted into the federal civil service. This week, I would exit as the director, IT.
It is instructive that within the period under review, the grace of God had taken me to all the continents
except Australia.
Now the purpose of this long gist is for people who now campaign for the scrapping of NYSC to simply
read my story and how it demystified a hitherto dangerous myth about the Yorubas. Secondly, to let
Nigerians know this highly detribalised Nigerian; Oba Otudeko who made a hitherto Igbo boy a senior
citizen courtesy of his generosity.

I also put on record, the overwhelming love shown me by Oluyole Local Government and Abanla
Community in particular where majority of my students came from. I recall with love how Oyibo!
Oyibo!! rented the air whenever I was seen walking along the community. To many others, individuals,
groups I could not mention here, I remain proud of you till death.

No fewer than 312 rape and
defilement cases are pending in the
High Court of Justice across Delta
State.
Attorney-General and
Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Peter
Mrakpor, who disclosed this to
newsmen in Asaba, yesterday, said
it was discovered following the
establishment of a Rape/Sexual
Violence Offences/Child Rights Unit
to address incessant sexual abuse of
children in the state.
Mrakpor explained that the unit
also ensured that victims of rape and
domestic violence receive holistic
free medical attention, counseling,
rehabilitation and other support
services.
According to him, “since the
creation of this unit, five convictions
have been secured in respect of
sexual related cases. In respect to
domestic/aggressive violence or
behaviour within the home, the unit has received nine petitions
from victims out of which it has
been able to resolve six spouses/
partners”.
The commissioner said the
state government is reviewing all
contracts that were repudiated
with a view to recovering all
excess sums paid to contractors.

Governor Davis Umahi of Ebonyi
state has lambasted the former Governor
of Old Abia state and current Minister of
Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya
Onu and the immediate past Governor
of Ebonyi state,Chief Martin Elechi of
leaving no legacy when they held sway
as Governors.
He stated this while addressing party
faithful in Ohaukwu local government
area of the state at a mega rally organized
in his honour.
Umahi frowned at what he termed
high level of propaganda against his
administration by the duo through
young men they contracted to dish out
falsehood on Facebook.
The Governor assured he would retire
all his opponents in 2019 general election
the way he did in 2015.
His words:”Let me challenge Dr.
Ogbonnaya Onu. When he was a
governor, there was nothing Ohaozara
people or old Afikpo people could show
for it. There is nothing Elechi can say is
his legacy in this state, why don’t you
leave us alone? Let me assure you that
by the powers that brought us to power,
we shall retire all of them in 2019, we
shall retire all of them. And let me tell
them something, if they say they are
leaders, I challenge them let us open a
debate. Even if they want, let us go to
their national party secretariat, I will
meet them there. Let us debate about the
future of this state and you will see they
have nothing.
“When I went to Ikwo few days ago, I
stood at the community of the immediate
past Governor, Martin Elechi and I wept.
I immediately directed the construction
of one road that will pass through the
front of his house. The only road that
is good in Ikwo is built by me. Today, I
am building four more roads that are all
going on in Ikwo local government.
“Let me tell you something. They are
so frustrated that they went to Facebook
to write falsehood about me, they
have contracted young men to write
falsehood against me. They are digging
and burying their destinies. Criticize us
objectively but not to go to face book and
write rubbish about us. I meet will them
on the face book very soon.
“They said I have a pact with senator
Anyim that I will do four years and he
will do four years, which kind four
years? Mine is going to be eight years.
They came again and said I have
been suspended from PDP, are you
suspending a man that is Landlord? Na
we own PDP”, he said.
Umahi disclosed that he has
contracted five Senior Advocates of
Nigeria (SANs) against the suit filed by
opposition members in the state seeking
to stop $150millon loan he sort from the
African Development bank and Islamic
bank.
“On 21st of this month, African
Development Bank is coming from
Abdjian to go round the ring road and
determine the date of the award of the
ring road. It is a shame that it is those
who are benefiting most from the ring
road that are the ones that went to court.
But I engaged them in the court with five
Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs).
“Do not mind the detractors; we
have frustrated them so much. What
will they tell us? Will they tell us about
our empowerments? Will they tell us
about the flyovers? Will they tell us
about streetlights? Will they tell us about
water? They have nothing to offer.
“From 21st of this month, we are
going to empower 13,000 youths and
women of this state. We are going to
empower all the political parties not only
the PDP, all the political parties are going
to get empowerment from wards to local
governments and to the state. This is the
taste of empowerment because whether
you are APC, PDP, Labour or whatever
party, they are my subjects and I want to
make them powerful so that they will be
able to have transport to vote for me

The Senator representing Delta Central senatorial district, Ovie Omo-Agege, is to resume in his office and at plenary from tomorrow May 15, 2018,
Following the recent judgment by the Federal High Court Abuja that void Omo-Agege suspension by the upper legislative chamber, the Senate has decide to comply with the judgment and allow the senator resume his legislative duties as declared by the court

The senate said, “As an institution that obeys the law and court orders, the Senate has decided that it will comply with the judgment of the Federal High Court and do nothing to stop Senator Ovie Omo-Agege from resuming in his office and at plenary from tomorrow May 15, 2018 — pending the determination of the application for a stay of execution.”

In a press statement through the Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Publicity, Sen. Sabi Aliyu Abdullahi,
“The Senate leadership has been briefed by our lawyers on last Thursday judgement of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on whether the Senate has the legal authority to suspend a member for certain misconduct or not.

We have equally filed an appeal against the judgement of the court and a motion for stay of execution of the judgement at the Court of Appeal.

As an institution that obeys the law and court orders, the Senate has decided that it will comply with the judgement of the Federal High Court and do nothing to stop Senator Ovie Omo-Agege from resuming in his office and at plenary from tomorrow May 15, 2018, pending the determination of the application for stay of execution.

The Senate has been advised that since the motion for stay of execution of the Thursday (May 10, 2018) judgement shall be heard and possibly determine on Wednesday, May 16, 2018, we shall therefore respect the subsisting High Court judgement and await the appellate court decision on the pending motion”

Gunmen suspected to be Fulani
herdsmen early hours of yesterday
invaded two communities in the
western flank of Kogi state, killing not
less than ten people.
It was reliably gathered that
the herdsmen attacked mainly
two communities occupied by
Tiv speaking people. One of the
affected community is Ilai located
at the outskirt of Mopamuro local
government while the other is in Ido
-Gbede of Ijumu local government
councils. They were said to have been
attacked at about 4.am on Monday.
Source in the two local governments
disclosed that the heavily armed
herdsmen, numbering over 50
invaded the two communities with
AK47 and opened fired on people,
killing 10 persons and wounding
many others.
It was also gathered that they
equally distroyed goods worth several
millions of naira, besides carting
away some food stuffs from both
communities during the attack.
Some of the victims in a phone chart
said they were surprised that the
Fulani herdsmen attacked them.
According to the victims, the
herdsmen invaded the communities at
about 4am on Monday morning and
that immediately they arrived, they
started shooting sporadically which
made people to scamper for their lives.
They disclosed further that 10 persons were killed during the
attack on the two communities
stressing that the Fulani herdsmen
were fully armed with dangerous
weapons such as AK47, cutlasses,
Axe and other dangerous weapons.
Meanwhile, the Administrator
of Mopamuro Local Government,
Hon Moses Sunday David has
condemned the attack on Tivs
community in a suburb of Ilai in
Mopamuro local government in the
early hours of today by suspected
Fulani herdsmen.
Reacting to the attack by some
suspected Fulani herdsmen
yesterday, he said that, “I am
surprised that the attack came
barely a week after we had a peace/
security meeting at the Elulu’s
palace to forestall this kind of
unfortunate occurrence”.
While in an on the spot assessment
of the damage, the Administrator
in company of Alhaji Taofik Isah,
Administrator of Ijumu local
government council and ALGON
chairman said “We shall work with
the Security agencies to see that we
rejig security architecture to see that
people and properties are safe”.
Hon Moses Sunday David said he
had contacted relevant government
agencies immediately as he
assured people of the readiness of
government to see that the menace
become a thing of the past.
When contacted, the Police
Public Relation officer of Kogi State
Police Command, Mr. William
Ayah said the Command was yet
to received any report from the two
communities, saying, that he was
not awear of the incident

*My pitiable condition after office led past leaders into corruption
*I didn’t prepare for the future
*I had nothing apart from salary when I was overthrown
Former head of state, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd) has decried the alarming rate of corrupt
practices among former Nigerian leaders.
The former Nigerian leader reasoned that the “pitiable” condition he found himself after his
ouster from office in 1975 might have spurred their attitude to corruption.
Recalling the events of 1975 when he was overthrown by his junior colleagues yesterday,
Gowon said he had nothing apart from his salaries as at the time he left office.
The former head of state, who spoke at the Eighth Annual General Meeting and Conference for
Heads of Anti-corruption Agencies in Commonwealth Africa, joked that he “did not prepare for
the future.”
He said the condition he found himself was perhaps the reason why some leaders who came
later decided to “prepare” for such times by engaging in unholy activities of “pilfering” the
nation’s treasury.
Speaking further, he said “it was some of my staff who attended a meeting of the defunct
Organisation of African Unity, OAU, with me during which I was overthrown that contributed
their estacode to let me have something to live on.”
According to Gowon, he and officials of his government did not indulge in corruption, and
complaints of corruption against some of his ministers were appropriately treated
“Everything we had in the country belong to the nation, belong to the people and we must not
touch anything.
“We made sure nothing like that happened, especially in the civil service,” the former head of
state explained.
He regretted the action of some past leaders who allegedly engaged in corrupt practices which,
according to him, gives all former Nigerian leaders “a very bad name and image.”
Gowon, however, condemned generalisation regarding corruption accusations on the past
leaders, revealing that he feels sad anytime media reports lump up all Nigerian leaders on the
issue of corruption
It would be recalled that Gowon, a retired general who led Nigeria through three years of civil
war during his nine-year reign, was removed from office on July 29, 1975, by his junior
colleagues while attending a meeting of the defunct OAU, now African Union, AU.
Although the succeeding regime of Murtala Muhammad did not find him (Gowon) personally
culpable of corruption, it seized assets from 10 of his 12 military state governors deemed to
have been corruptly acquired and dismissed them from service.

NO one was surprised by the acrimony that visited many of the ward congresses and Ekiti governorship primary organised by the All Progressives Congress (APC) last weekend. Under the scheming national chairman of the party, John Odigie-Oyegun, and the sometimes lugubrious President Buhari, party leaders have spent the better part of three years paying little or no attention to building and entrenching their party. Once they won the general elections, they threw away their party manifesto, dismantled the platform upon which they won the polls, fought like mad to grab whatever each leader could grab, and abandoned the party to nobody and to everybody, alias cabal. Having sowed the wind for three years, it is unlikely they are shocked to be reaping the whirlwind. Indeed, if anything, they must be shocked that they are still standing at all.

President Buhari is strictly and philosophically speaking not a politician. He remains at bottom a military man, going by his constant sulking about the limiting influence of democratic strictures, particularly the parliament and the rule of law. That he did not pay attention to building the APC and forging a united and impregnable party out of its skeletal framework was, therefore, expected. He reposed more faith in a narrow clique of kith and kin with whom he felt conversant and comfortable than look to the party in order to broaden its base and widen its appeal. Obsessed with percentages, he looked for ways to compensate, by ginger ratios, those he felt showed him more loyalty than even those who worked hardest for the party’s unexpected victory in 2015.

It is often said that the APC’s legacy parties are the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), and a faction of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Little mention is normally made of the significant influence and role of the faction of the PDP that joined hands with others to wrest control from Dr Jonathan. Yet the nPDP played a major role in that election, but, as they complained last week in a letter they wrote in April, they were yet to receive commensurate compensation or attention. In the letter, which some APC leaders regard as nPDP’s casus belli, the complainants gave a week’s notice to the party to initiate dialogue and give assurances that the party would become more inclusive and operate like a real political party. They did not spell out what they would do if their warnings were left unheeded. In turn, schizoid party leaders have suggested that the nPDP was untrustworthy and had made destructive plans in anticipation of their migration to another party.

Some party leaders have suggested that the nPDP group should wait for ex-Edo State governor Adams Oshiomhole to assume the party leadership in June in order to get a redress for the injuries they claim to have suffered. It is not clear whether they will wait, or whether they think anything can come out of the effort. If the nPDP has not left by now, it is simply because they fear the punitive measures a government that exhibits contempt for the rule of law could bring upon them. They will stay for a little while, it seems, but they are unlikely to be in doubt about the party’s lack of capacity to remake itself and operate along inclusive lines. They know by experience that the president is the party’s lodestar, and everything virtually revolves around him. More, they know that his insularity would limit the flexibility of the next chairman and constrict the concessions they might get. They know that given the nature and capacity of the president and those he trusts, the party is unlikely ever to inspire anyone, let alone be remoulded into a great, modern party.

The acrimonious congresses, the aloofness demonstrated by the incumbent chairman, the dictatorship of antidemocratic governors widening the schisms in the party, and the strangulating control exercised by a shadowy group of individuals in Abuja, are not likely to bode well for the party. For a party that should have mastered the art of internal democracy, but whose leaders preferred to scheme for tenure elongation on the grounds that congresses would widen the schism in the party, there is nothing to indicate that sooner or later it would not implode. Indeed, that it has not imploded is perhaps due paradoxically to the influence and misplacement of priorities of President Buhari himself. Even if the party survives to win the 2019 polls, it already contains the seed of its own destruction far more poignantly than the PDP ever possessed in its crazy 16 years in power. Party leaders will prop up the APC for as long as they can; but in the end, except they can find a saviour, it will collapse. The signs were evident in their congresses; and though they may paper over the cracks, and even ensure a smooth transition to the Oshiomhole chairmanship, the party is too fractious, too undisciplined, too superficial, too callous to one another, and too badly led to endure for as long as some of their members fantasise.

Arsene Wenger reveals that he will rather
sit at home than managing a team against
Arsenal as he weighs up his next step
following the end of his 22-year reign come to
an end on Sunday.
The 68-year-old Frenchman tenure ended
with a 1-0 victory over Huddersfield Town,
with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s first-half
goal enough to secure Arsenal’s first points
away from home this calendar year.
Wenger confirmed that he had received
job offers from within the Premier League
but said that he would find it hard to come
up against the club he guided to three league
titles and seven FA Cup wins.
“I amnot ready for that at the moment,” he
told Standard Sport.
“It would be very difficult to manage
against Arsenal, I did stay at home that day. I
do not envisage that at the moment.
“I had offers, yes, of course. At the moment,
I have not spoken to anybody. I had many
offers.
“When you come out of a long process you
cannot just the next morning go somewhere
else. It’s impossible.
“Could I work again in England? I don’t
know. Maybe it’s better I go somewhere else.”
Wenger has been linked with a return to
Paris Saint-Germain in a senior role whilst
Everton, whose majority shareholder Farhad
Moshiri previously had a stake in Arsenal,
have also been mentioned as a possible next
club for the legendary coach if he wants to
stay in management.
“I feel that I got a lot of respect not only from
our fans but from England,” Wenger said. “I
would reiterate I loved English football but I
also loved England. You do not stay here for
22 years if you don’t like it.
“That is a good return from people who
love football. It is a special country, especially
for football an that’s why I stayed a long time.
“English football changed me a lot. Look at
my face! It’s difficult to understand when you
don’t live in this country how deep the love is
for this game. It was a fantastic experience for
me I must say.

The planned arraignment of Senator Jonah David Jang by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC before a Plateau state high court in Jos to answer charges of corrupt practices bothering on an alleged diversion of over N6bn is about to change the course of polity in the state, it has been observed.

Jang, the immediate past governor of of the state and senator representing Plateau North in the national assembly has been under detention for days before his final arraignment is facing a 12 count charge of alleged misappropriation of over N6.3billion two months to the end of his tenure as governor in 2015.

Though, the senator could not be produced in court by the EFCC based on “logistics” the people mobilised themselves from the three senatorial zones of the state to denounced what they termed: politically motivated arraignment ”

It was observed that handful of protesters carrying various placards maintained that the former governor remains their hero and accused the governor of the state, Simon Lalong of spearheading the arraignment which to them, was to “humiliate” the senator.

The senator is of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and drew so much sympathy from his party men and women across the state, who defief all forms of threat for a showdown with supporters of the governor who is of the All Progressive Congress, APC.

Earlier reacting to Jang arrest, the
Chairman of PDP in the state, Damishi Sango condemned the arrest, saying “while the appropriate agencies of government are at liberty to discharge their statutory and constitutional mandates, due diligence, respect for due process and the rule of law must be followed”

Meanwhile, a grouo under the aegis’s Rescue Youths Vanguard (pro APC) and Jang Support Group are at logger heads with eacj othrr over the situation and subsequent appearance of the senator in court will determine the safety measures in place to avert any unforseen situation

.,.To pass it this week

Senate has received 2018 Budget in view of discussing and passing it this week.

Chairman of the Appropriation Committee Senator Senator Danjuma Gone laid it on the table

Details coming