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A young lady has cried out for help on social media. The lady simply identified by her Twitter handle @Jraimz revealed that her younger brother had gone missing on Wednesday, August 8, in Aguda area of Surulere in Lagos state. According to the lady who shared her brother's photo on Twitter, he had gone missing around 8:40pm, after he left her family a suicide note. The lady who identified her brother as Hakeem Sanusi, begged Nigerians to help her find him. She urged people to contact her or the nearest police station if they have any information about his whereabouts. "MISSING PERSON ALERT!!! He was last seen on 8th of August, 2018 at 8:40pm in Aguda, Surulere. Please help Retweet til we find my brother. If you happen to get any information that can lead us to his whereabouts please contact 08120200667 or report the nearest police station." The lady further expressed that her parents have been too heartbroken. She also noted that she couldn't st...

The Advanced Peoples Democratic Alliance (APDA) and New African Democratic Congress (N-ADC), a splinter group from African Democratic Congress (ADC) led by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Saturday, announced their merger. They also unveiled their name as Advanced Republicans (AR) Party. N-ADC on Tuesday pulled out of the ADC. The merger agreement was signed by National Chairman of APDA, Shittu Mohammed and N-ADC Interim National Chairman, Chief Precious Elekima, at a joint meeting. They also agreed that the Chairman of APDA would be the Leader of the new party, while the Chairman of the N-ADC would be his deputy. Mohammed told NAN shortly after the signing of the agreement that the merger was the coming together of like minds and forces to rescue Nigeria through the 2019 general elections. “For us in APDA, we believe that in order to take Nigerians out of wood, forces of like minds must come together. “Ours is like minds, which have the same nationalistic ideo...

Dele Momodu reveals how Saraki can be impeached as Senate President The Publisher of Ovation Magazine, Dele Momodu, has said that it would take 73 Senators to impeach Bukola Saraki as Senate President. Momodu stated this via his verified Twitter account, while responding to a question. A user, had reacted to the media entrepreneur’s opinion that he is against Nigeria’s break up, by tweeting at him, saying: “..Heaven will not fall if Saraki is impeached. He will not be the first. “So because of Saraki there will be break up! NEVER the NASS will sort out themselves when they resume. At least their fight is about ego and personal interest not about development.” In response, Momodu wrote: “I agree… Impeach him first, in the Senate building with 73 Senators, not on social media.” Saraki had responded to claims by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, that he (Saraki) had always worked with the opposition Peoples Democratic...

- The European Union (EU) has spoken on the recent siege laid to the National Assembly by the officers of the DSS - EU declared that the security agencies must be fair and professional in their conduct - The union also speaks about 2019 general elections as it calls on all stakeholders to make the election free and fair The European Union (EU) on Thursday, August 9, expressed serious concerns over the siege laid to the National Assembly by the officers of the DSS, warning law enforcement agencies against partisan use of state resources. The organisation in a statement said: “The EU Heads of missions have noted with concern recent examples of interference in the democratic process by law enforcement services the most recent case being the barring of access to the National Assembly on August 7. “The EU is fully committed to supporting democracy in Nigeria, and it commends the federal government’s swift action to protect the independence of the National Assembly as a crit...

•Deputy Senate Leader, Bala Ibn Na’Allah The Deputy Senate Leader, Bala Ibn Na’Allah, has commended Acting President Yemi Osinbajo for sacking Lawal Daura as the Director General of the Department of State Security (DSS). Na’Allah in a statement issued from Washington DC on Tuesday described Daura as one of the most vicious draw back to the present administration, and probably one of the most unreliable security head ever to be produced by any administration since 1999. “For me, I will say I am vindicated, having earlier complained to the Acting President and the National Security Adviser and so many well-meaning members of the administration on the conduct of Daura. “He was a man who spent the entire period of appointment shopping for enemies for the Government. “Every lover of Buhari administration knows that Lawal Daura was a huge minus to anything the administration of president Buhari stands for. “It will be in the overall interest of our democracy to subject his pas...

OSIBANJO Before the news of the meeting broke Acting President Yemi Osinbajo had yesterday met behind closed doors with the Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The discussions bordered on how to prevail on the National Assembly leadership to reconvene to consider and pass the supplementary budget. Lawan and Enang briefed State House correspondents at the end of the meeting. According to them, the preparation for  the 2019 elections and other financial needs may be hampered by the delay in the consideration of the virement. Lawan said: “I have come to visit the acting President to brief him on the situation in the Senate and the discussion also  considered the need for the  National Assembly to convene immediately for us to pass the virement on the supplementary budget sent by Mr. President. “You know that the budget for 2018, the capital aspect, will be largely funded by foreign facilities, loans. Now we need to approve that...

Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Transportation, has revealed how Nigerian politicians “commit manslaughter.” Amaechi, a former governor of Rivers State said politicians commit manslaughter through corrupt practice, a menace which he said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government was determined to end. Speaking with Vanguard, the Minister, however, noted that all Nigerians should have access to the country’s treasury and not a few who loot it. He said some politicians loot money meant for the building of hospitals and good roads, thereby causing the death of Nigerians. He said, “If I steal, maybe a $100,000 from my ministry and give to you, you will say ‘oh, Amaechi is the most generous minister’ but you didn’t ask me where I got it from. “Now, you go home and give $50,000 to your wife and she takes $20,000 and gives to her mother, her mother goes to the market buys egusi and the woman she bought egusi from pays school fees, the person he pays school fees repairs his ...

Even When You’re Heartbroken, You Are Never Alone I know how it feels to have a tinder heart and a paper body. To feel so soft against the world that seems too harsh, and think that a spark could turn you straight into ash. I know how it feels to tread through air and startle the phantoms that haunt the silent corners, and to want to freeze the moments where you felt so alive in a time capsule for safekeeping. I know how coating your thoughts with nostalgia makes breathing easier, because living in the past doesn’t seem so terrible when you’ve lost the map to the future, right? I know how it feels to run your hands through pages and pages of letters scattered on your bedroom floor. They wrote you beautiful words that now make you feel as hollow as the bottles you drink. You try to find the messages left inside each of them, and you let yourself become weaker than how you aspire to be. I know how it feels to remember promises that now shine like empty words with their t...

Taminu Turaki, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, has urged Nigerians to translate their anger and frustration against the All Progressives Congress (APC) to massive votes against the party in 2019. Turaki made the plea in Bauchi on Sunday while addressing PDP executive committees, delegates, elders and other members from states in the North-East zone. He said: “There is so much poverty, hunger, insecurity, harassment, joblessness and disaffection in the land due to APC’s mis-governance. But, there is light at the end of the dark tunnel.” Turaki promised that if he succeeds in being the president, he would come up with workable policies and appoint tested and respected economic team to revamp the economy. He stressed that it was still possible to attain Nigeria’s pre-APC government rating, when the country’s economy was leading in Africa and named the third fastest-growing in the world after China and Qatar. The Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) a...

Troops of the Nigerian Army attached to the Operation Whirl Stroke have engaged militiamen in a camp discovered in the Akor community in the Guma Local Government Area of Benue State, killing scores of the armed men. Our correspondent learnt that the troops, on Saturday while on a clearance operation along Gbajimba to Akor area, found the men armed with AK-47 rifles with large herds of cattle. A gun battle was said to have ensued, during which the troops dislodged the armed men from their camp. The army said the troops killed an “unspecified number of the militiamen while others escaped into nearby bushes with gunshot injuries.” Our correspondent learnt that the weapons recovered from the militia group were one AK-47 rifle, two AK-47 rifle magazines, 60 rounds of 7.62mm special ammunition and five motorcycles. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Texas Chukwu, who confirmed the incident, said efforts were on to get other fleeing members of the militia group. ...