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Ekiti State Government on Monday has announced new measures aimed at curbing sexual violence and part of the punishments that will be meted out to sex offenders in Ekiti, is that their photos will be posted on various media across the state. The State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Wale Fapounda at a press conference to announce the new measures disclosed that persons currently standing trial for offence of child defilement and those whom the Director of Public Prosecution had issued a ‘case to answer’ legal advice for the same offence will henceforth undergo compulsory psychiatry test. Other measures according to the Commissioner include pasting of photographs of convicted sex offenders in prominent public spaces in their local government headquarters, uploading the sex offenders photograph on the website of the Ministry of Justice. Such sex offenders would also have their photographs shown on the state-owned Television station and their names announced on st...

Hon Aminu Shagali gives out N19,075,000 as a scholarship to students from his Sabon Gari constituency, Kaduna in order to boost their academic performance in their various academic institutions. The Students awarded passed through screening and examination. Source:  http://www.ngg.ng/2019/03/18/hon-aminu-shagali-gaves-out-over-19million-naira-to-students-for-scholarship-in-his-constituency/

A Nigerian man with the handle, @LegitChidi, has called for the bombing of Abuja Central Mosque after the New Zealand shootings which left over 50 people dead. The Nigerian man called for the bombing of Abuja Central Mosque, after Dr Joe Abah, made a post concerning the the New Zealand mosque shootings, calling on a condemnation of "all forms of extremism: religious, racial, ideological or political." However many social media users condemned the attack in New Zealand, the Twitter user wrote "Let them shift to Abuja central mosque abeg..we need them there." His account is currently being reported to security agencies and Dr Joe Abah also wrote; I asked why people will go to a mosque and kill people praying. Below is one of the comments to my tweet. I will be reporting the tweet below to the security forces just in case. Please join me to report it to Twitter as well. Thanks Read https://unclesuru.com/2019/03/18/nigerian-man-calls-for-bombing-of-abuja-mosque...

Taxify drivers - one of them a pastor - abandon their clients to fight over who bashed who, today, in #Ikoyi, Lagos Watch video source : https://www.made4naija.com/taxify-drivers-abandon-their-clients-to-fight-over-who-bashed/

Different folks with different views and perspective. Tires are cars essential parts, without them, the car good as a statue. Nigerians have a bad habit of disposing of used and bad tires anyhow, a visit to some other parts of the country will show you that tires are disposed of carelessly save for some companies who are recycling it and using it for shoes and other items. Nkwocha Ernest is a Lagos-based artist who creates artwork pieces using condemned and used tires. Ernest saw these and decided to make something out of it. He sees it as a monument with which he can make something beautiful from, with this little gesture, he has become an internet sensation. See more of his works below... Source: https://www.autoreportng.com/2019/03/from-waste-to-treasure-see-what-this.html

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has insisted that it would not present a certificate of return to Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha. INEC’s National Commissioner, Information and Voter Education, Mr Festus Okoye, said this during his appearance on Channels Television’s He explained that the electoral body took the decision because the returning officer for Imo West senatorial district election that he declared Governor Okorocha as the winner “under duress”. While declaring the resulted, the returning officer had said he was doing so under duress. Although the governor insisted he won the elections fairly and that his victory was not declared under duress, his name was not on the list of those to be given a certificate of return and despite his protests against the decision, he wasn’t given a certificate when winners got theirs last week. Asked whether the commission investigated the claim and confirmed that it was true, Okoye said “Yes”. He added, “W...

Gbenga Daniel, Director General of the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, announced his resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and from active politics on Saturday, citing a number of reasons. In a letter dated March 14, 2019, and addressed to the National Chairman of the party, the former Governor of Ogun State noted that the decision is personal and that he decided to take on “new challenges”. He also said he had decided to “rejuvenate” his charity-based organisation, the Gateway Front Foundation (GFF), and that he wanted to resuscitate the “non-partisan Political Leadership Academy (POLA)”, which was “established some years ago as a platform of political education to our citizens”. Daniel indeed made a feeble attempt at revealing the real motivation for his exit when he stated in the fifth and sixth paragraphs of his resignation letter thus: “Notwithstanding these widely acclaimed achievements however, our party, the Peoples Democratic Party ran into trouble w...

The suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, on Monday alleged that his Assets Declaration Form 001 at the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) had been tampered with. Onnoghen made the allegation at his resumed trial on alleged non declaration of some of his assets before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). The said documents are the CCB assets declaration forms of 2014 and 2015. The prosecution after calling its 1st witness, James Akalla, a Senior Investigative Officer with the CCB, had sought to tender the said documents in support of his evidence against Onnoghen. However when the documents were shown to the defendant, Onnoghen through his counsel, Chief Adegboyega Awomolo SAN, however said a careful look at the documents showed that they had been tampered with. According to him, the 2014 form has become loose, part of it mutilated and has become blue in a way. Awomolo said a similar observation was made in the 2015 form with some duplication and omi...

The acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, has claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari does not need the permission of the National Judicial Council to appoint him as the acting CJN. Muhammad made the claim in response to a query given to him by the NJC, the body constitutionally empowered to recommend the appointment of chief justices and heads of courts. A group, Centre for Justice and Peace Initiative, had written a petition to the NJC, asking the council to remove Muhammad as a justice of the Supreme Court for allowing himself to be sworn in by the President without recourse to the NJC. In his response, however, Justice Muhammad said the NJC ought to be consulted only when a substantive CJN is being appointed or re-appointed. He said, “In my respectful view, the National Judicial Council has no role to play in the appointment of an acting Chief Justice of Nigeria in the first instance, that is to say on first appointment. The council comes in where the ap...

A viral photo as gotten lot of reactions on the internet as a girl was seen reading beside a gutter with street light. Gistvic Reports. The girl was filled with all concentration as she spread her books beside the gutter. Gistvic Reports. SEE MORE BELOW>>> Gist From Gistvic.com>> https://www.gistvic.com/2019/03/girl-seen-reading-beside-gutter-with.html Cc: Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Oyo state new governor Elect Eng. seyi Makinde and his pretty wife as they sing and dance at their election victory thanks giving at St peters Cathedral Aremo in Ibadan. He also take a quick visit to his fathers grave in remembrance of his late father. He was pictured with popular gospel singer Ayefele at his radio station with Hon Damola Fantola and other party members as he grant some interviews at the radio station yesterday. See more photos below Gist From Praizenews ;  http://www.praizenews.com/oyo-state-governor-elect-seyi-makinde-and-his-wife-at-thanks-giving-service/

A bloody clash between two neighbours has left one dead in Onitsha area of Anambra state. It was gathered that the deceased simply identified as Obinna, got into a heated argument with his neighbour about an undisclosed issue which resulted into a fight. According to other neighbours, Obinna rushed to get a bottle during the fight but was stabbed to death with it by his neighbour. Report has it that the police was notified of the incident and an investigation into the matter is underway. Watch the video below. https://www.nationalhelm.co/2019/03/man-stabbed-to-death-during-fight-in-onistha-anambra-state.html

Olori Ajoke is the last wife of the Alaafin of Oyo. She shared these stunning new photos on her IG page today. She looks amazing. Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/03/stunning-new-photos-of-alaafin-of-oyos.html

The Nigeria @CustomsNG has promoted Comptroller Bashir Abubakar of Apapa Area Command to ACG for his rejection of bribe to the tune of $420,000 from a drug trafficking cartel to take delivery of 41 smuggled containers of Tramadol. https://www.facebook.com/2311978625737337/posts/2321180191483847/?app=fbl

As Anambra is home to Innoson Motors such can be said of Kano State to many assembly plants in the country. One of the silent automobile company we have in Nigeria is National Truck Manufacturers LTD (NTM) also known as Gidan Fiat. NTM is based in Zaria, Kano State, according to reports, the plant has have been silently manufacturing heavy-duty trucks, tippers, light-duty trucks, agricultural tractors, pick-ups as well as motorcycles for over 10 years. One of the big achievements of NTM Ltd is that they are basically an ingenious company with staffs that locally assemble the trucks, buses and Keke Napep. Base on our little investigation, the trucks are shipped into Nigeria as CKD and they are assembled in Kano from there it gets to their respective clients and agents. It will be recalled that the Goodluck Jonathan administration in 2013 introduced the National Automotive Policy to encourage production of vehicles in Nigeria and discourage importations. Before the policy came into bei...

A Nigerian student identified as Emelife Stella Chinelo, who enrolled for an M.Sc in Chemistry at the University of Mysore, has received 20 medals and five cash prizes over her 9.263% final grade point. The Nigerian student who received the 20 medals and five cash prizes from University of Mysore at the school's 99th annual convocation on Sunday, is said to be the first foreign student in  recent years to bag so many gold medals.  It was gathered that the University of Mysore has over 1,000 foreign students, pursuing under-graduate and post-graduate courses in colleges affiliated to it and in Manasagangotri. With an FGP of 8.394%, Sanjana Darla P., a student of M.A. Economics bagged ten gold medals — the second highest number of gold medals and three cash prizes from the Indian University. https://unclesuru.com/2019/03/17/nigerian-student-receives-20-gold-medals-and-five-cash-prizes-from-university-of-mysore-over-final-grade-point/