Abdulmutallab, US bomber to vote in Edo

                                                    Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab  


Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was jailed in the United States in 2012  for terrorism offences has appeared on the voters’ register in Edo state.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole drew attention to the existence of  Abdulmuttalab’s  portrait in a fake voters register now in circulation.
A high stake governorship election is due in the state tomorrow, with the All Progressives Congress candidate, Godwin Obaseki locked against Pastor Ize Iyamu of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.
Oshiomhole spoke about AbdulMutallab  during a visit to him by the United States Consul General in Lagos, Mr F John Bray.
The Edo governor said he was shocked to see the portrait of the “underwear bomber” in the fake register, but with a Benin name.

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Recession: Melaye urges Buhari to sack Adeosun, Emefiele, Udoma

                                                    Emefiele, Udoma and Adeosun


A member of the Senate representing Kogi-West Senatorial District, Senator Dino Melaye, on Sunday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to take drastic measures on the ailing economic, including the immediate removal of the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun; Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma; and the Governor of the Central bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele.

In a statement in Abuja, Melaye said the President must shake up his cabinet, and accused some members of cabinet as lacking the capacity to deliver on the mandates of their ministries and agencies.
He said Adeosun, Udoma and Emefiele should be axed for the economy to be effectively rebooted to deliver on the change agenda of the present administration.

‘Nigerian leaders won’t have peace until they rescue Chibok girls’

A cleric, Pastor Chinedu Ezekwesili, has accused Nigerian leaders of not showing concern about the plight of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls because none of their children was among the victims of Boko Haram violence.
He, therefore, prayed to God to take the peace of the leaders until they rescue the over 200 Chibok girls in Boko Haram captivity.
Ezekwesili, the husband of the Co-convener of the #BringBackOurGirls coalition, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, said this during a special prayer service for the Chibok girls on Sunday in Abuja.
The cleric recalled the killing of 40 students of Federal Government College, Buni Yadi, Yobe State in 2014 by Boko Haram insurgents, which he said was not addressed by the Federal Government.
He noted that the lukewarm response of the government to the incident emboldened the terrorists to abduct the Chibok girls.

He visited others, ignored me – Omotola disappointed after Mark Zuckerberg’s visit

Popular Nollywood actress, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, has expressed disappointment at the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, for not visiting her when he was in Nigeria.
Zuckerberg arrived Lagos on Tuesday for an official visit to Nigeria and during the visit, the philanthropist was seen with hosts of entertainers including movie director, Kunle Afolayan, among others.
But ‘Omo sexy’, as she is fondly called, wondered why the Facebook founder ignored users with highest number of followers on his social media platform.

Report: Trump Has Not Paid Top Staffers

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has not paid at least ten of his top staff members for their work, according to a new Reuters report based on federal campaign finance filings. Those who apparently worked for free on the campaign include top staffers such as Paul Manafort, who recently stepped down amid scandal over his earlier business dealings with corrupt Ukrainian leaders. In addition, Trump's California state director Tim Clark, communications director Michael Caputo and two senior aides who left in June to work for a Trump Super PAC have all not been paid, according to the campaign finance filings. Trump has repeatedly claimed that his campaign's affordability, with his team spending about one-third of what Hillary Clinton has spent, is proof of his business smarts. It's not clear if the staffers had agreed to work as volunteers or will simply deprived of pay. At least one of those on the list, Michael Caputo, told a radio station in June that he'd never offered to volunteer, but had simply never been paid. Two others, Ken McKay and Laurance Gay, told Reuters that they had worked as volunteers, though they each later received $60,000 through a Trump-backed Super PAC. Other top staffers who have not been paid include finance chairman Steven Mnuchin, national political director Rick Wiley and senior adviser Barry Bennett, according to FEC filings.

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DSS nabs kidnapper of Australians

                                           Department of State Security Service (DSS)
The Department of State Services ( DSS) said it has arrested Samuel Asuquo, the suspected kidnapper of three Australians working with Lafarge cement company.
This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Tony Opuiyo, an official of the service in Abuja on Sunday.
Opuiyo said the suspect was arrested by operatives of the service in Nasarawa Bakoko village in Cross River on August 22.
He said that the suspected kidnap kingpin received a ransom of N150 million.
In a related development, the service also arrested three suspected members of a notorious kidnap gang on August 30 in Lafia.
The suspects are, Bamaiyi Mustapha, alias Dan Borno, Aminu Isa and Hassan Shehu.
Opuiyo said that the suspects operated around the Abuja-Kaduna axis.