Mo Abudu’s EbonyLife TV held the highly awaited debut and private screening of Desperate Housewives Africa, the local adaptation of the numerous award-winning ABC TV Drama hit series, at the Agip Recital Hall, MUSON Center on Tuesday April 28.
See the photographs bellow.
Months after their traditional wedding and welcoming a girl, Jude Okoye and his wife Ifeoma had their court wedding at Ikoyi Registry today April 29th. Here’s a pic from their big day. Congratulations to them.
45 year old Adamu Abdullahi (presented in pic) says he will be trekking from Maiduguri in Borno state to Abuja from tomorrow April 30th, so he can meet with Gen Buhari to compliment him on his triumph at the presidential transition, as indicated by KSM News. Married with 4 youngsters, Adamu says he will be leaving Maiduguri by 6am tomorrow and will withdraw from Jimtilo park. He asked all Borno state indigenes to forward their petitions to him so he can forward them to Gen. Buhari.
As per the Remuneration Package set up together by the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission, President Goodluck Jonathan, Vice-president Namadi Sambo, non-returning Senators and House of Representatives individuals, ministers and presidential associates will be paid a severance bundle of about N3.24bn as their stay in office ends on May 29th this year.
President-elect Gen Buhari happy about news of the rescue of 293 young ladies and Women from Sambisa Forest by Nigerian troops yesterday April 28th.
The Chairperson House Committee on Diaspora matters, Abike Dabiri-Erewa said their are more Nigerians holding up to be executed in Indonesia.
Talking on Channels TV News at 10 last night, Hon Abike said a federal government appointment in which she was part of in 2008 went to Indonesia and found there were 21 Nigerians who were on death row in Indonesia for drug related offenses. She said nothing can be done as its the law in Indonesia. She said each 5m you walk, a sign is shown saying the punishment for medication trafficking is death.
Indonesia dismissed last-minute bids and executed 8 drug traffickers including 4 Nigerians..jpg)
Photos of the dead being covered and details from their last minutes before being executed have been released to the media. As per the pastors who were with them in their last hours, Andrew Chan, Myuran Sukumaran and the other 6 demise column prisoners declined to wear blindfolds and were singing as they were shot by a 13-member firing squad in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
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The 8 men decided to face their executioners and spent their last minutes on earth adulating God and singing melodies which included ‘Amazing Grace’.
On Wednesday morning, Pastor Christie Buckingham – who read Chan and Sukumaran their last going rituals – said the 8 passing column prisoners exited onto the killing field singing religious melodies in the prior minutes they were executed. Pastor Buckingham said the men maintained ‘dignity and strength until the end’. Another pastor, Karina de Vega, said it was a ‘beautiful experience’..jpg)
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The Chairman of Daar Communications, owners of AIT, Chief Raymond Dokpesi says that the president-elect, Gen Buhari lacked the constitutional powers to stop his TV station from covering his activities. According to him, the decision to bar the station on Monday April 27th was a reminder of the Decree 4 era which he, Buhari, enacted against freedom of the press when he was in power.
“I am sure that the President-elect needs to be reminded of Decree 4, and he should be clearly reminded that section 32 of the constitution makes it mandatory for the media to hold public officials accountable to the people. The president-elect said that he does not want to be covered by AIT, but AIT has a responsibility to the Nigerian public to report the things that are happening.
“There are three national networks available for national coverage in Nigeria, the NTA, AIT and Silverbirds. You cannot stop a foremost private station from reporting in Nigeria, it brings us back to Decree 4 era.”he said
On the controversial documentary about General Buhari and his family which was run by the TV station during the election, Mr Dokpesi said the station was a private entity that could run anything that it feels is fact and accurate.
“If they had produced their own documentary to say this is what we want and AIT did not publish it, then that is another matter. What is obviously very clear is the fact that AIT believes that the historical information about the President elect that were ran, were factually correct. Nothing was done to defame him or impinge on his character or integrity.” he told Premium Times
The Defense force tweeted this night that they can’t affirm if Chibok young ladies were among the 200 young ladies they rescued from Sambisa backwoods today, that they will know after they screen and profile the saved young ladies. Anyway, Reuters, AP and Al-Jazeera (Bad bele dem) are reporting that an Army Spokesperson has affirmed Chibok young ladies are not among the 293 young ladies and ladies saved today.
Armed force representative Col. Sani Usman told The Associated Press that troops decimated and destroyed four terrorist camps and safeguarded 200 kidnapped young ladies and 93 ladies “however they are not the Chibok young ladies.” (Let’s sit tight for authority affirmation from Army Spokesperson, Olukolade)
