Michael Ojuroye Initiative (Ngo)

Pakistan's Taliban have named Mullah Fazlullah as their new leader, after the death of Hakimullah Mehsud in a drone attack. Mullah Fazlullah is a particularly hardline commander whose men shot the schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai. Mehsud was killed when missiles struck his vehicle in the North Waziristan region on 1 November. The government had been trying to set up peace talks, but the new leader has already rejected the initiative. The BBC's Richard Galpin in Islamabad says the Taliban have indicated that Mullah Fazlullah wants revenge for the killing of Mehsud. A Taliban spokesman told the BBC the militants would target the military and the governing party. The Mehsud killing had angered the Pakistani government. Interior Minister Chaudry Nisar Ali Khan said that the drone strike was "not just the killing of one person, it's the death of all peace efforts". Mehsud clan The announcement of the new leader was made by the Taliban's caretaker leader Asm...

RESIDENTS of Oke-Ayepe, Onward Estate in Osogbo Local Government Area of Osun State were, yesterday, thrown into mourning when a 75-year-old grandfather, Pa Adisa Hassan, allegedly committed suicide in the storeroom of his house. The deceased popularly known as Baba Tawa, who operated three buses for his inter-city transport business was said to have hanged himself  around 5.00a.m. after officers of the Vehicle Inspection Officials (VIO) seized two of his three buses. Eye-witness accounts revealed that Pa Hassan woke up alongside his family members around 5.00a.m. to observe their usual morning prayer (Subri) but changed his mind on his way to the mosque situated opposite his house and went into his store room and took his life. When journalists visited the scene of the incident,  yesterday, family members and residents of the area were seen wailing even as some of his associates were discussing the mystery surrounding the tragedy. Also, a team of officers from the Disaste...

A 52-year-old housewife, Grace Adebanjo, who allegedly assaulted a policeman and two of his female colleagues, was yesterday charged before an Apapa senior magistrate’s court in Lagos. The accused, who resides at Boundary area of Ajegunle, Apapa, Lagos, is being tried for assault, tearing of police uniform, unlawful obstruction, damage to property and breach of the peace. Cpl. John Iberedem, the prosecutor, told the court that the accused, who was being investigated by the police at the Ajeromi Police Station, bit Cpl. Oda Fatimoh on her finger. Iberedem said that the accused also tore the uniform of one Sgt. Olodu Frederick, attached to the Ajeromi Police Station, while performing his lawful duty. According to the prosecutor, the accused also held the clothes of Cpl. Folasade Akinsola, cutting the policewoman’s golden necklace worth N34,000 in the process. He said that the accused committed the offences on September 28, at 6.00 p.m. at the Ajeromi Police Station, Ajegunle, Apapa. ...

Resolved: ASUU strikes are utterly ineffective, totally uncalled for, profoundly senseless, and the students are always the only victims. Defence: It is no news that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) had for the past three years embarked on shorter, warning, strikes over the non-implementation of its Agreement with the Federal Government (FG) with the general public- and market women- haplessly looking on and seemingly enjoying the show; after all, silence means consent. Finally, the perpetual stimulus has reached threshold potential and the whole nation runs amok over a long-foreseen and imminent titanic contraction. Abaa! Where was the Senate during those calmer, but inoculating, times when ASUU yelled and none responded. Wasn't this the same Senate that would rather cut off our petroleum product subsidy than starve their obese allowances? Now that ASUU has thrown away its hearing aid we blame her for a deafness we all share(d), a deafness we stubbornly refuse...

The House of Representatives, yesterday, commenced probe of alleged plans by the Federal Government to sell the official residence of Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, UN, in Tarry Town, New York, United States of America, USA. This followed a motion sponsored by 19 members of the House, who described the move as ridiculous. Highlighting the synopsis of the motion entitled Urgent Need to Forestall the Alleged Plan to Sell the Official Residence of Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United, UN, in Tarry Town, New York, the chief mover, Yakubu Dogara, said Nigeria could not afford to sell an edifice built by the government of late Abubakar Tafawa Belewa, especially now that the country was close to having a permanent seat in UN’s Security Council. Earlier in their prayers, the members had noted that “all the past Permanent Representatives have lived there and do have a very fond and nostalgic memories of their residence in the property and they never ex...

Mr. Yusuf's wife A middle-aged man identified as Wasiu Yusuf has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly stabbing his bosom friend, Adeolu Olatoye,  to death for having clandestine relationship with his wife. Vanguard gathered that the incident which occurred at Oke-Efon area of  Abeokuta, Saturday  night,  was reportedly  carried out by the  suspect and one  accomplice identified as Mukaila, said to be on the run as at the time of this report. It was further gathered that the suspect lost his temperament when he reportedly caught  his 32 -year-old  friend  with his wife on the day of the incident on his matrimonial bed. The suspect, according to the findings, laid siege for the victim who reportedly came  to his house, and in the ensuing scuffle,the victim erroneously stabbed himself. But another version of the story had it that, the victim had gone to his friend’s house to drop an invitation card of hi...

  By: Uche Ihuoma November 5, 2013 The level of bad drainage system in Lagos is going from bad to worst, causing heavy level of flood in Lagos. Due to today's rain, the Ojude Berger of Lagos state, was in bad shape causing, motorists, pedestrians and shop owners to stand still.  The federal and state government shouldn't neglect this problem, else it starts pulling down houses and shop. EKO O NI BAJE O!