Don’t be afraid of jail, Aisha Buhari replies Patience Jonathan

L-R: Patience Jonathan and Aishat Buhari

Hajia Aishat Buhari, wife of the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari, has advised Dame Patience Jonathan, that she needs not fear jail, should her husband be voted President come 28 March, as Nigerians only want a change in the way the country is being governed now.

Patience, the wife President Goodluck Jonathan, has been campaigning that General Buhari will jail his political opponents if elected President in the March 28 election.

Microsoft announces end of Internet Explorer

So we hope you can join us for a minute’s silence, after Microsoft announced that they’ll soon be doing away with the iconic browser in favour of a newer version, which is currently codenamed Project Spartan.

Frustrated users have previously slammed the browser for being slow and bug-prone, and Microsoft once talked of changing the name of the browser to address “negative perceptions that no longer reflect reality.”

Buhari will send you to jail, Patience Jonathan warns women

Dame Patience Jonathan

Ahead of the general elections, the wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has charged the people of Rivers State not to vote for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Mohammadu Buhari(retd.), to avoid being sent to jail.

Mrs. Jonathan said Buhari would not hesitate to put his perceived enemies in prison if he wins the forthcoming presidential poll, holding on March 28.

Speaking during the Peoples Democratic Party’s women rally in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, the President’s wife argued that Buhari was a dictator in the past and would never change.

Court orders substitution of PDP gov candidate in Borno

Gambo Lawan

Few weeks to the governorship election in Borno State, a Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to remove Alhaji Mohammed Imam as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state.

Justice Ahmed Mohammed in his judgment on a suit challenging the submission of Iman’s name to the INEC, declared Alhaji Gambo Lawan as the valid governorship candidate of the party in Borno State.

The court held that Lawan had proved to the court that he contested and validly won the party’s primary conducted on December 11, 2014 at Arewa Suites in Abuja.

Obanikoro, seven others get ministerial portfolios

Embattled former minister of state, Defence and former Lagos state Peoples Democratic Party, PDP governorship candidate on Wednesday was given the State, Foreign Affairs II portfolio along other seven others.

President Goodluck Jonathan inaugurated the eight new ministers recently confirmed by the Senate before the commencement of the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting.

The President thereafter assigned portfolios to them as follows: Senator Patricia Akwashiki (Information); Prof. Nicholas Ada (State, Foreign Affairs I); Senator Musiliu Obanikoro (State, Foreign Affairs II); Col. Augustine Akobundu (retd.) (State, Defence); Mr. Fidelis Nwankwo (State, Health); Mrs. Hauwa Bappa (State, Niger Delta Affairs); Mr. Kenneth Kobani (State, Industry, Trade and Investment); and Senator Joel Ikenya (Labour and Productivity).

APC women protest attack on Buhari’s wife’s convoy

Hundreds of women of the All Progressives Congress in Kwara State on Wednesday protested against the attack on the convoy of Mr. Aishat Buhari, the wife of the APC presidential candidate. Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.).

They also protested against the alleged attacks on some other women in the state.

6,000 pastors mobilise for Buhari

At least 6,000 pastors in the Southwest are mobilising for the emergence of Major General Muhammadu Buhari as president and have declared seven days praying and fasting for God to grant him victory at next week’s poll.

The pastors under the aegis of Christians for Governance, Pastors For Change, held a news conference in Ikeja, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, where they openly endorsed the candidacy of Buhari and Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, who is a pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God.

The clerics are drawn from various churches, such as the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Catholic, Orthodox, among others.

I am APC for live, Atiku declares

Former Vice President and chieftain of the All progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar, has denied knowledge of the groups of politicians who announced their defection to the PDP from the APC.

Some groups, which claimed to be Atiku support groups, had defected to the Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday.

But in a statement by his media office on Wednesday, the former VP denied any relationship with the groups.

Senegal 2015: Flying Eagles land in final, whip Ghana 2-0

The Flying Eagles will meet the winners of Senegal and Mali second semifinal match in the final match on Sunday Six-time African U20 Championship winners, the Flying Eagles, on Wednesday confirmed their superiority over the Black Satellites of Ghana in the semi final tie at the ongoing Senegal 2015 African Youth Championship.

A hundred of Nigerian whistle-blowing fans where trilled to football spectacle as the Flying Eagles cruised past the Ghanians at Stade LS Senghor, Dakar.

Nigeria’s Usman Sale beat the Ghanians defenders but his attempts at hitting an early goal was curtailed by onrushing Black Satellites’ goalkeeper, Michael Sai, in the fourth minute of the tensioned soaked tie.

How lover stabbed Silverbird Cinemas worker to death

Facts have emerged on how Aishat Noble-Mustapha, a female worker with Silverbird Cinemas was allegedly stabbed to her death by her estranged lover at her house in Ogudu GRA, Lagos State.

The 26-year-old lady was formerly in the communications department of the company’s branch on the Victoria Island before she was recently posted to the box office section in the Ikeja Mall.

The Kogi State indigene had reportedly closed from work on Saturday, March 14, around 7.30pm, and got home, when she was murdered.

A source, who pleaded anonymity, said she was stabbed about 11 times in the stomach.