A senior lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Prof Yinka Adegbeingbe, who was abducted on Sunday night near Ikire along Ife-Ibadan Expressway, has been released.
Though details surrounding his release were still sketchy, Tribune Online gathered that he was in good condition and currently with the Police.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of Osun State Policr Command, Mrs Folasade Odoro, confirmed Adegbeingbe’s release to journalists in Osogbo.
Similarly, the director of media and public affairs to the Ooni of Ife, Comrade Moses Olafare, also confirmed the development to Tribune Online.
He stated: “Having spoken to his wife a couple of minutes ago, I feel so glad to break the good news that Prof Yinka Adegbehingbe of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Obafemi Awolowo University(OAU), Ile-Ife, who was yesterday (Sunday) kidnapped along Ibadan road around Ikoyi-Apomu axis has been released and now in the proper care of the Nigeria Police.”
The Duchess of Sussex has given birth to a baby boy, the Duke has confirmed.
Speaking from Windsor, the Duke said: “I’m very excited to announce that Meghan and myself had a baby boy this morning,
a very healthy baby boy.”
Asked what it was like to be present for the birth, he laughed and said: “I haven’t been at many births. This is definitely my first birth. It was amazing, absolutely incredible, and, as I said, I’m so incredibly proud of my wife.
“As every father and parent will ever say, you know, your baby is absolutely amazing, but this little thing is absolutely to-die-for, so I’m just over the moon.”
The baby was born at 5.36am. Crowds gathered outside Windsor Castle during the afternoon to wish the couple well.
Buckingham Palace had earlier confirmed on Monday afternoon that the Duchess was in labour.
“The Duchess went into labour in the early hours of this morning,” a spokesman said. “The Duke of Sussex was by Her Royal Highnesses’ side.”
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced the pregnancy in October, five months after their fairytale wedding at Windsor Castle, ahead of an Autumn tour to Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga, where they were immediately showered with baby gifts.
The pregnancy has marked somewhat of a break with previous royal tradition, with Meghan flying to New York to host a baby shower at one of Manhattan’s most lavish hotels, while fans donated thousands of pounds for the Duchess’s favourite charities in a generously modern show of support.
Here is everything we know about the Royal baby so far.
What will the royal baby be called?
There is much suspense as to what the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will call their baby.
The youngster has been born into the British Royal family, where tradition is an intrinsic part of the Windsors’s lives. If they go classic, possibilities include Alice, Mary, Elizabeth or Victoria for a girl, and Philip, Frederick, Charles, Arthur, Edward or James for a boy.
Of course, the pair are also forward-thinking royals and the Duchess has her own American upbringing to draw on.
Canadian-born Autumn Phillips, and husband Peter Phillips, opted for a non-traditional name for their daughter Savannah – the Queen’s first great-grandchild – in 2010.
In the US, the most popular name for a baby girl is Emma and Liam for a baby boy. In the UK, the most popular name for a girl born in 2017 was Olivia and, for a boy, Oliver. In short, it’s anyone’s guess.
Prof Adegbehingbe alongside his wife, it was learnt, was travelling from Lagos to Ife when armed men, stopped their vehicle and abducted him.
An eyewitness, Azeez Olagunju, told our correspondent that several vehicles ran into the ambush by the gunmen.
He said, “several vehicles were stopped by some men armed with guns. Many people fled into the bush because we thought it was an armed robbery attack.
“Later, we were told a man had been abducted but I don’t know who the person is. Those that fled into the bush later returned after the men had left the road.”
A spokesperson for Ooni of Ife, Moses Olafare confirmed the abduction of Adegbehingbe to our correspondent.
Olafare said, “I received a call from one of the passengers who witnessed the abduction of Prof Yinka Adegbehingbe. Immediately I received that information, I called OAU PRO. I also called Ife Area Commander of Nigeria Police Force and later the Commissioner of Police.
“CP told me she was aware of the incident and requested for more details from our end and we gave that. I later spoke to the wife of Prof. Adegbehingbe. She was in a police station around Apomu when I spoke to her.”
OAU Public Relations Officer, Mr Abiodun Olanrewaju, also confirmed the abduction in a telephone conversation.
Forty-one people including at least two children are believed to have died when a Russian passenger plane made an emergency landing and was engulfed in flames at Moscow’s busiest airport Sunday, investigators said.
Dramatic footage shared on social media showed Aeroflot’s Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft, land at Sheremetyevo international airport, flames and black smoke pouring from its fuselage.
Passengers could be seen leaping onto an inflatable slide at the front and running from the blazing plane as huge black columns of smoke billowed into the sky.
“There were 78 people including crew members on board the plane,” the Investigative Committee said in a statement, adding it had headed to the northwest Russian city of Murmansk.
“According to the updated info which the investigation has as of now, 37 people survived.”
Another 11 people were injured, Dmitry Matveyev, the Moscow region’s health minister said earlier in the day. Three of them had been hospitalised but they were not in a serious condition, he added. Investigators said they were looking into various lines of inquiry and it was premature to draw any conclusions about the cause of the accident.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had offered his condolences to the victims’ loved ones, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has also ordered a special committee to investigate the disaster.
The jet carrying 73 passengers and five crew members had just left Sheremetyevo when the crew issued a distress signal, officials said.
“Flight Su-1492 took off on schedule at 6:02 pm (15H02 GMT),” said a statement from the airport.
“After the take-off, the crew reported an anomaly and decided to come back to the departure airport. At 6:30 pm, the aircraft made an emergency landing,” it added.
The tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda quoted one passenger, Petr Egorov, who said: “We had just taken off and the aircraft was hit by lightning…. The landing was rough, I almost passed out from fear.”
The plane sent out a distress signal after takeoff,” a source told Interfax news agency.
“It attempted an emergency landing but did not succeed the first time, and on the second time the landing gear hit (the ground), then the nose did, and it caught fire,” the source added.
Interfax, citing an anonymous source, said the plane had landed with its fuel tanks full because, having lost contact with air traffic controllers, it was too dangerous to dump its fuel tanks over Moscow.
Several flights have been diverted to other Moscow airports or Nizhny Novgorod, some 500 kilometres (310 miles) east of the Russian capital.
The Sukhoi Superjet-100 was the first civilian aircraft developed in Russia’s post-Soviet era and at the time of its launch, in 2011, was a source of national pride.
But it struggled to convince buyers from airlines outside Russia, and several foreign carriers that did buy it have since prefered to cut back its use or phase it out completely, citing its reliability.
The Russian government offered subsidies to encourage Russian airlines to buy the Superjet and Aeroflot became its main operator.
In September 2018, it announced a record order of 100 Superjet-100s.
President, Nigerian Residents Affiliation South Africa, Ben Okoli, says a Nigerian, Mr Okechukwu Henry, from Imo State, was stabbed to demise by unidentified South African robbers.
The NICASA president stated this in a letter to the Consul-Basic, Nigerian Consulate Johannesburg, South Africa.
A replica of the letter was obtained by the Information Company of Nigeria on Saturday in Abuja.
Okoli stated the affiliation was uninterested in sending Nigerians again house in physique luggage because of premeditated and organised crime towards them in South Africa.
Okoli stated, “Tragedy has struck the Nigerian group once more, simply after 4pm on Friday, Might three. Mr Okechukwu Henry was stabbed to dying by unknown native South African robbers.
”The late Henry, a automotive supplier who specialised in used automobiles, lived in Middleburg Mpumalanga Province. Earlier earlier than his dying, some two native guys had indicated curiosity to purchase his automotive – a white VW polo.
”That they had negotiated the worth and agreed to purchase; late Henry had produced all essential paperwork to seal the deal when all of a sudden the native consumers stated they needed to test-drive the automotive first earlier than paying.”
He added that Henry obliged them however insisted he would drive together with them.
”As they drove out, he all of a sudden realised that they have been robbers as they demanded the important thing of the automotive.
”They attacked him and stabbed him a number of occasions; they took the keys however couldn’t handle to drive away the automotive.
“Their motion attracted the eye of individuals round they usually ran away with the keys with out the automotive,” he stated.
In line with him, Henry was rushed to hospital, however it appeared he had died on the scene.
He said that a case of theft and homicide had been opened by the NICASA Provincial chairman in Mpumalanga.
”Your Excellency, the assault on Nigerians has reached an alarming degree and calls for one thing pressing to be completed to stem this ugly tide. Our nationals are beneath assault in South Africa. We’re underneath assault from each angle.
He referred to as on the Nigerian Mission to urgently intervene.
“We not really feel protected, we’ve got develop into like a trophy hunted by all. The Nigerian Residents Affiliation, South Africa, is disheartened by the frequent repatriation of the stays of our pricey residents,” he stated.
Boko Haram militants seized a military base in northeast Nigeria for several hours before being themselves ‘dislodged’ by reinforcements, security sources and residents said on Saturday.
Fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province faction of Boko Haram in trucks and on motorcycles stormed into the base in the town of Magumeri, around 40 km (25 miles) northwest of Borno state capital Maiduguri late on Friday, May 3, AFP reported.
The militants overran the base, holding it for several hours, and hauling away weapons before they were forced out.
“The terrorists dislodged troops from the base after an intense fight,” a military officer told AFP.
“We lost weapons and equipment to the terrorists but it is not clear if there was any human loss,” said the officer, who asked not to be named.
The militants arrived in the town around 5 p.m. and engaged troops in an hour-long fight before they “gained the upper hand and chased the troops away,” militia leader Gremah Kaka told AFP.
“The insurgents overpowered the soldiers and forced them to flee into the bush,” he said.
Kaka said the jihadists stayed in the base for “more than four hours” before they were dislodged by reinforcements from another base in Gubio, 40 km further north.
A Friday Naija News report cited two sources as saying the military base in Magumeri had been overrun by Boko Haram fighters, but did not attribute the attack to ISWAP specifically, and on Saturday, Sahara Reporters quoted a security source as saying “both soldiers and Civilian JTF [mitilia] members were overpowered as the attack went on” and that “many were killed and an unverified number wounded.”
In a Friday statement, ISIS claimed ISWAP fighters clashed with Nigerian army personnel who were stationed in “Mamri,” likely meaning Magumeri. ISIS claimed 10 soldiers were killed and a four-wheel-drive vehicle, weapons and ammunition were captured. On Saturday, ISIS published images including graphic pictures of dead bodies of what it said were ISWAP fighters attacking “Mamri.”
Citing several unnamed sources in Nigeria, Reuters reported that the ISWAP fighters fled after the military called in air support and reinforcements from Gubio.
A week earlier on April 26, ISWAP fighters attacked Nigerian soldiers in Sabon Gari, near Biu, around 135 km southwest of Maiduguri. ISIS claimed 10 soldiers were killed and another captured. Three days later, security sources told AFP at least five soldiers were killed and around 30 were missing.
The Nigerian military described reporting on Sabon Gari incident as “unsubstantiated” and that the “fake report” was the handiwork of “Boko Haram sympathizers.” Colonel Ado Isa said there were “only minor casualty on own troops,” without specifying casualties.
The Nigerian military rarely comments on the ongoing counter-insurgency operations, and tends to downplay the insurgents’ effectiveness, rarely acknowledging engagements and seemingly understating casualties and equipment losses.
Since then, ISIS has claimed ISWAP attacks in Baga and Malam Fatori, and ISWAP attacks were featured in the weekly ISIS magazine al-Naba.
The jihadist group known as Boko Haram began its decade-long bloody insurgency in northeastern Nigeria in 2009 but it has since spread into neighboring Niger, Chad and Cameroon, prompting a regional military response.
More than 27,000 people have been killed and two million others displaced, sparking a dire humanitarian crisis in the region. On April 30, the U.S.Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for CounterterrorismNathan A. Sales said that the U.S. assesses that Boko Haram and ISWAP “have been responsible for over 35,000 deaths since 2011.”
Boko Haram split into two factions in mid-2016. One, led by long-time leader Abubakar Shekau, is notorious for suicide bombings and indiscriminate killings of civilians. Shekau pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi in March 2015, but ISIS central only gives formal backing to the other faction, which it calls Islamic State West Africa Province.
The Multinational Joint Task Force, a regional counter-insurgency force comprising personnel from Chad, Cameroon, Niger, and Nigeria, launched Operation Yancin Tafki on February 21 to battle the insurgents. Antigha has said the cross-border operation is aimed at “making islands and other settlements in Lake Chad untenable for Boko Haram Terrorists.”
With reporting from AFP. This post was updated on May 4.
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Pastor Enoch Adeboye has warned single ladies to avoid marrying jobless men.
Jobless men, he said, have the tendencies to use, dump and abandon such ladies.
Adeboye spoke on Sunday at the May Special Prayer and Thanksgiving service by the RCCG Throne of Grace, National Headquarters Ebute Metta, Lagos.
According to him, a woman should not marry a man that has no work “if not you will be the work.”
He noted it is not sinful for a single lady to politely ask any man proposing marriage whether or not he has a job.
Stating that women are conceived as helpmeets, Adeboye argued only somebody who has a job can be helped.
Adeboye, who spoke through the Assistant General Overseer, (RCCG) Personnel and Administration Pastor Johnson Odesola, said the man is key and the woman has only come to help.
“Whatever the woman does is help. The man is major director in the house,” he stressed.
He stated taking care of the homes does not rest on the woman alone but the man and the woman who have come to help.
Adeboye blamed lack of proper home training for most of the ills in the society.
“I still remember when I was young. My father will tell me that this name is the name of my father. Don’t spoil the name. So I was scared to do wrong. I could not shake the hand of a lady until I was 23.
“Learning for any child should start from the home and parents should be their child first teachers.
“The wife and the husband are the main teachers who will teach and model godly character to their children,” he stated.
In his sermon, Adeboye, urged all Christians to strengthen their faith, saying there would always be storm in the lives of the believers.
Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land, Otunba Gani Adams, who was at the service argued religion, is never the problem of Nigeria.
According to him: “It is sad many people believe religion is Nigeria’s problem, but in truth, leadership, not religion is Nigeria’s problem.
“For instance, I am a Muslim by birth. I grew up from a Christian background and as the Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba land and culture activist, I also believe in our traditional religion.”
Some suspected bandits have attacked the residence of a former Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, in his country home at Bafarawa and killed his security guard, Abdullahi Jijji. The attack came barely 24 hours after the ex-Governor launched a foundation in Abuja named after him which he said would help in proffering solutions to the incessant banditry and kidnapping, particularly in northern parts of Nigeria.
The attackers also abducted his 16-year-old nephew, Abdulrasheed Sa’idu. Confirming the attack, the Director-General, Bafarawa Foundation, Dr. Sulaiman Shu’aibu Shinkafi, said the attack occurred around 9pm on Friday.
He said the gunmen, who arrived in a Commando style, threatened to wipe out Bafarawa and Kamarawa villages, all Isa Local Government Area of Sokoto State. Shinkafi added that the bandits, armed with AK-47 rifles came on motorcycles and bought fuel in the town before attacking the house. When contacted, the spokesman of the Sokoto State Police Command, DSP Muhammad Sadiq, said he was not aware of such attack. (Daily Trust)
The Federal Government has been asked to review the contract of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company for failing to supply power to some communities in Ondo State.
The Senator-elect for Ondo South Senatorial District, Nicholas Tofowomo made the call when he visited the Omotosho Power Plant in Ore, Odigbo Local Government Area of the State.
Ayodeji Moradeyo reports that protests like have become the norm in Ondo South Senatorial District to draw attention of government to power outage in the area, which Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC has failed to resolve.
Even with the location of the Omotosho Power Plant in the area, nothing meaningful has been achieved. This, perhaps propelled the Senator-elect for Ondo South Senatorial District, Nicholas Tofowomo to visit the management of the power plant.
After a closed door meeting with the management, Tofowomo expressed sadness that the people are still expressing erratic power supply
He lamented the inability of successive governments to make the power plant work effectively. The Senator-elect also frowned at the performance of BEDC in providing electricity to the people.
Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, has assured Nigerians that President Muhammadu Buhari won’t delay in appointing ministers for his second tenure in office.
After securing victory in the 2015 elections, it had taken almost six months before a full list of ministers was released for Buhari’s first term in office.
However, Adesina has assured Nigerians that there won’t be delay this time, while noting that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will have a stake in who gets ministerial appointments.
Speaking in an interview with The Guardian newspaper published on Sunday, Adesina also said the transition to a new government on May 29, 2019 would be seamless.
He said: “What makes it better is that the leadership of the outgoing government is the same as the incoming one. Ministers had been told to turn in their stewardship reports by April 24, and I believe all of them complied. The valedictory Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting will hold on May 24, and different committees are working on the May 29 inauguration ceremony. Things are shaping up beautifully.
“The circumstances are no longer the same. So, there would be no delay. When you land in the mud of poor and delayed handover notes as happened in 2015, with a vandalised economy and a polity with different types of challenges, the delay would be understandable. But now, we have the good fortune of transition from government to government headed by the same President and Vice President, things can then be done more expeditiously.
“The party will surely have a stake and voice in who makes the cabinet, but it won’t lord or impose things on the President. The President is a member of the party, and the party will have its dues, but the buck still stops at the President’s desk.”
Speaking on whether some outgoing ministers would be retained, given the general perception of poor performance, he said: “That is a matter of opinion. If that is what you believe, you are entitled to it. But it does not make it the gospel truth. Members of the outgoing cabinet have served with diligence and commitment, and that is why the President kept them till now. If there was any laggard, you can be sure the President would not suffer such person gladly.”
On why the President’s kitchen cabinet does not seem to reflect the plurality expected of a national government, Adesina defended the President, saying: “Members of kitchen cabinets are people you know closely, and whom you can vouch for. A President composes his kitchen cabinet of people he knows, and is comfortable with. But on a general note, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has indicated that the incoming government would be one of national unity. The President will always do what is best for the country at any given time.”
The Duchess of Sussex has given birth to a baby boy, the Duke has confirmed.
Forty-one people including at least two children are believed to have died when a Russian passenger plane made an emergency landing and was engulfed in flames at Moscow’s busiest airport Sunday, investigators said.
President, Nigerian Residents Affiliation South Africa, Ben Okoli, says a Nigerian, Mr Okechukwu Henry, from Imo State, was stabbed to demise by unidentified South African robbers.
Boko Haram militants seized a military base in northeast Nigeria for several hours before being themselves ‘dislodged’ by reinforcements, security sources and residents said on Saturday.
Some suspected bandits have attacked the residence of a former Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, in his country home at Bafarawa and killed his security guard, Abdullahi Jijji. The attack came barely 24 hours after the ex-Governor launched a foundation in Abuja named after him which he said would help in proffering solutions to the incessant banditry and kidnapping, particularly in northern parts of Nigeria.
Even with the location of the Omotosho Power Plant in the area, nothing meaningful has been achieved. This, perhaps propelled the Senator-elect for Ondo South Senatorial District, Nicholas Tofowomo to visit the management of the power plant.