2 confirmed dead in auto crash involving wife of Abia state governor's convoy

Two persons have ben confirmed dead in an auto crash involving the convoy of the wife of the Abia state governor, Nkechi Ikpeazu. The accident occurred when the motorcade was returning to Umuahia from Ntigha-Uzor in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia, where the first lady had attended a burial on Tuesday, April 3rd.



According to reports, the Hummer Bus carrying the deceased persons summersaulted thrice when the driver attempted to overtake a vehicle at Ndiolumbe.



One of the deceased women was the wife of a former member of the state House of Assembly, Mrs Promise Uche-Nwamkpa while the second victim, Mrs Nwamaka Maduchukwu, a widow and mother of four, died in the hospital where doctors tried to revive her. Until her death, Maduchukwu was a Senior Special Assistant on Media to the Governor’s Wife. She was also the chairperson, State Information Chapel of the Abia Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).

The office of the first lady has released a statement reacting to the unfortunate incident. Read below


There remains have been deposited in the morgue. The first lady's office has released a statement reacting to the sad incident. Read below

A sad day for all of us

Earlier today, 03/04/2018, a fatal accident involving a vehicle in the convoy of the wife of the Governor of Abia State, occurred along Ururuka Road near Ndiolumbe in Isiala Ngwa South LGA of the state.

The white Toyota Hiace Hummer bus, which was returning to Umuahia after an engagement in Obingwa LGA with some public servants and stakeholders, sadly skidded around a bend before somersaulting several times.

The victims were immediately evacuated to the Federal Medical Centre Umuahia, where two persons were later pronounced dead.

Other occupants of the vehicle, currently undergoing emergency medical treatment, are responding to treatment.

Our hearts and prayers are with the families of the bereaved and those who sustained injuries from the unfortunate accident.

While we mourn with the bereaved, we will do everything possible to ensure that the survivors continue to receive adequate medical attention to enable them recover fully and as quickly as possible.

May God be with us all.

Eze Ajuzie
Chief Press Secretary to the Wife of the Governor of Abia State.

Nigerian female doctor who has not been paid since July last year and still goes to work, vows never to treat any Lassa fever patient until protective kits are provided

Lassa fever is still killing Nigerians, including medical doctors, at the moment. Apparently, the doctors that are being exposed to patients with the infectious disease, do not have protective kits to wear when they attend to such patients. Sad! See the female doctor's next tweet below..

President Buhari to proceed on private visit to London next week Monday

President Buhari is scheduled to depart for London, the United Kingdom, on a private visit next week Monday April 9th. A source in the Presidency says that the trip is to enable the president attend to some private matters which cannot be disclosed publicly.



While in London, President Buhari will attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) scheduled to hold from April 15 to 20 in London.

When contacted, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, declined to confirm or deny the reports. Recall that last year, President Buhari was in London for several months where he received treatment for an undisclosed ailment.

''No cache of dollars or any other foreign currencies was found in any of Goodluck Jonathan's homes'' Reno Omokri

Former media aide to former president Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has denied media reports that a cache of dollars was found recently in one of the homes of former president Goodluck Jonathan.



A video showing some police officers purportedly in one of the homes of the former president where a cache of dollars was found, has been circulating on social media.

Reno says there is no truth to the video. Read his statement below


On The Desperate Attempts by High Profile Persons to Link Dr. Goodluck Jonathan to Corruption

My attention has been drawn to a viral video, initially circulated by agents of the All Progressive Congress led Federal Government, and purported to be videos of a police raid of the home of former President Goodluck Jonathan, and in which huge sums of money was found.

Let it be known that no police officers or any other security agents have stormed any of the residences of former President Jonathan and no cache of dollars or any other foreign currencies have been found in any of his residences and indeed none can be found because no such stash exists.

Nigerians may want to recall that there was a curious burglary of the former President’s house in 2017. The motive of that incident or who was behind it may never truly come to light until some time in the future, but even during that burglary, no monies were discovered in the house and only sundry properties and electronics were stolen.

It will also be recalled that on March 7, 2014, then President Jonathan declared to Nigerians as follows “I am loyal to Nigeria’s economy. I don’t have accounts or property abroad.”

That declaration remains true today as it was then. Furthermore, the former President, in keeping with the cashless Policy which his administration introduced and fully implemented, does not keep huge sums of cash at his residence.

Dr. Goodluck Jonathan is a modest man and whatever he has by way of cash and property are the result of his legitimate earnings.

He is the most investigated living former President in Nigeria’s history. That nothing implicating has been found on him should not lead his traducers to become desperate and fabricate evidence and circulate it as propaganda.

I urge Nigerians to be on the alert to fake news circulated by desperadoes via WhatsApp and other social media platforms and intended to malign the good name of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.

Finally, I advise anyone willing to take my advise that the only way to make progress in Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index is to fight corruption and not the opposition and to do the fighting in the courts and not in the media.

That is how the Jonathan administration was able to achieve Nigeria’s best ever performance on Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index in 2014 when Nigeria improved by eight places from 144 to 136.

''It is unfair to say anyone that joined APC from PDP is a looter'' Lai Mohammed

Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, has reacted to speculations that the party is shielding PDP members that decamped to APC before the 2015 general election.



Shortly after releasing the controversial looters list which had mostly PDP members, the opposition party, PDP, in a statement, alleged that some of its members such as Rotimi Amaechi who decamped from PDP to APC and has been accused of looting the Rivers state treasury to fund the APC presidential campaign in 2015, is being shielded by the party.

In an interview with newsmen in Lagos, the Minister said the allegation is baseless and that is is very unfair to tag every PDP decampee to APC a looter. According to him, the allegation against the decampees is not established.


''There is a difference between allegations and established cases. All the cases I have mentioned (alleged PDP looters) are already in court. You see, how many times have people written that Lai Mohammed has billions of dollars. But, these are allegations that are just ridiculous. I can assure you that if there is any allegation against any member of this government, this government will investigate it. It would be unfair to say that everybody that joined APC from PDP is a looter; it would be unfair. I am saying that, whether you are of ACN stock or PDP stock or CPC stock and you are found to be corrupt, you will be investigated.

On why he released the controversial looters list, Lai Mohammed said


''We were challenged to do so. Don’t forget that on their own, the PDP said that they apologised to Nigerians for the way they ran Nigeria aground and we said, yes, apology is accepted, but, please return the funds. One of them challenged us to name those who had stolen money. I think gradually, it is becoming fashionable when you remind PDP that they brought us to this sorry path, they will say stop talking about what we did, please, continue with your own. But, we cannot move. It is important that Nigerians remember how we got here and the same people who have made no atonement say that they want to come back in 2019 to power. So, it is important for us to remind them. Let me tell you, this government is not in any panic. We are so proud of our acheivements that, in less than three years, I can stand up and say this is what we have achieved in the area of insecurity, this is what we have achieved in the economy, in the area of ease of doing business. There is no area we have not made our mark. We lifted Nigeria from number 165 in the ease of doing business to 145. It is not a mean feat. And we exited recession at a time when the price of crude was low. We were in recession when we implemented the diversification of the economy. It is on record that, despite all these challenges that we have not retrenched one person. So, why should we be afraid? Why should we panic? I don’t see any reason why we should panic. I think it is the imagination of people that the government is panicky. No.

The Minister said although the courts has to decide if the alleged looters are guilty or not, it is an established fact that many of those on the looters list did deep their hands in the national treasury when they were in office


''That is the business of the court. I am saying that on the 24th of February, Secondus took N100 million in cash. The then National Financial Secretary took N700 million. These are facts. They said name, and I said these are the people that were reported to have stolen money. So, what is prejudicial about it? Let them go and solve their matters in court, but if you challenge us to name names, we will name names'' he said

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Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello sustains leg Injury while alighting from his official car

According to a statement from the Kogi State Government House, Lokoja on Tuesday, Governor Yahya Bello, sustained a leg injury while alighting from his official car.



The statement said the governor had the minor accident last week Friday, and has since been discharged from the hospital. The statement signed by Director General, Media and Publicity to the governor, Kingsley Fanwo, said that the incident happened at the old market area in Lokoja when the governor was waiting to receive the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara.



Fanwo said the governor is not incapacitated as rumoured and he has since gone back to his official duties. “We wish to refute rumours that the Governor of Kogi State, Yahyah Bello is either hospitalised or otherwise incapacitated. The governor missed his footing last Friday, March 30, 2018, while alighting from a vehicle and injured his left foot. He was treated by his doctors, who bandaged the leg and discharged him,” the statement read in part.



Bello was however in Abuja, on Tuesday, to attend the APC governors meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari