Day: August 4, 2020

Jackson Ude gets death threats after exposing US$2.5m illegal oil deal

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Global Peace Ambassador and investigative journalist, Mr. Jackson Ude, who exposed the theft and illicit sale of 48 million barrels of Nigeria’s Bonny Light crude off the coast of China for $2.5billion has disclosed that he has received several death threats from persons he described as “known and unknown.” Mr. Ude, a Nigerian-American resident in New York, had recently used his newspaper, Pointblanknews.com and his Twitter handle @jacksonpbn, to expose a mind-blowing surreptitious sale of stolen Nigerian crude by highly placed government officials under the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. The…

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FIRS at war with NIPOST over stamp duty

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Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), the tax agency of the Federal government said the collection of stamp duty by the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) is unconstitutional. According to the agency, it says “To be sure, NIPOST is a government parastatal established by Decree 41 of 1992 with the function to develop, promote, and provide adequate and efficiently co-ordinated postal services at reasonable rates,” FIRS spokesman Abdullahi Ismaila Ahmad said in a statement. “On the other hand, the FIRS is the sole agency of got charged with the responsibility of *assessing,…

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Woman Forced To Carry Husband On Shoulders As Punishment for infidelity

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An Indian woman has been filmed carrying her husband around on her shoulders as punishment after she was accused of having an affair by her husband. The wife was beaten every time she tried to stop or take a break from carrying her heavy load as she was paraded around the village in India. The woman was jeered at by fellow villagers and even had car tyres thrown at her in the shocking footage. The incident took place in a village in the Jhabua district, about 300 miles north of…

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Air Peace: Sacking our pilots was a painful decision

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The Management of Air Peace has disengaged some of its pilots. The decision, according to the company stemmed from the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on its operations and financial health. A statement issued by the spokesperson of the airline, Mr. Stanley Olise, explained that the sack of the pilots, is painful but rightful decision, however, attributed the action to the resolve of the management for the greater good of the company and its almost 3000 workforces with the affected pilots inclusive. “The airline cannot afford to toe the…

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Traditional ruler, pastor in police net, paraded for kidnappings ‌

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Eze Andrew Okuegbunuwa, the traditional ruler of Obor community in Awara, Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State, alongside one Pastor Caleb Agu are being held for an alleged kidnapping by operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad. The state Commissioner of Police, Isaac Akinmoyede, who paraded the traditional ruler and eight suspected members of his gang at the command headquarters in Owerri, alleged that they were responsible for the killing of two personnel of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in the state a few months…

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COVID-19: Ogun State reverses decision, orders free tests for students

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Governor Dapo Abiodun has ordered the stepping down of the COVID-19 test as a mandatory requirement for returning students in the exit classes, and equally directed that the “government laboratories carry out tests for all returning SS3 boarding students at no cost”. The governor reversed it’s decision, making COVID-19 tests free for all returning SS3 boarding students. Those that have paid for tests will be refunded. Governor Abiodun, who gave the directives while reacting to the protest embarked on by parents of final year students in private secondary schools in…

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