Photos from the Niger Delta Development Forum

The just concluded 2016 edition of the Niger Delta Development Forum which took place at the New Concorde Hotel in Owerri Imo State on the 19th and 20th of October was a roll call of who is who in the development sector in the Niger Delta.  The Forum sponsored by the Foundation for Partnership

Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND), in collaboration with Niger Delta Development Initiative (NDPI), the Imo State Government and DFID funded Market Development for the Niger Delta (MADE), played host to Niger Deltans from all works of life. 

The hugely successful event was tagged ‘Towards Self-Sustaining Development in the Niger Delta: Narrating and Showcasing a Re-Imagined Niger Delta’. Other Partners that contributed to this success include USAID Nigeria, SACE, BRACED Commission, DEMAND Alliance and NSRP.

Rivers rerun fake result sheet scandal: INEC and Police colluding with APC to rig - Governor Wike

Rivers State Governor has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC , Police and the All Progressives Congress ( APC) of colluding to rig the forthcoming Rivers rerun election.

The governor stated that in collusion with INEC , the APC Official Printer , Atonyesia Peterside had printed fake result sheets for seven local government areas in Rivers South-East Senatorial District and Etche Local Government Area in Rivers East Senatorial District . 

Addressing a World Press Conference at the Government House , Port Harcourt on Sunday , Governor Wike declared that INEC released all the official data of the specific polling units where elections will hold to the APC Official Printer , Atonyesia Peterside for the printing of fake result sheets, ballot papers and other sensitive materials .

The governor told the press conference attended by major Rivers State Stakeholders that despite overwhelming evidence , the police have stated that they are under instructions from Abuja not to prosecute the printer.

He added that the police authorities have further stated that they will not arrest Mr Emmanuel Chinda, Former Agriculture Commissioner and Rivers APC Chieftain, because the party considers it an embarrassment to APC.

Osun state University sacks lecturer involved in sexual scandal

The management of the Osun State University, UNIOSUN, have sacked one of its lecturers, Olabode Ojoniyi of the department of Languages and Linguistics who was recently involved in a sex scandal.

Olabode who is married with children, some months back tried to solicit sex for increased marks from one of his female students identified as Mercy Ikwue.

He invited Mercy over to a hotel and while he was persuading her to give in to his request, Mercy secretly started recording their conversation using her laptop which she pretended to be using to watch a movie. She later released the video to some of her friends who made the video go viral.

Olabode was summoned before the school's disciplinary committee. After a thorough investigation, he was found guilty and subsequently dismissed last week.

Father kidnaps his two sons, kills them and himself

A father, Christopher Cadenbach killed his two young sons, 5-year-old Ethan and 4-year-old Owen, before turning the gun on himself in St. Louis on Saturday night.

Cadenbach, had a $100,000 bond issued for his arrest in connection with a previous domestic violence dispute, but on Saturday afternoon when he met with his mum and two sons at the park, he told his mum that “he wasn’t going to be taken alive”.

Police said Cadenbach left the park in his mum’s car with the two boys, and then she called police to report the kidnap and car jacking.

Police issued an Amber Alert for the children Saturday night and a park ranger spotted a vehicle matching the description of Caden bach’s car at Cliff Cave Park in South County, police said.

President Buhari mourns gallant soldier, Col Ali, killed in Boko Haram ambush last friday, calls the late soldier's father

President Buhari has expressed sadness over the death of Lt. Col. Abu Ali, the gallant military officer killed in Boko Haram ambush in Mallam Fatori, Borno state last Friday. In a statement released by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Shehu Garba, President Buhari said he was rudely shocked by the news of the officer’s death along with other gallant soldiers during an encounter with the Boko Haram members in Borno State.

According to President Buhari:

“A courageous commander does not only give orders, but also joins his men to fight the battle, no matter the risks or the obvious danger.”

President Buhari in his passionate condolence to the families of the victims and the Nigerian Army, noted that their heroic sacrifices were “so immeasurable that no words can do justice to their patriotism and remarkable courage. President Buhari, who personally called late Colonel Ali’s father, Brigadier-Gen. Abu Ali (Ryder) to console the family, reassured them that the death of Col Ali and others in battle would never go in vain.

Family sues Amazon for $30m claiming hoverboard burned down their house

A family in Nashville, Tennessee, has filed a $30m lawsuit against Amazon, claiming that the online retailer should be held liable for a hover board they bought for their son as Christmas present that burned their house down.

The mother, Megan Fox bought what she thought was a FITBURO® F1 with an “original Samsung advanced battery” from a company called “W-Deals” through Amazon’s website on 3 November 2015, according to the complaint. They received the  hover board and left it in a closet until Christmas, when it was given to her 14-year-old son.

However, on 9 January 2016, the HB’s battery apparently exploded – a common occurrence that led to the recall of more than 500,000 hoverboards by the Consumer Product Safety Commission in July.

Blac Chyna plans to have her baby in the same $4,000-a-night maternity suite Kim K used

Blac Chyna is planning to give birth to her daughter with fiancée Robert Kardashian in the same maternity suite that Kim Kardashian used. According to TMZ, Chyna is having a C-section next week at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A. where Kim and Kanye paid $4000 a night when she gace birth to her son, Saint. The maternity suite has 3 beds, 2 baths and a lounge area and complimentary robes.