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 The group in a statement by its Communications Director, Zacheaus Somorin, alleged that the popular Lagos politician had already paid about 500 hoodlums N5, 000 each to carry out the plot of disrupting the demonstration meant to agitate for the creation of Oodua Republic. oruba One Voice, a Nigerian group in the Diaspora, has said it will go ahead with its planned protest scheduled for October 1 despite a plot by an unnamed politician based in Lagos to disrupt the peaceful exercise. The group in a statement by its Communications Director, Zacheaus Somorin, alleged that the popular Lagos politician had already paid about 500 hoodlums N5, 000 each to carry out the plot of disrupting the demonstration meant to agitate for the creation of Oodua Republic. The statement reads, “As a coalition, we are using this medium to advise the sponsor of this malevolent act to desist from such as any action that will derail the liberation of Yoruba nations would not be taken lightly. “Ideologically...

Commissioner of Police in the state, Bolaji Salami, who made the call in Akure, the state capital, said security agencies would not allow violence during the election on October 10. The police in Ondo have warned political thugs to avoid causing trouble before, during and after the governorship election in Ondo State or risk being jailed. Commissioner of Police in the state, Bolaji Salami, who made the call in Akure, the state capital, said security agencies would not allow violence during the election on October 10. Salami added that he had on two different occasions warned leaders of political parties in the state to caution their supporters to shun violence. He said, “If anyone thinks he could add violence to politics in Ondo State, such a joker would regret their involvement in politics. “The Ondo State Police Command would not hesitate to send anyone found sponsoring or inducing anybody into carrying out acts of violence in the name of politics to jail.” SaharaReporters recall tha...

Ihedioha - Okorocha Owerri – The Imo state governor, Emeka Ihedioha, on Tuesday, said that he discovered his predecessor, Rochas Okorocha, has left bitter legacies, people of the state would not want to be associated with. The governor’s Chief of Staff, Chris Okewulonu, through his Media Adviser, Kennedy Eweama, spoke in Owerri, while reacting to a claim by Okorocha, that the Ihedioha’s government has launched a destruction of his (Okorocha) legacies. Ihedioha insisted that he would follow due process in addressing what he said were the “problems” created by Okorocha as it regards any form of mismanagement of the state resources, adding that by Okorocha’s policies and programmes they people of the state, were further impoverished in eight years. Nursing school students fault Okorocha’s aide on invasion(Opens in a new browser tab) He said that his priority in the rebuild Imo project, included to end the eight years traumatic experience of Imo people in the hand of Okorocha, by reviving ...

The Federal Government's vision for Nigeria in the next 10 years and more is to transform the economy into an industrialized one with a strong middle class and a place where the majority of the people are living above the poverty line, according to Vice President @ProfOsinbajo . Vp Prof. Osinbajo   stated this at a Dinner and Interactive Session with some visiting Faculty Members from @HarvardHBS  led by Prof. Srikant Datar, a Professor of Business Administration, alongside a select group of Nigerian business executives, on Tuesday evening in Lagos. Eye Witness Submit Your Stories Email Us : jomotvonline.com@gmail.com Advertise Your Business, Promote Your Music, Videos, Comedy Skits On JomoTv.com whatsapp Us:- +2348109403485, +2349026363510  Leave A Comment Below:

President Buhari - Jomo Tv  The President of Nigeria, His Excellency Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR) have today signed into law with executive powers to remove, revoke, banish all firearm or shotgun certificate or license in Nigeria. Buhari  This executive order will kick off from 1st June 2019. No one in this country is now allowed or authorised to own or carry prohibited weapons or gun. If you think you have any license issued to you in the past / previously allowing you to own or carry any type of gun, prohibited weapons, components parts and prohibited ammunition or selling; that license is now dead. YOU DO NOT HAVE A GUN LICENSE ANY MORE… Only the armed forces that are fully authorised can carry guns. All civil defense core and other security organisation are no longer allowed to carry weapons from 1st June 2019. NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO SELL ANY TYPE OF WEAPONS ANY MORE. You must: now hand in back all type of firearm license or certificate issued to you in the past ...

Lagos Badagary Express Way - JOMO Tv   LAST Monday, angry youths and students of the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, AOCOED, Ijanikin, Lagos, joined by students of the Lagos State University, LASU, marched along the unbelievably bad Lagos-Badagry Expressway in protest. This time around, the students were not protesting against higher school fees or the deplorable condition of facilities in their schools.  They were asking both the Federal and Lagos State governments to immediately fix that international road, the gateway to neighbouring West African countries like Benin Republic, Ghana, Togo, and others. Some angry students who spoke to Vanguard  around the Federal Government College, Ijanikin, said the protest was about the Lagos-Badagry Expressway which has become hell on earth for all users of the road. “You can see for yourself the condition of this international road. Since we were born, we have never seen any road in this condition, even in the rural areas,...

© Getty Images  File Photo-Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari (R) addresses the audience The Presidency disagreed on Monday that President Muhammadu Buhari was “sleeping on duty as the Commander-in-Chief,” a description the Catholic Bishop of Yola Diocese, Rt Rev Fr Stephen Mamza, gave of Buhari on Sunday. HOREM - Definition and Meanin g The cleric had, during an Easter homily he delivered in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, criticised the Buhari administration for allegedly failing to halt insecurity in the country, especially escalating kidanappings, banditry and other violent crimes. Speaking specifically on the latest killings in Zamfara, Benue, Adamawa, Taraba and Southern Kaduna, the bishop said, “We are really in a dilemma. We (Nigerians) are feeling that we don’t have protection. From all indications, there is nothing being done. There have been calls from all over the country. Look at what is happening in Zamfara State; look at what is happening in Benue periodi...

© Provided by Genesis Media NAF boosts war against insurgency, gets 2 new attack helicopters The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has taken delivery of two Agusta 109 Power attack helicopters in the bid to combat terrorism in the country. HOREM - Definition and Meaning NAF disclosed the news on its twitter page on Monday, April 22, adding that the force authorities in Yola also celebrated Easter with the frontline troops in Yola, the capital of Adamawa state. The celebration was led by the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar on Monday, April 22. CAS Abubakar also said the NAF, with the support of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Muhammadu Buhari nx the National Assembly, would continue to get new platforms, while also building human capacity in its war against insurgency and every form of insecurity in the nation. Recall that  Legit.ng  earlier reported that NAF on Saturday, April 13, destroyed some logistics stores belonging to ba...

There is a battle for survival. If you’ve ever read the book, ‘Animal Farm’, that’s what it is. Because there is economic insecurity, it leads to social insecurity, which means that you are now reduced to your animalistic instincts Bismarck Rewane, Chairman of the Presidential Technical Advisory Committee on the Implementation of the National Minimum Wage, says there is nothing like 'rich' in Nigeria. Rewane stated that this is because the rich in Nigeria are so few that they don't even count. He also attributed the growing violence and insecurity in the country to the unequal distribution of wealth in the country. Rewane made the assertion during an interview session with the Punch newspaper published on Saturday. His words: “In Nigeria, I think it is between the poor and the very poor. So, there is nothing like ‘rich’ in Nigeria because the rich are so few that they don’t even count. It is a battle between the poor and the very poor. After the very poo...

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Emir of Kano, has indicted politicians on the growing rate of insurgency in the country, claiming that the political class is aiding kidnapping and thuggery. Speaking at the Ansar-ud-deen Society of Nigeria’s 9th triennial national conference on Friday, Sanusi also stated that the political class has destroyed the health and judiciary system of the country. “The political class has destroyed so many things in this country. The health system has been destroyed. People now travel abroad for medical attention. “This political class has instituted thuggery, election malpractices, corruption. They have also destroyed the judiciary. Institutions have been destroyed, "The unfortunate thing is that it is meant to be perpetual and the manipulation of these things has been the source of criminal violence, insecurity in our society, tribal clashes, religious crises. One crisis will reduce, another one will spring up. “There is now kidnapping, among other ...