NDLEA- Nigeria records highest number of drug related convicts in the World

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, announced that Nigeria has the highest number of persons serving jail terms for drug related offences worldwide. Iweajunwa Okechukwu, the NDLEA commander in the state disclosed this while celebrating the 2015 UN Drug Free Day in Minna on Friday. “There is no doubt that as a country, the menace of drug abuse and trafficking is one of the biggest problems staring us in the face today. “All over the world, Nigerians are notorious for drug trafficking. We have the highest number of traffickers serving jail terms more than any other country in the world,’’ he said. This year’s Drug Free Day is tagged: “Let’s Develop our Lives, our communities and our identities without drugs’’. Okechukwu said that the recent Indonesian incident involving Nigerians was a pointer to the claim. He said that in Niger there was a serious issue of drug abuse, especially the prescription drugs and psychotropic substances such as tramadol, rohypnol and diazepam. According to him, other drugs abused in the state include Librium, cough syrups with codeine, sukudia (suck and die), glue, solutions, petrol, gutter dirt, zakami, lizard dung and cannabis sativa (Indian hemp). He said that the harmful habit was common among the youths, married women, secondary school students and primary school pupils. The agency’s commander urged parents, teachers, religious leaders, state government and traditional leaders to see drug abuse as a societal problem that must be tackled by all stakeholders toward minimising it. Okechukwu advised the people of the state to desist from abusing drugs and report illegal drug dealings to the agency.

Lol. Kanye West gets a taste of his own medicine as he gets interrupted by a stage crasher while he performed at Glastonbury Festival

When fans heard that Kanye West was going to perform at the Glastonbury Festival, they reacted with disappointment that show organisers had lined up a hip hop artist when it was traditionally a festival for other genres of music. So there was a strong petition signed by 134k angry Glastonbury fans to have Kanye's headline act cancelled but he still performed, so one music fan took matters into his own hands on Saturday night, found his way onto stage and interrupted Kanye West's Pyramid stage performance before being dragged off. The stage crasher was comedian Lee Nelson who gave Kanye a taste of his own medicine after the rapper famously interrupted Taylor Swift and Beck during awards acceptance speeches. Kanye was in the middle of an expletive-laden performance, which went out live on British television, when Lee invaded the stage at Worthy Farm in Somerset. Nelson wore a T-shirt that mocked the rap artist's album Yeezus - as it read 'Lee-zus' instead - and tweeted before the gig: 'Some people were saying Kanye shouldn't headline Glastonbury so I thought I'd give him a hand.' Even though Nelson brought his own mic, he still wasn't able to have much of an impact before security bundled him off while Kanye was still singing. Of course, Kim was there to support her husband and take plenty snapshots of the performance and her self. Despite the petition, fans still came out en-masse and seemed to enjoy Kanye's performance

How I escaped abduction on inauguration day: Saraki opens up

17 days after his election, Senator Bukola Saraki,opened up yesterday on the controversial poll, saying those against him planned to abduct him to prevent him from emerging as Senate President. Saraki disclosed that, on Tuesday, June 9, Senate inauguration day, following information he got of the abduction plot to keep him off the National Assembly, he altered his schedule by arriving the parliament car park at 6am, stayed in his car and then trekked at quarter to 10am into the chamber. He denied the rumour that for him to win, he entered into a pact with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Senator Ike Ekweremadu to be produced as his deputy, just as he stressed that the absence of All Progressives Congress, APC, senators in the chamber paved the way for the emergence of Ekweremadu. The Senate President, who noted that the emergence of Ekweremadu will make things difficult for him, said, “Never in our wildest imagination did we envisage that some senators would not be present on the day of the inauguration.” Speaking with journalists, in Abuja, Saraki insisted that he never got any message to attend a meeting at the International Conference Centre (ICC) with President Muhammadu Buhari on the Senate inauguration day. “First of all, as regards the meeting (at ICC), on the morning of the inauguration, I didn’t finish at a meeting until 4:00am of that day and I had got information that efforts would likely be made to make sure that I didn’t get access into the chamber”, he said. “So, as early as 4:00am and 5:00am, I had made contingency plans that I must get into the National Assembly because the plan before was that senators-elect should go to Transcorp Hilton Hotel around 8:00clock and 9:00am to proceed to the National Assembly. “But I was advised that it would not be safe or it would not be secure for me to do that because if some people made sure I didn’t get into the chamber, it would not be possible for me to be nominated, for the nomination to be seconded and for me to accept the nomination. “I can tell you today that I was in the National Assembly Complex as early as 6:00 in the morning and I stayed in a car in the car park till quarter to 10:00am. That is the truth. I stayed there and I was there with no communication whatsoever. “So, anybody who said he spoke to me to go to the ICC was not being truthful because I didn’t even know what was going on. All I was monitoring was how people were arriving the complex. “It was just before 10:00 that I got information that the Clerk to the National Assembly had entered the chamber. So, I got out of the small car I was inside, stretched myself and put on my Babariga because I didn’t have it on before then. “I walked from the car park into the chamber. That was why some of you would have seen that I looked very tired that morning. “Even when I was in the chamber, I didn’t know what had transpired earlier. The only thing I observed was that it appeared that some of our senators were not in the chamber, but because the fact that my colleagues arrived in batches, I had the opinion that they were on the way and, by 10:00am, the programme started. “Before I knew it, my election had come and gone. Even my people were worried; it was only when I got into the chamber that they were relieved.”In regards to the emergence of Ekweremadu as Deputy Senate President, Saraki said “In my own view, and, in the view of some of those who worked closely with me, I worked hard for my election. I had direct contact with every single senator, one on one; weeks leading to the election, I did not rely on anybody. I worked hard; both in our party, the APC and out of it. “I approached every senator, I talked to them, we built confidence, not only in the APC, but, also, in the PDP. I talked to them. That was why I laughed when people said I had a deal with Ekweremadu or I had a hand in the emergence of Ekweremadu. “I didn’t need any deal to win. I had penetrated, there was no deal; I didn’t need any deal in the first place. I had worked hard such that everybody who was a Senator, I campaigned hard and canvassed for their votes and won their confidence. “At one of the meetings held at Transcorp Hilton which Senator Godswill Akpabio co-chaired with Senator Ibrahim Gobir and a few others, which had both APC and PDP members, if you heard most of them there, the position they took was that ‘this is the Senate President they want.’ “Across party lines, that day they believed in me and that this is the Senate President that can lead us, there was no deal. “Sometimes, I wonder how some of our colleagues found themselves at the ICC. If it had been a case that the Clerk of the National Assembly had made an announcement and the event had been postponed or it was no longer holding, plus, the invitation, I’m sure some are asking now, what really happened?“First of all, the PDP senators had announced to the public that they were supporting me without even meeting me because, in their own meeting, majority had decided to vote for me. “In their own interest, strategically, they decided that, `look, this is a fait accompli’ because 30 of their own senators were going to vote for this man anyway and the remaining felt it was better to join. “It wasn’t until 2:00am that they called us to tell us their decision . With regards to the deputy, when they told us that they had a candidate, we, too, told them we had a candidate for Deputy Senate President in the person of Senator Ali Ndume! “After our own meeting, it was our thinking that it was after the election of the Senate President that the two groups in APC would meet and we would agree on a candidate. We never in our imagination thought they would not turn up. By the time we got there, we were only 24 while the PDP was more than 40. “In an election, there’s no way they would not have defeated us and that was what happened? And now, when people say it was a deal, I say that if the CNA had started the procedure in the House of Representatives first, and moved to the Senate, thereafter, today, we, the APC, would have had a deputy Senate President.” “It is unfortunate that we have a PDP man as deputy Senate President. It is painful. It is painful for every APC member because when we went through the struggle, that was not what we signed for. But it has happened; but it is unfortunate and it is not fair to put the blame on one side because it is a combination of errors and miscalculations that led us to have, that morning, some Senators were at another place instead of being there. “So, to suggest that it was out of a desperate act to emerge, is what I reject completely and those who followed the events would know that I didn’t have that deal to emerge.”When asked to speak on his rumoured ambition for 2019 presidency, Saraki said that the country is currently going through a lot right and he isn't bothered about 2019, adding that those talking about the election at the moment could be described as irresponsible. Vanguard

Pics: Desmond Elliot & Benue State governor meet in Makurdi today

Actor and Lagos state House of Assembly member Hon. Desmond Elliot met with Benue state Governor Samuel Ortom today in Makurdi. The two were spotted discussing and strategising for youth mobilisation in the state. More photos after the cut...

Man confesses to killing girlfriend and impersonating her for 2 weeks

A Korean man brutally murdered his girlfriend and buried her body in a suitcase after police ignored reports of domestic violence. There was a long history of domestic violence and stalking in their relationship. The suspect, identified only as Mr Lee violently murdered his girlfriend Kim, in a ‘fit of anger’, a year after she reported him to local police for domestic abuse. Kim’s sister said that when things didn’t go the way Lee wanted, he beat her badly.“I heard from close friends of hers there that one time my sister kneeled and begged for him to stop beating her,” she said. “I think she thought he had changed, and they dated again it probably happened over and over again.” The victim, Sunny Kim, 26, went missing on May 2, according to reports. Two weeks later Mr Lee, 24, turned himself into a police station in Busan, southeast Korea, and confessed to killing Kim after she tried to end their relationship. “I killed my girlfriend and buried the body. I also tried to kill myself,” he told police, according to local media reports. Lee claimed to have carried his girlfriend’s body to the mountains in the suitcase. He then buried her in a meter-deep hole and covered it with cement. After the murder, Mr Lee, responded to text messages received on Kim’s phone by impersonating her to relatives and a prospective employer in an attempt to cover his tracks, say reports. Korean media have reported that Lee followed Kim back to her apartment on the evening of her murder. Mr Lee was taken to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s Gwanak station, after coming forward with his wrists slit after allegedly attempting to commit suicide. “The way that he texted me was how would my sister would text,” Kim’s sister, who has asked not to be named, said. “We think he may have gone through her phone to see how she usually contacts us. It was really shocking to see how someone can really hide what they did in that way.”

Photos: World Bank Country Director for Nigeria adopts Nigerian boy

World Bank Country Director for Nigeria, Ms. Marie Francoise Marie-Nelly has adopted a Nigerian boy. Former Education Minister, Oby Ezekwesili pictured above introducing the boy at a function recently. Marie-Nelly

Rapper Tyga lashes out after Swiss club incident

Yesterday TMZ reported that rapper Tyga Jenner was assaulted by a club owner in Switzerland after he showed up late for a club appearance and then tried to leave early. Tyga took to twitter yesterday to explain his side of the story. See what he tweets yesterday...