Verydarkman not arrested – Police
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The Federal Capital Territory, FCT Police Command, has debunked reports making the rounds that Nigerian social media influencer Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as Verydarkman, VDM, was arrested.
Reports earlier emerged on Sunday, purporting that the social critic was arrested by operatives of the Nigerian Police for allegedly exposing a criminal act.
However, when contacted by DAILY POST, the Police Public Relations Officer of the FCT Command, SP Josephine Adeh, said Verydarkman was only invited for questioning.
She clarified that VDM was questioned over allegations of cyberstalking, cyberbullying and defamation of character and was released, immediately after he made a statement on the allegations levelled against him by an individual.
I’m alive – Olu Jacobs breaks silence on rumoured death [VIDEO]
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Popular Nigerian actor, Olu Jacobs, has debunked widespread reports of his death.
In a video released by his family, Jacobs, who was struggling with his speech, described the reports as lies.
In the footage, the frail-looking actor was having his hair cut by his son, who asked him, “Hello, dad, can you hear me? They said you died.”
Responding, the actor said: “I can hear, no, it’s a lie, I’m alive.”
Don’t politicise fertilizer, Osun group tells Adeleke
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Osun-based rights group, The Osun Masterminds on Sunday continued its war of words with the state governor’s spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed on the appropriate mode that should be adopted for the distribution of bags of fertilizer received from the Federal Government by the state.
The group’s Executive Director, Prof. Wasiu Oyedokun-Alli, while reading the group’s monthly State of Osun address for June, disclosed that 11 truckloads of fertilizer had been received by the state.
Oyedokun-Alli, subsequently advised the state governor, Ademola Adeleke, to ensure fairness in the distribution of the items.
But Rasheed while responding said the fertilizer was received only last Friday, adding that the Ministry in charge had announced the receipt of the item to the public.
Shelve plans to purchase new aircraft, FG told
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The Campaign for Equal Rights and Opportunities for all Nigerians, CERON, has urged the federal government to shelve the plans to acquire new aircrafts for the Presidency given the biting economic hardship in the country.
The CERON Secretary, Francis Odiir in a statement weekend in Makurdi said it would be outrageous for anyone to contemplate the purchase of presidential aircrafts at a time, when Nigerians had been overwhelmed by grinding poverty.
CERON, said the lawmakers in the forefront of canvassing for the purchase of the new aircraft had clearly displayed outright insensitive to the plight of the Nigerian masses.
He said “it is clearly unacceptable that those in the vanguard of agitation for the purchase of the aircrafts, are lawmakers, who should be closer to the suffering people of Nigeria but it is becoming clearer that there is now a disconnect and they are not aware that Nigerians can no longer feed.