Olu n' Igbo/ The Voices

Nigeria Mission in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, April 30, disclosed that the detained Zainab Habib Aliyu has been released. Zainab's release came after President Muhammadu Buhari directed the attorney general of the federation to take necessary action on her detention by Saudi Arabia. It was learnt she was falsely accused of drug peddling in Saudi Arabia and was arrested in December 2018 with Tramadol, a banned substance. Investigations by the Nigerian government have since revealed that the drug was planted in Zainab’s luggage by a cartel that specialises in planting drugs in the bags of unsuspecting travelers. See the tweet below: The disclosure was made by the senior special assistant to the president on foreign relations and diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa. According to social media user identified as Abdulkadir Nasidi, Aliyu was wrongly arrested in Saudi Arabia for drug-related issue and is currently in detention. The lawmaker representing Kaduna Central sen...

Ned Nwoko, the alleged husband of teenage Nollywood sensation, Regina Daniels, has reportedly converted her to a Muslim and equally changed her name. According to the news making the rounds, Ned Nwoko whose Muslim name is “Munir” is said to have renamed the screen diva ” Fatima”. Regina Daniels is also believed to have been four months pregnant and getting ready to relocate to London where she would give birth.

The Nigerian Senate has passed a sum of N8.916 trillion as the budget for the 2019 fiscal year — a figure that is N86 billion higher than the N8.83 trillion proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari. The upper chamber passed the new budget on Tuesday after Danjuma Goje, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, presented the report of the committee on the floor of the house.

Hon Ikem Uzozie, member representing Aguata constituency II at the Anambra state House of Assembly has just defected to APC. Hon Uzozie announced his defection to APC at the floor of the House of Assembly during plenary this afternoon. Uzozie ran for 2019 House of Representatives on the platform of APGA but was denied ticket despite being the best law maker in the state. Source AIF Media.

A 100level female student commit suicide. Dead body of a 100 Level female chemical engineering student of the University of Port Harcourt (Uniport) was today discovered by her course mate in her room at Aluu, Rivers State. According to source her course mate came to find out why she didn’t come to class because attendance was taken and she wasn’t taking her calls. So on getting there, she saw her door locked and she peeped through the window and saw the girl laying dead, she raised alarm and people gathered to break the door. Lo and behold, they saw sniper on the floor and dried blood on her face. The lodge occupants said they saw her last on Saturday. Probably she might have died since Saturday night and only discovered today been Monday. According to multiple  reports, she is the daughter of a former Oyo state Deputy Governor.

PDP has accused INEC of replacing its servers across states of the federation to conceal rigging - The party's presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, had told tribunal that he won the election based on the results he gathered from INEC's server - Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP's spokesperson, said the alleged act exposed the culpability of INEC in the manipulation and rigging of the 2019 presidential election The Nigeria's main opposition political party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of replacing all the servers at its headquarters in Abuja and all its offices in the 36 states of the federation in a bid to obliterate the “actual result” of the February 23 presidential election. Daily Trust reports that the party in a statement on Monday, April 29, by its national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the alleged act was completely reprehensible and further exposed the culpability of INEC...

ANAMBRA STATE IS IN SAFE HANDS REMINDER: Credit:Harrison Madubueze UPON HIS RETURN FROM THE U.S.A, He visited the family of Late Anthony Igboka of Nimo. He promised ndi Anambra that, he will stop at nothing from arresting the perpetrators of the act. In his Easter speech after celebrating Mass on the 21st of April at St. Joseph Catholic Church Aguleri, he made an emphatic statement that, arresting the culprits shall be his immediate assignment. Umunnem, TODAY, you can now read the confessions of one of the suspects that commited the dastardly act. "......The 27-year old suspect, Chigbo Aniegbu, alias Transformer, who disclosed this while being paraded at the state Police headquarters, however said he was not the one that shot the deceased. He said the deceased had chased members of his gang from the town, insisting they would not return until they turned a new life. Aniegbu, who confessed being a member of Vikings cult group, however said he ignorantly, joine...

Ahead of the Anambra State governorship election, the issue of zoning is again, gradually creeping into the political discourse of the state, especially among the political elite, whom some political monitors said always use it to achieve, ‘’self-seeking political interest.’’ Already, there is on-going stubborn argument by some invested political interests that it is the turn of the Anambra South to produce the next governor of the state, in line with the purported zoning arrangement, which the promoters said was planted by former governor of the state, Peter Obi, when he was leaving office in 2011. The political discourse is currently generating heated debate among stakeholders.    Recently, the Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 national elections, Obi, was forced to deny the issue of zoning attributed to him. A statement signed by his spokesman, Mr. Valentine Obienyem, denied the insinuations that he introduced zoning in the...

As the race for the presidency of the ninth Senate intensifies, the Senator Ahmad Lawan for ninth Senate President Group has resolved to meet with two other ranking senators, Ali Ndume and Danjuma Goje, over the need for them to work together. The plan, according to THISDAY sources in the group, is to checkmate moves by the opposing Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to determine the leadership of the Senate that is billed for inauguration in June. The PDP with 43 senators, according to THISDAY sources, plans to vote en bloc and is using its strategic number to negotiate with Goje and Ndume. Apart from bidding for Deputy Senate President, the main opposition party is also negotiating for the chairmanship of strategic committees of the Senate. With a division in the ranks of the All Progressives Congress (APC) senators-elect, the coast appears clear for the PDP to have its way with its 43 seats in the upper legislative chamber. To prevent this eventuality, the camp of the ...