VIDEO: A guy beaten black and blue for saying Buhari is dead

This was beating black and blue for insulting president Buhari while he traveled abroad for medical treatment, according to SPLENSIZY'S correspondent he said the guy told the public that buhari no more alive that when the presidential jet will be coming to Nigeria that it is coming with presidents dead body, that he said made the angry youth in Kastina city beat him.

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Police release Chocolate City owner Audu Maikori on bail

•How Ezekwesili pleaded his case with El-Rufai
Lawyer, activist and businessman Audu Maikori was freed from security custody yesterday on bail following his arrest on Friday for allegedly spreading false information on the Southern Kaduna killings.
Maikori was picked up in Lagos and flown to Abuja preparatory to his possible arraignment in court tomorrow.
The owner of Chocolate City is believed to have been picked up on the strength of the information he posted on social media about two weeks ago in which he claimed that six students of the College of Education in Gidan-Waya, Kaduna, were killed by Fulani herdsmen during an attack on the school.
Among the dead, according to him, was his driver’s younger brother.
The information turned out to be untrue, prompting a retraction and apology from him to the authorities of the school and Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State who said false information has always been the major cause of the incessant killings in Southern Kaduna.
Former Education Minister Oby Ezekwesili revealed yesterday her efforts to make El-Rufai change his mind about prosecuting Maikori more so after the activist had apologized.
Ezekwezili, in a series of tweets said: “I urged the @GovKaduna to get @Audu out & he replied that his policy of Consequences was important for stemming killings in #SouthernKaduna.
“The @GovKaduna stated that the actions for which @Audu apologized inflamed the#SouthKaduna conflict more & so the law taking its course.
“I asked the @GovKaduna to consider @Audu ‘s apology and his unfortunate arrest as a TEACHABLE MOMENT for both the Government & everyone.
“People already know how stridently I insist on EVIDENCE-BASED ADVOCACY. WE all must take a LESSON from this. @GovKaduna @Audu. #LESSON
“There’s no basis for a Govt clamp down on Citizens’ FACT-BASED advocacy on ANY ISSUE. So @Audu admitted he was WRONG. Accept it @GovKaduna
“I told @GovKaduna that it was best to FREE @Audu & use this as the Govt’s POLICY MOMENT to get its MESSAGE of CONSEQUENCES thru to Public.
“@GovKaduna stated that he had personally reached out asking @Audu to not post those particularly untrue stories but he had continued.
“I pressed on the NECESSITY for@GovKaduna to act to FREE @Audu and allow all sides to LEARN the RIGHT LESSON from this painful episode.
“At the end of our discussion,@GovKaduna agreed to ACT and FREE@Audu quickly and end this unfortunate development. WILL WATCH OUT FOR IT.
“@GovKaduna had stated that @Auduwould be charged to court on Monday. I urged that since he already apologized,Police can CAUTION & RELEASE.
“Upon release today, I very much hope that @GovKaduna and @Audu can find points of COLLABORATION on#SouthernKaduna after this sad episode.
“All folks on the two sides of the divide baying for blood really must know that Nigeria CANNOT SURVIVE a Religious War. Shield YOUR SWORDS.”
Maikori’s lawyer, Mark Jacob confirmed the release of his client on bail yesterday.

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High food prices: FG opens grain reserves in two weeks

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The federal government will open the national grain reserves in the next two weeks if the prices of food continue to escalate, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has declared.
He disclosed this at the weekend after inauguration of managements of the three Federal Universities of Agriculture at the ministry in Abuja.
Describing roles of the institutions as vital to attaining food sufficiency, the minister noted prices of some staple foods such as maize, sorghum and millet were beginning to drop in the market.
He promised to fund the universities in the area of research and ensure research outputs are put to use to boost local food production.
Ogbeh said: “In another two weeks, if we find out that the prices are not going down, we will open the grain reserves.
“Already, the price of maize is falling, even cost of sorghum and millet are beginning to drop.
“From N180, 000 per ton, maize dropped to N145, 000. In Kaduna, farmers were willing to sell at N135, 000. So it appears there is a natural drop.
“We are already moving 8, 000 tons of soya beans from Kaduna to Lagos because we are exporting the commodity. The railway system is helping. They don’t have enough wagons but the Transport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi is bringing in some.”
According to him, transporting agricultural products through the railway is cheaper with no taxes or break down of trucks on the highway.
He urged Nigerians not to panic over food shortage because aside from existing grains stored in the silos, a new round of grains were being harvested in about four states.
He stated that despite the quantities of food West African countries exported from Nigeria, there were still a lot in the store.
The minister noted that farmers have expressed resentment over plans by the federal government to cut food prices because it is the first time they are making high profit from farming.
Speaking on invading pests, Ogbeh raised concerns on the attack of maize by armyworm disease spreading across Africa, which according to him already destroyed farms in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Tanzania and Angola.
On fertiliser, he restated determination to reduce cost of the farm input below N6, 000 from N12, 000.

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Man kills wife, buries corpse in shallow grave

• Body exhumed for investigation
The Police in Lagos yesterday exhumed the body of a woman who was allegedly killed by her husband and buried in a shallow grave.
Sherifat Bello, is suspected to have been killed for ritual purpose at Ijora, Lagos, by Shakiru Bello, last Monday.
The offence was committed last Monday inside an uncompleted building in the area.
Police sources said it was not Bello’s first attempt to kill his wife.
An earlier attempt which involved the suspect inserting charm in the woman’s private part had led to their separation, sources said.
However, the woman contacted Bello last week to ask for upkeep allowance for their three children.
The suspect agreed to give her the money but asked her to come and collect it at a particular place in Ebute Metta, Lagos.
Once they met at the designated place, they both moved to Ijora where Bello allegedly pounced on her.
She died on the spot and the suspect allegedly proceeded to dismember her corpse apparently to remove certain parts of her body.
He thereafter buried her remains in shallow grave and bolted from the scene.
He then headed to his hometown, Ibadan, so that he might not be suspected of the murder.
When the victim failed to return home, her relations raised the alarm, refusing to be deceived by Bello’s trip to Ibadan.
The police were contacted and Bello was arrested.
He confessed that he murdered Sherifat and led the police to the shallow grave.
Recovered from the grave in the presence of a large crowd of people yesterday were the head, two hands and legs were in their decomposing state.
The atmosphere soon became charged as the crowd surged forward to lynch him.
Bello speaking at the Area ‘B’ Police command, Apapa blamed the devil for the murder of his wife.
He said they had been married for 14 years.
He said: “I killed her on Monday. If I did not bury her, people would easily link me with her death. Yet I have been caught. It was the work of the devil.”
He did not say why he committed the offence
A relation of the deceased said her pubic hair and some other parts were missing which suggested that she must have been killed for ritual purpose.
The exhumed parts were later buried at Amukoko cemetery.
The case was transferred to the Homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba.

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