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  TIME TO CALL A SPADE A SPADE It is time to call a spade a spade or, in this instance, name the Nigerian media camera a weapon of mass obstruction. What used to be mere occasional infraction, soon corrected, is fast becoming a Bill of Rights – for a minuscule sector of the professional community. We are galloping towards an order of social fascism of which – it must also be stressed – that same society is the prime facilitator of its doom. There are times when tolerance becomes acceptance, then tacit and even overt encouragement. Otherwise, why does it take so long to make the media photographer understand that he or she has no fundamental viewing right that overrides those of the lowest member of any gathering, anywhere and under any circumstance. Let us not beat around the bush – mobsters have taken over community, armed with nothing more lethal than the camera and a monstrous will to capture and monopolise space that belongs to the totality. The media camera has become a pe...

BREAKING: Sheriff declares Edo primary illegal, Fixes Date for own primary  The embattled former National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party Senator Ali modu Sheriff has declared Monday’s Governorship Primaries in Edo State as illegal and a contraption of an illegal care-taker Committee and has urged members nationwide especially in Edo State to disregard it.  In a letter addressed to the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission signed by the National Chairman and the National Secretary, Prof. Wale Oladipo. the Party through the letter urged INEC not to give legitimacy to what happened in Edo and said that the party is going to conduct a proper primary in the state.  Also in another statement, the party released a scheduled congress in Edo State to start from June 23rd-June 29th with the inauguration of Congress Committee scheduled for Thursday.  Also in another statement, the National Chairman warned state Chairmen and officers o...

PRESIDENT BUHARI APPOINTS AIG IBRAHIM IDRIS AS ACTING                                        INSPECTOR-  GENERAL OF POLICE President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Kpotun Idris, as the Acting Inspector-General of Police. Ibrahim Idris who hails from Kutigi, Lavun in Niger State, was born on 15th of January 1959, and was enlisted into the Nigerian Police Force in 1984. Ibrahim holds a bachelors from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria where he studied Agriculture , shortly after, he bagged degree in Law from the University of Maiduguri  making it a double. AIG Idris prior to his appointments  has served in various capacities in the Nigerian Police Force.    First, he worked diligently in the Police Mobil...

The Peoples Democratic Party PDP in Edo state in line with the electoral norms and specifications has conducted their party primaries for the gubernatorial election slated for August 2016. The Primaries which was chaired by the Governor of Ebonyi state Mr Dave Umehi, after due consultations, protocols and counting, declared Mr Osagie Ize Iyamu as the party flag-bearer for the General election poll.   The primary election to decide the PDP’s contender in September 10 poll was held on Monday at the Lawn Tennis Court of the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City, the Edo State capital in south-south Nigeria. Iyamu won a total of 584 votes to emerge winner, beating his closest rival, Mr Matthew Iduoriyekemwen, who scored 91 votes to take the second place while Mr Solomon Edebiri came third having garnered a total vote cast of 38

LeBron James and his relentless, never-count-them-out Cavaliers pulled off an improbable NBA final comeback, and Cleveland is title town again at long last.James delivered on a promise from two years ago to bring a championship to his native northeast Ohio, and he and the Cavs became the first team to rally from a 3-1 finals deficit by beating the defending champion Golden State Warriors 93-89 on Sunday night to end a 52-year major sports championship drought in Cleveland.James almost single-handedly carried the Cavs back into this series and finished with 27 points, 11 assists and 11 rebounds as the Cavs captured their first championship in franchise history and gave their city its first major sports winner since the Browns won the NFL title in 1964.“Cleveland! This is for you!” James bellowed in his post-game interview before being announced as the NBA final MVP.   An emotional James fell to the floor when this one ended with a second win in six days on Golde...

Andy Murray came back from a set and a break down to achieve history on Sunday at the Aegon Championship. Behind a boisterous British crowd, the World No. 2 solved Milos Raonic's serve just in time to earn his fifth title in London 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-3. Murray becomes the first man to win five titles at the tournament, which was established in 1890. His previous titles came in 2009, '11, '13 and '15.   The Brit was down 0-3 in the second set and had yet to break Raonic, who hadn't lost his serve all tournament long (55/55). But Murray gradually read Raonic's serve better. A backhand service return winner at 1-3 put the second set back on serve. “I had no chances on his serve at all. I hadn't created any break points,” Murray said. “Then along came a few good returns and changed the match completely. When you have not been broken for a whole tournament and then you lose serve... it can throw you off a little bit. I capitalized on pretty much all...

Deputy senate leader Ike Ekweremadu has sounded publicly his innocence in an alleged breach of rules and a consequent corruption scandal been orchestrated by the federal government in an attempt to soil his name. According to the deputy senate leader, there is absolutely no cause for alarm as he reiterates that his hands are absolutely clean and there was no gain saying he has absolute confident in himself as there was never a time when he so engages self in any corrupt ploy. Ekweremadu who spoke through his SA on Media Mr. Uche Anichukwu, expresses his shock and amazement to this kind of spurious claims by the federal government as he urges his fans to remain unperturbed with this recent allegation “This latest attempt to try and convict him in the court of public opinion notwithstanding, we do not want to mount a public defense. We would rather meet them in court if they so wish.“While we plead with our supporters across the nation to maintain the peace and go about their norma...