Metro Nigeriana

Gay and lesbianism is regarded as taboo in most part of the world either through cultural view or religious view until recently when the United States and other European nations are legalizing the act in their various countries and the United States especially has taken it upon herself through President Obama and their top government officials to take the so-called same sex marriage as “human right violation” of those oppose to same sex marriage. In 2013, Nigeria’s National Assemblies passed an anti-gay law under the government of President Goodluck Jonathan.   The bill by Africa’s most populous nation calls for a 14-year sentence for anyone convicted of homosexuality. Anyone who aids or “abets” same-sex unions faces 10 years in prison, a provision that could target rights groups. On January 17, 2014, a popular area in Benin City, precisely Ekenwan road was a central of attraction when two young men were caught in the very act. Eyewitness told Metronigeriana that the mo...

The uproar over the alleged lopsidedness in the appointments of persons into key positions by President Muhammadu Buhari has metamorphosed into legal action following a lawsuit against the president by an Abuja-based legal practitioner. In the suit filed at the registry of the Federal High Court, Abuja, the plaintiff, Dim-Udebuani Marcel, prayed the court for: “an order compelling President Buhari (1st defendant) to reverse the appointments so far made to observe and comply with the principle of Federal Character as enshrined in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended).” The recent appointments of the Chief of Staff, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and the Comptrollers-General of Customs and Prisons Service among others by president Buhari has only gravitated the controversy as some sections of the country has tagged his administration as a ‘Northern enclave.’ Also joined with he President as defendants is the Chai...

The aspiration by some chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to vie for the national chairmanship of the party, has suffered a setback with a declaration by the leadership of the party that the position is not vacant. The position is being occupied in acting capacity by the party’s National Deputy Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, following the forced resignation in May of the substantive chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu. A mild drama played out on Tuesday as Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, an erstwhile Political Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan, stormed the party’s Abuja secretariat to register his intention to vie for the chairmanship position. Speaking with journalists shortly after meeting with some of the party leaders, Gulak said the three months that the party’s constitution allowed Secondus to act as chairman had expired and that there was need to choose a substantive chairman for the party. Gulak said, “I came to inform the National Working Committee...

The Presidency on Tuesday denied reports that President Muhammadu Buhari promised to achieve specific things within his first 100 days in office. It also claimed that the document tagged ‘One Hundred Things Buhari Will Do in 100 Days’ and ‘My Covenant With Nigerians’ did not emanate from the authentic channel of the campaign’s media department. The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu made the clarification while responding to the criticisms that followed the denial that the President made such promises. He urged Nigerians to ignore the claims from certain quarters that the president specifically made promises of achievements within his 100 days in office. The Presidential aide said that he never authorized or signed any document in this regard in his capacity as the director, media and communications of the Buhari campaign organization. According to him, what the public should be talking about in respect to President Buhari’s 100 ...

Nigeria’s Billionaire, Oluwo Antonio Deinde Fernandez is dead, aged 79 years. Announcing his demise in a tweet at about 9.pm on Tuesday, Nigerian Journalist/Publisher, Dele Momodu, said: “Nigeria, and indeed Africa, has just lost one of its greatest sons; Ambassador Chief Antonio Dehinde Fernandez is gone!” Nigeria’s Billionaire, Oluwo Antonio Deinde Fernandez is dead, aged 79 years. Deinde Fernandez Deinde Fernandez Announcing his demise in a tweet at about 9.pm on Tuesday, Nigerian Journalist/Publisher, Dele Momodu, said: “Nigeria, and indeed Africa, has just lost one of its greatest sons; Ambassador Chief Antonio Dehinde Fernandez is gone!” Nigeria’s Billionaire, Oluwo Antonio Deinde Fernandez is dead, aged 79 years. Deinde Fernandez Announcing his demise in a tweet at about 9.pm on Tuesday, Nigerian Journalist/Publisher, Dele Momodu, said: “Nigeria, and indeed Africa, has just lost one of its greatest sons; Ambassador Chief Antonio Dehinde Fernandez is gone!” Det...

Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, as well as other Senate officials on Monday shunned a scheduled hearing in a suit seeking their removal from office. The removal of Saraki and the other principal officers is being sought on the grounds of alleged forgery of the Senate Standing Orders 2015 used for the conduct of their elections shortly after the proclamation of the 8th Senate on June 9. Plaintiffs in the suit, which is before the Federal High Court in Abuja, are Senators Abu Ibrahim, Kabir Marafa, Ajayi Boroffice, Olugbenga Ashafa and Suleiman Hunkuni, all supporters of Senator Ahmed Lawan for the Senate presidency eventually won by Saraki. ADVERTISEMENT The six defendants in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/651/2015, are Saraki, Ekweremadu, the National Assembly and the Clerks of both the National Assembly and the Senate. None of the defendants was represented by their lawyers when the matter came up on Monday before Justice Adeniyi...

An Egor Magistrates’ Court in Benin, Edo State, on Monday sentenced one Lucky Esonahae to five years imprisonment for setting his pregnant lover ablaze. The 37-year-old bar operator was arraigned on one count bordering on causing bodily harm. The charge read, “That you, Lucky Esonahae, on July 6, 2015, at Uwelu Quartres, Benin, in the Egor Magisterial District, did cause grievous harm to one Stella Isaac, by setting her on fire with kerosene, which cause her bodily harm and, thereby, committed an offence punishable under Section 355(B) of the Criminal Code Cap 48, Vol. II, Law of the defunct Bendel State of Nigeria, 1976, as applicable to Edo State.” The prosecuting officer, Sergeant Ganiyu Yahya, told the court that the incident occurred at Uwelu Quartres in Benin, and was reported by the victim, Stella Isaac, on July 6, the same day it occurred. Yahya said Esonahae had poured kerosene on the head of the woman, who was said to be seven months pregnant, lit a m...

On the 4th of February 2014 Mr. Oni Oboh went about his usual business as a photographer, little did he know that he is going capture a scenario that will change his life forever even that of his entire family. A photograph that in an advance society would have given him a pulitzer award but the situation was far from what one would have expected it to be. On that fateful day Mr. Oni Oboh capture a scene of some men beating up another man who eventually died as a result of the beating and he brought out his camera to capture the situation since he could not  be of any help. Unfortunate someone saw him and boom! he ran for his life. Believing that he has escaped the assailants, he went home to meet his family. The following day he went to the police station and lodge a complain but the police in their usual manner promised to investigate the issue but never did. Threat suddenly started coming from different angles that he should bring the photos he took to a certain place else...