3 Nigerian pilgrims nabbed over drug trafficking in Saudi Arabia Three Nigerian Pilgrims are sure to be beheaded if they are found guilty of smuggling cocaine into Saudi Arabia whose laws prescribe the death sentence for offenders.

Three Nigerians pilgrims have been arrested by narcotic agents in Saudi Arabia for being in possession of substance suspected to be cocaine, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), has reported. The three suspects, whose identities were not revealed as investigations are ongoing, who were among the first batch of 505 Pilgrims from Kwara State, were arrested in Madina by the Saudi Arabia security operatives. According to NAN, the Executive Secretary, Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, Hajia Fatima Abolore-Jimoh, confirmed the arrest of the suspects in a telephone interview from Saudi Arabia in a telephone, adding that the suspects were still in the custody of Saudi Arabian authorities. Abolore-Jimoh who described the arrest as unfortunate and painful in spite of several appeals to them to be good ambassadors of Kwara and Nigeria, said the Saudi Arabian law, which prescribed beheading for such offences, would certainly take its course on the three suspected drug traffickers.

Governor Okorocha reacts to being slapped by ghost

– Governor Rochas Okorocha has been reportedly slapped by a ghost – The Imo state governor was allegedly slapped at the state Government House – Okorocha has reacted to the report of his being slapped by a ghost Following reports that Governor Rochas Okorocha was slapped by a ghost, the Imo state government has reacted. The state government described as false the report that Governor Rochas Okorocha was slapped by a ghost and is in an Indian hospital for medical treatment.

Mr Sam Onwuemeodo, the chief press secretary to Okorocha flatly denied that governor is sick. He also denied that the governor went to India for treatment. “The governor had travelled to meet with some of the investors who had invited him for further discussions on the prospects of their coming to invest in the state.” According to NTA, Okorocha’s media aide said that his boss is a Christian, and does not know what it means to see “a ghost or ghost women”. “He travelled with few economic aides, and we informed Imo people and the general public and as God would have it, two days to the planned trip, the daughter gave birth to a baby boy and he would use the opportunity to visit his daughter,’’ Onwuemeodo stated. Okorocha’s aide, the governor’s wife was already there with their daughter for what the Igbo people call “Ile Omugwo” (visit to a nursing mother by mother) and that Okorocha’s is visit is to see the new baby. Onwuemeodo noted that in the event of the governor being sick, the information would be made public. “Ailment or sickness has been there with mankind, the angle that makes the whole claim funny is the “ghost dimension”, and that explains how spiritually poor those behind this balderdash are,’’ he added. Onwuemeodo blamed the report on what he tagged the antics of some of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) folks in the state. “We accused them (PDP) of being behind the malicious audio because it came twenty four hours after the convincing defeat of the party by the APC in the re-run elections in Okigwe senatorial zone and the three state constituencies of Isiala Mbano, Oru East and Owerri West’’ he noted. The media aide said that his boss is a Christian, and does not know what it means to see “a ghost or ghost women”. He said that the governor is being expected back to the state and once that happens, that the public would be duly informed. Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the administration of Governor Rochas Okorocha of causing suffering in Imo state. The accusation was made by Jimi Agbaje who is a contestant to the national chairmanship position of the party. According to Vanguard, Agbaje who visited Imo state on Monday, August 8, to ­­­attend a congress of a faction of the party, complained that while driving into the state, he saw roads that were destroyed in the name of construction.