Monday, 13 January 2014

Baby dies in inferno, another petrol tanker crashes

The season of fire in Lagos State continued on Sunday morning by claiming the life of an eight-month-old baby, identified simply as Ibukunoluwa, in the Oworonshoki area of the state.

The incident happened less than a week after 15 people lost their lives in an inferno caused by a fallen tanker laden with 33,000 litres of petrol in the Kirikiri area of the state.

Our correspondent, who visited the scene of the Sunday fire at Oke Erin Street, Oworonshoki, learnt that over 30 people were rendered homeless in the fire that lasted for over an hour.

According to statistics, 8 out of 10 Nigerian men do not use condoms. This was revealed by Bright Ekweremadu, the Managing Director of Society for Family Health, SHF. He said over 1.8billion sexual activities occur in Nigeria yearly, and 80% of them are unprotected.
Mr Ekweremadu said if Nigerian men were to use condoms, no supplier in the world would be able to afford the quantity of condoms Nigerian men would need. He said heir research showed that young Nigerians between 18 and 34 years in the cities of Lagos & Abuja make the highest use of condoms.

Sen. Ita Enang (PDP-Akwa Ibom) has said that senators who defect from one political party to another will lose their seats as the law does not allow anyone who defects to retain the seat.
Enang made the assertion on Thursday in Abuja while speaking with newsmen.

The senator explained that while it was acceptable for politicians to defect to another party, it was unacceptable for them to retain their seats.

We recalls that some senators on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party

The already deplorable power situation in the country may worsen as workers in the power sector have threatened to stop the supply of electricity across the country by Tuesday, January 14.

The industrial action is a protest against the federal government’s refusal to conclude the payment of workers’ entitlements following the privatisation of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN).

The industrial action follows the expiration of the 14-day ultimatum issued by the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) to the federal government in December last year to conclude all labour-related issues in the sector.

TRAGEDY struck in Effurun, Delta State, yesterday, as a Delta City 14-passenger town service commercial bus caught fire, killing 10 passengers including a pregnant woman.
Four people, including the driver, survived. The bus was heading towards Enerhen Junction.
We gathered that the bus with number plate 14 C-74 DT burst into flames at about 3.04pm along the ever busy PTI road near Emasodje junction.

The accident caused serious vehicular traffic as officials of the FRSC, military men and Policemen retrieved the burnt corpses.

According to a survivor, who does not want his name mentioned, tragedy struck immediately after a woman with a four-litre jerry can of petrol entered the front seat of the bus against the agitation of the passengers.

In his word: “I boarded the bus at PTI junction and we were heading to Enerhen Junction. The driver picked a woman who was carrying four litres of what was suspected to be petrol. We protested as the woman boarded.

A man who ate another man’s flesh in the Central African Republic has told the BBC he was seeking “revenge” for the murder of family members.

Ouandja Magloire, who calls himself “Mad Dog”, was in a Christian mob who attacked a Muslim in the capital. He said he had been “angry” because Muslims killed his pregnant wife, his-sister-in law and her baby. Sectarian violence has been on the rise since rebels installed the country’s first Muslim leader in March 2013. Michel Djotodia stepped

By Osun Defender

Tonto Dikeh and fellow Nollywood actor Yul Edochie were announced as the winners of Vanguard’s ‘Nollywood’s S*xiest Actors’ 2013 competition.

Tonto and Yul won after sms votes, cut outs from coupons submitted by fans were counted and they had the highest votes.
Tonto had been up against Ebube Nwagbo, Collette Orji, Cynthia Agolor and Stephanie Okereke Linus who came 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th respectively.
While Yul beat Benson Okonkwo, Uti Nwachukwu, Odunlade Adekola

It is to him who masters our minds by the force of truth, not to those who enslave men by violence; it is to him who understands the universe, not to those who disfigure it, that we owe our reverence- Voltaire (1694-1778)
And so one after the other in the year of our Lord 2013, the awards saluting the remarkable achievements of State of Osun Governor Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola rolled in.

Hundreds of kilometers away in Ghana, the respected Integrity International magazine had noticed what the governor was doing to redefine governance in a continent that had for ages suffered at the hand of its leaders. It gave Aregbesola its Integrity Award declaring that the man had offered what it called “outstanding quality and integrity” in political administration. The journal lamented that much of the post-independence era had given Africa leadership without integrity; it concluded that things had however been different with the advent of the Ogbeni in Osun.

Another accolade later came in. Aregbesola bagged the Odua

Members of the Rabboni Centre Ministries in Pretoria, South Africa, under instruction from their pastor, Lesego Daniel, dropped to the floor to eat grass after the ‘man of God’ told them it will ‘bring them closer to God.’ (If you missed the first post, see it here).

The church members defended their pastor who has been widely criticized for this practice and said eating grass has not only brought them closer to God but also heals them of illnesses.
‘Yes, we eat grass and we’re proud of it because it demonstrates that, with God’s power, we can do anything,’ Rosemary Phetha told South Africa’s Times Live.

The 21-year-old law student says she had been battling a sore throat

Sanusi Lamido Explodes: How vested interests are killing Nigeria – PREMIUM TIMES

Some of you might not have had enough bandwidth to watch the famous Sanusi Lamido Sanusi TEDx Maitama speech. We have transcribed the entire speech for you.
If you prefer to listen, click the play button below to listen to the audio. The video is below, after the text.

Hello everyone and good morning.
I’m very happy to be here with you. Just to tell you that I am a rather outdated person. I never really knew what the TEDeX event was, and when my daughter spoke to me about it, she said something about youth and development.

I thought I’d just come here and talk about young people and

The steaming political crisis in Rivers State took a turn for the worse, yesterday, when Senator Magnus Abe was allegedly shot in the chest twice with a rubber bullet at a rally of the Save Rivers Movement, a pro Governor Chibuike Amaechi group at Obio/Akpor Local Council of the state.

There were conflicting accounts, claims and counter-claims over who shot the serving senator, who has been flown to London for better medication after first aid treatment in two hospitals in Nigeria. While Governor Amaechi’s aides accused the police of shooting Abe, the police distanced themselves from the act, saying that they do not use rubber bullets and did not fire any

Many who view President Goodluck Jonathan as a meek and gentle soul will find it hard to reconcile that image with the news of his hectoring phone conversation with Lamido Sanusi, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.

The President was angry, but meek souls are permitted to fly even into rage. The President betrayed impatience, and meek souls have the occasional free rein to fly off their hinges. The President did not understand the law, and meek souls sometimes are forgiven their lack of familiarity with the law, even though it is no excuse.

If meek souls are permitted to infringe on all of these rules, can we allow a president of a republic that kind of latitude and attitude? That was the question I could not live with or live down as I contemplated the story, first carried by Thisday, about the exchange between the President and the boss of the nation’s financial holy of holies.

Tuface Idibia has flown to the US to join his wife, Annie Idibia who gave birth to a baby girl on the 3rd of January in an Atlanta hospital.

He bought flowers and a teddy bear for the new mum to show his

This top 10 list of most dangerous countries in Africa is based on the degree instability and danger that commonly erupt in these countries. Most of these countries are characterised by war and political instability, acts of terrorism, crimes against humanity. This list is taken from the Global Peace Index report of 2012. Global Peace Index has been classifying 153 countries according to how peaceful they are. The 2012 Global Peace Index has actually discovered that the world has become slightly more peaceful when compared to the previous year. The list considers renewed fighting, the resurgence of political instability including terrorist threats. Here is the list of:

10 Most Dangerous Countries in Africa

10. Ethiopia
Ethiopia comes up at number 10 on our list of 10 most dangerous places in Africa. Ethiopia has been involved in a conflict with Eritrea for more than ten years. Eritrea got her independence from Ethiopia about 30 years ago following a prolonged fight for freedom. The Border disputes between Eritrea and Ethiopia have been going on ever

The meaning behind the word Illuminati comes from the Latin coined term meaning illuminatus. The word illuminatus then translates into “enlightened” which was what the group first started out as. They hoped to enlighten mankind about the truths behind everyday items. There have been many rumors and questions going around about the Illuminati and hopefully some of the below information will be able to help anyone realize what the Illuminati group is all about, who they are including their history, facts and conspiracies. People who are members of the Illuminati can be found on many different walks of life and although some try to keep themselves as hidden as possible there are a few who flaunt their membership in this group.
Illuminati: The History, Members and Conspiracy.

Illuminati History
The prehistoric origin of Illuminati traces back thousands of years

Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State has said that Nigeria has been plunged into serious uncertainty leading it back to the Abacha dictatorial era where religious bigotry, imperial tendencies of government and nepotism have become the order of the day.

Speaking to newsmen in Kano, the governor who spoke through the PDP, Jigawa State secretary, Alhaji Ali Gantsa, noted with dismay how Nigeria’s economic and political spectrums are being messed-up, thereby threatening the very foundation of

Propelled by growing public sympathy and the provisions of the CBN Act, 2007 which insulates him from undue executive interference, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria insists on running out his tenure of five years, in what many see as unusual defiance to the position of President Goodluck Jonathan. How long will this fight last?

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, may

Senate Will Not Declare Defecting Senators Seats Vacant – Abaribe

The spokesman for the Senate, Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe , has said that the upper chamber of the National Assembly will not declare vacant the seats of senators who defect to other parties.

Abaribe said in a statement in Abuja on Friday that it had become necessary for the Senate to distance itself from the personal opinion of one of its members, Sen. Ita Enang (PDP-Akwa Ibom). He said Enang expressed a personal opinion by telling newsmen in Abuja on Thursday that the Senate was lawfully supposed to declare the seat

Mfundu Angela: dollars in dictionary

the bag containing the dictionaries

Minority Leader of the House, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila

The crash scene on Ajuwon Road, Iju in Lagos ... on Thursday. By PUNCH

Iyetade’s coffin and the family members in the front

Dr. Iyetade, daughter of the Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka was today interred at Ultimate Gardens, along Ibadan-Lagos Expressway, Opposite

PDP Moves to Keep Tambuwal, Offers Him Sokoto Governorship Ticket

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in a desperate move to stop the perceived defection of the speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal and keep him under his umbrella may have offered the speaker the ticket to fly the flag of the ruling party in the 2016 governorship election in Sokoto state.

Though the speaker is yet to make his intentions known as to where he would be pitching his tent at the end of the day, Speculations are rife that the speaker is only bidding his time and may soon join other top politicians from the state in APC.

The move to keep the speaker in its fold is coming on the heels of the

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Yoruba movie star, Doris Simeon has raised the alarm over her impersonator currently duping and fraudulently obtaining cash from her fans via Blackberry messenger.

Lamenting over the development, Doris said, “I can’t believe someone would

A businessman, Tajudeen Mohammed, on Friday appeared before a Yaba Magistrates’ Court in Lagos charged with assault.
Mohammed, 35, who is facing a two-count charge of assault and breech of public peace, however, pleaded not guilty.

The prosecutor, Insp. Peter Nwangwu, told the court that the accused, who resides at No. 35, Ososa St., Bariga, Lagos, committed the act on Dec. 14 at his

The news from Rivers State will get nastier before it gets nice, if it ever will. What started as a small disagreement between Governor Rotimi Amaechi and First Lady Patience Jonathan over the renovation of a local school in Port Harcourt about four years ago has deteriorated into a full-scale war, with no weapons spared.

The fight took yet another dramatic turn recently when the majority leader of the Rivers State House of Assembly and prominent Amaechi supporter, Chidi Lloyd, was arrested and later charged for multiple murders. There’s no use trying to figure out if the charge makes any sense at all. That’s the last thing on the mind of the police. In their furious bid to teach Amaechi a lesson, the police seem quite pleased to suspend common sense and make a complete fool of themselves so long as it makes Aso Rock happy.

Lloyd is not the target. To charge him with an offence, which at

Gov. Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom and Chairman of PDP Governors Forum said PDP would perform very well in the 2015 general elections in spite of current crises facing it.

Akpabio made this remark after visiting Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State in Gombe on Thursday.

He said PDP was a robust and national party which had the capacity to come out of the crises stronger.

On the defection of five PDP governors to APC, he said some of the Deputy Governors and party supporters did not defect with their governors. “PDP is very robust. It is such a large party. It is a national party and has presence in the

Close friends and family members have allegedly disclosed the real reason why the 7- months-old marriage of Nigerian comedienne, Damilola Adekoya, popularly called Princess crashed.
When the news of the crashed marriage broke online, Princess explained that it was due to

Lagos State House of Assembly, yesterday, approved a total sum of N489. 690 billion as budget for the 2014 appropriation year.

The amount is 3.43 per cent lower than the last year’s budget. Out of the total sum, N234.665billion is for recurrent while N255.025 billion is for c

Folorunso Alakija joins Lagos gov race?

By Nigeria tribune

As political parties in Lagos State strategise to position themselves for the governorship race coming up in 2015, posters of richest woman

Former Delta State governor, James Ibori

By Punch

Nigeria and the United Kingdom signed an agreement on Thursday on the exchange of prisoners between them.

Under the agreement, high-profile prisoners like former Governor James

OLUWOLE JOSIAH writes that the conflict of political interests is beginning to take its toll on the once robust working relationship between the executive and the legislature in Ondo State

It is a known fact that the ultimate goal of political parties is to attain power for service delivery. However, when such interests run in opposite directions, crisis is the end result. The Peoples Democratic Party, which

By Punch

The President Goodluck Jonathan has said that he will be sending a list of new ministerial to the National Assembly upon resumption.

The President said this on Thursday while receiving a delegation of the Peoples Democratic Party from the North West Zone who paid him a solidarity visit at

PDP dead in Sokoto – Gov. Wamakko

Following the defection of 27 out of 30 members of the Sokoto State House of Assembly from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress yesterday, the state Governor, Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko has pronounced the ruling party dead in the state.

Wamakko said with the defection, it was evident that the APC had gained ground among the people of the state, adding that the remaining three members of the Assembly, who opted to stay put in PDP, would not pose any threat to the popularity of APC in the state. Aliyu-Wamakko

It would be recalled that the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Lawal Zayyana and

The chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee on National Conference, Senator Femi Okurounmu, yesterday, blasted the Professor Ben Nwabueze-led Igbo leaders of thought for criticising his committee’s report, accusing the group of pursuing personal agenda.

Okunrounmu, who also stated that

Manchester United manager David Moyes attends their English FA Cup soccer match against Swansea City at Old Trafford in Manchester, northern England January 5, 2014. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne

LONDON (Reuters) - Manchester United manager David Moyes is no modern-day Wilf McGuinness but unless he pulls United out of their slump soon, comparisons with the former ill-fated boss will continue to haunt him.

Images of Alex Ferguson, who in May retired after 26 trophy-laden seasons in charge, staring

Undoubtedly, the All Progressives Congress, APC’s presidential candidate will emerge from the northers part of the country. Though a media report is also suggesting that the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha is set to vie for the presidency under the same platform, but it is obvious, one of the northern candidate will clinch the presidential tickets on the platform of APC.

Here are the three leading contenders in APC to the race to unseat
President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015.

3. Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwanso

Undoubtedly one of the best for

Bayern Munich's coach Pep Guardiola attends a news conference in Doha January 6, 2014. REUTERS/Fadi Al-Assaad

(Reuters) - Bayern Munich will subsidise fans who buy tickets for their Champions League first leg tie away to Arsenal, where prices are higher than in Germany.

The European champions said that their fans would pay only 45 euros (£37.22) to

STRANGE BUT TRUE: Church where members eat grass, pastor tramples over member during services (Photos)

Rabboni Centre Ministries is a South African church at Garankuwa TUT campus at Pretoria where the pastor reported to have his members to eat grass like goats.

The name of the pastor is Pastor

Central African Republic's President Michel Djotodia sits during a conference in Bangui December 8, 2013. REUTERS/Herve Serefio

N'DJAMENA/PARIS (Reuters) - Central African Republic's interim President Michel Djotodia will face pressure to step down at a summit of regional leaders on Thursday amid frustration at his failure to quell his country's religious violence.

Political sources in Bangui and French diplomatic sources said Djotodia would

Five persons lost their lives in a fire which occurred at the Berger Suya bus stop in Olodi-Apapa, Lagos, on Tuesday.

The fire broke out after a petroleum tanker overturned. Mr Razak Fadipe,

PHOTO NEWS: Aregbesola honoured as Grand Patron Of Community Development Council

Governor State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola (middle); his Deputy, Mrs Titi Laoye-Tomori (left); Special Adviser to the Governor on Rural Development and Community Affairs, Mr Kunle Ige (behind) and Chairman, Community Development Council, Chief Michael Okediya (right), during the Governor’s Investiture as Grand Patron of the Council and Support for his second term in office, at Nelson Mandela Freedom Park, Osogbo, State of Osun on Tuesday 07-01-2014

Osun Poll: Aregbesola Reads Riot Act To Troublemakers

Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has warned that his government will not give room troublemakers who perpetrate mayhem to destroy the collective gains of the administration in the past three years.

He gave the warning on Monday night in a state-wide broadcast to the people of the state on the preparation for the forthcoming governorship election in the state. Local government and governorship elections are to hold in the state soon. Aregbesola said: “I also wish to remind us that this year, 2014, is an election year in Osun – the governorship seat

Pastor, church member kills a virgin for ritual in Lagos

The General Overseer of a fast growing pentecostal church in Lagos has been arrested by the Police for alleged ritual murder. The pastor simply identified as Fireman has been detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti, Yaba, Lagos following alleged confessional statement of an 18-year-old boy, Ikechukwu , who was caught strangulating a 12-year-old girl identified as Bose.

Manchester City Signs Kelechi Iheanacho, Father Gets N95 Million

METRO NAIAJA – Nigerian wonderkid and hero of last year’s U-17 World Cup, Kelechi Iheanacho, is a work permit away from signing for Manchester City.
The 17-year-old is set to join the Blues after starring in the Under-17 World Cup last summer, but it has proved to be a complex deal.

City backroom duo Ferran Soriano

IHEANACHO

and Txiki Begiristain have

Monday, 13 January 2014

By Osun Defender

Tonto Dikeh and fellow Nollywood actor Yul Edochie were announced as the winners of Vanguard’s ‘Nollywood’s S*xiest Actors’ 2013 competition.

Friday, 10 January 2014

The spokesman for the Senate, Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe , has said that the upper chamber of the National Assembly will not declare vacant the seats of senators who defect to other parties.

Thursday, 9 January 2014

Wednesday, 8 January 2014