Shots Fired! Sauce Kid Attacks M.I on Twitter.

Nigerian Rapper, Sauce Kid fired shots at M.I.Sauce Kid who’s also referred to as Sinzu recently took to twitter to tell us on how he’s not a comic rapper and not scared of any confrontation from any rapper. He also said he has never backed down or ran from any nigga.

Responding to fan who said M.I Abaga took shots at him in Casper Nyovest’s ‘Doc Shebeleza‘ remix.

In the remix of Doc Shebeleza, M.I dropped a line that says, ‘Rest in peace to Sinzu/I’ve been saving this game/niggas trying to take shot…

Banky W Sends Message to the Person who Stole his phone.

Banky W

Yesterday, it was reported that Banky W lost his phone at DJ Exclusive’s album launch. The singer seems to have been really hurt by that and responds on his Instagram page.

PHOTO] Actress Iyabo Ojo Bags ‘Woman Of The Year’ Award.

Iyabo Ojo

Popular Yoruba actress, Iyabo Ojo is the proud recipient of this year’s ‘Woman Of The Year’ award.

It was presented to her by Africa Mouthpiece International, in recognition of her contribution to the movie industry and also her humanitarian services via her charity organisation, Pinkies Foundation.

Odunlade Adekola Signs Endorsement Deal With Glo

Popular Yoruba Actor, Odunlade Adekola is the latest Glo 2015 ambassador. The Funny actor took to his Instagram page to share the good news with his fans.

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NASS crisis: Akande reveals how subsidy thieves, corrupt businessmen enthroned Saraki, Dogara.

Former Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande has explained how some persons he tagged as subsidy thieves, corrupt businessmen enthroned Saraki and Dogara as Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives respectively.

Akande in a statement on Sunday said those jittery of President Muhammadu Buhari’s constant threat of anti-corruption battle encouraged and financed the rebellions against the APC democratic positions, which led to the adoption of Saraki and Dogara by the PDP.

He said the party must reposition for it to offer Nigerians the change it promised.

According to the statement, “Sometimes in 2013, the Action Congress OF Nigeria (ACN), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) resolved to merge and set up a merger committee to work out the modality for glueing together as one political party under one name, one constitution and one manifesto.

“A splinter of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) sought to be included in the merger. An application made to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to this end by All Progressives Congress (APC) National Interim Committee, composed of ACN, ANPP, CPC, and factions of APGA and Democratic People’s Party (DPP) was approved in July, 2013.

“Between Bola Ahmed Tinubu (an ACN leader) and Kashim Imam (a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader), the idea came up and was adopted that the new party should embark on a membership recruitment drive to certain PDP governors, whose main agenda was to see President Goodluck Jonathan out of power.

“The recruitment efforts took APC leaders to Rivers, Kwara, Niger, Sokoto, Kano, Jigawa and Adamawa states. Eventually, five PDP governors of Sokoto, Kano, Adamawa, Kwara and Rivers, together with the majority of their PDP National and State Assemblies members and other PDP National Assembly members from Gombe, Bauchi and Nasarawa, under the banner of the new-PDP, joined the APC.

APC thereafter organised membership registrations in all the over 120,000 polling units and followed up by using these registered members to conduct congresses in all the almost 8000 wards, in over 770 local governments, in all the 36 states (including Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and a convention at the National level, thereby creating one united APC party structure all over Nigeria.

“With this air of oneness, APC went ahead to conduct primaries to select candidates for state governors and Houses of Assembly and for the presidency and the National Assemblies.

“After the elections, which saw the APC to victory all round, a meeting was reported to have been held by certain old and new-PDP leaders in Alhaji Kawu Baraje’s house at Abuja to review what should be their share in this new Buhari’s government and resolved to seek collaboration with the PDP with a view to hi-jacking the National Assembly and, having got rid of Goodluck Jonathan, with an ultimate aim of resuscitating the PDP as their future political platform.

“Unknown to most APC members, while Senator Bukola Saraki was being adopted as the candidate for Senate President by certain old and new-PDP tendencies, the theory was being propagated that, like in most presidential democracies, the APC minority leaders in the old National Assembly (i.e. George Akume for the Senate and Femi Gbajabiamila for the House of Representatives) should automatically become Senate President and Speaker respectively, now that APC has the majority.

“Certain leaders felt that most past Senate presidents had come from Benue State, which Akume represented and that Benue State should be made to assume the traditional home of all senate presidents.

“At the same time, certain senators were clamouring for one of the most ranking senators anywhere outside the Northwest zone that produced the President. That was how Ahmed Lawan, who has been in the House of Representatives for eight years and in the senate for another eight years emerged as the candidate for the senate president.

“Democrats among the APC leadership insisted on selection by mock elections, rather than tribal or sectional considerations. As a result of primary elections, Ahmed Lawan and George Akume emerged as APC candidate for Senate President and Deputy respectively while Femi Gbajabiamila and Mohammed Monguno emerged as the Speaker and Deputy for the House of Representatives.

“Numerous among those calling themselves businessmen in Nigeria are like leaches, sucking from the nation’s blood largely through various governments and particularly through the Nigerian Federal Government. While all these schisms were going on in the APC, those who were jittery of Buhari’s constant threat of anti-corruption’s battle began to encourage and finance rebellions against the APC democratic positions which led to the emergence of Senator Saraki as the candidate of the PDP tendencies inside and outside APC.

“Before the party knew it, the process had been hijacked by polluted interests who saw the inordinate contests as a loop-hole for stifling APC governments’ efforts in its desire to fight corruption.

“Most Northern elite, the Nigerian oil subsidy barons and other business cartels, who never liked Buhari’s anti-corruption political stance, are quickly backing-up the rebellion against APC with strong support. While other position seekers are waiting in the wings until Buhari’s ministers are announced, a large section of the Southwest see the rebellion as a conspiracy of the North against the Yoruba.

“What began as political patronages to be shared into APC membership-spreads among ethnic zones, religious faiths and political rankings and experiences have now become so complicated that the sharing has to be done by and among PDP leadership together with cohorts of former new-PDP affiliations in the APC, by and among gangs of past anti-Buhari’s Presidency, and certain APC legislators and party members who dance round the crisis arena to pick some crumbs.

“Now that the whole conspiracy has blown open, it is doubtful if the present institutions of party leadership can muster the required capacity to arrest the drift. It is my opinion that President Buhari, and the APC governors should now see APC as a recking platform that may not be strong enough again to carry them to political victory in 2019 and they should quickly begin a joint damage control effort to reconstruct the party in its claim to bring about the promised change before the party’s shortcomings begin to aggravate the challenges of governance in their hands”.

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Saraki’s Rebellion: A Northern Conspiracy Against Yorubas – Bisi Akande.

Bisi Akande

Bisi Akande, pioneer chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says the rebellion in the senate is being viewed in the south-west as a northern conspiracy against the Yoruba.

He also alleged that individuals who feel threatened by the resolve of President Muhammadu Buhari to fight corruption influenced the emergence of Bukola Saraki as senate president.

“While other position seekers are waiting in the wings until Buhari’s ministers are announced, a large section of the Southwest see the rebellion as a conspiracy of the North against the Yoruba,” the former governor of Osun state wrote in a scorching letter, which was made public late Sunday.

Describing the ongoing crisis within the party as a conspiracy, Akande expressed doubt that the leadership of APC was capable of handling the situation and he urged Buhari and governors elected under the platform of the party to intervene in order to prevent APC from total collapse.

Akande went down memory lane on how the APC was established and the challenges that threatened its existence in its formative stage.

The elder statesman said he had it on good authority that some of those who defected to the APC from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are planning to resuscitate the former ruling party ahead of 2019 election.

’We will expose PDP big wigs who betrayed Jonathan if …’

Goodluck  Jonathan

Senator Rowland Owie is a former Chief Whip of the Senate and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).   In this interview, Owie  speaks on the crisis in the National Assembly, faulting the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for picking principal officers for the lawmakers.

 He admonishes the APC leadership to embrace the new leaders of the National Assembly to give President Muhammadu Buhari the right atmosphere to fulfil his promises to the people.
Owie attributes the failure of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to win the March 28 presidential election to betrayal on the part of some PDP leaders while alleging dictatorial tendencies of people close to former President Goodluck Jonathan.

He hints on how the next governor of Edo State will emerge in 2016. He acknowledges that the APC government of Adams Oshiomhole has done better than  PDP former administrations.

Why do you think your party, the PDP, failed in the just concluded presidential election?
One is impunity in the choice of candidates. Some party leaders arrogated to themselves the power of God. For instance, look at the Adamawa gubernatorial primary, there was no war in Adamawa but they moved the primary to Abuja and Abuja imposed a candidate on the people. It also happened in Plateau, Abia, Benue, they imposed unpopular candidates, forgetting that the electorate are wiser now, you cannot intimidate them. Above all,  former President Jonathan was fenced by a number of unpopular party leaders. Because of what happened to Jonathan, my slogan now is that if a President or governor is elected, he is as good as being in prison unless that President or that governor has the will power to get out of the  prison.

That is the type of will power that Governor Oshiomhole has that  made him to survive some sycophants who tried to cage him when we were in the party; even though he got out of  the prison fairly late, some good people had already left the ACN then. Majority of the governors and former President Jonathan were imprisoned by people who will not allow good people to get near them. I make bold to say that for all the major actors around  former President Jonathan, the most truthful person was Oronto Douglas; others were palace jesters who were only thinking about their pockets and not the future of the President or the PDP.

For instance, they was the allegation of over N700million given by a governorship aspirant to some members of the National Working Committee of the PDP. Now, assuming that was true, how can such people attract respect for the party? For instance, the campaign for President Jonathan’s re-election was organized by a body outside the party and, with all due respect, Col Ahmadu Ali, who was made the DG of  the campaign, could hardly win his ward, and the party became helpless. And in some states, DGs were appointed for Jonathan’s campaign who don’t have credibility to lead a campaign for a presidential candidate especially when some of them had contributed to the destruction of the PDP governments in their states before then and for which PDP was fighting to regain credibility. There were a lot mistakes made. But the way Jonathan accepted defeat was an indication that we were  humbled  to look inward and rebuild the party.

Also, those who pretended to be reconciling aggrieved PDP leaders all over the country flying in  presidential jets, only to preach peace in the afternoon and privately tell some governors  to betray the party and fight Jonathan, know themselves and should steer clear of the party or we will be forced to expose them. I want the Acting Chairman of the BOT of the PDP and other credible members of the body to ensure that there is no extension  of tenure for all the executives of the party from the ward level to the national, they should all stand dissolved at the expiration of their tenure. No extension for anybody if they want the party to bounce back.  Enough is enough of impunity and imposition in the PDP in Nigeria and PDP Edo in particular.

I thank God I have been in this vanguard since 1979 when we formed the UPN. Chief Anenih, Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, Dr Ogbemudia, Enahoro, Chief Michaeal Ibru, Chief Orikeze, my late maternal uncle, Chief D.N.Oronsaye, and host of other prominent Bendelites were all in the NPN. Myself, Tony Omoaghe, Barr.Eddy Osifo, Clement Edo Osagie, Dr Thomas Salubi, Chief B.O.Imafidon, the late Chief Idahosa (Akakasiaka), Chief V.I.Amadasun, we defeated those big names. It was only Chief Igbinedion that won the Ovia federal constituency, the rest lost woefully. So, by the grace of God, myself and some of our colleagues in the state will rebuild the PDP in Edo and ensure that these impunity operators who call themselves leaders are swept away.

Buhari’s 30 days in office: All motion, no movement — PDP.

Olisa Metuh

Reviewing the actions and inactions of the administration in the first 30 days, the opposition Peoples   Democratic Party, PDP called for prayers for an administration it claims has shown no movement or motion.

The party spoke through its spokesman, Chief Olisa Metuh.

“We urge Nigerians to join hands in prayers and offer useful suggestions to President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC because with what we have seen in the last 30 days, the present administration is finding it very difficult to get its bearings right while showing no inclination towards implementing its numerous campaign promises for which they were voted into office at the center.

“We are deeply worried that the President who promised to unveil his cabinet two weeks after his inauguration, has not been able to decide on key appointments such as ministers, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), a Chief of Staff and advisers in key sectors of the economy.

“This is more so as the delay has brought government business in ministries, departments and agencies to a dangerous standstill with coordination of important policies vested on ministers and the SGF now in tatters while the system drifts. This situation also creates loopholes through which overzealous persons around that President can connive with unscrupulous elements in the bureaucracy to syphon public resources in addition to possibly misleading the President to violate due process by spending beyond and outside his statutory limits.

“The situation is taking its toll on the economy sector, which has in the 30 days witnessed unprecedented decline with a terrifying crippling of foreign and domestic investments including activities in the money and capital market sectors. Under President Buhari, the stock market has lost over N238 billion while the All-Share Index fell by 849.87 basis points as at June 19.

“In security, apart from the directive to relocate the counter terrorism command center to Borno state and seeking assistance from foreigners, no other concrete step has been taken in the fight against insurgency which the President in his April 22, 2015 CNN interview promised to end within his two months in office.

“Instead, the anti-terrorism effort has completely lost steam in the last 30 days, with insurgents, who had already been pushed to the verge of surrender in the Sambisa forest by the Goodluck Jonathan administration, now surging back and spreading into the country.

“In this regard, we urge the President to confront insurgency and issues of national security with all the vigour they deserve while calling for restrain from actions capable of destroying the fabrics of security intelligence. We also urge for adequate respect for all organs of internal security such as the Directorate of State Security (DSS), which is answerable to the Nigerian state and as such should not be publicly ridiculed by an aide of the President.

“In the same vein, we are disturbed by the ominous signals emanating from the atrocious attempt by the APC to undermine and appropriate the federal legislature resulting in the disruption of lawful proceedings and forced closure of the National Assembly, the symbol of our collective national identity as a democratic state. In this direction, we urge the Presidency and the APC to imbibe democratic tenets and respect the independence of that arm of government.

“Finally, while we remind the President and the APC that their campaign promises are bonds which must be fulfilled, we urge him to use the next ten days to set up his government by naming   his ministers, the SGF and advisers in critical sectors as Nigerians did not vote for a sole administrator but for a democratic government”.

Anxiety as grieving OOU students seize factory, Lagos – Ore expressway

Thousands of grieving Olabisi Onabqnjo University (OOU) students seized the Sagamu – Ilisan stretch of the Lagos – Ore expressway as they stormed the scene of horrific accident which claimed the lives of a dozen of their colleagues last Friday.

Vehicular movement came to abrupt halt on both lanes of the dual carriage way – hordes of travelers were turned back even as they threatened to hauled stones at any truck carrying container.

The students who arrived in four long buses and about three cars had converged to pray at the scene for the repose of their colleagues but emotions took the better part of them as they cried, yelled and cursed the driver that brought the untimely death on the affected students.

Tens of Policemen, members of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and operatives of the Ogun state’s traffic agency, TRACE, made frantic efforts to rein them in but with minimal success.

Seizing both arms of the expressway at the Ikenne -Ilisan stretch of it, they marched to the site of a factory beside the expressway few meters away from the accident, which they suspect to own the container that crushed students to death.

The company has since shut down momentarily but armed policemen stationed at the gate and are prevented them from advancing but following pressure from students, the steel gate gave way, and they surged into the factory in their thousands.

It would be recalled that over a dozen of students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) Ago – Iwoye, were crushed to death and others gravely injured on Friday when a container fell on a passenger bus conveying them.

The 20-feet container from a moving truck came off when the driver was driving àgainst traffic and in a bid to avoid an obstruction at the Sagamu stretch of the Lagos/Benin expressway, the load tipped  and dropped lethally atop of the bus’ roof.

The weighty container press – pinned the bus to the ground in the accident, which occurred few meters away from the gate of a plastic manufacturing company situating near the Ilisha Remo junction.

The vehicle was a truck marked (LAGOS) BDG 779 XE and a Toyota Haiace passenger bus bearing (Lagos) XV 311 MUS.

It was learnt that the OOU students were travelling to Lagos state for the weekend when they met their untimely death.

 

Wizkid at 2015 BET Awards – Photo.

Music star Wizkid lowkey attended the just concluded 2015 BET Awards that held in Los Angeles. The singer didn’t appear much in paparazzi photos but MTV VJ Stephanie Coker just shared a photo of her and Wiz on the red carpet.

Last year Wiz and Wale made a grand appearance where he was caught starring at a woman’s a$$$.

You Can't believe it this man on the table is older than You.

A 72-year-old Nepalese man who made big claims to being the smallest man in the world has finally been confirmed as a record breaker.

A doctor and Guinness World Records official headed to Nepal to measure Chandra Bahadur Dangi to confirm his height of 21.5 inches (54.6 centimeters), shorter than the length of a broadsheet newspaper, where they declared him the world's shortest person.

On Sunday, Guinness presented Dangi with two certificates for being the world's shortest living man and the world's shortest person ever recorded in Guinness' 57-year history.

Dangi lives in a remote mountain village in Nepal and says he now wants to travel across the country and abroad.

He overtook the previous shortest man Junrey Balawing of the Philippines, who is 23.5 inches (60 centimeters) tall.

He had claimed the title last year from Khagendra Thapa Magar, 18, whose height is 26 inches tall. 

Dangi, who wears a traditional hat and tailor-made clothing, was looking forward to receiving the accolade after remaining out of the media spotlight all his life.

He said: 'I feel good that I will be declared the world's shortest man.' Dangi claims he has never taken any kind of medication or been examined by a doctor.

He admits he suffers the odd cold, but revealed he has a home remedy, saying: 'At such times I drink hot water and have tumeric power dissolved in water.

The fever lasts for two to three days. 'I haven't been ill probably because my body is good. 

Buhari must break the APC impasse

NEIL Armstrong, one of America’s greatest icons of the 20th Century and the first man to walk on the moon, was only two years old when he developed interest to become an aircraft pilot. His dad took him to the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio, and that was it. At six, he became convinced that he would devote his life to flying when he was taken on his first plane ride.

 He became a combat pilot for the US Navy. Later, Armstrong was chosen as a NASA astronaut. At the age of 35, he led the US Apollo space mission that fulfilled President John Kennedy’s boast to the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the world that he would “put a man on the moon” to outshine the Soviet Union’s feat of landing Sputnik, the first unmanned spaceship, on the moon.

I brought up this anecdote to remind us grown-ups to be careful what we do in front of young children. They are extremely impressionable, and the dramatic events that make the most impacts on their febrile young minds go a long way in defining what they become tomorrow.

On Thursday, 25th June 2015, a group of Abuja school children were in the public gallery of the National Assembly to watch our “Distinguished” Senators and “Honourable” Members of the House of Representatives elect their principal officers in order to set up the National Assembly for effective governance to start.

 But instead of observing a distinguished and honourable conduct they were treated to the most shocking, shameful and embarrassing rounds of brawling and fisticuffs. Though the Senate eventually succeeded in announcing those whom the APC Senate caucuses chose as the principal officers, the House of Representatives had to adjourn for three weeks when their scrimmages could not allow them to produce any result.

A wise person, the elders say, learns from the mistakes or experiences of others. But Nigerian politicians are infamous for their inability to learn from their own mistakes, even when lives are lost. On 18th October 2007, the Honourable Members of the House of Representatives were, as usual, fighting for plum offices. That was when the deposed People’s Democratic Party was at the height of its power and glory.

A recently departed President Olusegun Obasanjo had imposed a hairdresser, Hon. Patricia Olubunmi Etteh, as the first female Speaker of the House. Fights broke out when efforts to depose her were stiffly resisted by her supporters after it was found out that she authorised the spending of over N600 million for the RENOVATION of her official residence and that of her deputy, Babangida Nguroje.

The fights between factions of the House had lasted several sessions, but it took the sudden death of Hon. Aminu Shuaibu Safana, a medical doctor from Katsina and a major supporter of Etteh (while vehemently participating in the free-for-all) for the fight to stop. Indeed, what happened during that episode made the June 25th fight a mere child’s play in terms of cost to lives and property.

This was possible because the legislators were allowed to continue fighting without someone intervening.
Incidentally, the President of the country was Umaru Yar’ Adua. Like current President Muhammadu Buhari, he was from Katsina. Also, just like Buhari, Yar’ Adua had pledged not to interfere in the affairs of the National Assembly, but that did not stop him from attending the burial of Dr. Safana in Katsina a couple of hours after the Honorable was pronounced dead!

 Much as I want to believe that Katsina-born presidents are democrats and gentlemen, I don’t want to believe that they are given to dereliction of their responsibilities as the leaders of their parties and the nation.

But before we get to that, we must dwell briefly on what triggered the latest fight. After the June 9th 2015 mutiny against the wishes of the All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership in the National Assembly, one would have thought that the subsequent recess would have been an opportunity for the new ruling party to put its house in order and avoid further public embarrassments.

This was not the first time elected members of a political party were going against the directives of their party. In 2011, PDP members of the House of Representatives disregarded the zoning formula of their Party and colluded with members of the opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to elect Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal as the Speaker of the House of Representatives and Hon. Emeka Ihedioha as his Deputy.

PDP had wanted to put Hon. Mulikat Akande in that seat to complete the equitable sharing of the spoils of victory among the six geopolitical zones, with an eye for gender affirmative action. But when the wishes of the lawmakers overwhelmed those of the Party, PDP played a wise card.

 They knew that if they fought the will of the legislators, the business of governance would be brought to a halt. They accepted the outcome and it was thus possible to persuade the House to allow Akande to become the Majority Leader of the House. The result of allowing the legislators to choose their presiding officers and principal heads was that the 2011 to 2015 was one of the most peaceful and stable legislative sessions in our history.

The APC leadership chose, instead to fight. Members were sent to go and enforce party “supremacy”. How can you achieve that when those supporting the candidates of the ruling party are in the minority due to an alliance between the “rebels” and the opposition PDP? Force will only further weaken the APC leaders and embolden more rebellion when the party is repeatedly defeated. The party will continue to suffer this humiliation because it is only one of its factions that is trying to impose its will on the others, and failing.

The power struggle in the APC had developed into a political impasse. Unless the President wades in to resolve it, there will be more vicious fights when the House resumes on July 21st, and someone may then lose his or her life. Governance will continue to wait until the Legislature is fully constituted and functioning effectively.

Right now, the only person who can resolve the impasse is President Muhammadu Buhari. Apart from his powerful office as the supreme leader of the APC, he has not been tainted by being overly associated with any of the warring factions.

 His rather matured, noble and democratic posture of opting to work with anyone chosen by the legislators to lead them gave him credibility, not just in the party but the nation at large. He must take charge and end the impasse.

The formula for solving the problem is a very simple one. The Senate has already set a very good example by sharing the posts equitably among all the political parties, factions and geopolitical zones.

 We have Bukola Saraki: Senate President (APC/nPDP, North Central); Ike Ekweremadu Deputy Senate President (PDP, South East); Ali Ndume Majority Leader (APC/ANPP, North East); Bala Na’Allah (APC/CPC, North West) Sola Adeyeye, Majority Whip (APC/ACN, South West) and Francis Alimikhena (APC/ACN, South-South).

Nobody can complain about being left out in the Senate, except those who want to grab everything for themselves. It is those noisy, boastful, winner-takes-all APC power grabbers that are causing trouble, and they are the ones being repeatedly worsted in the power struggle.

Party supremacy will be more effectively deployed when governance starts and APC begins to unfold its plans for the nation. If APC has good plans even those outside the party will support them.
APC is too weak to do a winner-takes-all. Buhari should prevail on his party to carry everybody along. This will stabilise his party and enable him to start governing.

President Buhari condemns latest Boko Haram attacks in Borno, Yobe.

President Muhammadu Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned, in the strongest language, the latest terrorist attacks on Borno and Yobe communities by the Boko Haram bandits. This is contained in a statement issued by the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu.

Buhari bokoThe President said he was deeply touched by these mindless incidents of violence on innocent people during the month of Ramadan. According to the President, the terrorists are enemies of everybody, and enemies of humanity everywhere.

He explained that “no sane people who believe in any God would be destroying the lives of innocent people in cold blood,
terrorists don’t represent any religion.’’ The President said the pattern of the terrorists’ indiscriminate violence against innocent people had shown that they represent nothing else but anarchy and devilry.
“In what appears to be one of his toughest expressions of outrage, President Buhari reminded the terrorists of his uncompromising resolve to tackle them with all the resources at the disposal of his government.

“Make no mistake about it: this government is ever determined to discharge its fundamental duty of protecting the lives of its citizens from physical threats from any groups bent on creating chaos, confusion, and on destroying social and economic life of the people,’’ the statement said
Buhari, who extended his sympathy to the families of the victims, reassured all Nigerians that his government would never succumb to terrorist’s blackmail, and that the security forces would confront the Boko Haram bandits to the last man.

The President, who described the terrorists as “cowards who lack any moral inhibition and any iota of humanity to reason compassionately”, said they would not find Nigeria a safe haven, because “they would be hunted down without mercy and compromise.”

He reassured Nigerians that security would be tackled by his administration with vigorous determination. The President, however, advised Nigerians to show more vigilance and be alert to the presence of suspicious people around them, adding that “the terrorists are enemies of religion and humanity.”
He explained that “no true believers in any God would target worshipers, holy places, or people who are fasting and other innocent Nigerians.”

Devise ways of paying workers salaries – Buhari tells governors.

President Muhammadu Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has called on state governors to consider, as a matter of urgency, exploring efficient means of gradually liquidating all unpaid salaries of staff, which have brought untold hardship to thousands of families.

Inaugurating the national economic council  at the presidential villa Monday morning, ‎President Buhari also called on the states to also devise ways of increasing their revenue base in order to cushion the effect s of dwindling revenue from the federation account.

The national economic Council  is made up of the 36 state governors, minister‎s of Finance and National as well as the Attorney General of the Federation.

How Kate Henshaw lost everything to fire, by colleague

• Henshaw

Popular actress, Kate Henshaw, it is certain, cannot get over last Thursday’s inferno that gutted her Lekki Phase 1, Lagos home in a long while, going by recent report which says ‘she lost everything she worked hard for in this world’.

The OngaSeasoning ambassador, we learnt, was on location of the much-anticipated Do-Good, a series which is bringing back the actress and BasorgeTariah Jr. as a screen-pair, when thick smoke was noticed from her bedroom area by neighours who quickly put a call across to her.

The actress and her colleagues, who were said to have finished shooting for the day, and were taking fun pictures for Instagram, sped to the scene, but alas! It was too late.

They had called the fire fighters, but the best that came of the effort was rescuing the home of the second occupants of the twin duplex.

“Everything burn down for our korokoro eye,” said an eye witness. “Then the roof catch fire then collapse.”

Corroborating the report, one of the colleagues of the actress said, “Her room started to burn first, then it burnt down completely everything she’s got in this world. It was a sad thing to watch your property going down. The situation was helpless. We couldn’t look the actress in the face. She was more than devastated. Everyone at the scene was distraught,” he said.

When The Nation called the actress, pains pulsated her usually vibrant voice. “Thank you… my brother … thank you…,” she said inaudibly.

It is not clear what episode of the comic drama was being shot as at the time of the incident, but it is certain the actress who has moved to a temporaryabode is not in the right frame of mind to continue at the moment.

Producers of the new Pidgin English sitcom, Mnet, have fixed the premiere of Do-Good for Monday, July 6, 2015.

The drama is a spin-off of a popular Nigerian drama series of the 1990s, which features the exploits of the titular character Do-good, played by Tariah, who returns from a sojourn abroad to woo his sweetheart, Emem, played by Henshaw.

The sitcom is said to also feature appearances from other popular comic actors including Tony Akposheri and Yibo Koko, and will be showing on the Africa Magic Urban channel (DStv channel 153).

NSCDC ARRESTS FIVE FOR ALLEGEDLY STEALING AND SLAUGHTERING GOATS

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Ondo State Command, has arrested five persons for alleged theft and slaughtering of other people’s goats in Oshinle Quarters, Akure South Local Council of Ondo State.

In a statement released to journalists by the Command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO) Kayode Balogun, the suspects include Ogunmola Kayode, 60, Ogunmola Kehinde and Ogunmola Taiwo, 20, Stephen Isaac, 22, and Ifeanyinwa Okonkwo, 21 years old.

According to Balogun: “They were arrested at No. 19, Fadeyi Street, Oshinle Quarters, Akure at about 5.30a.m with 13 goats already slaughtered, 10 out of the goats were pregnant and one of them was in labour when it was slaughtered.”

The NSCDC officer said “the suspects are still under interrogation and will be charged to court for prosecution immediately after the ongoing detailed investigation is concluded.”

Balogun urged the good people of Ondo State to always give timely information on any suspected criminal activities in their neighbourhood to the security agencies in order to nip them in the bud at the nick of time.

OMG!!! Woman Gives Birth to a Baby Elephant [See Photo]

Alexandar and Lola Andersen first attempted to keep their child a secret from the world but soon pictures of the child along with the identity of the family leaked to the media. The Andersen’s found themselves celebrities in the country of India. 

“We wish they would stop hanging outside of our home. Why won’t they just leave us alone? We’ve already been through enough. My baby looks like an elephant and even worse, he’s a ginger. If they hand me one more basket, I’m going to stab them in their face,” said Lola Andersen, the baby’s name.

 When asked of the child’s name, father Alexandar only answered, “we never really gave it a name. To be quite honest, we were just going to call it the creature that we keep in the basement. We were essentially just going to keep the little gingerphant in the basement and feed him drifters that we picked up off of the road. 

This does open up some new options. We might sell him to India. They’d probably let him live in the Taj Mahal. 

8 OOU STUDENTS KILLED IN FATAL ACCIDENT IN SAGAMU AS CONTAINER FELL ON BUS TAKING THEM TO LAGOS.

8 OOU, Olabisi Onabanjo University Students Killed In Fatal Accident In Sagamu Ogun State As Container Fell On Bus Taking Them To Lagos. students of Olabisi Onabanjo University in Ago Iwoye died untimely yesterday in a ghastly accident that happened at Ilisan Remo, close to Shagamu on Lagos-Ore expressway. According to Ogun State of FRSC, a fast-moving truck with an unlatched 20 feet container lost control yesterday. The container fell on the roof of the commercial bus taking the students and other passengers to Lagos. The heavy container crushed the bus and killed all the passengers on the spot. The deceased were heading to Lagos for the weekend when the tragedy happened.

Wike Seizes Amaechi’s Aide’s Car.

The Rivers State government on Saturday impounded an armoured Range Rover belonging to the immediate past Chief of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt, Chief Tony Okocha.

The bullet-proof vehicle was removed from Okocha residence at Rumuigbo in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area at about 9am by security operatives attached to Government House.

It will be recalled that a Lexus SUV was removed from the residence of the former State Commissioner for Information, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, on June 18, 2015 in a similar fashion.

Though, the former aid to ex-governor, Rotimi Amaechi, was not around when the operation was carried out, it was gathered that the vehicle was taken away without any resistance.

Government officials had insisted that the armoured Range Rover belonged to Rivers State and not any individual.

Speaking on the development, Okocha said he was in Abuja to observe the Rivers Election Tribunal when he was informed that his vehicle had been taken away on the orders of the State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike.

Okocha maintained that the vehicle was his ‘status car’, which the law allowed his to own after his service as a Government House chief of staff.

He explained that though he was not miffed by Wike’s action, he was only surprised at the governor’s ‘seeming introduction of militarism into democracy.

According to him, “I have just been informed of the forceful confiscation of my status car in the usual brigandage and ‘Rambo’ approach, which typifies the new caretaker administration in Rivers State.

“I am not, however, surprised at the uncouth action, knowing Mr. Wike’s nuances like the back of my hand, but warn that this seeming introduction of militarism into our democratic experience and the attendant ignominies may well become our bane if not checked.

“It was the courtesy of Rt. Hon. Amaechi that Wike became the minister of the Federal Republic, an exposure that he (Wike) seized to effectively malign his benefactor because of vaulting ambition.”

He, however, disagreed with the claim that the Range Rover parked in his residence was without its four tyres when it was taken away.

“Is it possible to remove the tyres of my vehicle that I drive always? It is a white lie to say that the vehicle was parked without tyres.

“If they think they are saying the truth, let them show pictures of the vehicle while it was being removed. They must have used a forklift to remove it.”

But special adviser to the Governor on Media and Publicity, Opunabo Inko-Tariah, stated that there was no way an armoured Range Rover would be a status car of a Chief of Staff, Government House.

Stressing that the four tyres of the vehicle were removed at the point it was parked inside Okocha’s residence, Inko-Tariah said the bulletproof Range Rover was the property of the state government.

He said, “As chief of staff, he (Okocha) has no right to use a bulletproof car without leave from government. Yes, a bulletproof Range Rover was recovered from his (Okocha) residence.

“However, what is staggering is that he removed all the tyres to demobilise the car and obviously to frustrate recovery.

“That act in itself is highly suspicious and obviates the need for any further evidence that it was stolen from Government House. You don’t need to remove the tyres of your car if there are no sinister plots.”

Myths About Alcohol.

Since drinking is such a popular pastime, it makes
sense that there are a lot of legends, assumptions
and myths about alcohol out there. What’s true and
What isn’t? Surprisingly, even things that might feel
or seem true from experience are actually just
myths.

Myth: Drugs are a bigger problem than alcohol.

FACT: Although alcohol use is legal and more socially acceptable, it is still classified as a drug. Alcohol has claimed the lives of more young people than cocaine, heroin, and every other illegal drug combined. About 18 million Americans are addicted to alcohol or have alcohol abuse issues. Furthermore, alcohol is the No. 1 drug problem of today’s youth.

Myth: A combination of beer, wine and liquor will
make you more drunk than only drinking one
type of alcohol.

FACT: Alcohol is alcohol. Your blood alcohol content
(BAC – the percent of alcohol in your blood) is what
determines how drunk you are. Not the flavors you
selected.

Myth: A cold shower, cup of coffee, sleep, or
making yourself throw up will sober you up.

FACT: Only time will get you sober. In general, it
takes about one hour for your body to eliminate one
average drink. A cold shower will not sober you up
and might cause you to go into shock if you are very
drunk. Coffee contains a stimulant drug (caffeine)
and will make you feel awake, but it will not remove
the alcohol from your body. If you has a lot to drink
before you go to sleep, you could still have alcohol in your body when you wake up and be over the legal driving limit the next morning. And finally, self-
induced vomiting might get rid of some of the alcohol that has not yet been absorbed by your body, but most of it will already be in your bloodstream and causing yourself to be sick can be dangerous.

Myth: Someone who has had too much to drink
will look drunk

FACT: The way someone looks can be misleading.
One drink can impair one’s judgement and ability to
drive. Judgment is the first thing affected when
someone has been drinking – motor skills are the
second.

Myth: Hard liquor is more dangerous than beer,
wine or wine coolers

FACT: A 12-ounce can of beer, a five-ounce glass of
wine and a 12-ounce wine cooler contain the same
amount of alcohol and the same intoxication
potential as 1.5 ounces of liquor. All of these will
affect an unborn baby.

Myth: Alcohol affects you less if you eat meat or a
high-carbohydrate meal with it.

FACT: Eating a meal while drinking alcohol does slow
down your body’s absorption of alcohol, but it does
not prevent it. You will only get drunk slower.

Myth: Alcohol will not make me gain weight.

FACT: Alcohol is a heavy source of calories, which
can inadvertently cause weight gain. The following
table shows drink portions with their approximate
number of calories:

Alcohol Calorie Chart
Serving
Calories
12 oz.
regular beer
150
12 oz.
light beer
110
5 oz.
glass of wine
90
1.5 oz.
distilled spirits
90
1.5 oz
distilled spirits with soda
170

Myth: One or two drinks will not affect driving
ability

FACT: Alcohol is a depressant drug and therefore
slows down reaction time and affects judgement with just one drink. The effects of alcohol not only depend on the amount consumed, but also on the user’s past drinking experience, the way in which the alcohol is consumed, and a person’s feelings or mood. The only safe way to drive is sober.

Myth: If a person can abstain for weeks or even
months between drinking bouts, he or she does
not have a drinking problem.

FACT: A person does not have to drink every day or
every week to have a problem with alcohol.The effect of alcohol on a person’s home, friends, social life, school life, job, leisure time, medical needs, and
financial responsibilites need to be considered. If
sonemone’s drinking affects even one of these areas, the person should consider receiving help to keep it from causing more problems.

Myth: Alcohol improves sexual performance.

FACT: Although a small amount of alcohol may make
you feel less inhibited, anything more will decrease a man’s ability to maintain an Attention and both
genders’ ability to achieve orgasm. As a depressant
drug, alcohol numbs nerve endings and decreases
lubrication while also affecting rational decisions and judgement.

Myth: There are no benefits to drinking alcohol

FACT: In moderation (1 drink per day for women, 2
drinks per day for men), it has been suggested that
alcohol can have some health benefits such as being
protective against heart disease and diabetes.
However, excess use of alcohol can have negative
health effects, and it is recommended that those who do not drink do not start to gain these benefits
without first speaking to a doctor.

Photo of the Nigerian Football Team in 1949.

Nigerian Football Team in England 1949. Nigerian football team was the first ever to leave West Africa. They arrived in the UK on the 29th of August 1949 and played nine matches in five weeks against top English amateur teams. This picture is of a training session with their coach ‘the famous Fulham football star’ John (Jack) Finch.

Your Senate President, Bukola Saraki is Not a Nigerian.

SaharaReporters has revealed a shocking revelation. According to the news platform, Bukola Saraki is not a Nigerian and he’s a petty thief.

According to SR, “Some police officers found out that Bukola Saraki, who is Nigeria’s Senate President, was a petty thief as of 1990, he was actually charged with theft of N510,000 at Societe Generale Bank of Nigeria. The officers warned in a report that Saraki was about to liquidate the bank by looting it, but no one listened until his siblings, cronies and relatives eventually did.”

See the documents below!

Presidency orders VC, registrar of the Fed University of Otuoke to refund overpaid salaries

Prof. Mobolaji Aluko,

Presidency, through the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, has instructed the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko, to refund over payment of salaries running into millions of naira. The Registrar of the university, David Suowari, was also directed to refund the sum of N130, 692.71 per month in excess of his due salary.

The over payments were said to have been discovered during the commission’s visit to the institution on May 12, 2015 to carry out an inspection of FUO’s remuneration practices vis-a-vis the extant government’s pay policy. The VC and the registrar were accused of appropriating certain allowances to themselves which were not approved by the government.

These concerns were raised in a letter from the NSIWC to Aluko, signed for the Chairman of the Commission by the Director of Compensation, Chike Ogbechie.The commission said, “The findings of the inspection in respect of your institution (Federal University, Otuoke) were as follow:“The Vice-Chancellor was being paid total emoluments of N1,970,476.76 monthly, whereas he should not earn more than N922,810.23 if he were paid furniture allowance en bloc earlier, or N1,043,176.79 if he were being paid furniture allowance.“Much of the difference was attributed to certain allowances which were not approved by the government.”In the case of the registrar, the commission said he was being paid N130,692.71 in excess of his due salary of N502,580.25.The commission also said the university disaggregated its staff salaries against the government’s policy of pay consolidation.

The NSIWC, therefore, directed the university to stop “the wrongful practices” and comply with relevant rules and rates.The commission added, “We hereby direct the vice-chancellor and the registrar to refund the cumulative overpayments made to them.“You are to report to the commission in writing, your compliance with this directive within four weeks of this letter.”Prof. Mobolaji Aluko became the Vice-Chancellor of the university in February 2011 and he said (in a text message to our Punch correspondent) that there was neither disaggregation of salaries nor overpayment of salaries.

The vice-chancellor said, “Rather, pension and health insurance allowances were due to three of us, Diaspora Vice-Chancellors who are on Sabbatical from our foreign universities, and co-paid monthly in naira to us for payment to those foreign universities.“Without that concession occurring, our own local salaries would have been wiped out completely, and we could not have accepted the job.”“However, the need for accountability is welcome, and Salaries and Wages Commission will be fully reconciled to the full facts,” the VC stated.

Saraki Is Not Even Nigerian – Sahara Reporters.

Wonder. The lenghts Nigerians will go cheesy

Our good friends at Sahara reporters all of a sudden have this at their disposal

Hoodlums beat journalist to coma.

Yomi Olomofe

Hoodlums suspected to be smugglers on Thursday, beat journalist, Yomi Olomofe to coma over accusations of reporting their activities at the Seme-Badagry area

The victim, Olomofe, who is the Executive Director of the Badagry based Prime Magazine narrated his ordeal to Vanguard.

“I was with another colleague of mine on a visit to the command, when some smugglers, who claimed that journalists have been writing negative stories about them, pounced on me”

“While beating me, they threatened to kill me so as to serve as deterrent to journalists writing stories about them.

“I was there with the correspondent of Tide Newspaper, thank God a friend from Rotary Club came to take me away, I would have been dead, because I was left there almost lifeless.

“These hoodlums are not unknown. They are known to everybody, but they are above the law. They even told me that they have killed many people and nothing happened”

Meanwhile, Olomofe has called on the Inspector General of police to come to his rescue saying his life is no longer safe .

OOU Students: 3 families collect bodies for burial,

ABEOKUTA—Three of the 12 bereaved families of students of Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, and the driver, who lost their lives in an accident along Sagamu-Benin Expressway, have buried their loved ones.
Vanguard gathered that the family of the driver of the bus, Lukman Adekeye, who was crushed in the accident, was first to collect his body for burial according to Islamic rites.
It was further gathered that the families of two students, identified as Dare Olatunji and Aminat Adebayo, who had gone to the school to fill post-UTME form, but died in the accident on their way back home, have collected their bodies and buried them.
It would be recalled that a container fell off the bed of a truck and landed on a bus, which was conveying passengers from Lagos Garage, Ijebu-Ode, to Sango-Ota, leaving all the passengers, except one, dead.
Chairman, National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, Ogun State, Okikiola Ogunsola, described the incident as tragic.
He identified the victims as Odubanku Oluwadamilola, Political Science (200L), Ogunnoiki Mariam, History (100L), Aribiola Elizabeth, Bio-Chemistry (100L), Pampam Latifat, Chemical Science (100L), Asade Ibukun, Law (200L).
Meanwhile, the Students Union Government, SUG, has declared today as Black Monday in the school.
The students’ leaders in the state said they had agreed that lectures and other activities be suspended in all the campuses in the state.
A statement by the SUG said: “We will be having a candlelight procession for our deceased colleagues tonight; we are expecting students from other tertiary institutions across the state to attend.”