Wednesday, 28 January 2015

D’banj Has A Word For Haters

You know what y'll have been saying right? Courtthings, Dr.Sidthings, Brokethings? Hahaha D'banj has a word for you! Here’s what he posted on his IG page.

Nigerian International Goal Keeper, Wilfred Agbonavbare Loses Battle With Cancer

Lose of Hero! Former Nigerian International goalkeeper, Wilfred Agbonavbare has lost his battle with cancer. The ex-Rayo Vallecano goalkeeper who had been receiving treatment at a Spanish hospital was said to have died yesterday January 26th.

Agbonavbare played for New Nigeria Bank F.C. and BCC Lions FC. during his active days before moving to Spain in 1990 where he spent the rest of his career.

Sadly, Agbonavbare also lost his wife three years ago to cancer. May his soul rest in peace.

INEC: We Have Distributed 42.77m PVCs, 145,000 Card Readers

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INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday said it had distributed over 42.77 million Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) to eligible voters expected to vote in next month’s general election.

The figure represents 62.15 per cent of the PVCs distributed. The total number of eligible registered voters for next month’s general election is put at over 68.8 million.
With the distribution of more than 42.77 million PVCs, there is still an outstanding of more than 26 million PVCs yet to be distributed.

Also, the commission said it had distributed 145,000 card readers that are expected to be used in 119,973 polling units.

100 days in office: Fayose admits owing Ekiti workers N7.5bn

By Gbenga Ariyibi
Ado Ekiti—Ekiti State governor, Mr Ayo Fayose has lamented that the state government needed the sum of N7.5 billion to settle arrears of entitlements of public servants in the state.
He admitted that he sometimes does not know where to start which gives him sleepless nights.

*Ayo Fayose

The governor was speaking in Ado Ekiti yesterday while inaugurating some projects to mark his 100 days in office.
According to him, the entitlements included August and September 2014 salaries of some workers, subventions due to state-owned institutions, leave bonus among others.
Fayose declared that despite the challenges and commitments that he would strive to execute some projects and pay salaries promptly.
“We have about N7.8 billion obligation to workers in the state. The obligations were left behind by the former administration, which include over N2 billion as leave bonus to workers, over N1 billion as deductions from workers’ salaries that the former administration did no remit.
“August and September 2014 salaries they did not pay some workers amounting to over N2 billion. Subventions to tertiary institutions which is over N2 billion as well.
“I don’t know where to start sometimes I cannot sleep. We did not inherit anything tangible from the former administration.

The Confederation of African Football said in a statement "the two pitches (in Ebebiyin and Monogo) have been adversely affected by combination of wear and tear from the six games played or to be played in each of them and the unstable weather conditions seen lately".

It added: "The eight teams qualified for the quarter-final stages onwards should be given the opportunity to play on grounds that provide the highest standards, specifically those of Bata and Malabo, to ensure the quality of play remains at the highest possible level."Good decision though.

Florida man arrested for 'urinating on waitress' at popular Key West club

A Florida man found the limits of one wild Key West nightspot when he was found urinating onto a waitress from a bar balcony.

Orion Jones, 20, was arrested after a worker at Rick's, which calls itself the largest bar complex on the island, hailed a police officer to report a man 'who was urinating on a female staff member from the balcony above.'

Police confronted Jones in person at about 2:20 a.m., by which time he was fighting club security in the street.

Orion Jones, 20, was arrested after a worker at Rick's club hailed a police officer to report a man 'who was urinating on a female staff member from the balcony above'

The Smoking Gun reports that Jones tried to run, but officers finally tased him twice before handcuffing him.

According to police, waitress Tia Cruz said she had been talking with a customer when she felt 'something wet on her body.'

At first she believed it to be rain until another employee 'pointed out Jones and said he is peeing on you.'

2014 Headies 'Next Rated Act' nominee 'RunTown' officially kicks off his 2015 campaign with this superb solo effort - The new video 'The Latest' is a potential hit single produced by Shizzi, A&R by Bankuli & the video was shot in Johannesburg/Sun City, South Africa - directed by Sesan!

In 2014, Runtown churned out hit singles like Gallardo, Domot, Baby Answer & The Banger! This year, expect a lot more from the Eric Manny Entertainment frontline act. Here's "The Latest" - Listen after the cut & enjoy! congratz

Enjoy video below..

We commend Professor Chukwuma Soludo for his insightful and incisive article published in the Vanguard Newspaper of January 26th under the above title. We agree with Professor Soludo that if the political parties, including ours, must justify the overwhelming enthusiasm of Nigerians about the 2015 elections we must remain focused on the issues that matter most to them, which is the progress of our country and the well being of our people. Indeed, this has been the driving sentiment of our party and our campaign all along.
While we accept his critical comments on our party, more for the intentions than for the letters, we believe some clarifications would be quite necessary. We wish to emphasise that our party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), presents a real option to Nigerians. Professor Soludo expressed the sentiments of most Nigerians when he spoke about the incalculable damage that the PDP under President Jonathan has done to the Nigerian economy and the unprecedented hardship that his six years of the locust has brought upon Nigerians.

…For failing to nominate running mates

..Declares Reps candidate winner for not having opponent

By Joseph Erunke

ABUJA—THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate for Ado/Opoku/Ogbadibo Federal Constituency in Benue State, Christian Adabah Abah, as winner of the February 14, 2015 general elections.

INEC also disqualified seven governorship candidates from various parties from participating in the February 28 governorship election for failing to nominate their running mates.

Explaining reasons for declaring Abah winner for the election that was yet to hold, INEC said it was because he (Abah) is the sole candidate seeking election into the House of Representative election.

These were contained in INEC’s daily bulletin on the election yesterday, saying that the common offence of the governorship candidates was their inability to nominate their running mates.

Muhammadu Buhari lied under oath

By Femi Aribisala

THESE are interesting times. Muhammadu Buhari, the APC presidential candidate whose only policy plank is that he will fight against corruption without wavering, is not as straight-forward as he would have Nigerians believe. Buhari lied under oath. He perjured himself claiming his school-leaving certificate is with the military. This has now been revealed to be a tissue of lies.

This is a scandal of immense proportions in an aspiring presidential candidate. Under no circumstances should it be swept under the carpet. For this blatant perjury, Buhari must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. It should also lead to his disqualification from contesting for election as president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

In the language of Buhari’s own anti-corruption rhetoric, Nigeria must be shown to be a nation of laws and of the rule of law. No man, no matter how highly-placed, no matter his ethnic or political pedigree, should be shown to be above the law. For this reason, a public example must be made of Buhari.

Another scene of mayhem as A student of the Ekiti state University suffered severe cut on his head during a clash between the APC and the PDP in the state on Saturday January 24th. While the APC allege that the clash broke out after the National Vice-President, External, National Association of Nigerian Students, Tosin Ogunkuade was arrested by the state police for speaking during its presidential campaign, the state Governor in his defence said the people arrested were thugs of the APC who wanted to cause trouble in the state. The youngman with the cut is currently receiving medical attention. The pic is bad. See it after the cut...

Blount not worried about Seattle D

PHOENIX -- Running back LeGarrette Blount knows the statistics about the Seattle Seahawks' defense and how it allowed a league-low average of 15.9 points per game during the regular season, but he's equally as confident in the New England Patriots' offense.

Rob Carr/Getty ImagesPatriots running back

LeGarrette Blount says the Seahawks' vaunted defense is beatable.

"I don't care about them being the top defense, that doesn't bother me," Blount said at Super Bowl XLIX media day. "They were good enough to get here, just like we were good enough to get here. They're not immortal. They can be beaten."

* Says litigants will remain in court
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari (Ret), yesterday, insisted that his academic certificates were submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, which were duly acknowledged by the Legal Department of the commission, wondering why people were still making issues of it. Speaking in Abuja, when the Peoples Democratic Movement, PDM, formally adopted him as its presidential candidate for the February poll, Buhari said: “Well I am not surprised. This is Nigeria. If people are serious about this issue, they ought to have listened to the Legal Adviser of INEC.
“This is the first time, INEC by law has got those documents and they said they have got them. So, anybody who has any different view should go to court. I think they have gone to court. So, let them remain there.”
An Abuja lawyer, Mr. Chike Okafor, had on Monday, in a suit before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, sought to disqualify Buhari from contesting the February 14 presidential election on account of false information given by the candidate in the affidavit he submitted to INEC, in support of his nomination form.
Meanwhile, an Abuja Chief Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, was asked to okay the prosecution of General Buhari over allegations that he gave false evidence to a public officer.

LAFIA—PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday set an age barrier for a possible successor if he wins re-election, saying that anyone above 57 years would not receive his support in 2019.
Speaking at a campaign rally in Lafias, Nasarawa State the president also disowned the governorship aspiration of his former minister of information, Mr. Labaran Maku, affirming he never supported his move from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The President also promised to give special attention to Nasarawa State on account of what he said is the proximity of the state to Abuja.

It has been revealed that Tanzania has the highest number of killings and attacks of albinos in Africa and trade in body parts of the special people is driven by belief that they bring luck and wealth.

From UK Daily Mail

Tanzania's albinos are being 'hunted down like animals' as greed for money and influence drives families to turn on their own loved ones in a trade allegedly fuelled by some of the country's most powerful people. It is believed albino body parts will bring a person wealth, or luck - and for that, people are willing to pay as much as $3,000 or $4,000 for a limb, or as much as $75,000 - about £50,000 - for the 'full set', a whole body.

Geoffrey York is an Africa correspondent for The Globe and Mail, based in Johannesburg, South Africa and he's on Twitter claiming foreign journalists are being blocked form getting visas to cover elections in Nigeria. If this is true, why so? More tweets after the cut...

Nikki Reed Reacts Ian Somerhalder Nina Dobrev PDA

Nina and Ian were caught getting ‘very touchy’ on the set of ‘The Vampire Diaries,’ a source tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. Should his fiancee, Nikki Reed, be worried? Well, we found out how she truly feels!

It can’t be easy knowing your fiance is working with his ex-girlfriend, but Nikki Reed deals with that on a daily basis. Unfortunately for her, we recently learned that Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev were getting affectionate on the set of The Vampire Diaries. Yet, her feelings on the matter might shock you!

Great Golf legend Tiger Woods has replaced the tooth that got knocked out by a cameramen when he was in Italy last week to celebrate his girlfriend's Lindsey Vonn breaking World Cup ski record (pictured right). Tiger showed off his complete teeth while chatting with the media during a practice round at the Waste Management Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale in Arizona on yesterday Jan. 27th. (left)... When money talk bull***hit keep quiet.

Tuesday, 27 January 2015

New One! Heartburn Is A Symptom Of Cancer

Really! New discovery as a new health campaign is asking people not to ignore heartburn, because it could be a sign of stomach or oesophageal cancer. According to Public Health England, people should go to their doctors if they have persistent heartburn or difficulty swallowing food for three weeks or more. According to them, it is a likely symptom of cancer and most people are not aware of this.

Stomach and oesophageal cancers are the fifth most common cancers in England and around the world. The campaign says, the earlier the cancers are diagnosed, the more likely the treatment is to be successful.My people kindly take note please.

Photo: Peter & Lola Okoye Also Got Married Legally Last Week

Paul Okoye and Anita who got married last week at Ikoyi Registry, Lagos. Peter did too and that’s a photo of them at the registry. Big congrats to the couple. Cheers

PDP Fights Back,Names Bola Tinubu,Nigeria's Most Corrupt Personality.

ADVERTORIAL: PDP Fights Back, Names Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s Most Corrupt Person

There’s no denying their chemistry! Jared and Lupita have sparked enough dating rumors to last a lifetime, and HollywoodLife.com has EXCLUSIVELY learned the truth behind their flirty relationship.

Jared Leto, 43, and Lupita Nyong’o, 31, packed on the PDA at the 2015 SAG Awards on Jan. 26 — both during the show and at the after-party! Jared and Lupita started to grow close during the 2014 awards season, and seem to have grown even closer! So are they or aren’t they an item? HollywoodLife.com can EXCLUSIVELY reveal the truth.

Annie Idibia, who covers the latest issue of Motherhood In-Style opened up about her life and marriage with 2face Idibia, his other children and her difficult pregnancies. Read after the cut...

Happiness they say is from withing! With the reported percentages of black men being dead, in jail or marrying outside their race it’s no wonder a black woman can’t find a good husband.. (If you feed into those statistics)

But now, thanks to a woman in Houston, Texas a lot of black women might start a new trend of marrying themselves.

Every little girl in America grows up fantasizing about the big day.. The day she will get married to her prince in shining armor.. The day she becomes a wife with a big ring on her finger.

In a swift rejoinder! The Director of Media and Publicity of the PDP Presidential Campaign, Femi Fani Kayode, has responded to the article penned down by former CBN governor, Prof. Charles Soludo. For criticizing president Jonathan's economic policies, FFK said Soludo is confused and has lost touch with reality.

According to Punch, FFK said he would be gentle with Soludo because of the soft spot he has for him

"Soludo has criticised the President, his government and his handling of the economy. Meanwhile Nigeria has just won the prestigious award of being designated as the largest economy in Africa and this has happened under the watch of Pres. Jonathan and no-one else. Should any right-thinking person, who has the nation’s interest at heart be complaining about that? Needless to say my friend and brother Charles Soludo is confused and conflicted. He seems to have lost touch with reality and this is what often happens when you spend too much time with the Buharists. I pray that sooner than later, he comes to his senses and he sees the light." FFK said

2015 AFCON Update: Tunisia & Congo DR through, Cape Verde & Zambia knocked out

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Tunisia and Congo DR have both qualified for quarterfinals of the 2015 African Nations Cup tournament in Equatorial Guinea.

With the outcome of the games in the final round of matches in group B, Cape Verde and Zambia became the latest two teams to exit the competition.

Cape Verde would be cursing their luck as they only got eliminated despite having the same goal difference with DR Congo, as the latter went through by virtue of more goals scored.

Celebrity couple as Kim K shared the photos on her instagram page yesterday evening. More pics when you continue...

Buhari meets with EU election monitoring team (photos)

Information reaching us is that Members of the European Union election monitoring team met with the presidential candidate of the APC, Gen. Buhari today, over next month's general election. The members, led by Mr Santiago, said 90 members of their team are expected in Nigeria during the elections.

The team however stated that because of the security challenges in the north, they will not be heading there for any monitoring exercise.

Former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Charles Soludo, wrote a very long article yesterday titled 'Buhari vs Jonathan, Beyond the elections', where he x-rayed the chances of the two men winning next month's general elections and the challenges that lie ahead. In a bit summary....He discussed salient issues.

Furthermore, In the very incisive piece, Soludo took the present administration to cleaner of having poor economic plan which he graded "F" . He says President Jonathan's economic team is too weak due to its composition of "self-interested and self-conflicted group of traders and businessmen".

He said "President Jonathan if you are not re-elected, there is little to remember about your regime after the next few years".

On Buhari, he said the former military leader and his team must realize that they do not yet have a coherent, credible agenda that is consistent with the fundamentals of the economy currently. The APC manifesto contains some good principles and wish-lists, but as a blue print for Nigeria’s security and prosperity, it is largely hollow, he said. Thus, his first job is to present a credible development agenda to Nigerians. Find the article after the cut...(but brace yourselves, it's very long)

According to sources, Redeemers University is about to suspend 22 students today for missing church activities. The source who informed us said one of the students who missed not going to church had asthma attack and missed it, but their porters felt it’s none of their business. The students have been asked to go and inform their parents of the suspension and parents are planning to storm the school this morning. This is what they are fighting for. The school’s students handbook already made it clear that ‘Absence form corporate worship hours’ will attract a deduction of 10points from the offenders total 100 points.

Clint Eastwood scores the biggest hit of his career as American Sniper passes the $200 million mark

American Sniper hit the mark with moviegoers again this weekend, becoming the biggest hit of Clint Eastwood's storied career.

The military drama starring Bradley Cooper as Navy SEAL marksman Chris Kyle topped the box office for a second weekend in a row with $64.4 million in first place, according to studio estimates Sunday.

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Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka

By Chinedu Eze

Notwithstanding the enormous challenges Nigeria is faced with currently, the country holds greater opportunities for her citizens with projections that her economy would continue to grow at the rate of over 6 per cent for the next 20 years.

Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, stated this at the weekend when he delivered the 44th Convocation Lecture of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka titled, “Rebuilding the Nigerian Dream: Mapping the Building Blocks.”

The Minister said Nigeria has highly skilled, hardworking people with huge natural resources and large population that make the country a big market for goods and services, which are key areas that would serve as stimulant to her economic growth.

Chidoka said Nigerians are fastidious and therefore have the tendency to criticise their country even when it is unnecessary, adding that although that attitude is seemingly wrong but it spurs the citizens and government to do things better.

According to the Group Executive Director, Gas and Power of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. David Ige, Nigeria has grown its gas supply market from 300 million to two billion cubic feet per day (cfpd) - an increase of 566%.

Ige attributed the feat to successful implementation of the Nigeria Gas Master Plan.

The Cable reports that the advance team that went to Borno state to prepare the area for President Jonathan's Saturday Campaign is now trapped in Maiduguri following the Boko Haram attack on the area on Sunday.

The Cable's source says the trapped team comprises of members of the President's medical, media and security teams.
The source says the stuck team was taking refuge in a protected area.

Presidential Candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari (ret), weekend, promised to create no fewer than one million jobs for youths in the South-East by revamping huge coal deposits in Enugu for genera- tion of electricity and export.
Buhari made the promise at Enugu West APC zonal rally, in Orie, Awgu Market, Awgu Local Government Area of the state.
The presidential hopeful, who was represented by the state Chairman of APC Presidential Campaign Council, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, explained that the coal would be revamped with the objective of generating electricity to serve the entire South-East, to boost the economy of the zone.

Jonathan’s achievements verifiable —PDP

ABUJA—Ahead of next month’s presidential and general elections, the national leadership of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has challenged the All Progressives Congress, APC and its leaders to carry out a survey and see the achievements of President Goodluck Jonathan.
President Goodluck Jonathan displaying Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms at the People's Democratic Party's Secretariat in Abuja on Thursday (30/10/14).

President Goodluck Jonathan displaying Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms at the People's Democratic Party's Secretariat in Abuja on Thursday (30/10/14).

The PDP, in a statement issued yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, described the APC as lacking in policy direction, boasting that all the achievements of the PDP-led government were verifiable.
The party said its array of candidates for the February elections were far better than those of the APC, adding that same was applicable to the policy direction of both parties.
The party noted that it was the only truly pan-Nigerian party for which the unity, stability and prosperity of the nation remained paramount.
PDP said: “The founding fathers of the PDP had their eyes set on specific goals, which include ensuring the indivisibility of Nigeria, sustenance of democracy and providing enabling environment for the prosperity and welfare of our people.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has challenged the PDP to tell Nigerians how it plans to move from the near zero governance of the past six years of the Jonathan Administration to good and purposeful governance, instead of engaging in perpetual and tiring mudslinging.

”We believe that elections should be about issues that will be beneficial to the electorate, not about throwing everything but the kitchen sink at a particular candidate simply because of his soaring acceptability.

”Therefore, it is time for the PDP to end the muckraking and tell Nigerians how it plans to tackle the worsening insecurity in the land,.the collapsing national currency, with the US dollar now exchanging for 215 Naira, massive unemployment, especially among the youth, decayed infrastructure and the unprecedented corruption under President Jonathan’s watch,” the party said in a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

The University of Port Harcourt has responded to the allegations that President Godluck Jonathan did not finish his doctorate degree program at the university.

Dr. William Wodi, Deputy Registrar (Information) of the university said that President Jonathan concluded his first degree, Masters and Ph.D in the same institution.

He said this in a statement forwarded to the PUNCH newspaper.

He noted that Jonathan was one of 422 students who was admitted in 1977 to the Department of Zoology, now named Animal and Environmental Science.

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Hosts Equatorial Guinea and Congo have become the first two teams to qualify for the quarterfinals of the 2015 African Nations Cup tournament.

In the other way round, both Burkina Faso and Gabon became the first two countries to exit the competition.

Apparently what could be considered as a local derby in Africa, Equatorial Guinea defeated neighbours Gabon 2-0 while Congo ensured Burkina Faso got eliminated with a 2-1 victory over the former finalists.

International Actress and the mother of six traveled to Iraq yesterday to meet displaced Iraqis/victims of ISIS at a Kurdish refugee camp in her role as special envoy of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. While there, Angelina Jolie called on world leaders to do more to bring an end to the conflict in Syria and Iraq. More pics after the cut...

SALUTARY IMPACT

Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Nina and Ian were caught getting ‘very touchy’ on the set of ‘The Vampire Diaries,’ a source tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. Should his fiancee, Nikki Reed, be worried? Well, we found out how she truly feels!

Tuesday, 27 January 2015

There’s no denying their chemistry! Jared and Lupita have sparked enough dating rumors to last a lifetime, and HollywoodLife.com has EXCLUSIVELY learned the truth behind their flirty relationship.

Monday, 26 January 2015