Friday 31 January 2014

POLICE IN LAGOS ARRAIGNS DOG FOR BITING BANK WORKER'S PRIVATE PART


Wonders they say shall never end. Please read this from PM News.

The police in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, have arrested and charged a dog with biting a bank worker’s penis at  Idowu Anisere Street, off Governor’s Road in Ikotun, Lagos. The owner of the dog, Adebowale Gabriel, 31 was also brought before Mrs M.B. Folami at Ejigbo Magistrate’s Court Lagos. The dog was specifically charged with assault, while Gabriel was charged with negligence under the Criminal Code.

The arrest of the dog and Gabriel followed a complaint by the victim, Mr. Simon Anwam, to the police in Ikotun division that when he was walking on the street, the dog pounced on him and inflicted deep injury on his penis.

WANDE COAL CONFESSES - I HAVE A FIVE YEAR OLD LOVE CHILD -


After keeping mute about fatherhood for 5 years, Hip-hop star, Oluwatobi Wande Ojosipe, better known as Wande Coal, has opened up on what has been his best kept secret saying he has a five year old son whom he affectionately called Coal Jnr.

He said rather than being subjected to crude speculations by some mischievous groups, he would want to reveal the private side of him that many didn’t know.

“Nobody is going to surprise me anymore. Let me then announce to the whole world that I already have a five-year old son. I had the boy since 2008 before I released my debut album,‘Mushin 2 Mo’Hits’. I have been keeping it secret ever since then but think it’s high time people should know,” Wande Coal said.

TWEETFIGHT CAN FETCH YOU FIVE YEAR JAIL TERM - BE WARNED


For using profane language on other people or pelting them with insults or abusive words on social networking sites, Internet users in Nigeria risk a jail term that ranges between 12 months and five years.

Section 18 sub-section 1 of the Cyber-Crime Bill 2013, which is pending before the House of Reps, expressly states that anybody who “insults publicly, through a computer system or network” commits an offence and will be liable on conviction to imprisonment “for a term of not less than five years or to a fine of not less than N10m or to both fine and imprisonment.”

Also, the bill prescribes a jail term of five years for anyone who circulates or makes any racist and xenophobic material available online. Cyber-criminals, who hide under the anonymity of the Internet to bully, harass other users of online platforms also risk jail terms when the law comes into full force.

POWER BLACKOUT IN MOST PARTS OF NIGERIA TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT 2 WEEKS


The Federal Government has said that the near total blackout being currently experienced in most parts of the country will take the next two weeks to be resolved.

The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, said this in Abuja on Tuesday at the 6th Power Summit/Civil Society Organisations Forum. The electricity supply situation worsened in recent weeks as a result of acute shortage of gas to thermal power stations, shutdown of some plants for maintenance purposes and the failure of at least seven plants to generate power at all.

Nebo said gas supply constraints had grounded several power stations leading to a major cut in supply to the national grid, adding that repair works on the western area gas pipeline was almost completed.

IMMIGRATION STORMS BABY FACTORY IN ONDO


The Ondo State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Services has raided a house allegedly used as a baby factory in Ilutitun, Okitipupa Local Government Area, arresting 24 persons.

The suspects included a 66-year-old man, Mr. Aliu Ojo, who claimed to be a retired Assistant Commissioner of Police and the alleged leader of the factory, Mrs. Happiness Ogundeji (aka Mama Pota) aged 45. They were paraded on Wednesday at the state headquarters of the service.

Five ladies at different stages of pregnancy and eight men, some claiming to be husbands of the women, were also brought to the headquarters.

Parading the suspects, the Comptroller of NIS, Ondo State, Mr.Musa Al-Hassan, said the raid on the house and the arrest of the suspects were sequel to a tip-off from the Comptroller General of the NIS, who directed the command to work on a circular that emanated from Calabar, Cross River State.

I CONTEMPLATED SUICIDE OVER FALSE POLICE CLAIMS THAT I POURED ACID MYSELF - NAOMI ONI

NAOMI ONI
Naomi Oni., the British born Nigerian acid attack victim sobbed during her first television appearance since her attacker was found guilty and revealed she contemplated suicide over false claims she poured acid over herself. 


Naomi Oni, 21, was walking home on December 30, 2012, when acid was thrown in her face by Mary Konye, also 21, who was wearing a niqab veil. 

MARY KONYE

BEYONCE SHARES FAMILY PICTURES OF BLU IVY AND HERSELF


At just two-years-old, she's already becoming the world's most well-travelled toddler.

Blue Ivy Carter has been present on most of her mother Beyonce's world tour dates, and on Wednesday the Drunk In Love singer revealed intimate shots of their life on the road together.

See more pictures after the cut...................

POLICE ARREST NYSC MEMBER FOR STEALING MOTORCYCLE


While his mates were busy serving NIGERIA with all their strength, a certain corps member decided to play the STEALING game and now stands the chance of losing so much.........

The police in Osun State have arrested a member of the National Youth Service Corps in the state for allegedly stealing a motorcycle.

The corps member, Kazeem Adebisi, was said to have stolen the red Bajaj motorcycle with number plate, FST 680 QB, at Agunbelewo area of Osogbo on Thursday. The owner of the motorcycle, one Mr. Oladeji Oyewole, was said to have gone inside a football viewing centre. He was said to have come out to discover that his motorcycle was nowhere to be found.

Thursday 30 January 2014

FEDERAL HIGH COURT JUDGE ISSUES INJUNCTION AGAINST DANA AIRLINE


A Federal High Court Judge in Lagos has issued an injunction against Dana Airline restraining it from flying outside the country and the jurisdiction of the court.

The Mareva injunction issued by Judge Saidu, comes as part a lawsuit suing the airline for failure to compensate and resettle displaced victims affected by a crash.  

On June 3, 2012 a Dana Airliner crashed in Iju-Ishaga area, a suburb of Lagos, killing 159 people. The plaintiff in the lawsuit, Pastor Daniel Omowunmi, is the owner of a furniture and books warehouse that was destroyed in the crash.  

Counsel to the businessman, Mr. Olumide Olaiya said seeking the injunction became necessary as the airline had become notorious for avoiding compensation to the victims.

WONDER BANK OPERATOR BAGS 14 YR JAIL TERM ONLY OVER N9.8B FRAUD



A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday sentenced a Wonder Bank operator, Godwin Nwaichie to 14 years imprisonment for defrauding several unsuspecting people at the Alaba International Market in Lagos to the tune of N9.8Billion. 

The convict (Nwaichie) was charged before Justice Ibrahim Buba by the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) of the Nigerian Police alongside another accused, Fortune Etaba and their company, Establishment House Ltd, for fraudulently obtaining the said sum from several individuals. The judge sentenced Nwaichie, after he pleaded guilty to an amended three-count charge bordering on the offence. 

DOCTORS HAVE BEGUN PROCESS OF TAKING MICHAEL SCHUMACHER OUT OF COMA


Michael Schumacher is gradually being woken from his coma and is responding 'positively' to the treatment, according to a French newspaper.

L’Equipe said according to its sources, medics treating the German Formula One champion, who has been in an artificial coma since his skiing accident on December 29, started the phase of gradual awakening this week.

The news comes as Schumacher enters his fifth week of a medically induced coma, and there are fears he may remain in a 'persistent vegetative state' for the rest of his life even if the awakening treatment is successful.

GHANA DUMPS NIGERIA OUT OF CHAN 2014

After a concerted effort to move against the odds and make an impact, the Nigerian local senior soccer side, the Super Eagles finally bowed out of the CHAN tournament, losing to the Black Stars of Ghana in the semi final match played in Free States Stadium, Bloemfontein, South Africa. Playing before an estimated 12,560 crowd the Black Stars won the tough decider with 10 men after Kwabena Adusei was given marching orders for a second reckless tackle on Abubakar Ibrahim.

  
Led by Captain Christianus Uzuenyi, the Eagles started the match with a lot of gusto creating several chances but also coming close to conceding in the early minutes. Ghana was let off the hook in the 19th minute when Ibrahim Abubakar's shot hit the bar sending the Ghanaians into defense mode. This was after skipper and playmaker Chrisantus Ejike Uzuenyi appeared to have fainted after colliding with a Ghanaian player and being wheeled to the side for medical attention.

NIGERIA POLICE EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLING - JUSTICE AT LAST FOR EMMANUEL VICTOR


At last, justice has come the way of the oppressed. In a bold statement by a Nigerian court, a trigger-happy policeman has been sentenced to death by hanging after he was found guilty of gratuitously killing a young man in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, a little over two years ago.

Although the judgement delivered by Justice Lucky Boufili will not bring 20-year-old Emmanuel Victor back to life, his mother, Grace, in whose presence the boy was shot, and other members of the family can take cold comfort from the fact that the perpetrator, Matthew Egheghe, will not go scot-free. They can also be consoled by the knowledge that the courageous judgement will send a message to other security agents who take pleasure in routinely gunning down innocent citizens of this country in circumstances that tend to promote impunity.

11 PDP SENATORS DEFECT TO APC.


There was confusion on the floor of the Senate, following reports that 11 Senators defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to join the opposition All Progressives Congress. A statement earlier issued by the Interim National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, had said that the 11 Senators had defected.

In the statement, Mohammed claimed that the affected Senators had written a formal letter informing the Senate leadership of their decision and that the said letter would be read during Wednesday’s plenary.

However, neither the Senators concerned nor the Senate President, David Mark, made any reference to the issue during the day’s sitting. Mark did not read the letters, which some claimed were submitted to him by the individual Senators late on Tuesday.

KIM KARDASHIAN IS FALLING APART AS STRESS IS GETTING TO HER.


Kim Kardashian better known for scandals has taken on more than she can handle. Not only is the reality star overseeing a massive home renovation that she's butting heads with her fiancé Kanye West over, according to Life & Style. 'He's impossible to please,' said an insider.

But the 33-year-old is also in the middle of planning a massive $30m wedding in France this summer. 'The family is already eye-rolling about her crazy wedding plans,' a source told InTouch. 'She and Kanye have a "go big or go home" attitude.'

MANCHESTER CITY DESTROYS TOTTENHAM (AWAY) "5 - 1" TO OVERTAKE ARSENAL IN THE EPL


Manchester City surged to the top of the Premier League with a 5-1 victory at Tottenham, although a suspected hamstring injury to Sergio Aguero will have dampened the mood slightly.


Aguero gave City a deserved lead on the quarter-hour mark, latching onto David Silva's through ball to slide it in past Hugo Loris and score for the eighth successive game. It made it seven goals in five games for Aguero since he returned from a month out with a calf problem in the FA Cup replay against Blackburn.

Spurs thought they had levelled when Michael Dawson side-footed Christian Eriksen's free kick in at the back post, but he was ruled to have been offside. Aguero then limped off shortly before half-time with a suspected hamstring injury, with Stevan Jovetic coming on in his place.

Five minutes after the restart, Spurs were down to 10 men when Danny Rose was adjudged to have brought down Edin Dzeko in the box, despite appearing to get the ball. Yaya Toure stepped up to send Lloris the wrong way and make it 2-0. It didn't take long for City to grab their next goal. Silva latched onto Pablo Zabaleta's cut-back and fired off a shot that Lloris saved onto the post, only for Dzeko to stroke in the rebound on 53 minutes.

However, Spurs pulled one back shortly before the hour with Etienne Capoue spinning in the box and firing home, in off the outstretched arm of Fernandinho.

Any chance of an unlikely comeback was snuffed out when Jovetic curled the ball into the bottom left corner via a deflection from Vlad Chiriches on 77 minutes. Vincent Kompany then capped off the victory a minute from time by scrambling the ball home when Dzeko's shot dropped kindly into his path.

Wednesday 29 January 2014

NEW VIDEO - OKAKA - BY FRANK EDWARDS FEAT. VICTOR IKE.


Award winning naija gospel musician, Frank Edwards, presents the video of his song title "OKAKA" featuring "Victor Ike"....

CLICKHERE TO WATCH VIDEO...........

NEW VIDEO BY AY-COMEDIAN


Another video from AY Comedian.................................

CLICKHERE TO WATCH VIDEO.

LESBIAN DAUGHTER OF HONG KONG BILLIONAIRE WHO OFFERED £80,000,000 TO ANY MAN WHO MARRIED HER WRITES AN OPEN LETTER TO HER FATHER.

GIGI CHAO
The lesbian daughter of a Hong Kong billionaire who has offered HKD$1bn (£80million) in 'dowry' to the man who married her, has written an open letter asking him to accept that she is gay.

Gigi Chao, 34, previously laughed off her father's scheme to find a man for her, but has now gone public with her plea for him to understand that her sexual orientation is not going to change.

JAW SURGERY GONE WRONG

                                 BEFORE                                                           AFTER

A South Korean woman has been accused of 'ruining her face' after 'before' and 'after' shots of her plastic surgery procedure spread online. The unnamed woman, allegedly a reporter on a South Korean TV channel, has undergone jaw surgery in order to achieve the dainty heart-shaped face desired by many east Asian women.

South Koreans currently have more plastic surgery than in any other country according to recent figures, with the craze particularly popular among 19 to 49-year-olds.

The result of the procedure is an unusually pointed chin, and the reactions on a Japanese online forum did not hold back.

TAKEAWAY WORKER IN THE UK FACES DEPORTATION AFTER RAPING 12 YR OLD GIRL

CHILD RAPIST - MOHAMMED HUSSAIN
A takeaway worker faces deportation after he was jailed for raping a 12-year-old girl who was out past her bedtime. Mohammed Hussain, 28, was driving home from work with two colleagues in the early hours in Leeds, West Yorkshire, when they spotted the group of four girls in a park.

Afraid to go home because they had broken their parents' curfew, the girls were enticed back to the home of one of the men. There they were offered cannabis and played pornographic films before two of the girls, both 12, were taken upstairs.

Hussain raped one of the 12-year-old girls while she asked him to stop, Leeds Crown Court heard. One of his two colleagues, 30-year-old Harris Uddin, tried to remove the trousers of the other girl but stopped when she asked him not to.

KANYE WEST PAYS $250,000 (N40,000,000) TO TEENAGER HE ASSAULTED AT BEVERLY HILLS


I really wanna get punched and beaten by Kanye West at this moment because he (Kanye West) has reportedly paid $250,000 to a man who accused him of beating him up. The 36-year-old rapper became the focus of a battery investigation after he reportedly chased the 18-year-old into a chiropractor's office and punched him after the teen apparently hurled racial slurs at Kanye's fiancé. 

However, TMZ reports the duo have now come to an agreement and Kanye has paid $250,000 to the man who no longer wishes to go ahead with prosecution.

I winder how much TerryG or Timaya will pay me for assault. lol

WHY I SACKED SERVICE CHIEFS - PRESIDENT JONATHAN


President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, said that he sacked the immediate past service chiefs because of "UNHEALTHY COMPETITION" which made it possible for Boko Haram insurgents to attack the Air Force operational base in Maiduguri.

Jonathan said the terrorists destroyed fighter aircraft during the attack and went scot free because of the rivalry between the former service chiefs.

The service chiefs, who were sacked included the Chief of Defence Staff, Admiral Ola Ibrahim; Lt General Azubuike Ihejirika, Chief of Army Staff, COAS, and Vice Admiral Dele Ezeoba, Chief of Naval Staff.

GENERAL OVERSEER ARRESTED IN IMO FOR RAPING 13-YR OLD GIRL


The Police in Imo State have arrested the General Overseer and head of a popular church in Ikeduru council area of the state, for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl. 

This followed a petition written to the Owerri Police Area Command by the lawyer to the father of the alleged rape victim, Mr Emperor Iwuala. The father of the victim,  a widower and does not want his name in print, had alleged that the pastor severally raped his daughter between 2010 and 2013.

According to him, “Between 2010 and 2013, I was sick and a friend of mine introduced me to the prophet. Because of my sickness, I lost my job as a luxury bus driver and also my accommodation in Naze Owerri.
“Consequently, the prophet offered me accommodation in his house which he also uses as church. I moved in with my two little daughters. Because of my condition then, I did not know that the prophet was taking advantage of my predicament to defile one of my daughters.

GORY DETAILS OF BOKO HARAM'S ATTACK IN ADAMAWA


Too many gory accounts of Boko Haram's massacre in the northern part of Nigeria and we still don't know when this will end.

“Some people tried to escape through the windows and the attackers shot at them. They cut peoples’ throats.” This was how the Catholic Bishop of Yola, Mamza   Stephen, captured the calamity that befell worshippers  at a Catholic church in Waga Chakawa in Adamawa State when Boko Haram insurgents struck on Sunday morning. Stephen  told the  British Broadcasting Corporation that he heard from the survivors that insurgents   arrived the village  on trucks and locked the church “towards the end of the service.”

According to him, the  militants set off bombs, before burning houses and taking residents hostage during  the  four-hour siege. He added that   death toll in the  Waga Chakawa attack  was  30 and not 22 as widely reported. “Everybody is living in fear.  There is no protection. We cannot predict where and when they are going to attack. People can’t sleep with their eyes closed,” he lamented.

TWELVE INJURED AS BUS WENT UP IN FLAMES ON THIRD MAINLAND BRIDGE



No life was lost when  an 18-seater passenger bus somersaulted on the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos however,Twelve  people sustained injuries. The accident occurred around 1.50pm on Tuesday, 28th January 2014.

Eyewitnesses said that the accident was caused by a burst tyre. The driver of the bus, with number plate, APP366XD, was said to have applied the brakes suddenly, thus setting the vehicle on a ghastly surmersault.

Tuesday 28 January 2014

KARL SLYM, BRITISH BOSS OF INDIA'S CAR GIANT TATA MOTORS JUMPED FROM HOTEL'S 22ND FLOOR AFTER ARGUING WITH HIS WIFE FOR 5 HOURS


The British boss of Indian car giant Tata Motors jumped to his death from a Bangkok hotel room following a blazing row with his wife, it emerged yesterday. Karl Slym was handed a three-page letter by his wife Sally detailing a ‘family problem’ on Saturday night after she became so enraged she stopped speaking to him.

In the early hours of Sunday the managing director clambered out of the tiny window of his room on the 22nd floor of the luxury Shangri-La Hotel and jumped, landing on the staff accommodation block.

‘She went to the bedroom and decided to write her husband a letter to let him know how she felt. She gave it to her husband and then went to sleep.’ Officers declined to give details of the family problem. Police Lieutenant Somyot Booyakaew said detectives found no sign of a struggle and were working on the assumption that Mr Slym committed suicide.

WHAT DOES BOLA TINUBU WANT????



Over the past few years, Bola Tinubu has made himself something of a colossus of South-Western politics in Nigeria.  Against the onslaught of vociferous PDP electoral manipulations in 2003, Tinubu drew the line in the sand and held on to the biggest prize: Lagos.

He became, in effect, the lone survivor of his party in the South-West.  By 2007, using just Lagos State as his stronghold, he fought back to wrest ACN control back in all but one of the South-western states.  By 2011, he had consolidated his hold in the region.  With 2015 looming, it would appear to be high time for Tinubu to unfold a national, as opposed to a merely regional, agenda.

Accordingly, Tinubu has now become the grandfather of the All Progressives Congress (APC); a coalition forged between his ACN party, Buhari’s CPC, the ANPP and Rochas Okorocha’s wing of APGA.  But the question needs to be asked: what is in this new-fangled APC for Bola Tinubu?

MALLAM EL-RUFAI REGAINS FREEDOM AFTER "15 HOURS" OF INTERROGATION BY DSS


After being questioned for close to fifteen hours at Department of State Services, (DSS) Malam Nasir el-Rufai, former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, who on Tuesday willing surrendered to the DSS regained his freedom.

El-Rufai, the current Interim Deputy National Secretary of the nation’s leading opposition party, All Progressives Congress, APC, was driven on Tuesday by Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, to the national headquarters of the security outfit at about 9.15a.m. in an ash-coloured Mercedes Sports Utility Vehicle was released at about midnight on Monday to go home.

RITUAL KILLING SAGA - POLICE ARRAIGN DRIVER FOR KIDNAPPING AND STEALING


Paul, a driver who was accused of being a kidnapper and ritual killer by a woman in his area, was on Monday, arraigned before a Somolu Magistrate’s Court on two counts of kidnapping and stealing.

It was earlier reported that Tope Ismail, a resident of Anuoluwapo Street Somolu had on Saturday, accosted Paul while he was washing his car outside his home at Sodeke Street, Somolu.

Ismail reportedly raised the alarm and told neighbours that Paul was the driver of a commercial bus that had on January 21, 2014, kidnapped her and about 10 others. The bus, said to have been headed for Yaba, allegedly took a detour to an unknown destination after its occupants became unconscious after boarding the bus.

BOKO HARAM MURDERS 74 IN CHURCH AND VILLAGES



The reign of terror in the northern part of Nigeria by the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram is far from being over despite Government's efforts at eliminating them completely.

Boko Haram insurgents on Sunday evening attacked another  village in Borno  State,   killing a soldier and 51 other persons. About 16 others, including policemen  and traders, were injured  while  300 houses were  set ablaze  by the insurgents  in Kawuri, Konduga Local Government Area of the state.

Another  set of the Boko Haram fighters,   armed with guns and explosives, had earlier on Sunday  killed 22 people at a  church service in  Waga Chakawa, Adamawa State. The Kawuri  village  attackers were said to have planted several explosives in  the community  after attacking the nearby weekly market as  traders  were busy getting ready to close their stalls.

NORTH KOREA'S BRUTAL DICTATOR ORDERS EXECUTION OF HIS LATE UNCLE'S FAMILY


If there is one man who should be referred to as HEARTLESS, then Kim Jong-Un seems to fit perfectly. The brutal leader of North Korea executed his uncle few months ago due to unknown reasons and now................................

The direct relatives of the executed uncle of Kim Jong-Un have been put to death upon the orders of the North Korean leader, it has been reported. Jang Song-Thaek's children, brothers and grandchildren have been condemned to death, according to media reports in South Korea. Jang, 67, was executed last month, after being accused of plotting to overthrow the communist regime.

Sources told the Yonhap News Agency it is unclear exactly when the family members were killed, but they are believed to have been put to death after Jang's execution on December 12.

Monday 27 January 2014

PICTURES & FULL LIST OF WINNERS AT THE 2014 GRAMMY AWARDS

POWER COUPLES
See full list of Grammy winners plus many photos below.............

Album of the Year: Daft Punk

Record of the Year: Daft Punk, Get Lucky

Best New Artist: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: Get Lucky, Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams and Nyle Rodgers

Best Rock Song: Cut Me Some Slack, Dave Grohl, Paul McCartney, Krist Novoselic & Pat Smear

Best Pop Solo Performance: Royals, Lorde

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: Holy Grail, Jay Z ft. Justin Timberlake

Best Country Album: Same Trailer Different Park, Kacey Musgraves

Song of the Year: Royals, Lorde 

Best Pop Instrumental Album: Stepping Out, Herb Albert

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: To Be Loved, Michael Buble

WHO WILL STOP PDP'S HAEMORRHAGE AS 17 SENATORS ARE SET TO DEFECT TO APC


The woes of the ruling PDP is set to increase as no fewer than 17 senators of the Peoples Democratic Party will this week defect to the All Progressives Congress,  Chairman, Senate Committee on Ecology and Environment, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has said. In an interview with journalists in Ilorin on Sunday, Saraki said the concerned senators had already consulted with their senatorial districts.

He added that they had signed the letter and perfected all other strategies for their defection. This move is in spite of the overtures made to them and the reconciliatory efforts of the PDP and its new Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu.

“We are going to formally defect. Before we started we were already 19 senators. Then Jigawa pulled out.  We have about 17 senators that will defect from PDP to APC.  The letter has been signed. “I have signed my own. Others have signed theirs. So, it is not a matter of probability or that it will be. It must  be and not a matter of months or weeks but a matter of days,” he said.

Sunday 26 January 2014

JUST BEFORE YOU ACQUIRE A DEGREE FROM GHANA

We've heard many tales of GHANA's fantastic education system especially their universities and as expected many nigerians have been trooping to the tiny West African country to obtain degrees

But, your thought about this might change after reading this publication by PunchNG..........

In their desperation for university education, Nigerian students now rush to Ghana, where most of them fall prey to the scam of burgeoning degree mills to acquire certificates of dubious distinction or no academic value. The racketeers operate from one-block institutions or portakabins, pompously labelled as universities. There are 50 privately-owned universities approved by the Ghanaian government, most of which are involved in this academic charade. The Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (Nigeria), Julius Okojie, said in August 2013 that Ghana had only four recognised universities. This is instructive. The rest are affiliate institutions.

The rot in these so-called citadels of learning was the focus of a 10-day tour by punch newspaper reporters late last year. There are about 110,000 Nigerians currently studying there, according to records at the Nigerian High Commission in Ghana. They pay outrageous tuition, just as their brethren in business who are fleeced before being allowed to operate despite ECOWAS protocol on free trade. According to Wale Babalakin, Chairman, Committee of Pro-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, these fees result in capital flight of about N160 billion annually from Nigeria to Ghana. This figure was higher than Federal Government’s education budget in 2011.

At one such one-block university — Accra Institute of Technology — which claims to be the equivalent of the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, there are about 2,000 students, out of which 1,200 are reportedly Nigerians. The school also runs a “doctoral programme” in a rented and uncompleted structure, and charges between $1,300 (N202,800) and $1,510 (N235,560) per session, accommodation and feeding excluded. However, at public universities, fees for foreigners vacillate between $6,000 (N936,000) and $8,000 (N1,248,000) per session, while those studying medicine pay as much as $18,000 (N2,808,000).

The bottom line is that whether in a legal or a sham university, a Nigerian student in Ghana pays through his/her nose. Nobody knows this better than Ademola Onafowokan, Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Ghana. He laments, “…thousand and one, one-block and many mushroom universities (are) set up to target Nigerian students yearning for education…. But, sadly, they are not cheap as Nigerians pay in dollars. These universities are just pure business ventures.”

Apart from the difficulty of gaining admission at home, many youths may have been attracted to these schools by their compromising incentives of completing a four-year academic programme in three sessions, and admission of those without requisite entry qualifications. From reports, infrastructure deficit makes a resonant statement in these institutions. Well-trained lecturers, teaching and research, all of which aggregate to define a quality ivory tower are alien to these pseudo-academic set-ups.

A university worth its name is a global heritage. As an intellectual enclave, it is riveted by the pursuit of knowledge. These quacks in Ghana do not even hide their pretensions. Regrettably, our youths do not understand the difference between the two. Many of them may have fallen victim already, but many more need not be caught in the labyrinth any further. Through enlightenment by the NUC and the Nigerian High Commission in Ghana, a rescue drive could reduce the damage. It is in this context that we situate Okojie’s effort in stopping the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana, from awarding its degrees to students studying at one Hallmark Educational Bureau Nigeria Limited. The two institutions, NUC says, ran foul of its regulations on affiliation.

Indeed, the situation in the country is barmy. In May last year, the NUC closed 41 illegal universities out of the 67 that have found Nigeria a safe haven. Lagos alone is home to 12 of such institutions. Students from these bogus institutions, who are in their thousands, may have been the patrons of the one-block institutions in Ghana to satiate their appetite for university degrees. One of the schools, with just four rooms, runs undergraduate and postgraduate programmes up to the doctoral level. As a purported affiliate of a Caribbean university, it did not care a hoot about obtaining a licence to operate. “As a business school, our affairs are not run by the NUC, hence, certification from the NUC was not required,” an official of the school cheekily said.  We disagree with this.

Again, recurrent strikes by Nigeria’s university lecturers, which make the academic calendar indeterminate, compel parents who can afford it to enrol their children in Ghanaian universities. For instance, from July 1 to December 17, 2013, academic activities in public universities were frozen by a strike, which the Academic Staff Union of Universities embarked on over decrepit state of infrastructure and unpaid allowances. It was only called off after the Federal Government acquiesced to the immediate release of N200 billion and a commitment to inject N1.3 trillion into the system over a five-year period, to address the rot.

Pointedly, our students’ exodus to Ghana is etched in our misbegotten public policies and ethos that have relegated education to the background. The carrying capacity of the universities cannot match the exponential increase in the number of students seeking admission annually. Out of the 1.7 million that applied for admission in 2013, only 520,000 got admissions to universities, polytechnics and colleges of education.

The facts starkly stare everyone in the face. A government that gives N1 billion each to its nine newly-established universities for take-off, but unashamedly budgets N64 billion for the Abuja City Gate, apparently, has not got its priorities right.

PICTURES & VIDEO - TONTO DIKE (@TONTOLET) INSULTS AY (@AYCOMEDIAN) - AFTERMATH OF COMEDY SKIT ABOUT JIM IYKE'S DELIVERANCE

                                                                  THE VIDEO

AY is famous for making comedy skits which a lot of people love watching. He posted a video on his Youtube page mimicking Jim Iyke's deliverance at TB Joshua's church. The video which is less than 13 days old already has about 180,000 views.


He mentioned  that Tonto Dike is overdue for deliverance in the video.  A dissatisfied Tonto kept her cool until hours ago when she rained insults on him on the social network site twitter.

AY was however mature enough not to escalate issues.

See the exchange of tweets after the cut..






DRUMS OF POLITICAL WAR IS SET AS JONATHAN PREPARES TO DECLARE 2ND TERM AMBITION


President Goodluck Jonathan is set to declare his intention to seek re-election during the 2015 presidential election. The poll has been fixed for February 14 next year by the Independent National Electoral Commission. Following the release of the election timetable by INEC on Friday, the Presidency on Saturday said Jonathan would make public his decision on the 2015 presidential election soon.

President Jonathan has so far resisted pressure to declare his intention regarding 2015. On different occasions, he said he would only make his decision known this year. Last Thursday, while speaking on the sidelines of the just-concluded World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jonathan said he was awaiting INEC’s green light.

He said, “I am not going to talk about whether I am standing for election or not because it is not in line with our laws. INEC has a time frame within which candidates are expected to declare. If you declare before that time, you are actually contravening the Nigerian laws. So, I won’t tell anybody that I am contesting or that I’m not contesting.”

Saturday 25 January 2014

(VIDEO) - MIRACULOUS COMEBACK - NIGERIA 4 MOROCCO 3... CHAN 2014



Watch the HomeBased Eagles come back from 3 goals to defeat Morocco in the Quarter final match of 2014 CHAN. 

10 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT "LUPITA NYONG'O" THE AWARD WINNING "12 YEARS A SLAVE ACTRESS"

LUPITA NYONG'O
Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong'o became the new Hollywood "It Girl" after she played the object of cruel affection in the movie, "12 Years a Slave." Since her role as Patsey in the movie released last year, she's made rounds in fashion magazines, hobnobbed with celebrities and is considered a breakout star.

As the awards season begins, here are 10 things to know about the statuesque actress with a flashy smile and almost flawless fashion sense.

She straddles many worlds: Nyong'o was born in Mexico when her Kenyan parents were in political exile. Her family later returned to Kenya, where she spent most of her childhood. Her first name, she says, is the short version of the word "Guadalupe." She later went to the United States, where she got her undergraduate degree from Hampshire College in Massachusetts, and later graduated from Yale School of Drama in 2012.

She has a connection to Obama: Nyong'o is a Luo, the same tribe as President Barack Obama's father.

NEW BOOK CLAIMS ADOLF HITLER ESCAPED BERLIN AND DIED IN SOUTH AMERICA IN 1984 AT THE AGE OF 95

THE AUTHOR CLAIMS THIS PICTURE PROVES HE ESCAPED FROM BERLIN & LIVED IN SOUTH AMERICA
He is believed to have died after shooting himself in a Berlin bunker in 1945 when he realised Germany had lost World War II.

But a startling new book claims Adolf Hitler actually escaped his hideout and actually died incognito in 1984 in a small town near Brazil's border with Bolivia - and it can be proved by a picture.

Not only that, but the author believes the Fuhrer fled to Argentina and then Paraguay before settling in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso to hunt for buried treasure - with a map given to him by Vatican allies, according to its author.

JUSTIN BIEBER HAS BEEN MISBEHAVING BECAUSE OF DEPENDENCE ON STEROIDS MOSTLY ADMINISTERED TO HORSES.


Pop star Justin Bieber has reportedly become increasingly dependent on steroids which has caused his recent bizarre behaviour.

According to The Sun the 19-year-old has been using Clenbuterol, a diet drug which is most commonly used on the horses. The claims come after the singer emerged from his Miami rental on Friday evening following his DUI arrest.

                          

The paper reports that Justin, who is currently on bail, started using the drug after he discovered weight lifters use it to gain extra muscle definition.  A source said: ‘As well as drinking and smoking weed, Justin’s been taking steroids to give himself a six pack. ‘His physique had gone from boy-like to muscled in a very short time and his mood have become wildly erratic.’

WHO KILLED DIPO DINA???


LATE DIPO DINA

Monday 25th of January 2010 will forever remain tragic in the hearts and minds of friends, family, supporters and admirers of Otunba Adedipupo Dina (DD Direct) who was murdered in cold blood on Sango Ota road in Ogun state.   It is especially painful to individuals like me who saw the late politician as a strong hearted, fearless and patriotic indigene of Ogun state who, above all, had the interest and well being of the people at heart.

The tale of his death is still a tragic best told by his driver who witnessed the unfortunate incident. There were two sides to the story; one told by the police and the other by the driver. The police story had it that Otunba Dipo Dina was attacked by armed robbers and while they demanded  money, Otunba Dina, instead of obeying resorted to dragging guns with them, this, the police claimed angered the bandits and the bandits shot Dipo Dina before zooming away with his car and driver. The second side told by the driver was quite different from the tale of the police report. The driver claimed that Adedipupo was stormed by a team of hired assassins who stopped the moving SUV and ordered Otunba to come down. Otunba came down gently and  he was then told that some group of individuals have paid handsomely for his life and they were there to take it. Before one could  say ‘Jack' rains of bullet descended on DD and the rest. as they say, is history.

WHAT DO MINISTERS IN NIGERIA REALLY DO?


ANYONE who looks through the list of ministers the President has submitted to the Senate would move from surprise to wondering what ministers really do. In that list, the President appears to have set out only to fulfil the constitutional requirement that each State should be represented in the cabinet.

With the political cyclone sweeping through the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the choices have assumed more political hue than an effort to have a cabinet that could change the indifference that has become governance for a long time. What value would these ministers, some of who have been recycled almost to bare threads, add to an administration that is wallowing in doubts about its mission?

INEC RELEASES 2015 ELECTION TIME TABLE



The Independent National Electoral Commission has released the timetable for the 2015 elections.

The commission, in a statement issued in Abuja late Friday night, fixed the Presidential and National Assembly elections for February 14, 2015. The statement was signed  by the Secretary of the Commission, Mrs. Augusta Ogakwu. The commission also fixed state assembly and governorship elections for February 28 same year.

The statement added that the governorship election in Ekiti State would hold on June 21, 2014 while that of Osun State would hold on August 9, 2014. Ogakwu said the timetable was released after the retreat of the commission in Kaduna, which she said, was held between  Tuesday and Friday.

Friday 24 January 2014

SSS SUMMONS EL-RUFAI


The  State Security Service   has  invited a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai,  to appear at its headquarters in Abuja on Friday (today) over a statement attributed to him in the Thursday edition of  a national daily newspaper.

El-Rufai,  who is also the Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress,  was said to have been invited to clarify the statement  in which he allegedly said   that “the next election  are  likely to be violent and that  many people are likely going to die.”

NOLLYWOOD STARS MARCH AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND JUNGLE JUSTICE


Nollywood actors and actresses, mostly from the Yoruba-speaking section of the Nigerian movie industry today marched against domestic violence and jungle justice in Nigeria. The home moviemakers took school children along with them, demonstrating that children have prominence for future and deserve to be properly treated.

They admonished parents/guardians to desist from abusing their children/wards. While calling on government to be more pro-active on policy initiation and implementation to protect women an children. 

The protesters condemned jungle justice, citing the case of sodomy of three women who were tortured and sodomized for allegedly stealing pepper at Ejigbo market.

SILVER SPOON CHILDREN (CUPPY, DAVIDO, LYNXX ETC.) IN SHOW BUSINESS

       CUPPY OTEDOLA

Florence Otedola, aka Cuppy, is the daughter of wealthy businessman and owner of Zenon Oil, Femi Otedola. She is 21 and studies Business and French at the King’s College in London.

Besides her studies, Cuppy works as a disc-jockey at a night club known as the Funky Buddha on Finchley Road. Last July, she took a step forward to actualise her dream of becoming a celebrity singer by launching her debut single, ‘I love my country’, and proceeded on a playing tour of Nigeria.

But she found herself at the receiving end of flak from critics online, who openly resented the fact that the title of her album reflected a contentment they could never share. From their remarks, it was obvious that some of the critics were also envious of her background as a silverspoon.

Unknown to her fans and critics alike, Cuppy actually nurses her own ambition. For instance, she intends to take a Masters degree in Music business from a university in New York soon and her fledgling music career will definitely not stand in the way. Also, she wants to establish her own record company in Nigeria independent of her father’s oil trade. The sultry singer is rumoured to be intimately involved with Afro hip hop star and Davido’s former manager, Asa Asika.

DRAMA AS FORMER APC LEADER OPEYEMI BAMIDELE DEFECTS TO LABOUR PARTY


A former Leader of the All Progressives Congress caucus in the House of Representatives, Opeyemi Bamidele, on Thursday formally informed the House that he was no longer a member of the APC. He has now joined the Labour Party.

He told members that his reason for leaving APC dated back to the start of merger talks among the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, the Congress for Progressive Change and the All Nigeria Peoples Party.

Bamidele added that he opposed the merger from the beginning and did not wish that “my party, the ACN,” should be part of the merger. As he made his explanations, LP members, Peoples Democratic Party lawmakers, among others were seen shaking hands with him and congratulating Bamidele on his decision to join LP.

JUSTIN BIEBER SECRETLY CRIED AFTER THE COURT APPEARANCE AND THAT SMILING MUG SHOT


Justin Bieber was seen 'crying his eyes out' following his arrest for drunk driving and resisting arrest while allegedly drag racing in Miami on Thursday, People report.