MILITARY TAKES OVER IN BURKINA FASO ENDING PRESIDENT COMPAORE'S 27 YEARS RULE.

The final days of one of Africa's longest serving leaders may have come as President Blaise Compaore's government has been toppled following massive protest by civilians in the poor African nation of Burkina Faso. He took power in 1987 in a bloody coup killing his best friend Thomas Sankara.

The military seized control of the government on Thursday and set a dusk-to-dawn curfew in what one general described as an effort to protect lives and restore order.

Unrest has gripped Burkina Faso, a key ally for the West in the fight against al Qaeda, as protests against President Blaise Compaore's government turned violent, culminating Thursday with demonstrators storming the Parliament and setting fire to the building.

22-YR OLD LADY KILLS MAN WHO ATTEMPTED TO RAPE HER IN LEKKI, LAGOS. #SAYNOTORAPE

The police in Lagos have detained a 22yr old lady who allegedly killed a man who she claims attempted to rape her.

Punch reports that an unidentified suspected rapist has been killed in the Lekki area of Lagos State while attempting to rape a 22-year-old woman, Ifeoma Okechukwu. It was learnt that the incident happened on Monday, around 12.30pm, in Atlantic View Estate, Alpha Beach Road, Lekki.

It was learnt that Okechukwu was on her menstrual period and had gone out to buy sanitary pads.

PRESIDENT JONATHAN RECEIVES N100.5M FROM LOYAL SUPPORTERS TO BUY N22M PDP NOMINATION FORM.

While some of those seeking to occupy Aso Rock next year are borrowing funds to pay for nomination fees in their various parties, President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday said he had received a total of N100.5m donations and pledges from persons, groups and communities who offered to assist him to pay for the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential nomination fee.

The PDP’s Presidential Nomination Fee is N20m and its Expression of Interest Form is N2m, making a total of N22m. Jonathan said he would pick the nomination form on Thursday (today).

In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, the President thanked all Nigerians who he said had been urging him to seek re-election based on his administration’s achievement in the last four years.

TOMPOLO THREATENS TO KILL ME, FESTUS KEYAMO PETITIONS IGP & SSS....

FESTUS KEYAMO

Dear Sirs,

THREAT TO KILL MR. FESTUS KEYAMO BY MR. GOVERNMENT EKPEMUPOLO (ALIAS TOMPOLO)

My name is Festus Keyamo. I am a Nigerian citizen and a senior member of the legal profession in Nigeria.

At exactly 10:13pm on Tuesday, October 28, 2014, I received a telephone call from one Mr. Government Ekpemupolo (alias Tompolo) with phone number 08027721208. We have been acquaintances in the past, so I know his numbers. After reaffirming that he is Tompolo when I picked his call, he went straight to the point by informing me that he wishes to inform me that he and his “boys” will kill me by beating me to death or shooting me anywhere they can find me. And that the hunt for me is on. His exact words in pidgin English was “we dey look for you. Anywhere we see you, whether for Lagos or Abuja or Warri, we go beat you die or we go shoot you.”

PDP ASKS "SPEAKER AMINU TAMBUWAL" TO RESIGN.

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party is pushing for the resignation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mallam Aminu Tambuwal, who defected to the All Progressives Congress on Tuesday.

Tambuwal had during plenary told his colleagues   that he heeded the calls of members of his constituency to dump the PDP.

He also claimed that certain developments in the Sokoto State chapter of the PDP suggested that he could no longer continue to be a PDP member.

POPE FRANCIS SURPRISINGLY DECLARES "EVOLUTION & BIG BANG THEORY" CORRECT.

What exactly is happening to the church??? This is a question that needs urgent answers. The theories of evolution and the Big Bang are real and God is not “a magician with a magic wand”, Pope Francis has declared.

Speaking at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Pope made comments which experts said put an end to the “pseudo theories” of creationism and intelligent design that some argue were encouraged by his predecessor, Benedict XVI.

Francis explained that both scientific theories were not incompatible with the existence of a creator – arguing instead that they “require it”.

PRE-WEDDING PICTURES OF ISAAC (@Hyzic23) & TOLULOPE (@Tolextra)......

It's been many weeks since I blogged actively for obvious reasons. That is if you are familiar with BBX, but if there is a post capable of making me sit to blog once again, it is this particular post.

My childhood bully who later became my personal person is getting married to our aburo. Yes, Tolulope is our aburo. I emphasized"OUR" because she was a younger friend of our clique before she ultimately became Isaac's fiancee. By the way, I belong to a clique of 7 great guys (Ay-dudu, Ay-pupa, Deolu, Arc Tolu, Isaac, Tunde & Xanta). 

Most of us grew up in the same neighborhood, attended same primary school (they were all my seniors) and have remained friends for more than 25 years. So, we met Tolulope through Ayo-dudu.

MORE PERMUTATIONS AS "SPEAKER AMINU TAMBUWAL" FINALLY DUMPS RULING PDP FOR APC.

After months of speculation and denial, the speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, has dumped the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for main opposition, All Progressives Congress, APC.

Mr. Tambuwal formally announced his defection Tuesday at the House plenary. He is required by law to declare formally to his colleague lawmakers.

The speaker, for months, denied he was moving to the APC despite openly associating with the party.

ORPHANED BY EBOLA..........

Two children sit outside a hospital in Kenema, the third largest city in Sierra Leone, digging into a bowl of food and sharing plastic bags of clean water.

They have both been orphaned during the Ebola outbreak that has gripped West Africa and put the rest of the planet in a state of constant vigilance and fear.

The death toll in the outbreak is now at 4,546, around half of the known cases in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to the latest figures from the UN World Health Organization.

Now, the WHO is scaling up efforts to reach 600,000 people that have been affected by the health crisis in the area, that has seen hundreds of children orphaned and many families left without a breadwinner.

SUCCESS STORY - HOW NIGERIA CONTAINED THE EBOLA OUTBREAK.

The lines on the tabular situation reports, sent to WHO each day by its country office in Nigeria, have now been full of zeros for 42 days.

WHO officially declares that Nigeria is now free of Ebola virus transmission.

This is a spectacular success story that shows that Ebola can be contained. The story of how Nigeria ended what many believed to be potentially the most explosive Ebola outbreak imaginable is worth telling in detail.

A PEEP INTO LIFE WITHOUT "F.O.D"

It's been about 5 weeks since my Father, my Friend and my Mentor was called to glory, trust me, life has not been the same.

He was the kind of man you could beat your chest and say would live for the next 20 years at least. So full of life and energy. There was never a dull moment with my father. Dad was loved by many, by both young and old, in church, in the community and within his nuclear/extended family. He worked hard and smart. Oh, death is cruel.

God took a decision we couldn't change. Our usual bubbling family home has become quite a shadow of itself. The silence there at the moment brings tears to my eyes, The tears flow when I remember his jokes and see our family pictures. No mortal being can bring him back but the scriptures assures me all will be well.

FELIX ODUSANYA DINA (1954 – 2014). THE PASSING OF A GOOD MAN BY JIDE AJANI.

LATE BARRISTER FELIX ODUSANYA DINA

Who is a good man?, you may ask!

He who, knowing that what he would say would definitely get some people angry, but puts it to the test of sincerity and honesty, convinces himself that saying it would be for a good cause before decent men and God Almighty, still goes ahead to say it, is a damn good man! 

Those may not be his exact words.

But were he alive and you ask Felix Odusanya Dina, LLB, BL, his response would not be too far away.  A man of character, Mr. Dina, as he was generally known by fellow residents of Abesan Low Cost Housing Estate, Abesan, Ipaja, Lagos, particularly his Block 396, Flat 3, was one damn good man.