BREAKING NEWS!!!! SEVEN PDP GOVERNORS (G7) JOIN APC

The seven breakaway Governors of the PDP have joined the biggest opposition party, the All Progressives Congress. 

Five of the seven  governors today met at the Kano State lodge in Abuja to finalize the decision to breakaway from the ruling party early today.

This news is definitely going to heat up the 2015 general elections.

FORMER NIGERIAN ATHLETE AMBROSE MONYE FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER IN SOUTH AFRICA

AMBROSE MONYE

Former Nigerian athlete, Ambrose Monye, has been found guilty of the murder of Chanelle Henning by Judge Johan Kruger  of a North Gauteng High Court on Monday.

The 35-year-old Nigerian was said to be the “paymaster” and middleman in the drive-by shooting of the mother of one in 2011. Henning had just dropped her son of in school before she was gunned down.

Monye’s co-accused, Andre Gouws, was also found guilty. The two were said to have conspired with two others – Gerhardus du Plessis, a former policeman and Willem “Pike” Pieterse.

JONATHAN SACKS SPECIAL ASSISTANT ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

President Goodluck Jonathan, on Sunday, sacked Mrs. Aisha Umar, from her post as his Special Assistant on Social Development.

The notice was announced in a brief statement issued on Sunday in Abuja by Mr. Sam Nwaobasi, The Special Assistant (Media) to the Secretary of the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim with Ref. No: PPR/OSGF/PR/02.

However, the statement did not give details on why the aide was relieved of her job.The statement further read that, the termination takes “effect from November 25, 2013.”

The President has in the past few months sacked three of his aides. The first was the Minister of Youth Development, Inuwa Abdulkadir, followed by the Special Adviser on National Assembly Matters, Mrs. Joy Emordi, and his Special Adviser on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, Dr. Tunji Olagunju.

JEGA'S INEC NOT QUALIFIED TO CONDUCT 2015 ELECTIONS

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The All Progressives Congress, APC, on Monday declared the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Attahiru Jega, unfit to conduct the 2015 general elections.

The opposition party stated this at the 2013 Annual Week of the Ogun State Chapter of the Freelance and Independent Broadcasters’ Association of Nigeria, held in Abeokuta. The acting National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Lai Muhammed, who was a guest lecturer at the ceremony with the theme, ‘Nigeria, 53 years after: Problems, Possibilities and Prospects’, wondered how Mr. Jega, who could not ensure free and fair election in Anambra State, would conduct the 2015 polls.

SAMUEL FALOWO(21) WINS NOKIA'S "DON'T BREAK DA BEAT" N3.2M PRIZE

SAMUEL FALOWO - PRO METH

A 21-year-old upcoming rapper, Samuel Falowo, whose stage name is Pro’Meth, was announced winner of the third edition of the Don’t Break Da Beat rap competition.

The Abuja based rapper beat nine other finalists to win the top prize of $20,000 (N3, 200,000) at a grand finale held at 10 Degrees Events Centre, Oregun, Lagos.

Popular musicians who performed at the event included pop singers Wizkid, May D, Sean Tizzle and rappers Olamide, Jesse Jagz, Phyno, M.I and Skales.

Congrats to him

DOUBTS SURROUND ALLEGED ATTACK ON STELLA ODUAH''S VEHICLE

An alleged attack on the car of the Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, at Maitama, Abuja on Friday was reported to the Federal Capital Territory Police Command on Monday.

An Escalade car belonging to the minister was reportedly attacked by unknown gunmen at Ministers’ Hill, Abuja on Friday, but the incident was reported to the police, three days after the attack.

 The FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Altienne Daniel, who confirmed the incident, said the attack on the minister’s car was reported to the FCT Police Command on Monday, adding that detectives who checked the vehicle retrieved a metallic object which was being subjected to ballistic test to ascertain whether it was a bullet or not.

ARIK AIR'S JOHANNESBURG PASSENGERS STRANDED AT LAGOS AIRPORT

Arik Air is in the news again for the wrong reasons as reported by Sahara Reporters.

Passengers who booked to fly Arik Air to Johannesburg on Sunday night are still waiting to leave Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, taken hostage by their airline.

The flight was subsequently rescheduled to depart at 12noon on November 25, but that, too, was followed by another delay announcement. Subsequently, the delay became indefinite, and the passengers became furious at the nonchalant attitude of the airline management.

OSUN GOVERNOR'S EDUCATION POLICY CLAIMS IT'S FIRST VICTIM

The South-West states in Nigeria are not known to be religiously intolerant as Christians & Muslims have lived together peacefully over the past decades unlike the Northern part of the country where thousands have been killed because of religious sentiments.. In fact, most families have a mix of both religions, but when  a Governor introduces an education policy that tends to change this balance, I bet the wise thing for him to do is to reverse his decision.

The new education policy in Osun State claimed its first casualty on Monday as fierce-looking Muslim youths invaded the Baptist High School, Ejigbo, and beat up the students and teachers. The principal of the school, Mr. Layi Oguntola, was thoroughly beaten and injured. Oguntola, as of the time of this report, was said to be receiving treatment at the Baptist Medical Centre, Ejigbo.

DR. DOYIN ABIOLA, WIFE OF LATE MOSHOOD ABIOLA ARRESTED FOR FRAUD

These are hard times for Socialite and wife of late MKO, Dr. Doyin Abiola as the police arraigned her before the Federal High Court, Lagos, for fraud. She is also the Managing Director of he defunct Concord Newspapers

A statement signed by Police Public Relations Officer DSP Ngozi Isintume-Agu said that the Financial Malpractices Investigation Unit (FMIU) of Special Fraud Unit (SFU) said that between 2006 and 2008, as a Director of the Integrated Microfinance Bank, Dr. Abiola granted to herself without collateral and approval from the Management, the sum of N26,611,246.48.

Dr. Abiola, of 42/46 Moshood Abiola Crescent, Ikeja, Lagos, and wife of the late Chief Moshood Abiola, is one of four Managing Directors or Directors of Integrated Microfinance Bank (IMFB) located at 6A Adeniyi Jones Avenue, Ikeja, who were arrested and charged by the SFU.

RED CARPET ARRIVALS - AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS 2013

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See what Celebs wore to AMA 2013................... more pictures after the cut

FULL LIST OF WINNERS AT THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS

The American Music Awards went off in Los Angeles on Sunday Night, to much grandeur and fanfare.

Check out the winners list below, as decided by the fans, which as we know are the people that really matter

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

Taylor Swift

NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR PRESENTED BY KOHL'S

Ariana Grande 

SINGLE OF THE YEAR

Florida Georgia Line Featuring Nelly, "Cruise"

FAVORITE MALE ARTIST – POP/ROCK

Justin Timberlake   

FAVORITE FEMALE ARTIST – POP/ROCK

Taylor Swift

#ODUAHGATE - JONATHAN IS BACK, CONFIRMS RECEIPT OF ARMOURED CAR REPORT

 

President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday said he has received the report of the three-member administrative panel of enquiry set up to probe the Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah’s role in the purchase of two bullet proof cars.

The President had in October instituted the panel to probe the procurement of two bullet proof cars by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, under the directive of Mrs. Oduah. The two cars were allegedly bought for N225million. The panel was asked to investigate the minister’s role in the procurement and to determine if due process was followed in the procurement of the vehicles.

The three-member panel, chaired by the immediate former Head of Service of the Federation, Isa Bello, also has the National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dakusi, and Dick Iruenebere as members. Speaking to State House correspondents on his arrival at the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja, the president was silent on the state of the report or whether government had decided to act on it.

TROUBLE FOR PROSPECTIVE CAR OWNERS AS PRICES IS SET TO RISE BY 60%

Prospective car owners will cough out more than budgeted sum to own tokunbo vehicles as from next year as the FG released the details of new duties and levies payable on imported new and used vehicles as well as imported new tyres from next year, raising the tariff from 20 per cent to 70 per cent.

Dealers of imported vehicles estimated that the new rate would translate into an increase of 60 per cent on imported cars. The Federal Executive Council had last month approved a new national automotive policy aimed at encouraging local production and assembling of new vehicles with an imposition of a high import tariff on fully built vehicles. But the new rate was not given then.

A two-page document dated November 14, 2013 and signed by the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, gave the new import tariff on cars as 70 per cent (of the cost of each vehicle). It stated that a fully built car would attract a duty of 35 per cent and a levy of another 35 per cent of the cost of the vehicle.

LEBANESE ARRESTED FOR DEFILING UNDERAGE GIRLS IN ONDO

A 32-year-old Lebanese, Jack Sankary, whose hobby is to have carnal knowledge of under-aged girls in Akure, the Ondo State capital, has been nabbed by detectives. His recruiter, Patience Godwin, is currently undergoing interrogation at the state CID.

Patience was arrested at her hideout in Odopetu area of Akure metropolis and one 14-year-old girl about to be taken to the Lebanese rescued.

The suspects will soon be charged to cut.

PAY OUR SALARY ARREARS & WE WILL CALL OFF THE STRIKE - ASUU

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said it will  suspend its ongoing strike  when the four months salaries owed its members are paid. The union also wants the immediate implementation of the N1.2tn offer by the Federal Government to public universities, starting with the release of N100bn this year. The balance of N1.1tn is to be spread over five years from 2014.

These were some of the resolutions reached by members of the National Executive Council of the union who converged on Kano on Friday to deliberate on whether to call off the over four- month-old industrial action or not. A source, who was privy to the resolutions  reached during the President Goodluck Jonathan – ASUU leadership meeting three weeks ago, said that  the fresh demands were some of the issues to be tabled before Jonathan by  the leadership  during their next meeting. A date for the meeting is yet to be fixed.

MICHAEL JACKSON KILLED HIMSELF - EX CONVICT DOCTOR CONRAD INSISTS

Michael Jackson killed himself with a massive overdose using his own stash'. Those are the words of the late Pop King's doctor, Dr. Conrad Murray(jailed for killing Michael Jackson) in an exclusive interview with DAILYMAIL after serving half of his jail term.

Conrad Murray’s voice softens when he recalls the moment Michael Jackson reached out, clasped his hand and said in his soft falsetto voice: ‘There are only four people in my family now. Paris, Prince, Blanket and you, Dr Conrad.’

GEJ THREATENS TO SUE SAHARA REPORTERS

Recall that Jonathan fell ill in London few hours after his birthday celebration. Sahara Reporters had suggested the illness was a result of heavy partying, a statement the President is threatning to sue them for... Seems GEJ no busy at all...

Read the full text below..........

THE BIG BREAK CAME AFTER FIVE YEARS - SEAN TIZZLE

Morinhafen Oluwaseun, whose stage name is "SEAN TIZZLE" gained recognition in Naija's music circle after his hit track "SHO LE". He has since become a force to reckon with in the industry. He granted an interview to PunchNG.... 

Read below.

Who is Sean Tizzle?

My real name is Morinhafen Oluwaseun. I am from Ilaje, Ondo State. I was born into a family of five and I enjoyed being the last child before another child joined me. I was born in Ikeja, Lagos in 1989, but my family relocated to Ikorodu. Growing up was fun but we had a lot of restrictions because our parents were strict disciplinarians. They are very good Christians too. I attended the Command Secondary School, Ibadan, and I was in a boarding house.  I studied Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan.

THE BATTLE BETWEEN DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE AND THE WIND

              

There is a time and a place for a ‘Marilyn moment’. But it’s certainly not when you’re a member of the Royal Family trying to look dignified in front of the assembled media. 

The Duchess of Cambridge made headlines for all the wrong reasons this week when a rogue gust of wind blew up her pleated skirt as she arrived at a children’s charity event. It is not the first time the Duchess’s hemlines have caused her trouble. It happened twice on her first official visit to Canada, where she all but flashed a glimpse of her underwear at Calgary airport after her Jenny Packham dress made a bid for freedom.

SEXUAL OFFENCES BILL

The Senate has acted responsibly by taking a step further towards making legislation that is focused on checking sexual offences in Nigeria.

We welcome the support senators gave the Sexual Offences Bill when it was presented for second reading at the Senate. Coming at a time when sexual crimes are rapidly increasing, the successful outing of the bill gives hope that our lawmakers are sensitive to the safety, security, and well-being of Nigerians, especially women and children who suffer the most sexual offences.