THE UNIBEN STAMPEDE - ANOTHER IGNORED TRAGEDY.

Scarcities create desperation. The authorities are ignoring this fact as they mangle the future of Nigeria with policies that do not serve even the present. Millions of our people cannot access the basics for living.

They strive, they toil, yet at the vital moments, governments and their organisations are to play a role, efforts dissolve into nothingness and  in most circumstances, deaths follow. The most current mode of death is stampedes.

After the Nigeria immigration Service, NIS, recruitment exercise that claimed 19 lives, we are still paying minimal attention to crowd management. Worse still, we are not thinking of ways of handing such exercises without thousands of people being assembled and subjected to dehumanising conditions.

LAGOS BOAT ACCIDENTS AND UNSAFE WATERWAYS.

After two passenger boats sank within three weeks, we are likely heading to the wrong reaction if we may just ban water transportation! The stand of most commentators on the matter points to this direction. It is like recommending decapitation as cure for headaches.

Cities like Lagos can benefit a lot from the waters around them. What would Venice or Amsterdam be without their waters? They have put them to good uses, creating efficiencies in transportation and living with their waters.

Boat tragedies are no excuses for banning water transportation. They are rather challenges to regulatory standards that guide the uses of our waters.  We have to use our waters more; we have to work on regulations and implementation standards that would ensure safety.

UPDATE ON #IBADANFORESTOFHORROR - FORENSIC EXPERTS VISITS SITE.

Three weeks after the discovery of scores of decomposing human bodies and kidnapped people at a forest in Soka area of Ibadan, a five-man forensic team, from the Force Criminal Investigation Department Abuja, visited the site on Monday.

The team which included a pathologist, came to gather evidence and exhume human parts that were buried on the site. The Oyo State Police Command also said that at least 60 suspects had been arrested in connection with the discovery.

The teams arrived the site around 10.30am with 20 policemen which included Mr. Babale Aminu,who led the FCID team,  Assistant Commissioner of Police, Dasuki Galadachi  who led some policemen from the Oyo State Police Command and Dr. Eze Nwom who led the team of forensic experts.Experts from the University College Hospital Ibadan, were also on the ground to help during the forensic evaluation.

POLICE PARADE KIDNAPPERS OF CLARK'S SON.

DELTA State Commissioner of Police Mr. Ikechukwu Aduba, yesterday, paraded the suspected kidnappers of Chief E. K. Clark’s son, Mr. Ebikeme Clark at the state police headquarters, Asaba.

He said the command was seriously worried over the whereabouts of some members of the kidnap gang that carried out the operation, which he described as “extremely dangerous.”

According to him, “other gang members still at large include Timi, Abel, Ndamaw, and Jacob.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S N114B IS MISSING IN TRANSIT.

It sounds so bizarre that allocations to some Federal Government agencies in excess of N114 billion have been lost in transit. But for a parliamentary inquest, the public would not even have known this. For President Goodluck Jonathan, always dismissive of the abysmal level of corruption in the country, this matter presents further evidence. Since March 14, the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts has been quizzing officials of the Budget Office, Central Bank of Nigeria, Police Force, Ministry of Police Affairs and Office of the Head of Service of the Federation on this tangled skein.

 At the behest of the President, Lamido Sanusi, the suspended Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, had remitted N19.7 billion to the Ministry of Police Affairs, for the police to buy “armoured helicopters and security equipment.” Sanusi stated this in his reply to the government’s allegation of financial recklessness against him. Curiously, both the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, and the ministry, told the House committee that they did not see the cash.

SEASON 2 PREMIERE OF THE JUICE WITH TOOLZ (@toolzo) FT PATORANKING (@patorankingfire)

THE JUICE SEASON 2

The second season of Ndani Tv's programme "The Juice" hosted by Toolz is here again......

Fast rising REggae Dancehall Act Patoranking was featured in this edition.

Y'all should already know Patoranking... His "GIRLIE O" video is one the best yet in 2014 and the song itself is off the hook.

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(VIDEO) TOTTENHAM 5 SUNDERLAND 1

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FRESH VIDEO - KOKOSE - SOUND SULTAN (@soundsultan) FT WIZKID (@wizkidayo).

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Naija Ninja - Sound Sultan presents visuals of his song KOKOSE featuring Wizkid.....

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SEARCH PARTY DETECTS SIGNAL CONSISTENT WITH BLACK BOX OF MISSING MALAYSIA AIRLINES FLIGHT MH370.

A high-tech Australian ship has detected signals consistent with aircraft black boxes in the northern part of the area being searched for missing flight MH370, it was revealed today.      

The major development was announced by Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, the co-ordinator of the search from Perth, who said that ‘this is the most promising lead, probably, in the search so far. It’s probably the best information we’ve had.’     

The signals were detected by a 'towed pinger locator' deployed by the Australian vessel Ocean Shield in the northern part of the defined search area west of Australia.

Mr Houston said the signals were consistent with those emitted by aircraft black boxes, adding that the first was held for than two hours and 20 minutes, the second for about 13 minutes. 

REVEALED - GADDAFI KEPT THE HEAD OF AN ENEMY IN A FREEZER FOR 25 YRS AND HAD A RAPE DUNGEON AT THE TRIPOLI UNIVERSITY.

More disturbing details have emerged telling of former dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s iron-fisted rule over Libya. Read more report by Daily Mail below.

The despot kept the severed head of one of his enemies in a freezer for 25 years and built a secret sex dungeon on the campus of a college specifically to rape coeds, according to a new documentary on his brutal regime.

He also stored the bodies of other rivals he had killed and would visit them occasionally at a walk-in freezer. The sex chamber was built on the campus of Tripoli University.

MILITARY CHIEFS ARE ASSISTING BOKO HARAM - SOLDIER ALLEGES.

A soldier has claimed that he witnessed incidents that suggested some military   chiefs work  with Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East.

The soldier told the Voice of America Hausa Service  how his military unit in Borno State was ambushed by Boko Haram members. He  said the commander of a nearby military unit in Bama recently sought assistance from his unit in carrying out a raid.

The soldier, who did not give his  name, said when the two military units joined up, they were given different uniforms. The Bama unit commander, according to him, gave his own troops green uniforms while his   unit received tan “desert camouflage” uniforms.

FRSC REPORT CONFIRMS THAT KOGI GOVERNOR'S CONVOY CAUSED PROFESSOR IYAYI''S DEATH.

The Federal Road Safety Corps has stated that the holes found on the chest of the late former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof. Festus Iyayi, were caused by body parts of the vehicle in which he died after an accident.

The FRSC also blamed a driver in the convoy of the Kogi State Governor, Capt. Idris Wada (retd.), for the accident.

The report, dated March 21, 2014, indicted a driver in the governor’s convoy as the cause of the accident which occurred on Lokoja-Abuja Road. The accident occurred on November 12, 2013.

NIGERIA EMERGES BIGGEST ECONOMY IN AFRICA WITH $510B YET 70% OF ITS POPULATION STILL LIVE IN POVERTY.

Nigeria's recalculated economy is worth $510 billion, by far the biggest in Africa, officials announced Sunday using long overdue revised data that gives the West African nation continental bragging rights but does little for the 70 percent of its citizens living in poverty.

The new value of Nigeria's GDP adds previously uncounted industries like telecommunications, information technology, music, airlines, burgeoning online retail outlets and Nollywood film production that didn't exist when the last GDP count was made in 1990. Then, there were 300,000 landlines. Today, Nigeria has 100 million cell phone users.

The new figures also will take account of growth in agriculture and tourism that have flourished since democracy was restored in 1999, ending decades of military dictatorship.

(VIDEO) WEST HAM 1 LIVERPOOL 2

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(VIDEO) WATCH MATA'S AMAZING PERFORMANCE. NEWCASTLE 0 MANCHESTER UNITED 4.

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Manchester United defeated Newscastle away by 4 - 0 this weekend. Mata was at his all time best scoring 2 and providing 1.

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LASTMA OFFICIAL CAUGHT ON CAMERA RECEIVING BRIBE FROM MOTORIST AT OJOTA, LAGOS.

LASTMA OFFICIAL RECEIVES BRIBE

To simply put, these guys can't desist from demanding and taking bribe until many of them are dealt with and dismissed once the evidence against them is enough.

Here is another LASTMA official taking bribe stylishly from a motorist at Ojota bus-stop in Lagos.

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36 YR OLD NIGERIAN DOCTOR MURDERED BY HER HUSBAND IN THE US.

Tall,elegant and brilliant Nigerian medical doctor Isioma Ebegbodi was murdered in cold blood by her Nigerian husband in Texas state of America on Saturday March 22, 2014.She attended Queen's College Yaba Lagos and later proceeded to University of Lagos to study Medicine

She was until her gruesome murder a medical resident physician at Marshfield clinic in Texas.

What really went wrong between a 36 year old wife and her 63 year old husband? Was she suffering in silence until the tragedy happened?So many questions with limited answers.

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(VIDEO) EVERTON DESTROYS ARSENAL AS LAST CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SPOT MAY HAVE SLIPPED AWAY FROM THE GUNNERS.

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Arsenal lost the all important fixture against 5th place Everton who still have a game in hand.

It was overall a very poor display from the gunners who currently need an inspiration to wake them up from their slumber.

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THE STRANGE DREAM OF A MUSLIM- MUSLIM TICKET - FANI KAYODE

As a matter of fact some are openly advocating and canvassing the idea. Whether we like to admit it or not this is the subject of heated discussions in many party circles today with some party leaders being for it whilst others are against it.

Consequently the party would do well to issue a statement on the matter and tell us whether they are in a position to rule out such a course of action or not. If they refuse to do so the speculations will simply continue and, like an insidious cancer, the matter will eat away at the very soul of the party and eventually squander it’s fortunes.

(VIDEO) BANKY W & OTHER NIGERIANS PROTEST INSIDE ARIK AIR'S "LAGOS-NEW YORK" BOUND AIRCRAFT DUE TO FAULTY COOLING SYSTEM.

ARIK AIR-CRAFT PROTEST

Nigerians aboard a New York bound Arik Air Plane protested when they could not endure the excruciating heat inside the aircraft due to non functioning cooling... How on earth were they suppose to fly without the cooling system.

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