EXPERTS SAY NIGERIA IS UNDER THE THREAT OF EBOLA VIRUS.

The news of the outbreak of Ebola fever in some countries in West Africa, including several parts of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia has sent shock waves across the region, and reverberated in other parts of the world.

West African countries like Senegal have since closed their land borders to check inter-border spread of the disease.

With death tolls rising in the affected countries, Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Keiji Fukuda, recently described the outbreak as ‘one of the most challenging Ebola outbreaks’ the organisation has ever faced.

#FLASHBACK- TRUE STORY - TIMAYA

TRUE STORY

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MTN SIGNS BANKY W, SOUND SULTAN, DR. SID AND HARRYSONG AS BRAND AMBASSADORS IN MULTI-MILLION NAIRA DEAL.

Nigeria's generous and biggest telecoms organisation, MTN, have signed Banky W, DR SID, Sound Sultan and Harrysong as MTN Nigeria Ambassadors.

This news does not come as a shock to these four artistes as there has been series of meetings and negotiations before now.

These four were also featured in the 2013 November-December Naija tour in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Abuja and Ibadan.

This decision to sign more ambassadors by MTN was made possible by the raving success of the current ambassadors Don Jazzy, D’Prince, Iyanya, Praiz, Chidinma, Tiwa Savage, Davido, Wizkid, and KCEE.

#TRENDING - UNITED STATES OF SONGHAI - PROFESSOR OYEBODE PROPOSES NAME CHANGE FOR NIGERIA.

Prof. Akin Oyebode yesterday caused a stir at the National Conference when he proposed that Nigeria should change its name to United States of Songhai (USS). 

The professor, who is representing Ekiti State in the Conference, said that Nigeria should be changed to United States of Songhai just like Kwame Nkruma changed the former Gold Coast to Ghana. He said that it was obvious that Nigeria as the name of the country has outlived its usefulness. 

He said, “I propose that we change the name of Nigeria to United States of Songhai just like Nkruma changed Gold Coast to Ghana,” adding that the country is operating caricature federation. Oyebode noted that the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, aptly said the country is running ‘feeding bottle’ federalism. 

TRAGEDY IN LAGOS AS SIX PEOPLE WERE ELECTROCUTED TO DEATH INCLUDING 4 MEMBERS OF THE SAME FAMILY

A fallen high tension wire has electrocuted six people in Oworonshoki area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria. The incident happened in the early hours of today while it was raining.

The tragedy occurred at Onabanjo Street, Oworonshoki around 2.00am. It was gathered that the high tension wire cut into two as a result of the heavy rain.

Mr. Kabiawu Babajide, General Secretary, Council of Oworonshoki Youth Forum said the high tension wire cut and fell across a drainage channel and caught fire when it came in contact with wood, adding that two vehicles parked beside the wood were burnt by the fire ignited by the wood.

FG CHARGES MUHAMMED ABACHA WITH THEFT OF N446.3B

The Federal Government has filed a new charge against the son of the late General Sani Abacha, Mohammed, accusing him of unlawfully receiving about N446.3billion allegedly stolen from government’s coffers between 1995 and 1998.

In the nine-count charge, FG accused Mohammed of “dishonestly receiving stolen property” and “voluntarily assisted in concealing money.”

The charge replaced the earlier one of 121 counts in which Mohammed was charged with Atiku Bagudu.

The government has now excluded Bagudu from the fresh charge, leaving only Mohammed.

According to the new charge marked CR.21-24/2008, the stolen money allegedly received by Mohammed, and which he was accused of concealing include 141,100,000 pound sterling and 384,353,000 UD dollars made up of cash and travellers cheques.

FULANI HERDSMEN AND NATIONAL SECURITY.

Nigeria is passing through unusual times; she has been reduced to a seething cauldron of fratricidal feuds that have now made hate, bitterness, sorrows and mutual antagonisms the companions of Nigerians. Strongmen and criminal gangs have carved the country into spheres for peddling unwholesome atrocities. Boko Haram militant Islamic sect has turned the North East part of the country into a desolated war zone where life has become short, brutish and nasty and the people are daily confronted with gory maelstroms. Kidnapping- for-ransom, a new striving business in the country, is creating social convulsions in the South East and South South, while ritual killing has discounted life in the South West.

As if these are not enough burden for one nation, a new scourge of mindless killing of innocent people and large scale ruination of people’s economies has manifested in parts of the North Central and North West of the country in particular and the entire country in general. Cattle rustlers or Fulani herdsmen have been fingered as the masterminds. All these add up to a painful reality that Nigeria might become a failed state unless she is mended back to good health by the political leadership. This is the challenge before President Goodluck Jonathan and the governors of the 36 states of the federation.

FROM HIT GROUPS TO DISAPPOINTING SOLO CAREERS.

REMEDIES

They made great hits and were loved by all. They gained fame and fortune, and suddenly, when everyone thought they would stick for life, they split. What followed was unimaginable; an amazingly disappointing solo careers, for most. Interestingly, however, there are a few who are doing well for themselves.

This is the mixed fortunes of the Nigerian music industry where it appears that musical groups are increasingly becoming extinct. Have you ever given thought to what is happening to individual members of the Plantashun Boiz or the Remedies? How about Kush, Mandators, Xclusives, Zule Zoo, Tribesmen, JJC and the 419 Squad, Oriental Brothers, Junior and Pretty, Maintain and countless others? Indeed, the Nigerian music industry has witnessed awesome and shock changes, and still. In the last few years, for instance, the Nigerianized Rhythms and Blues and African Hip-Hop, have improved in terms of lyrical contents and packaging, including the videos.

EBOLA EPIDEMIC, LASSA FEVER AND THE BUSH MEAT CONNECTION.

Stop eating bush meat!”Anyaa Vohiri, Executive Director of Liberia’s Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, warned on the heels of the outbreak of the deadly Ebola Hemorrhagic fever in the West African country. In a terse statement, the health official highlighted the connection between the Mano River countries and danger of the bush meat trade to lives of animals and humans in the region.

“Obviously, our borders do not stop viruses from crossing, and the killing and cross border trade of our threatened and protected animals has health and ecological side effects,” Vohiri remarked.

This warning, Vanguard Features, VM, gathered, is not unfounded. By a long shot, the last is yet to be heard about the rampaging Ebola epidemic.

NEW MUSIC - DESTINAMBARI - @MOCHEDDAH

MoCheddah is back with a bang.... Check out her latest track titled DESTINAMBARI ft Phyno... The Song was produced by Cobhams.. Enjoy it.

LAGOS GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN ORPHANAGE AND RESCUES 5 CHILDREN.

The Lagos State government has shut an illegal orphanage at Alagbado in Agbado‑Okeodo Local Council Development Area, LCDA and rescued five children from the home.

The orphanage, Stream of Mercy and Love for Humanity Centre, located at Ilapo village, Alagbado was never registered with the state government before it commenced operation about two years ago.

Sources said that officials of the Office of Youth and Social Development, OYSD, stormed the area last Thursday, arresting the caregiver found in the orphanage and shut the premises.

The officials rescued five children who were between the ages of one and eight years. Also, Mrs. Glory Ebenezer, the owner of the orphanage was said to be away at the time of closure.

SECURITY OFFICIALS STOPS ENGINEERING GRADUATE WHO JUMPED OUT OF A MOVING BUS FROM COMMITTING SUICIDE.

An unemployed engineering graduate of Ekiti State University, Mr. Sunday Omotayo, was on Wednesday prevented from committing suicide by the police and prison officials.

Omotayo, who caused a stir along Wellington Bassey Way, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, when he deliberately jumped out of a speeding Toyota Hiace bus, expecting to be crushed to death by other vehicles, said he was tired of life as he had been searching for a job for the past 10 years after graduation.

Some policemen, who were on patrol at the time of the incident, told our correspondent that Omotayo had in the morning gone to the state prison asking the officials to either kill him or make way for him to rot in the prison.

A prison officer, who craved anonymity, told our correspondent that they saw him – well dressed and wearing a tie – running towards them. He added that his action forced them to become alert with their guns.

BAYERN MUNICH 3 MANCHESTER UNITED 1 (4 - 2 AGGREGATE).

BAY 3 MANU 1

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ATLETICO MADRID 1 BARCELONA 0 (2-1 ON AGGREGATE)

ATL 1 BAR 0

Diego Simeone has proven himself already as a world class coach. Simple as ABC..

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(VIDEO) CHELSEA QUALIFIES FOR LAST 4 OF 2014 UCL. CHE 2 PSG 0.

CHE 2 PSG 0

The away goal scored in France and Ibrahimovic's injury was going to be a factor and yet it was.

Chelsea thoroughly deserved the 2- 0 victory and it could have been much more had 2 efforts not kissed the bar. Though the aggregate score was 3-3, Chelsea progressed to the last 4.

The most unlikely hero, "Demba Ba" came off the bench to score in the 84th minute after the German machine "Schurrle" had put them ahead in the 32nd minute.

Congrats to Mourinho's Army........... At this point, anything is possible. Chelsea might just win the UCL. They have the ability.

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BANK CONTRACT WORKERS AND THE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE CAREER GROWTH - IFE ADEDAPO

The career aspirations of contract workers in financial institutions appeared dashed as they have little or no opportunity to progress, IFE ADEDAPO writes

The feeling of unfair treatment and lack of career fulfilment by contract employees in the banking sector is of major concern to stakeholders, investigations have revealed.

Contract or casual labour came about as a result of reforms in the banking sector and it serves as a measure for the institutions to remain competitive by adopting cost-cutting measures to reduce expenditure.

AFRICA'S BIGGEST ECONOMY BY FIGURES.

 

How does an economy that does not have regular electricity, where infrastructure is in deficit and most of the people are so poor that the Gross Domestic Product per capita does not get into their pockets, become the largest in Africa?

It seems a miracle that any calculations can place Nigeria’s economy above South Africa’s with our well-recounted challenges, including queues for petrol. They have been on for almost a month in the 2014 season of a national series of embarrassments. Nigeria, its economy and policies that propel them are mainly embarrassments.

The rebasing that pushed Nigeria’s GDP to $509 billion, ahead of South Africa’s $350 billion, is 24 years late. Nigeria had been working with a 1990 base. While the exercise saw GDP jump 89 per cent from N42.3 trillion (2013) to N80.3 trillion, the economy’s acknowledgement of sectors like telecommunications, music and Nollywood should mark more efforts at harnessing the potentials the sectors hold.

THE DEADLY EBOLA VIRUS AND LABARAN MAKU'S INEPTITUDE - BAMIDELE OLATEJU

 

Nigeria produces, on daily basis, the sharpest minds in the world. Yet, the same country produces the dullest brains whose parade of ignorance continues to shame us. The deadly Ebola virus has killed more than 90 people in Guinea and Liberia with another suspected case reported in Mali. The resulting panic has set the world as well as smaller and less endowed West African countries on the edge but in Nigeria it is déjà vu all over again. No Shaking!

If God doesn’t deliver us, wishful thinking will. Those countries battling with Ebola really needs to improve on their religious beliefs because God is a Nigerian. Since Nigerians pray to Him most, He definitely loves Nigerians best to the exclusion of other countries. Our West African neighbours are better off tapping into our ANOINTING or ask our Minister of (Dis)Information, Labaran Maku, to “bless” them with some vials of the Ebola vaccine we have stockpiled. Since Miracles happen in Nigeria everyday, it is not unlikely that the World Health Organization (WHO), America’s Centers For Disease Control (CDC), National Institute Of Health (NIH), France’s Institut Pasteur and other world research bodies are unaware that we have scientists that have produced vaccines for this deadly viral fever that kills nine out of every ten victims. That is the power of anointing a la Nigeria! The rest of the world knows there is no vaccine for this virus, it exists only in the twisted logic of Mr. Maku.

BIGGEST ECONOMY ON PAPER ONLY - FASHOLA FAULTS NIGERIA'S RECENT ECONOMY RATINGS.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos state and his Ogun state counterpart, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, yesterday, faulted the statistics released by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics, NBS, which rated the country’s economy as the 26th largest in the world, saying; “The new statistics does not truly reflect the real worth of the country’s economy.”

This came as Lagos government said residents of state spent at least N4 billion daily to purchase food items.

They duo spoke at the opening ceremony of the 7th Lagos Economic Summit, Ehingbeti 2014, with the theme “Powering the Lagos economy: Real opportunities, endless possibilities”, held in Lagos, with former Minister of Power, Professor Barth Nnaji and others in attendance.

LAMIDO GIVES CONDITION FOR SOUTH-SOUTH RESOURCE CONTROL....

The Lamido of Adamawa, Dr. Muhammadu Barkindo Mustapha, again on Tuesday stoked a fresh controversy at the ongoing National Conference when he gave a stringent condition for a 100 per cent resource control.

He also kicked against autonomy for ethnic nationalities in Nigeria, saying it would give room for many demands.

In a tacit reference to the people of the Niger-Delta who have been clamouring for resource control, Mustapha said they should be ready to lose their lands in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

The latest controversy is coming barely two weeks after the monarch had told the conference that his kingdom extended to Cameroon and he still had his kith and kins there who would receive him and his people if the North seceded from Nigeria.