Tuesday, 21 April 2015

47-YR-OLD MAN DOCKED FOR RAPING HIS DAUGHTER. #SAYNOTORAPE.


A 47-year-old man, Solomon Ojo, was on Monday arraigned in an Ota Senior Magistrates’ Court, Ogun State for alleged rape of his daughter.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Ojo, who lives on Abinuyo Street., Ijoko, in Ota, was charged with one count of rape. The prosecutor, Sergeant Rosemary Brown, told the court that the accused committed the offence sometime in 2013 at about 12 noon at his residence.

Brown said the accused forcefully had carnal knowledge of his daughter (name withheld). She said the offence contravened Section 358 of the Criminal Code, Vol. 1, Revised Law of Ogun State, 2006.

PDP CHIEFTAINS FACES EXPULSION OVER JONATHAN'S DEFEAT.


The Peoples Democratic Party has begun reviewing its performance in the March 28 presidential election with a view to arriving at what caused the defeat of President Goodluck Jonathan.

It was gathered in Abuja on Sunday night   that top members of the party were of the opinion that some of them in the National Working Committee and National Executive Committee, especially those from the North, covertly played roles that contributed to Jonathan’s loss.

A leader of the party said   that such members also connived with the All Progressives Congress to ensure that Jonathan was beaten at the polls.

DOYIN OKUPE (@DOYINOKUPE) INSISTS THAT BUHARI HAS NO CERTIFICATE - THE LOSER WHO NEVER GIVES UP.


Doyin Okupe is popular for his unguided statements and approach to critical national issues. He heated up the Presidential campaign in conjunction with the eccentric Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose and the unstable Femi Fani Kayode, actions that eventually led to their candidate's unsurprising loss at the polls.

He is in the news again for the wrong reasons, as usual.

Punch reports that the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, has said that he stands by his words that the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, is not an electable leader.

Continue reading after the cut.............

Monday, 20 April 2015

BIG SEAN & ARIANA GRANDE ABORT EIGHT MONTH OLD RELATIONSHIP.



After eight months of dating, Ariana Grande and Big Sean have parted ways. 'They both deeply care for each other and remain close friends,' their reps told Us Weekly on Monday.

'We kindly ask that the media respect their wish for privacy regarding this personal matter at this time,' they added in the joined statement. 

The Love Me Harder crooner, 21, and the Final Famous rapper, 27, are said to have amicably split a few weeks ago due to their conflicting schedules.

SENATE PRESIDENCY SLOT SPARKS OFF INTENSE LOBBY.


AS the leadership of All Progressives Congress, APC, plans to meet to take final decision on the zoning of offices among the six geo-political zones, the North Central caucus of the party has asked the party to zone the position of the Senate presidency to the zone. 

Meanwhile, the contest for the position of Senate Leader in which the North-West, that had produced the highest number of Senators, seems to be considered by APC, looks narrowed down to between the former governor of Zamfara State, Senator Ahmed Sani fondly known as Yerima, and Senator Kabiru Gaya.

The APC caucus in the North Central, in a communique by the Zonal Chairman the party, Mr. Zakari Ede, and the six states chairmen in region, said it was clear that APC will form the majority in the forthcoming eight Assembly based on the results of the general elections.

THE FATAL MISTAKES BY PRESIDENT JONATHAN.


An exhaustive probe of  the key flip-flops that led to President Goodluck Jonathan’s defeat and how the President lost the goodwill that earned him victory in 2011.

Only unrealistic optimists were   surprised that President Goodluck Jonathan lost Nigeria’s keenly contested poll.

The pointers to what was imminent for the Peoples Democratic Party ,PDP, were so discernible in the build up, that the President in the days leading to the poll admitted the surging popularity of the opposition meant that his party would not  secure a landslide in the presidential, parliamentary and governorship contests.

Though he explicitly affirmed that he was not losing sleep over the development, the pre-election electoral map was such that rubbished every optimism he may have had.

Vague public perception
The president may have redeemed his public image with his graceful acceptance of defeat. His effort suddenly turned him into a hero in defeat.

But beyond that, when the books are written, certain issues would some aspects of the defeat are likely to be attributed to the President’s tolerance of some issues and persons that combined to suppress his onetime electoral invincibility.

Among the key issues were the :Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, crisis, Chibok girls saga, alleged missing Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, funds, mismanaged relationships, withdrawal of Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal’s aides, fallout of PDP primaries and poor presidential campaign strategy/communication.

NGF crisis
In the reckoning of the presidency, the NGF became more of a trade union with irritating activism. It was this notion that remotely birthed the leadership crisis that trailed the NGF chairmanship election.
With Governor Chibuke Amaechi, who then was regarded as an antagonist of the President, defeating Jonathan’s candidate, Governor Jonah Jang, with 19 votes to 16, observers had expected the President to beckon on Jang to drop his claims to the group’s leadership.

To the chagrin of the nation, the body language of the presidency was such that confirmed suspicions that it created the script Jang was acting upon.

The recognition of the Jang faction by the President not minding the fact that the latter lost the election, was a move that to some extent, questioned the presidency’s moral integrity.

A direct consequence of that, led to the implosion of the ruling PDP which manifested through the defection of Governors Aliyu Wammako, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Murtala Nyako, Abdulfatah Ahmed, and Amaechi.

Apart from Rivers State where the president had substantial votes, he lost in the domains of the defected governors.

Chibok girls saga
The abduction of over 200 girls from Government Secondary School, Chibok, further exposed the fault lines inherent in the Federal Government’s approach to the insurgency in the Northeast geo political zone.

It was a shock to a bewildered world when Governor Kassim Shettima of Borno State said the President waited until after two weeks before he spoke to him on the matter.

Trailing that was the First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan’s encounter with officials of the state over the issue and turned herself into a global comic on the issue.

Mrs. Jonathan’s supposed concern further incensed many, who found the treatment meted out to the state delegation which included the principal of the school as condemnable.

Indeed, the two incidents and related developments showed a government that was out of touch with the security of the citizenry.

The President later attributed his silence to his desire not to compromise the details of security efforts to rescue the girls, his general approach largely blighted his re-election chances.

Alleged missing oil money/Lamido Sanusi
At a time when the mood of the country suggested that the war against institutionalized corruption had ebbed under Jonathan’s watch, the official response to allegations of missing oil money at the NNPC was considered unsatisfactory.

The failure of the government to investigate those accused and the suspension of the then Central Bank Governor, Lamido Sanusi, who blew the whistle further angered many.

In the reckoning of most Nigerians, who had long desired a probe of the oil sector, the President was being protective of his appointees at the expense of public probity.

Redefinition of corruption
Whether semantics or not, the implication of the President’s statement to the effect that ‘’stealing is not corruption’’ was damaging.

Speaking on nationwide television during a media chat, he had said ‘’Over 70 percent of what are called corruption cases, even by the EFCC and other anti-corruption agencies, is not corruption, but common stealing, ‘’ he stated, adding that corruption claims were ‘’politically motivated.’’

For a populace embittered by the fact that despite allegations of corruption against public officials, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, did not record any high profile conviction under Jonathan, the presidential pronouncement was seen as provoking.

Failure to call Dokubo, Clark to order
The threats of fire and brimstone should the President lose the poll by his kinsmen, notably Chief Edwin Clark, Chief Government Ekpemupolo and Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo, were likened to drums of war, informing calls on the President to disassociate himself from the duo.

Interestingly, the nation was united in this call, as the Nigerian Labour Congress, clergy, traditional rulers spoke in unison.

Though the PDP asked the trio to be mindful of what they said at that period of time, President Jonathan was not known to have publicly reprimanded them.

Fallout of party primaries
The outcome of PDP primaries into various offices left nothing to be desired by aggrieved party members.

In its familiar intra-party political culture, the resentment arising from the contests across the country, were treated in a manner that threatened internal cohesion in the party.

Irked by the situation, some party chieftains with electoral values, defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, making the PDP electorally vulnerable.

In states like Enugu, Akwa Ibom, Benue, Ebonyi, Cross River, where the outcome of governorship primaries factionalized the party, a profound presidential comfort or intervention would have assuaged aggrieved members.

Another undoing was the president’s tolerance of the hijacking of the PDP party structures by the state governors, which directly led to so much impunity at the state chapters.

However, whether the President played some trouble shooting roles, is a matter of debate between his admirers and critics.

Mismanaged relationships
Another fatal error was the mismanagement of some political alliances at the expense of the President’s electoral value.

Names like Amaechi, Bukola Saraki, Olusegun Obasanjo easily come to mind in this regard, as these men variously played decisive roles at some points in Jonathan’s political trajectory.

Poor campaign strategies/communication
Even the most loyal admirers of the President had no issue conceding that he hardly brought anything new to the table during the presidential campaigns.

From the PDP flag-off in Lagos to the grand finale in Abuja, observers found his message empty and literally full of noise.

Specifically, the language was more of attacks on the APC, its presidential candidate and past leaders.

So concerned were analysts over the content of the campaign statements that some were alarmed that the President spent close to an hour delivering his speech at the PDP flag-off campaign without being able to explain what he had done in the last six years or what he would do if re-elected.


Vanguard

THE CURIOUS CONTRADICTIONS OF LATE SENATOR CHUKWUMERIJE.


Senator Uche Chukwumerije was a rallying point at some of the country’s most poignant political periods. In the civil war, when the country almost broke in two, Chukwumerije’s voice was an echo that helped to rouse demoralised Biafran soldiers and compatriots. Subsequently, in 1993 as political passions seemed to boil over after the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Chukwumerije arrived the scene as the chief propagandist of the military regime’s controversial decision.

COUPLE STABS 10-YR OLD IN HER PRIVATE PARTS WITH PEPPERED KNIFE.


A 10-year-old girl, Chidinma, has been admitted at an undisclosed hospital after a couple – Eucheria Chukwuma and Jerry Oko-Oboh – allegedly beat her up and stabbed her in the private parts with a broken bottle.

It was learnt that the couple and the victim’s family lived on Joshua Street, Agbabiaka, in the Ajangbadi area of Lagos.

It was learnt that the couple assaulted the minor for allegedly fiddling with the vagina of their three-year-old daughter, Peace.

MY PLEA FOR FORGIVENESS IS NOT COWARDICE - GOV AYO FAYOSE.


The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said his asking for forgiveness should not be taken for cowardice by his opponents, saying his tenure in office will be determined by God.

He said he took the step to seek a genuine reconciliation with the All Progressives Congress, whose 19 lawmakers in the state House of Assembly were plotting his impeachment.

The governor spoke on Sunday at the thanksgiving service organised for him at the Cathedral Church of Emmanuel, Anglican Communion, Ado Ekiti, to celebrate his electoral victory at the Supreme Court.

Sunday, 19 April 2015

SOUTH AFRICA'S CRAZY XENOPHOBIC ATTACK CAPTURED ON CAMERA AS MOZAMBICAN IS STABBED TO DEATH IN THE STREET.



Despite the media outrage, South Africans have continued their Xenophobic madness. A Mozambican was stabbed in the chest and he later bled to chest in the city of Sandton. His crime was his nationality!!!!!!!!!!!!

As told by Beauregard Tromp and James Oatway for Timeslive.co.za

Shortly before 7am yesterday, Sunday Times journalists were in Alexandra township, near Sandton, speaking to shop owners who had their businesses looted overnight. Children played, people walked the streets, some stopped to gawk at the carnage from the night before. Then this happened ...

PRESIDENT JONATHAN ORDERS AUDIT OF N2 TRILLION CAMPAIGN MONEY.


Following the defeat suffered by President Goodluck Jonathan and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, during the March 28 and April 11 elections, the President has asked the party and government officials who handled campaign funds to refund monies not spent, or those not judiciously expended.
Jonathan, credible sources said, has also set up a committee of five to get those with the funds to return them.

Sources within the party and government told our correspondents that President Jonathan was disturbed that despite giving campaign coordinators, ministers, special advisers, close aides and friends, support groups and traditional rulers what is believed to be over N2trn in cash, most of them could not deliver their polling booths and local governments.

Friday, 17 April 2015

HOW DAVIDO & HIS DRIVER BROKE MC GALAXY'S HEAD WITH A BOTTLE.


Many terrible things happen in the Music Industry that are kept out of reach of the media.  Sekem crooner MC Galaxy was attacked and badly injured on Wednesday night April 15th at producer Shizzi's studio in Lekki. LIB reported that according to a reliable industry source, MC Galaxy, Davido (they have collaborated before) B-Red, Shizzi, Davido's driver, a guy named Lati and other HKN members were at Shizzi's studio working and laughing when suddenly things turned ugly.

According to someone who witnessed the beat down, trouble started after MC Galaxy told B-Red that he (Galaxy) was more popular than him (B-Red). B-Red didn't agree and they went back and forth. Then an HKN Gang member, who is a Ghanaian artist, told MC Galaxy that he was not funny as a comedian. MC Galaxy replied, telling him that he was an unknown artist, and they went back and forth yabbing each other. They said all of a sudden Davido came out from the studio and asked MC Galaxy to leave. 

(PICTURES) THE SHAME OF A NATION - SOUTH AFRICANS KEEP STEALING FROM STORES OWNED BY FOREIGNERS.


Despite the media outrage targeted at South Africa's Xenophobic attacks, the shameful act has not stopped. This is extremely disheartening considering the fact that many African countries rallied around the nation during the Apartheid period. This tragic payback will be regretted sooner or later.

(VIDEO) KIDNAPPER OF THE THREE OREKOYA KIDS CONFESSES.


Thirty Five year old Funmilayo Adeyemi, the nanny who used the pseudo name, Mary Akinloye,   to kidnap the three kids of the Oresanya family in Surulere area of Lagos State has been arrested by the police.

The suspect, however, insisted that “they [the children] did not miss their mother. They did not miss their home. They always told me to put cartoon in the CD for them and they were not crying."

Funmilayo also confessed to the Nigerian Tribune that her husband actually collected ransom from the parents of the kidnapped children, an undisclosed amount she said was paid into a bank account, before they were abandoned at Shasha area of Akowonjo.

Thursday, 16 April 2015

HOW EX-PRESIDENT OBASANJO DESTROYED PDP. (@PDPNIGERIA, @APCNIGERIA)


Former President Obasanjo, as we can see, used the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to rule Nigeria for eight years. As soon as he assumed office in 1999, he made up his mind to reduce Nigeria to a one-party state, his pet party system which he canvassed vigorously while Nigeria conducted its transition to civil rule programmes. 

The first part of this serial chronicled how he shrivelled the opposition parties and made the PDP into a colossus that dominated the political landscape. Eventually, most leading lights in the opposition parties decamped to the PDP.

By 2007 when Obasanjo was constitutionally forced out of power, PDP was at the zenith of its power and glory. It had 26 out of the 36 governors, 260 out of the 369 members of the House of Representatives, 85 out of the 109 senators and an emphatic command of the majority in the state legislatures and the 774 local councils. It was at this point that the party started priding itself as “the largest party in in Africa”, and some of its chieftains boasted that the PDP would rule Nigeria for “sixty years”.

STRANGE DISEASE KILLS 14 PEOPLE IN ONDO.


An unknown disease has reportedly killed 14 persons in Ode-Irele, headquarters of Irele local government of Ondo state.

The existence of the killer disease in the community has been confirmed by the state commissioner for health, Dr. Dayo Adeyanju.

He said several others were on danger list, stressing that the symptoms of the strange disease include headache and loss of sight.

POLICE ARREST MAID WHO KIDNAPPED THE THREE OREKOYA KIDS.

KIDNAPPER- MARY AKINLOYE
The Lagos State Commissioner for Police, Mr. Kayode Aderanti has advised employers of domestic staff such as nannies, cooks, drivers and gardners to seek the services of the Divisional Police and Police Area Commands in their localities to do a profiling of their new employees before they bring them into their homes.

Aderanti made this appeal during an interview on Channels TV Sunrise Daily show, Thursday morning.

He spoke against the backdrop of the kidnap of the three kids of Mrs. Adebisi Orekoya, by a nanny, Mary Akinloye, whom she employed, last week Monday, through OLX (an online sales portal).

BUHARI (NIGERIA'S PRESIDENT ELECT) & WIFE CHANGES TWITTER HANDLE.


Nigeria’s president-elect and his wife have changed their Twitter addresses. President-elect General Muhammadu Buhari has switched his Twitter account from @ThisIsBuhari to @MBuhari while his wife, Mrs Aisha Buhari will now tweet from the @ABuhari.

For the latest news and updates on both as they transition into being the First Couple, the @MBuhari and @ABuhari accounts will be a key channel of communication as the president-elect works to fulfill his promises to the nation, a statement issued by State Craft Inc said.

Wednesday, 15 April 2015

OREKOYA KIDS ARE FINALLY BACK HOME.


The three kidnapped OREKOYA BOYS  are back home after about 1 week in the kidnappers den. Recall that a maid employed by their mother disappeared with the boys just a day after she resumed for duty. Rumour indicates that the maid was employed via OLX.

The mother of the kids took to her facebook account to make the announcement.



There is no information on the ransom paid as the kidnappers had earlier demanded for N13m from the parents.

The Police must ensure that the kidnappers are brought to justice.



NIGERIA'S 2015 HISTORIC PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND THE TASKS AHEAD.


Nigeria’s 28th March, 2015, Presidential election was, perhaps, one of the most bitterly fought in the annals of the country’s electoral history. The election occurred after a controversial six-week postponement following insistence by security agencies that it should be pushed forward for them to accelerate the battle against the insurgency in the North East.

It was possibly the most divisive election, drawing Nigerians into a devious web of mudslinging as well as ethnic and religious chauvinism. Eventually the election turned out to be largely a referendum on key national issues pertaining to the state of the country’s economy and security. This historic election was fought-and-won by Nigerians who appeared to have crucially determined to assert their position as the real employers of those in power, and on whose behalf and on whose benefits power should only be exercised.