SOUTH SUDAN GOVERNMENT AND REBELS REACH CEASE-FIRE AFTER WEEKS OF INTENSE FIGHTING

The South Sudanese government and rebels signed a cease-fire deal on Thursday after more than a month of fighting, according to the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, an East African trade bloc that has been helping to mediate between the parties.

The government and the rebels reached the agreement in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa. It calls for an immediate end to all military operations and a freeze of forces at the "place they are in."

The parties also agreed not to attack civilians and to refrain from rape, sexual abuse and torture. Supply routes for humanitarian aid are to be opened to reach displaced populations. The agreement also sets up an unarmed group of monitors that includes members from surrounding East African nations and representatives from both the rebels and the government. Their job will be to ensure that the cease-fire agreement is effective.

NIGER DELTA MILITANTS GET MORE ALLOCATION (N54B) THAN THE POLICE AND MILITARY (N46BN) IN THE 2014 BUDGET PROPOSAL

Wonders they say shall never end.... This is very true especially with the Nigerian government.

The 30,000 ex-militants (I am sure this figure was exaggerated) got more allocation than the Police Force and Military (Army, Navy & Airforce) combined together in the 2014 Budget. I suppose the reintegration process should be over by now. This might just be another means of siphoning public funds.

Read more after the cut according to national mirror.

#INDUSTRYRUMOURS - CLARENCE PETER AND SEYI SHAY ARE HAVING AN AFFAIR

It seems Clarence Peters, the legendary Nigerian video producer has finally hooked one of the industry's best diva, Seyi Seyi........ Read below according to TheNet.

NET has learnt that popular video director, Clarence Peters, is having a romantic affair with Nigerian pop singer Seyi Shay.

Sources tell us the relationship is new as the pair allegedly hit it off just a few weeks ago, towards the end of 2013. The lovers, we are told, are very fond of themselves but have been trying their best to keep their love affair discreet.

MONEY PROBLEMS YOUNG PEOPLE ENCOUNTER

Some people wait until their adult years to get serious about their personal finances. But developing good money habits during youth or as a young adult can put you on the right path financially. Rather than make unwise decisions and spend money frivolously, change your personal habits and increase your personal wealth.

Many young people do not bother about proper financial planning until they become older. Experts say young adults, especially people in their 20s, often feel they are too young to think about owning their own homes or ‘major’ financial projects. As a result, they wait until much later in life. By the time they are ready to get their finances in shape, experts say they would have made several financial mistakes that are capable of making the journey to financial freedom an arduous one for them.

Read more after the cut..........

ANOTHER NIGERIAN POLICEMAN CAUGHT DEMANDING DOLLARS BRIBE IN LAGOS

                                          POLICEMAN DEMANDING  FOR BRIBE



Some officers of the police force haven't learnt valuable lessons from their colleagues dismissed because of either demanding or taking bribe.



Watch the footage of the latest "bad egg"  in the police force who was caught on camera demanding for dollars in the Egbeda area of Lagos.



CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO.

WAEC INTRODUCES 39 NEW SUBJECTS

The West African Examinations Council has announced the introduction of 39 new subjects in its examinations.

 The Council’s Acting Head, Test Development Division, Mrs. Olayinka Ajibade, who announced this, said the new subjects would commence in this year’s May/June West African Senior School Certificate Examination.

Ajibade said this while delivering a paper titled “The New Senior Secondary Education Curriculum in Nigeria: Implications for Assessment” at the council’s monthly seminar in Lagos on Friday. The fresh initiative, she said, was in accordance with the Nigerian Education Research and Development Council’s new secondary school curriculum.

DISPLAY OF AFFLUENCE BY THE FIRST SON OF INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE

His father sits at the top of the police force in Nigeria and he in turn sits on top of so much money.......

We are referring to no other than the first son of the current Inspector General of Police, Jamil Abubakar who displayed  his fabuolous multimillion dollar toys.

IGP Mohammed Abubakar has been a policeman all his life. The Nigerian Police Force is ill equipped and its officers are not motivated due to the peanut they earn as their take home pay. Millions of Naira budgeted for the force are embezzled by the top hierarchy, as seen in the several corruption cases former IGPs are involved in.

Not less than three past inspetor general of police are under prosecution for corruption, or have been found guilty of embezzlement and misappropriation.

His son Jamil, is a Kingston University-trained Computing Information Systems and Multimedia graduate and is currently a pilot with Elite Airwings.

See his expensive cars and collection of watches after the cut........

ATIKU ABUBAKAR (@ATIKU) FINALLY DUMPS PDP FOR APC, (READ THE FULL TEXT OF HIS PRESS STATEMENT HERE)

ATIKU ABUBAKAR

Former Vice-President of the Nigeria and one of the founders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, dumped the party, alleging a reign of impunity that has put the party beyond redemption.

Atiku, whose resignation letter is to be delivered to the PDP ward chairman in Jada, Adamawa State today, said he would be joining the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Sources close to the former vice-president told Vanguard last night that Atiku would be received by the top leadership of the APC at a rally being organised in Yola this morning. Party leaders, including Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, among others, are to witness the public defection of the former vice-president at the Yola rally. Atiku in a statement, yesterday, urged his supporters across the country to take opportunity of the APC registration exercise commencing Wednesday to join the opposition party.

Read the full text of his press statement after the cut...............

FIRE OUTBREAK AT ST. NICHOLAS HOSPITAL, LAGOS ISLAND

Fire which started at about 9:00pm razed St. Nicholas Hospital located at 57 Campbell Street in Lagos Island on Sunday, displacing over 40 patients on admission also destroying the medical complex, with equipment worth several millions.

Confirming the fire disaster the director Lagos State Fire Service, Mr. Rasak Fadipe, said the fire service was prompt in responding to the fire outbreak.

More updates soon.

ROBBERS ARE ON RAMPAGE IN LAGOS - KILLS NEWSWATCH EDITOR

The Deputy Editor of Daily Newswatch newspaper, Mr. Toyin Obadina, who was shot early morning Saturday by unknown gunmen, has died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Ikeja.

Police sources said Mr. Obadina, 50, was driving a Toyota Yaris car with number plate AKD 701 CE when he was attacked along Ijebu-Ode road by Hypo/Lucky Fibre junction by five armed hoodlums who operated in an SUV whose make and number could not be ascertained.

The source said the hoodlums stole N20,000 from the victim and shot him on his stomach before fleeing from the scene. It was gathered that widow, who was contacted at their Tunde Odewole Crescent, Adamo in Ikorodu, together with other sympathizers rushed the victim to Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Ikeja where doctors commenced immediate treatment.

NDLEA ARRESTS MAN WITH 107 ATM CARDS

National Drug Law  Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), yesterday, arrested a 36-year-old Turkish airline’s passenger with 107 automated teller machine (ATM) cards at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.

The suspect, who holds a dual identity, was apprehended during an outward screening of  the Turkish Airline passengers to Istanbul, Turkey at the airport when the cards were discovered by anti-narcotics officials.

Speaking on the arrest, NDLEA  Airport Commander, Mr Hamza Umar, noted that the suspect was also arrested with two international passports  with his photographs but bearing different names.

THE TRAGEDY OF RAPE - HANNATU MUSAWA

Some weeks ago, I went to meet and speak to a brave 2-year-old girl in Abuja. As I walked into the building, where she was standing with her parents, she became startled at the sight of what she must have identified to be a stranger and quickly grabbed her mother’s wrapper to hide behind. I took out a bag of sweets from my bag and upon reaching the mother, bent down and offered them to the frightened little girl.

With my hands full of sweets outstretched, the little girl failed to recognize my gesture as an act of goodwill. After some encouragement from her mother and after my numerous failed impressions of Disney characters, the little girl eventually came out from hiding behind her mother’s wrapper and accepted one of the sweets from my hand. After some time, and after some more impressions by me, she slowly relaxed and finally looked at me. As she raised her head to look at me, I saw that she had the most beautiful big brown eyes. Just as quickly as I smiled at her, my smile became a frown; because within those beautiful eyes, I saw sadness; I saw pain; I saw agony. 

HOW UNKNOWN GUNMEN KILLED RADICAL ISLAMIC PREACHER AND HIS WIFE IN ZARIA

LATE ALBANI ZARIA

The suspected terrorists that last night killed the leader of Sallafiyah in Zaria, Kaduna State, Sheik Muhammad Awwal Adam popularly known as "Albani Zaria" trailed the Islamic scholar and his family from his Tudun Wada school in Zaria. His family told SaharaReporters in a telephone interview.

The family said he was on his way to his home in Tudun Jukun area when the men opened fire on them and instantly killed his wife and son, the scholar was dragged out of the car and shot by the gunmen before they escaped.

Read more after the cut...........................

SHEKAU IS STILL ON THE LOOSE - NIGERIA ARMY

Few months ago, there were speculations that Boko Haram leader, Sheik Abubaka Shekau had been killed by the Army but contrary to this, the Defence Headquarters has said it has not ended its effort to capture, dead or alive, a dreaded leader of Boko Haram Islamic sect. The Director of Defence Information, Maj. Gen Chris Olukolade, on Friday.

The Army spoke just as the the United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. James Entwhistle, expressed doubts over the death of the terrorist. Entwhistle had said he was not aware of Shekau’s death while speaking with journalists in Lagos on Thursday. The US envoy was quoted as also saying it would be difficult to track down the Boko Haram leader.

ASARI DOKUBO IS A THUG - EL RUFAI SPEAKS

EL RUFAI

The Interim Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Nasir El-Rufai, on Saturday referred to ex-Niger Delta militant leader, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo as a thug, saying there was no basis for comparing both of them.

El-Rufai said this during an interview with Sahara TV, while responding to a question on his 15-hour interrogation by the State Security Service. When the one-time Minister of the Federal Capital Territory was asked if the name of Asari-Dokubo came up during the interrogation, he said no, and stressed that he could not have mentioned Asari-Dokubo’s name because their personalities were not comparable.

HILARIOUS MESSAGE FROM DUDE TETSOLA - I AM NOT MARRIED YET, I ONLY REPRESENTED MY BROTHER

 

Dude Tetsola is a very funny guy... Seriously... You guys will agree with me after reading this...........

Weeks following what many believe was his surprise wedding, singer Dude Tetsola is claiming he’s not married. The singer says he represented his brother who couldn’t attend the wedding because he ‘couldn’t get his VISA’.

‘I stood in for my elder brother. He couldn’t get his visa. They saw the pictures and people started saying I got married. Please, it is not me. I am not yet married’, he told Punch Newspaper.

HORROR IN UAE AS AUSTRIAN RAPE VICTIM WAS ARRESTED AFTER SHE REPORTED THE CRIME AND WAS TOLD SHE HAD TO MARRY HER ATTACKER.

An Austrian woman who was raped in Dubai has been arrested for having extra martial sex and was told by police she could only avoid jail if she married her attacker.

The 29-year-old student from Vienna was facing a jail sentence having been accused of having sex outside of marriage and drinking alcohol, both of which are illegal in the United Arab Emirate capital. It was only after the Austrian Foreign Ministry intervened, that she was able to leave the country and return home.

APC IS INDIVISIBLE EVEN THOUGH THE OPPOSITION KEEPS TRYING - BOLA TINUBU

As the All Progressives Congress, APC, Lagos State chapter, began the process for the 2015 general elections, the  national leader of the party and former Governor of the state, Bola Tinubu, has declared that the party is indivisible, despite all efforts from different quarters to divide the party. He however, assured all members and intending members that the party would follow due process to the letter in the selection of candidates for various offices.

Tinubu, who gave the assurance while addressing members at a stakeholders’ meeting at the weekend, held at the state Secretariat of APC,  in Ikeja, urged all prospective and old members to register in accordance with the party’s constitution, saying that only registered members would get the party’s identity cards and be recognized as such.

Speaking shortly after the guidelines for party membership and registration were read to the large crowd by a senior officer of the party, Tinubu, said: “We love peace in this state and I can be at peace wherever you send me. We want peace at various senatorial districts, local governments and ward levels. Let there be peace. We will not allow those who are trying to divide us to succeed. We are indivisible. We are five and six; twin brothers and sisters and that is the only way we can achieve victory.

NAIJA COMEDIANS ARE SMILING TO THE BANK AND DOING GREAT EXPLOITS.

Days are long gone when the comedy profession was seen as a job meant for the never do wells. As it is at the moment, while so many people are cracking their ribs, laughing at their jokes, these men (and women) laugh all the way to the bank. They count their money in millions and are getting more and more recognition. Now, they even export their jokes and profession outside Nigeria hosting major events. To them, what they do is no longer a joke but serious business. Saturday Beats looks at some of these comedians.

BASKET MOUTH

Ever since Bright ‘Basketmouth’ Okpocha came into limelight over a decade ago, this comedian has been trailblazing the industry. Although he thought he would make it as a musician, God had something else in store for him. In 1991, he discovered his skills in drumming, which he did for over five years. During his days as an instrumentalist for his church and a band at a point, he also discovered his skills in rap music and later diverted into that path in 1994. In 1995, he, his friends and brother formed a group called Da Psychopaths. It had seven members but they split before they could even release an album or a single. Now he is a celebrated comedian. He has a highly anticipated show scheduled for the UK. It is reported that a bank has thrown its weight behind him by sponsoring his comedy tour with N30m. The show is to hold this month in Manchester, Birmingham and London respectively.

FORMER VICE-PRESIDENT ATIKU ABUBAKAR (@ATIKU) SET TO DEFECT TO THE APC FROM THE RULING PDP.

ATIKU ABUBAKAR

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is set to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party again to the All Progressives Congress. He is not new to defecting from one party to the other..

With the conclusion of his nationwide consultative meetings with that of the North-East geo-political zone in Bauchi on Friday, it was gathered that Atiku would soon make a formal declaration of his defection to the opposition party.

The conclusion of the meetings came on a day that associates of the former Vice President from the North-East were said to have overwhelmingly rejected the PDP and rooted for the APC  as a preferred political platform.