UNITED STATES RELEASES DAMNING HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT ABOUT NIGERIA.

A new report by the United States has described Nigeria as a country where corruption, official impunity, and gross human rights violations occur at will.

The report described the human rights violations to include extra-judicial killings, rape, torture, mistreatment of detainees, destruction of property, violence against women, vigilante killings, child labour, forced and bonded labour, and discrimination based on sexual orientation.

This assessment of Nigeria is according to the 2013 Country Report on Human Rights. The report, which is now in its 38th year, is sanctioned by the U.S. Congress. It, amongst other things, helps inform the U.S. government policy and foreign assistance.

According to the report, the terrorist group, Boko Haram, and the Nigerian Government are the worst perpetrators of human rights abuses in the country.

NUGA 2014 - GAMES OF FUN, SALES AND DISAPPOINTMENT.

The just concluded 24th edition of the Nigerian University Games left participants with different types of memories. While some athletes wept for joy wishing the Games could last a life time, a few others were eager to say good-byes.

The Games started on Wednesday, February 12, and ended on the 22nd at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State. Despite the mixed reactions that surrounded the hosting of the games, it witnessed colourful opening and closing ceremonies.

The closing ceremony also saw the next host, Federal University of Agriculture, Markurdi, Benue State, receive the games flag to signify the countdown to the next games.

CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS AND THE SLAUGHTER OF SOULS - FANI KAYODE

On 26th February 2014 one Mr. Adegoroye wrote "only an insane government will be celebrating centenary while the youths, women, children and citizens are being killed daily in cold blood. Rather than mourn the dead, we want to celebrate one hundred years of a failed state ruled by a failed and cursed generation. This country (Nigeria) needs more than just prayers if the government will be unable, for just twenty four hours, to protect the citizens. Who says we don't have a war situation in Nigeria? Oh! Families of the pained and the dead should celebrate too? Why not invite them all to Abuja to come and dance and entertain you? Shame has only one definition - shame!".

These are deep and powerful words and the rage, frustration and despair that fuels them reflects the thinking of many. Mr. Joseph Tobi Daniel drove home the point when, on the same day, he used his twitter handle to ask "what kind of leader focuses on a centenary celebration when the souls of slaughtered children are crying out for justice?"

Millions of Nigerians would like an answer to that question and they were utterly appalled as they watched our President glibly delivering his centenary broadcast speech on national television the night of 25th February 2014 where he extolled the so-called virtues of 100 years of our national existence. And as he spoke more innocent people were being slaughtered. Yet the concerns did not stop there.

ROBBERS KILL 2 POLICE OFFICERS AT IBADAN IN AN ATTEMPT TO STEAL CHURCH'S TITHE & OFFERING.

Dare-devil robbers, yesterday, desecrated a church as they shot two policemen dead at the Vine Branch Church, Queen Elizabeth Road, Ibadan, after their failed attempts to steal the church’s tithes and offering.

Policemen were also said to have fired some fatal shots at one of the robbers who was reportedly taken  away by his gang members.

According to sources, the robbers, who were said to have mixed with the congregation, accosted a banker who is in charge of the collections, but the robbers miscalculated as nothing was found on him.

VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS - CAPITAL ONE CUP FINAL - MANCHESTER CITY 3 SUNDERLAND 1

MAN CITY 3 SUNDERLAND 1

The blue side of Manchester won the first major trophy in England yesterday defeating Sunderland by three goals to one with Africa Footballer of the Year, YAYA TOURE grabbing one of the goals of the season.

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PICTURES & FULL LIST OF WINNERS AT THE OSCARS................

Best Picture

12 Years A Slave

Best Director

Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Matthew McConaughey 

FRESH VIDEO - KILOGBE - SEAN TIZZLE (@iamseantizzle)

KILOGBE

Next Rated Award winner at "THE HEADIES 2013" Sean Tizzle presents the visuals of one his hit songs "KILOGBE"....

Enjoy the VIDEO.

POLICE DECLARES RAPISTS WANTED IN ONDO AFTER HE INJURED PASTOR AND HACKED HIS WIFE TO DEATH.

Questions are being asked about what could have prompted a 22-year-old university drop- out, simply identified as Jerry, to want to rape Mrs Eunice Ajayi Omoniyi, 57, wife of a pastor, in Akure,  Ondo State capital.

The incident happened on February 20 at Peace-land Road, along Ilesa-Akure Expressway at about 5pm.

The suspect, now on the run and has been declared wanted by the state Police Command, allegedly hacked his victim to death with a digger for rejecting the ungodly act.

The husband of the deceased, Pastor Omoniyi, was attacked when he tried to rescue his wife and is critically ill at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTH) Ile- Ife, Osun State where he was referred to from the state Specialist Hospital, Akure.

THERE MUST NEVER BE THIRD PARTIES IN A MARRIAGE - OMOTOLA EKEINDE ADVICES

Beautiful Actress,Omotola Jalade Ekeinde and her husband, Matthew granted an interview to Punch correpondent where they talked about their 18-year-old union.

What was the initial attraction?

Matthew: She was beautiful, fresh and untouched. I decided to start with someone who hadn’t seen the world yet.

Omotola: He was good looking but basically, it was his sense of humour and sense of responsibility. He is God-fearing too and a serious-minded person.

NIGERIA'S ACCOUNTANT-GENERAL & NAICOM FINGERED IN ALLEGED RECORD BREAKING FRAUD OF N3.54B - PREMIUM TIMES

Government officials are continuously devising means of stealing public funds. Read the following report by Premium Times.

It appears a new kind of fraud in Nigeria. A contract was duly awarded by government to some private firms. But when it was time to make payment for job done, the N3.538billion contract sum was diverted to an entirely different set of companies.

The companies which received payment did not bid for the jobs, were not awarded the contract and are not known to have offered any service. The firms which offered service but have now been deprived their legitimate earnings are now crying foul.

WHY WE HONOURED ABACHA - FG

The Nigerian government on Friday said although late General Sani Abacha’s regime was one of the most controversial in Nigeria’s history, the military dictator deserved to be honoured.

The government also explained why Mr. Abacha, Nigeria’s military dictator from 1993 to 1998, was among those who received the centenary award for 100 Nigerians. The government stated this position in the awardees’ brochure where a brief citation was written for each recipient and reasons given why he or she deserved the award.

AMAZING SKILLS OF PAUL POGBA (THE OCTOPUS)..............

PAUL POGBA

Paul Labile Pogba (born 15 March 1993) is a French international footballer who plays for Italian club Juventus in Serie A. He operates primarily as a midfielder and is comfortable at playing both in attack and defence.

He had a three year stint with Manchester United under the leadership of Alex Ferguson...  The club must be sorry to let go of this powerful midfielder who has since imposed himself on the Serie A.....

Pogba is young, talented and powerful...He is the future of french football....

HORROR IN CHINA AS KNIFE WIELDING MEN ATTACK TRAIN STATION KILLING 28 AND INJURING 113.

At least 28 people have been killed and 113 injured after a group of knife-wielding men hacked their way through innocent people at one of China's busiest railway stations.

Distressing photos circulating online showed bodies, pools of blood and abandoned luggage scattered across the terminal floor at Kunming Railway Station in Yunnan province.

Authorities described the incident at about 9.20pm local time (1.20pm GMT) as an 'organised, premeditated, violent terrorist attack' in which at least 10 people stabbed commuters outside the station terminal before moving inside.

THE CANONISATION OF TERROR - WOLE SOYINKA

The sheer weight of indignation and revulsion of most of Nigerian humanity at the recent Boko Haram atrocity in Yobe is most likely to have overwhelmed a tiny footnote to that outrage, small indeed, but of an inversely proportionate significance.  This was the name of the hospital to which the survivors of the massacre were taken. That minute detail calls into question, in a gruesome but chastening way, the entire ethical landscape into which this nation has been forced by insensate leadership.  It is an uncanny coincidence, one that I hope the new culture of ‘religious tourism’, spearheaded by none other than the nation’s president in his own person, may even come to recognize as a message from unseen forces.

For the name of that hospital, it is reported, is none other than that of General Sanni Abacha, a vicious usurper under whose authority the lives of an elected president and his wife were snuffed out.  Assassinations – including through bombs cynically ascribed to the opposition – became routine. Under that ruler, torture and other forms of barbarism were enthroned as the norm of governance.  To round up, nine Nigerian citizens, including the writer and environmentalist Ken Saro-wiwa, were hanged after a trial that was stomach churning even by the most primitive standards of judicial trial, and in defiance of the intervention of world leadership. We are speaking here of a man who placed this nation under siege during an unrelenting reign of terror that is barely different from the current rampage of Boko Haram. It is this very psychopath that was recently canonized by the government of Goodluck Jonathan in commemoration of one hundred years of Nigerian trauma.

BETWEEN SANUSI AND THE POWERS-THAT-BE - FANI KAYODE

Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is not my favourite person and I have differences with him on many issues. I must, however, commend his immense courage for speaking out and exposing the monumental corruption in the government that he once served as CBN Governor and that has now decided that they no longer require his services.

Two weeks ago, he claimed that 20 billion US dollars had gone missing from the coffers of the NNPC. Today, he has been suspended and relieved of his duties for exposing the rot and speaking the truth. I have little doubt that the next thing that will happen is that he will be subjected to a formal probe and the EFCC will be called in to investigate his tenure of office. They will throw everything that they have got at him including the kitchen sink simply because he refused to play ball with them and cover up their penchant for monumental corruption and graft.

CASUALTIES UNKNOWN AS EXPLOSION ROCKS VIEWING CENTRE MAIDUGURI.

Twin explosions, Saturday evening, rocked a football viewing centre in Ajilari ward, Jere Council area of Maiduguri,  the Borno State capital killing several football fans as reported by Vanguard Ng.

The Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), said to have been planted by suspected Boko Haram terrorists at the viewing centre at Ajilari Railway Cross,  exploded at about 6pm,  killing many fans, while several others sustained injuries.

A resident of Ajilari told our Correspondent that, “Some suspected terrorists in two Toyota Hilux Pick Up vans, pretending to be  firewood suppliers, detonated the bombs near the football viewing centre,  resulting in loss of several lives.

WHY I REJECTED THE CENTENARY AWARD - WOLE SOYINKA.

Professor Wole Soyinka, the Nobel laureate, said he rejected Nigeria’s centenary award bestowed on him because of the inclusion on the honours list of the late Nigerian tyrant, General Sani Abacha and other known killers and looters of Nigeria’s treasury.

In a rejection note headlined ”The Canonisation of Terror”, Soyinka observed that the inclusion of Abacha on the list does not only show a failure of a moral rigour but it calls into question ”the entire ethical landscape into which this nation has been forced by insensate leadership”.

He reminded those who have forgotten so soon that General Sani Abacha was a vicious usurper under whose authority the lives of an elected president and his wife—M.K.O and Kudirat Abiola— were snuffed out.

RUSSIA SET TO INTERVENE IN UKRAINE'S CRISIS.

The new pro-Russian leader of Ukraine's southern Crimea region has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for help in maintaining peace, as international concerns mount that Moscow may intervene militarily in the crisis.

A Kremlin spokesman said Russia "will not disregard" Crimean Premier Sergey Aksyonov's request for help "in maintaining peace and accord in Crimea."

Aksyonov, who was installed as the region's premier after armed men took over the Crimean parliament building Thursday, said security forces "are unable to efficiently control the situation in the republic," in comments broadcast on Russian state channel Russia 24.

LAWYER NABBED WITH N1.2M CASH BRIBE FOR EFCC OPERATIVES.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a legal practitioner, Barrister Ayodele Owoka, 47, over allegations of bribery.

He was arrested on Thursday, February 27, 2014 at the Commission’s office in Ikoyi, Lagos as he attempted to bribe a team of operatives investigating a case of contract inflation, abuse of office, stealing, embezzlement and misappropriation of funds at the Federal Medical Centre, Owo, Ondo State.

Upon his arrest, the suspect confessed that he offered the operatives N1.2 Million which was allegedly given to him by the Medical Director of the hospital, Dr. O. A. Omotosho, to bribe the team to soft pedal on their investigations.

Ayodele confessed that Omotosho gave him a total sum of N1.5 Million but that he kept N300, 000 for his personal use and offered the operatives the balance of N1.2Million as bribe.

The EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed the arrest and indicated that the suspect would soon be arraigned.

KIDNAPPERS DEMAND N500M FOR JONATHAN'S UNCLE.

 

Abductors of Inengite Nitabai, the 70-year old uncle of President Goodluck Jonathan, have demanded a N500m ransom.

A security source said that the abductors threatened to kill him if the family fails to produce the money.

The source also said the family had constituted a committee to evaluate the demand, establish negotiations with the abductors and facilitate his release.

He said the kidnappers had also warned against the involvement of security operatives in the matter.