Blog by XANTAPLUS

Monday, 7 April 2014

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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Sunday, 6 April 2014

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.

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

EVE 3 ARS 0

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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WE SHOULD WORRY ABOUT EBOLA VIRUS!!!!!!

The news of the recent outbreak of Ebola fever in parts of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone should set off alarm bells here at home.

We should be very worried about this development because in the West African sub-region, Nigerians are the most widely travelled nationals. One or several people contracting the virus and bringing it back here would be a major problem.

For one, the World Health Organisation issued a statement which said the recent outbreak of the Ebola virus is a limited one. On the other hand, Doctors Without Borders stated rather cryptically that this outbreak was unprecedented in their experience.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME............

I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praises to my God as long as I live. Psalm 146:2

Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything; tell God your needs, and don't forget to thank Him for His answers. If you do this, you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will keep your thoughts and your hearts quiet and at rest as you trust in Christ. Philippians 4:6-7

By his grace, I am a year older today. The verses above expresses several life experiences and it's lessons.

Many who were family members, neighbours, class/course mates, colleagues and even acquaintances are no more, yet Jehovah has counted me worthy to be ALIVE & LIVING. I owe him so much praise.

Brethen, count your life as a blessing and put on the garment of praise daily for all JEHOVAH has done for you.

LET'S TALK ABOUT NIGERIA.............

Anyone attempting to guess the outcome of the National Dialogue, or rules out its possibilities for charting a new course for Nigeria, is under-estimating the challenges facing Nigeria and the urgency required in dealing with them.

Contention for space is not a Nigerian phenomenon. Politicians contest for space everywhere. They disagree; they proffer alternatives to governments in power. What appears totally Nigerian in these contentions is the absurdity of ruling out options or making decisions without listening to other sides.

Would the National Dialogue face the same challenges? Sectional interests seem to understand the dialogue as a platform to foist their hegemony. Complaints about number of delegates assigned to them indicate they are coming to Abuja to propagate their interests. Would sectional interests translate to national interests? Who would speak for Nigeria at the dialogue?

Chelsea face a staggering £10million bill to get Fernando Torres out of Stamford Bridge as the forward prepares to dig in over his £175,000-a-week contract.

Manager Jose Mourinho has made it clear Torres has no future at Chelsea and questioned whether he is ‘a real striker’ following the 3-1 defeat by Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday. Torres, 30, has two years left on his lucrative contract.

The Spain striker will not be able to command £175,000 a week anywhere else after a disastrous spell in London, but wants to be compensated for taking a lower salary elsewhere.

SAM SODJE

Seven more professional footballers have been arrested in connection with alleged spot-fixing and another six rearrested over the claims.

The 13 footballers, aged between 18 and 30, are all from Football League clubs in the north-west of England and none of them have yet being charged.

They are being interviewed at police stations across the country after they were held as part of an investigation into alleged bribery and money laundering, the National Crime Agency said.

In December the original six suspects were arrested as part of the inquiry, prompted by information passed on by the Sun on Sunday, and were bailed to return on April 8.

Insecurity is a major challenge in Nigeria as Vanguard reports that suspected kidnappers have abducted Mr. Ebi Clark, son of Ijaw national leader and former Federal Minister for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, currently a delegate to the National Conference.

He was reportedly kidnapped, Wednesday, at Clark’s country home, Kiagbodo in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State by the gunmen, who invaded the community.

A source told Vanguard that they whisked him away in a speedboat through the Kiagbodo River, connecting Ramos and Forcados Rivers in Bayelsa and Delta states.

"Margaret-Mary Oluwatoyin Ejiroghene Joseph" whose stage name was "Zara Gretti" will be buried today, 4th April 2014 at Ikoyi Cemetery after a Funeral Mass holding at 10am which will be held at Holy Cross Cathedral, Catholic Mission.

The late musician died after battling with Multiple Sclerosis, a terrible nervous disease.

May her soul rest in peace.

CONFERENCE OF SLEEPY OLD MEN WITHOUT STRENGTH TO DECIDE THE FUTURE OF NIGERIA - ORJI KALU

A former Abia State governor, Orji Kalu, has described the ongoing National Conference in Abuja as a home to old men who do not have the strength to decide the future of the nation.

Speaking at the Centenary Lecture organised by the Oyo State branch of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Kalu, who delivered a lecture titled, ‘Nigeria: A Nation in Quest of Credible Leadership’, said Nigeria would not move forward unless the first generation leaders withdrew gradually from politics.

He said, “The present crop of leaders seems to be failing the nation and the people are becoming increasingly doubtful if indeed we have leaders. To worsen matters, the first generation leaders are still mostly the ones calling the shots. If you go through the National Conference delegates’ list, you will be amazed by the number of men in their 80s still trying to determine the type of future that is suitable for the millennium generation. What fresh ideas can these sleepy old men offer on the way forward? There can be no credible leadership until these men begin to gradually withdraw and allow the younger generation to take charge.”

There was pandemonium in the Akinremi Estate, Adigbe, Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Thursday after some youths discovered a baby factory around Vulcaniser Bus Stop.

The incident comes barely two weeks after eight women were rescued from a baby factory in the Akute area of the state. Eyewitnesses said that the youths, who thought the building was a ritual killers’ den broke into the compound.

In a fit of rage, the youths were said to have set two vehicles ablaze as well as the one-storey building.

A traffic official, who witnessed the incident, said the youths were able to recover a blood-filled basin, coffin, mortar, calabash, effigy, assorted charms, clothes, live scorpion and other suspected fetish items.

A Nigerian court on Thursday said intelligence agents broke the law when they seized the passport of ousted central bank governor Lamido Sanusi and ordered the government to pay damages and publicly apologise.

Sanusi was suspended on February 20, less than four months before his terms was set to expire, after accusing the powerful state oil firm of stealing nearly $20 billion (14.5 billion euros) of public funds.

Hours after the suspension was announced, Sanusi returned to Lagos from a regional bankers meeting in Niger and was met by intelligence agents at the airport who confiscated his passport. The ex-central bank boss immediately filed a complaint claiming that his rights had been breached.

At a hearing at the Federal High court in Lagos, judge Ibrahim Buba ruled that the actions of the Directorate of State Services (DSS) “deserve condemnation” and ordered it to return Sanusi’s passport immediately.

UN Sports for Peace and Development day: Football peace event in Nigeria.

A football match in commemoration of the United Nations (UN) Sports for Peace and Development day will hold on Friday, 4th April 2014, in Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria.

The football match is aimed at communicating the message of peace in a country direly in need of same.

The match, which will hold at the football field of LEA school Utako, will serve as an an avenue for students to implore the Nigerian government to seek for solutions to end conflicts and terrorism attacks.

Speaking about the event, the Coordinator of the event, an award winning sports journalist and a social change initiator, Aderonke Ogunleye, said she intends to live indelible marks in the lives of the school children and make the day unforgettable.