News Lagos car blast: Fashola urges vigilance

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, celebrated his 51st  birthday, urging residents to be vigilant and engage any stranger in their neighborhood, to know the reason for his visit to the community.  This came barely days after a car bomb explosion occurred at the Apapa axis of the state, killing about four persons and injuring others.   Fashola made the appeal at the commissioning of the ‘Fountain of Life Church’ main auditorium, owned by Pastor Taiwo Odukoya in Ilupeju axis of the state, which also had in attendance the minister for communication and technology, Dr. Omobola Johnson, Bishop David Oyedepo and others.  Speaking after receiving a birthday gift from the church, the governor said that if Lagosians are vigilant and adaptive to their community, the challenges of insecurity would end. “We will overcome the challenges by been vigilant and adaptive. By asking questions of things that are not normal. Things that failed to follow the original conduct of human behavior. By asking question from people who are strangers in our mist seeking to know where they came from and what their purpose was among us,” he said. “We must no longer keep quite. I am sure that if we do these simple things, all will be well with us.” Fashola however tasked residents to continue to live in peace and harmony irrespective of what whatever happens.  His words, “By our action we will show that we have voted to live together; to live in peace and to respect one another’s choices. And it is from that respect that we can earn trust of one another and keep this state together.”  The governor advocated that religious organization should partner the government in eradicating poverty in the country, saying “constructing and engaging residents, are good means of reducing employment.”  He added, “This is the partnership that must exist between the government and the people of different faiths. Religious organization in other advanced countries own business to support their government to provide job and keep the economy going.”  ON HIS BIRTHDAY

While celebrating his 51th birthday with students of the Nigerian Society for the Blind, Oshodi, Fashola said “As I was planning what to do today, I remembered that I have an unfinished business here: the promises I made earlier, to assist the visually impaired. I was not forced to make them.”

He noted that this was why the state government committed about N51 million into the construction of the vocational centre for residents who are visually impaired.

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BLACK EXCELLENCE! The 10 Most Expensive Black Movies Of All Time (LIST

What is a black movie? That’s the question you might be asking yourself at this moment.     it’s good one.  It’s a question we asked ourselves when we decided to come up with this list. And it’s not an easy answer....Is a black movie one that only speaks to an black audience? Or maybe a black movie is one that tells a story about black folks? Or is a black movies that features mostly black actor and actress?   At the end we decided to simplify it: for this post, we’re defining a black movie as one where all the main stars are played by black folks. So, for example, even though Training Day has many black actors and actress and is telling a story based in a prominently black neighborhood, Ethan Hawke is the second star. So we aren’t counting it.   We originally thought about this because Think Like a Man Too comes out today. It is a black movie, but it’s also one of the biggest movies of the year. And it has a budget of $20 million, which is paltry for a major movie, but pretty sizable for a black movie.   Because, we were curious, we did some research and came up with the most expensive black movies of all time.

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News 90-yr-old woman leads protest over abandoned road in Bayelsa

Yenagoa—Angry indigenes of Okoroba community in Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, led by a 90-year- old woman, Madam Omiekumo Numo, yesterday, protested against the abandonment of the Opume-Okoroba Road project by the Federal Government.

The 10 km road project, which is to link the coastal town of Okoroba to mainland Ogbia Local Government Area, was awarded in 2011 to Mangrovtech, now known as Kakatar’ce by Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.

The project, it was learnt, was abandoned on the grounds of alleged disagreement over compensation and non- availability of sand.  The aggrieved indigenes of the community, who braved the swampy stretch of the road to stage a peaceful protest some distance away from the Opume Junction, however, noted that the decision of NDDC to award the project to the construction firm, owned by an indigene of Ogbia, was laudable.

Armed with placards, some of which read: “EFFC: Probe payment of Compensation,” “NDDC save Our Soul,” “We say No to delay,” “Enough is Enough: Give us back our road,”  “Sand is not an excuse,” among others, the aggrieved indigenes led by Madam Omiekuma Numo, said they were compelled to spend about three hours trekking through the swampy road which ordinarily they would have spent less than 15 minutes on, if the work had been completed.

According to the nonagenarian, “Our people are suffering and my children have abandoned me in the village due to the bad road. I am hungry and I woke up since 5a.m., to join the three hours protest march through the muddy water on the abandoned road to show you how serious and pained we are as a people.''

News Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony finalize divorce

Three years (and two relationships) since Jennifer Lopez and ex-husband Marc Anthony split, the couple finally finalized their divorce on Monday, June 16,  Anthony, 45, initially filed for divorce from the “First Love” singer, 44, in April 2012 after they separated in July 2011. The couple has remained friends since, co-parenting their 6-year-old twins Emme and Max.  Lopez quickly moved on in the romance department with backup dancer Casper Smart, but split from him after two-and-a-half years of dating earlier this month. Anthony dated British Topshop heiressChloe Green for a year before parting ways in February 2014.  According to TMZ, the “Jenny From the Block” singer gets primary custody of the twins, who will spend seven days a month with Anthony. When the kids are with their father, the nannies must be present.  The former couple also agreed to use their “best efforts” to keep their twins out of the spotlight and away from photographers. Neither ex has to pay or will receive spousal or child support. This is good news for Anthony, who was recently ordered to pay ex-wife Dayanara Torres $26,800 per month in child support for his two sons, Christian and Ryan.

Since her split from Smart, Lopez stayed more omnipresent than ever thanks to a highly-publicized performance at the World Cup opener in Brazil and the heavily-promoted release of her eighth studio album A.K.A.

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20 kidnapped women: Boko Haram demands 800 cows as ransom

MAIDUGURI—Boko Haram terrorists are reportedly asking for 800 cows as a precondition for the release of the abducted 20 Fulani women.

The terrorists demanded that each of the women would be swapped with 20 cows each bringing the total to 800 cows, husbands of the abducted women and other security sources have said.

The people of Chibok, including members of the Vigilante Youths denied the abduction of the Fulani women when news of the kidnap first filtered, saying that the only people missing in the area were the 230 female students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok.

The police authorities in Borno State also maintained that they were not aware of the alleged missing Fulani women.
However, the insurgents who picked up the women in Garkin Fulani, a nomadic settlement near Chibok town last Thursday were now reaching out to their husbands, demanding 20 cows each for their release.

A security source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity said many Fulani herdsmen had reported cases of abduction of their women in various police stations around Damoba and Kaga Local Government Areas of the state.

The source however, said that the husbands and fathers of the abducted women were not ready to part with even a single calf as ransom for the release of their wives and daughters.

“You know the Fulanis hold their herds more dearly, because without it they have no means of livelihood. Most of them have come to report the incident at our offices but they are all saying such demands are not tenable,”he said.
According to the officer, securitymen were presently handling a particular case at a police divisional outpost in Jakana town, Kaga Local Government, about 50 kilometres away from Maiduguri, where a Fulani man said he would rather stay without his wife than give out what he did not even have.

This man in question has a son delivered to him by his abducted wife and presently the man and his son are at the police station in Jakana.

He said he was asked to provide 40 cows as ransom for the release of his abducted wife, but the man said he has his son with him; and that if it was God’s wish that his wife would return to him, he does not need to part with his means of livelihood to secure her release, he added.

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News Fears as Fulani herdsmen invade Enugu communities

ENUGU—The people of over forty communities in Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State are currently panicking, following the invasion of their areas by Fulani herdsmen allegedly armed with AK 47 rifles.    The herdsmen, who invaded the council area with their cattle two weeks ago, had allegedly destroyed crops in the farms and were reported to have raped some women in the village who were working in their farmland.

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Agricultural and economic activities in those communities have been brought to a halt on account of the violent activities of the herdsmen, while the local vigilante group in the area had become helpless due to the superior arms carried by the invading herdsmen.

Vanguard learnt that a retired police man in the area had confronted two of them who strayed into his compound and the confrontation that ensued led to the death of a herdsman.    

 Justice Ozobu speaks

Speaking on the development, former Ohanaeze President General, Justice Eze Ozobu, who is now the Traditional ruler of Imeziowa Community of Ezeagu local government area, said the situation had got out of control, adding that his people were on the fringe of death and anarchy.

He said: “I do not know what government has done or any action taken by security operatives to checkmate the insurgency by the Fulani herdsmen. These people who we thought carry only sticks and machetes now carry AK47 rifles openly and we wonder where they got those guns from.

“People no longer go to farm anymore and every one now lives in fear of these people. They come in and settle down as if it is their home, nobody is doing anything to stop them.      

 Shooting

“In my own place, my brother who retired as a police officer, came out in the night and asked them what they were doing with guns they were carrying. At some point, he had to bring out his gun and shot two of them.”

He, however, expressed fears that with the incident, the town was apprehensive of a reprisal attack by the herdsmen.

Ozobu further lamented that should the state government fail to take action over what was happening, the tension might develop into breakdown of law and order.

Also speaking shortly after a meeting of the Ezeagu general assembly in Enugu, the President General, Dr. Obiora Ozobu, said they had a resolution to make an official complaint to Enugu State Government, after speaking with the local government chairman and the state House of Assembly.

He said: “This is a very serious issue in Ezeagu and we shall make official entry with the police and also speak with the council chairman and elected political office holders and we shall also find out the position of the state House of Assembly in order to figure out how we are to go about it.

“At a neighbouring town, a farmer was shot dead by these Fulani people and we have had three reported cases of rape of village women that went to their farm.      

 AK 47 rifles

“The most frightening aspect of this problem is how and where they got those AK 47 rifles that they brandish openly. That means there is more to the cattle rearing that meets the ordinary eye.

“It is not that we cannot defend ourselves or that we do not have what it takes to defend ourselves, but we are only trying to do this within the ambit of the law so that our actions do not worsen the already bad situation.

“In Ezeagu, we do not sleep at night because they can come at anytime and begin to slaughter people.

Soldiers kill 50 Boko Haram members in Borno Gunmen abduct 20 women near Chibok

MAIDUGURI—Troops of the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, weekend, killed over 50 Boko Haram terrorists in Bita village of Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State on their way to attack some villages in Borno and Adamawa states.

However, suspected Boko Haram gunmen have reportedly kidnapped 20 women from a nomadic settlement in the North-East near Chibok, where over 200 schoolgirls were abducted in April.

Alhaji Tar, a member of the vigilante group in the area, said the men arrived at noon, weekend, in the Garkin Fulani settlement and forced the women into their vehicles at gunpoint, adding that three young men that tried to stop the kidnapping were also abducted.

Meanwhile, residents of the ancient town of Dikwa, Borno State, ran into the bush when faulty solar street light batteries exploded in a store yesterday. The loud explosion was followed by sporadic gunshots by security forces.

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The Fence Headquarters, in a statement by the Director, Defense information, Major General Chris Olukolade, said: “Troops conducting anti-terrorists campaign in North-Eastern Nigeria have successfully averted attempted massive raid on villages in Borno and Adamawa states, during the weekend.

“The terrorists, who were on their way to attack selected communities, were ambushed by troops along Bilta, Borno State, on receiving intelligence report of the terrorists’ intention.”
The statement said the attack was launched on the terrorists as they filed out of the forest to embark on their mission at about 10p.m. on Saturday.

“Over 50 terrorists died in the fierce encounter that ensued, while 30 rifles, 36 hand grenades, seven machine guns and 11 rocket-propelled grenade tubes were captured by the troops,” General Olukolade added.
Also recovered from the terrorists were over 3,500 rounds of ammunition, six smoke grenade canisters, locally fabricated guns and four vehicles.

The army stated that four soldiers were injured in the operation and are currently receiving medical treatment in the military medical facility.

Dikwa explosion
In Dikwa, there was confusion occasioned by mass exodus of people, including women and children, yesterday, after a thunderous blast.

A senior security official in Maiduguri said: “There was no attack in Dikwa by the terror group. The locals were actually scared when they heard a scaring bang, which was caused by some solar light batteries kept in a store.
“Soon after the ‘blast’ troops in Dikwa fired friendly shots into the air and the residents mistook the development and fled.

“Many people took to the bushes because they thought our men were engaging the terrorists. I want to assure you that normalcy has returned.”
Vanguard also gathered that the Divisional Police Officer of Dikwa and his team visited the scene and discovered that the batteries exploded due to excessive heat. 

News Jonathan commissions 68-seater coaches to boost rail service

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, commissioned two sets of Diesel Multiple Units, DMUs, and 68-seater air-conditioned passenger coaches acquired by the Nigeria Railway Corporation to boost its passenger traffic.  President Goodluck Jonathan

Each set of the DMU is made up of three trailer cars, and one motor car at each end. Each of the trailer cars also has 72 seating capacity and provision for 108 standing passengers, making, a total of 540 passengers for the three cars.

The ceremony was graced by many dignitaries including, the Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Mrs. Adejoke Adefulire, who represented the Lagos state governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar, Minister of Defence (State), Senator Musiliu Obanikoro and Minister for Police Affairs, Alhaji Abduljelili Adesiyan.

Speaking during the commissioning, President Jonathan, represented by the Vice President Namadi Sambo, said the acquisition of the modern coaches is an indication of the Federal Government’s commitment to provide a rail service of international standard.

He said: “My presence here today is an indication of the resolve of this administration to bring Nigeria at par with modern railway services available globally, by constantly upgrading and overhauling the system. It has been the top priority of this administration to continue to invest in infrastructure which will help the economic life of this country.”

Also speaking, chairman of the Railway Board of Directors, and former Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Turkur, said: “The Federal Government’s huge investment in the rail transportation sub-sector and indeed the entire transport sector, is in realization of the fact that the survival and the extent of the development of any economy depends very significantly on the extent of development and efficiency of its transportation system.

“The Nigerian Railway board will continue to provide the Nigeria Railway Corporation, the desired policy directions to enable it continue to provide affordable, safe and value added rail transport services to the commuting and freighting public. Our intention is to continue to improve on the facilities and infrastructure of the Nigerian Railway Corporation to ensure that the system further increases its passenger and freight movement.”

Also speaking, the Managing Director, NRC, Engr. Adeseyi Sijuade, said that the delivery of the new coaches was in fulfillment of the Federal Government’s transformation agenda for the railway sector. He disclosed that the corporation would take delivery of additional five air-conditioned coaches by August. He noted that the newly acquired railway vehicles were designed and manufactured in China by CSR Nanjing Puzhen Company Limited, and Kintech Nigeria Limited, specifically for Nigeria Railway’s narrow gauge railway system.

He further explained that in sustaining the railway drive, “The DMUs will be deployed for mass transit train services in densely populated cities starting with Lagos. With the introduction of these DMUs, the number of passengers moved by rail on a daily basis in Lagos is expected to rise from 16,000 to 22,000. Furthermore, these DMUs, will free up a number of our heavy locomotives currently being used for passenger services, which can be redeployed to pull freight wagons, thereby enhancing our freight capacity.”

News Dokubo-Asari at 50: ‘My encounter with Boko Haram leaders in jail’

                              He means different things to people. To some, he is a militant. To many others, he is a social crusader. But to several people in the Niger-Delta, especially the Ijaw community, his tribe, he is both a warrior and liberator. This is even as many people believe the former Ijaw Youth Council President and leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, is enigmatic. The son of a former judge in Rivers State judiciary, Asari appears unstoppable in the fight to liberate his people. He clocked the golden age of 5O on June 1, 2014. In this interview, he tells the story of his many struggles amongst others. Excerpts:

Let us start with your many encounters with the law and arrests. We recall you were a regular guest to the offices of security agencies.

Arrest was a regular thing. I can’t really tell. I became used to arrest. In fact, the police and SSS in Port Harcourt, maybe they advised the government, saying ‘pls, just leave this guy alone. This guy, arrest no dey do am anything’. (Laughing and speaking in pidgin English). ‘Just leave him alone. The guy enjoys getting arrested’.

Yes, that was one of the greatest undoing of Obasanjo because he thought I could be cowed. Go and look at my trial videos. There is trial like that where the judge was put in the dock. I was the one questioning the judge. It is not possible. So, the government and Obasanjo really, really, really did not understand the type of person he was dealing with. May be in Nigeria, there were no such people then. Today, we have Boko Haram. So, a new group of people has started.

Were you ever taken to any dungeon…?
(Cuts in) I was in SSS underground for 10 months and 11 days in solitary confinement.

How did you cope?
I would have run mad. Many people did. But because I had memorized parts of the Koran, instead of talking to myself, I just recited the Koran. That was what kept me alive. If I had not memorized the Koran, I would have been mad. Talking to yourself is a different thing. But this one, you are reading, edifying your soul.

So, while in prison, did you get to meet with any of the people now linked to Boko Haram?
I met with so many people, not only Boko Haram militants. Yes, I met with a lot of them: Muda Shiru, Mohammed Isam, Yusuf Hussein, Asan Yusuf, Mohammed Bello.

Who were these people?
They were leaders of the group that is now called Boko Haram. They were arrested and repatriated from Libya.

Do you know if they are still alive?
Yeah. But some of them are no longer with them. Isam is no longer with them. I don’t have their contact. But I believe that the majority of those people may have been dead because we had very close relationship when we were in prison even though we didn’t see face to face. They were in their cells and I was in mine; so we hit the wall and talked. During prayers, we prayed together by shouting.

If that is the case, don’t you get to talk to them to broker ceasefire and all that or do we have new faces now?
No, no, no. It depends on government approach. Someone in government thought it could be wished away, that it was easy. Boko Haram? ‘It will fizzle away’ and all the warning we gave them, they did not accept. They misled the government into believing that it could be wished it away. If they had taken a decisive action at that time, I don’t think that this would have reached the stage it has reached now.

But a decision was taken on their leader, Yusuf Mohammed?
That was not the sort of decisive action. The killing of Yusuf Mohammed was a mistake. If Yusuf Mohammed were to die, he should have gone for trial. Nobody should use his whims and caprices as the law like what Saddam Hussein said “whatever I wrote with my hand, that is the law”. That was what Yar’Adua did. Why should you kill somebody extra-judicially? Take him to court if he had committed any offense. You have the laws. If they had followed due process, it would have mitigated what is happening. But they did not follow. They went outside the law. When you go outside the law, you are also telling the other person to also meet you outside the law.

The thinking in many quarters now is that these people are taking a revenge on the government while some people disagree, saying it is pure terrorism. You have also said they are acting on a wrong ideology. How do you reconcile all these?

Yea, they are acting on a wrong ideology but even if it was a revenge, Islam does not permit you to take people who are not combatants. When you take the lives of people who are not combatants, then you are not longer fighting the cause of Allah because Allah SWA clearly said in the Koran that if you kill an innocent man, it seems you have killed the whole world.

Let’s go back to the struggle. Do you think it has paid off?
Not 100 percent. Maybe 20 percent. We have somebody that looks like us, dresses like us, eats our food, dances the way we dance as President. It is a victory over those who feel that they were born to rule. Who says they are born to rule? It is a negation of that erroneous position.

But to everyone in Nigeria, the President is Nigeria’s President not an Ijaw President even though he is coming from that background.

Yes, it is true. But he came from somewhere. He did not fall from the sky.

The President has been accused of not really been presidential in the real sense of the word. Again, you have very many challenges bedeviling the country which many Nigerians had expected him to deal with decisively.
Yes, most of us feel that he has not done things the way they ought to be done. But there are individual differences. For instance, does Mr. President believe in things that the ordinary Ijaw man believes? The ordinary Ijaw man who was at the airport to bring the corpse of Isaac Boro; that the Ijaw nation must be liberated, must be independent? Do most of the elites share the same beliefs that we share? No.

Ok. Can you tell us what you feel about the Nigerian state?
The Nigerian state was built on falsehood, on false foundation and it cannot stand the test of time. The British fraudulently stole the sovereignty of various nations like the Kalabiri country, an independent state. We signed a treaty of protection with Britain. We never ceded our independence to them but they fraudulently included us in Nigeria without reference to the treaties they signed with our forefathers. So, that is a fraud. It is built on falsehood. It is built on fraud. So it cannot stand the test of time. It cannot stand the moral test, that’s why it will fall and it is falling.

You are quoted as saying that the abduction of the school girls in Chibok is a scam. Some people feel shocked by that statement coming from you even when we have seen the international community coming in…

(Cuts in) which international community? The United States of America with her allies Britain and the European Union cajoled the whole world and told us that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. At the end of the day, were there weapons of mass destruction? There was none. So the international community for whatever intent and purpose that is compelling them to do what they are doing is best known to them. But it will not be far from economic interest. How can you believe that 270 girls will be taken? How? It is not possible. If you tell us that 20 girls were taken, 30, maybe 50, fine. How will you tell us that 270 girls were writing physics exam? How? In which school? Where? Even in the most educationally advanced part of this country, can you find any school where even 20 students are writing physics? I run a school. How many of my students are writing physics? They just finished their SSCE? And this is an elitist school, we make very good results. How many people are writing physics? Who are they telling? So, if you are not into education business, somebody can cajole you and tell you a lot of stories. When they took the students, the Principal, who said she thought they were soldiers, again said she was in Maiduguri for medical treatment when they came. Her daughter too was in the school. Why didn’t they take her daughter? Why did they take other peoples daughters? The military was aware four hours before the attack; the people who sent the information that Chibok was to be attacked four hours to the military, why did they not inform the chairman of Chibok, SSS Rep, DPO or anybody in Chibok? The Chibok community leader who has been talking, why didn’t they say, ‘Please, move the girls, we are suspecting that there was going to be an attack on the school? Move these children out of the school’. Why was it only the military they told? They couldn’t reach any other person but the military? What are they telling us now? Ok, today, one of the girls said she ran and jumped over the fence. She climbed the tree and then the man was saying come down, come down o’. What sort of thing is this now? So, the girl can climb a tree faster than a man with a gun? Why didn’t you just simply shoot her and he left her and went away? And some four persons were found in their house and they said they escaped and came back? What sort of stories?

You are known as one who insists that Mr. President must come back in 2015. With the array of turbulent issues in the country, do you see that happening still?
Look, Mr. President has won o. He has won the election. Just forget about it. All of them will just fizzle out. He will win and win clear for another four years, fair and square.

Now, what if he changes his mind not to contest as he has not even declared?
He cannot do that?

What if he does it?
(Speaking in Pidgin English) Where him go come naa? If he do am, where him go return naa? Niger-Delta land? Him go stay for Abuja with them naa when him finish. Him go come carry us reach for center of the river, then, him go come jump enter river, leave us without paddle? Carry our paddle jump inside river, come leave us for inside boat for center of ocean? Ah! No o.

How has it been in the last 50 years you have lived?
Ah! My life at 50. My experience. How am I going to put it? Well, I got into the university at the age of 21 in 1985; the University of Calabar. And from that age of 21, death became my constant companion at every turn..

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Bad News For Rihanna, First The Nipples, Now This: Rihanna’s “Sexually Suggestive” Rogue Perfume Ad Banned In UK (DETAILS)

In news that shocks absolutely no one, Rihanna  is too “sexually suggestive.”

After all, her nipples were nixed from Instagram   and she wore a see-through gown to the CFDA Awards  But according to the U.K. Advertising Standards Authority, she’s apparently too “sexually suggestive” in her latest campaign for her Rogue by Rihanna fragrance, and they’re not having it, reports WWD.

The ad was on display on elevator doors in a UK mall, and received a single complaint claiming the image of the Bad Gal posing in her skivvies with her high heels propped up against the perfume bottle was too “provocative,” “sexually suggestive,” and “overly sexual and demeaning to women.” The ASA ruled that it can now only “appear with placement restriction” to “reduce the possibility of it being seen by children.”

I dunno, I’m pretty sure this is the tamest we’ve seen RiRi in a while. Frankly, the ad isn’t even THAT bad. At least she wasn’t showing her Buttcrack. 

News Pro-Biafra group on mission to topple Enugu govt

                                ENUGU—Enugu State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar last night said members of the Biafra Zionist Federation, BZF, who invaded the Enugu State Broadcasting Service, ESBS, yesterday morning were on a mission to topple the government.

Abubakar spoke while parading the 13 members of the federation including their leader, Benjamin Igwe Onwuka at the state police headquarters.

Apart from Onwuka, Abubakar said other members of the federation arrested included Paulinus Uzoegbu, Michael Oleinya, Ndubuisi Nnamchi, Bethrand Obiekwe, Kelvin Ekeh, Abraham Ugwu, Chukwuma Alogius, Ijaga Sampson, Josephat Nwodo, Nwonu Fidelis and Uduma Uduma.

The commissioner said: “When they went to the ESBS, they gained entrance into the studio and wanted the the workers to give them access to make a live broadcast to the people of Nigeria.
“In the broadcast they had on a CD rom where the details of what they wanted to tell members of the public.

They made a summary of what they had on the CD rom, on a sheet of paper and the highlight of it are; an appeal calling for all boys in Obiagu, (Enugu) to come out, all boys from Ogui (Enugu) to come out, all boys in Enugu State to come out; they also asked students to come out, those people with KekeNapep (tricycles) to come out.

They wanted to order all businesses closed today (yesterday); all schools to be closed, all markets to be closed and all government officials to surrender all property in their possession before mid-day. You can see these people were on a mission of trying to over throw the government and it is something that we will never tolerate.

“Recall that in March this year, they had attacked Government House, Enugu. We had earlier declared their leader (Onwuka) wanted. The same group of  BZF led by their leader, Benjamin  Onwuka invaded the ESBS  with the intention that after the broadcast, they will set the place ablaze.

“They carried with them a lot of arms, machetes, 25 litres of petrol, 46 empty beer bottles and one BZF flag and some CDs. The purpose of going there with petrol and bottles, you know when you put petrol inside a bottle and shake it and throw it into a building, it will inflame. They went there also with guns because when the policemen confronted them, they shot a sergeant and killed him and in the process of trying to prevent them from setting the place ablaze, they also had a casualty, one of them was shot dead. About 13 of them were arrested including the leader, Benjamin Onwuka.”

Abubakar then warned that any group of persons or individuals planning to foment trouble in whatever form that would cause breach of peace to desist from doing so, as it would not be tolerated.
Efforts made to speak with the suspects were rebuffed as the Commissioner insisted that doing so “will mean giving them opportunity to say what they wanted to announce in the live broadcast.”

News Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero is dead

 The Emir of Kano, Ado Abdullahi Bayero,is dead. He died on Friday morning. The Emir would have been 84 on July 25.

Walin Kano, Alhaji Mahe Bashir Wali in a live broadcast on Radio Kano confirmed the death. One of the princes, who does not want his name in print added that the Emir died of heart related ailment Friday morning.

He said that the condition of the Emir worsened yesterday and there was a concluded arrangement to charter an Air Ambulance to ferry him overseas.

Meanwhile, radio stations in the City have suspended their scheduled programmes and substituted them with the recititation of the Holy Quran.

The late emir will be buried today in Kano according to Islamic rites.

Sources close to the Government House disclosed that Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has abandoned the meeting of Progressive Governors Forum holding in Port Harcourt en route to the city.

The late Ado Bayero was the son of Abdullahi Bayero, the former emir, who reigned for 27 years.  Ado ascended the throne on  October 22, 1963, becoming the 13th Fulani emir of Kano and the 56th ruler of the Kano Kingdom.  He is one of the longest-serving emirs in the emirate’s history.

He was a former chancellor of the University of Nigeria and until his death, the chancellor of the University of Ibadan.

On 19 January 2013, a failed assassination attempt left two of his sons injured and his driver and bodyguard dead, among others.

News Nigeria to lose more communities to Cameroon—Ndoma-Egba

The Senate Leader, Sen. Victor Ndoma-Egba (PDP-Cross River), has alerted the Senate on renewed moves by the UN Demarcation Committee to cede more territories of Nigeria to Cameroon.

Speaking under Order 42 of the Senate Standing Rules, Ndoma-Egba told the Senate that border demarcation between Nigeria and Cameroon was currently ongoing, adding that the exercise was generating anxiety in his constituency.

“The exercise is going on in my constituency and it is causing a lot of anxiety among my constituents.

“They fear that at the end of the exercise, we will be losing communities to Cameroon,’’ Ndoma-Egba said.

He later told journalists that he would get details of exercise, adding that the matter was a motion before the Senate to be discussed when it resumes from recess.

“I have information that right now, pursuant to the Green Tree Agreement that resulted in the ceding of Bakassi to Cameroon that some boundary adjustment exercises is going on.

“They are right now in a place called Danari in Boki Local Government Area of Cross River, and it is in my constituency.

“And there is a lot of anxiety among the people that the exercise will result in loss of territory to Cameroon.

“I don’t have the details, but I am going to the constituency now and when I get home, I will get more details and bring a formal motion on the floor,’’ he said.

Ndoma-Egba said the Green Tree Agreement extended beyond Cross River to establish international borders in Borno and Adamawa states.

“The Green Tree Agreement was not all about Bakassi; it involved well established international borders from Borno.

“We have borders with Cameroon from Borno state through Adamawa and down to Cross River,’’ Ndoma-Egba said.

Earlier in his ruling, Senate President David Mark stated emphatically that Nigeria would never “under whatsoever guise, cede any portion of her territory to any country’’.

“This country must never, never under any circumstance surrender one millimeter of her land to any country irrespective of who is supervising it, whether it is the United Nations or African Union,’’ Mark said.

Mark ruled that the matter would be discussed on June 24 when the Senate is expected to return from recess. (NAN)

News LASU students ‘take over’ Fashola’s office

…. NGO urges reversal of LASU school fees hike

Protesting students of the Lagos State University (LASU) literaily took over the office of governor of the state, Babatunde Fashola. The students are protesting against what they termed ‘arbitaary increment’ of tuition by the governor from N25, 000 to N350, 000 and the prosecution of their colleagues yesterday by the Lagos State Police command.

Meanwhile the Human Rights Agenda Network (HRAN), an NGO, on Thursday called on the Lagos State Government to reverse the “arbitrary increase” in the school fees at the Lagos State University.

Mrs Ijeoma Okwor, the HRAN’s Coordinator in a statement in Abuja, condemned police attack on students of the university who protested the over 100 per cent hike in the institution’s fees.

She said that the police had violated the right of the students by using tear gas and canisters against them.

Okwor, who signed the statement, said that the protest by the students of the institution was in exercise of their freedom of movement and expression as recognised by the law.

Okwor, who blamed the protest on hike in students’ school fees, urged the state government to reconsider its decision on the issue in the interest of peace in the state.

“The fundamental rights of citizens as provided in Chapter IV of the 1999 Constitution are sacrosanct and should not be compromised except under the few exceptional situations provided therein.

“Intimidation against citizens by security officers charged with the responsibility of protecting lives and properties does not and cannot reflect a true democratic setting,” she said.

According to her, it has become a trend by state governments to increase school fees of their universities without commensurate effort to improve the standard of education.

“We have noted with sadness that this trend is gradually denying poor students the opportunity to study and make a better life for themselves.” 

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News Bauchi commercial sex workers lament low patronage

BAUCHI — Commercial sex workers in Bauchi state have expressed concern over decline in patronage following insecurity in neighbouring states of Plateau, Borno, Yobe  and Adamawa.

Checks by Vanguard reveals that most of the owners of hot spots and brothels around some major streets within the metropolis have equally lamented the low patronage from clients who usually engage the services of the sex workers.

Some of the popular spots visited by our correspondent including Ogbonna Hotel, Focus Brothel, Time out by junction, Peoples Club and Benco Hotels also recorded low patronage.
Two sex workers (names withheld) at Bayan Gari, a suburb in Bauchi metropolis, said since the bomb explosion in Jos last month, most of their rich clients who are predominantly visitors had not been coming to the state again.

Boko Haram: Kwara Police to screen housemaids

                                 

The Kwara State Police Command is to begin screening of prospective housemaids before they are engaged by their masters as part of efforts to improve security.

The Commissioner of Police, Mr Ambrose Aisabor, gave the assurance in IIorin while addressing participants at a seminar on security awareness.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the seminar, organised by the National Orientation Agency (NOA), was attended by participants from the 16 local government areas of the state and security operatives.

Aisabor was represented by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Ajayi Okasanmi.

He said that the screening would improve security of lives and property.

The commissioner of police advised residents willing to engage housemaids to contact the command for the screening.

He said that some housemaids aided criminality, and advised the residents to be security conscious and provide useful information to security agents on how to curb crime.

The state Director of NOA, Mr Felix Olowokere, said that the agency organised the seminar to sensitise the people to the need to be security conscious.

Olowokere urged participants to come up with ideas on how to sustain peace and harmony in the state and improve security.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the seminar featured discussion on protection of lives and property. (NAN) 

World Cup squad: The 23 Chosen Ones! By Super Eagles head coach Stephen Keshi

Super Eagles head coach Stephen Keshi released his list of 23 players for the Brazil 2014 World Cup yesterday.
 
Defender Joseph Yobo will play in his third FIFA World Cup finals and have opportunity to become Nigeria’s first–ever century – international after he was named in the African champions’ final list of 23 for Brazil 2014.

Also going to their third World Cup are goalkeepers Vincent Enyeama and Austin Ejide, but midfield strongman John Mikel Obi will only be attending his first finals after Nigeria narrowly missed Germany 2006 and he was omitted from South Africa 2010 due to injury.

Former junior international defender Elderson Echiejile and Olympic silver medalist Osaze Odemwingie, who were also in South Africa four years ago, make the cut for the biggest showpiece in football. 

2013 Africa Cup of Nations top scorer Emmanuel Emenike is joined in the attack by England-based duo of Victor Moses and Shola Ameobi, and former junior international Uche Nwofor, but there is no place for Olympic silver medalist Obinna Nsofor and nimble –footed Nnamdi Oduamadi.  

                      Home–based goalkeeper Daniel Akpeyi, dimunitive midfielder Joel Obi, South Africa 2013 hero Sunday Mba, former U-23 star Nosa Igiebor and 2014 CHAN most valuable player Ejike Uzoenyi also miss out on the trip to South America.

NIGERIA’S FINAL 23 FOR BRAZIL 2014

GOALKEEPERS: Vincent Enyeama, Austin Ejide, Chigozie Agbim

DEFENDERS: Joseph Yobo, Elderson Echiejile, Juwon Oshaniwa, Godfrey Oboabona, Azubuike Egwuekwe, Kenneth Omeruo, Efe Ambrose, Kunle Odunlami

MIDFIELDERS: John Mikel Obi, Ogenyi Onazi, Ramon Azeez, Michael Uchebo, Reuben Gabriel

FORWARDS: Osaze Odemwingie, Ahmed Musa, Shola Ameobi, Emmanuel Emenike, Babatunde Michael, Victor Moses, Uche Nwofor.

What is your reaction to Keshi’s list of 23 players for the World Cup?

RED CARPET RECAP: Shine Bright Like A Diamond! Rihanna Wears Sparkly, Totally See-Through Dress At CFDA Awards (NSFW PHOTOS)

                             

Last night at the CFDA Awards, where she was rightfully honored with  the 2014 fashion icon Award,  Rihanna  shined bright like a diamond. A beautiful butt-naked diamond. Prompting us to ask one very important question: When will your fave? The answer? your fave could Never  Because seriously. Who else could POSSIBLY pull off baring her breasts and butt this damn elegantly? We’ll wait.  The Bad Gal absolutely slayed in an Adam Selman creation  who told us that he wanted to make it “a little bit scandalous” (mission accomplished), and described his design as “just fishnet and crystals and a couple of fingers crossed.” The dress is covered in more than 230,000 Swarovski crystals. And underneath it, Ri wore nothing at all–besides her nipple ring and a nude thong.  Because why the fuck not?                                                                                                                                                                                                              The gown was styled with a pink fur stole and a matching Swarovski do-rag–which was all RiRi’s idea, by the way.   “Even as a child I remember thinking, ‘She can beat me, but she cannot beat my outfit,’ she said during her  acceptance speech.  “And to this day I mean, that is how I think about it.”   All eyes were on Rihanna last night, so much so that we almost forgot she wasn’t the only girl in the world in attendance Lupita Nyong'o Solange and Jennifer Hudson are among the few who made an appearance, buuuut we were too distracted by the Bajan beauty to notice. See their looks in the gallery down below, but first, more Rihanna.