This is DammyInforms Blog: January 2015

Friday 30 January 2015

PHOTO of the Day: See Popular Actress who storms her Birthday Party in Wedding Gown

Popular Yoruba actress Lola Ajibola during the weekend stormed her birthday party in sparkling white wedding gown.

President Goodluck Jonathan has forwarded the names of seven new ministers to the Senate for confirmation, African Independent Television [AIT] is reporting.

Among the nominees are a former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, Kenneth Kobani, a former National Treasurer of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria [ACN], who recently defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, and a former Senator, Patrick Akwashiki.

The residents of the Ijetu area of Osogbo have been thrown into mourning following the discovery of the corpses of two pupils on the Osun River.

It was gathered that a woman had gone to the river to fetch water when she found the corpses of the two pupils floating on the river.

A resident of the area told our correspondent on Thursday that the woman dropped her bucket and ran back to the community where she raised the alarm.

It was learnt that the matter was later reported to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and a rescue team from the agency was deployed in the scene.

It was gathered that the pupils had gone missing on Monday, while their parents and other relatives had been looking for them.

Fapohunda OluwaSeun, who graduated as the best graduating student with a CGPA of 4.8 at the AAUA 5th Convocation, in this interview with DammyInforms Blog discusses how he was able to achieve the feat.

How do you feel about graduating as the best student?

It pays to serve Jesus! If felt elated graduating as the overall best student in my set from a prestigious citadel of higher learning,Adekunle Ajasin University.Moreover,i was ebullient for the fact that i graduated with the highest CGPA ever in the history of my prestigious department,Biochemistry!

Former militant and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, a.k.a. Tompolo, on Thursday replied former defence minister, Gen. T.Y Danjuma, for calling for his arrest over inflammatory statements at a time Nigeria needs peace.

He asked where Danjuma was when Mallam Ciroma Adamu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Gen Muhammadu Buhari, and the Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, made inciting statements about making Nigeria ungovernable.

Helen spent most of her early years with her mother and grandmother, both in Lagos. As a kid, she used to entertain small groups of peers, neighbors and friends within the neighborhood. As she grew, the entertainer in her also developed with time. In many of the interviews she later granted to several media houses, she would recall that her growing up was not easy, as it was filled with "ups and downs" - raised by two disciplinarians but meanwhile, the entertainer in her knew no boundaries. She is a graduate of Theater Arts of the University of Lagos.

President Goodluck Jonathan has described those accusing him as the sponsor of Boko Haram as mad people, saying only “a mad man” will level such accusation against him.

He said this while speaking in Yola during the continuation of his presidential campaign, insisting that the Federal Government was determined to fight insurgency and root out Boko Haram from the country.
The president also announced the recovery of Michika Local Government Area from insurgents today.

He said Federal troops liberated Michika Local Government, adding that soldiers would proceed to capture Madagali and other areas still under insurgency.

Presidential Debate To Hold February 8th

The Nigeria Elections Debate Group(NEDG) has announced that the presidential debate for the February 14 presidential election will hold on February 8 just as the vice presidential debate will hold on February 1.

Announcing the debate yesterday in Abuja
in a press conference, chairman of the NEDG who is also the Director General of NTA, Sola Omole said 13 out of the 14 candidates for the presidential and vice presidential debates have confirmed their participation in the debates.

LASU VC, John Obafunwa Has No PhD & Holds Two Jobs - ASUU

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Wednesday accused the Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University, Prof. John Obafunwa, of not possessing a PhD and holding two jobs.

Dr. Adesola Nasir, ASUU’s Zonal Coordinator for Lagos Zone, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that apart from being LASU’s VC, Obafunwa was also the Chief Medical Examiner of Lagos State.

Nasir said it was an aberration to the laws setting up a university for it to be headed by a personality without a PhD certificate.

Zahra, the daughter of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has accused the Peoples Democratic Party of hacking into her Twitter account.

On her Twitter handle, she said the ruling party used somebody to gain an unlawful access into her account to post a grammatical blunder aimed at embarrassing her
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So Boko Haram is now strong and formidable enough to have a twitter account...

Insurgent group, Jama'atu AhlisSunnah Lidda'awati Waljahad, popularly known as Boko Haram has launched a new Public Relation campaign via twitter meant to win people over to its side.

AIT Reacts To Allegation Of Closing Down Poll Website Because Buhari Was Leading

The African Independent Television has reacted to allegations that it closed down its Presidential poll website because the result was favouring a particular candidate.

The TV station said that contrary to allegations, it closed down the poll because it discovered that some IP addresses were voting repeatedly for a particular candidate, it said that further investigations traced a particular IP address to a software programmed to vote for a particular candidate continuously.

Wednesday 28 January 2015

Soludo’s article on economic management is deficit in facts, logic and honour – Okonjo-Iweala

Here's the press release

1. For anyone who has not read Professor Charles Soludo’s article in the Vanguard (online version) on January 25 2015, I would encourage them to do so. It is littered with abusive and unbecoming language. It shows how an embittered loser in the Nigerian political space can get so derailed that they commit intellectual harakiri by deliberately misquoting economic facts and maliciously turning statistics on their head to justify a hatchet job. We hope all the intellectuals in the international circles in which Professor Soludo has told us he flies around in will read what a Professor of Economics has chosen to do with his intellect.

2. In this one article Soludo has shamelessly pandered to so many past leaders that Nigerians are asking one more time – what position is Soludo gunning for now? He claims in his article that he has had his own share of public service, yet he has failed twice in his attempts to be Governor of Anambra State and Vice Presidential candidate of various parties. There is definitely an issue of character with Prof. Charles Soludo and his desperate search for power and relevance in Nigeria. Nigerians should therefore beware of so-called intellectuals without character and wisdom because this combination is fatal.

3. But let us turn to the main subject of Soludo’s discourse. So much of what is written is outright nonsense and self-seeking aggrandizement that need not be dignified with a response. It is totally remarkable that Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, the man who presided over the worst mismanagement of Nigeria’s banking sector as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria between May 2004 and May 2009, can write about the mismanagement of the economy.

4. Nigerians must be reminded of his antecedents as CBN Governor, and even prior to that, as the Chief Economic Adviser to the President. The consolidation of the banking sector was a good policy idea of the Obasanjo Administration but Soludo went on to thoroughly mismanage its implementation leading to the worst financial crisis in Nigeria’s history. So what did Soludo do?

5. After consolidation, the regulatory functions of the Soludo-led CBN were very poorly exercised. As Governor, he failed to adequately supervise and regulate the now larger banks – an anomaly in Financial Sector Supervision. In fact as every Nigerian knows, in his time there was very little separation between the regulators and the regulated which is a violation of a key requirement of Central Banking success. This led to infractions in corporate governance in many banks as loans and other credit instruments running to hundreds of billions of naira were extended to clients without following due process, and several of these loans could not be paid back. This massive accumulation of bad debts or non-performing loans as they are called in the banking sector meant that our banks were ill-positioned to deal with the global financial crisis when it hit.

6. In fact, the banking sector was brought to its knees and required a massive bailout by Nigerian tax payers. This bailout was done by his successor (now Emir of Kano) who cleaned up all the bad debts and transferred them to the newly-established AMCON, from where they are managed today. So let it be noted for the record books that Soludo’s single-handed mismanagement of the banking sector led to an incredible accumulation of liabilities that will cost tax payers about N5.67 trillion (being the total face value of AMCON-issued bonds) to clean up. Let it be noted also that this amount, which is more than the entire Federal Government 2015 Budget, constitutes the bulk of Nigeria’s “contingent liabilities” mentioned in Soludo’s article. It is only in Nigeria where someone who perpetrated such a colossal economic atrocity would have the temerity to make assertions on public debt and the management of the economy.

7. Let us now look at some of the points he makes. Luckily, Soludo has told us that he has been busy travelling internationally, hobnobbing with his global partners. It is obvious from this article that from the rarefied heights at which he is flying he is completely out of touch with what is happening with the management of this economy. Take his comments on the mismanagement of the economy and the imposition of the austerity measures. The present fall in oil prices, a global phenomenon over which Nigeria has no control, has given every charlatan the opportunity to attack the economy, and by extension the managers of the economy

8. It is true that the economy grew well during the second-term of former President Obasanjo as a result of the reforms supported by the President and implemented by the Economic Management Team. Please note that the Finance Minister under whose leadership that good performance took place, including massive unprecedented debt relief, is still Finance Minister today. But thorough examination of the facts on performance under the Jonathan Administration will also reveal that at a time when global economic performance was mediocre, with GDP growth averaging about 3 percent per annum, Nigeria’s GDP growth – averaging about 6 percent per annum – is indeed remarkable. Even more interesting is the fact that the oil sector did not drive this economic performance but the non-oil sector (Agriculture, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, the Creative Economy, and so on), which shows that the current Administration’s diversification objective under the Transformation Agenda is working. Transformation equals diversification

9. This current government managed to control inflation, which he Soludo, was not able to do during his time at the helm of monetary policy in Nigeria. When he left the Central Bank in 2009, inflation – which hurts the poor and vulnerable in the society the most – was above 13 percent per annum. Now, inflation is at single-digit, at 8 percent per annum. What about exchange rates? Well this administration again managed to stabilize the naira exchange rates, such that between May 2011 and the end of 2014, official exchange rates against the dollar rarely moved out of the N153 to N156 band. It is only with the recent dramatic fall in oil prices and the consequent impact on our foreign reserves that the exchange rate has become quite volatile. The drop in oil price has been heavy and rapid impacting all oil producing nations significantly. Nigeria is no exception and appropriate fiscal and monetary policy measures are being put in place to manage this situation.

10. In fact, history will recall that careless remarks by Prof. Soludo (then Chief Economic Adviser to the President) hypothesizing a possible naira devaluation, condemned the naira to a free fall towards the end of 2003. Ray Echebiri, in his 2004 article in the Financial Standard, wrote that not even the assurances given by the then CBN Governor, Mr. Joseph Sanusi or President Obasanjo that any plans to devalue the naira existed only in the head of Professor Soludo could halt the fall of the naira from N128 to the dollar in the official market to about N140 between September and December 2003.
11. It is true that our foreign reserve accumulation is less than what it should be but the reason for this has been fully given, not as excuses but simply as fact: lower oil production and crude oil theft along with the refusal to save in the Excess Crude Account (ECA) are the reasons. Contrary to what Soludo said, oil production under President Obasanjo was higher than current levels. Quantities produced averaged 2.4 million bdp, 2.22 million bpd, and 2.21 million bpd in 2005, 2006, and 2007 respectively but has declined now to between 1.95 and 2.21 million bdp due to vandalism of the pipelines and the resulting “shut-ins” to fix the problem. It is true that had production been at the previous levels and had there been willingness to save we would have had more money in the ECA and also in the reserves. But the overriding setback to savings is that the State Governors felt it was their constitutional right to share the money. Please recall that even as we speak the States have taken the Federal Government to the Supreme Court on this issue

12. Soludo’s claim that 71 percent of Nigerians live below the poverty line is misleading and disingenuous. He uses 2011 statistics on poverty by the NBS to support his argument while ignoring more recent figures. But as stated in the Nigeria Economic Report 2014 by the World Bank, poverty rate in Nigeria has dropped from 35.2 percent of population in 2010/2011 to 33.1 percent in 2012/2013. By the way, the reason why our poverty numbers have been so wrong is that the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), under Soludo’s supervision as CEA and Vice-Chair of the National Planning Commission, departed from the international standard method of poverty measurement. Is he now ignoring the right economic statistics to wilfully manipulate information?

13. No doubt we have a problem with unemployment in this country and we must deal with it. Indeed this Administration is dealing with it and stands proud of what it has accomplished so far and is pushing hard to accomplish much more. As a first step, the Administration, through the office of the Chief Economic Adviser to the President and the NBS, worked hard to determine how many jobs we need to create in a year. What you don’t measure you cannot make progress on. Why didn’t Soludo do this when he was CEA?
14. We need to create about 1.8 million jobs a year in this country to cater for the new entrants into the labour market, but we also need to deal with the backlog of the unemployed and the underemployed, e.g. those selling on the streets. Dealing with this global challenge of unemployment is not an easy task for any country, as can be seen from the experiences of developed countries particularly in the euro area. But the Jonathan Administration is making good progress, creating an average of about 1.4 million jobs per year by driving quality growth in key sectors like Agriculture, where the bulk of new jobs are being created, Housing, Manufacturing, Financial Services, and the Creative Industries like Nollywood.

15. In addition we have special programs to promote job creation among the youth and these include:
v Promoting entrepreneurship among the youth through the “Nagropreneurs” program to support 750,000 youth farmers with grants and training, and the YOUWIN program that is directly supporting up to 5,400 young entrepreneurs with grants, training, and mentorship and so far beneficiaries are creating an average of 9 jobs each, for themselves and others. About 22,000 jobs have been created by the first 2,400 youwinners.
v Graduate Internship Scheme: that is reducing the vulnerability of unemployed graduates by enhancing their employability. The Scheme targets up to 50,000 unemployed graduates in the 36 states of the Federation and FCT and about 22,000 graduates have so far been placed by the program.
v Community Services Scheme under SURE-P: developed to empower young unskilled Nigerians, women and people with disabilities. About 120,000 mostly young workers have been engaged across the country
16. On the issue of debt, Nigerians deserve to know the truth and we have said it before. The truth is that the government borrowed in 2010 to pay an unprecedented 53.7 percent wage increase to all categories of federal employees as demanded by labour unions. The total wage bill rose from N857 billion in 2009 to about N1.4 trillion in 2010, and as a result, domestic borrowing increased from N200 billion in 2007 to about N1.1 trillion in 2010 to meet the wage payments. Where was Soludo at the time? Why did he not react to the borrowing then? Was it because he wanted to pander to labour in preparation for his political career?

17. It is noteworthy that since 2011, the Administration of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has been prudent with the issue of debt and borrowing. The Economic Management Team not only looks at debt to GDP ratio, where Nigeria has one of the lowest numbers in the world at 12.51 percent but it looks at debt service to revenues. That is why in spite of the rebasing and a larger GDP, the administration has taken a prudent approach to borrowing. The prudent approach helped to drive down domestic borrowing from N1.1 trillion in 2010 to N642 billion in 2014. In fact for the first time in our nation’s borrowing history we even managed to retire N75 billion of domestic bonds outright in 2013.
18. Despite the present tough situation, we do not plan to go on a borrowing spree but to keep borrowing modest at a level sufficient to help us weather the present situation. We have already ramped up efforts to generate more non-oil revenues for the government while cutting costs of governance. Therefore, Soludo’s claim that this Administration is reckless with debt does not hold true.
19. Since Soludo seems so ignorant to what has been achieved by the Jonathan Administration, let us present just a few examples of them here again. This information is easily verified.
· We are improving infrastructure across the country. For example, 22 airport terminals are being refurbished, and five new international airport terminals under construction in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Kano, Abuja, and Enugu. Soludo’s kinsmen in the South East now have an international airport in Enugu, and for the first time in Nigeria’s history can fly direct from Enugu to anywhere in world for which they are very grateful to this Administration. But with Soludo being up in the air with his international travels, he has not touched ground in the Southeast to observe this development for himself.
· Various road and bridge projects have either been completed or are under construction. Those completed include the Enugu – Abaliki road in Enugu/Ebonyi States, the Oturkpo – Oweto road in Benue State, the Benin – Ore – Shagamu highway, and the Abuja – Abaji – Lokoja dualization, and the Kano – Maiduguri dualization. The Lagos – Ibadan expressway and the Second Niger Bridge are under construction.
· Rail from Lagos to Kano is now functional, as is parts of the rail link between Port Harcourt and Maiduguri. All these have brought transport costs down. We recognise that more needs to be done in the power sector, but bold steps (like the privatisation of the GENCOs and DISCOs) have been taken, and our gas infrastructure is being developed to power electricity generation
· In Agriculture, over 6 million farmers now have access to inputs like fertilizers and seeds through an e-wallet system, which is more than the 403,222 that had access in 2011. Rice paddy production took off for the first time in our history, adding about 7 million MT to rice supply. An additional 1.3 million MT of Cassava has also been produced and as a result, the rate of food price increase has slowed considerably, according to the NBS.
· In Housing, we have put in place a new wholesale mortgage provider – the Nigerian Mortgage Refinance Corporation (NMRC) – to provide affordable mortgages to ordinary Nigerians, starting with those in the low-middle income bracket. This sector will help the economy grow as we tap it as an economic driver for the first time. Mortgage applications from 66,000 people are currently being processed and 23,000 have already received mortgage offers
· Our Manufacturing sector is reviving with new automobile plants by Nissan, Toyota, etc. This is in addition to the backward integration policy in key sectors like petrochemical, sugar, textiles, agro processing and cement, which Nigeria is now producing 39,000 MT and exporting to the region.
· The Creative sector is now a factor in our GDP, with Nollywood alone accounting for 1.4 percent, creating over 200,000 direct jobs and nearly 1 million indirect jobs. This is the first Administration to recognise its importance and support its further development with a grant program.
· A new bank – the Development Bank of Nigeria – will soon be operational and this bank will help bridge the access to finance gap, which is a major constraint for the private sector especially SMEs. The bank will provide long-term (5 – 10 years) financing at affordable rates for the first time in our nation’s history.

20. This is the path that the government has been on before this fall in oil prices. The response to the economic shock has been spelled out to the Nigerian public over and over again, and the Administration intends to focus on managing this crisis appropriately. This year will be difficult. To say anything less to Nigerians will be untruthful. It would have been better if there had been a bigger cushion of the Excess Crude Account to manage this situation but despite this the nation can rise to the challenge. More importantly, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and the Economic Management Team are seeing this as an opportunity to diversify the revenue sources of an already diversifying economy. In fact let me at this juncture use this opportunity to comment on Soludo’s appalling statement that rebasing brings no policy value. Rebasing has enabled us to better grasp the new diversified nature of our economy. This provides the basis for our present drive to support different sectors with appropriate policy instruments to enhance their development. Rebasing has also enabled the Administration to create the platform from which to drive our work on increasing non-oil revenues. These are areas of critical policy value.

21. Soludo mentioned the issue of the Economic Partnership Agreement with the EU, noting that this Administration has not been vocal or clear on its direction with this agreement. On the contrary, the Administration, particularly the Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Investment, has been clear on this issue but since Soludo has been in the air he probably has not been aware of this. Just recently, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment reiterated again to the corporate sector that Nigeria has not signed and does not propose to sign the EPA in its present form.

22. The point is that this government has been pursuing the right economic policies, and its efforts have been acknowledged nationally and internationally. Let me say that there are objective ways to measure performance. There are international institutions globally accepted to do this. They have acknowledged this Administration’s good economic management up to the recent crisis and even now.

23. We cannot go by someone’s subjective view, driven by bitterness and bile. We need to look to the truth and to professionalism. This is where Professor Soludo totally fails. For the other gratuitous, political, and personal attacks, we are sure that those mentioned will respond appropriately. It is a sad day for Nigeria and the economics profession that someone like Soludo, a former CBN governor should write such an article. If Soludo wants to regain respect, he should return to the path of professionalism. He certainly needs something to improve his image from that of someone whose sojourn into National Economic Management ended in disaster for the banking sector, his sojourn in politics, ended in overwhelming rejection by the electorate, and more recently, his sojourn abroad, has put him out of touch with the reality of the Nigerian economy.

Abandoned Baby At Abule Egba, Lagos Today (pic)

I wonder what sort of thing is this? Here is a picture of an abandoned baby at Abule Egba area of Lagos during the early hours of today (Tuesday)

Nollywood: What Muna Obiekwe would be remembered for

Since the sad news of his demise broke last Sunday, fans and colleagues of star actor, Muna Obiekwe, have continued to grieve over his loss, especially when they remember the actor’s daring roles in movies – those that will survive for a very long time. Muna, who has a knack for acting romantic scenes in movies was the quintessential character actor, and as such, a representative of a proudly, if sadly disappearing breed. Until his death, the fair-skinned actor’s career suffered serious setback following the eye-sore roles he played in movies.

Till date, people are still talking about the role he played in that soft-porn movie, “Dirty Secret”starring himself, Tonto Dikeh, Jibola Dabo, Geraldine Ejiogu, Ejine Okerefor, among other acts. In the movie, Tonto Dikeh acted the role of a spoilt child, who sleeps with her father and her boyfriend. Her father, played by Jibola Dabo, was a gynandrous, who also sleeps with his daughter’s boyfriend played by Muna Obiekwe. When the movie was released, fans tongue-lashed the three major acts who played their roles like a smut movie.

‎An accident involving two commercial buses and a trailer occurred this morning along the Mile2 expressway.Number of persons who died in the accident has not been ascertained as at the time of filing this report. More pics after the cut..

RCCG: Mad Man Puts Church In Commotion As Members Scampered For Safety During Service

IT was pandemonium when a ‘mad man’ dressed and swaddled in multi-coloured fabrics saun-tered in the worship centre of Glory Chapel of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Agbelekale, Abule Egba, Lagos, last Sunday sending choristers, members of the church scampering in every direction seeking safe haven.

The middle-aged man brandishing a heavy stone in his right hand and a tiny piece of freshly sawed piece of wood from a nearby carpenter’s workshop was said to have walked out of the church almost immediately but made a return bid, this time with ferocious campaign just as the parish pastor, Pastor Ladi Akinsanya was telling the congregants about a special guest minister.

Sharia Police Disrupts Gay Wedding, Arrests Groom In Kano

The Sharia police command (Hisbah) in Kano has disrupted an alleged wedding ceremony between two men and arrested one of the grooms.
The arrested was confirmed by the Hisbah Sharia Guard commander, Aminu Daurawa, who told reporters that the other groom in the illegal union is at large.

The arrested groom, Faruk Maiduguri, was paraded alongside fourteen others who were at the venue of the 'wedding ceremony'.

Former Super Eagles goalkeeper, Wilfried Agbonivbare, has passed on.

The former Rayo Vallecano stopper, reportedly died of cancer in Spain in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Agbonivbare, who was a member of the Nations Cup winning squad in 1994 and the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games gold winning team, had been treated for the ailment in the US, but asked to return to his home in Europe three weeks ago.

An unmanned drone suspected to be used on the counter-insurgency operation in the Northeast has crashed at Dumge village of Mafa Local Government Area of Borno State Monday afternoon, KSM News has learnt.
Dumge is 30km northeast of Maiduguri.

Earlier same day CNN had reported that the U.S. Secret Service is investigating a “device,” described as a small drone, found on the grounds of the White House, a White House official said Monday, and Press Secretary Josh Earnest said early indications are that the device does not pose an ongoing threat.

Lola just shared the photo on instagram. Apparently she and Peter Okoye also tied the knot at the Ikoyi registry last week...

Yorubas will not vote for Buhari, we don’t trust Fulanis – Gani Adams

Factional leader of the Yoruba group, Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Ganiyu Adams, has informed the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) not to expect getting a bloc vote from the South-west in the February 14 presidential election.

He said a good number of his people are yet to get over their reservations with the Fulani

A Niger Repubic-based kidnapping syndicate has demanded the payment of $100, 000 as ransom for the release of its 15-year-old victim, Precious Okoro.

The victim’s father, Nwaigwe, explained that Precious was kidnapped around Songotedo, in the Ajah area of Lagos State, where she had boarded a commercial vehicle en route to her school in Ikenne, Ogun State.

BARBARIC! 31-Year Old Tanzanian Politician Beheaded For Allegedly Committing Adultery

A renowned 31-year- old politician Ricahrd Madirsha has been beheaded by a 5 man gang over claims that he committed adultery.

They chopped off some part of his body including his genitals, hands and legs and thereafter cooked them outside of his home in the southern Katavi region of Tanzania.

Pics Of Heavy Equipment Recovered From Boko Haram's Failed Attack In Maiduguri

The question is where does the Boko Haram sect get funds to procure ammunitions as destructive as these?

Late Nollywood actor, Muna Obiekwe’s burial arrangements have been announced through the AGN President, Ibinabo Fiberesima.

See the details below:

Candle Night: Sunday, February 1, 2015
Venue: Masha Roundabout, Surulere, Lagos
Time: 4 PM
Dress Code: White (Tshirts will also be made available at the venue)

Burial: Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Venue: Umudioka, Anambra State

APC attacks Bishop Oyedepo over ‘Gate of hell’ controversy

There are allegations that the prominent cleric threatened to open the gate of hell on those opposing the president yesterday, but there are indications that Bishop Oyedepo never said those opposing the president but those against Nigeria. Members of the church said the Bishop urged the church to pray for peace in Nigeria and a violence-free 2015 polls without any word of campaign for Jonathan.

However, the opposition party, All Progressives Congress, APC and its supporters have taken to the social media to criticise the Bishop. The APC took to its twitter page to say that “Go and Open the gates of Hell… We will enter there and use our PVCs to CHANGE the Padlock and Lock you inside – APC Supporter”. The party also re-tweet some of the comments of its followers, especially from some of its influencers which castigated the man of God.

Why on earth will an undergraduate construct sentences as poor as these? For me, his admission into FUTA should be withdrawn....

The Truth: D’banj Explains How He Was Kicked Out Of Mo’hits Records By Don Jazzy

Below is an excerpt from the interview.

D’Banj just delivered a mind blowing and thoughtful interview with Olisa on The Truth. Recall that D’Banj blamed Dr Sid for the break down of Mo’Hits Records.

He finally shed light on what went down.

Here is what D’Banj said in summary. D’Banj said when Kanye West requested for himself and Don Jazzy to come to the United States, Don Jazzy complained about the cost of living in New York and he is tired of the whole stuff after couple of weeks. The music producer then demanded he returned to Nigeria and continue facing the music business as they are already big in Nigeria and Africa as a whole. On returning back to Nigeria, Don Jazzy started acting cold to him, D’Banj said.

OlUwaropo Tifase, the university dropout who was accused of killing his 75-year-old father, Moses, in the Jakande Estate, Mile 2 area of Lagos State, has removed his testicles while in the custody of the police.

Twenty-two-year-old Oluwaropo, during a chat with our correspondent at the Lagos Island General Hospital, where he was rushed to for treatment, said he acted under the influence of a spirit which possessed him at the time.

Nollywood star and APC candidate for the forthcoming State Assembly election in Lagos, Desmond Olushola Elliot has reacted to the misrepresentation of his person as being reckless, irresponsible and above all a drunk owing to a photograph of him in circulation holding 2 bottles of champagne
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The United States has advised Nigeria against postponing the general elections scheduled for next month.

The US Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry, gave the advice after he met the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, President Goodluck Jonathan and All Progressives Congress Maj. Gen. Muhamadu Buhari (retd.) in Lagos on Sunday.

SHOCKING: Two young girls beheaded in Iju, Ondo State

Two young girls, who went to farm in Iju in Akure North local government area of Ondo State on Saturday, have been found dead with their heads severed from their bodies.

One of the girls, it was learnt is a daughter to a policeman and the other, a daughter of one of the residents in the town. The girls, who were friends, went to the farm to help their parents fetch firewood.

The death of the teenagers has thrown the entire community into mourning with many people saying the two girls were allegedly killed by some suspected ritualists.

A source told reporters that the girls, named as Oyinkansola Owoeye and Folasade Bello, both of whom were aged 12, went to the farm on Saturday but did not return that day.
After waiting for several hours without the girls returning, the source narrated that their parents and other relatives organised a search party to look for them.

A four-year-old girl, Blessing Chinaka, battling with cancer of the nose, urgently needs N4 million for surgery in India. She is a primary 1 pupil of Star Foundation School, Abule-Ado, Lagos. Her parents said Blessing was born with a growth in her nose.

According to them, they have been moving from one hospital to the other. Her mother said the doctors at the hospital where the girl was born could not determine the cause of the growth.

Commercial sex workers in the country under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Prostitutes, NANP, have thrown their weight behind the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.

NANP said it would declare a-three day free sex across the country if president Jonathan eventually loses the seat to Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of APC.

The National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), says the Federal Government is planning to introduce a law that will ban and block all porn websites in the country. He stated this at the closing ceremony of a three-day workshop on use of social media organised for Islamic preachers, Imams and youths in Kaduna on Sunday.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the workshop, which was organised by the national body of Izalatil Bid’a Wa’iqamatis Sunna, aimed at correcting anomalies in the use of social media.

Jealous Housewife Bathes Rival With Acid, Jumps Into River Niger

A jealous housewife, Rosemary (surname withheld), in Oko-Ogbele community in Asaba, Delta State, has allegedly bathed her rival with acid water and jumped into River Niger.

Report said the house wife had complained of the frequent visits to the husband by the woman. During one of the visits, Rosemary had warned her rival that she would teach her some lessons.

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PHOTOS: Fatal Accident at Ikorodu Today

There was pandemonium today at Ketu bus stop Ikorodu area of Lagos as a fatal accident occurred, leaving a number of persons dead.

According to eyewitness,a trailer carrying a container collided with a commercial bus, and the container it was carrying fell on some vehicles, leaving a few dead. The accident is causing serious traffic going into Ikorodu this morning.

A Saudi Arabian blogger has been publicly flogged after being convicted of cyber crime and insulting Islam, BBC reports.

Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashesand 10 years in jail, was flogged 50 times. The flogging will be carried out weekly, campaigners say.

It is a new lease of life for conjoined twins from Tanzania who had shared a common heart lining, diaphragm and a liver. Doctors, including two teams of plastic surgeons at leading city-based Apollo Children’s Hospital, who undertook a marathon, 11-hour operation managed to separate the twins.

The twins’ condition was described as thoraco omphalopagus – the fusing of two bodies at the lower chest and abdomen. The eight-and-a-half months old Abriana and Adriana were conjoined and had been sharing a common heart lining and diaphragm.

That's the screenshot of what Sammie Okposo posted on his Instagram page.

PDP planning to stone Buhari in Ondo

It seems stoning of politicians is what's in vogue among political thugs.

The Buhari Campaign Co-ordinator for Ondo State, Mr. Ife Oyedele, has alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party in the state is plotting to organise youths to attack the convoy of Maj.-Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), the presidential candidate of the opposition All Progressives Congress, during his campaign in Akure on Saturday (tomorrow).

Banky w has just released a music video titled unborn child featuring lynnx. The EME boss goes very emotional in this new video.

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BREAKING NEWS: Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah Dies at 90

So painful....RIP King Abdullah

Throngs of mourners gathered in Mecca early Friday just hours after Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud died. He was 90.

Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz was appointed as the new king, state television reported.

Nigerians on Twitter Request for President Jonathan's PhD Thesis

Still on this certificate saga. Now that Buhari has presented his certificates, Nigerians have now turned to President Jonathan by requesting for his PhD certificate/thesis.
Below are some of the tweets by Nigerians:
@gbengasesan: Now, can we move on to the REAL issues? Wait, before we move on, can we ask Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, PhD, to provide a copy of his thesis?

@okere_franklin: Where is Dr. Goodluck Jonath @okere_franklin: Where is Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s Doctorate Thesis? Adekunle Dalton-Oke : At this point, the APC needs to ask for Jonathan’s doctorate thesis

How many of you guys can do this? Let's be sincere here.

SHOCKING: 59-Year-Old Man Arrested For Raping 2 Sisters Aged 3 & 5

A 59-year-old man, Ferdinand Duwanamu, has been arrested by the Taraba State Police Command, Jalingo, after he was accused of raping 2 little girls who are sisters, aged 3 and 5 respectively.

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Ademola Omole, made the revelation while briefing newsmen on the arrests his command made during and after the yuletide season.

RSUST Expels 366 For Poor Academic Performance

NO fewer than 366 students of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, have been expelled by the management of the institution for poor academic performance.

The RSUST Vice Chancellor, Prof. Barineme Fakae, who made this announcement on Wednesday at the 33rd matriculation of the university, explained that the affected students could not meet the minimum academic standard required by the institution.

CHILD THEFT: Housewife Sells Neighbours Child For N250,000 in Delta State

A desperate housewife who lives in Akwukwu-Igbo community near Asaba , Delta State , Eunice (surname withheld), has allegedly stolen a two-year-old neighbour’s baby and sold it for N250,000.00.

Reports said that the woman, who is currently helping the police and cooling off her heels at the state’s police, CID, Asaba, was said to have arranged for the sale of the baby with a woman who was said to have been married for 18 years without a child in Lagos before the bubble burst.

It was reliably gathered that a trusted neighbour had last Wednesday appealed to Eunice to help look after the baby to enable her buy some food items in a neighbouring community’s market. Eunice, however, put a call across to the said buyer (now at large).

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Celestina Kalu, who confirmed the arrest of the woman, disclosed that the suspect had disappeared after selling the baby. DSP Kalu said that the police, acting on a tip- off and relying on neighbours who sighted the woman while the deal lasted, swung into action and arrested the woman in Ore Community where she was lodged in hotel.

PHOTO: Katsina college finally releases Buhari’s statement of results

The Government College, Katsina (formerly Provincial Secondary School) on Wednesday released the credentials of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).

The credentials were a statement of results isued by the state Ministry of Education and a confidential result sheet by the University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 January 2015

Brand New Album From Stunning Gospel Artiste, Femi Bakare

Hello DIB reader, one of Nigeria's young vibrant gospel artistes, Femi Bakare, whose worship song "Pada Sile" took over the air waves has just released his first album titled "The Answer".

The album contains some wonderful tracks like "I'm amazed" "Your song" and so on. In fact I was lifted when I listened to some of the tracks in the album.

To download some of the tracks, click HERE

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Hip-Hop star, Snoop Dogg, 43, is proud to call himself a grand father thanks to his eldest son, Corde, 21, becoming a father to newborn, Zion Kalvin. Snoop posted images on his Instagram account showing members of his family cradling the baby boy. On Instagram, the proud grand-papa wrote, Nick Cannon Alters “Mariah” Tattoo

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Good Morning , Gentlemen of the Press.

I only consented to address you this morning because of the genuine concern expressed by many supporters and other well-meaning Nigerians that the issue be addressed. Otherwise, I would have dismissed it for what it is—sheer mischief and would not have considered it an issue worth the nation’s while. I had assumed all along that all my records were in the custody of the Military Secretary of the Nigerian Army.

Governor of Ekiti Fayose Kayode today sponsored another ad-set, taking a shot at General Muhammadu Buhari. In the advert as seen on page 9. of the Punch; he emphasized that Buhari is too old to be President at 72.

THREE thousand, six hundred ballot boxes were intercepted by soldiers in Ogun State yesterday.

Annie Idibia Covers Motherhood In-style Magazine With Her Daughters Annie Idibia and her two daughters, Isabella and Olivia are on the cover of the latest edition of Motherhood InStyle.

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