PDP Accuses Jega Of Meeting APC Leaders In Dubai

The Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday raised fresh allegations aiming at discrediting the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, over the conduct of the elections.

At a crowded press conference in Abuja, the Director of Media and Publicity of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, alleged that Jega had meetings with some unnamed leaders of the main opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

10 ways to spend less on Valentine’s Day

1. Have dinner at home – Instead of going out on dinner date you can consider having the dinner at home. This should resonate well with couples who are hardly at home due to busy work schedules or even intending couple just getting to know each other. Dinner dates at home helps you both avoid distractions associated with restaurant settings. You guys simply spend quality time at a cheaper price. You just need to make the setting very special.

2. Order dinner – If you are not the type who likes to cook or don’t know how to cook you can also consider ordering dinner outside. Loads of restaurants in Nigeria now provide such services in a very timely manner. Even though it might be slightly expensive it saves you a lot of stress, like having to drive out in traffic. You also save money on buying expensive drinks which fancy restaurants typically mark up at times like this.

3.  Go somewhere different – Val’s day mustn’t be spent in exotic restaurants or locations only. Why not visit somewhere different and traditional like the movies, beach or spa. You could also visit memorable places such as where you first met or saw each other. Going to somewhere different more often than not takes you away from locations that might make you spend more on Val’s day.

Tricyclist falls into soakaway while starting generator

Tragedy struck in the Mushin area of Lagos State after a 35-year-old tricycle rider, Olalekan Salisu, fell into a soakaway in his house and died.

 He was said to be starting his small generator on the soakaway around 9pm on Sunday when the slab covering the soakaway gave way. The generator and the Ogun State indigene were said to have fallen into the soakaway.


Residents said it took about five hours before the victim, who was married with two kids, could be brought out. He was brought out dead. Tension was still high on Wednesday when PUNCH Metro visited the scene of the incident, a two- storey building on Anipele Street, Olorunshogo, Mushin. Our correspondent observed that two fresh concrete slabs had been prepared to replace the damaged one which was at the back of the house.

PHOTO:PDP Distributing Mobile Phones For Campaign

The PDP really mean business in preparing for the forthcoming election. So if you were given the mobile phone, will you collect?

PHOTO: Meet the wives & children of Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II

Doyin Okupe Describes Online Polls as Political Masturbation

Read the excerpt of where Doyin Okupe described Facebook and Twitter polls as political masturbation below:

"People talk on face book and twitter as if the elections will be decided here. What goes on here is nothing but political masturbation. The actual voting takes place in the real world. There are about 13m and 4.5m Nigerians on facebook and Twitter respectively. On the average because of multiple presence we can assume a number of 15m. 50% or 7.5m are not registered. Out of the remaining 7.5m another 50% will not vote. So we are looking at about a max of 3.75m voters from these platforms. The projected voters for this election is expected to be about 52/55m.

Why I slept with my 11-year-old daughter — Confession of a father

How will you feel as a mother if your husband sexually abuses your innocent daughter? This is the question a woman in Bauchi State is trying to come to terms with, as her husband, Abubakar Magaji, a resident of Liman Kagum in Bauchi local government, did the abominable act of having carnal knowledge of their 11-year-old daughter
Abubakar Magaji More shocking is the fact that it was not a one-act misadventure but a repeated one.

 But like a popular saying has it: Many days for a thief and one day for the owner, nemesis eventually caught up with the 45-year-old father when he was arrested and paraded along with others at the Bauchi State command for rape.

Man breaks friend’s spinal cord over age claims

A car wash attendant, Michael Taiwo, has allegedly broken the spinal cord of his friend, Akeem Amoo, after a scuffle between them.

PUNCH Metro learnt that 28-year-old Taiwo and Amoo were boyhood friends in the Alagbado area of Lagos State before a disagreement over age marred their relationship. Our correspondent learnt that Amoo had been admitted to an orthopaedic hospital in Lagos, while Taiwo was charged to court by the police on Monday.

Obasanjo Finally Endorses Buhari

After months of berating the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has declared his support for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).

Obasanjo, who is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, made his opinion known during an interview with the Financial Times at the launch of his controversial autobiography titled, ‘My Watch’, in Nairobi, Kenya.

Presidency Denies Plot To Remove Jega

THE Presidency and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), have denied alleged plot to remove Prof Attahiru Jega, saying it is mischievous and unfounded.

A source in the Office of the National Security Adviser disclosed this yesterday in Abuja to reporters that “the rumoured sack of Jega is not from the Presidency but part of the propaganda by the opposition to soil the good name of the President, to discredit the government and cause trouble”.

ASUU urges Nigerians to resist plans to sack Jega

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has alerted Nigerians of alleged grand plan by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party to send the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, on terminal leave.

ASUU in a resolution reached at the end of a National Symposium on the 2015 elections and signed by Chairman of the union at the University of Ibadan chapter, Prof. Segun Ajiboye, asked Nigerians to be alert to the grand plan to scuttle 2015 general election.

STRANGE: South African Twin Sisters Marry Same Man

26 year old twin sisters, Owami and Olwethu from Vosloorus, South Africa recently got married to the same man, 51 year old Mzukiseni Mzazi.

When interviewed by a South African magazine Drum magazine, the sisters said they’d always known they’d marry same man as they have shared everything else together since they were born.

Charlie Boy Shares Email of a fan who wants to join Illuminati

I can't help laughing because what does this guy know about the group Illuminati. Lol!

Meet 26-Year-Old Nigerian, Kelvin Olusola, who won Grammy Award this year (Photo)

A Nigerian, Kelvin Olusola, won a Grammy this year 26 year old Kelvin Olusola is a singer, producer, cellist, beatboxer, saxophonist and songwriter born to Nigerian American Oluwole Olusola, who is a psychiatrist and his mum Curline Paul a nurse.

 He won a Grammy with his group "Pentatonix". Pentatonix is an Capella group and they won in the "Arrangement, Instrumental or A Capella category" for their remake of Daft Funk's hit single "Get lucky" featuring Pharell Williams

PHOTOS:Underaged Children collecting PVC in North

RIDICULOUS: 14 Year Old Boy Jailed For Killing Step Mother's Chicken

A 14-year-old boy has spent five months in a Kano remand home for allegedly killing a chicken belonging to his step-mother, Weekly Trust has gathered.

 The boy (name withheld) had a dispute with his step-mum in Wudil local government area of Kano State five months

INEC Extends PVC collection To March 8

Following the rescheduling of the 2015 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission has once again extended the deadline for collection of Permanent Voter Cards by registered voters.

The commission in a statement signed by its Secretary, Mrs. Augusta Ogakwu, said collection of the cards will continue for four more weeks until March 8th, 2015. INEC had on Saturday, February 7, 2015, rescheduled the 2015 general elections due to security challenges.

PHOTO OF THE DAY: See What this Man Did to his PVC after Election was postponed

3 Nigerian Youth Allegedly Shot Dead at Birthday Party by Soldiers

Three youth were shot dead allegedly by security agents on Sunday night at a birthday party around Bukuru Low Cost, Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State.

 Several witnesses said some members of the Special Task Force on Jos Crisis, STF, opened fire on the youth at the party at Joenice Joint, a beer parlour at Nyango Gel, Bukuru Low Cost Area. Apart from the dead, some of the party-goers escaped with injuries.

Nantel Miri, the father of one of the deceased, said his son, Timshak, 20, was shot dead by suspected security agents who stormed the party venue. He said he reported the matter to the Police Divisional Office, DPO, in Bukuru on Monday. Mr. Miri said the remains of his son and the two other victims were deposited at the mortuary of the Jos University Teaching Hospital, JUTH. He called for a thorough investigation of the incident so that those who committed the crime would be brought to book.

 One of the youth who escaped and asked not to be named for fear of victimisation, said an argument had ensued at the party venue between two youth. It was almost resolved when the owner of the “joint” insisted on inviting the STF patrolling the area, he said

. “When the soldiers came to the venue, they opened fire on us. I was lucky to have escaped,” the youth narrated. A resident of the area, one Rintim, said the incident caused him a sleepless night as a result of fear. He described the incident as “pathetic” and appealed for the appropriate investigations.

 Meanwhile, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Abuh Emmanuel, in his office on Monday at the headquarters of the Police Command, denied any knowledge of the incident. “I have not received an official report from the Divisional Police Officer Bukuru concerning such an incident, but my office would investigate and get to the root of the matter,” he said. The spokesperson of the STF, Ikedichi Iweha, a captain, did not pick calls to his phone. The owner of the drinking joint could not be found at the time of filing this reporb

 Culled from Premium Times

PHOTO OF THE DAY: What should be done to this guy?

16-year-old Girl Bathes Boyfriend With Acid

A 16-year- old lover girl, identified as Maureen (surname withheld) in Emede Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State at the weekend, allegedly bathed her boyfriend with acid for cheating on her in the last three months of their relationship.

Reports said the girl, now in the police net in the community, upon interrogation by the police confessed to the crime, saying that her boyfriend violated the oath they took together.

Fashola Collects PVC at Surulere Polling Unit

Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola, was today pictured collecting his permanent voters card (PVC), having been denied the voters card in the past

South West gov’s brother, Prof Mimiko, may replace Jega

Vanguard gathered that in his place ( Jega)
the Presidency was considering bringing in another academic from the South-West, who is currently heading a tertiary institution in the country.

The professor of Political Science and International Relations is said to be a sibling of a serving governor in the South-West, who is a close ally of President Goodluck Jonathan and his party.

Presidency Shops For Jega's replacement

With the successful postponement of the elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the Presidency has launched a two-pronged war to ensure that President Goodluck Jonathan wins the election convincingly.

The two strategies are to stop Muhammadu Buhari, the All Progressives Congress candidate from contesting the election with Jonathan and the replacement of the INEC Chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega, with a less independent-minded person. Jega, it was gathered, had been described by hawks around the president of being too independent- minded and ‘uncooperative’ despite being given the job on a platter of gold by the president’s men.

Election Postponement: A plan by PDP to gain Time to perfect its Rigging Machine -Tinubu

National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has described the postponement of the 2015 general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as democracy at gunpoint.

Tinubu, reacting to the decision by the INEC via his Twitter handle, @AsiwajuTinubu, said the INEC chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega caved in to pressure and blackmail. Tinubu noted that the shift in the dates for the general elections was a mere pretext by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to gain time to perfect its rigging machine.

Ivory Coast Wins African Cup of Nations

Ivory Coast emerged the new African champions on Sunday night after they defeated the Black Stars of Ghana in the final match of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations. They won the match played in Bata, Equatorial Guinea 9-8 on penalties in a repeat of the 1992 AFCON final as the game remained goalless after the extra time. Goalkeeper Boubacar Barry scored the last of the penalties to give the Elephants their second title as they replaced Nigeria as African champions at the Estadio de Bata after two previous attempts in the finals.

BREAKING: INEC postpones 2015 Elections

The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced a shift in the 2015 general election earlier scheduled for February 14 and 28. Announcing the postponement at a press conference in Abuja on Saturday night, the chairman of the Commission, Attahiru Jega, said the presidential and national assembly elections will now hold on March 28 while the governorship and state assemblies election will take place on April 11.

Kano, Kaduna, Lagos top PVC collection list –INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission has listed Kano, Kaduna and Lagos as the states leading in the collection of Permanent Voter Cards.

Why We Can't Proceed with Elections - Jega

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Attahiru Jega, has concluded a briefing meeting with 25 civil society groups in Abuja Saturday informing them that all security agencies in the country have indicated to him, in writing, that they are not available to support the elections planned for February 14 Mr. Jega who had an earlier meeting with political parties is rounding up another meeting with his 36 resident commissioners now on what will amount to an INEC position on whether to postpone or go ahead with the elections.

PHOTOS: Muna Obiekwe Finally Laid to Rest amid Tears

Nollywood Actor Muna Obiekwe was today laid to rest in his hometown of Umudioka in Anambra state. Muna was survived by two children and wife.

Woman vomits Python snake during spiritual deliverance in church

A 32-year-old woman from Edo state , was reported to have vomited a live Python snake during a deliverance session in a church in Jalingo, Taraba state.

The married woman, Grace Benjamin was said to have also vomited jewelries, coins, padlock among other things at the Sons Manifestation Ministries, located at Magami area of Jalingo founded by Johnson Mustapha.

Govt. May Shift Elections By Six Weeks

Citing the need to defuse the rising tension in the land, among other reasons, the Federal Govern­ ment is set to shift the coming polls by six weeks, the Daily Times has learnt.

The presidential and National Assembly elections are currently scheduled for February 14, while those of the states will hold on February 28. Daily Times authoritatively learnt that under the new proposal, the elections may now hold at the end of March.

The proposed change is hinged on the mounting tension in the country sequel to violent displays at some of the ongoing campaigns across the country. The feeling inside government circles is that there is need to let the tension, which is nearing boiling point in the country at the moment, come down before the election could hold, otherwise there could be an implosion. Sources say that within the six weeks, efforts will be made to calm frayed nerves and encourage more people to embrace peace.

It is feared that the presidential election in particu­ lar may lead to an implosion in the country. The body language in the North suggests a possible repeat of the bloodletting that occurred after Jona­ than was declared winner of the 2011 election, if the incumbent wins again.

It is also feared that a similar turmoil may erupt, especially in the South South, if General Muhammadu Buhari of the All progressives Congress (APC) wins the election. Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is an Ijaw from the South South area of the country. Besides, there is uncertainty over whether the elections could validly hold in the North Eastern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa which have been wracked by the Boko Haram insurgency. There are security concerns over the safety of full- time and ad-hoc staff of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) during the polls.

Buhari Promises to ban importation of rice, tomato

Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd) The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.-Gen. Muhammad Buhari (retd), on Monday said if elected on February 14, he would ban the importation of basic items like rice and tomato in order to enhance local production of the products.

Emenike performs ritual to lift curse (PHOTO)

Super Eagles forward, Emmanuel Emenike underwent a Turkish spiritual cleansing ritual to lift a curse that he believes has been placed on him.

 Emenike is reported to have complained that his energy is out of sync after being cursed in Nigeria and that it has had a detrimental effect on his performances on the field.

 “My energy is not right, something is wrong, I just need a goal to get back to form,” Emenike was quoted as saying by Milliyet.

SHOCKING: Man hangs self in uncompleted building in Lagos (PHOTO)

Residents of Ile-Iwe community in the Meiran area of Lagos State say they were shocked to see the dangling body of a stranger in an uncompleted building in the area.

 Some of the residents told PUNCH Metro that the victim was on Thursday brought down dead from the rope with which he hung himself. They added that efforts by the people in the community and the police to identify him had proved abortive.

FG implements ASUU agreement, Earmarks N1.3trn For Universities

The Federal Government has earmarked N1.3 trillion as intervention grant to public universities on the platform of National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) Assessment Programme.


The Minister of Education, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, said this in an interactive dinner in Abuja on Saturday, noting that the grant is for five years.

BREAKING: Suspected stowaway attacked at Lagos Airport

There was a security breach at the private general aviation terminal, Execujet, on Sunday, when a male teenager, Samuel Ogundeyi, suspected to be a stowaway, was arrested in the tyre compartment of an aircraft.

2015 Elections May Be Violent If Held In Februray – Balarabe Musa

Few days to the 2015 elections, the former governor of Kaduna State, Mr Balarabe Musa has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to postpone the general elections on grounds of insecurity and inability of a large number of Nigerians to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs).

Bisi Alimi, Nigerian Gay Activist and British Partner Adopt Baby Boy (Photo)

Gay activist Bisi Alimi and his British partner seem to have adopted a newborn baby. The Naija dude shared the news of his baby via IG few hours ago via a caption he attached to these photos.

APC Lsgos senatorial candidate, Yayi Adeola, Attacked by Heavy Gunmen

Reports say that the APC senatorial candidate's office was allegedly attacked by gunmen shooting sporadically on Saturday night.

 However in a tweet released by the APC Lagos senatorial candidate, he attributed the attack to his PDP candidate, Mr Segun Adewale.