Aisha Buhari Campaigns In Edo In A Colourful Manner (photos)

Aishat Buhari has become an item since the election campaigns kicked off and today she took her charm to Benin, capital of Edo state to canvass votes for her husband and presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress.


**Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Hajia Aishat Buhari, wife of General Muhammadu Buhari, APC Presidential candidate and Mrs Victoria Oyegun, wife of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress at an interactive session between Hajia Buhari and Edo women at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin City, on Thursday

***Hajia Aishat Buhari, wife of General Muhammadu Buhari, APC Presidential candidate (right), Mrs Victoria Oyegun wife of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (left) and Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State (middle) at an interactive session between Hajia Buhari and Edo women at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin City, on Thursday

**"Hajia Aishat Buhari, wife of General Muhammadu Buhari, Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress addresses the crowd at an interactive session with Edo women at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin City, on Thursday

**"ArchBishop Margaret Idahosa of the Church of God Mission, Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State and Hajia Aishat Buhari, wife of General Muhammadu Buhari, APC Presidential candidate at the interactive 
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51-Year-Old Chinese Woman Memorizes Every Single Entry In The Oxford English-Chinese Dictionary

At an age when most people usually start forgetting things, this Chinese woman has managed to do the opposite – she’s actually memorized the entire Oxford English-Chinese dictionary from cover to cover! OddityCentral has more:

VIDEO!!! Thai Monk Meditates Inside Pot Of Boiling Oil On Top An Open Flame

 A video of a Thai monk meditating in a pot of hot oil over an open flame has lately being doing the round online, leaving viewers scratching their heads and thinking if it was real or not. Scoop has more: The video shows the monk, from Thailand’s Nong Bua Lamphu province, seemingly unaffected by the fact that he is up to his chest in what looks like an unbearably hot oil. According to the description of the original YouTube video “a blend of herbs is first applied to the surface of the container to reduce the high heat, but the feat is still seen around his dangerousness. By performing such a test, Buddhist monks prove their strength and determination to the people.” The use of special herbs doesn’t make this seem anything less than a miracle, but some scientists aren’t convinced. Science instructor, Jessada Denduangboripant, of Chulalongkorn University, says there is no proof that the oil is really boiling. “The only way to prove it is to measure the temperature of the oil he’s sitting in,” she wrote. “The oil doesn’t look like it’s boiling, and the pan just looks strange. The pan might have two layers to insulate the heat.” He claims there are several ways to create this kind of illusion, as he himself demonstrated in a 2012 presentation video where he appears to be safely touching boiling oil. The trick, he says, is to pour in some water in the bowl before adding the oil. The water will then absorb all the heat, but the oil will never boil.

Lady Dies After Meeting Married Lover She Met On Facebook

 The lady, Adekemi Faboro died after her first meeting with a married man she reportedly met on Facebook, according to a report by PM News. The teacher with a primary school in Ogba had met with the married man, one Christopher Ezekiel, online sometime ago and they started an online dating, communicating on phone and through Facebook messages. The two later agreed to meet for the first time this past weekend. Ezekiel left his wife and 2 children in Ibadan and traveled down to Lagos where he stayed in Adekemi’s house at a street off Ajayi Road, Ogba. Trouble started when Adekemi started coughing profusely in the middle of the night. Her concerned neighbors who could hear her coughing came to inquire what the problem was. Seeing that she was not getting any better, they rushed her to the Ifako General Hospital in Lagos where she died. Ezekiel was immediately arrested by policemen attached to the Pen Cinema Police station in Ogba. Her body has since been deposited at the morgue and an autopsy is expected to be conducted on her to determine the cause of her death.

Graphic pics: Man cut into pieces at railway crossing line in Ibadan

This horrific scene happened around 5.30pm yesterday at the railway crossing area in Bodija Ojurin in Ibadan. A man was found dead cut in two on the railway tracks. No one saw what happened, but they suspect he was crushed by a train. The pics are really graphic…will share one…but be warned, it’s really graphic. See it after the cut if you have the heart…

16 year old Girl gave birth to a baby with one eye

The baby was born to a 16-year-old girl in the nation’s Eastern Cape and she died a day later at the Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital. The baby also had no nose and the one eye was set in the middle while the remaining area was covered with skin.

According to reports: The birth of yet another deformed infant to a 16-year-old mom from the Eastern Cape has raised serious concerns. The Eastern Cape Health Department is now calling for research into why so many babies were being born with deformities in the province.

Eastern Cape spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo told the South Africa news agency that some 50 deformed babies have been born in the region in the past two years and there is no “documented cause” for the growing trend.

Pregnant Woman Hides 89 Packets Of Heroin Inside Private Part

A 22-Year-Old pregnant woman was found hiding 89 packets of heroin inside her body.  6 months-old pregnant Marina McCarthy was seen on police dash cam placing drugs inside her private parts while sitting in a patrol car. Scoop reports:

McCarthy from Gouldsboro, Pennsylvania, was arrested in New Jersey, while traveling with her 27-year-old boyfriend, Dakota Dunning.  The couple was pulled over because the car he was driving had a temporary registration plate that was not visible.

Shocked Dentist Removes 15 Life Maggots From Girl’s Mouth | VIDEO, PHOTOS

   A 10-year-old girl was taken to her dentist as she felt something moving around in her mouth, Brasilia, Brazil. What happened next will turn your stomach. Talking to reporters, the gir’s mother, Adriana said, “She had been saying for a few days that she felt something moving around in her mouth and at first I thought she was joking. I couldn’t see anything and she didn’t seem to be in pain. But then it started getting worse and no matter how much we brushed her teeth she said she still felt something. I couldn’t believe it when they said she had a disease and then started pulling the maggots out. I thought I was going to be sick.” After the girl’s swollen gums were examined by a dentist it turned out that a tingling sensation was something worse than gingivitis. Maggots. The girl was diagnosed with a rare form of oral myiasis, a fly lava maggot infection that grows in humans and animals. A spokesman for the dental surgery said, “There were 15 maggots in her mouth so we videoed the removal for our records as it is a rare occurrence. We also wanted to show the girl’s family what had happened and warn others.”

Woman Gives Birth To 4 Babies In One Year After Getting Pregnant Twice

A woman in the United Kingdom, has her hands full after she gave birth to 4 babies within one year as a result of two pregnancies. Scoop has more:

29-year-old Sarah Ward became pregnant with triplets one month after giving birth to her first son. Ward gave birth to her triplets 7 weeks prematurely when her oldest son Freddie was only nine months old. Ward from Crayford, Kent, said that she now changes about 30 diapers each day of all her children.

APC distributes 250,000 Ekitigate DVDs

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has printed and distributed 250,000 copies of audio and video recordings of details of how the June 21, 2014, election was rigged in favour of Governor Ayodele Fayose.
Its Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, said the party took the step to let the world know the truth about the “miracle election,” where a governor with unrivalled sterling performance failed to win a single local government of the 16 councils in the state.
He said details of corrupt practices by soldiers as contained in the tape lent credence to the inclusion of the military as a defendant in the Ekiti State Election Petitions Tribunal, where a suit is challenging the return of Fayose as the winner of the election.
In the tape secretly recorded by Army Captain Sagir Koli, the participants in the fraud were discussing operational details and giving instructions on how to help Fayose win the election.
Koli went on exile after releasing the tape.

Why we protested against Jega, by OPC

The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) yesterday explained that its Monday rally in Lagos was not directed against any party but against the injustice being perpetrated by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

In a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Hakeen Ologunro, the group said “for the benefit of Nigerians, our stand on the election and support for President Jonathan remains unchanged. We decided on President Jonathan simply because we believe that of all the candidates, he has a better agenda for the Yoruba race”.

Ex-VP Atiku committed to APC candidate Buhari’s victory, says Fayemi

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Former Ekiti State Governor Dr. Kayode Fayemi has assured Nigerians that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar remains committed to the victory of the All Progressives Congress’ (APC) presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.

Fayemi said the rumoured plan of Atiku returning to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was a gimmick from the ruling party to confuse Nigerians and cause division in the APC.

He described Atiku as an important pillar of support for the Buhari campaign, whose preoccupation is to ensure victory for the APC and Buhari at the presidential polls.

Buhari’s wife: don’t be afraid

THE wife of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, Hajia Aishat, has told the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, not to nurse any fear about anybody going to jail after Buhari’s victory.

According to Mrs. Buhari, the citizenry only want a change in the way the nation is being run.

She spoke in reaction to Mrs. Jonathan’s campaign that Gen. Buhari would jail his political opponents, if elected in the March 28 election.

Mrs. Buhari, at a mega rally where she interacted with women in Edo State yesterday, said the PDP’s attempt to paint her husband as a religious fundamentalist was a desperate attempt to hoodwink the people.

Only those who want to loot the treasury, she noted, campaign with religion, “which is at variance with politics”.

First Lady: I’m not ready to go to jail

THE First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, said yesterday she was afraid of  going to jail, if the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, wins the March 28 election.

Mrs. Jonathan, who spoke at a rally organised by the women wing of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the National Stadium, Lagos, said: “I reject to carry food to my husband in prison and l wish you too should reject such an offer.

“The only way to reject this option is to vote for my husband in the election so that he can continue to listen to you. You will not carry food to your husband in prison.

“Let me tell you while we are building schools, they are building prisons, which they want to send us to. So, l implore you to reject this offer and vote for my husband, President Goodluck Jonathan,  so that he can give you more opportunities to do your business.”

Dame Patience, who told her audience that Jonathan had fulfilled his mandate to the people by building roads, schools and providing health facilities, said if re-elected, the President would increase the women quota for government positions from 35 per cent to 45 per cent

Fed Govt assures foreign envoys on credible polls

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THE Federal Government has assured members of diplomatic corps on its plan to hold free, fair and credible general elections, warning foreigners to stay clear of the polling areas.

It solicited for the support and understanding of the international community.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Aminu Wali and Minister of Interior Mr. Abba Moro spoke yesterday in Abuja during a parley with members of the diplomatic corps.

Also yesterday, the military assured that in the next one week, Boko Haram would have been reduced to nothing.

The ministers urged diplomats, especially from neigbouring countries, to warn their citizens to stay clear of the polling units.

PDP: imported hard currencies ‘ll be impounded

Chief Femi Fani-Kayode

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Organisation has said the ruling Federal Government would impound any hard currency brought into the country by opposition party leaders.

The ruling party also accused the opposition of not being happy with what it described as President Goodluck Jonathan’s “victory” over terrorism.

Director of Media and Publicity of the campaign organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, in a statement yesterday, denied accusation by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that the administration planned to implicate the opposition in phantom importation of foreign currencies into the country.

Spokesman of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, had raised the alarm over hard currencies about to be illegally imported into the country by agents of the Jonathan administration, with the view to implicating the APC leaders.

But, Fani-Kayode dismissed the allegation, stating rather that the APC leaders should get ready to face the full wrath of the law, if they violated any law.

‘PDP plans to discredit APC leaders with imported U.S. dollars’

THE All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised the alarm over a plot to discredit its leadership through ferrying of huge amount of dollars into Nigeria by some people, who will claim they were hired as cash couriers by the party leaders.

Its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in a statement in Abuja yesterday, alleged that the funds would be ferried into the country through the Seme or Idi-Iroko, or any other border posts, anytime from now.

It said those, who orchestrated the importation of the raw cash from a West African nation, have tipped off the security agents at the border posts to watch out for those who are bringing in a colossal amount in dollars.

The statement reads: ‘’Their plan is that once the couriers – who have been coached on their assignment – are arrested by Nigerian security agents, they will point fingers at some top APC leaders, who supposedly commissioned them to bring in the money to be used for the elections.

My hatred for Tinubu, by Bamidele

If clipping the political wings of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu , was all his detractors set out to achieve by sponsoring a hate documentary on him, then, they have achieved nothing. House of Representatives member Opeyemi Bamidele, in his article entitled: “My hatred for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu”, writes that those belly-aching over the meteoric rise of the former Lagos State governor to political stardom are chasing shadows.  

In Nigeria of today, the more you decide to keep quiet and just do your things, the more things happen that will make it cogent and compelling for you to speak as a man of conscience. This is more so when the issues involved are such that key stakeholders cannot pretend not to know the truth, except you are just choosing to be a passive onlooker who, in truth, must either be a coward or a collaborator.

Will Jega yield to fresh polls shift pressure ?

 Over four weeks ago, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, bowed to pressure to shift the general elections. The service chiefs said they could not guarantee security in the three troubled states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe – all in the Northeast.  On Tuesday, the service chiefs appeared to be singing the same familiar tunes. Will the electoral agency hold the elections on March 28 and April 11 as scheduled? Group Political Editor EMMAMUEL OLADESU examines the politics of polls postponement and  the implications for the electoral process.

Another coup against the electoral process may be in the offing. Democracy is on crutches. For six hours on Tuesday, President Goodluck Jonathan presided over a crucial security meeting. At the end of the meeting, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Kenneth Minimah, made a shocking disclosure. He could not categorically tell Nigerians that the troubled Northeast region is now safe for elections. He said the area has not fully met the conditions for elections. The implication of the statement is that the cloud of uncertainty over the election has not fizzled out, more than four weeks after the elections were postponed.

Bayelsa Ijaw fight over surveillance contract

Friday last week was a bloody day in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State. The city was held spellbound in a tension-soaked encounter between ex-militants and the police. Hundreds of the former warlords threw decorum overboard and slugged it out with armed security operatives.

To most residents in Yenagoa, that Friday came like a normal day. With the spirits of “Thank God it is Friday”, workers and shop owners headed for their various business ventures without knowing that foreboding lurked around. On getting to Tombia Roundabout located along the popular Mbiama-Yenagoa Road, the bright day changed to darkness.

We won’t concede territory to sect again, says Jonathan

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President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday assured that no town or community will be captured by the Boko Haram insurgents again in the country.

The president spoke in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, during his presidential campaign. He said “the federal government will resist any attempt by the Boko Haram terrorists to take control of any town or village within the country again”.

According to him, the federal government is committed to ending the insurgency and expressed happiness that the insurgents had been wiped out of the state.

”As I speak, I am so happy to announce that Yobe has been freed of Boko Haram as all territories earlier under the control of the sect members have been recaptured by our able troops and we will henceforth resist any attempt by the sect members or any group to take control of any territory again.

‘Elections must hold on schedule’

The Yoruba took a position on the state of the nation yesterday: elections must hold on schedule on March 28 and April 11.

The race will not accept any undemocratic government in whatever form but will take its destiny in its hands should its democratic tenets be tampered with.

The Yoruba Leaders of Thought expressed their stance in a charter of demands issued after a summit at the House of Chiefs, Parliament Building, Oyo State Secretariat in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

The convener of the summit is Gen. Alani Akinrinade, a former Chief of Defence Staff.

Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi underscored the importance of the summit, which he likened to the 1955 Yoruba conference on the way forward for the race. It was also held at the same venue.

U.S. to Jonathan, Buhari: respect Abuja peace pact

United States Vice-President Joe Biden has told President Goodluck Jonathan and his main opponent in the March 28 presidential poll, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, that violence has no place in a democracy.

Biden, who spoke with both candidates yesterday, urged them to remain committed to the peace accord they signed. He also supported the deployment of card  readers in the March 28th and April 11th  elections.

He praised the candidates for signing the Abuja Accord, expressing support for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

A statement issued by the US Embassy in Nigeria reads:

Boko Haram men kill own wives

•Sect kills 20 in attack

Dozens of women who were forced to marry Boko Haram fighters were killed by their “husbands” before a battle with troops in Bama, Borno State,  witnesses said yesterday.

Five witnesses who recounted the massacres to French News Agency AFP said the Islamist militants feared they would be killed by advancing soldiers or separated from their wives when they fled the town.

They killed the women to prevent them from subsequently marrying soldiers or other so-called non-believers, they added.

“The terrorists said they will not allow their wives to be married to infidels,” said Sharifatu Bakura, 39, a mother of three.

According to Bakura’s account, which was supported by others, Boko Haram fighters received word of a military assault on Bama, formerly an Islamist stronghold.

The insurgents had decided to flee to the nearby town of Gwoza before the troops’ arrival but first decided “to kill their wives so that nobody will remarry them”, she said.

Bukara’s husband was killed by the insurgents four months ago but she was spared from a forced marriage because she was visibly pregnant.

Polls: Yoruba leaders reject Jonathan’s endorsement

Akinrinade, governors, others denounce interim govt plot

Yoruba leaders have rejected the purported endorsement of President Goodluck Jonathan for second term by some leaders of Afenifere, the Southwest’s socio-political organisation.

The leaders, who converged on the Parliament Building, Oyo State Secretariat, Ibadan, yesterday to present the common aspirations of the Yoruba nation for the future, also condemned Monday’s violence perpetrated by Oodua Peoples’ Congress (OPC) in Lagos.

A faction of the Afenifere,  a forthnight ago, met in Akure, the Ondo State capital, to endorse Dr. Jonathan for a second term, saying he plans to restructure the country through his convocation of a national conference. Critics of this point of view insist that all Yoruba demands at the conference were turned down.

In a tacit rejection of the endorsement, Yoruba Assembly Convener Gen. Alani Akinrinade, a one-time Chief of Defence Staff,  in his welcome address, enumerated the qualities of the leadership the Yoruba desired.

He said: “We, the Yoruba are too sophisticated to follow one leader or adopt one political belief. What is required of us is to share a common developmental aspiration and values much more than what obtains now in the present Nigeria.