Wednesday, 26 August 2015
Kenyan man who taught himself Javelin by watching youtube videos wins gold at World championship
Sunday, 23 August 2015
Last administration paid N140bn as consultancy fee for the 2nd Niger bridge -Oshiomhole alleges
Nas' ex-wife Kells is pregnant (photos)
Kelis has a 6 year old son Knight Jones with Nas. Big congrats to her. More photos after the cut...
Photo: Sokoto residents rush out to clean streets following cash reward of N1m by state governor
Usain Bolt wins third 100m World Championship gold
Thursday, 20 August 2015
WHERE WILL PEDRO FIT IN AT CHELSEA?
Having been put off signing for Manchester United the 28-year-old has opted to move to Stamford Bridge, where his keen eye for goal and versatility should make him a key figure
Maino's baby mama puts Lala Anthony on blast, says she slept with her man
Ashley Madison hackers release names of 32million married men who cheated on their wives
Fisherman buried with a fish coffin in Ghana (photo)
Buhari sacks DG Budget Office, announces replacement
Army recalls soldiers dismissed for refusing to fight Boko Haram
The 10 Major Mistakes Most Women Make In Relationships
the 10 major mistakes most women tend to make. If you can at least understand and try to correct these mistakes, I promise you, your relationship will change for the better.
Let’s get to it.
1. You Act Jealous/Insane When He Looks At Or Talks To Other Women
As a man, I can confidently say that it’s in our nature to look at attractive women. If you just act jealous and flip out when we do, it shows us that you’re insecure. Being insecure is a very big turn off for guys. If you find that you’re constantly jealous when he’s around other women, you need to reevaluate some issues in this relationship. First, you need to build up your self-esteem. No man will want to cheat on a woman who’s confident in herself and secure in the relationship. Second, you need to evaluate the trust issues found in this relationship. More so, do you trust him or not?
20 Things Men Don’t Know About Women
There are of course many things that men don’t know about women, mainly because we don’twant them to know, and so we try and keep them hidden really well. But during my two and a half years of interviewing countless ladies for Maxim’s sex section, I discovered that there are many, many more things that we ladies keep hidden from men …
When you’re not around, we fart. The longer, the louder and the stinker, the more enjoyable.
10 ways to completely keep ur man only to ur self in a relationship
He wants to be your hero — so let him.
Most men don't cheat because they don't love you anymore. Men cheat because they want more variety in their sex lives.
Some complain of being bored. They want to feel adored by their partners. They want to asert their freedom. They are tired of disappointing you. They want a partner who places them at the center of their life, and they no longer feel like the priority in yours. Sometimes it's because you are speaking different love languages, and some men say it is a biological directive to procreate with as many women as possible for survival of the species.
Whatever the reason, men have an innate need to feel respected and appreciated by their partners. It is most disconcerting for a man to realize he has disappointed his partner in some way. He wants to be her hero.
So, here are 10 ways to prevent your man fromcheating:
Bobbi Kristina drowning witness identified (photos)
A dazed and pale young woman who was taken out of the hospital in a wheelchair by Nick Gordon just hours after Bobbi Kristina was admitted after drowning in her bathtub has been identified for the first time by Daily Mail Online. She is the same woman who was at Bobbi Kristina's townhouse when she was found unresponsive in her bathtub.
Danyela Bradley, 18, was pictured at 1pm on February 1, 2015, being wheeled out of North Fulton Hospital in Atlanta by Gordon just hours after her close friend Bobbi Kristina was hospitalized at the same medical center. Bobbi Kristina had been found face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub at her home on the morning of January 31.
High school senior Danyela had been staying on-and-off at Bobbi Kristina’s townhouse, which she shared with Gordon, in Roswell, Georgia.
Photos: Buhari meets members of the Independent Petroleum Producers Group
Nigerian Govt writes India to see Nigerian ISIS suspects
The Nigerian embassy in Delhi, India, has written to the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to see the 2 Nigerians that were arrested in Punjab recently while on their way to Pakistan, allegedly to join the Islamic State terrorist group.
The two suspects from Kano, identified as Imran Kabeer and Sani Jamiliu, are currently being detained by the Punjab Police in India.
'I took care of his kids': Ciara fires back at ex Future
The 29-year-old responded after the rapper blasted her for allowing their son Future Jnr to spend time with her current boyfriend, footballer Russell Wilson.
She accused the 31-year-old of double standards, since she looked after his three other children when they were together.
Female rugby player dies from catastrophic brain injuries after tackle
Tragic Sarah Chesters, 23, was playing for her ladies' rugby team on October 19 last year when she was bundled to the ground by a bigger opposition player.
Parrot arrested in India for insulting owner's elderly stepmother
Janabai, who is in her 80s, filed the complaint with the police in Rajura city of Chandrapur District, saying the parrot had been tutored by its owner to shower abuses at her whenever she passed by his house.
The parrot, named Hariyal, is owned by Janabai's stepson Suresh. A complaint was also registered against him. Both live separately due to a property dispute.
Store clerk scares Machete robbers with a bigger sword
Man digs up Dad's grave to argue With corpse
Michael May, 44, was arrested Tuesday evening after an officer saw him digging up a grave at a cemetery in Sanford, Kentucky.
Mentally ill man found guilty again after 35 years in prison
A mentally ill Texas man imprisoned for more than 35 years despite his original murder conviction being overturned was found guilty a second time on Wednesday.
Jerry Hartfield, 59, was convicted of murder in the September 1976 slaying of 55-year-old Eunice Lowe, who sold tickets at the bus station in Bay City, Houston.
The sentencing phase will begin Thursday, the judge said. Prosecutors said Hartfield faces five to 99 years in prison or a life sentence, but said before the trial that he could be immediately eligible for parole because of time served.
Jurors decided against a conviction of capital murder, which carried an automatic sentence of life in prison.
Neither the defense attorneys nor the prosecutors would comment on the verdict, though the two defense attorneys fist-bumped after the jurors were let out of the courtroom.
At a hearing last Friday, a psychologist testified Hartfield's IQ is 67, below the threshold of 70 consid
Buhari to NNPC: work with indigenous oil producers
• President Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday assured indigenous companies operating in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector of the full support and protection of his administration.
He promised during a meeting with members of the Independent Petroleum Producers Association at the Presidential Villa, Abuja to do everything within his powers to address the challenges they currently face.
A statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President Mallam Garba Shehu, said he commended their determination to increase the participation of Nigerians in the country’s oil industry.
He directed the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to work closely with the indigenous oil producers to resolve the problems which they enumerated to him.
“We have the manpower for a more effective participation in our oil industry. We will give you all possible encouragement. You certainly won’t be ignored under my leadership,” President Buhari told members of the association which represents about 20 Nigerian companies operating mainly on onshore fields.
A new National Carrier…staging a comeback 12 years after
•One of the plane in the fleet of Nigeria Airways Limited before its liquidation
The aviation sector is alive with a debate over the Federal Government’s plans to revitalise the national carrier. Experts and key operators are sharply divided in their perspectives on the modalities to be adopted in putting the Green-White-Green national colours back in the air, reports KELVIN OSA- OKUNBOR
The debate is on, triggered by a recent directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to Aviation Ministry officials. They are to work out the modalities of setting up a new national carrier.
The rationale for such a carrier has engendered unease among experts, airline operators and watchers of the troubled aviation sector.
Expectedly, the directive has pitted against one another players in the sector on both sides of the divide. Those who are favourably disposed to the idea have described the directive as a welcome development. Others, who feel the government has no business going into such money-guzzling enterprise, have not hidden their opposition.
The divergent views raised on the proposed carrier by experts are predicated on seven failed attempts by previous administrations to reestablish a national carrier since the liquidation of the Nigeria Airways Limited (NAL) in May, 2003 by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Such attempts include: Virgin Nigeria; Air Nigeria; Nigerian Global Airline and Nigerian Eagle Air among others.
Since 2003, Nigeria has lost several billions of dollars to capital flights repatriated by over 27 foreign carriers that operate international flights into and outside of the Nigerians shore.
More than a decade after it went moribund, relics of the weather-beaten and decripit airplanes, that were once Nigeria’s flag carriers, have been sold as spare parts when Arik Air got the fanchise to operate the defunct NAL’s workshop at the Muritala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja in Lagos.
With no strong Nigerian carriers to reciprocate the over 73 Bilateral Air Services Agreement (BASA) it signed with countries, Nigerian routes have remained not only lucrative but for foreign carriers, which enjoy multiple entry points into the country under lopsided air treaties and Open Skies Agreements (OSAs).
Worried by the trend, the President, penultimate Wednesday, directed Aviation Ministry to expedite action on the establishment of a new national airline.
1.5m IDPs in Nigeria, says UN
•Ki-Moon
•Ki-Moon coming on Sunday
United Nations Resident Coordinator in Nigeria Mr Daouda Toure yesterday pleaded for more resources to meet the needs of internally displaced people.
There are about 1.5 million of them.
Toure spoke in Abuja during the activities to mark this year’s World Humanitarian Day celebration with the theme: “Inspiring the World’s Humanity”.
“We appeal for more resources to respond particularly to the education and health needs of the displaced people.
“What is available is not commensurate with the situation on ground as the crisis in the North-East is not publicised enough.
“Nigeria is the major contributor to peace keeping in the world, so the international community need to contribute more resources, step up their support and restore the livelihood of these vulnerable people.
“We need to come and help them, help their brothers and sisters and help them get a better future for their children.’’
Toure added that the major challenges facing the humanitarian community today was the lack of access to security and limited resources.
How PDP was destroyed, by BoT chair Haliru
Dr. Bello Haliru Mohammed
The Acting Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT), Dr. Bello Haliru Mohammed, yesterday said the violation of the zoning principle by vested interests destroyed the party.
Mohammed, in a statement by his media aide, Mr. Emeka Nwakpa, attributed the fast declining fortune of the PDP to the abrogation of the zoning principle in 2011.
The party jettisoned zoning to pave the way for the emergence of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as presidential candidate — a development which Mohammed said severely undermined the principle of equity and justice on which the party was founded.
According to him, the PDP paid dearly for it with the loss of power at the centre in the last general election.
He added that the development created crises of confidence among key stakeholders and eroded sense of belonging among many party faithful.
EFCC moves in as $4.5b tax scandal hits agency
Commission grills NIPC officials
Three ex-ministers, Customs chiefs for questioning
How did 20 oil companies get $4.5 million tax holidays to which they are not entitled?
This is the puzzle the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is battling to resolve.
Helping the EFCC are some officials of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) and the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment.
The Ministries of Petroleum Resources and Solid Minerals and the Nigerian Customs Service may also be probed for questionable tax waivers, it was learnt yesterday.
A former Special Assistant to an ex-minister has been
Tuesday, 18 August 2015
NERC to Senate: we can’t abolish fixed charge
•Fixed charged to be proportional to consumption
The Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) yesterday told the Senate that it cannot abolish the fixed charge.
NERC Chairman Dr. Sam Amadi said the National Assembly had passed the Electric Power Sector Reform (EPSR) Act, which mandated the commission to produce a tariff methodology for the electricity market.
He argued that removing the fixed charge would contradict the law the National Assembly made on tariff methodology.
Amadi spoke with reporters in Abuja, noting that tariff making could not be an executive fiat.
He said: “The National Assembly made the ESPR Act. And the Act said the commission should produce a methodology. Tariff making is a process-based activity. It is not an executive fiat. The reason why the law created the regulator is to give confidence to the market; their decisions are procedural and the decisions are deliberately considered.
Nigeria’s power sector: Huge investment, little result
In the past 16 years, the Federal Government tried unsuccessfully to make the power sector play its role as the driver of industrialisation. Despite the huge funds pumped into the sector, power generation has not gone beyond 4,500 megawatts. EMEKA UGWUANYI and JOHN OFIKHENUA examine the situation
With over N5 trillion estimated to have been spent on the power sector between 1999 and now, businesses should no longer see public electricity source as alternative rather than the real deal.
The Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), its successor companies – the generation, transmission and distribution companies received a chunk of the over N5 trillion. Funds were also expended on the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP), which is supervised by a special purpose vehicle, the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) Limited. The NDPHC was created to fast-track the attainment of stable power supply in the country when past efforts failed.
Unfortunately, the corruption the government wanted to avoid caught up with the NIPP programme. The programme was conceived in 2004 and the NDPHC was created in 2005. In 2007, $16 billion was allocated to the NIPP and used up within four years. The project was engulfed in controversy and litigation because of the alleged unexplained utilisation of the fund. The immediate past administration suspended the NIPP programme dismissing it as huge fraud and drainpipe but after two years, the suspension was lifted and the government continued with the project.
Buhari accepts Abdullahi’s resignation from Customs
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday accepted the resignation of the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Alhaji Dikko Abdullahi.
Abdullahi is billed to proceed on his voluntary retirement from Tuesday, August 18.
The Customs boss had earlier written a letter dated August 3 to the President notifying him of his desire to proceed on voluntary retirement from Tuesday.
Buhari: no pressure will derail war against corruption
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that no amount of pressure will make him give up on the war against corruption.
He spoke through an address delivered by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, to a group of Nigerians under the aegies of “Nigerians March Against Corruption,” who were at the gate of the Presidential Villa.
Members of the group came on a solidiarity visit to pledge their support for the Buhari administration’s anti-corruption campaign.
The President promised a relentless prosecution of the war with due regard for the rule of law.
According to him, all persons charged with stealing the nation’s resources will have their day in court and that, upon conviction, their ill-gotten wealth will be seized and returned to government coffers.
‘God saved my life from Orkar’s bullet ‘-IBB
Former military President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida clocks 74 years this week. He spoke with reporters in his Hilltop residence, Minna, Niger State, on a wide range of issues. JIDE ORINTUNSIN was there.
Congratulations on your 74th birthday. Some Nigerians say you are not from Niger State but from Ogbomoso. They even claimed that your middle name Badamasi was coined out of a Yoruba name- Gbadamosi. This is an opportunity for you to clear the air. Where is your root?
I had to answer this same question way back November 1962. I was in an interview with a Minister and some prominent Nigerians during my last year in secondary school. Somebody asked me the same question. First of all, I corrected the way it was spelt. 53 years after, I am glad answering the same question. The truth is, I hail from here – Niger State. My parents are from between Wushishi and this town (Minna). My grand-parents travelled to settle down here. So I think that says it all. But above all, there is nothing wrong from being from any part of the country but the truth is, I hail from Niger state. My parents and my great grand parents moved from somewhere and settled down here in Niger state. There are those who still call us settlers in Niger because our grand parents and great-grand-parents came from somewhere but I have lived all my 74 years in Niger state, I think I am more than qualified to be called an indigene of Niger state.
16 feared dead in Kwara cults clashes
No fewer than 16 people were feared dead at the weekend in clashes of suspected cult members in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.
Though, the causes of the clashes could not be ascertained last night, it was gathered that suspected members of Aiye and Eiye confraternities clashed at an higher institution.
The Police said they arrested more than 30 suspects.
Police spokesperson Ajayi Okasanmi, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), who confirmed the arrests, added that 14 had been found culpable after screening.
Okasanmi said the 14 suspects would be charged to court this week.
Sultan to Buhari: corrupt officials should go to jail
The Sultan yesterday backed President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption battle, recommending jail for treasury looters.
To Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, treasury plunderers do not deserve mercy. They should be tried and jailed, the Sokoto monarch said.
The monarch said: “It is our belief that all those found guilty should not only have their entire assets seized and forfeited to government but also face jail sentences.”
It was all at the opening of a National Security Summit organised by the police in collaboration with The Sun Publishing Limited in Abuja. The President said more hands were on the way for the police.
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