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Friday, 30 September 2016

Cossy Orjiakor puts her boobs on display with only a Nigerian flag covering her nipples

Friday, September 30, 2016


She shared the photo and wrote "The more you look the less you see.... Nigeria at 56 hahaha Happy (in)Dependence Day...in advance"



World Heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury tests positive for cocaine!

Friday, September 30, 2016


The Gypsie King as he is fondly called by fans- Tyson Fury, the reigning WBA, WBO, IBO, Ring magazine, and lineal heavyweight champion has tested positive for cocaine according to reports, weeks after pulling out from his heavyweight title defence with Klitschko citing mental issues.

 
Fury, was said to have been informed on Thursday night that his A sample from a random urine test on 22 September had tested positive for the substance benzoylecgonine, the central compound found in cocaine. 

The Manchester born boxer who claims to be born again is set to lose his titles won in 2015. The presence of cocaine in his blood samples brings an all time low to Fury's career and could even bring about litigations and lawsuits against him and his camp.

Klitschko, who was supposed to have fought him since, has been made to wait for almost a year to regain his lost belts and with this new revelation could fight someone else for the WBO, WBA and IBO world titles..

 
A whole host of partners in the rematch - including television stations, the Manchester Arena which had been booked for October 29 and the fans who had invested in non-refundable hotel bookings and travel costs - may even consider seeking financial compensation from Fury and his camp.

Bernd Boente, the manager of Klitschko, has responded to the revelations: 'If this is true, Fury is the most unworthy of all the heavyweight champions.
'This might explain a lot but for certain this is terrible for boxing. I have to say that Fury must be the most disgraceful heavyweight champion of all time.
'Don't forget this comes in a package which also includes his outrageous homophobic and anti-Semitic comments.  
'The wider issue for all of us in the sport is having him holding this position while being caught this way. What kind of an example is he setting to others in the sport and to youngsters all over the world by something like this?
'We have been involved with many outstanding holders of the most prestigious title in world sport. Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Larry Holmes, your own Lennox Lewis were wonderful champions and splendid human beings. This is such a shame.' 

Return N10m or more you took as running cost or I will stand as a witness against you in court - Abdulmumin Jibrin tells lawmakers

Friday, September 30, 2016


A day after he was suspended by the House for failing to appear before the Ethics and Privileges committee over allegations of budget padding he leveled against Speaker Dogara and others, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has released a statement in which he demanded all the lawmakers in the house to return the over N10 million monthly running cost money they have fraudulently collected since they came into the chambers or he will stand as a witness against them in coutrt. 

In a statement he shared on his Facebook page, Jibrin said he has sent a letter to all the lawmakers asking them to return the money to the Clerk of the House. 

With regards to the Presiding and Principal Officers, Jibrin says he has given them 72 hours ultimatum to make public the total amount they have received as running cost in their entire stay in the House and failure of which he will proceed with necessary legal action to compel them to make the total amount each of them have received public. According to him, Nigeria is currently facing economic recession and so needs all of such money. Read the statement below...

I HAVE COMMENCED THE PROCESS OF EXPOSING THE RUNNING COST AND ALLOWANCES OF MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION THERE IN WITH MY LETTER TODAY TO HON MEMBERS TO REFUND ANY MONEY STOLEN OR ILLEGALLY TAKEN. READ LETTER BELLOW AND LIKE-SHARE-COMMENT IF YOU SUPPORT A TOTAL WAR AGAINST CORRUPTION IN THE HOUSE
September 29, 2016
TO ALL HONOURABLE MEMBERS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
ABUJA
My dear Colleagues,
BURDEN OF PROOF OF EVIDENCE: RUNNING COST OF HONOURABLE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
I wish to draw your attention to the fact that since you suspended me yesterday and the suggestion of the Ethics Committee report that my allegations were generalized and without proof, I have come under intense public scrutiny and pressure to prove that there exists systemic corruption in the House. I have taken it as a responsibility to prove to the public that the House is a den of systemic corruption. As colleagues, I have bound with many of you and built a life long friendship.
I have some of you that I hold in high esteem. If you end up at the receiving end of the actions I will be taking up in the next few days, I want you to know there is nothing personal but commitment and fervent desire to ensure that corruption is wiped out of the House and reforms that will restore the battered image of the House and take back the House to the Nigerian people is implemented.
Consequent upon the above and before I proceed with the aggressive steps I intend to take, I hereby DEMAND that if you have illegally taken or stolen any money meant for the RUNNING COST OF YOUR OFFICES FOR YOUR ENTIRE STAY IN THE HOUSE, YOU SHOULD RETURN THE MONEY WITHIN ONE WEEK TO THE CLERK OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF CLARITY, I AM REFERRING TO ABOUT 10MILLION NAIRA YOU COLLECT FROM TAX PAYERS' MONEY MONTHLY OR MORE IN THE PAST. THE CLERK WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH OFFICIAL ACCOUNT DETAILS, FAILURE OF WHICH I WILL TAKE NECESSARY ACTION TO ENSURE THAT YOU RETURN ANY MONEY STOLEN AND STAND WITNESS AGAINST YOU IN CASE OF PROSECUTION.
I have written to the Clerk of the National Assembly to stand by in anticipation. In the face of the revenue challenges and biting hardship the country is currently facing, there is no better time the country needs such money than now.
In the case of the Presiding and Principal Officers, in addition to my demand in this letter which applies to them too, I have written them yesterday and gave them 72 hours ULTIMATUM to make public the total amount they have received as running cost in their entire stay in the House, failure of which I will proceed with necessary legal action to compel them to make the total amount each of them have received public.
There are other issues of monumental corruption in the House that I will be raising in the following weeks which we must all deal with, but first lets get done with this one.
Thank you.
God bless.
Hon Abdulmumin Jibrin PhD MBA
APC-Kano
Kiru-Bebeji Federal Constituency
Kano

'I cancelled £6,000 wedding to my dream man with just a month to go because a Psychic told me to' - Lady reveals

Friday, September 30, 2016


A woman known as Lisa Manso has revealed that she ended her dream wedding to her childhood sweetheart Michael after a psychic told her to, despite spending over £6000 planning for the wedding.
According to Lisa, she didn't catch Michael cheating prior to the wedding or find out a nasty habit about him, just that she had to obey the psychic despite how hard it was for her to do so at the time.
 
The 28-year-old said to Mirror UK: “When she told me I shouldn’t get married my jaw dropped. I was stunned. I hadn’t said a word about the wedding.
“But she said fate had other plans for me – that my wedding was supposed to come later without all the frills. She envisaged it as small and intimate not the big bash I’d planned.
“I could have laughed it off, probably most would have, but something told me to believe her.
“Although it was really tough for me and Michael I’m now the happiest I’ve been in a long time. It was definitely the right call.”
According to Lisa it was hard at first to obey the words of a total stranger and dump Michael who she had known since she was 13.
“He was a friend of the family, my first love. We were together for six months back then.
"Our families liked to go caravanning to Wales and Blackpool. It was a teenage love, very innocent.”
In December 2010 Michael, 34, proposed to Lisa.

 
Lisa remembers: “We were in bed when he told me he wanted me to be with him for ever. He said ‘I want to marry you’. I felt like I had been winded! I said ‘Yes’. I was so happy.”
The bride-to-be quickly began planning. The date was set for September 2013.
“I wanted it to be a huge celebration.
“I booked a five-star hotel then went dress shopping and picked a beautiful white gown with a bow on the side and layers of silk and chiffon.”
By the time they had finished planning, they had spent £6,000 including £800 on the dress alone, but despite the wedding plans Lisa said she felt something was missing in her life and then she went to sought out a psychic.
She says: “It wasn’t that I didn’t want to marry Michael.'
“We’d been arguing a bit. But I’d just put that down to wedding planning. It just felt like there should be more to life and I suddenly felt the need to see my future.”
Her friend recommended Yvonne Rae, a psychic she had used and Lisa arranged for a meeting.
“I didn’t tell anyone apart from my friend in case people thought I was mad!”
As Lisa knocked on the door of the psychic she took off her engagement ring so as not to give away hints about her life.
She recalls: “I hadn’t told her anything about me – that I was due to get married, nothing.
"I didn’t want to give her any hints.” When she sat in front of the tiny, elderly psychic she began to feel a bit fearful.
She remembers: “I was suddenly terrified of what she might say as she looked at my palm.
“She started off saying ‘I look into your eyes and you are destined for big things.
"All I can see is flashing cameras and you standing on red carpet’. I thought ‘Oh that’s so lovely’.
“But then she simply announced that the wedding wouldn’t go ahead. My jaw dropped! I was stunned.
“Mrs Rae must have seen the shock on my face because she told me it wasn’t a bad thing, that fate had other plans and that my real wedding, when it happened, would be small and intimate.”
She admits: “I went home unsettled and tried to put the reading out of my mind but I couldn’t.”
The more Lisa thought about what the psychic said, the more she started having second thoughts about marrying Michael.
“Everything was booked, the venue, the caterers. But I kind of just stopped talking about the wedding as if it wasn’t happening. It was only a few weeks away!
“Michael just put my silence down to wedding stress,” she explains. Two weeks later, Lisa became convinced she couldn’t go ahead.
It took huge courage – but she decided to speak to her fiancĂ©. She recalls: “I just said ‘I don’t think I can do this’.
“Michael was heartbroken. He told me I was ‘the one’ and begged me to reconsider.
“So in the end we agreed to push the wedding back to the following Valentine’s Day. It gave me some breathing space.”
She says: “I explained things weren’t working out between us.
“I wasn’t happy and a wedding wasn’t going to fix us. Michael was devastated but understood, al­­­though I didn’t mention the psychic.
“It was the right decision. Michael is a really great bloke, just not the one for me.” Since she made her decision Lisa hasn’t looked back.
She even trashed her treasured wedding dress on a modelling shoot last year as her career developed.
She laughs: “It was gathering dust in my wardrobe so I told the photographer I could bring it along to the shoot and he thought it was a good idea.
Lisa is now with another man, Paul Lane, 50, a London film director.
This is the happiest I’ve been in a long time and I really believe that he might be the man Mrs Rae saw me settling down with. But we’ll just have to wait and see.
“I’m not rushing to marry again!”
Source: Mirror UK.

Donald Trump attacks ex-Miss Universe again, says Hillary Clinton was ‘duped’ by the ex- beauty queen

Friday, September 30, 2016


U.S Republican party presidential candidate has blasted the ex-Miss Universe Alicia Machado who claimed he called her Miss piggy and Miss Housekeeping in 1996 because she had gained weight after winning the pageant and because of her Latina roots.
 
Trump called her his 'worst' Miss Universe winner, and also suggested  Hillary Clinton helped the Venezuelan ex-model beauty get into the U.S. so she can get back at him this election period.
 
“Wow, Crooked Hillary was duped and used by my worst Miss U. Hillary floated her as an "angel" without checking her past, which is terrible!” Trump tweeted.  
Did Crooked Hillary help disgusting (check out sex tape and past) Alicia M become a U.S. citizen so she could use her in the debate?”
Trump's tweets comes days after allegations resurfaced that the 1996 Miss Universe Alicia Machado was part of an attempted murder plot.
In 1998, two years after her crowning and the weight-gain, a then-21-year-old Machado was charged with driving the getaway car after her boyfriend tried to kill his brother in law.
 
Trump also alleged she starred in her own sex tape

More tweets below...

Budget padding: Dogara sealed off my office so he can destroy incriminating documents - Abdulmumin Jibrin alleges

Friday, September 30, 2016


In a new statement he shared this afternoon, sacked House of Representatives Appropriation committee chairman, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has alleged that his office which was sealed yesterday by some National Assembly officers, was to enable the Speaker Yakubu Dogara, get hold of some implicating documents and then destroy them. Read his new statement below...
As you may all be aware, the Sergeant-At-Arm of the National Assembly stormed and sealed my Office on the instruction of Speaker Dogara yesterday.
The office was purportedly sealed as a consequence of my illegal suspension but the truth was to enable the Speaker lay hands and destroy evidence The media witnessed the volumes of 2016 budget documents and 53 files that were carted away from my office and handed to Speaker Dogara. I have exercise extreme caution and refused to touch any document in my office since the crisis started. I have raised alarm that Dogara wants to destroy evidence but the good news is that we have more than enough already in case of prosecution. The whole country watched for 2 months as Speaker Dogara was accorded all the time he needed to lobby around, clear his desk and now destroy evidence. Nigerians must all rise up and demand that Speaker Yakubu Dogara produce all the 2016 budget documents and 53 files carted away from my office. I was not even allowed to take away my personal belongings. Hon Jibrin must be dealt with and disgraced by all mean. Speaker Dogara is playing God. I have become vulnerable in the face of frequent threats to my life and some of the security personnels attached to me were suddenly withdrew Here we are talking about the fight against corruption. Today, Iam being humiliated and my crime is simply exposing corruption in high places. Who will want to take such risk in future? I have said repeatedly that this episode is a defining moment for the fight against corruption in Nigeria I wish to plead to the general public that we should concentrate on the grievous allegations I have raised rather than unfairly attacking me the messenger. The fact that Iam raising corruption allegations does not confer on me any immunity from being investigated if allegations are raised against me I have not stopped any of the 359 members of the House from signing corruption petition against me but non has done so because there is nothing! Only faceless and discredited individuals and groups are used to divert attention by spreading allegations that all turned out false!

I will keep blaming PDP for Nigeria's woes- President Buhari

Friday, September 30, 2016


President Buhari says he will not stop blaming PDP for the current state of the nation. Speaking at the launch of a pictorial book entitled ‘Buhari a new beginning’ by his personal photographer, Bayo Omoboriowo in the state house Abuja, President Buhari said
“I’m going to bore you with what we met. I know I’m being accused in the papers of passing the buck, but passing the buck is sometimes absolutely necessary, to remind people who take things for granted.
The youth must watch our elite, the condition we found ourselves. It is unpatriotic for anybody to pretend that economically we don’t have a problem. We have gone into the farms. I congratulate some of the governors and by the grace of God by the end of this government we will be exporting rice and grains. So all the money alleged to have been used to import will be available to sustain development. I have bored you with this long explanation because there are things that could be hidden from you by those that have mismanaged the country in the last 16, 17 years. I assure you that we will set the ball rolling in terms of security, industrialisation, manufacturing and food security. I said it years ago and I still mean it, we have no other country than Nigeria, we will stay here and salvage it together”he said

Senate rejects planned Communication Tax

30-09-2016 

Senate rejects planned Communication Tax

The Senate has kicked against the Federal Government’s move to impose Commu­nications Service Tax on Nigeri­ans.
The proposed tax contained in an Executive Bill before the Sen­ate Committee on Communica­tions, seeks to make provisions for certain compulsory payments from communications consumers in the country.
In his lead debate, the Chair­man, Senate Committee on Communications, Senator Gil­bert Nnaji, expressed apprehen­sion over the bill during the 2016 Budget’s defence meeting with the Nigerian Communications Com­mission (NCC) and the Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF).
The lawmaker noted with concern, the economic implica­tions of the tax, particularly on the welfare of Nigeria’s low in­come earners.
Nnaji said: “There has been strident outcry by consumer rights groups and industry stakeholders against the Communications Ser­vice Tax Bill (CST) 2015 current­ly before the National Assembly.
“It is argued that the bill will limit access to communication as it will affect the lower income con­sumers, forcing them to abandon or reduce subscription to certain services.
“This committee is yet to be availed with the contents of this bill but it is important to state un­equivocally here that, as the elect­ed representatives of the Nigeri­an people, while we recognise the current administration’s efforts to widen its revenue base, con­scious efforts must be made to ensure that the socio-economic wellbeing of the citizenry remain sacrosanct.
“We assure Nigerians that this Committee will engage in wide consultations with all con­cerned stakeholders in consider­ing this Bill if it is referred to the Committee,” he said.
He urged industry players to live above board in their efforts to improve the economy.
He stated the position of his committee on some salient issues trending in the telecommunica­tions industry in the country.
According to him, “These are issues bordering on regulato­ry and operational environment in the sector such as the statuto­ry independence of the industry regulator and the obligations de­manded from industry operators to observe and respect regulato­ry directives.”
From the budget, the total revenue was estimated at N70, 672,492, 000, while total recur­rent expenditure amounted to N22, 211,186, 000, while total cap­ital expenditure and total special projects respectively stood at N15, 651,475, 000 and N6, 557,708,000.
Provisions for transfers to both USPF stood at N8, 584, 000, 000 while the Federal Govern­ment would be entitled to N17, 668,123, 000
In their separate responses, the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta and the Executive Secretary of USPF, Mr. Ayuba Shuaibu, thanked the committee for its legislative sup­ports.

We'll boost patronage of 'Made-in-Nigeria' goods - Buhari

30-09-2016 

We'll boost patronage of 'Made-in-Nigeria' goods - Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari says his admin­istration has plans to introduce policies that will encourage higher patronage of Made-in-Nigeria products.
He said this on Thursday at the 44th Annual General Meeting of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) in Abuja.
With the theme, ‘Diversi­fying the Nigerian Economy: The Role of Government in Manufacturing’,
the President noted that the manufacturing sector was well positioned to be a major driver of Nigeria’s economic growth because of the nation’s immense natural resources and the entrepreneurial spirit of Nigerians.
“We are working on improv­ing the patronage of locally-made goods, bridging the gap between skills required by in­dustry and those provided by our educational institutions and access to finance for our Small and Medium-Scale En­terprises (SMEs).
“We recognise that MAN and the other Organised Pri­vate Sector (OPS) groups are our key stakeholders in this journey and we will continue our engagement with you”, the President said.
He explained that his gov­ernment’s strategic plan to boost manufacturing activities in the country was supported by the Nigeria Industrial Rev­olution Plan (NIRP) and the National Enterprises Develop­ment Programme (NEDEP).
According to him, “Govern­ment is therefore focused on implementing necessary poli­cies and strategies aimed at unleashing the full potentials of manufacturing in Nigeria.
“A strong manufacturing sector will create more jobs and wealth for our people. It will usher in sustainable eco­nomic prosperity because we will produce what we con­sume as a nation and generate foreign exchange by export­ing any surplus.”
He further assured his audi­ence that government would partner with MAN in the task of charting a brighter future for the nation.
At the event, Chairman of Dangote Group of Compa­nies, Aliko Dangote, lamented the decline in the contribution of the manufacturing sector to the country’s economy.
He told the gathering that recent figures indicate that the manufacturing sector contracted by -2.9 per cent in 2015 as against growth rates of 21.8 per cent and 14.7 per cent in 2013 and 2014, respec­tively.
“The aggregate manufac­turing jobs created in 2014 and 2015 were 20,535 jobs as against 53,340 jobs created in the sector in 2013 alone.
“These figures merely con­firm what we already knew which is that the manufac­turing sector in Nigeria is currently under very serious strain”, he disclosed.
He explained that it has now become very evident for the country to urgently devel­op other income streams by diversifying its economy since it can no longer depend solely on crude oil exports to fund its economy.

Bad leadership stalling S/East devt - Ifeanyi Ubah, Soludo



Bad leadership stalling S/East devt - Ifeanyi Ubah, Soludo


 
Three eminent Nige­rians have affirmed that the development challenges facing the South East in particular, and the nation in general, stemmed from bad leadership.
The prominent Nigerians, who bared their minds yester­day at a book launch, include the Chairman of Capital Oil and Gas Industries Limited, Dr Ifeanyi Ubah, former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Chukwuma Solu­do and revered Catholic Priest, Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah.
They spoke at the public presentation of a book titled: “The Politics of Biafra and the Future of Nigeria” at the Musa Yar’dua Centre, Abuja.
The book was written by former House of Representatives member, Hon. Chudi Of­fodile.
Dr Ubah and Soludo, who fo­cused on issues affecting the Igbo, said that bad leadership at both the federal and regional levels was responsible for the distorted de­velopment of the Igbo nation.
In his brief remark at the event, Dr. Ubah, who is also the Publisher of The AUTHORITY newspapers, said: “The under­development of the South-East is traceable to the bad leadership that has kept the country on its knees. The underdevelopment in the South-East is borne out of bad leadership. The Igbo are dis­advantaged.”
Prof Soludo, who was the re­viewer of the book, supported the growing demand for the restruc­turing of Nigeria. he stressed that the country should start consid­ering a new constitution.
On the poor state of infra­structure in the South East, Solu­do lamented that the elite from the region, who served at the fed­eral level, have failed to do any­thing positive to change the trend.
His words: “In the last admin­istration, for instance, we had the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, the Minister of Fi­nance and Coordinating Minis­ter of the Economy, the Deputy Senate President, this, that and so on. Almost all the financial insti­tutions in the country were head­ed by people from the South East and yet there is no motorable fed­eral highway in Igboland.
“This thing is an elite game as far as I am concerned. The issue of who and whatever will not take us anywhere.”
On restructuring, Soludu sad that “if we have a truly fed­eral, fairer, restructured Nigeria, the agitation for Biafra would wind up”.
He noted that Nigeria’s first President, the late Dr Nnam­di Azikiwe and the late Biafran leader, Chief Odumegwu-Ojuk­wu, would have wanted an equi­table federal system for Nigeria than a Biafran state.
Soludo continued: “Despite the rupture that existed between Zik and Ojukwu, if the two men were alive today, they would probably align more with a re­formed federalist Nigeria. And why I said this is that Ojukwu died a federalist. Because after the war, Ojukwu, when he came back to Nigeria, joined the de­funct NPN (National Party of Ni­geria) and urged the Igbo to go back to be reintegrated into Ni­geria. And even at that, he later joined the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) and became its national leader. And APGA is a national party which, among oth­er things, agitates for true feder­alism. And he contested as a presidential candidate of APGA seeking to be president of Nige­ria. So, when you put all togeth­er, Ojukwu, if alive, would rather seek for a true federal, fairer Ni­geria.”
Soludo stated that Nigeria, at this time, requires a new consti­tution, which will contain inputs from Nigerians on their desire to strike a balanced federation.
He described Biafra as a met­aphor for agitation by those he described as the oppressed peo­ple of the South East, stating that a balanced federation being can­vased by different ethnic groups in the country would provide an answer to the struggle.
He said the administration of President Buhari should nev­er overlook the import of agita­tion for Biafra by IPOB, contend­ing that the more the government attempts to down play it, the more it will gain attention.
Soludo alluded to the arrest and continued detention of Kanu by the Federal Government as an error, which according to him, has continued to give prominence to the struggle for Biafra by IPOB
He said the government has invariably made Kanu a hero of the Biafran struggle, which, he noted, is already being main­streamed both locally and inter­nationally
The former CBN Governor, however, canvassed for the release of Kanu, as according to him, at­tempts by the government to keep him in detention, will not serve the government any good.
He said already the detained Kanu has become a phenomenon in Igboland today such that his is­sue vis-avis the Biafran struggle would be used as a major point of campaign in the South East in 2019.
He said: “I agree that we need a new constitution negotiated by the people of Nigeria. My thesis is that, if this is the only achieve­ment of President Muhammadu Buhari, it would have been great­est statesman ever like Abraham Lincoln but we need to get start­ed.”
“On the new Biafranism; let me say that wittingly or unwit­tingly Nigeria has brought the Biafran issue from the periph­ery into the mainstream discus­sions. Nnamdi Kanu threw a bait and Nigeria took it. Today, it is the most popular political phrase and he will end up as a hero or a ma­tyr but to his credit he has forced Nigeria and the world to discuss Biafra.
“I believe that keeping him there doesn’t do Nigeria any good. I believe this young man should be released and released by yesterday. I will not be sur­prised if he becomes a subject of the next political campaign.”
On appointments, Soludo said that: “It is not just the South East or the Igbo that complain. Nigeria has not worked. And my thesis is that even if any govern­ment including this one have all the political appointments from one village, the life of the aver­age person in that village will not change.
“Take for instance the North, if you calculate the number of years they have been in power, but essentially, poverty is still pre­dominately a northern phenom­enon. So that you control this and a few billionaires are made here and there, and so on, means ab­solute nothing. The ordinary man in Nigeria has not benefited and the situation is getting worse by the current system in the coun­try”.
In his address, Bishop Ku­kah charged the Igbo to evolve a means whereby they will con­solidate on their comparative ad­vantage of “power without office.”
Elaborating on the concept of “power without office”, Kukah urged the Igbo to consider their strategic power position though without office and leverage on its many advantages.
Speaking on state creation, he said, “We can create new states but the moment you create a new state, the majority becomes the minority and minority becomes a majority and the contestation is renewed and the issues are the same namely; a tiny circle of elite that simply want to serve nobody but themselves. And I think for me that is where the issues are.”
The book launch was attend­ed by prominent Igbo leaders in­cluding former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekweme, former Sen­ate President, Chief Ken Nnam­ani, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Emeka Ihedioha and former governor of Abia State, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu.
Others were former Minister of Health, Professor ABC Nwo­su, former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, a governorship aspirant in Anambra State, Sen­ator Uche Ekwunife and former Speaker of the House of Repre­sentatives, Umar Ghali Na’Abba.

MTN $13.92bn fund transfer: Melaye’s accusations are baseless and unfounded– Minister of Trade, Enelamah says

Friday, September 30, 2016


Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah has denied allegations leveled against him by Senator Dino Melaye that he colluded with MTN to illegally transfer $13.92illion from Nigeria from 2006 to 2016. Dino Melaye had in a motion on the floor of the Senate alleged that MTN illegally transferred $13.9 billion out of Nigeria with the help of the minister who he claimed is the owner of CELTELCOM ltd.



In a statement signed by the Director Press, Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment Greyne Anosike, Enelamah denied ownership and said neither was he ever a shareholder of Celtelecom ltd. ‎ The statement reads
“Our attention has been drawn to a statement credited to a serving Nigerian Senator on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday September 27, 2016, making a number of allegations against the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Okechukwu Enelamah regarding improper remittance of funds out of Nigeria. We are compelled to make clear the following: Dr. Enelamah served as the CEO of Capital Alliance Nigeria Limited (CANL) between 1998 and 2015. CANL is a wholly owned subsidiary of African Capital Alliance (“ACA”), an Africa focused private equity firm with investments in carefully selected companies within and outside Nigeria, including MTN Nigeria. A fund managed by ACA, alongside other minority shareholders, invested in MTN Nigeria through Celtelecom. Dr Enelamah was never the “owner” of Celtelecom as alleged by the Senator; neither was he ever a Celtelecom shareholder. Instead he was a director of the company, representing the ACA managed fund. Investors do not have responsibility for remittance of proceeds from the company they invest in. Therefore, at no time was Dr. Enelamah in a position to transfer funds out of Nigeria on behalf of MTN Nigeria, and at no time did Dr. Enelamah transfer any funds out of Nigeria on behalf of MTN Nigeria. Celtelecom’s investment in MTN Nigeria “As it relates to Celtelecom’s investment in MTN Nigeria, it is important to note that the entire process for applying for and using CCIs was done by MTN Nigeria. Dr Enelamah resigned all his board positions, including from ACA and Celtelecom, consequent to his appointment as a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. While Dr. Enelamah welcomes any investigations the Senate may decide to carry out on the activities of these companies, it should be noted that all the allegations as made by the Senator are without merit and baseless'.

Blac Chyna's bestie to host a baby shower for baby Kardashian, Rob's sisters not attending

Friday, September 30, 2016


A new baby shower is being planned for Blac Chyna & Rob Kardashian, and it will be hosted by Chyna’s best friend, Sylvia Karapetian. According to Us Weekly, there will be approximately 60 guests at the baby shower on October 2nd in Woodland Hills, California, including friends of both Chyna, Kardashian, and that Chyna’s family will be flying in to celebrate.

However, Rob’s famous sisters: Kylie and Kendall Jenner, Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian will reportedly not be attending. This is probably in reaction to Rob lashing out against his sister Kylie on Twitter.

CCB set to probe assets of Amaechi, Ngige, Fashola, other Ministers

Friday, September 30, 2016


Officials of the Code of Conduct Bureau are set to probe the assets of former state governors like Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers state, Babatunde Fashola of Lagos, Chris Ngige of Anambra and other Minister currently serving in this present administration. A statement by the Chairman of CCB, Sam Saba, released by the Press and Protocol Unit of the bureau yesterday, states that some of the former governors now serving in various capacities in the current administration, have not submitted themselves for field verification of their assets they declared.

According to the bureau, ministers who have yet to submit themselves for Field verification of their assets are Udoma Udo Udoma, Mustapha Shehuri, Caludius Daramola, Suleiman Adamu, Kemi Adeosun, Babatunde Fashola, Geoffrey Onyeama, Abubakar Malami, Rotimi Amaechi, Ibe Kachikwu, Adebayo Shittu, Isaac Adewole Audu Ogbeh, Kayode Fayemi, Usani Usani, Khadija Bukhar, Ali Masur, Anthony Anwuka, Osagie Ehanire, Muhammadu Bello, Solomon Dalung, Aisha Alhassan, Ibrahim Jibril, Suleiman Adamu, Okechukwu Enelamah, Hadi Sirika, Heineken Lokpobiri, Ogbonnaya Onu (Science and Technology); and Abubakar Bwari.

Other public office holders whose assets are also to be verified include Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo-Ita Ekanem, CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele, Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Abayomi Olanishakin; Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Abubakar Sadique, Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibas Ibok, Chairman Police Service Commission, Mike Okiro, Controller-General of Nigeria Immigration Service Babatunde Mohammed, Executive Secretary of Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Waziri Adio, Director-General of National Pension Commission Chinelo Amazu and Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer, Export Promotion Council, Olusegun Awolowo. Also to be investigated is the assets of immmediate past Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase. Ministers who are currently serving and have been cleared include Adamu Adamu, Abdulrahman Dambazau, Zainab Shamsuna, Aisha Abubakar and Amina Mohammed.

The bureau states that letters of invitation have been sent out to the ministers and other public officers.

Thursday, 29 September 2016

Fans send messages to Rob Kardashian after Blac Chyna tweets his phone number

Friday, September 30, 2016


After Blac Chyna shared her fiancée's phone number on twitter, fans bombarded his phone with messages and shared screenshots of the messages on twitter. Read some of the messages below:





















Justin Theroux reveals the very simple secret to his successful marriage with Jennifer Aniston

Friday, September 30, 2016


While news of her ex's bitter divorce is all over the place, Jennifer Aniston is basking in marital bliss and her husband has revealed how they enjoy such a successful relationship. Speaking to People magazine about the secret to his marriage, Justin Theroux said:

'Being kind, that's it. Approach each situation with kindness.'
Days before, Justin expressed his sympathies for the kids caught in the crossfire amidst Brangelina's divorce drama.
'As a child of divorce, all I can say is that's terrible news for those children, and that's all you can really say,' he said. 'It's boring to sort of comment on anything else. People are having a bad time. That's horrible.'