News Updates Across Africa And Beyond: 12/29/13

Sunday, 29 December 2013

We Recorded Unprecedentedachievements In 2013 — Presidency

The Presidency, Sunday, reviewed its performance in the outgoing year and gave
itself a pass mark, saying that it recorded
unprecedented feat despite distractions from
the opposition.

The Senate yesterday unanimously passed a harmonized Conference Committee report banning same sex marriage in Nigeria, a development that defies stiff western opposition to the ban.

Scientist at the Gladstone Institutes have
identified the precise chain of molecular events

A plot by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to suspend the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, over his alleged romance with the opposition, has hit the rocks.

A member of the House of Representatives from Rivers State, Dakuku Peterside, has said that the move by the leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to declare vacant the seats of the defecting lawmakers is nonsensical.

The Canonization of Obasanjo

[/b]I thought it was designed to be a joke. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu stood reverently in front of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, pleading with him to come and rescue Nigeria along with the APC.

Located in the centre of Cotonou, the economic capital of the republic of Benin is situated "La prison civile de Cotonou" or 'PCC' as its fondly known,24 hours a day/365 days a year,

The Governor was recently on his way to an event when he passed through the Mobolaji Bank Anthony way and was not pleased with what some car dealers have turned part of the road into.

The Serving Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, says former President Olusegun Obasanjo is guilty of the sundry allegations he levelled against President Goodluck Jonathan in his (Obasanjo) recent letter to the President.

The Chairman, Ido local government of Oyo state,
Professor Joseph Adeniyi Olowofela, in company
of the police, SSS and members of the Defence

FUNNY THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN 2013
1- Oga at the top
2- Stowaway boy hide in plane tire from Benin to
Lagos.
3- Former Gov Olusegun Agagu corpse re-die in plane
Crash

Gov Jang Defends State’s Security Outfit

28 December 2013
• Not For Political Witch-hunt

• Members Trained By Israeli Team

PLATEAU State Governor, Jonah Jang, has explained reasons behind the establishment of Operation Rainbow, the state’s security taskforce.

Security agencies are weighing the options on whether or not to invite former President Olusegun Obasanjo for interrogation on his December 2 letter to President Goodluck Jonathan.

DUBAI (Reuters) - A Saudi prince who murdered a fellow Saudi may be executed, a newspaper reported on Sunday, in a rare example of a member of the kingdom's ruling family facing the death penalty.

President Goodluck Jonathan has described the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates in 1914 as an act of God.

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said he rose from the smallest community in Bayelsa State to become Nigeria’s President by the grace of God and people’s support.

**His Past Activities As 419 Kingpin

This revelation will certainly send jitters down the spines of the followers of this garrulous South-South governor and a dye-in-the wool supporter of President Goodluck Jonathan, who knew very little of his very dark past.

SaharaReporters has discovered that the shady plan to sell off Nigeria’s four refineries to cronies of the Minister of Petroleum Resources,

Daughter of Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka, Iyetade Soyinka has passed on at the age of 48, Sahara Reporters report. Ms. Soyinka, who was born June 6, 1965, died at the University of Ibadan Teaching Hospital where she was being treated for an undisclosed ailment.

Below are Quotes That Can Change Your Perspective On Life(pictures)

Nollywood has been in existence for over twenty years now, It’s impact has been great in the African cinema.

Prof. Ihechukwu Madubuike, Director, Igbo Renaissance at the Gregory University, Uturu, Abia, said on Saturday that the university would soon introduce the Igbo language as a compulsory course in the second year.

Actress Chika Ike was conferred with a Chieftancy title in Amoli Kingdom in Enugu state.

MOSCOW – A female suicide bomber killed 14 people
Sunday when she blew herself up at the main train
station in the southern city of Volgograd,

Fresh revelations emerged at the weekend of how some northern elite members and ex-military rulers took control of the Nigerian oil industry.

More than 500 structures were demolished this yesterday at Polome Village/Community, Mowo phase II Badagry, in Lagos, Nigeria, on the instructions of the Inspector General of Police Mohammed Abubakar.

Since the defection of Adamawa state
Governor, Murtala Nyako to the All
Progressives Congress,

Oduah: Groups demand release of presidential panel report

December 29, 2013 by Allwell Okpi 30 Comments

Civil society groups have demanded the release of the report of the presidential panel that investigated the role of the Minister of Aviation, Ms Stella Oduah, in the purchase of two bulletproof BMW cars by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority.

The All Progressives Congress has won all 17 chairmanship seats contested for in the Yobe local government elections.

Announcing the results on Sunday in Damaturu, Chairman of the State Independent Electoral Commission, Alhaji Mohammed Jauro, said APC secured 999,700 of the 1.2 milion votes cast during Saturday’s elections.

He said the party also won the entire councillorship seats contested for.

The chairman said the electoral body did not receive any complaints from any quarters on the conduct of the elections.

Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir El Rufai, has revealed that Pastor Tunde Bakare, the General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, turned down a cow, which was reportely sent to him for Christmas by President Jonathan.

The year 2013 has been an eventful one. The year began on a Tuesday, January 1 and is about to end on a Tuesday, December 31. There have been a lot of exciting happenings, and great achievements by Nigerians.

Boniface Umale

These indeed are evil days. Yet another Nigerian, Mr. Boniface Umale has become the latest victim of death in UK prison custody over unexplained circumstances.

Omu-Aran – Alhaji Luqman Owolewa, the Chairman of Irepodun Local Government Council in Kwara, on Sunday, said the council discovered 339 “ghost workers’’ on its monthly pay roll.

AHEAD of the 2015 presidential election, the Rivers State Governor, Mr.Rotimi Amaechi, has said unless the Peoples Democratic Party embraces
rigging, it can never win elections in the country.

Boko haram Leader also warns Christians not to
go to church during this holy
month of December, though
Christmas passed without any
feared terrorist attack. In 2011,

An earthquake of a sort has swept through the Nigerian
Army, dramatically altering the fate of at least 30

Life in detention for 88 days’
By Joy Obomase
Commercial activities at Old Market Road, Odoakp, Onitsha,
Anambra State commenced like every other day on August
1, 2013 when, all of a sudden, some stern looking
policemen arrived.

The Edo State Police Command has arrested a 37-year-old man, one Augustine Obodeke; for having carnal knowledge of his 17-year old daughter (Favour) and impregnating her three times.

Our elders say that a dog destined to die ignores the whistle of the hunter while a hunter that chases two games at the same time may end up not catching any.

As someone who worked closely with him (Awolowo), what do you think would be his regrets about Nigeria and Nigerian politics?

Prophet Babatunde Ayodele, Founder/SpiritualHead of Inri Evangelical Church, Lagos, has over the years warned the country of loomingdangers, mostly unheeded.

Former Chairman of the Economic and Finacial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, declared yesterday that ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s recent open letter to President Goodluck Jonathan was a good development for Nigeria.

I have read all sorts of permutations, calculations and analysis of the gang-up against GEJ over the 2015 elections.

My grouse against northern governors’
As the world celebrated Boxing Day, National President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, played host to two Niger Delta governors, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State

Vice President Namadi Sambo is spending a fortune to furnish and upgrade his official residence and guest house, two projects costing N2.1 billion and lingering since his election alongside President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011.

Obasanjo Letter Producing Results. PDP Makes U Turn

PRESS STATEMENT
Anambra Guber: PDP NWC Backs Nwoye’s Suit
Challenging Result

The National Chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur has restated the commitment of the National Working Committee (NWC) to abide

A mysterious spacecraft, which residents of Awotan in Ido Local Government Area of Oyo State called a “drone”, was reported to have crashed into a building at Omiremi Quarters in the community, leaving a crater on the roof of the building, just as aviation sources confirmed the object as a United States’ drone on an espionage mission in Nigeria.

1. Bishop T. D Jakes: Bishop Jakes lives in a $1,700,000 mansion, he has been called America's best preacher and has been featured on the cover of TIME magazine. He is a writer, preacher and movie producer.

Aww! Nollywood actress, Uche Jombo Rodriguez turned
34 on the 28th of December and celebrated the day with her husband,

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