News Updates Across Africa And Beyond: January 2014

Friday, 24 January 2014

Supreme Court Affirms Okorocha’s Election

The Supreme Court has again affirmed the election of Rochas Okorocha as the governor Imo state. Justice Clara Ogunbiyi while delivering judgment in the appeal filed by Governor Okorocha challenging the decision of the Appeal Court, Owerri, which joined his predecessor,

BARELY a year after Lagos government closed down the Ladipo Auto Spare Parts Market in Mushin Local Council Area of the state for violating environmental law, indications have emerged that the government may wield the big stick on the market again.

The Ohaneze Ndigbo, the apex socio-cultural organisation of Ndigbo, yesterday took a swipe at the Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha over his statement concerning the problem of Igbo unity.
It described the governor’s statement as one coming from a confused man.

The Association of Witches and Wizards in Nigeria is a bizzare group that makes predictions from time to time. Below are the predictions made by the group through its acclaimed spokesperson Dr. Okhue Iboi. These predictions were reported in April 2013. Judge for yourself which has come to pass and those that are still pending.

Just read the report of a brave Woman; the journalist Tobore Ovourie on the women trafficking business in Nigeria been carried out in collusion with some members of the Nigerian Army(SHAME), the police( SHAME), Immigration and Foreign Missions(SHAME) to traffic young women and vulnerable girls; I hope those who are in charge of these bodies investigate the matter; it is sickening reading the report; Thumbs up to the reporter.

SABMiller Invests more N20Billion in Anambra State
Intafact beverages Ltd., a subsidiary of SABmiller Brewery, the brewers of Hero Beer and other brands is investing another $110m in Anambra State two years after they invested $100m dollars.

Truth is bitter. And a Hausa adage has it that it is he who loves you that can give you that bitter pill. The columnist Femi Aribisala has just published a long and analytical essay which contains a fair dose of truth pills for General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) and his cohorts, as well as for the North in general. With some air of finality, Aribisala’s article is entitled “Why Buhari will never be president of Nigeria”.

This 20-year-old woman has been left fighting for her life in hospital today after a kangaroo court in India ordered her to be gang-Molested for having an affair with a youth from another village. The brutal punishment was allegedly carried out by the very same ‘court’ which found her guilty in a village near Suri in west Bengal state, 150 miles from Kolkata.

Following his failure to honour the invitation extended to him by the State Security Service, the security agency stormed the Abuja home of the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, on Friday in a bid to arrest him.

A Nigerian, simply identified as Arinze, was feared dead yesterday, after an immigrant working with the Arab Contractors Construction Company (O.A.O) threw him down from the second-floor of a two-storey building undergoing construction at the new Enugu State Secretariat, Enugu.

LAGOS — Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola has said his administration will go ahead with the construction of the Lekki link bridge without waiting for Federal Government approval.

APC Wants All Executive Bills Blocked by Legislators

APC wants all executive bills blocked in the house by the legislative arm of the government, until orders restored in Rivers state.According to a statement issued by L.ai Mohammed at a press conference.

Hell was let loose yesterday inside the school compound of Lagos State University as students were chasing the Vice Chancellor Prof. John Obafunwa , throwing chairs, drums and sticks at jeep on motion while other students threw stones. the school's CSO, the school's marshals and mobile policemen drafted to provide cover for the VC were helpless as their hilux pick up vans were miles apart from the VC's jeep as the students gave chase. the school's main gates were blocked by angry students, the VC had to escape through the Connoil gate.

LEGISREPORTS NG: The slim numerical advantage enjoyed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the House of Representatives since the defection of 37 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to its fold has been lost following the open declaration of Hon. Opeyemi Bamidele for Labour party.

In today's society, young, decent men are rare to find.When we think of young men today, we think of metrosexual, hipster, and unmanly guys who can't bait a hook, skin a buck, and dress like rugged men. It seems as though manly men are a symbol of the past and now are officially gone.
Ladies, yes, there are unfortunately fewer young men who qualify as marriage material today. However, decent men still exist.

Facebook has spread like an infectious disease but we are slowly becoming immune to its attractions, and the platform will be largely abandoned by 2017, say researchers at Princeton University.

Some lawyers in Port Harcourt. Under the name of concerned laywers forum made good their promise to protest against Governo Ameachi today.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A new, 9-meter (29.5-foot)
sculpture of Nelson Mandela is billed as the biggest
statue of the South African leader. It also has a tiny,
barely visible quirk: a sculpted rabbit tucked inside
one of the bronze ears.

Pastor and General Overseer of Zion International Christian Church, Idah, Kogi State, Pastor Kingsley may have landed trouble for his alleged uncontrolled s3xual appetite.

BREAKING NEWS:

Chelsea have accepted a £37million bid for Juan Mata and immediately released the Spanish international to join Manchester United to complete the most dramatic deal of the transfer window.

Imo PDP Raises Alarm Over Suspected Boko Haram Import

The Imo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday raised an alarm over what it called the importation of suspected Boko Haram sect members to the state.According to the state secretary of the party, Chief George Eguh who addressed journalists in Owerri, the party through public information gathered, suspected that some strange faces numbering over 600 purportedly arrived the state in two batches, 24 hours before the arrival of the state governor, Rochas Okorocha on Friday, 17th January from his foreign trip.

NYSC Management has approved the following programme of activities for the 2013 Batch 'A' Winding-up/Passing-out exercise:

The list does not include insects – they are a whole other level of ugliness! So, from the least ugly to the most revolting, natures 10 ugliest creatures.....

Here is the story. A Nigerian final year student killed a roommate's cat. He was saved from deportation. However, he was sentenced to 1 year probation and a 20-hour community work.
An Ottawa judge has decided Bassey Okokon, 23, does not deserve to be locked up for throwing his roommate's kitten against a wall and leaving it, convulsing, to die.

Is this the year that I will officially be awarded counsellor of the year?
The way things are going and with the increased problems in relationships that I have settled this January (12 successfully relationships) alone is a giving a big scare and I fear an award is inevitable for me.

China has always tried to support its homegrown tech industry and even the security concerns over U.S. secret surveillance which gives Chinese Government another reasons to trust domestic vendors.Many other countries are also in favor to develop their own technology industries to reduce their dependence on U.S.

Common Traditions Between Hebrews And Igbos

1) BIRTH
A) Circumcision and Naming Ceremony

Gen.17:7-4, 21:4, Exd. 4:24-26, 12:43-44, Lev. 12:1-3, Josh. 5:2-3, Luke 2:21-24

Just as Israel circumcised and named their children on the 8th day, so too did the Igbo, long before any contact with white men or missionaries. As in Israel, so in Igboland.

Most time, it is the need to socialize that allows us to listen to most of your boring talks. Gosh, here are 13 of them that makes me want to rip a man's head off.

Chairman of Slok Group, Dr. Orji Kalu, said the organisation has reached a deal with Toro, a company based in China to manufacture refrigerators, air conditioners and other electrical appliances in Aba, Abia State.

10 Things You Should Never Say To Your Boyfriend

Seriously, women love lies. Like that thread telling us not to tell them they are fat. O please, you guys need to take a chill pill. I remember starting a thread where I said a girl broke up with her boyfriend because he was a liar. How? Instead of telling her 9:00pm, he will tell her 8:00pm is the time for movies so she would hurry up. Men aint that way, we are really good.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested a Lagos State University graduate for cloning the Facebook accounts of prominent Nigerians and using same to defraud unsuspecting Nigerians.

Embattled Senator representing Rivers South East constituency at the National Assembly, Magnus Abe, has written to his colleagues in the Senate, explaining his ordeal in the hands of the Nigeria Police on the controversial January 12 rally held in Port Harcourt.

A robbery suspect, Mr Godwin Olukporibe, has confessed that he was forced to form a robbery gang when his father-in-law asked him to pay N1.5 million bride price before he could marry his pregnant girlfriend.

Leading western countries piled pressure on the Federal government, yesterday, following President Goodluck Jonathan’s signing of the Same-Sex Prohibition Act 2014. The latest country is the United States of America, whose Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr James Entwistle threatened that the United States will scale down its support for HIV/AIDS and anti-malaria programmes in response to the Federal Government’s position on the gay rights issue.

Flying Car Spreads Its Wings In Slovakia

BRATISLAVA (AFP) – Mankind’s primordial dream of flight is taking off with a new twist as a Slovak prototype of a flying car spreads its wings.
Inspired by the dreamy books about flying by French authors Jules Verne and Antoine de Saint Exupery, Slovak designer and engineer Stefan Klein has been honing his flying machine since the early 1990s.

President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed the immediate past National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bamanga Tukur, as Chairman of the Board of the Nigerian Railway Corporation.

The House of Representatives chamber was thrown into confusion today as minority leader Femi Gbajabiamila referred to the deputy leader of the House, Rep Leo Ogor, as ‘deputy minority leader.’ The Daily Independent has reported.

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich's partner has sparked an internet firestorm after an online magazine published a photo of her sitting on a chair made to resemble a half-Unclad black woman - on Martin Luther King Day.

Gunmen Assassinate Youth Leader Of Peremabiri Community, Bayelsa

Daring gunmen have assassinated a former Chairman of Peremabiri Community Development Committee (CDC), Morris Jonathan, at his residence in Akenpaiarea of Yenagoa, Bayelsa.

Villagers in Akparabong Community, Ikom Local Government of Cross River State have accused Senator Victor Ndoma Egba of not telling the public the truth about the situation with the community water project, a contract that was awarded to Emos Trade Investment, a company allegedly owned by the Senate Leader, by the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC, some years ago.most of the villagers who spoke to a team of journalist said that "anyone who claims that the water project in the community had been completed was telling the public lies".

Abuja—Leading western countries piled pressure on the Federal government, yesterday, following President Goodluck Jonathan’s signing of the Same-Sex Prohibition Act 2014. The latest country is the United States of America, whose Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr James Entwistle threatened that the United States will scale down its support for HIV/AIDS and anti-malaria programmes in response to the Federal Government’s position on the gay rights issue.

An Abuja Federal High Court on Monday ordered
members of the House of Representatives to refrain
from changing or taking step to change the leadership of the legislative body, pending the
determination of a suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party.

Canadian government has denied cancelling President Goodluck Jonathan’s visit to the country.

Canada through its embassy in Abuja debunked media reports that it cancelled a scheduled visit of the president because he signed the anti-gay law.

He didn’t plan nor pray for his Superior, President Musa Yar’Adua, to kiss the world goodbye on the 5th of May, 2010, he was barely fixed up as an appendage of power to ‘assist’ his erstwhile boss, but fate thrust on him the exalted position of ‘Commander-In-Chief and President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria’ and right from that moment till now, the man, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has set many records as far as governance is concerned in Nigeria!

Why do you see Arabic language in our National legal
tender. It is a gradual process and the article emphasized on religious polarization. Please check APC
EXCOS.

ON Friday, 23rd August, 1985, the military government of Major-General Mohammadu Buhari decided to place me under arrest. My crime was that I wrote, among others, an article entitled: “Counter-trading Nigeria’s Future” in the National Concord, exposing the government’s scam of diverting public funds into private coffers through barter-trade with Brazil. A man by the name of Benson Norman was sent from the State Security Services (SSS) to my office to get me.

Tinubu, while reacting to the recent disruption of a rally organized by Save Rivers Movement on Sunday, said it was a coup successfully planned by Jonathan.

Contrary to what his believers would rather have you think, Olumba Olumba Obu, the man who gathered followers after himself, claiming to be God, has since died.

Barely two days after gunmen suspected to be members of the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram attacked Gashigar village of Mobbar Local Government Council killing 15 persons, they have launched another attack on Gafate village, killing 18 persons while several houses were also destroyed.

General Gusau To Become New Minister of Defence,

SaharaReporters can exclusively report that General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau, a former Chief of Army Staff and several times National Security Adviser, has accepted an offer by President Goodluck Jonathan to become Nigeria’s next Minister of Defence.

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BREAKING NEWS: Chelsea have accepted a £37million bid for Juan Mata and immediately released the Spanish international to join Manchester United to complete the most dramatic deal of the transfer window.

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BREAKING NEWS:

Chelsea have accepted a £37million bid for Juan Mata and immediately released the Spanish international to join Manchester United to complete the most dramatic deal of the transfer window.