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N2bn pension fraud: Interpol declares Maina wanted

The stage appears set for the arrest and prosecution of former Chairman of the Presidential Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, who has been accused of looting N2 billion of pension funds.
The development follows the request by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to police to track him and the publication of Maina’s name on the list of wanted persons with the International Police Organisation, INTERPOL, in Lyon, France.
The issuance of the alert on Maina by Interpol had effectively drawn international spotlight on him and makes him a subject of arrest in any country.
Vanguard also gathered that EFCC had on November 18, 2015 written to the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, seeking his assistance “to issues an INTERPOL Red Alert” on Maina, who had been charged to the Federal High Court on July 10, 2015 with charge No. HC/ABJ/CR/297/2015.
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Policeman rapes 7-year-old girl in Ebonyi

A policeman attached to Ebonyi State Police Command, Ndubuisi Ewerem, was, weekend, detained at Central Police Station for allegedly defiling a seven-year-old girl in Abakaliki.
The suspect sent the victim to buy onions and defiled her when she returned to deliver the item.
While neighbours said the victim was actually raped by the policeman, others alleged that the suspect sexually abuse teenagers.
In a telephone chat, the Commissioner of Police, Peace Abdallah, who confirmed the incident, insisted that whether the victim was raped or fingered, the act perpetuated by the policeman was a crime punishable under the law.
According to the Commissioner of police, the result of the medical test conducted on the victim would ascertain whether she was raped or not, as investigation into the case was still on.
Last week, the police boss announced the dismissal of a police Corporal with Afikpo North Division, Okporie Okporie, for defiling a nine-year-old girl in Ebonyi.

Today's Vanguard editorial cartoon

Zika virus: WHO holds emergency meeting today, as German scientists develop detection test

THE Director General of the World Health Organisation, WHO, Dr. Margaret Chan, is convening an International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on Zika virus today in Geneva, Switzerland, to ascertain whether the Zika virus outbreak constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.

The committee is meeting even as German researchers say they have developed a diagnostic test that can accurately detect the Zika virus in humans. Previously, there was no way to diagnose the illness apart from appearance of the distinctive symptoms.
A mosquito-borne illness, Zika virus disease has been in the news due to a suspected relationship between infection in pregnant women and birth defects, including microcephaly, a rare birth defect that stunts the growth of a baby’s brain and head. Many children with microcephaly have some degree of mental disability, and the condition is linked to a shorter life span.

The story of a whiteman's sacrifice for racial equality

Norman was a white man from Australia, a country that had strict apartheid laws, almost as strict as South Africa. There was tension and protests in the streets of Australia following heavy restrictions on non-white immigration and discriminatory laws against aboriginal people, some of which consisted of forced adoptions of native children to white families.

The two Americans had asked Norman if he believed in human rights. Norman said he did. They asked him if he believed in God, and he, who had been in the Salvation Army, said he believed strongly in God. “We knew that what we were going to do was far greater than any athletic feat, and he said “I’ll stand with you” – remembers John Carlos – “I expected to see fear in Norman’s eyes, but instead we saw love.”

Smith and Carlos had decided to get up on the stadium wearing the Olympic Project for Human Rights badge, a movement of athletes in support of the battle for equality.

They would receive their medals barefoot, representing the poverty facing people of color. They would wear the famous black gloves, a symbol of the Black Panthers’ cause. But before going up on the podium they realized they only had one pair of black gloves. “Take one each,” Norman suggested. Smith and Carlos took his advice.

Stealing spells the end of an era for Nigerian singers

That last part of Michael Jackson's Starting Something that sounds like the combined utterances of a pentecostal prayer warrior and a Woli of the Cele extraction was “stolen.” So also were materials from Marvin Gaye's works for Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines. In these two instances, reparations were made when the owner of the stolen goods cried out. There must be many more examples out there. Here in Nigeria, a rash of such accusations have become as common as news of individuals executing disappearing acts on billions of Naira (although no one has told me were EFCC was when such acts as they are now revealing were happening live). The situation is not helped by an obvious avoidance of court action by the accusers.

The latest is Blackfaze, again, accusing 2Face of song theft. We have heard of Olamide strolling out of D'banj's studio with a stolen line that is not even creative. Same Olamide was accused of stealing the Shakiti bobo dance: a move that is just an expansion of an everyday party steps. And Durella, the self-acclaimed King of Zanga, even alleged that D'banj's captivating swag and stage presence were originally his. Ha! Remember the Mo'hits crew? Their hands movements was refined by Olu Maintain into the Yahooze dance: ask D'banj. Wizkid has not been left out of the stealing band. His Ojuelegba was allegedly stolen from... who? Blackface! In all these, both the accusers and the accusees give the impression that their creative abilities are limited or was never there. Why shout now and expect us not to link it with you forthcoming album launch?

200 traders displaced as fire razes Ketu plank market

No fewer than 200 traders were, yesterday, displaced after an early morning fire razed Jakande Plank Market, Ketu, Kosofe Local Government Area, Lagos, destroying property worth millions of Naira.
It was gathered that the fire started at about 4a.m., razing three buildings, several makeshift shops and three vehicles in the market.
Other burnt items were several power generating sets, cutting machines, smoothers, sawmills and animals.

6 injured as fuel tanker runs over four vehicles, Okada in Awka

SIX persons were injured in multiple accidents involving a tanker conveying Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, and four other vehicles along the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway in Awka.
It was learned that the tanker conveying PMS lost control and collided with a tipper, two buses, a Nissan Sunny with number plates YA 262 ENU and a commercial motorcycle, popularly known as Okada.
The tanker was descending the Government House slope from the Onitsha end of the expressway when the accident occurred.
No life was lost and the injured persons were quickly rushed to the hospital by men of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, the police traffic personnel, the fire service and sympathizers, who were on hand to assist the victims.

EFCC operative batters, abandons lover over refusal to abort pregnancy

A teenager, who alleged that she had been abandoned after being impregnated by an operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has appealed to authorities of the commission to intervene.
The pregnant teenager, Blessing Nwokpa, also alleged that effort to reach her estranged lover (names withheld) earned her a beating at the commission’s office in Ikoyi, Lagos.
The 19-year-old claimed that the operative took advantage of her homelessness to put her in the family way, only to abandon her when it mattered most.
Trouble, as gathered, started after Nwokpa who worked as a canteen attendant at the Awolowo Road, Ikoyi office of EFCC, had accommodation problem. She was compelled to be sleeping in the canteen, when her lover reportedly offered to give her shelter.

Majek Fashek still makes the guitar cry

Those days he would would headline shows where those, who will later become legends, such as Lucky Dube, were side acts.

He sang Send Down the Rain in Ethiopia, when one of their many droughts hit, and the rains came down. They worshipped him.

He was scheduled to overfill the shoes of his hero, Bob Marley and rule reggae.

But, as he claimed in a recent show on AIT, “I read books I shouldn't read.” And Majek Fashek, a star with the fire of a galaxy crashed. Currently, missing teeth, frail and haggard look, with tiny imitation of dreads is what his image is.

But on that AIT show, he still made the guitar cry as he wailed through Redemption Song. Our current crop of heavy-money, naked-female-butts singers faded into the voice control Majek still exhibited.

Worthy of note is the fact that he asked to use his guitar and played it like it followed him into his wilderness and back. Let’s hope he will remain afloat this time so that Kpangolo will live again.

Gulak declares self PDP national chair; Sets up 11-member c'ttee

From left, Jigawa State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, stakeholder, Mr Ibrahim Brima; former Senior Special Adviser, Public Affairs to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr Doyin Okupe, and Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, who declared himself Chairman of PDP at the party’s secretariat, Abuja.

THERE was confusion, Wednesday, at the national secretariat of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the former Political Adviser to former President Goodkuck Jonathan, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, stormed the secretariat with his supporters and made himself the national chairman of the party.

Gulak, who arrived the national headquarters of PDP at 1:42pm in company of other aides of former President Jonathan, went straight to the third floor of the building, and asked that the office of the national chairman be opened for him.

He immediately moved to the National Working Committee, NWC, Conference hall to address journalists, using the chair of the national chairman.

Addressing journalists, Gulak noted that a high court had thrown out an application by the PDP and the acting national chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, which sought to stop a previous ruling demanding that Secondus vacates office within 14 days.

He also said there would be a change to the proposed date of the national convention which was slated for March this year by the Uche Secondus-led National Working Committee, NWC, against the backdrop that the NWC ought to have first tabled the matter before the National Executive Committee, NEC, before announcing it.

The former Presidential aide was accompanied by Dr Doyin Okupe, Mr Shehu Birma, Ayakeme Whiskey, Chuma Nnaji, Mohammed Kachalla, Jonathan Asake, Moshood Salvador, Denis Emmanuel, Eddy Olafeso and Yusuf Hassan, among others.

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Nigerian student in Malaysia jailed 24 years over internet scam

An Ikeja High Court, presided over by Justice Lateefa Okunnu, has convicted and sentenced a Nigerian undergraduate of Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University, Malaysia, Hope Olusegun Aroke, a Nigerian, to 24 years imprisonment over an internet scam involving N25 million.
Justice Okunnu found the convict guilty of a two-count charge of forgery and obtaining money under false pretence levelled against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The 25 years old undergraduate was accused of obtaining money by false pretence from his victims, cloning of bank cheques, wire transfer and forgery.

Fires by rat hunters raze Benue villages

Over 120  houses have been reportedly razed in separate fire outbreaks at Tse Mtaghji village, Bilawa and Akpuku village, Mbagune in Gwer West and Makurdi Local Government areas of Benue State.
The two incidents, which occurred within an interval of 48 hours, razed the entire Akpuku village, while about 20 houses were consumed, yesterday, in the Makurdi inferno.
A staff of the state-owned Radio Benue, Mr. Nicholas Ticha, affected by the Tse Mtaghji outbreak, said the incident was caused by bush burning.

Nursing mother sells baby for N300,000

The Bayelsa State Police Command, yesterday, confirmed the arrest of a 28-year-old mother, who allegedly sold her three months old baby girl for N300,000.
Spokesman of the command, Asinim Butswat, gave the name of the baby’s mother as Oyikepreye Enoch.
According to him, Enoch was arrested yesterday by men of the Akenfa Division, following a tip-off.
He said: “The suspect sold her child to one Esther Tony, 30, for N300,000.”
Butswat, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, added that both suspects were undergoing interrogation at the Akenfa Police Station, Yenagoa.

He shows little emotion in bed

My boyfriend of nine months is a hunk and I love him so much. Unfortunately, he is amazingly quiet in bed. It is impossible to know if he’s enjoying himself.
His foreplay is routine for him to get hard and, he also climaxes but he doesn’t even grunt!
How can I find out if he is enjoying sex with me and if I really turn him on?

Hubby wants oral sex

My husband and I have a good sex life, but I’ve never really got much kick out of oral sex. Most women go on about how good it is, but it does nothing for me.
When making love, I like really firm pressure and a slithering tongue just can’t provide that. In fact, the only time it worked for me, I stimulated myself with my fingers before my husband finished things off.
He’s complained he feels really cheated that I don’t enjoy oral sex. I even heard him complaining about it to a friend. So, now I feel guilty for short-changing him.

The world of Nigeria's sex-trafficking 'Air Lords'

Last year, the BBC's Sam Piranty was given access by the Catalan police, Mossos D'Esquadra, to an investigation into a Nigerian sex-trafficking gang. He spoke to traffickers and women rescued from sexual slavery before filming an early morning raid in November, which led to 23 arrests. He also discovered that the gang is now using London as a gateway into Europe.
The raid results in the arrest of the leaders of a Nigerian-based group running an international sex-trafficking ring in Barcelona. It's known as the Supreme Eiye Confraternity (SEC), or the Air Lords, and 23 people are now behind bars, with European Arrest Warrants issued for those who have left the country.
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“For God’s sake, go down to reception and get rid of a lunatic who’s down there. He says he’s got a machine for seeing by wireless!”

That was Daily Express news editor, referring to John Logie Baird's invention of television 90 years ago!

The first live TV audience found it hard to believe that it would take off. Now the invention of the mechanical television has been marked with a Google Doodle.

Ninety years ago today a moving head on a screen made history. It was the first public demonstration of live television, and the occasion is being marked with a Google Doodle.

The face in question belonged to Daisy Elizabeth Gandy, the business partner of John Logie Baird, the Scottish scientist who is regarded as the inventors of the mechanical television.

The mechanical television, also known as “the televisor” worked a bit like a radio, but had a rotating mechanism attached that could generate a video to accompany the sound. It preceded the modern television, which creates images using electronic scanning.

In 1924 Baird managed to transmit a flickering image across a distance of 10 feet and the following year, he had a breakthrough when he achieved TV pictures with light and shade.

Within two years this flicker was the face of a woman who was in a different room.

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A shitty rebellion

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LASSA FEVER: Lagos kills 7,243 rats

As the battle to curtail the outbreak of Lassa Fever continued in Lagos, no fewer than 7,243 rats have been killed since the outbreak of the virus in the state.
This is just as Lagos State government has directed its environmental officers to embark on a massive sensitisation campaign across the state on the need to de-rat the state.
These were disclosed, yesterday, evening at the sensitization and awareness programme on Lassa Fever outbreak, organised by the state government for environmental health workers at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium, Alausa secretariat, Ikeja.
President Environmental Health Officers Association of Nigeria, EHOAN, Lagos State chapter, Mr. Samuel Akingbehin, said that over 7,243 rats had been killed at eight major markets in the state under its de-rat market programme.

2 ‘lunatics’ caught with rotting human head in Osun

Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Osun Command, has arrested two suspects, who pretended to be mad, for being in possession of a decomposing human head.
The suspects, Alaba Folawiyo and Mutiu Lawal, according to Mr. Wale Folarin, the state's NSCDC Public Relations Officer, were hiding in an uncompleted building near Apomu Junction in Ikire, headquarters of Irewole LGA, when they were arrested.
A Blackberry phone hidden inside a drug pack, knife, perfume cans, clothes, school bags, shoes, wristwatches, ATM cards, electrical materials, roofing sheets, cooking utensils, suspected to be belongings of the victims of the suspects, were found in the building.
According to the corps, information gathered showed that the suspects had been in the area for a long time pretending to be mad men, while carrying out their activities with others who are now at large.

The millennial generation: Young, gifted and held back

IN THE world of “The Hunger Games” youngsters are forced to fight to the death for the amusement of their white-haired rulers. Today’s teen fiction is relentlessly dystopian, but the gap between fantasy and reality is often narrower than you might think. The older generation may not resort to outright murder but, as our special report this week on millennials describes, in important ways they hold their juniors down.

Roughly a quarter of the world’s people—some 1.8 billion—have turned 15 but not yet reached 30. In many ways, they are the luckiest group of young adults ever to have existed. They are richer than any previous generation, and live in a world without smallpox or Mao Zedong. They are the best-educated generation ever—Haitians today spend longer in school than Italians did in 1960. Thanks to all that extra learning and to better nutrition, they are also more intelligent than their elders.

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I make N300,000 monthly as a beggar— Drug addict

A suspected drug addict arrested by the Lagos State Command of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, has disclosed that he made over N300,000 monthly from begging in Ikeja.
Kehinde Olatubosun, 56, from Ibadan, Oyo State, was arrested along with 18 other drug addicts at a joint in Ipodo, Ikeja.
A decoy team of RRS officers, last Friday, traced a stolen phone to the joint, leading to the arrest of 17 suspects: a mobile phone thief, three drug peddlers and 13 drug addicts.
Olatubosun said he made over N10,000 daily begging at Mobolaji Bank Anthony Roundabout, beside Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Toyin Street and Opebi, all in Ikeja.
He said: “Every day, I make over N10,000 doing corporate begging. All days of the week, I am always in Mobolaji Bank Anthony Roundabout, Toyin Street Roundabout and Opebi.
“At times, I collaborate with other beggars. Whatever we make, we share. But I get a larger share.
“What I do is that I get LASUTH drug prescription papers from their waste bin. With this in my hand, I convince motorists, passengers and passers-by that I have a relative who is in need of money to buy drugs and I show them the prescription papers.

Falana says $2.1bn arms fraud is crime against humanity

Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has petitioned the International Criminal Court, ICC, requesting it to investigate allegations of crimes against humanity committed by some Nigerians over alleged diversion of $8 billion earmarked to procure military equipments to fight insurgency.
In the petition addressed to ICC Prosecutor, Mrs Fatou Bensouda, Falana urged the court to commence investigation and the prosecution of indicted former and serving military officers as well as public officials found wanting in the alleged diversion of $2.1 billion security fund, believing that they had committed an offence against the Nigerian people.

The petition
In the petition dated January 19, Falana said: “We, therefore, submit that this is sufficient to hold Col Dasuki and others that have been indicted in the arms theft scandal responsible for crimes against humanity perpetrated against Nigerians.
“The failure of a former Finance Minister, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to prevent widespread and systematic corruption including the re-looting of the Abacha loot amounts to complicity under the Rome Statute, and therefore fits the legal requirements of a crime against humanity.”
To this end, the lawyer requested ICC to “urgently commence an investigation proprio motu on the allegations of the criminal diversion of the security fund of $2.1 billion and N643 billion earmarked  by suspected perpetrators, with a view to determining whether these amount to crimes against humanity within the court’s jurisdiction.
“I also urge you to invite representatives of the Nigerian government to provide written or oral testimony at the seat of the court, so that the prosecutor is able to conclude on the basis of available information whether there is a reasonable basis for an investigation, and to submit a request to the Pre-Trial Chamber for authorisation of an investigation.”

Secondus says thieves 're in Buhari’s government

The acting National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, has said that some of the 55 Nigerians identified by the Federal Government to have stolen N1.34 trillion are presently part of Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet.
Secondus, in an interview, however, accused the All Progressives Congress, APC-led administration of turning a blind eye to the misdeeds of its supporters and faulted the handcuffing of PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, during his recent court appearances.
Secondus, who reiterated that PDP was not against Buhari’s anti-graft war, stressed that it must not be selective, adding that the government must adhere strictly to Rule of Law, adding that those involved, even if they are in the present government, must be brought to book.

22-yr-old pregnant housewife raped to death in Kano

It was a painful end for a 22-year-old housewife, Aisha Abdullahi, who was raped to death by unknown person(s) at her matrimonial home at Ungogo quarters, on the outskirts of Kano metropolis.
Police spokesman in Kano, DSP Musa Magaji Majia, told reporters in Kano that the incident, which occurred yesterday, was reported by the deceased’s husband.
Police said Abdullahi Muhammad, husband of late Aisha, reported that he met the deceased in a pool of her blood when he returned home.
DSP Majiya said detectives had commenced investigation to unravel the mystery behind the act, stressing that no stone would be left unturned.

Man, 37, rapes mentally-challenged girl

Police in Lagos State have arrested a 37-year-old man for allegedly raping a mentally-challenged girl (names withheld).
It was learned that the suspect, Adesola Moses, who resides at Osenatuilo Street, Alagbado by AIT Road, reportedly raped the victim in her mother’s shop.
The suspect took advantage of the victim’s mental health and had anal sex with her.
According to a family member, the victim’s mother, Muiynant Mustapha, left her 19-year-old daughter in her shop to attend a party, when the suspect sneaked into the shop, asked the girl to remove her clothes and raped her.

Teenager kills friend over girlfriend tussle in Kano

Police in Kano State have taken into custody a former student of First Grade College in Kano, Sadik Ado-Maje, suspected to have stabbed his friend, Usman Salisu, to death over a girlfriend.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Kano State Command, DSP Magaji Majiya, told reporters in Kano that the suspect had been apprehended after a futile attempt to escape justice.
DSP Majiya said: “The suspect is now cooling his heels at Kwalli Police Division and would be arraign soon as we complete our investigation.
“I do not want to pre-empt the likely outcome of our investigation, but I want to assure you this matter would be followed to its logical conclusion.”

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My boyfriend wants details of lovemaking with my ex

I broke up with my boyfriend of two years nine months ago and was fortunate to be in another relationship immediately after. My ex was the one who said we should cool things a bit and he had a girlfriend too. Unfortunately, our new romance didn’t work out and he begged that we should give our relationship another chance and I agreed because I never stopped loving him.
As soon as we got together, however, he wanted to know all the details about my sexual life with the other guy, and now when I tell him anything, he wants my answer to be detailed.
For instance, he doesn’t believe we never had oral sex like I often have with him. Why are all these unnecessary details important to him?

My best friend took my man

A few months after my boyfriend proposed to me, there were rumours of him
being sighted with my close friend at that time. He tried lying about it but my so- called friend admitted they were an item and she was pregnant. A few days later, my fiance called to tell me the engagement was off. I was devastated. I later discovered that he’d been seeing this ‘friend’ for months.
I feel humiliated and betrayed, and anger is the only thing that has kept me going. All I can think of is wreaking revenge on my ex-fiance and my so-called friend.

Cultural Ambassadors

My idea of a complete actor, Yemi Blaq, talking drummer, Aralolu ‘ARA’ Olamuyiwa and the monarch that makes guitar wail, King Sunny Ade, were among the people made Ondo State Cultural Ambassadors by Governor Olusegun Mimiko.

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Meet the woman living with 1000 cats

Sixty-seven-year-old Lynea Lattanzio has taken the phrase 'cat lover' to new heights by given up her 4200 square foot home to more than a thousand rescue cats. 

Lattanzio runs 'Cat House on the Kings', California's largest no-cage, no kill sanctuary for feral and abandoned cats, and, along with her team of volunteers, care daily for and estimated 800 adult cats and 300 kittens - and even a handful of peacocks. 

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Metuh in court

The embattled National Publicity Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, was brought to the Federal High Court, Abuja, by officials of Nigerian Prison Service in handcuffs.

How Ajia was killed

Late Bayo Ajia, who was always with his lieutenants, was unusually alone, Monday, when he was killed.
The late Ajia was at his car wash centre at Taiwo area of Ilorin, ruminating with his members over the killing of Bukola Ajikobi, before leaving for Kwara Stadium, a short distance away.
Ajia was at the stadium when a familiar voice called him on phone to meet him in his car wash centre for a business.
It was learned that as soon as the deceased was sighted by his assailants, they boarded taxis, headed straight for him, shooting him three times on the forehead.
When the gunshots seemed not to be having the desired effect, the assailants brought out axes and machetes, with which they killed him.

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Girls always say they appreciate the little things in life until you present them with a small penis.

You think true love is difficult to find? Try finding the H.O.D of your department when you need his signature on a form.

May God bless you with the kind of wealth that will make your elders call you Big Uncle and Big Aunty.

They tell you the price of some wears in a boutique and you realise that your ancestors who walked around naked or in leaves weren't mad.

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Notorious political thug, Bayo Ajia, assassinated in Ilorin

Pandemonium broke out, Monday, afternoon at Taiwo, the commercial nerve centre of Ilorin, Kwara State capital, as a notorious political thug, Alhaji Bayo Ajia, was shot dead and cut several times with machetes by four men.
The assailants were said to have arrived the deceased workshop in a taxi cab around 4:15p.m. and met Ajia alone in his shop.
They then proceeded to under the bridge, close to the State Stadium complex, where the deceased operated a car wash, shot him several times on his forehead and dealt several machete cuts on his lifeless body to ensure that he was dead.

Buhari in Abu Dhabi

President Buhari with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyema, National Security Adviser Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno Rtd and Minister of Trade and Investment Okechukwu Enelamah during an audience with the UN Secretary General at the sidelines of the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi on 18th Jan 2016

President Buhari with H.E. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson President of Iceland during a reception prior to the Opening ceremony of the World Future Energy Summit 2016 at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC) on 18th Jan 2016.

Richest 62 people own as much as half of world’s population – Oxfam

An international charity said on Monday that the wealthiest 62 people on earth now own as much as half the world’s population.

Oxfam said in a report released in London ahead of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland that some 3.5 billion people have grown poorer as the super-rich have grown richer.

It said the wealth of the richest 62 people has risen by 44 per cent since 2010, while the wealth of the poorest 3.5 billion fell 41 per cent.
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Residents smoke out Lagos burglar

Residents smoked out a young man whose gang had for long terrorised Jabe, a community at Gberigbe, Ikorodu, Lagos, especially on Sundays.
Determined to catch the thieves, who ran into the bush after stealing cell phones and other valuables yesterday, the community members set the bush on fire and smoked out one of them. The others escaped.

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i will still say Happy Sunday. A must read for reasonable Nigerians. Femi OtegbolaI really want to sleep but I'm tempted to write this to all who had been saying rubbish concerning the ongoing Dasuki gate of $2.1bilion.I think many don't know how much 2 billion dollars worth and what it could achieve. So they de-euphemise the gravity of the offence….as at the time of sharing that money last year..A dollar was about 220 naira..So if you calculate the worth of 2.1bilion in naira.. That's a whooping 525 billion naira..Ahhhhhhh.. Half a trillion Naira..In a country where the whole of Lagos state get between 9 to 10 bilion naira as monthly allocationeven at the height of oil boom.. I'm not sure it's up to that..This is to cater for the needs of over 25 million people in Lagos..So in a year, Lagos alone at the height of oil boom could only access 120 billion naira in a year.. And ifpaid regularly the amount Dasuki squandered could take care of Lagosians comfortably for 5years..Oyo State allocation is around 4. 5 billion in to cater for about estimated 10milion people in Oyo State..They could be wrong but census had about 5milion as the Last time so in a year oyo State could only access About 50bilion!And it will take the whole oyo State 10 years at least to finish 500bilion plus..Ahhhhhhh and you people out there are so audacious to be clamouring for the release of this kind of animals who care less about the lives of fellow human beings. For God's sake there are 1000 pieces of 1milion in a billion.. I mean 1milion naira in 1000 places..If you wake up in the morning and you spend 1milion naira daily, you will only manage to spend 365 to 366milion naira in a year and it may take you like 4years to squander 1bilion naira if you live moderately on 1milion naira per day as allowance so 500bilion would take how many years to finish.. (about 2000 years)Only a Mad man could do that..

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Senate set up search committee for missing budget

SENATE President, Bukola Saraki, tacitly admitted, yesterday, that the 2016 Budget was missing from the National Assembly, when he openly said a search committee set up by the Senate for the missing document would present its report today.

The search committee also quizzed aides of President Muhammadu Buhari in the National Assembly as well as staff of the offices of the clerks to the Senate and House of Representatives, yesterday.

Those interrogated made useful information to the committee which would be presented to the Senate in plenary today.

The Senate President, who had earlier at the beginning of Senate's session yesterday, announced to senators that copies of the 2016 budget document would be made available to them today, in readiness for general debate on it next Tuesday, eventually owned up on the missing document while responding to Senator Abaribe's point of order.

Ashimolowo to Buhari: Looters deserve only 20% of your time

President Muhammadu Buhari has been advised to adopt the Pareto's Principle in governance, where just 20 percent of governance time is dedicated to the past, “otherwise it will take forever for majority of Nigerians to begin to see changes.”

According to Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo, Senior Pastor of Kingsway International Christian Centre, KICC, who gave the advice, going by Parento's Principle, the Federal Government should dedicate 20 percent of resources to going after loot and perceived looters, while 80 should be given to creating an enabling environment and a future for Nigerians.

He doesn't want me back

Some months back, I told  my boyfriend of two years to let us cool things a bit in spite of the fact that he was the most loyal, honest and caring man I’d ever met.
I had just met someone else then who swept me off my feet. He wined and dined me and I was in seventh heaven until I came crashing down when he moved on to another relationship.
I felt rejected and decided to go back to my ex. But, he doesn’t want me back now.

Mother and daughter won't leave me alone

BELIEVE it or not, I am a virgin at the age of 25. My problem now is that my boss and her daughter are both trying to get me into bed. After I finished at the Law School, my mum arranged for me to work in her friend’s chambers to gain experience.
Sadly, my mother recently lost her battle against breast cancer. She died, leaving me devastated and my boss said if I ever needed anyone to talk to, she would always be there for me.
Then she started inviting me to her place for meals. She’s a single mother of two and lives with her daughter who is my age mate.
I was leaving her house one night after a meal when she asked me to wait. She shut the door and started kissing me, but she stopped when her daughter arrived home.

When IMF visits, tears follow

But those familiar with the IMF know that the expressed love for Nigeria, the youths, the poor and the orphaned, are side shows to make the visit look like some long lost aunt visiting her loved ones. The last time Hurricane Largarde made a landfall in Nigeria four years ago, it was so devastating that amongst other things, the whirlwind tossed petrol (PMS) price from N65 to N140 setting off serious social crises. The attempts to clear the hurricane debris took years, and the negative effects are still felt today. Some unique characteristics of IMF hurricanes are that their effects are not immediately visible and their after-effects are quite devastating. It is like cleaning up a nuclear accident site.
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1. Once, all villagers decided to pray for rain, on the day of prayer all the People gathered but only a young boy came with an umbrella.
THAT'S FAITH!
2. When you throw a baby in the air, he laughs because he knows you will catch him.- THAT'S TRUST!
3. Every night we go to bed, without any
assurance of being alive the next Morning but still we set the alarms to wake up.- THAT'S HOPE!
4. We plan big things for tomorrow in spite of zero knowledge of the future.- THAT'S
CONFIDENCE!
5. We see millions of students failing to gain admission, others failing to get Jobs after graduation,
But still we buy JAMB forms for
admission and subsequent graduation.-THAT'S OVER CONFIDENCE !"
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