Friday, 17 June 2016

Street named after 2face Idibia (photos)

Two male suicide bombers killed by vigilantes in Maiduguri

The Civilian JTF in Maiduguri, Borno state this morning shot dead two male suicide bombers who attempted to attack a mosque at Kusari area near CBN Staff Quarters in Maiduguri.

Tuesday, 14 June 2016

Alleged pending retirement of Nigerian Air Force officers is unfounded - NAF

The Nigerian Air Force has debunked reports of impending retirement of some officers. The statement issued today June 14, reads:

PDP National Caretaker committee accuses APC of using Alimodu Sheriff to destabilize their party

Members of the PDP Caretaker committee met at the party secretariat in Abuja today June 14th, to discuss what it described as the invasion of the party secretariat by its factional chairman, Alimodu Sheriff yesterday June 14th. 

Sunday, 12 June 2016

Photo: Medical doctor turned armed robber arrested in Anambra state

45 year old Richard Macaulay Obafemi, a medical doctor who trained at the University College London, has been arrested for Armed robbery by the Anambra state police command.

Sunday, 5 June 2016

Last portraits of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali

Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali is pictured with his fists clenched and lifted in a 'fight' position for the final time in haunting photographs from his last photo shoot by British photographer Zenon Texeira who was invited into Ali’s home in Phoenix, Arizona, at the end of March this year. The harrowing effects of fighting Parkinson’s disease for 32 years can be seen in the beautiful photos published by the Daily Mail for the first time. More photos after the cut...

Labour strike: Fayose writes NLC President, blames national economic crisis for non-payment of workers salary

Labour strike: Fayose writes NLC President, blames national economic crisis for non-payment of workers salary Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has replied the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, attributing the State's inability to pay workers salary regularly to the current downturn in the nation's economy and the heavy loan burden left by his predecessor.

Twitter user's hilarious but true reply to the question "Can you die for your country Nigeria?

Lol. Well..

Source: Adebusola/twitter

President Buhari's Dissonance Problem! By Reno Omokri

  How can two walk together except they agree? Now if two people cannot walk together except they agree how much more three, four or a hundred? For any government, company, family or association to succeed, there must first be unity of purpose. This unity of purpose does not mean that everybody must agree, but it means that behind close doors the groups meets to harmonize.   Now that word, harmonize, is a much misunderstood word. Harmony does not mean that everybody has the same purpose, but it means that everybody's purposes are brought together and through a process of give and take, a common thread is woven that encapsulates everybody's agenda and when this is presented it produces an effect that is pleasing to the group and those it wants to serve.   Both Christians and Muslims agree that God created the entire world with His words. It is something we can all agree on and in agreeing to this, we agree that words are creative. They created the atmosphere of the world and they will create the atmosphere of our individual worlds.    This being the case, we have to be careful, very careful, about the words we speak because if we agree that information is power, then the management of information is power and its mismanagement is weakness.   So often, many of us do not realize that the words that emanate from a leader and his surrogates must have credibility because those words affect everything within the domain of that leader. Every word that emanates from a leader is a promise.   Don't believe me? Try to get the British Currency. On every British Pound note you will find this promise 'I Promise to Pay the Bearer the sum of' £5, £10, £20 or £50.   The promise on the British Pound is made by the Queen of England who happens to be the Head of State of the United Kingdom.   There is nothing inherently valuable about the paper the British Pound is printed upon. It has no intrinsic value. If you eat the British Pound you will get sick. If you dye it so that the promise made by Queen Elizabeth II is no longer legible, it will lose its value.    The value of the British Pound is tied to the promise made by The Queen. The reason the British Pound is one of the most valuable currencies in the world is because people trust the promise made by the Queen.    All over the world, currencies are only as valuable as the person of the sovereign or head of state making the promise.   So for instance, if it becomes known today that the Queen says one thing about Britain and the British Prime Minister says something different, that credibility crisis will have an immediate effect on the value of the British Pound and the total capitalization of the London Stock Exchange and the FTSE 100 index.   Now, the current occupants of the seat of power in Nigeria do not seem to understand this dynamic.    Since President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office as President of Nigeria, there has been a remarkable dissonance within this government. The President says one thing, his spokesmen say another and other high officials give a completely different take. What is going on?    Let us take the issue of Boko Haram. It was not too long ago that a perplexed nation woke up to read headlines which screamed that the President pontificated that Fulani herdsmen came from Libya!   Well, if that is your story, then absurd as it is, you must stick to it. But hardly had we gotten over the statement by the President before we were regaled with another claim, this time by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, who said "some of these herdsmen that are attacking communities across the country may have some affiliation with the Boko Haram terrorists."   That sent shock waves down the length and breadth of the nation. What are we dealing with here? Herdsmen or Boko Haram, we really do not know!   And then, to cap our confusion, the minister of information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, amazingly told us "herdsmen move from everywhere, from Mauritius or anywhere. You can't stop them"!    This all happened within a space of two weeks!   Alhaji Lai Mohammed and current World 100 and 200 meter champion, Usain Bolt, actually make me believe that people's names actually affect their destiny!     I have been to Mauritius. I was there this past February. This is a tiny Island nation more than 1000 miles from the African coast. A herdsman and his cows would literally have to swim for years before they got to Mozambique from Mauritius. Then from Mozambique, it would take them months by land to get to Nigeria!   But that is not even the point. The point is the inconsistency and dissonance coming from the highest levels of our nation's government.    And like I said, it is a pattern.    When British Prime Minister, David Cameron flippantly said to the Queen that Nigeria and Pakistan were 'fantastically corrupt' nations, Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, rightly issued a statement condemning Cameron's callousness and the world's media including Newsweek and Al Jazeera reported his statement stating that Nigeria and President Buhari were 'embarrassed' and 'shocked' by Cameron's words and denied that we were a fantastically corrupt nation. This was on the 10th of May, 2016.   Now you can imagine the trepidation of Nigerians when Buhari himself who had been reported as being 'shocked' by his spokesman recovered from his shock and decided to pass it on to us by agreeing with Prime Minister Cameron on camera that Nigeria was indeed fantastically corrupt!   Perhaps that was the shock Garba Shehu was really talking about.    Even if President Buhari believed we are all fantastically corrupt (I am NOT) then he should have pretended to agree with his own spokesman for credibility's sake. But he completely made a fool of Shehu to the world and I can assure my readers and Shehu (a specimen of a gentleman and the star in the President's media team) that both Newsweek and Al-Jazeera would not be quoting him in future, except they have some form of corroboration from President Buhari himself.   And then this confusion affects everything. Like millions of Nigerians, I was so ecstatic about the fact that two of the Chibok girls had been rescued that I tweeted congratulations to the President. But then it turns out that what the State House said was not true. Not only was it not true, but it differed with the news coming out of Borno and reported by the world.   One of the girls was not really a 'Chibok' girl and the one who was really a Chibok girl was not rescued as the government had claimed but had escaped from her captors.   And it goes on and on. On the 13th of May, 2016, Vice President Osinbajo tells us that fuel subsidy has not been removed and we believe him because, well because he is a pastor! Then three days later the minister of state for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, tells us that if subsidy had not been removed we would be paying marketers ₦16.4 billion a month!   What is going on here? Is it or isn't it subsidy? Has it or hasn't it been removed? Our heads are spinning with the spin! Who is right between Osinbajo and Kachikwu?   The President goes to China and his spokesmen let slip that he is going there to sign a $2 billion loan agreement. Then he lands in China and we are told that it is no longer $2 billion it is now $6 billion and then we are told that Nigeria has signed a deal to make our economy a clearing house for the Chinese Yuan. No, we are not going to be a clearing house, we are having a currency swap.   I put it to Nigerians that from the President himself to his minister of Finance, no one is actually sure what went on as regards Nigeria's economy in China!       And it goes on and on. Today the President is going to announce names of looters and then again he is not. It will be published by Lai Mohammed's ministry of information at some later date.    Doesn't this administration know that if a house is divided against itself, it cannot stand?   This is the hidden reason why our economy is not standing. Foreign Investors have been waiting to get a concrete sense of the policy direction of this administration and this same tendency of approbation and reprobation has overshadowed the economy where you have the President saying one thing, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria saying another and ministers saying something else.    Is it too much to ask that officials of this administration be on the same page? They are not even on the same book talk less of page.    And unless and until they can get on the same page, Nigeria's economy will continue waver and falter because words create our atmosphere and the words of this administration are in disarray which is why we currently have an atmosphere of dissonance in Nigeria.
How can two walk together except they agree? Now if two people cannot walk together except they agree how much more three, four or a hundred?

Jose Mourinho pictured with Football legend Pele

Thursday, 2 June 2016

Footballer Neymar pictured with Basketball legend Michael Jordan

Neymar (left) and NBA legend Michael Jordan (right) recently teamed up to create a new Nike football boot

Tuesday, 31 May 2016

UK Parliamentarians led by a Nigerian, Hon Kate Osamor, visit Senate President Bukola Saraki

Some Parliamentarians from the United Kingdom UK led by a Nigerian, Hon. Kate Osamor, visited the Senate leadership led by Senate President Bukola Saraki at the National Assembly this morning.

Abdulahi Olatoyan meets Senator Ben Bruce (photos)

Senator Ben Bruce who caught wind that the dapper, windscreen cleaner Abdulahi was at the STV

Atiku at PMB's dinner for members of NASS

Former Vice President and chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) Atiku Abubakar being

Photos: VP Osinbajo arrives New Guinea for 8th summit of African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States

Vie President Yemi Osinbajo arrived Papau ‎New Guinea yesterday evening for the 8th summit of African, Carribean and Pacific Group of States. He was received by Papau New Guinea's Minister for Public Service, Puka Temu and acting Nigerian High Commissioner to Australia, Cecilia Yahaya. See more photos after the cut...

FG appeals to Nigerians to buy made-in-Nigeria products

Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu, has appealed to Nigerians to buy made in Nigeria products. The Minister made the appeal while speaking at a News Agency of Nigeria NAN forum in Abuja yesterday May 30th.

Who said chubby bridesmaid can't be hella fabulous? (photos)

Check out the chubby bridesmaids on the bridal train of Oyindamola, the creative director of Lemiral

'Goodluck Jonathan's phone call to concede defeat left me in shock' - President Buhari

President Buhari yesterday revealed that the call from former President Jonathan conceding defeat before INEC announced the results of the 2015 Presidential election, left him in shock. Buhari disclosed this while speaking at the luncheon he organized for state house correspondents at the presidential villa yesterday May 30th.
Somalia’s military court in Mogadishu on Monday, May 30 pronounced sentence on Daallo Airline suicide attack suspects. Abdiwali Mohmoud Mo’ow who was the security chief of aviation agency at

Buhari asks lawmakers to accelerate passage of Money laundering Prevention and Prohibition bill, 4 others

Speaking at the presidential dinner organized for members of the National Assembly yesterday night May 30th, President Buhari asked the lawmakers to accelerate the passage of the Money Laundering

Sunday, 29 May 2016

President Obama soothes a crying baby in Japan (photos)

President Barack Obama showed off his fatherly side while en route to Hiroshima Peace Memorial

Democracy Day: Let's keep hope alive, Atiku Abubakar urges Nigerians

Former Vice President and chieftain of All Progressives Congress Atiku Abubakar says democracy, despite its limitations and challenges, remains the best form of government anywhere in the world.
In his message to mark Nigeria's Democracy Day, the former Vice President explains that the freedom of choice is one of the most important ingredients of the democratic system.


According to him, the freedom to choose your leaders makes democracy fashionable, adding that any system that subverts the will of the people destroys the progress of the society.
The Turaki Adamawa says as an active participant in the democratic struggle in Nigeria and an ardent proponent of the rule of law, rather than the rule of man, he recognises the sacrifices of gallant Nigerians whose struggles brought us to the current stage.

According to him, as Nigerians celebrate democracy day, the memory of late Shehu Yar'Adua and MKO Abiola would resonate across the country, adding that the sacrifices of countless others who paid the supreme price for opposing dictatorship would also not be forgotten.
The former Vice President says no sane society would choose despotism over democracy because, under dictatorship, dissent is met with death or torture.

 On the current challenges facing the ordinary Nigerians, the former Vice President says no democratically elected government would intentionally hurt the voters that put it into office.
He explains that the APC administration remains committed to the welfare of Nigerians, and that the current challenges are temporary.

According to him, the 2016 budget is specifically targeted to address the basic needs of the ordinary Nigerians, explaining that the implementation of the budget would bring succour to Nigerians.
He therefore urges Nigerians not to lose hope because of the current temporary challenges that they are going through.

Real Madrid take to streets this morning to parade Champions League Trophy (photos)

Real Madrid's players travelled back to Madrid, Spain last night after winning a historic 11th Champions League Trophy and took to the streets this morning in an open bus parade to showcase their trophy to thousands of fans that lined the streets. More photos after the cut...

Who rocked the look; Bonang Matheba vs Toke Makinwa in Toju Foyeh

Bonang wore hers a few weeks ago for a photoshoot, while Toke wore hers to a wedding yesterday. Same dress and head gear designers. Who rocked the look?

Cristiano Ronaldo and his son pictured with the Champions League Trophy

Saturday, 28 May 2016

Kano state governor sacks his SSG, makes new appointments

Nigeria's strongest man(SEE PHOTOS)

Oluwatofunmi Fadesire a.k.a Olu-Heavy - Nigeria's strongest man is representing Nigeria at the

Front and back view of Tolu Oniru's stunning wedding dress

Lovely..


VP Yemi Osinbajo hosts an interactive session with some social media influencers in Abuja (Photos)

Presidency lists President Buhari’s achievements after first year in office

The presidency has released a list detailing all the achievements of President Buhari in the last one

EFCC interrogates 11 INEC staff over N120m bribery allegations

Officials of the EFCC in Gombe state yesterday interrogated 11 Gombe state INEC staff for allegedly

Photos: Pres. Buhari meets with members of the Newspapers Proprietors of Nigeria

President Buhari met with members of the Newspapers Proprietors of Nigeria earlier yesterday at the State House Abuja. See more photos after the cut...

The lady spotted on the streets of Lagos with a placard asking for employment meets VP Osinbajo

On May 21st, this young lady was spotted somewhere in Lekki carrying a placard asking for a job.

Kebbi State First Lady, Dr Zainab Bagudu pays condolence visit to the family of Major Gen.Tanko Ayuba

Wife of Kebbi State Governor, Dr. Zainab Shinkafi Bagudu yesterday paid a condolence visit to the

The lady spotted on the streets of Lagos with a placard asking for employment meets VP Osinbajo

On May 21st, this young lady was spotted somewhere in Lekki carrying a placard asking for a job. (Read here). In life, you have to at least try. She met with Vice President Osinbajo at his residence today. Photo credit: Bayo Omoboriowo

Friday, 27 May 2016

Real Madrid players look dapper as they jet into Italy ahead of Champions League final tomorrow (photos)

Real Madrid players and coaching staff touched down at Malpensa Airport, Italy, today ahead of the their Champions League final against Atletico Madrid at the San Siro stadium tomorrow.


Photos: President Buhari receives special envoy of Nigerien President

President Buhari today received a Special Envoy of Nigerien president, Muhammadou Issoufou, in the State house. Continue to see more photos

Man U shares photo of José Mourinho holding the club's jersey as they confirm he's the new manager

Former Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho has officially been confirmed as the new Manchester United

9 key milestones in President Buhari's First year in office by Garba Shehu

The Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has released an article titled, Nine Key Milestones in President Buhar's First Year. President Buhari will be celebrating his first year in office on Sunday May 29th. Read the article below..

Historical photo of Queen Elizabeth II with Nigerian students during a trip to Lagos in 1955

Pictured is Queen of England, Elizabeth II meeting with Nigerian students during a trip to Lagos in 1955. Photo credit: The Guardian Nigeria...

APC Chairman dismisses calls for EFCC to probe APC campaign fund

Chairman of APC, John Odigie-Oyegun, has dismissed calls for the probing of campaign funds used by the party during last year's general election. Some Nigerians have called on the EFCC to

Photos from President Buhari's one year in office interview

President Buhari had an interview with some reporters at the State House Abuja to commemorate his 1st year in office. More photos after the cut...

Wednesday, 25 May 2016