PHCN Increases Tariff From N8 To N40 Per Kilowatts!

*What???*
THE new tariff of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) will take effect from today, according to the Multi Year Tariff Order (MYTO) regime.

In the new tariff,
Nigerians will now be paying N40 per kilowatt as against N8 per kilowatt in the old regime.


Meanwhile, reactions have been trailing the increase in electricity tariff. The president of Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies (SSAEAC), Comrade Bede Opara,said that Nigerians' suffering would increase, if the new tariff was implemented against their wish and that of electricity workers.

"Telling Nigerians to pay what they are paying is even wrong because they are not enjoying the services they are paying for. Nigerians are complaining that the bill is high and yet, you are asking them to pay more while there is no improvement in power generation."

Another stakeholder in the power sector, the Business Development Manager, Biopower Nigeria Limited, Mr Lanre Agboola,said that the Federal Government was insensitive to the plight of Nigerians. He said the government should have made provisions for improvement in power generation before introducing higher tariff.

"When the telecoms operators came with prepaid billings, people bought into it because you can evaluate what you are paying for, but when there is no improvement in power supply and you are asking Nigerians to pay more is unjustifiable," he said.
So what do you think about the increase?

Abuja Authorities Relocate Beggars To Their States Of Origin!

*The move is to ensure security of lives and properties... I suppose*

Less than 24 hours after the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) announced a review on the operations of parks and gardens in the city and directing that they should henceforth close by 6pm, the administration yesterday repatriated over 170 beggars arrested from different parts of the city to their respective states of origin.

This, according to FCTA, is part of its effort to ensure security of lives and properties in the federal capital.

The repatriated beggars, who were evicted in groups in different buses, were taken to states such as Kaduna, Kano, Bauchi, Jigawa, Nasarawa, Kogi, Kwara, Plateau and Gombe. Other states are: Enugu, Akwa Ibom, Cross River and Abia.

The repatriation exercise, which was carried out by the Society Against Prostitution and Child Labour in Nigeria (SAP-CLN) in collaboration with the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) and Social Development Secretariat of the FCT administration, was the biggest since the exercise started months ago.

It was learnt also that the beggars, who are widely unknown and who do not have any identity, often flood traffic jam in the city carrying bags with unknown items. They even peep into peoples' cars while begging for alms.

Oludare Atere, assistant director at the Social Development Secretariat of the FCTA lamented the problem posed by beggars saying that it appears to be getting complex by the day.

He added that the FCT administration would not relent in its efforts at ensuring that beggars, hawkers and commercial sex workers are removed from the street of Abuja.

Mr Atere enjoined the beggars to seek meaningful sources of livelihood when they get to their respective states of origin.

On his part, Bala Tsoho the principal, Bwari Rehabilitation Centre, expressed dismay at the unwillingness of most of the beggars to embrace the FCTA initiative to rehabilitate them at the centre.

He said this is because the beggars lack a "sense of dignity and pride."

Mimiko’s Wife Rescues Accident Victims On Ore-Shagamu Road!

Surprising... What would have resulted in the loss of 16 lives in a passenger bus was yesterday prevented by Ondo State governor's wife, Olukemi Mimiko as her convoy rescued some victims who were trapped in the vehicle. The wife of the governor was on her way to Lagos State.

However, the driver of the ill fated bus and a kid were already dead before the wife of the governor got to the scene of the incident, while others sustained various levels of injuries.

The passengers who were in an 18-seater bus with the inscription "God is Good" were said to be heading to Delta State from Lagos before the tragic accident.

They were said to be trapped inside the bus after the driver lost control of the vehicle before the fatal accident occurred.

Apparently, immediately Mrs. Mimiko, got to accident scene, she directed her aides in the convoy to stop and rescue the victims before their situation got worse. The victims were immediately taken to the Ijebu-Ode General Hospital for urgent treatment.

One of the sympathizers, simply identified as Abiodun commended the wife of the governor for her kindness which made her stop and offer quick and required assistance to the victims.

Monaco's Three-Day Royal Wedding Kicks Off!

Wedding festivities have begun in Monaco for the lavish three-day, $60 million royal wedding that will see former playboy Prince Albert II marry his commoner bride Charlene Wittstock.

The celebrity-studded event kicked off last night with a concert at the Stade Louis II stadium, featuring Californian rock group The Eagles and watched by 15,000 residents of the tiny Mediterranean state.

The wedding is going ahead amid reports that Wittstock, a South African champion swimmer 20 years his junior, had been getting cold feet — reports which the palace strongly denied.

Prince Albert, 53, will marry Wittstock, 33, in a 40-minute civil ceremony at the Palace on Friday and their union will be solemnized in a public Catholic ceremony in the Palace's main courtyard on Saturday.

The wedding is expected to be the biggest event Monaco has seen wince the 1965 wedding of Albert's mother, Hollywood star Grace Kelly, and father Prince Rainier.

Around 3500 guests have been invited to witness Saturday's religious ceremony, which will also be broadcast live on giant screens in the Palace Square.

Star guests include France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, several European, Middle Eastern and African kings and princes, fashion designers Karl Lagerfeld and Giorgio Armani, supermodel Naomi Campbell, former James Bond actor Roger Moore and Virgin boss Richard Branson.

The ceremony will be followed by a procession, an official dinner catered by renowned chef Alain Ducasse, and a gala ball at the Opera Garnier and the Terraces of the Monte-Carlo Casino.

Friday's festivities will close with a sound and light show over Port Hercules.

The royal couple have survived two scandals arising from the Prince's lifestyle. In 2005 he acknowledged fathering a 22-month old boy with a former flight attendant from Togo and in 2006 DNA tests proved he was also the father of a teenage girl, born to a Californian woman in the early 1990s.

Royal watchers have suggested that Wittstock may have more difficulty fitting in with royal life than Prince William's wife Catherine — now the Duchess of Cambridge — because unlike the former Middleton, Wittstock had a working class upbringing and did not attend posh private schools.

The former Olympic backstroke swimmer is said to have bonded with Prince Albert over their shared love of sport, with Albert having also competed in the Olympics, on a bobsled team.

Breaking News: Christy Essien-Igbokwe Is Dead!!!

Nigeria's lady of songs Christy Uduak Essien-Igbokwe is dead details of how she died are yet unknown.

The singer and actress who would have been 51 in November had her first album (Freedom) in 1976 at aged 16 and wedded Edwin Igbokwe three years later.

She followed up with other albums ; 'Patience', 'Time Waits for No One'(both 1978), 'One Understanding' (1979), 'Give Me A Chance' (1980) – however her 1981 hit album, 'Ever Liked My Person' remains her best LP till date.

 

More details soon.

Newsweek Magazine Imagines What Princess Diana Would Have Looked Like At Royal Wedding!

On the cover of Newsweek, a Photoshopped Diana - looking particularly ghoulish - walks next to her daughter-in-law, Kate Middleton.
*The People's Princess is alive and well. In fiction, anyway.*

The image has been a talker. Some see it as exceedingly creepy while others call it inspired.

Tina Brown's Newsweek imagines what Princess Diana would be like at 50, had she lived.

Princess Diana at 50

What do you think of the Newsweek cover featuring an imagined Princess Diana at 50?

Is it cool?

Is it creepy?


In the Newsweek article, Tina Brown theorizes Diana would have had Botox, buff arms and at least two more marriages. 


What do you think of the resurrection of Princess Diana? Let us know in the comments.

10 INEC Workers Arrested Over Missing Materials!

Ten workers of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)have been arrested over missing electoral materials.

This occurred
in Ogbaru Local Government of Anambra State. Those arrested included the Electoral Officer (EO),Security Officers(SO) and other workers of the commission.

It was noticed that some people broke into INEC's Ogbaru office and carted away electoral materials. The matter was reported to the police. The matter is being investigated by the police.

Lightning Kills 4 People, 9 Cows In Bauchi!

No fewer than four people and nine cows were yesterday killed by lightning which struck two communities in Bauchi State.
It was gathered that the first incident, which occurred in Soro village, Ganjuwa Local Government Area, left two women and their two children dead.

It was gathered that the women were grinding corn with their babies strapped to their backs when they were struck by lightning, which killed them immediately.


In another tragedy, a family of cattle rearers lost some of their herd when lightning which struck at Dungulbi village of Bauchi Local Government Area killed 9 cows which belonged to one Hardo Mohammed Musa.

Mr Muhammadu said he had sent his boys to take the animals, which numbered about 70, for grazing.

"Unfortunately they ran back home to inform me about the incident and by the time I got there, 9 out of the cows were lying dead," he said.

Boko Haram Will Be Crushed... Says Army Chief.

Following the recent bombings and loss of lives witnessed in some part on Nigeria, the army chief labelled Boko Haram as traitors and terrorists who must be exposed. He also proffered ways of eliminating kidnapping and security threats posed by armed groups. 

Gen. Ihejirika said militancy has reached a worrisome level and blamed the escalating security challenges on porous borders, slacking Customs vigilance at the ports and proliferation of arms in the West African sub-region, among other factors. 

He said Boko Haram, which struck on June 16 at the Police Headquarters in Abuja, away from its centre of operations in Maiduguri and the Northeast, has succeeded in breaching security a few times because of the general complacency towards security and the groups novel tactics of intimidation and hiding away in the midst of the people.

Gen. Ihejirika vowed that the Joint Task Force (JTF) code-named Operation Restore Order, which has just been raised to battle the extremist group, would check its onslaught, notwithstanding the fact that the JTF is not a purely Nigerian Army operation.

He said he would not be satisfied until Boko Haram is eliminated. The army, he said, will in the next 10 years concentrate on internal peace support operation as a means of ending insurgencies in the country.

Said the Army chief: "Nobody should be intimidated by Boko Haram. That is their tactic, to intimidate the people into not offering information about them. If they are not cowards, they should come out in the open.

"The terrorists live within the people and by that able to intimidate them into not giving them out to security agencies, but they need to be exposed to be arrested. Sometimes, they may not have those weapons in their individual houses, so that when they are arrested in their houses, you may not find anything incriminating, yet they are there. 

"It is possible they have some hideouts where they hide their weapons to avert anything incriminating being found on them."

He said the JTF should not be misconstrued as a purely military affair, adding: "To say that Army will play a leading role would be grossly misleading because 90 per cent of the job involved requests intelligence and patriotism. 

"The involvement of the military is mainly because of the sophistication of their operation, the type of weapon they use, among others."

He said the information from the generality of Nigerians would be vital in finding a lasting solution to the menace of Boko Haram. "Nigerians, religious leaders, traditional leaders, everyone must come out and expose these traitors," he said.

In his view, the latest attacks by Boko Haram should awaken security consciousness in Nigerians. "Nigerians are too accommodating, our borders are too porous and Custom officials have not done enough because arms and ammunition used by these groups are imported.

"All hands must be on deck; the Customs must change their attitude, especially as it concerns importation of arms into this country. All must live up to their responsibilities."

He advised Nigerians to be security conscious, noting: "Security can be breached in several ways and anywhere. That is why we are pleading with people to take security seriously."

On whether to dialogue with and grant amnesty to Boko Haram, Gen. Ihejirika said: "Amnesty is not the concern of the Army, for the Army, the issue is that innocent people are being killed unnecessarily. Committing crime for no just cause by whatever name cannot be allowed to happen.

"They have only managed to capitalise on the general complacency towards security to do one or two things they have been able to do. It is criminality that should not be given any chance at all under any guise".

Alison-Madueke, Rufa'i And 5 Others Confirmed By Senate As Ministers.

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed the nomination of seven of the 34 ministerial nominees sent by President Goodluck Jonathan following a screening process that lasted for hours.

The approved nominees include Emeka Wogu (Abia), Bala Mohammed (Bauchi), Diezani Alison-Madueke (Bayelsa), and Godsday Orubebe (Delta). Others are Onyebuchi Chukwu (Ebonyi), Caleb Olubolade (Ekiti), and Ruqayyatu Rufai (Jigawa).

Although the screening exercise generally took place without drama, it was evident Mrs Alison-Madueke and Mr Mohammed received preferential screening.

The opinion-swaying session was mediated by Smart Adeyemi (PDP, Kogi State) who recently claimed some major oil dealers have been lobbying some senators to block Mrs Alison-Madueke's nomination. Mr Adeyemi had also staged a counter lobby to ensure Mrs Alison-Madueke's chances of confirmation by the Senate are not hurt by reports of corruption against her.

Mrs Alison-Madueke, 51, from Bayelsa State, an architecture graduate, is pencilled for re-appointment as petroleum minister where she has spent the last one year. Her one year reign at the petroleum ministry is characterised by series of corruption allegations serially reported by this paper in several editions.

At the rostrum before the Senate as the sixth candidate, Mr Adeyemi was the first senator the Senate president, David Mark, called up to question her. Philip Aduda Taminu (FCT Abuja) was next. They had all met the nominee outside the chambers before her screening.

Ahmed Lawan (ANPP, Yobe State) interrupted by asking the nominee questions bothering on her disregard for due process. Thereafter, the Senate president returned to picking for her senators who carefully avoided questioning her about all the allegations against her in the media.

Ayogu Eze (PDP, Enugu State) led that batch. He had also met Mrs Alison-Madueke outside the Senate chambers during her lobbying session on the invitation of Mr Adeyemi.

Mr Ayogu praised the nominee for having "thick skin" to absorb the "barrage" of "blackmail" in the media arising from her stance on the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB).

"I have found it most unfortunate," Mrs Alison-Madueke said, while denying allegations against her for the first time since she was first mentioned in a corruption scandal in 2008.

She denied reports that any Senate report indicted her for corruption and said she has documents to prove she followed due process in all her dealings as petroleum minister.

"There is nothing as a briefcase company, as has been alleged in some papers," she said, adding that she was just following the Nigerian Local Content Law which, according to her, encourages any Nigerian with the basic requirement to participate in Nigeria's oil industry.

"We are opening up the gas sector to all Nigerians who meet the basic criteria, and that is the way it should be and that is the way it would be going forward," she said.

Further questioning by Abdul Ningi bothering on her integrity was shouted down by some senators who quickly added "bow and go" chants and the Senate president eased her off the chamber.

Promises for Nigerians

Mrs Alison-Madueke attributed the scarcity of kerosene nationwide to activities of some independent marketers.

She said because kerosene imported into the country for household use had the same specification as the aviation kerosene, some marketers were buying the product at the household rate and re-selling to consumers in the aviation sector at a more expensive rate. She, however, gave the assurance that the scarcity would ease off in no time.

She also said the Nigeria Content Act had opened a new vista for Nigerians to participate in the oil and gas sector, although some multinational companies were adverse to its implementation.

"The Act has encouraged every Nigerian to come into the oil and gas sector," she said. "I must say that the Act has opened up oil and gas industry to Nigerians who have the capability to invest."

She said with the sustenance of the present reform in the industry, one million jobs would be created in the oil and gas sector over the next five years.

Mr Chukwu, who spoke about the need to review the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), said it was regrettable that less than two per cent of Nigerians were presently covered by the NHIS. He said if the percentage could rise to 30 by 2015, "we would have achieved a major feat."

Mr Mark wished the confirmed nominees well in their endeavours, saying he would make more comments after the exercise.

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SHOCKING: Nigerian Man Cuts Wife Into Pieces After Stabbing Her To Death!

Late Titilayo, and her husband who murdered her.

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The man in the picture above is Arowolo Akolade, who allegedly murdered his wife by stabbing her to death and cut her remains into pieces on the fateful Saturday June 24, 2011.

Kolade, who claimed to be a born again Christian, and Titilayo had been married for two years and with a daughter. No one knows exactly what transpired and the reason for the heinous crime.

It was gathered that on that fateful day and days after he killed his wife, family and friends got worried when Titilayo didn't show up at work, could not be reached or contact anyone for days. The police were called in and when they got to the couple's home, they found Titi's dismembered body and a distraught Kolade there. He has since been arrested.
 
Meanwhile, Friends say Titi had left Kolade sometime last year, after he beat her mercilessly, but went back to him, only to be killed. The late Titi was a staff on Skye Bank, Victoria Island. May her soul rest in perfect peace IJN, Amen.

This is so cruel and beastly of any man.*Sobs*

Celebrities In Charity Walk For Super Falcons

About 1000 Lagosians including politicians and television personalities staged a walk around the streets of Lagos yesterday in support of Nigeria's senior national women's team, the Super Falcons.

The Falcons are currently on national assignment in Germany where they are participating with 15 other teams in the Women's World Cup. They play Germany tomorrow in their second group game.

The Female Football Foundation (FFF), a non-governmental organisation devoted to the development of women's football in Nigeria, convened by Baarong Tony-Uranta, a journalist and television presenter and which has Bola Jegede, a former member of the board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) organised the walk to draw attention to draw attention to what they believe is the second class treatment meted to the Falcons despite their achievements since being founded twenty-one years ago.

Comprising female footballers, who turned out in their hundreds and celebrities, which included Jimi Agbaje, a former governorship candidate in Lagos State, Patrick Doyle and Agatha Amatha, television personalities, the group, which also had among them, Jarret Tenebe, chairman of the rebel Nigeria Football Association claiming leadership of Nigerian football and Harrison Jalla, president of the National Association of Nigerian Footballers, marched to the office of the governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, where they hoped to present their case to the governor.

As it turned the governor was unavailable. Instead members of the FFF were met by members of the Lagos State House of Assembly.

Rams for slaughter

Tony Uranta, husband of the convener of the foundation, Barong Tony Uranta, drew the attention of the legislators to the discriminatory treatment suffered by Super Falcons players in terms of match allowances and bonuses and general treatment. He added that the players are sexually harassed all the time with nobody ever punished by the authorities.

He told the law makers that whereas members of the Super Eagles each get $10,000 as winning bonus, the Falcons get less than $1,000 despite having achieved much in Africa.

"The Falcons have won the African Women's Nations Cup six out of seven times but they get nothing. The last time they won the trophy, they were ferried in a truck like goats and rams meant for the slaughter house. None of them have been given houses or national awards. I think they deserve more than what they are getting," he said.

Speaking in a similar vein, Jegede, president of the foundation, said the walk was organised to seek the assistance of the Lagos State government to support the efforts of the foundation at improving the lot of women footballers in the country.

Responding, Sina Agunbiade, who represented Adeyemi Ikuforiji, the speaker of the house, said the house would the grievances of the FFF today at a special session. He noted that the issues raised by the foundation were germane to the development of women's football in Nigeria and as such would be treated under the rubric of 'urgent public importance'. He said thereafter the house would recommend solutions to Governor Fashola for execution.

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Darey And Others For ‘Music Meets Runway'

Nigerian singer, Darey Art Alade alongside American model, Amber Rose, will be hosting the debut edition of the show 'Music Meets Runway' at the Expo Centre, Eko Hotel and Suites, on Saturday, July 9 2011. A release from the event publicists, Big Sam Media, reveals that this debut edition is "poised to create awareness for the laudable and fledging growth the Nigerian fashion industry has recorded in recent times" and will feature ten of Nigerian top music artists alongside ten top Nigerian designers.

"Top 10 Nigerian music artistes will be meeting 10 haute designers whose creativity is easy to relate with on one runway" the release reads.

The artists are Naeto C, Duncan Mighty, Dr Sid, D' Prince, Sasha, Shank, Show Dem Camp, Tiwa Savage, Dotstar from the UK, and the act, Davido.

While Tsemeya, Vonne Couture, Meena, Viva La Resistance, Toju Foyeh, Babuhska,

Grey, Virgos Lounge, Obsidian and Republic Of Foreigner will be showcasing diverse and trendy styles ranging from lingerie wears to haute couture.

Entertainment Express hits the stands

Entertainment Express, an entertainment only newspaper by, Mike Awoyinfa and Dimgba Igwe, will hit newsstands on Friday July 1 2011.

Speaking on the new journal, Azuh Amatus who is currently the editor of the paper said the aim of the paper is to re-enact entertainment journalism in the nation.

"As a highly focused and socially responsible entity, our mission statement is to reinvent entertainment journalism in Nigeria and raise it to an unsurpassable height that would excite our readers, our journalists and the owners of the business.

We are fully poised to achieve all these with exciting, racy, fabulous, exclusive, authoritative and entertaining editorial contents," Amatus said.

He further explained that the publication will not only focus on entertainment as they intend to launch a full-fledged newspaper in the future.

"Entertainment Express is loaded with surprises and as we progress, we would be unveiling these surprise packages for Nigerians, especially the reading public," he assured.

Sound Sultan welcomes baby boy

R&B artist Sound Sultan real name Olanrewaju Fasasi and wife welcomed their second child, a baby boy, on Sunday June 26 2011. A statement from his management company Jarmzone Entertainment, revealed that the baby was born in a hospital located at Festac.

According to the artist who confirmed that both the mother and child are doing great, this is a sign of more blessings to come. "God is great. The birth of my son is a sign of great blessings to come" he said.

The Joker Comedy gets new venue

Organizers of the monthly standup comedy competition The Joker Comedy yesterday revealed that the show will now hold at the City Mall Cinemas, Lagos. Speaking on behalf of the organizers, managing director of Peekaboo Global Consulting, Darlington Abuda said the change was made to bring the show closer to its audience.

"With months of organizing the show, we have come to realize that one thing our guests yearn for is a closer venue so we decided to take the show to the City Mall Cinemas. The location is more central and we feel that taking it there makes us accessible to viewers," Abuda said.

Abuda further disclosed that the show will be taking on a new dimension with its new venue. "Because we are now using a cinema as venue, guests now have the opportunity to preview the previous editions before the actual show begins" he revealed.

The July edition will feature comedian AY who will once more anchor the show,

Seyilaw, Elenu, Ajebo, Mc Shakara and Filosopher winner of last month's edition.

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Daniel ‘SOLD' Olumo Rock Before Leaving Office, Says Amosun!

Interesting.... How was the number one Tourist Center sold???

Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun yesterday told an audience of shocked traditional rulers that his predecessor, Gbenga Daniel had "sold" the famous Olumo rock to a private manager under a concession arrangement that would last fifteen years.

Mr Amosun dropped the bombshell while addressing the state's traditional rulers at the Oba's Complex located at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, which is a stone throw to the governor's office. He also informed the gathering that due to the debt inherited by his administration, his government might not be able to pay the N18,000 minimum wage.

"The number one tourist centre in the state, 'Olumo Rock' was concessioned for 15 years," Mr Amosun told the royal fathers "Other state resources are concessioned for between 25 and 60 years. I begin to wonder why somebody will sign all our patrimony. To make matters worse, all of them were made without the laid-down procedure. It did not go through the State Executive Council, not even the Assembly." He, however, said his government was resolved to look into all of these and review them.



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Edo State Proposes Death Penalty For Kidnappers!

Kidnappers may face death penalty in Edo State if the amendment to the state law on kidnapping being proposed by the state government sails through. Governor Adams Oshiomhole disclosed this yesterday when he granted audience to the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and Edo North Traditional rulers at the Government House, Benin City.

According to the governor, "I am proposing an amendment to the House of Assembly to impose death penalty on those convicted for kidnapping."

The governor said the offence of kidnapping was as serious as that of armed robbery, adding that the instruments of armed robbery were present in every act of kidnapping.
"They use arms to subdue their victims. When you rob, the penalty is death and when you kidnap the penalty should also be death," he added.

He assured that government would not relent in its support to the security agencies in the state.*Humm*


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IBB Moves Lover And Mother Of 3 Love Kids, Ilebijo, Into Minna Mansion!

Former Military Dictator striving to adopt the togas of elder state man, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida has put in place a replacement for his late wife, Maryam.
Sources identified the new mistress at the Minna Hilltop mansion of the former military president as Lemijo.
And she is alleged to have three love kids for the retired general.*interesting*
According to sources, the gap toothed northern leader perfected the move in a very low profile manner a couple of weeks back.
Sources claimed that the new mistress of the Minna mansion and the former president have been embroiled in a quiet romance for some time now- even before the demise of the celebrated first lady last year.*Very Sad*

Lemijo is tagged a westerner, a Yoruba lady of Awo ethnic group.
Before the death of maryam, she was said to be quartered in a house bought for her by the retired General on Adeola Odeku street Victoria Island Lagos.
Her roots is traced to a ruling family in Ota Ogun state.
Sources claimed that she moved straight from the Adeola Odeku home to the Hilltop Mansion.
What is however not clear is how visible she is in domestic and otherwise affairs at the retired general's home.
But face of the former president's business and his son, Muhammed Babangida maintained – in a phone chat- that the story is not true.
According to him 'absolute false, take it on my authority'Insiders however insist otherwise with a poser 'so you expect him to confirm something like that as true abi?' ​

Boko Haram: Attacks Customs office kills three!

NO fewer than three persons died yesterday when suspected members of the radical Muslim sect, Boko Haram, attacked a Customs office in Maiduguri.

Authorities quickly blamed Boko Haram, which on Sunday night dropped bombs that killed 25 people at local beer parlours in the Borno State capital. Boko Haram wants strict Shariah law implemented across the North.

The continued violence surrounding Maiduguri has left the city in fear as the authorities seem unable to stop the group from attacking at will.

The Federal Government has raised a Task Force, headed by Major-Gen. Jack Okechukwu Nwaogbo, to hunt down the Islamic sect.

Yesterday's attack hit the Customs office as officials held a meeting, said Maj.-Gen. Nwaogbo. The assault included explosion of bombs and gunfire, which killed three people outside of the building, he said.

No fewer than two Customs officials were wounded in the attack.

On Sunday, Boko Haram members riding on motorcycles attacked three makeshift bars in the city.
Witnesses and others said about 25 people died in the beer parlour attacks. Nwaogbo declined to offer a casualty information yesterday during a news conference.

"What caused the killings of many people in the attacks were when about 10 gunmen riding seven motorcycles surrounded and took strategic positions at the beer sheds and shops and started firing at the people with their Kalashnikov rifles, before setting ablaze the entire makeshift shacks," he said.

While no arrests have been made over the beer parlour attacks, he said police arrested two men carrying explosives at a church in the city. He said they had pretended they wanted to convert from Islam.

Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is sacrilege" in the Hausa language, is responsible for a rash of killings which have targeted police officers, soldiers, politicians and clerics in the North over the last year — including attacks on beer parlours.

They have also attacked churches and engineered a massive prison break. However, authorities say attacks intensified after the April 26 governorship elections kept the same political party in power.

Senate President David Mark has said the security challenges facing the nation will top Senate's agenda as it reconvenes for the plenary session today.

The Senate President spoke when the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador Andrew Lloyd visited him in Abuja. He said Nigeria will be delighted to explore the British approach to insecurity in order to arrest the situation in Nigeria.

He reiterated the commitment of the government to ensuring adequate security to the citizenry.

Lady Gaga Sued For Charity Scam!

Lady Gaga has been accused of pocketing proceeds from the sales of 'We Pray for Japan' wristbands and the bizarre singer is now facing legal action. Michigan Law firm 1-800-LAW-FIRM has slapped a $5 million lawsuit against Gaga.
"I'm suing Lady Gaga simply to hold her accountable for giving the money that she was raising for charity to the cause that she was trying to raise it for," said Ari Kresch, an attorney for the firm. Firm partner Alyson Oliver claimed that Gaga refused to fully disclose how much of the money from the sales of the wristbands goes to the Japanese victims."When we tried to communicate with the defendants in this lawsuit, all we got was, 'well, some of the money is being retained, but we don't really know how much'," Oliver told FOX news station."If the money was going to the right place rather than into the defendant's pocket, then I hope that our effort helps that," Oliver added.

Boko Haram: Recent Bomb Attack Kills At Least 25 In Maiduguri!

At least 25 people were killed and 12 injured in a bomb attack believed to have been carried out by Islamist extremists known as the Boko Haram in
Maiduguri, Nigeria on Sunday.
Police said the attack was carried out by two men riding on motorcycles who threw bombs into three beer gardens in the city of Maiduguri, Borno state, during the afternoon.

The authorities have attributed the bombings to the Boko Haram group, who recently claimed responsibility for another attack that killed at least 22 people at the police headquarters in the country's capital, Abuja.

Boko Haram, whose name in the northern Hausa language translates as "western education is sacrilege" is seeking to impose sharia law in the north of the country.

Borno is one of 12 states to have taken on shariah law and, although hidden from view, outdoor beer gardens are still popular haunts.

The attacks demonstrate the continuing religious tensions in the north of the country, which has seen the group target the police, churches and Islamic clerics.

The most recent attack shows civilians are also targets.

While those in Boko Haram, which was founded in 2002, have been seen as local radicals, security sources reportedly believe the group may be receiving training and expertise from outside the country.

Authorities have attempted to clamp down on the group through Operation Flush, following violent clashes with government forces across four states in 2009 in which more than 700 people were killed. The government, which has since increased its military presence, was later accused of carrying out extra-judicial killings.

Boko Haram's founder, Mohammed Yusuf, was captured and shot dead by security forces in 2009.

Just before the attack on Sunday, Sani Aliyu Rano, a politician in neighbouring Kano state, called on the government to explore dialogue with the group in order to avoid disturbances.

Shocking Revelation Of Nigeria's First Suicide Bomber At Police Force Headquarters In Abuja!

(In The Picture)Mohammed Manga moments before he embarked on a suicide trip.

The man who bombed the Nigeria Police Force headquarters in Abuja on June 16 was a fairly well-to-do businessman who was actually on a suicide mission on behalf of the Islamic sect the Boko Haram, Blueprint can authoritatively report.

Mohammed Manga was a 35-year-old married man with five children who drove overnight from Maiduguri to Abuja in order to carry out the morning attack which left about five people dead, including a police officer, and many cars incinerated in the blast. He had left N4 million in his will for his five children:" two girls and three boys " before embarking on the fateful journey to the nation's capital.

There was proof also that Manga was accompanied on the deadly mission by at least a collaborator in the plot, who took his last photograph alive as he drove through the streets of Abuja. The collaborator(s) might have disembarked from the car before Manga reached the Louis Edet House headquarters of the Nigerian Police.

Blueprint can also authoritatively report that, contrary to a claim by the police authorities that the bomber had used a Mercedez Benz: a V Boot' car in his terror mission, he actually used a Honda 86 model.

These shocking details and others were made exclusively available to this newspaper by the leadership of the Islamist sect, Jamaatu Ahl-Sunnati Lil Daawati wal Jihad, popularly called the Boko Haram, in a telephone interview in the Hausa language, fielded by the groups spokesman who goes by the name Abu Zaid.

The group also e-mailed to our Borno State correspondent startling photographs of a grinning Manga as he undertook the revenge mission. It was the first time it was giving a glimpse into its operations. One of the most startling information given by Abu Zaid was that the attacker was one Mohammed Manga, who was better known and addressed by his friends and business associates as Alhaji Manga. He is originally from Adamawa State but he was born and brought up in Maiduguri, where he embraced the teachings of the late Mohammed Yusuf the spokesman said.

Mohammed Yusuf was the leader of the group and was killed by the police in 2009 following the bloodiest clash involving the Boko Haram in which thousands of the sect's members and other people died. Blueprint was also told by the sect that Manga was Fulani by tribe and that he started both as a commercial and private driver at different times in his adult life. A few years before the July 2009 Boko Haram uprising, Manga began to travel to Cotonou in Benin Republic and later Dubai frequently in order to buy all kinds of goods. He was a major contributor to the Boko Haram's arms build-up.

Abu Zaid also confided in this newspaper that Manga left a will of over N4 million to his two daughters and three sons and urged fellow believers to sacrifice their lives for the sake of Allah. This, the group said, is evident in the last-minute pictures of Manga, believed to have been taken at a camp somewhere in Borno State.The man's last will and the photographs are proof that Manga was on a suicide mission and that his death at the Louis Edet House headquarters of the police was not an accident.

He was calm and never hesitated or showed fear, Abu Zaid recalled, adding that everyone at the scene that night on the eve of the attack was envious, wishing it was their chance to act and gain entry into paradise.  

According to him, the planning of the attack targeting the Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Hafiz Ringim, was not in any way different from the way and manner they plan other attacks around the country, insisting that the only difference was that this mission was abruptly brought closer in response to the remarks made by Ringim that he would eradicate the Boko Haram within weeks. The IGP had on June 15 boasted, while receiving10 armoured personnel carriers donated to the police by the Borno State government, that the Boko Haram's days were numbered.

"Now that the (general) elections are over, our attention would be concentrated and I want to assure you that the days of the Boko Haram are numbered", Ringim had told a gathering at the Government House in Maiduguri, with the state governor Kashim Shettima present.

Abu Zaid also claimed that the bomb his group used in the attack was a ready-made one, which the sect acquired from abroad. And we are going to use several of them in future attacks, he warned. The group dismissed media reports and commentaries that suggest it might not have planned a suicide attack but that the bomb blast was merely an accident in which the attacker was trapped, insisting that it was really pre-planned. Everyone had waited patiently for the outcome of that operation, said Abu Zaid.

According to him, the car that was used was not a Mercedes Benz V-Boot, but an ash-colour Honda 86 model. I was surprised when the police said the car was a Mercedes V-Boot, he said. It was never a Mercedes. The car used for the attack was an ash-colour Honda 86. We are surprised over the way the police are confused anytime we strike.

Meanwhile, the group has discredited the conditions for dialogue ostensibly given by the Boko Haram by one Usman Al-Zawahiri and others, challenging them to give a single proof that they are with the authentic group.
We donot know Al-Zawahiri; he is not with us, Abu Zaid said.

In fact, our investigation revealed that he is an SSS (State Security Service operative) and was brought in to discredit what we are doing and give an impression that we are divided. There is no faction in our group.

Giving a reason why the Boko Haram chose Blueprint correspondent for breaking the news, Abu Zaid remarked: You were the first journalist who repeatedly wrote about us when we were not known to the world; you were the first journalist who reported when our brothers were shot at on their way to a funeral procession by members of a security outfit setup by the Borno State government, known as Operation Flush. We see you as an objective writer who is never afraid to say the truth; that is why our leader approved the idea to give you the final evidence that we were solely behind the suicide attack at the police headquarters. The Boko Haram is believed to be headed by one Malam Abubakar Shekau, the deputy of the late Mohammed Yusuf.
*Sighs*

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BLUEPRINT