Saturday, August 31, 2013
Gunmen kill pregnant woman, five others killed in Jos
Caught In The Act: US Secretary of State Kerry caught using fake photos to fuel Syrian conflict
Secretary of State John Kerry opened his speech Friday by describing the horrors victims of the chemical weapon attack suffered, including twitching, spasms and difficulty breathing. Attempting to drive the point home, Kerry referenced a photograph used by the BBC illustrating a child jumping over hundreds of dead bodies covered in white shrouds. The Secretary of State forgot to mention, however, that this photo was taken during US intervention in Iraq back in 2003.
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Yoruba (our mother tongue) Set To Become The Language Of Instruction In Schools. (Post Of The Month)
Kudos to Yoruba state governors and the rest must follow.. Strategic Planning!
Yoruba Governors Are Planning To Augment Education In Yorubaland By Making Yoruba (our mother tongue) The Language Of Instruction In Schools..
"The slave maker knew that he couldn't make these people slaves until he first made them DUMB. And one of the best ways to make a man DUMB is to take his tongue, take his language. A man who can't talk, what do they call him? A DUMMY. Once your language is gone, you are a DUMMY. You can't communicate with people who are your relatives, you can never have access to information from your family—you just can't communicate......Omowale Malcolm XContinue After The Break.
2015 Elections: No zoning in our constitution –APC
The All Progressives Congress has said that its presidential candidates will emerge through transparent primaries.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who stated this in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents, said the party would neither give preference to any zone nor fix positions for candidates from any part of the country for the 2015 general elections.
Mohammed was reacting to a report that the APC had zoned the presidency to the North and the vice-presidency to the South-East. The report had said that the party zoned the vice-presidency to the South-East to break the stronghold of the Peoples Democratic Party in the area.
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Taraba assembly to Suntai: Go back to US hospital
Barely 24 hours after Governor Danbaba Suntai, addresed the people of Taraba State through a recorded video, the state House of Assembly on Thursday advised him to return to the hospital in the United States where he was on admission for further treatment.
Taraba assembly to Suntai: Go back to US hospital
The assembly, in a statement by its Speaker, Haruna Tsokwa, and 15 other members, also reaffirmed Alhaji Garba Umar as the acting governor of the state.
The lawmakers claimed that before Wednesday, all their efforts to meet with the recuperating governor, who arrived in Jalingo on Sunday from the US, were rebuffed by people close to him.
They pointed out that from the manner the governor spoke when they finally met with him on Wednesday, they doubted that he authored the letter in which he informed them of his return and desire to resume work.
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Friday, August 30, 2013
First Lady’s jamboree: Accident victim still in hospital
Mrs. Ifeanyi Chima was one of Lagos delegates that attended a peace rally organised for women by the First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, in Abuja on August 15, 2013.
The vehicle, which Chima and five other women were travelling in, had an accident at Gwagwalada Road, near Abuja, when they were going back to Lagos the following day.
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RESPONSE TO DEPORTATION: A cure worse than the disease -
This precedent completely nullifies the presumption and dangerous peg of tribalism on which the mutual trade in personal and ethnic slurs, derision, denigration, demonisation, and hubris has been hoisted. It tells us that Governor Babatunde Fashola’s action was not motivated and informed by ethnic calculations neither was it intended and directed against any particular group or nationality.
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Just Forget About 2015 Ambition ––The Patriots Meet Jonathan
“That is not the purpose of our meeting today (Thursday), but that is my view and I still maintain that view. I still believe that the problem of this country is national transformation; that you cannot combine national transformation with contesting election.Continue After The Break.
Underage Girl abducted by Islamic fundamentalists, forced To Marry One Of their Own.
UNILAG Girl Abducted & Ra-ped By 3 Friends
22-year-old female student of the University of Lagos, Tolulope Titiloye, who was kidnapped and raped by three friends, who later posted her nude photos on the social media, is now in court to get justice.
Three friends – Bashorun Babajide, Aje Olumayowa, and Babajide Ajayi – had molested her, took photos of her without clothes and threatened to share the photos if she exposed them. Tolulope had kept quiet about the sad incident but trouble started when her family members saw her nude photos on the internet.
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'Syrian rebels take responsibility for the chemical attack admitting the weapons were provided by Saudis'
Recent publication by the Ọmọ Oódua 'Syrian rebels take responsibility for the chemical attack admitting the weapons were provided by Saudis' received a strong outcry among the Internet users as some of them claiming that the company’s reports are more credible than allegations against Syrian government made by US authorities.
‘It's more credible than the US saying we have real evidence of Assad using them [chemical weapons]. Assad doesn't get weapons from Saudi Arabia. They don't have ties. The US will use any reason it can to go to war. Even if it means creating one’, writes on .Continue After The Break.
Femi Fani Kayode replies to Bianca Ojukwu's threat
9-month-old baby burnt to death in Sapele as Fire Fighting Service arrives late
The incident occurred at about 7.00pm, Wednesday. The whole building was brought to ruins as neighbours could not put out the fire while men of Sapele Fire Fighting Service arrived late.
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Thursday, August 29, 2013
Heavy Mayhem in Seme border, Customs officer killed
There was mayhem at the Seme border area of Lagos State on Thursday after a 35-year-old man, Saturday Joel, was shot by officials of the Nigerian Customs Service. Eyewitnesses said Joel was hit by a stray bullet while some customs officers were trying to apprehend a motorist who was smuggling a red Volkswagen bus from Benin Republic into Nigeria.Continue After The Break.
Heartless: Jealous 19 year old OSPOLY student bathes boyfriend with hot water
A 19 year old female student of Science Laboratory Technology (SLT) Department of Osun State Polytechnic (OSPOLY) has been arrested for allegedly pouring warm water on her boyfriend right after his birthday at Miracle Hall, BHS area in Iree last Saturday.
In accordance with a report by Daily Trust, the attacker Yetunde poured the warm water on Niyi Adelana (pictured above) when he invited other girls to his party and flirted using them right facing her
In accordance with a report by Daily Trust, the attacker Yetunde poured the warm water on Niyi Adelana (pictured above) when he invited other girls to his party and flirted using them right facing her
Niyi, a Higher National Diploma (HND) II student of Computer Science, suffered serious burns and was taken to the hospital for treatment.
The Police Public Relations Officer for Osun State, DSP Folasade Odoro, confirmed the incident in a talk with Daily Trust. She said investigation was still going on and that upon completion, your ex could be charged to court.
Corruption of Power : North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, publically executes ex-girlfriend
From Asia News
The North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un ordered the public execution of his ex-girlfriend Hyon Song- wol, accused of 'pornography' with a group of artists from the National Orchestra of Unhasu, which his current wife Ri Sol -ju also once belonged to. The arrest took place on August 17, the execution took place in public three days later. According to the indictment the women filmed themselves having sex and then sold the videos in China. Some South Korean sources claim that there were many Christians among those sentenced to death who had a Bible at home, a "crime" that you can pay for with your life or imprisonment in a state gulag in North Korea.
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15 year-old girl allegedly abducted by Islamic fundamentalists and given out in marriage to one of their own
Mama Jessy’s granddaughter, (Joy’s daughter) Rita Chinedu Ukeje, 15, was allegedly abducted by Islamic fundamentalists and given out in marriage to one of their own. Since then, the family has been in untold distress.
Now, Mrs. Ukeje is calling on President Goodluck Jonathan to help rescue the girl from the clutches of her abductors. Ukeje said her granddaughter was given out in marriage by a top official of Zaria City Local Government area, without the consent of her family.
Rita, an SS 3 student of Top Spring Secondary School, Zaria, Kaduna State, was abducted by a commercial bus driver, called Usman, who held her captive in his home, denying her the chance of sitting for the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) she had enrolled for.Continue After The Break.
R.I.P: 32 year old man ra-pes 70yr-old woman to death
UMUAHIA- A 70 year old woman and mother of four, Mrs. Cecilia Ogidi-Okereke, of Ibom Village in Arochukwu, Arochukwu Council Area of Abia State was last Sunday reportedly raped to death by a 32 year old man whose name was simply given as Ochu.
According to a source, Cecilia was said to have around 5pm Sunday, gone to a nearby bush to get some leaves for her domestic goats where Ochu trailed her and raped her to dath. Ochu,the source said, is believed to be a drug addictand was fond of railing and raping women of the area.
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Group views Ohaneze’s claims on Lagos as insult on Yoruba
The group in a satement signed by the group’s National Coordinator, Olajide Julius and made available to Vanguard viewed the Ohaneze claim that “The Igbo are key stakeholders in the affairs of the state (Lagos). We constitute over 46% of the population of the state…It is the Igbo that make Lagos what it is and without them Lagos will go to sleep. The Igbo in Lagos have the capacity to defend themselves…”. published on Tuesday August 6, 2013, in the Daily Sun as not only insult to the Yoruba, but also an affront.
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