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You all know there are two PDP factions now therefore to tell apart we've to call one - President Jonathan's PDP and the one which broke away last weekend - former VP Atiku Abubakar's PDP. So the chairman of President Jonathan's PDP Bamanga Tukur today held a press conference in Abuja where he threatened members of Atiku's PDP with suspension, called them impostors and said the police should regard them as such. heheh. 2015 will soon be interesting. What he said at the press conference below.
It really could be the era of the Chairman! First, MI was named UN ambassador for the Smuggling of Migrants. He then became a Glo ambassador. And now, Africa's number 1 rapper could be the Lagos State Ambassador for Energy! Big congrats to rapper M.I !
This is really a sad news. That's Lucciano and his mom (in the pic above) two weeks ago in London at his wedding reception. She died yesterday at Ilorin teaching hospital after a brief illness. Kevin has also announced her death via his Facbook page. This is really sad. May her soul rest in peace.
An Australian man said a New Zealand kayaker spent two weeks stranded on an island off the Western Australia coast as a result of being stalked by a crocodile.
Don MacLeod of Kalumburu said he spotted a light Saturday on Governor Island, off the far northern coast, and he investigated to discover a New Zealand man who told him he had been dropped off by a boat for a kayaking trip, but had been unable to leave the island for two weeks before an enormous crocodile was stalking him, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported Monday.
ABUJA—A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, cleared the way for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to freeze the illicit property of two of the prime suspects in the looting of the Police Pension fund to the tune of about ₦33 billion. The two suspects to lose their property scattered in many locations in Lagos and Abuja, are Atiku Abubakar Kigo and Uzoma Cyril Attang, who are alleged to have used the stolen funds to acquire the assets.
One of the Syrian opposition leaders warned Washington that the American troops in the region would be attacked by squads of suicide bombers formed by the Syrian opposition in case Obama attacked Syria, Secretary General of the Syrian National Youth Party al-Chabaab, Maher Merhej, said in an exclusive interview with the Voice of Russia.
"Motherland is more important than opposing the government", said Maher Merhej, secretary-general of the Syrian opposition party Al Chabaab in his interview to the Fars News Agency (FNA) on August 31.
Popular comic actor, Afiz Oyetoro, aka Saka, was spotted in the studio this week working on a commercial for MTN's soon to be released fresh campaigns with producer, Don Jazzy.
In a recent chat with a Punch reporter, Fimile crooner Kas says he is not broke and people spreading the rumor should put a stop to it. ou are likely to have been broke: “I have been busy. The truth is that you cannot rely on music alone. Hence, the diversification. So, it’s amazing that people can ever think I am broke. God forbid, I am not broke. Amidst laughter, he adds, “I’ll run back to London, if I ever become broke. I have a sachet and bottle water-producing company, which used to be based in Maryland, Lagos. However due to an overwhelming demand from customers, I had to shut it down and open a much bigger one in Surulere.”
If those that wanted to kill the philanthropic and amiable popular transporter and Chairman of Young Shall Grow Motors, Chief Vincent Obianodo, had succeeded, his last words on earth could have been the wild exclamation which he uttered as soon as the assassins started firing volleys of bullets into his car.
This man on the ground is Mallam Sanusi. He lives in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. He is receiving 24 strokes of the cane for making love to an unmarried woman near Low-Cost Housing in Abaganaram ward, Maiduguri. Note to single men living in Borno: abeg, if you don’t have money; borrow to go and marry your wife. This will save your bum-bum from being torn with sharia cane. Hmmm…I wonder what punishment was given to the lady?
The authorities of the Nigerian Army have retired some top generals of the Army. It was gathered that those retired were ten in number. Among those affected were the former Director of Training and Operations, Defence Headquarters, Maj.-Gen. Lawrence Ngugbane, the former Commander of Training, Doctrine and Command, Maj.-Gen. Babagana Mungonu, and the former Chief of Research and Development, Maj.-Gen. Obinali Ariahu.
A strong earthquake struck wide areas of north-eastern and eastern Japan on Wednesday, the Meteorological Agency said. No tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The agency said the magnitude-6.9 quake struck at 9:19 am (GMT 0019), and was centred off Torishima, 600 kilometres south of Tokyo, at a depth of 400 kilometres. Tokyo Electric Power Co said there were no abnormalities at its damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.
Voice of Russia, DPA
Our reason for being here is to neither inform you without any iota of doubt that the Peoples Democratic Party has no faction and there is neither room nor reason whatsoever for such a claim under any guise.
The PDP has only one duly elected National Executive Committee (NEC) under my Chairmanship. I wish therefore to state with all emphasis that any group of persons parading themselves as leaders of NEC or any other organ of our party are impostors and I urge all Nigerians, especially the security agencies and other institutions of democracy to regard them as such.
24 hours after she arrived Nigeria, BBA The Chase finalist Beverly Osu was rushed to Faith City Hospital, Oju Olobun Close, off Bishop Oluwole Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
The BBA star was admitted for treatment due to a sprain ankle she suffered in the BBA house, a day to the finale.
A hacker by the name of €Wagn3r claims to have hacked approximately 20 members of the Pentagon and some of their spouses. In their emails US Colonels utilize a high number of military acronyms which, when looked, up point to a conversation about intelligence budgets and how to fund operations. The correspondence indicates the US government was the most probable sponsor of the latest chemical attack in Syrian Ghouta. Continue after the break.
Putin has once again urged to wait for the results of the work of the UN experts, who had taken samples in the suburbs of Damascus, where chemical weapons had been allegedly used on August 21. Russia’s uncompromising position, the Russian President has stressed, was that no matter who used the weapons of mass destruction it was a crime.
Below is a blow-by-blow account of the attack and how the man was saved:
A police source said the Inspector of Police, who is attached to B Ops, Patrol and Guard at the Lagos State Police command, Ikeja, has been working with Chief Obianodo for two years, as a guard. He described the action of the Inspector as 'the only saving grace', saying as soon as the bandits blocked Chief’s car with theirs, they came out firing towards the two cars in the convoy.